“Did you just say cancer, Kurt?” Burt said softly unable to wrap his mind around the possibility of his only son having cancer. Thankful he had Carole and Finn sitting there beside him, he wouldn’t have been able to cope with this news alone.
“Stage Three Hodgkin’s Lymphoma” he confirmed and grasped Blaine’s hand tight. Kurt would have preferred going home to tell his father this in person but with a doctor’s appointment nearly every day before his first treatment, there was no time.
“I’m coming out there” Burt insisted
“No Dad it’s ok. You don’t have to, Blaine and I have it all under control”
“You two have cancer under control? You are teenagers for god’s sake. I’m coming out there”
“Please Dad just let us get into the routine of the treatment and then I will be happy for you to come out”
“Kurt...”
“I don’t want you to come out here” Kurt blurted out quickly. Shocking everyone, he couldn’t take it back. Blaine rubbed Kurt’s shoulders gently as he let out the breath he’d been holding in “I don’t want you to go through with me, what you went through with Mom. I don’t want you to have to experience that all again”
“I appreciate the concern Kurt but...” Burt began softly after a couple minutes of silence.
“I can’t see you watch me with the same sad eyes you watched Mom with. I promise I will be fine, Blaine is here and I will be fine. Come when I’m better? Please?”
“Oh... Uhm sure, ok. You take care of yourself ok, kid?” he insisted unsure of what was going on. As much as he wanted to be there with Kurt to help him through all this but he had to respect his son’s decision. Burt couldn’t help but think of Elizabeth the second Kurt said he had cancer and all of the horrible memories from that time came flooding back. Just thinking of his late wife so sick she couldn’t communicate like that made his understand his son’s request.
“Blaine, you look after my boy ok?”
“I will do everything in my power, sir”

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“Can’t we stay and watch her play just a little longer?” Kurt begged as he watched Claire sitting on the floor of her pre-school class playing blocks with her friends.
“I wish we could but we have to get to the hospital” Blaine sighed as he took Kurt’s hand gently and started pulling him toward the door. Letting the pre-school director know that Santana would be picking Claire up later that day in the case they didn’t get back in time. Kurt was going for his first chemotherapy treatment and without knowing what to expect they had Santana on standby.
“You don’t have to stay with me today” Kurt sighed as they walked hand in hand out onto the street and toward their car. As useless as it was to drive around New York most of the time, Blaine insisted he drove Kurt to and from his treatments with no argument.
“You did not just say that” he chuckled and started the car as Kurt buckled his seatbelt
“It’s going to take hours”
“And...?”
“And you’ll get bored”
“So will you which is why I bought my iPad fully stocked with all your favourite movies” Blaine smirked as he turned into the busy New York street and started off toward the hospital. Resting his hand on his boyfriend’s knee, the curly haired teenager had no intention of leaving Kurt alone through this.
“You really don’t have to do any of this Blaine...”
“Of course I do, we’re in this together ok?”
“Thank you” Kurt smiled and brought Blaine’s hand up and kissed it softly “I love you”
“I love you too”
The rest of their trip to the hospital was spent in silence as Kurt’s nerves got the better of him. He appreciated Blaine’s attempts to cheer him up with the radio but nothing could distract him from what would happen that day.
As they got to the hospital, they were ushered through to a procedure room where they took a blood sample to get everything started. Kurt was poked and prodded for an hour before the oncologist came to see them. Kurt seemed to be in a bit of a daze as he took in all the information the doctor was telling them. He was thankful Blaine decided to stay so there was another set of ears listening in case he forgot something. It was a lot to understand and Kurt was feeling incredibly overwhelmed.
It was another hour or two before a nurse set Kurt up in a private treatment room ready for the four and a half hour infusion. Sitting in the extra large, extra soft recliner chair, Kurt wished he could clasp his hands together so it wasn’t so obvious how nervous he was. Blaine took Kurt’s free hand gently as the nurse set up the IV in the other.
Once the oncologist had come back in and started the infusion, Blaine waited for them to leave before sliding in next to Kurt on the recliner. Pulling out his iPad, he wanted to distract Kurt before he started to think about the treatment too much.
“Mary Poppins, Singing in the Rain or I raided Claire’s entire Disney collection” Blaine chuckled and flicked through the options on the screen. Touching the screen when it came to Aladdin, Kurt sat back into Blaine as the movie started. “I should have known, it’s your favourite”
Kurt nodded with a weak smile as he peered down at the IV in his arm. Resisting the urge to touch it, he just stared at it forgetting his favourite movie was even playing.
“How are you feeling?” Blaine asked pulling Kurt from his trance “Are you ok?”
“A little out of it but I’m guessing that’s the allergy medication they gave me” he shrugged and took Blaine’s hand gently “Thank you for staying with me. I don’t think I could have done this alone”
“I would never have left you to do this by yourself. You’re kinda stuck with me forever”
“Forever?”
“I’ve already asked Rachel to help me pick out a ring. God help me trying to do it alone. I just know I would get it wrong” Blaine laughed as he linked his fingers together with Kurt’s.
“You really want to marry me?”
“Of course I do” he smiled and kissed his boyfriend’s hand gently “Although I wanted to plan something much more extravagant, consider this my proposal. Kurt Hummel will you marry me?”
“Yes” Kurt smiled and turned to Blaine “A thousand times yes”

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“Are you feeling alright?” Blaine asked as he followed Kurt back into the apartment. Kurt’s first chemo treatment was over and the doctor had gone through what they should expect from now on. Warning them that nausea was inevitable he prescribed anti-nausea drugs all the same.
“A little woozy but some amazing guy proposed to me today so that might be it” Kurt laughed as he turned to Blaine and rested his hands on his boyfriend’s shoulders “Thank you Blaine”
“For proposing?”
“Even before I got sick you gave me something to fight for. I’m going to kick this cancer’s ass just so I can have the perfect future with you as my husband”
“Sounds like a pretty good reason to me” Blaine smiled and placed a soft and gentle kiss to his boyfriend’s lips “Would you like me to make you something to eat? Do you feel up to eating anything?”
“Have we got any Iced Tea left?”
“If not, I’ll make more”