“Wow bitch Austin bared his claws” Mercedes chuckled through the phone once Kurt had told her everything that happened that morning. He was in the car driving home and the silence was slowly killing him. He needed to talk to his best girl, someone who understood the situation.
“I guess I deserved it” Kurt sighed softly “Bitch Kurt fought back”
“And you should have”
“Hang on” he chuckled “I thought you liked Austin?”
“I do” Mercedes laughed “But I just think he’s jealous that you’re bonding so well with Hunter. The fact that you get along so well with that gorgeous little boy is not a bad thing”
“Maybe I should just stay away for a little while, let things cool down”
“You will do nothing of the sort” Mercedes snapped scaring her friend a little. Thankful that he was stopping at a set of traffic lights, Kurt focused his attention on his cell that sat in it’s dock on the dashboard. “You can’t run away again. You’ll never get to see Hunter again if you do”
“But Austin said...”
“Yeah that’s Austin but what does Blaine say? Last time I checked Blaine was Hunter’s father”
“I know” Kurt sighed softly as the light turned green and he accelerated “Austin’s threat seemed pretty serious though. I’m sure he can break bones just as well as he can mend them”
“You’d get your ass kicked harder by Blaine than you would Austin” Mercedes chuckled “Besides, he would never hurt you because in turn that would hurt Hunter. That little boy is the centre of all this”
“I can’t help but feel like I’m messing with this poor kid by coming back. He was happy with Blaine and Austin before I came back”
Kurt could hear Mercedes sigh heavily on the other end of the phone. She was so sick of Kurt putting himself down for trying to make things right with the family he left. “Maybe you should just stay in New York; clearly you don’t love Hunter enough to fight for him”
“That is not fair” Kurt snapped “Of course I love him but how is he going to benefit from me coming in and just disrupting his life?”
“If I know Hunter, he’s never going to complain about having one extra person adoring him” she smiled “I really think you should talk to Blaine. See where he is in all this and how he feels. What Austin says and what Blaine feels could be two very different things and I know Blaine has his son’s best interests at heart”
“Life wouldn’t have been so damn complicated if I never left in the first place” Kurt sighed softly as he turned onto the highway. He wouldn’t be trying to get to know Hunter if he’d never left all those years ago and he wouldn’t be watching Blaine live life with another man if he’d just stayed. Leaving was Kurt’s greatest regret in life and while he was trying to make up for his mistakes, maybe it wasn’t what was best for his family. “Austin said that I didn’t belong and in a way don’t you think he’s right? I left this life seven years ago and anyway, I didn’t find Blaine for myself, Dad and Carole just insisted we had dinner out that night and we ended up in Georgetown”
“Which is a little far from Burt and Carole’s apartment in the city, don’t you think? There’s plenty of good places around DuPont Circle and even right in middle of DC. Question, who booked the table at Hunter’s Kitchen that night?” Mercedes began smiling to herself.
“Carole did, why?”
“And do you know how she heard about that particular restaurant?”
“I think one of the men Dad works with mentioned it, what are you getting at?”
“Your parents are very crafty when they want to be. Did you ever think that maybe they knew Blaine owned Hunter’s Kitchen?” Mercedes suggested “Just think about it...”
“They didn’t know how Blaine and I broke up exactly. They thought it was mutual” Kurt reminded her shooting down the idea that maybe they had something to do with all this.
“Mutual or not, Burt and Carole knew from the minute they first met Blaine back when we were in high school that you two were soul mates” she shrugged “Maybe they realised that you needed to see him again hoping it made you happy because let’s face it, you weren’t happy before you saw Hunter and Blaine that night. You haven’t been happy for seven years”

XXXXX

“There's a room where the light won't find you. Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down. When they do I'll be right behind you” Blaine sung softly as he strummed his guitar lightly. It felt good to sing again even if it was just messing around on his guitar. Putting Hunter to bed half an hour ago, Blaine was now waiting for Austin to get home. Why he had hoped his boyfriend would be home during the daylight, Blaine didn’t know.
No more than twenty minutes later the apartment door opened and shut quietly. Placing his bag by the door, Austin removed Blaine’s scarf before making his way across the apartment. Austin laid the scarf over Blaine’s shoulder, letting it drape over his guitar causing the young man to stop playing.
“Where did you find this? I thought I left it...” Blaine commented until he was abruptly cut off
“In Kurt’s car. You didn’t tell me he drove you home yesterday” Austin growled softly as he made his way into the kitchen and pulled a beer from the fridge. He needed alcohol after his day he’d had and the night he wasn’t looking forward to.
“So Kurt drove Hunter and I home, no big deal”
“No big deal?” Austin sighed “You didn’t tell me”
“Because it was no big deal” Blaine insisted as he rested his guitar back on it’s stand “Why is this such an issue?”
“I don’t like Kurt being around so much” the young doctor admitted “I just feel like he’s a square peg trying to push into a round holed family. It doesn’t work”
“Why are you threatened by him?” he asked softly but Austin gave him no immediate response. Taking a seat at the dining table, Austin had a sip of his beer before peering across at Blaine.
“Kurt doesn’t belong in our family, he has no place here with you or Hunter, not anymore” Austin insisted as he yanked his hands through his hair “He broke your heart when he left and you’re just going to give him a second chance? He didn’t intentionally come back into your life, it was just a coincidence or did you forget about that?”
“No I didn’t forget about that but why does it matter? Kurt saw Hunter at the restaurant that night and he took the opportunity to right his wrongs”
“He’s seven years too late for that. You of all people should not be giving him a second chance”
“Me of all people?” Blaine coughed “I feel like all I ever do is give second chances. You’re on the receiving end of most of them lately”
“Me?”
“Where did you go after you left the hospital this morning?”
“I was at the hospital all day” Austin lied as he stood from the table unaware his boyfriend knew the truth. After his run in with Kurt that morning, Austin just wasn’t in the mood to go home. He wasn’t in the mood to talk to anyone so he took all his frustration out at the gym. He spent the better part of three hours avoiding his home life and the inevitable discussion that was now happening about Kurt. Austin didn’t want to keep away from Blaine but he too was getting frustrated.
“I respect that you need your space sometimes but Hunter hasn’t seen you in 3 days. I’m sick of telling him you’re always at the hospital even if you aren’t necessarily there” Blaine sighed as he sat down in the place Austin just vacated watching his boyfriend start to pace. Running his hands through his hair, he took a few deeps breaths before looking back at his boyfriend “Kurt is trying with Hunter and I commend him for that. I am not the kind of person to just completely shut someone like him out after everything he and I once had. Kurt was my best friend for a long time. He’s...”
“Is there something going on between you two?”
“Excuse me?”
“Is there something going on between you and Kurt?” Austin asked once again. At that moment, it seemed like a logical explanation for why Blaine was giving Kurt this chance.
Blaine couldn’t believe what he was hearing. How did all this turn into Blaine cheating with Kurt? “If you think Kurt and I were doing anything behind your back then what was last night all about? Were you seducing me to see if I was still interested or just proving that you’re the better lover than he is?"
“That’s not...”
Blaine stood up and made his way over to Austin “I wouldn’t lie to you especially about something like that. There is nothing going on between Kurt and I”
“Is there still anything going on between us?”
“I don’t know” Blaine sighed and retreated to his room, picking up his scarf off the piano as he went.