Kurt couldn’t quite believe that Blaine was standing right in front of him.

Blaine hadn’t changed a bit. He was still his same old dapper self. His dark curls were not gelled back like they used to be in high school, but Kurt much preferred it that way. His amber eyes still the same, but for the first time ever, there wasn’t that usual sparkle in them.

There was something about Blaine’s demeanour that threw Kurt, there was something wrong. Kurt looked Blaine in the eyes and gasped at what he saw. In the corner of Blaine's right eye, was a bruise. As if on instinct, Kurt reached out and touched it with feather-like pressure, worry written all over his facial expression.

Blaine gasped; his breath had hitched at Kurt’s touch. Blaine closed his eyes for a moment and had to stop himself from nuzzling into the taller boy’s gesture. There was something about Kurt’s gesture that caught Blaine off guard, Kurt still cared about him. Blaine almost couldn’t believe his luck.

Kurt was still softly moving his finger across the bruise; the purple mark looked harsh against Blaine’s skin. Kurt didn’t need to even think about what had caused it, deep inside he knew the answer.

Sebastian.

‘I…um…Sorry,’ Kurt said before removing his hand from Blaine’s face, realising that that may have been a bit too much for both of them.

‘I-it’s fine,’ Blaine said, truth be told he was a little stunned to see that Kurt obviously didn’t hate him. He felt relieved knowing that. ‘Do you want to get coffee or lunch or something?’

‘Yeah, sure… that would be nice, we could catch up… if you want to.’ Since Kurt’s intention had been to go out and find Blaine today, he had nothing else planned, so he said yes. They had stuff to catch up on.

‘Yeah, yeah that sounds great, there’s a little café not far. Do you want to go there?’ 

‘Okay,’ Kurt replied, and they both walked towards the café. Things between them felt a little awkward, Kurt wasn’t sure whether or not to ask about the bruise on Blaine’s face, but he had decided that if Blaine wanted to tell him, he would.

Blaine didn’t know whether or not to ask Kurt about the man he had seen him with. Who was he? Kurt’s friend? Boyfriend? But even if he was Kurt’s boyfriend, why did that matter to Blaine? Kurt had every right to be with whomever he wanted.

Subconsciously, they had both taken a hold of each other's hands as they continued walking. In that moment they felt complete, like everything made sense. It wasn’t until they had let go of each other to open the door of the café that they realised what they had been doing. Both of them not sure of what any of this meant, there were still so many questions to be answered, but for now they would wait; the tougher questions would be answered later.

They sat down at one of the tables and had ordered their coffees. Blaine smiled when Kurt had remembered his coffee order: ‘A Non-fat mocha for me and a Medium Drip for this one.’

‘So, how have you been… It’s been a long time,’ Blaine said, deciding that small talk would work best for now.

Kurt almost said ‘Yeah, five years’, but he stopped himself, not knowing if Blaine even remembered writing that letter, even mind-caring about what it said anymore; but little did Kurt know that Blaine did remember it, too well in fact.

‘It has, I... um I’ve been good, busy with working and stuff, but yeah I’m good, what about you?’ Kurt said tentatively, wanting Blaine to tell him how the hell he got that bruise, but knew that just being blunt about it might make things worse. So Kurt decided to just subtly drop hints to try and ease the information out of him.

‘Yeah, um...’ Blaine tried to not just spill his heart out to Kurt, that he was with Sebastian, that he was abusive, that Sebastian had damaged Blaine in so many ways, he was possibly almost unable to fix. He was truly broken. ‘Same, just work and stuff, gotta pay the bills somehow.’ Blaine smiled at Kurt in an attempt to try and prove to him that he was okay.

Kurt pretty much saw straight through it, he knew that there was something Blaine wasn’t telling. Kurt was a little hurt that Blaine didn’t tell him, but then remembered that they hadn’t seen each other in 4 years, they both had new lives now. Blaine didn’t have to tell you everything, Kurt thought to himself.

They sat in silence after talking about their jobs; Kurt had told Blaine that he had a small roll in a show on Broadway and about how he was slowing making his way up in the acting world, which caused Blaine’s heart to swell a little, to know that Kurt was pursuing his dreams and that he was happy.

They continued to talk, Blaine was asking Kurt about how Burt and Carol were, he really had missed those two. They made him feel welcome all those years ago and Kurt told Blaine that Finn was still his same self and that he had gotten a football scholarship. He had moved to Chicago, which caused a lot of strain of his and Rachel’s relationship, but they were working on it. 

‘I missed you,’ Blaine said without really thinking, but he couldn’t stop himself. Besides, there was nothing wrong with telling someone that you had missed them, the two of them had been dating after all, and were best friends. 

‘I missed you too… Look, Blaine, I don’t know if you want to talk about it now, but I read the letter…’

Blaine’s eyes glazed over with tears after processing what Kurt had said. He had read the letter, Blaine felt so happy, because Kurt had finally been given an explanation about what happened.

As if it were almost planned, Blaine heard a familiar voice say his name; he tensed up and looked at the man who was standing there.

‘Sebastian,’ he said, feeling slightly awkward and wondered how Kurt would react to this.

When Kurt had seen Sebastian enter the coffee shop, he hadn’t known whether or not to say anything to Blaine. He didn’t know of their situation and because he knew of their past, Kurt decided to keep quiet. Once he noticed that the one person he truly hated was walking towards them, Kurt saw that he had not changed one little bit, and how he would love to wipe that fucking stupid smirk off hi-

‘Kurt,’ Sebastian said, looking at him.

‘Sebastian.’

‘It’s good too see you, Kurt.’ There was that stupid, smug, arrogant, pathetic tone of voice that Sebastian had always used when speaking to him throughout high school.

