“Blaine…”

“Did he just say someone's name?” One of the nurses asked as they were cleaning up his wounds.

“Blai…Blaine,”  The boy slowly opened his eyes, as a few women stood around his hospital bed in white uniforms but blinked at the bright light.

“Hey sweetie, do you know where you are?”

“I w…..”

“Take shallow breathes Kurt, your jaw may hurt a little,” the male doctor instructed. Kurt tried again taking his time.

“…can I - see…Blaine…”

“Who's Blaine?” One of the nurses asked. Another Nurse checked Kurt's clipboard and then said “Well apparently the paramedics who brought him in said that he was attacked near scandals, a friend called the ambulance, and they didn't know about Blaine until they arrived. He tried to ride with the ambulance to the hospital,”

“Maybe he's a brother?” The male doctor suggested. “please…” Kurt was whispering obviously in pain because his cheek was swollen with bruising and his jaw whilst didn't get broken had gotten attacked and making it hard to form words.

“Is he still in the waiting room?” The first Nurse asked. The second Nurse put down her equipment “I'll go check,”

“We're going to look for Blaine now alright? Try keep awake for us, for a bit more then you can rest,” The male doctor was checking his eyes and his scars when the lady came back to confirm Blaine was waiting in the emergency room with a few friends.

“He's his boyfriend,” She whispered to the doctor. The doctor nodded, now he understood more why Kurt might have gotten attacked.

“Kurt, would you like to see Blaine now?” The boy nodded and then winced. “Alright everyone let's give them a little privacy. As he went outside Blaine caught up to him looking an emotional wreck “How is he, is he okay?” The doctor put up his hands as though that will get him to breath.

“He has a few cuts and bruises, a heavy bruise on his right eye in particular, his jaw will be in pain for a while, so expect a little slow movement in speech for 48 hours but nothing major, he'll be okay, he's a tough one, he wants to see you,”

“Can I go in?” Blaine was basically peering into the room hoping to get a glimpse of Kurt but they had curtains around his bed.

“Sure, considering he asked for you but if he gets tired, we'll need to give him painkillers so he can sleep without any discomfort,”

“Thank you doctor,”

Blaine waited till the doctor got out of the way before entering the room. He stopped in his tracks, his face fell as he saw Kurt lying in the hospital bed with his eyes barely able to look at him. He approached Kurt's bedside slowly looking him over with an ache in his heart “Hey, how are you feeling?”

Kurt fluttered his eyes open slowly at Blaine's voice. “I…I'm a- alive, but I…but I feel groggy,” he said unsteadily. Blaine gave a strangled laugh happy that Kurt was indeed alive as he said. Blaine bent down and kissed the untouched skin of his forehead “Thank god for the fact that you are alive, you scared the life out of me Kurt, don't ever do that again,”

“I'm so …sorry, p-please don't go, don't…leave me,” Blaine used his left hand to play with Kurt's hair, running his hand into its place while he struggled to talk.

“Hey shh… you're in a lot of pain right now, take your time, I'm not going anywhere, I promise,”  Unable to hold them in any longer, tears fell down Kurt's cheek as he closes his eyes for a minute enjoying Blaine's touches before opening them again, there was so much warmth and heartbreak in Blaine's gaze at him that he felt his heart beating inside his chest.

He kissed Kurt softly afterwards kissing Kurt's tears."Shh im not going anywhere," He knew he only knew him for a small time, but he was falling hard for Kurt. He had such strong feelings for this boy. Was this love?

There wasn't much else to say after that, Blaine just held Kurt's hand running his finger softly over the bloody knuckles. “The other guys are here too, is it okay if they come in? They were worried about you, we all were,” Kurt began to nod but wince.

“I think we should have signs for yes or no,” Blaine said with concern. Kurt showed a thumb up with the hand Blaine wasn't holding smiling and Blaine laughed “I think that'll work, alright sweetheart I'll be back,” he kissed him once more before  Blaine went to ask the doctor if it was okay for his friends to see Kurt.

The doctor asked Kurt who was a bit more awake then before and saw no harm in it when Kurt confirmed he'd like to see them. Blaine went and got them from the emergency waiting room. All of the Warblers were there now, after they heard the news they had rushed to the hospital, but The Doctor advised only a few at a time should go in to see him, so him, Nick, Jeff, Sebastian, went in first.

“Told you I'd be back,” Blaine smiled at Kurt  waving the other guys in “And look who's here!”  Jeff walked up to Kurt first giving a gentle pat on the shoulder “Hey there, I heard you threw a few mean punches, you didn't tell us you were a ninja”

Kurt gave a giggle at that as his face flushed. “I…I'm not,”

“No seriously how are you?” Jeff said after looking carefully at Blaine to see how both boys were holding up. Blaine was staring at Kurt though like nothing else mattered so he returned his gawking to Kurt.

“I feel weirdly h-happy…I think, they put something in my food,” Kurt answered “That'd be the painkillers,” Blaine told and Nick and Sebastian chuckled in the background. Kurt looked to Sebastian who was standing awkwardly at the end of the bed looking around the hospital room trying not to feel out of place “Thank you… for… saving me,”

Sebastian didn't go straight up to Kurt but he did move a little closer “Kurt, I'm really sorry how I've treated you,” Kurt smiled as Sebastian held out a hand “Can we call it a truce?”

