"Shouldn't they be here by now?" he asked his father who was stood at the end of the bed with Carole. At least now Kurt was sat on top of it instead of laying under the covers. Now that freedom was in sight he was itching to go, even though he knew the day held a lot of terrible things ahead. He'd already been discharged and they were now waiting for Blaine and his mom to show up so they could head to the police station.

"Yeah I would have thought so" Burt reached up to scratch at his head.

"Do you think everythings okay?" Kurt asked as a million possible, horrible, scenarios ran through his head.

"I'm sure they'll be here in a minute honey" Carole tried to settle his nerves but he couldn't help noticing that she kept glancing at the door. "You don't mind Finn not being here do you?"

"No, no it's fine" Kurt was quick to reassure her. Finn had come with their parents to the hospital before heading off and he knew that he wanted to be there, but had been talked out of it by Burt and Carole. There was no point them all going and apparently Mr Schue had called a New Directions meeting. In light of the fact that school was out for summer and they had no performances planned Kurt was in no doubt that it was to discuss what had happened to Blaine and himself. Miss Pillsbury would probably be there to help them talk about everything. Kurt had asked Finn not to tell the others what had truly happened to Blaine, as it was nobody's story to tell but his. Finn had agreed but something about the way he avoided meeting his eye when he made the promise had Kurt wondering if maybe it was too late for that.

Kurt glanced at his watch again but just as he was about to say something else the door opened and Mrs Anderson walked in with Blaine trailing behind her. Kurt only gave the woman a cursory glance, noting that she looked like she'd put a lot of effort into looking perfectly coiffed, something he normally would have respected. Now however he couldn't help thinking that she had probably spent a lot of time getting ready and very little on talking to her son. Blaine was a different story. He was wearing clean clothes and had clearly had a shower but otherwise he looked no better than he had yesterday. His skin almost had a yellowish tinge to it now and the bruises covering his face had really developed into a riot of colors. The one eye that wasn't still swollen shut was blood shot. He didn't look like he'd had any sleep the night before and Kurt had no doubt that that was the case. His own sleep had been broken by nightmares of what had happened and what was to come, he could only imagine what Blaine's would have been like.

"Mrs Anderson, Blaine" Burt greeted them.

"Natalie, please" Blaine's mom responded with a small smile.

"We were starting to think you were'nt coming" Burt looked pointedly at his own watch.

"Well yes, I'm sorry about that. We had to go get Blaine's test results" Kurt's heart stilled in his chest and he shot a look at Blaine to see if he could tell the answer just by looking at him. He couldn't. in fact the blank look that Blaine was sporting was starting to disturb Kurt a little bit. It was good that Blaine was no longer falling apart but this calm was eerie and it was starting to feel like the eye of the storm to him. He dreaded to think what would happen when the storm came back, he had a feeling it would be even more devastating than last time.

"And?" Carole prompted.

"They were negative thank goodness" everyone seemed to breath out at the same time.

"Oh thank god" Carole said and despite the affronted look that Natalie gave her she went over and gave Blaine a hug. Kurt watched as Blaine only slightly stiffened up as Carole put her arms around him and then he gave in slightly and rested his head on her shoulder for a minute before pulling away again.

"Is that it then, no more tests?" Burt asked.

"Oh they mentioned something about retesting in a few months time just in case, but I'm sure it will all be fine" Natalie dismissed the question with a wave of her perfeclty manicured hand. Kurt hoped she was right but he couldn't help thinking it was a rather niave way of dealing with something so huge.

"Well let's hope so" Carole gave Blaine's arm a gentle squeeze. "Is Blaine's father going to make it back in time to join us at the police station".

Natalie hesitated before answering "No I haven't told him yet".

"What, why?" Kurt couldn't keep quiet any longer and when Blaine's mom turned her frosty glare on him he knew she still hadn't forgiven him for his outburst yesterday. Which was fine with him as he hadn't forgiven her for her actions either.

"He has a very important meeting today, one that could change the future of the company he works for, he would never forgive me if I put that in jeopardy".

Kurt glanced around the room and from the look on Burt and Carole's faces they we're just as suprised by her response as him. In fact the only person who didn't seem bothered was Blaine, who just stood there, silently.

Burt started to say something but Carole shot him a look and he closed his mouth with an almost audible click.

"Well I guess there's no point putting this is off anymore" Carole said "Are you boys ready?"

Kurt didn't know how to answer that because how could you ever be ready for any of this, but he wanted to get the ball rolling and the sooner those men were behind bars the better.

"As I'll ever be" he spoke up and Blaine once again just nodded. Kurt was really starting to worry about Blaine's silence, he was worried that he was withdrawing completely.

"Is Blaine taking his own car?" he asked as an idea came to him.

"Yes I think so" Natalie answered for him and Kurt was suddenly concious of how much like a child they were treating him, talking about him as though he wasn't there.

"Is it okay if I go with you?" Kurt made sure he directed the question directly to his boyfriend this time. He watched Blaine to see if he reacted and was pleased to see a small smile tug at the corner of his mouth. He didn't know what he was going to say to him but he just wanted to be alone with him, even just for a short while.

"I'm not sure if that's a very good idea" Natalie started to protest.

"Mom please" Blaine finally spoke and Kurt was suprised to hear that his voice sounded even more strained and weak than yesterday.

Natalie looked a little suprised, as though she wasn't used to hearing her son ask for anything.

"I don't see what harm it can do" Carole backed the boys up and Natalie caved, something Kurt got the feeling she was used to from living with such an overbearing man as her husband.

"Oh okay, fine" she still made sure they knew she wasn't exactly happy about the idea.

So after a rather awkward journey to where all their cars were parked Kurt found himself sitting in the passenger seat of Blaine's car following behind both sets of parent's cars. The thing was that now that he was alone with Blaine he didn't have a clue what to say to him. A million different things came to mind, all of which he dismissed as insensitive or stupid.

Unbelievably it was Blaine that broke the silence.

"Shall we just keep going?" the words were spoken so quietly that Kurt almost didn't hear them.

"I'm sorry what?"

"Can we just keep going" Blaine never once took his eyes of the road.

"I don't understand" Kurt admitted.

"On this road, instead of taking the next turn off we could just keep going, we'd be miles away before they even realised" Blaine explained.

"Oh Blaine" Kurt didn't mean for his voice to come out so pitying but he knew Blaine picked up on it when his hands tightened on the steering wheel. "You know we can't do that right? Where exactly would we go?"

"I don't know...I just don't want to be here anymore" Blaine just wouldn't stop breaking Kurt's heart with the things he said.

"I promise Blaine, when this is all over we'll go away somewhere together for a while, just us" It was all Kurt could offer. When Blaine didn't respond Kurt reached over and took one of his hands in his. Looking up at his boyfriends face he saw the silent tears tracing their way down his face.

"I don't think this is ever going to be over" Blaine's voice was steady despite his tears.

"I know it seems like that now, but it will be one day. I know nothings going to be the same as it was before but it will get better. We just have to go through this before we can get to the other side."

"What if I can't though" Blaine's voice cracked on those words and Kurt grasped his hand a little tighter. He wanted to tell Blaine to stop the car so that he could hold him properly but he was scared that if they stopped he would never be able to convice Blaine to get back on this road again.

"You can Blaine, we'll do it together".

Ahead of them the two cars pulled off the highway at the next exit and Kurt tensed as he felt their car speed up rather than slow down. He didn't say anything though, knowing this was something Blaine had to decide for himself. He couldn't help a small sigh of relief though as Blaine slowed the car and took the exit too, following their parents cars into downtown Lima.