Blaine awoke to the late-afternoon sun pouring through the windows and the whisper of the front door sliding open, soft footsteps on the wood, and Kurt's smile warming him more than the rays brightening the blue walls and glancing through the glass. "I didn't mean to fall asleep, I was going to wait for you to come home," Blaine mumbled sleepily, rubbing his eyes, and Kurt just laughed affectionately and pressed a soft kiss to his mouth.

When Kurt slid into place next to him, smothering a yawn behind his head as he nestled his head into Blaine's lap, sighing contentedly when Blaine's fingers slid into his hair, Blaine licked his lips nervously and murmured, "I want to go down to the beach and see my parents. I want to tell them about this. They deserve to know that I've found love and I'm pregnant."

"Are you sure?" Kurt asked softly, brows drawing together with worry. "Don't the merpeople have some kind of law about fraternising with humans? I don't want to be the reason you get into trouble."

"I don't think there is a law, all I've ever had is my father telling me not to swim up to the shore because humans were cruel creatures who might try and hurt me," Blaine said thoughtfully, smiling tenderly down at Kurt and stroking his hair slowly. "How wrong he was."

Kurt sat up slowly, wriggling into a comfortable upright position, and leaned in to kiss Blaine, fingers curving over the swell of his belly, beginning to press against his shirt with the growth of their baby. "I have a friend who should be by the shore just now, she always used to sneak away from her parents at sunset to play with the seals," Blaine explained softly. Kurt just smiled and linked his fingers through Blaine's, helping him to his feet and guiding him out of the house.

They walked barefoot across the sand dappled with the golden rays fading into red, warmed by the sprawling sunlit day, hands entwined and Blaine tucked as much into Kurt's side as he could be, searching the waves lapping gently at the curve of white sand for a familiar blonde head.

The barking of the seals filled the air, and Blaine let go of Kurt's hand to turn for the crop of rough grey rock jutting out into the ocean, beginning to climb as Kurt's shout of, "Blaine, please be careful!" rolled across the sand like a gentle breeze.

An unbidden smile turned up the corners of Blaine's mouth when he ascended the sloping face of the rock and found Brittany in the deep blue water at the other side, her laughter the notes of a joyful song on the air as a seal pup flipped into the water beside her, rolling over and over in circles around her. Familiar blue eyes flickered upwards to rest on him, and the colour drained from her cheeks as she stared at him.

"Hi," he said softly, reaching down for her, hearing his voice come out in the shrieks of his people's language. "I came home, Britt. Just like I said I would."

"They told me you were dead!" she shouted angrily, eyes blazing with anger. "I thought you'd been captured by a human and they'd taken you away and shoved you in poisonous water. I thought you'd died and the last thing I said to you was that you were stupid for trying to speak to your angel man!"

"Who told you I was dead?" Blaine asked worriedly, swinging his legs over the edge of the rock and seeing her gape. "The potion the elders gave me went a little wrong, and it turned me human. I've been living with Kurt, he's been helping me adjust to the land, and he's as wonderful as I thought he'd be, Britt. We've fallen in love. I get to be with my human, just like Elizabeth did." He didn't wait for Brittany to get over her shock before he continued, "I want to speak with my father. Can you ask him to meet with me further down the beach? There's someone I want to introduce him to, and something I want to tell him."

Brittany just nodded and flipped backwards, disappearing beneath the waves. Smiling to himself, happy to see his friend again after all these days, Blaine climbed carefully down and ran back to Kurt. "She was surprised that I was with you, but she was happy to see me again," he explained carefully as Kurt's arms came around him, cradling him close. "Someone's been telling people that I'm dead, though, which is a bit worrying. Brittany's gone to get my father, I want to introduce you two."

Smiling sweetly at him, eyes bright at the prospect, Kurt wound an arm tight around Blaine's waist and kissed him hard, tongue warm and wet, tracing the curve of Blaine's lower lip as Blaine kissed back just as deeply, fingers curling into Kurt's hair as they sank to the sand, Kurt kneeling between Blaine's spread legs as he kissed him.

They only surfaced for air when Blaine heard a splash and pulled away, sliding out from beneath the warm strength of Kurt's body to see his father at the sand's edge, face red with anger and eyes thunderous as he gazed at them, Blaine flushed and dizzy-eyed and smiling with kiss-swollen lips as he crawled down the beach to his father.

"It's so wonderful to see you again," he murmured, crossing his legs neatly beneath him and wrapping both arms over his belly. "I went to the elders, but the potion they gave me went wrong and turned me human. I only wanted to speak English so I could know my angel man, but instead he helped me and taught me, and I've been living with him for these past few moons. I didn't want you to worry, father, I'm sorry." He took a deep breath, looking at his father's frozen face, and continued, "I'm in love with Kurt, father. This is like nothing I've ever felt before. I wish to be betrothed to him and to stay on land with him. I am carrying his child, father."

"How dare you?!" his father suddenly roared, and Blaine recoiled, frightened of this angry creature in front of him, a man he didn't recognise. "To fraternise with a human is a risk to our world, but to mate with him and to carry his child is a treason to our king. I expected better of you, my son. But now I see that you are no better than that Elizabeth, running out on her betrothed for the flimsy love of a human. I can only be glad that Sebastian caught you with thisthing," he gestured to Kurt, sneering, "and alerted the king to it so I could make it clear that I knew nothing of your thoughtless love."

"I don't understand," Blaine said in a small voice, wrapping his arms protectively around himself, around his baby. "I thought you wanted me to find love and be happy."

"With our people, Blaine, not with a human!" his father shouted, and Blaine jumped, a tear slipping down his cheek as he groped for Kurt's hand, the reassuring warmth of his skin and familiarity of his fingers between Blaine's. "You are banished from our world. You may not return home. I don't wish to see you again, for you are no longer my son."

"Father, please-"

"Not another word from you, boy. You shall never betray our family this way again." His father vanished below the surface of the water, and Blaine let his tears fall, darkening the sand beneath him as Kurt slid close and wrapped his arms around him.

"Honey, what happened?" he asked softly, kissing Blaine's temple and tucking his chin over Blaine's shoulder. "Please tell me, don't leave me in the dark."

"You and I...falling in love with you makes me guilty of treason," Blaine explained, voice shaking with sobs as he clung to Kurt, his only anchor in the spinning world. "I've been banished. I can't ever go home. I'll never see my family again. I have nothing except you."

"Blaine, I'm so sorry," Kurt whispered, blinking wet eyes at Blaine, cradling him close to the sharp lines of his body. "This is all my fault. I'm so sorry."

Blaine simply leaned into Kurt, the only thing secure in his life anymore, letting his tears fall for the stars fading into the deep blue sky to see.