Blaine groaned. His body hurt everywhere and he could feel that he wasn't waking up in his nice soft bed - the surface under him was hard and unrelenting. He opened his eyes blearily and took a moment to let them focus and let his mind recall the events of the previous evening - Kurt's birthday party.

He remembered the singing, Kurt's dancing, and the bathroom sex. He remembered the cheers after they had returned from said bathroom, and the continued drinking and dancing afterwards. He didn't remember going home, which made sense since he realized he was waking up on the floor of the old Bushwick apartment, laying right beside the couch where he could see Kurt was still sleeping, making soft little snores which Blaine had referred to as cute several times before in their past. Kurt only snored like that when he was overtired or sick, and Blaine knew it was probably because of the former since they had stayed up so late the night before.

Blaine stretched himself out with a little moan, hearing all his bones and joints pop and crack with his movements. He was definitely spoiled with the bed he and Kurt shared at home and was definitely wishing he was waking up in that bed instead of on the floor with the hangover he was suffering.

"About damn time hobbit." Santana said, walking up towards him from where he hadn't noticed her in the kitchen. "Both of your phones have been going off all morning and the guy on the other side said he could only talk to you boys."

Blaine winced. He knew Santana was using a normal voice, but with his headache, it felt like she was screaming. "Do you take a message..?" Blaine asked, rubbing his temples with his fingers.

Santana snorted and held out a glass of water and a couple of pills to Blaine who took them eagerly and appreciatively, downing them rapidly.

"No. He said he'd call back and that to let you know it was urgent."

"Thanks Santana." Blaine mumbled, using the coffee table on his other side to help him to his feet. Standing he could see the mess of cups, plates, torn streamers, deflated balloons, and general mess of the apartment. He made a mental note to help with clean up before he left today. He also looked over to Kurt and smiled softly. His boyfriend always looked like an angel when he was sleeping, and today he looked especially cute, all disheveled and snuggling a throw pillow. If Blaine had his phone he would have snapped a quick photo which he would have to keep secret from Kurt, since Kurt hated when Blaine took candid shots of him.

"Your phones are on the table curly." Santana stated and went off to her room. Blaine looked over to the clock and arched his eyebrows. It was just after two in the afternoon. They had really outdone themselves last night. Kurt was pretty good about getting up early no matter what, and Blaine wasn't a huge fan of early mornings, but never had an issue getting up on time. Blaine couldn't think of a time they had ever slept past noon before.

On cue, his ringtone went off and Blaine shuffled over to the kitchen and grabbed it, noting the number on his call display was unknown to him. He pressed the answer button and held it to his head, "Hello?"

"Good afternoon." an unfamiliar male voice spoke on the other side of the call, "May I please speak with Blaine Anderson or Kurt Hummel?"

"You have Blaine..." he responded, wishing that the painkillers Santana had given him would work soon. His head ached terribly still.

"Excellent. My name is Daniel Mattias. I'm an attorney with child protection services of New York."

Blaine's heart jumped up into his throat. Why would child protection services be calling him? Did a parent at the school he worked at make a complaint about something?

"Y- yes?" Blaine queried. He was worried something had happened that would make him lose his job, his chances of ever having kids with Kurt, or get put in jail. He certainly couldn't think of anything that he had done, but Child Protection calling him couldn't be for any good reasons, at least not that he could think of.

"I have something of an... unusual situation Mr. Anderson. One that requires me to meet with you and Mr. Kurt Hummel, your fiance?"

"Yes.. Kurt and I are... engaged." Blaine said. They were, but it was going to be such a drawn out engagement that he felt that they were still more like boyfriends ultimately.

"When would you be available to come to my office? It is urgent, so it needs to be as soon as possible."

Blaine licked his lips nervously and looked over at Kurt, still asleep, "Can I know what this is about? I'm admittedly freaking out a bit here and I need to know what to tell Kurt."

A sigh came across the line and the man on the other end spoke again, "As I said... it's a very unusual and unique situation. I should have said that you or Kurt are under no threat. In fact, given your situation, it might be a good thing. I can't however reveal anything specific over the phone. I need to meet with you both as soon as possible, and you need to bring identification."

Blaine's brow furrowed in confusion. "Give me your address and I'll get Kurt and we'll be there as soon as possible if that's alright..."

