"I wish you'd let me hold her." Blaine murmered sleepily.

He was stretched out at Kurt's side, a possessive arm draped carefully across his stomach, a leg thrown over both of Kurt's. He nuzzled his face against Kurt's shoulder, gently caressing Madeline's hand before tucking his own back under the covers.

Kurt laughed, dropping a kiss on her head.

"I'm her daddy too." Blaine pouted. "You have to share her."

"But I don't want to." Kurt told him, sounding shocked that it was even an issue.

"Too bad." Blaine laughed, looking at the clock on the wall. "Burt and Carole will be here soon."

"My dad's coming?" Kurt asked, turning shocked eyes on his boyfriend.

"They've been visiting every single day." Blaine said gently, sitting up properly. "Can I please hold Hepsi- Madeline –" he corrected himself at Kurt's glare, "-before they get here?"

"Her name is not Hepsibah Blaine." Kurt said crankily.

"I know." Blaine said placidly, kissing his cheek. "Her name is Madeline Rose Hummel-Anderson." He said, reeling her name off his tongue easily, practiced from how many times he'd repeated it to assure Kurt that he did know their daughter's name.

Kurt heaved a sigh and handed her over reluctantly, nestling back comfortably against the pillows. He smiled fondly as Blaine happily rocked Madeline.

"She's so little." Blaine grinned, touching his nose to hers.

Kurt grinned and curled up, wincing slightly.

Blaine froze. "Kurt, are you okay?"

Kurt smiled slightly. "Relax…I just had to move."

"Did you tear anything? Are you bleeding?"

"Blaine…"

"Should I call a nurse?"

Kurt frowned. "Blaine stop."

He took a breath. "What?"

"I'm being careful, okay? I can feel how much pain I'm going to be in…I know what I'm doing."

Blaine let out a relieved sigh, closing his eyes and rocking Madeline again. "I just worry…"

Kurt grinned and tilted his face – a prompt for Blaine to kiss him. "I know. And I love you for it."

Blaine laughed and kissed his cheek. "I love you too."

A hesitant knock came at the door.

"Blaine? Are you awake?" Carole asked softly, pushing the door open. "Is Hepsibah in here with you?" she questioned further, stepping into the room.

Blaine darted a glance at Kurt.

He had his arms folded across his chest, quietly fuming.

"Kurt!" Carole cried happily, spotting him. "You're awake?"

She came forward for a hug, Burt following her, a relieved smile on his face.

"Blaine, why didn't you tell us? You were supposed to ring as soon as he woke up!" Carole berated, turning her attention to Blaine, scowling at him. Kurt grinned, holding his arms out for the baby.

Blaine handed her over after he kissed her nose, smiling up at Carole.

"But he only woke up a couple of hours ago, and I knew you were coming... I thought it'd be a nice surprise." Blaine said pleadingly, and Carole's face broke into a smile, leaning forward to kiss the top of his head, letting Blaine know he'd been forgiven.

"May I hold my granddaughter?" Carole asked, holding her arms out to Kurt.

Blaine smiled at the expression on Kurt's face, moving to whisper in his ear.

"You do have to share her you know."

Kurt gave her up with a pout, and Blaine kissed him gently in reassurance. Tired again, Kurt nuzzled into Blaine's side, shifting slowly until he was comfortable, and settling where he could see his baby.

Burt had settled into a chair at the side of the bed, switching between watching Carole with the baby and watching Kurt.

"Can I hold Hepsibah?" he asked finally.

"Her name is not Hepsibah." Kurt snapped, whipping his head around to glare at Blaine. "Her name is Madeline Rose."

Carole smiled, placing Madeline into Burt's arms.

"That's a pretty name." She said soothingly, and Kurt dropped his head back onto Blaine's shoulder.

"I hate you all." He whispered, his eyes closing.

Carole and Burt exchanged a small smile, watching as he yawned.

"I think that's our cue to leave."

"You only just got here." Kurt mumbled sleepily and they laughed.

"We'll be back tomorrow, we've got errands to run and we were just checking in..." Burt assured him, placing Madeline back into Blaine's arms before turning to leave. "Besides...Finn and Rachel should be here soon."

"They followed us but...Finn got hungry."