Kurt reached out his own slowly since his shoulder blade hurt and shook Sebastian's hand “That's okay-  you….you…. stopped them ….so you're k-kind of awesome,”

“There really is something strange in those medications,” Nick declared as Jeff nodded trying not to laugh at Kurt's dopey face.

“You really are quite the fighter,” Sebastian praised as Blaine smiled at the scene. He was relieved Kurt was going to be okay, or so the doctor ensured them.

“Sebastian you told us quite some information back in the waiting room, do you want to tell him about it?” Jeff asked as Sebastian looked flustered for a moment as he looked at Blaine “I think Blaine should be the one to tell him, but Kurt I want you to know I'm really sorry the way I reacted when I first met you, had I known all of what you've been through-”

“Tell me - what?” Kurt interrupted looking to Blaine who was staring at Kurt with an unreadable expression.  “I didn't want to make you upset but Sebastian told us some things in the emergency room that you'll definitely want to know about, and I'm not sure if you'll be happy or sad about it,”

“Would you rather we let him watch it for himself?” Nick offered who had found a link on his phone. Luckily the hospital had Wifi

Kurt frowned “What about?”

Blaine sighed as he put his hand on top of Kurt's without touching the knuckles. “Your father was on the news Kurt,”

“M…my dad?” Kurt stuttered as Blaine nodded in confirmation “Yeah, your dad, he spoke of why you ran from home and what happened that day, you don't have to watch it if you're not up to it yet, but- ”

“I think you should Kurt,” Sebastian interfered. “Some things he said will make a difference,”

“I wan…I wan…to..see,” Kurt held out his hand for the phone and Nick handed it to him.

“Yes, well um…okay. Kurt is, I known he was gay since he was a little boy,”

Blaine watched as Kurt frowned, he appeared somewhat disbelieving of this information as he listened to the rest. Blaine had already seen it and was watching for his reaction.

“Where you ashamed of him because of his sexuality?” The lady asked and Burt shook his head.

Kurt inhaled, holding his breath and Blaine squeezed his wrist slightly, Kurt issued a small smile but his eyes never left the screen.

“No, god no. Kurt can be whoever he wants to be. I guess I didn't make that as clear as I should have. I love my son, and I want him home safe,”

Blaine searched his face and noticed his frown disappeared completely now, he blinked as though fighting back tears.

“Tell us then what happened to make him so scared, you seem like a reasonable man, you fixed my car for free that time when I had a break down, which is why I'm finding it hard to understand why Kurt would run away?”

Kurt was giving a blank expression now, he raised an eyebrow when he heard the woman speak up

“Sweetie you don't have to answer that, we just want Kurt to come home and to know that he's welcomed, that we love him, that's all she had said you needed to tell everybody watching this, my son who is going to be Kurt's step-brother was also part to blame in this, and we just want a chance to make it right, Kurt…if you're watching this, just call us at the very least, just let us know if you're okay,” The woman who was sitting next to the man said. She seemed nice and the man appeared poised.

Kurt knew Carole was doing it to protect his father from the media, and he was somewhat grateful for that, but he also wanted to knew his father's answer.

“I'm not going to beat about the bush Carole, they read the news, they'll think were hiding something. I hit Kurt, that's why he ran from home, me and his future step brother and Kurt himself got in a heated argument. Finn also said some things that he shouldn't have, but I'm more disgusted at myself than I'd ever be at Kurt. I don't blame him for going, he felt unsafe in his own home and no kid should ever feel that,”

“How hard did you hit him Mr Hummel?”

“Burt is not a violent man,” Carole retorted quickly in defence but Burt put a hand on hers to calm her down. “It's okay, they asked to interview me and I agreed remember. Hard enough to make him afraid of me, and everybody that knows me knows how sorry I am for it,”

The screen disappeared from his father's face and his heart clenched painfully. He hadn't realised how much he missed his father.

His father loved him. He didn't hate him, was it …was it just a show? Burt couldn't be that good of an actor right?

“Kurt? Kurt....honey?” Blaine was cupping his face trying to get his attention. Kurt had completely blanked out. The boys were quiet. They gave Blaine and Kurt some space as they watched from afar.

“Can I burrow someone's phon…phone?”

Nick look to Jeff, and Sebastian looked to Blaine who looked to Sebastian and back at Kurt.

“Kurt? You sure you want to call now? They'll ask questions of where you are you know,”  

Blaine was appearing anxious and Kurt couldn't figure out why.  

“I…I don't have to..talk m….much, but I hav..have to c-call him,”

Sebastian handed his phone and Kurt said his father lived in Ohio. The boys froze and all eyes turned to Blaine's who looked at Kurt with his mouth open “Kurt…Ohio is 2 hours from where we live in Westerville,”

Kurt blinked “I …didn…didn't know, nev..never been to West-erville,”

A wide smile appeared on Blaine's face at the prospect of Kurt living so close if he did go back home. Sebastian told him the two digits you had to use to call any number in Ohio before typing the rest of the numbers.

Kurt dialled his dad's tire shop since it was day time.

It rang a couple of rings before being picked up.

“Tire & Lubes, Mr Hummel speaking…”

“D…dad,”

“Kurt? Kurt… is that you?”

“Hi dad…”