Daniel responded that it would and rattled off an address before ending the call. Blaine looked up the address on his phone and saw that it was a child care and adoption facility that Daniel had his office in, or at least beside. Daniel might have said that it might be a good thing, but the secrecy had rattled his nerves, and now he had to wake up Kurt and try and explain things to him.

"Sweetie... I need you to get up...." Blaine cooed to Kurt, gently rubbing a hand over his side. Kurt grumbled and hid his face into the throw pillow, which under normal circumstances Blaine would have found adorable, but in this moment, he needed to get Kurt awake and helping him figure out what was going on.

"Kurt. Please. I'm serious. We need to go." Blaine said, nudging Kurt now with his hands. Kurt grumbled but sat up, looking squinty-eyed at Blaine.

"My head is rioting Blaine...."

Blaine smiled and nodded, "Come on. I need to talk to you..."

Kurt rubbed his eyes over and yawned before standing up and going to the kitchen to get his own drink of water and painkillers. Blaine followed, fidgeting nervously with his hands in his pockets.

Once Kurt had medicated himself, he turned to look at Blaine, a brow arched on seeing Blaine look so worried. "What's wrong?"

"I don't know. That's just it. We've been getting calls all day from this guy, a lawyer, at child protection services. I just spoke to him and he says he needs to meet with us immediately. He says it's not anything bad, but he couldn't say anything else over the phone. I told him we'd go meet him as soon as possible. I'm confused as hell Kurt. Do you know what this is about?"

Kurt shook his head slowly, processing Blaine's words. "I... I really can't think about anything it could be. Maybe you've done such a good job where you work they want to offer you a job with them?"

Blaine shook his own head, "They wouldn't need to speak to both of us for that..."

Kurt shrugged, "I don't know. I guess we go and meet the guy then."

"Really?" Blaine asked, looking up at Kurt questioningly, "You're not suspicious?"

"Oh I'm very suspicious Blaine, but we won't find anything out unless we go. So let's shower up here, borrow some of Finn's off sized clothing that Rachel keeps buying him, and go."

Blaine nodded his agreement and the pair went to get ready.

An hour later they were walking up to a plain and unmarked building, which they had to double check was the right address since there was no lettering on the side to indicate it was anything special. They had to get buzzed in, noting who they were and that they were meeting with the attorney Blaine had spoken to on the phone.

The lobby they entered was plain and small, a secretary working behind a desk on some computer files. She noted that Daniel would be over shortly to escort them to his office and they should take a seat to wait since he was a little walk away from the front desk.

Neither of them sat though, looking around the area in confusion and when they heard a baby cry from down a hallway, Kurt nearly jumped out of his skin. Blaine tilted his head as he watched his shocked boyfriend and Kurt responded that he was just a little tense. Blaine could certainly appreciate that.

After what seemed like the longest, most awkward and quiet few minutes, a short and pudgy man wearing a plain suit came down the hallway and greeted the pair as Daniel. He asked the secretary to make a copy of their identification, which she did with the copier behind her desk, and the three of them set off for Daniel's office. During the walk down the labyrinth of hallways, Kurt and Blaine exchanged several glances at once another, to assure themselves the other was there and to share their silent confusion.

Daniel led them into a little office, sparsely decorated and overdone in its use of gray. He swept a hand over a pair of chair in front of his desk and the boys sat in them obediently, but tensely, watching Daniel intently as he sat before them and grabbed a file, opening it before them.

"I'm sorry Mr. Mattias. We're really confused here and every second we wait seems like an eternity...." Kurt said abruptly and Blaine moved a hand over to take Kurt's hand in his own, squeezing it gently.

Daniel nodded and held a picture out to them, which Blaine took and looked at, Kurt looking at it too beside him. In the photograph was a picture of a baby, laying asleep in a crib. Blaine assumed it was a girl from the pink beanie on her head.

"I don't get it." Kurt said simply, looking at the photograph and then back at Daniel.

"She doesn't have an official name yet. So the staff has been calling her Baby. She was transferred here from out of state under strict legal secrecy. You both are named as her intended adoptive parents."

The photograph fell from Blaine's fingers as his whole body stiffened. Beside him, Kurt went pale, more pale than Blaine had ever seen him. Both of their jaws dropped and then they looked at one another and then back at Daniel.

"This... is a mistake." Blaine finally found the words to say, picking up the picture which had fallen in his lap and looking over the infant with fresh eyes.