‘I wish I could say the same,’ he replied through gritted teeth.

Kurt watched as Sebastian sat down on the chair that was empty next to Blaine as he took his hand. Kurt noticed that Blaine had tensed up a lot at his touch.

Kurt was finding it hard to process everything, why would Blaine want to be with Sebastian after what he did? He looked at Blaine and the amber eyed boy’s expression immediately read that he was sorry.

‘So, Kurt, why don’t you come over for dinner? We’d like that, wouldn’t we Blaine?’

‘Y-yeah.’ Blaine was baffled as to why Sebastian was seemingly so nice, but he knew better than to think he was doing it out of the goodness of his heart, he knew there had to be some ulterior motive.

Kurt looked at Blaine and saw how unnerved he was around Sebastian. It made Kurt feel for Blaine, he knew what Sebastian was doing.

‘Yeah okay,’ Kurt said, knowing that he had to find out more about Blaine and Sebastian’s relationship. He felt bad for wanting to be so nosey, but there was something about the way Sebastian was gripping onto Blaine, and the way Blaine seemed to almost stop breathing when he was around that worried Kurt.

They finished their coffee and walked back to Blaine’s and Sebastian’s apartment. As they walked, Kurt noticed that as the two of them walked in front of him, Sebastian had an almost alarming grip on Blaine’s wrist, and was pretty much dragging Blaine with him as he walked.

Once again, Kurt kept quiet, although he wanted to slap Sebastian for doing that to his Blaine.

They had reached the apartment, Blaine had quietly toed off his shoes and had disappeared into the kitchen after Sebastian had told him to start off dinner. 

‘So, Kurt, living the dream are you? Finally on the Broadway stage?’ Sebastian had asked. He always used to make fun of Kurt’s dreams, saying that he was stupid for even considering it.

So that’s why Kurt felt a surge of satisfaction when he answered him.

‘Yes actually, just a minor role and helping out, but it’s a start.’ Kurt had now entered full bitch mode, he knew that this would slowly kill Sebastian, and he smiled at the slightly taller man in order to confuse him.

‘Just so you know, Hummel, just because I asked you here, doesn’t mean I like you, in fact quite the opposite.’

‘Figured, the feeling is mutual,’ Kurt said, cutting Sebastian off. Two were going to play at this game, if McKinley had taught him anything, it was that you had to bite back. 

Sebastian was getting more and more wound up by Kurt’s cocky attitude; he hadn’t expected him to be as bitchy as he was being, and this threw Sebastian off, but he would never admit that to anyone, ever.

‘Blaine is mine, so if you have any intention of trying to ‘woo’ him or whatever it is that you do, I wouldn’t.’

‘Oh Sebastian, how I missed your deluded head. FYI, I have no intention of ‘wooing’ Blaine or whatever it is that you do.’ He stopped, and mentally thanked Sebastian for the idea. ‘But if I did, what would you do…’ he paused again and thought about what he was going to say, he had an idea of what kind of relationship Sebastian and Blaine had by now, ‘…hit me?’ Inside he felt nervous about saying that, and the anger in Sebastian’s eyes was alarming.

‘Oh shit!’ Kurt heard Blaine say as he heard a pan drop to the floor of the kitchen. This diverted Sebastian’s attention away from Kurt, and he got up and stormed into the room. Kurt, on instinct, got up and followed.

‘What was that?’ Sebastian ordered as he entered the kitchen and made his was to Blaine, standing right in front of him. Kurt stood in the doorway.

‘I uh, n-nothing Sebastian.’

‘You better not do that again,’ Sebastian said, gripping Blaine’s t-shirt collar.

‘I-I won’t…I’m sorry!’

‘You will be.’ Sebastian narrowed his eyes and looked directly into Blaine’s soul, this scared him.

Kurt, sensing that Blaine was scared, took a step from the doorway and saw that Sebastian still had a hold of Blaine’s collar, so he opened his mouth.

‘Let him go.’

‘Stay out of this,’ Sebastian snarled at him.

‘I said, Let. Him. Go.’ Kurt repeated.

‘I fucking told you Hummel to stay out of this!’ he said, now diverting his attention from Blaine to Kurt.

Blaine saw the look in Kurt’s sapphire eyes, he was scared, but that look only lasted for a split second. But Blaine knew he had to do something, he needed to man up.

‘Don’t you dare talk to him like that,’ he said, finding the courage.

‘Oh yeah? And why shouldn’t I?’

Sebastian once again stepped closer to Blaine, but Blaine didn’t let himself get intimidated… Well at least not show it, he was shaking inside. The shorter boy moved into Sebastian’s personal bubble.

‘Because he’s more of a man than you’ll ever be,’ Blaine said, moving closer to Sebastian so only he could hear it.

The next thing Kurt could see was Sebastian raising his hand, and he watched it collide into Blaine’s ribcage. He stepped forward and got a grip of Sebastian, pulling him off of Blaine and situating himself between them. Blaine was still doubled over in pain.

Kurt just glared at Sebastian with his trademark bitch stare, and Sebastian looked between the both of them. Deep down he admired what Kurt had just done, putting himself between the fight, standing up for the person he loved. And that was just it, Kurt and Blaine were in love, although Sebastian would never admit any of this to anyone. But he could see it, and he hoped that one day, he could have that too.

‘Get out,’ Sebastian found himself saying. ‘Get out, both of you!’ he shouted, seeing how Blaine was crying in pain as Kurt was ushering him out, to make sure he was okay.

Kurt and Blaine didn’t need to be told twice. Kurt helped Blaine up and they left, Sebastian standing in the kitchen alone as they headed to Kurt and Rachel’s apartment.