"Say no more." Blaine laughed,

"Mm...goodbye..." Kurt whispered and Carole laughed, giving all three of them a kiss before following Burt out the door.

Kurt sank lower on the bed, his head resting on Blaine's stomach as he slowly drifted into sleep. Blaine stroked his hair gently, bouncing Hepsibah slowly as she whined, settling her back into a drowsy half-awake state.

Rachel and Finn didn't arrive for another hour, and by then, Blaine had almost completely tuned out.

When Rachel bounced through the door, Blaine almost dropped Hepsibah as he jerked back to being fully awake.

"Blaine, are you awake?" she whispered loudly. Blaine sighed, rolling his eyes.

"Yes?" he replied, laughing slightly as she hugged him. The movement must have disturbed Kurt, causing him to mumble slightly as he opened his eyes, glaring at Rachel.

Rachel's eyes widened.

"Finn, he's awake! Blaine, Kurt's awake! Kurt, you're awake!" she babbled.

Kurt smiled, pulling himself slowly back up until he was upright, leaning against the pillows.

"Yeah...he's been awake since this morning." Blaine grinned and Rachel's mouth fell open.

"Hi Rachel, Finn." Kurt nodded, leaning a little against Blaine.

"I just saw the most gorgeous babies." Rachel told him, settling into the chair beside the bed. "None quite as beautiful as little Hepsibah, but –"

"Her name is not Hepsibah!" Kurt growled exasperatedly.

Finn finally stopped hovering in the doorway.

"Yes it is." He said in confusion. "Blaine told us..."

"Her name is Madeline Rose." Kurt said, ignoring Blaine's quiet snickers as he took Madeline out of his arms. "Daddy is never, ever, going to be left alone with you again, okay? I promise." Kurt whispered, kissing her forehead.

Rachel smiled at them.

"Kurt! I bought you and Hepsi-Madeline a present!" she told him in an attempt to change the topic, stuttering over the name.

Kurt scowled at her.

"Madeline! I bought you and Madeline a present." She cleared it up, and Kurt's frown softened. Slightly.

"Presents?" Kurt questioned, and Rachel smiled again, digging through her bag.

Finding the presents, Rachel pulled them out, setting them gently in Kurt's lap, holding her arms out expectantly.

Sighing, Kurt kissed Madeline's head, passing her over and watching with a slight smile as Rachel cradled her to her chest, cooing softly and stroking Madeline's nose with the tip of her finger.

Blaine coughed slightly, bring Kurt's attention back to the present on his lap.

Kurt opened it slowly, pulling the outfit inside out and holding it up.

"Oh, it's adorable!" he sighed, already imagining Madeline in the dress.

"There's more." Blaine said softly, picking up the rest of the parcel that Kurt had dropped into his lap.

There was a baby monitor set and a gift certificate for a store, and they looked up at Rachel and Finn with wide eyes.

"We knew it was tough, trying to get all the stuff for little...Madeline...as low income teenagers..." Rachel said with a small smile. "So this is our contribution – as aunt and uncle of your baby."

"Rachel...this is...this is fantastic." Blaine gushed. "Thank you so much."

Kurt was beaming, shaking his head. "It's perfect. Thank you."

"And you don't need to worry about clothes!" Rachel grinned. "I dibs buying her all the cute little outfits."

Kurt laughed. "You know you don't have to..."

Finn shook his head. "Yeah we do. It's like, aunt and uncle duties."

Kurt smiled at him.

"Thank you. It's too much, but thank you."

Finn laughed, changing the subject.

"So, how does this work? Are you both daddy, or what?"

Kurt and Blaine's eyes widened and they looked at each other, stunned.

"We...We hadn't thought of that..." Blaine said hesitantly.

"I've never imagined being called anything but daddy..." Kurt added.

Rachel giggled. "It's simple. You're Daddy Kurt and you're Daddy Blaine..."

Blaine wrinkled his nose. "Yeah...but what happens when she's older? Dad Blaine doesn't sound any good...and she wouldn't call us 'daddy' in front of her friends."

"Why can't she just call you Kurt and Blaine when she's older?" Rachel asked

"...I don't want her calling us our names...that's...weird..." Kurt said softly.