"I assure you. It's not. I said it was highly unusual and I meant it. She was brought in by another lawyer with a stack of papers ten feet high, all very thoroughly written out and planned. There's a letter for you both here...." Daniel poked through the file searching for it.

Kurt was silent, and completely still, so Blaine took the letter when Daniel offered it over the desk and began reading it aloud.

"Dear Kurt and Blaine. I would say I'm sorry for what you're hearing, but I'm not. As a couple, you two are the best parents I could think of for my child. I can't care for her, and her mother left her with me and I couldn't locate her after that...." Blaine looked up at Daniel, "She was given up by her father?"

Daniel simply nodded from behind his desk, and Blaine shook his head, looking back down at the letter and continuing.

"Her staying with me is out of the question, and when confronted with who would best care for her, you two came into my mind immediately, which was as shocking to me as it must be for you both. I have had my lawyers draw up all the legal adoption and guardianship papers, as well as establish a parenting and trust fund for her under your names. It should be fairly easy for the adoption to go through under your names. Best wishes for all three of you. Signed... A friend."

Kurt was still eerily quiet throughout this all, so Blaine looked over the top of the letter to Daniel, "Is this a joke?"

Daniel shook his head, "I assure you it's not. It's weird I admit, but not a joke."

"This doesn't make any sense. Why the hell would anyone give their kid up to us? We don't even know anyone who would have been having a kid..."

Daniel shrugged up his shoulders, "I can't tell you anything outside of the legal documents that came with her. I only dealt with middleman lawyer in the process. Not even sure which state she was born in."

"This has to be a joke.... this can't be real...." Blaine shook his head back and forth, looking at the letter, the photograph, and back and forth between them.

"She's in the baby care centre if you'd like to meet her." Daniel said then and Kurt's head snapped up, looking at Daniel and then turning to Blaine, his eyes wide. Blaine couldn't tell what was going through Kurt's mind, he had never seen that look before.

"Do you want to meet her?" Daniel asked, looking between the silent pair.

"She's real?" Kurt finally spoke, looking back at Daniel.

"Yes. Very real. I told you this wasn't a joke." Daniel appeared to be taking all their shock in stride.

Blaine squeezed Kurt's hand gently, and was relieved when Kurt ran his thumb over Blaine's fingers in response. "I think we should go see her. Make sure... for sure... this isn't some very unfunny prank."

Kurt nodded, a very slow motion and stood up, Blaine following his lead. Daniel shuffled out from behind the desk and led them back into the hall and mazes of corridors until they reached a bigger room with glassed windows. Looking into the windows they could see a room with several cribs lined up and a woman looking into each of the cribs and making notes on a clipboard.

When the reached the door, Daniel turned in front of them, "Okay. She's approximately two months old, very healthy compared to most babies abandoned by their birth parents, average height and weight...."

Kurt and Blaine both nodded. This whole situation seemed extremely surreal and Blaine was mentally acknowledging that while he and Kurt had talked about having kids one day, they hadn't really talked in depth about it. It was one of those things that they both knew they'd talk about in the future, when the time was right. The time wasn't right now though. They were both students, still very young, and not married or established in their careers. However, Blaine couldn't ignore the fact that someone had picked them as the couple to adopt their child out of the blue.

"Any questions before we go in?" Daniel asked, looking up at both of them.

Kurt looked to Blaine, and Blaine looked to Kurt. Neither one of them could think of anything to ask. They were both still reeling in the surprise nature of their being here, so they shook their heads and followed Daniel as he opened the room and led them to the first crib.

"It's nap time, so it's a good time to see them..." Daniel spoke, clearly not comfortable in the baby room as he shifted back and forth on the balls of his feet.

Kurt and Blaine both curled their fingers around the top of the crib and looked in at the infant girl dozing there. They could see now that she had a small tuft of brunette hair that had been covered up in the photograph. Her tiny fists were balled up as they rested beside her head and she was in a pink sleeper. She looked so tiny and delicate... and beautiful.

Blaine could hear Kurt's breath soften and looked over to see Kurt's eyes grow wide in that way he had about him when he was showing love. In a flash, Blaine could see a vision of Kurt, sitting back in a chair and cradling the baby in his arms while feeding her a bottle. It was a blissful scene and Blaine realized how much he wanted it all with Kurt in that moment.

