"Good morning." Kurt's voice was tired but sexy.

          "Kurt, can we talk?"

          "Blaine, for the last time" Before Kurt could finish Blaine very carefully

grabbed Kurt's hand from his waist and lightly opened it. Kurt pulled back his hand with not much force but Blaine didn't want to upset him more than he already was so he let go without any hesitation.  Kurt had a look on his face that was zoned out to something past Blaine.

"Kurt?"

"Ok, you found out my dirty little secret, who are you going to tell?"

"Nobody, Kurt because I love you and I want to understand why you would do this to yourself. Please talk to me and please don't shut me out anymore."

 He could feel his own tears welling in his eyes. Why did he care so much?

"Blaine it's everything! I'm not good enough for anything. I'm not wanted not by anybody, by Rachel anymore and not even by Paul. And..." Kurt's voice trailed off and tears were rushing to the surface.

"Kurt, and what..." Kurt had put his face in Blaine's chest and was silently crying, Blaine felt his tears through his deep red cardigan.

"For you to love me, I don't know why you've stuck around so long, I'm not worth it."  

"Kurt look at me in the eyes, ok?" Blaine pulled back to force Kurt to look at him.

" You mean the world to me and it kills me that you're doing this to yourself, the only question I want to understand is what makes you think you had nobody to talk to, to try to understand you, to be there for you and to love you the right way. Not like that Paul guy." that moment he realized why Kurt had black eyes all the time and broken ribs.

"Kurt...does he hit you?" It was a simple question but why was it so fucking hard to answer? Blaine knew the answer but he wanted to hear it from Kurt.

"WHAT! NO! He loves me and I love him back." But more tears started to come which made Kurt fall back into Blaine's chest. All Blaine had to do was grab him and hold him because maybe if he held him strong enough and long enough maybe everything would be ok.

"Shhh Kurt, everything will be ok. I'm here and I'm not going anywhere." He had his finger in Kurt's hair moving slower than last time trying to sooth Kurt.

"And Kurt..." 

"Yeah?"  Kurt looked into his eyes...