"She could always call you Momma?" Finn suggested, but death glares from all three of them sent him quiet again.

"Well, maybe you'd both just be dad then?" Rachel suggested. "And she could use Kurt dad and Blaine dad to differentiate?"

"Maybe..." Kurt said, eyes fixing back on Madeline. "We'll have to think about it."

Madeline started whining then, a low, hard to ignore sound, and Blaine checked the time.

"Sorry Rachel, it's time for her feed." He said, hopping up off the bed and holding his arms out for his daughter.

Rachel pouted.

"Can't I feed her?"

Blaine laughed, smoothing a hand over Madeline's head.

"You probably could, but I have to take her back to the nursery to get another bottle." He explained. "And the nurses there will want to give her another check up, to make sure she's still okay."

Rachel sighed, giving Madeline up without another argument.

"How long will you be?"

"Probably about an hour?"

Kurt nodded his agreement, stretching slowly now that he had the bed to himself.

Rachel sighed, glancing at the time.

"We can stay, if you'd like?" she offered Kurt as Blaine left the room.

Blaine hummed as he hurried through the hallways, cuddling Hepsibah into his chest, patting at her back to sooth her as she made desperate-sounding whimpers.

"Shh Hepsibah, almost there."

He rounded the corner into the nursery, where a female nurse greeted them warmly.

"And I was just about to send out a search party." She teased, passing Blaine a bottle. He took it gratefully, taking his usual seat near the window as Hepsibah started drinking greedily.

^.^

When Blaine arrived back at Kurt's room with Hepsibah, Rachel and Finn were gone, and Kurt was fast asleep. Blaine smiled slightly and squeezed in next to him – despite the fact he was sprawled pretty much over the entire single mattress. Dinner would be soon – Blaine knew he wouldn't be sleeping long, but spending the short amount of time pressed against Kurt, even while he was sleeping, was far too hard to resist.

He'd almost lost Kurt once...any time with him was always precious.

^.^

The next morning, a nurse entered the room far too early for Kurt and Blaine, despite it being nine a.m.

They blinked awake sleepily and she stifled a laugh, apologising.

"We've got some matters to attend to." She said in explanation, and Blaine fisted his eyes, yawning slightly. "Is this a bad time?"

"Nope..." Kurt yawned, and Blaine helped him sit up.

She perched at the end of his bed with a small smile.

"We need to talk about how long you're going to be here, and how it's going to be managed financially."

Kurt paled. "I..."

She shook her head, her hands going out to him. "Because you're male, and this situation isn't heard about very often, it's being taken care of by private funding – also because you're so young. You'll be here for possibly two more weeks, depending on how quickly your recovery time is. Madeline, on the other hand, is more of a problem."

Blaine frowned. "What do you mean, problem?"

"Well, it's a problem that's easily fixed, we just need your approval and signature. We don't have enough room to keep her in the nursery for as long as you'll be staying, so while we keep you in the maternity ward, we need to ask you to keep her in here as well...I mean, that is, if Blaine doesn't plan on going home anytime soon." She teased.

Blaine laughed. "I'm definitely staying."

"Right." She laughed, glancing over to the pile of Blaine's stuff – including his guitar and a few bags of clothes. "So she'll be alright to sleep here?"

Blaine and Kurt nodded in unison and she handed over two contracts, to which they signed happily.

"Alright, all sorted. You'll still be able to get her bottles from the nursery, but we strongly urge you to start getting her some store bought bottles and powdered milk to get her used to the brand you choose."

Blaine and Kurt nodded with identical grins.

"Everything seems sorted, I'll leave you to napping." She grinned, and Blaine shook his head, getting up.

"I'm gonna go get our baby." He grinned and the nurse laughed.

"Oh, and Kurt, your physio starts on Monday – your stitches should be healed enough, and we want you walking like normal by the end of the week!"

Kurt gave a little groan. "It's going to hurt...so much..."

"No pain no gain, right Blaine?" she grinned.

Blaine had paused in the doorway. "Hm, I think my boyfriend's been through enough pain, thanks very much."

She smirked. "It was worth it though, right?"

Blaine and Kurt grinned, sharing a special glance.

"Completely."