"Now... you can't just up and take her obviously.. There are procedures and processes that have to be done..." Daniel spoke up from behind them.

"She's so sweet..." Kurt said, not responding to Daniel as he continued to look over the baby.

It was up to Blaine then to sort this out. He looked back at Daniel, "What happens if we don't accept the adoption?"

Daniel pushed his glasses up his nose with a finger as he responded, "Well then she'll go into the system. There are different things that can happen then depending on the availability of foster parents, or if there's a suitable and approved parent or parents awaiting a child for adoption."

"Blaine...." Kurt spoke softly beside him, still looking over the sleeping girl.

"We need to really talk about this Kurt... this isn't a kitten, or a puppy, it's a human being...." Blaine said, turning back to Kurt, knowing full well that his fiance had already fallen in love with the baby girl.

"But... we're gay Blaine... we might never get a chance like this, at least not one so easily..." Kurt murmured, putting his hand down into the crib and gently running a finger over the baby girl's hand.

"I realize that Kurt... I really truly do... but we're still kids for all intents and purposes. We live in a shoebox, have part time jobs, rely on our parents for help, and go to school..."

"I don't care Blaine... I really don't... Look! She grabbed my finger!"

Blaine looked back into the crib, and the baby had grabbed onto Kurt's finger with her fist as she slept. Blaine looked up at Kurt's face and could see he was elated, which made Blaine sigh softly.

"Again.... she comes with a bank account. Whomever her father was, wanted to ensure she was taken care of." Daniel piped up.

Blaine put his hands over his face and groaned, running them back over his hair. This was insane. Was he really the only one who understood that in this room?

"Ohmygosh Kurt... We really need to talk about this. We need to talk to our families and need to decide - "

Kurt stopped Blaine at that moment, holding up his free hand to Blaine's mouth, "She's sleeping... Shhh..."

Blaine went wide eyed, looking at Kurt in exasperation. His boyfriend really had gone mad.

"We will talk about this Blaine. We will talk to our families and figure things out, but we can not just ignore that this is a gift for a couple like us and we would be morons to throw it away. Moreover... do you really want to put her into the system when you know we could take care of her?" Kurt looked to Blaine as he spoke, but when he was done, turned his head back to look at the little girl in the crib.

Blaine softened a little, seeing that he wasn't going to be able to argue with Kurt about this here and now. Not with the little angel in his sights. Kurt had a point too, even if it was being made for all the wrong reasons.

"Would you like a little more time or do you want to start going over the adoption process?" Daniel spoke up again.

Blaine looked at Kurt, knowing what the answer would be and speaking for him, "We'll take a little bit more time with her if that's alright and then look at the paperwork...."

Daniel nodded to them, "Also, for the purpose of filling in the paperwork, you will get to pick a name for her. The documents are very clear that you two get to choose the name regardless of what happens."

"She's a Julie...." Kurt murmured, running a finger gently over her little locks of brown hair.

"Julie?" Blaine mused. Kurt had taken no time coming up with that name and Blaine wondered just how much Kurt had thought about having kids already.

"Julie Andrews, Julie Christie, Julie Newmar...." Kurt whispered, looking down at the girl, "She's Julie."

Blaine smirked a little bit. He couldn't argue the significance of the name and nodded over to Daniel who left them in the room then with the name taken care of. Blaine walked over to Kurt's side and put a hand on his back as he looked down into the crib as well, "Are you sure Kurt? This all seems just so...."

"Insane. Crazy. Ridiculous. I get it Blaine, I really do..."

Blaine sighed. Kurt did get it, but he must also get something that Blaine didn't right now. "Why don't you pick her up?"

Kurt smiled and reached down then, taking the small bundle gently into his arms and bringing her up against his chest, "Hey sweetheart.... Oh my gosh Blaine.. She's so tiny..."

"Babies are renowned for their smallness..." Blaine joked, wrapping an arm around Kurt's shoulder and leaning in a little to look at the little girl who was still dozing, though now cuddling against Kurt's chest like a heat seeking missile of the cutest kind.

Kurt grinned goofily up at Blaine, "Blaine... we could be dads. This is amazing!"

Blaine laughed then and the little girl picked up on the noise, squirming in Kurt's arms. "Amazing... yup. Not the word I was thinking right now... but it'll do."