Trying to do homework over the next couple days proved extremely difficult, seeing as how Kurt had to deal with a broken hand. Kurt only wished he had busted a few of Sebastian's teeth to make this outcome worth it, sadly he had just broken skin. Kurt stared down at the cast on his hand and then glanced over to the empty futon. Blaine's pillow and blanket were laying there alone. It was the day after Blaine's surgery, and on his boyfriend's request Kurt had to go to classes and act like everything was normal. He would go and visit after he next class, and skip his final one regardless of Blaine's orders.

Kurt got up from his desk and went over to the futon. He sank into the cushion and scooted down until his head was resting on Blaine's pillow. He pulled the covers over his face and inhaled. It still smelled like Blaine. Kurt smiled and burrowed into the blankets, shutting his eyes and imagining that Blaine was holding him instead of some blanket.

Kurt's phone vibrated on his desk. He opened one eye and stared at it willing to either stop or fly over to him. It did neither, so Kurt reluctantly sat up and reached over for it. The name on the id read Rachel. He groaned before sliding it open to talk.

"He-"

He didn't even get a greeting out before Rachel was talking.

"For the love of God Kurt answer your phone sooner! What if this was an emergency?" She barked in his ear.

Kurt rolled his eyes, "Then this isn't an emergency and I can go back to what I was doing before?"

"Blaine is asking for you." Rachel stated.

Kurt's brow furrowed. "Wait, are you at the hospital? Why didn't you tell me so I could with you."

"You were in class, Kurt." Rachel said. "Besides it's not that far of a drive and Finn and I came over right after our first class. Blaine is doing alright but he wants to see you."

Kurt heaved a sigh. "Is he going to be mad that I skipped my next class?"

Rachel hesitated. "He's a little drugged up right now, so I don't think he'll exactly mind."

"Great, delusional Blaine. Alright, I guess I'll be there soon." Kurt said.

Kurt hated hospitals. They always smelled and every single hallway looked the same, depressing and barren. He clutched a small bouquet of flowers and a brown plush bear as he walked down the colorless hallways searching for 3109. He stood outside the room once he found it. Kurt took a deep breath and peaked inside. Finn and Rachel were sitting in the two chairs provided; one more chair was pulled up to the side of the bed.

Blaine perked up at seeing Kurt in the doorway. He smiled and it reached his eye. Kurt exhaled and smiled back. There was a bandage wrapped around Blaine's head covering her right eye. Kurt hated seeing Blaine so broken like this. At that moment Kurt's wrist twinged with pain. It was a reminder that he was just as fragile.

"Kurt." Blaine said. He sounded tired and worn down like he was forcing himself to speak, it also could have been the pain killers or whatever medicine they gave him.

He went over to the bedside and set the flowers down on the table, he still held onto the bear.

"What's that?" Blaine asked looking at the bear.

Kurt held it out for Blaine to take. "I got you a get well soon present."

Blaine grabbed hold of the plushy bear and took him in his arms. He brought the bear up to his nose and breathed in. "He smells like you." Blaine said.

Kurt leaned over and kissed Blaine on the top of his head. With that Finn and Rachel stood up. "We're going to get going. Don't want to overcrowd this place." Finn said.

Rachel went over and gave Kurt a hug and kissed Blaine on the cheek.

"Thank you guys for coming." Blaine said.

And then Kurt and Blaine were alone. Kurt looked at Blaine sheepishly, still standing.

"What's wrong?"

"You're not mad at me for skipping class?" Kurt asked raising a brow. Blaine chuckled and put his hand in Kurt's.

"I know what I originally said, but I wanted to see you." Blaine rubbed the back of Kurt's hand with his thumb. He looked to the cast, "How is your other hand?"

Kurt shrugged a little, "Not terrible. I only wished I had done more damage to him."

"Kurt." Blaine scolded.

"You can't honestly be defending him right now Blaine, after what he did to you. What he meant to do to me?" Kurt felt his temper rising. He was getting tired of Blaine trying to stick up for Sebastian and make excuses for him. This time Sebastian had gone too far.

"I'm not." Blaine said, "I just don't like hearing you talk like that."

Kurt gave him a harsh look. It made Blaine laugh and in hearing Blaine laugh so did Kurt.

"I love you." Blaine said.

Kurt smirked, "And you know I love you too."

Blaine squeezed Kurt's hand and tried to stifle a yawn. It didn't work. Kurt frowned. "Maybe I should go and let you rest."

Kurt went to back away but Blaine pulled on Kurt's hand, a pleading look in his eye. "No." he begged. Kurt gazed down at Blaine. "Could you lay here with me?"

Blaine moved over on the bed. Kurt hesitated.

"Is that legal?" He asked before he really thought about the word choice.

"Kurt," Blaine laughed. "No one is going to arrest you for laying in this bed with me."

Kurt's cheeks turned pink. "I meant won't I get in trouble?"

Blaine shrugged his shoulders. "Please, Kurt? I miss laying next to you."

Kurt grinned. He slid onto the bed and the scooted beside Blaine. Blaine rolled to his side and rested his head on Kurt's chest. Kurt wrapped his arm around Blaine and held him.

"You smell good." Blaine murmured his eyelid falling.

"You smell like hospital." Kurt whispered back.

Blaine burst out laughing burying his face into Kurt's chest. Kurt laughed along with him until Blaine fell asleep in his arms.

On Friday after classes Kurt went back to the hospital taking a new bouquet of flowers with him to replace the ones from the day before. For the last three days he had taken Blaine fresh flowers. By any luck today would be the day that Blaine got to come home. And by home, that meant Kurt's dorm. He insisted that he would take care of Blaine and it would just be easier if he crashed in their room. Finn had no objections to it. He and Blaine had become quite good friends since he and Kurt started dating.

Today though when he came to the room it wasn't empty as usual. Kurt stopped in the doorway a fresh bouquet of yellow roses. Two boys dressed in blazers sat on the side of Blaine's bed. Kurt had seen them before. He watched for a second in silence before remembering their names. Nick and Jeff from Dalton, Blaine's school.

"Kurt!" Blaine said upon seeing him. He beamed and gestured for him to enter.

The boys turned and looked at Kurt their expressions too hard to read. They had just been laughing with Blaine so their smiling could have been a result of that and not Kurt's actual presence. Their previous meeting was something of a disaster. At least, Kurt thought it was. The two of them obviously didn't take to Kurt too well.

"I brought you more flowers." Kurt said smiling past his irritation.

"I'm going to have an entire flower shop by the time I'm out of here." Blaine exclaimed. He didn't look any less happy to see the yellow roses though. In fact he reached out for them like a four year old reaching for a brand new toy. Kurt let out a small giggle and handed them over. He eyed Nick and Jeff from the corner of his eye, but keeping most of his attention on Blaine.

"I figured you would want some color in this place. It's not exactly cheery." Kurt said. He decided to turn to Blaine's friends.

"Jeff and Nick, right?" Kurt asked.

Nick waved. "Yep. That's us."

Blaine sat up in bed and handed the flowers back to Kurt to set on the table with the others. "Yeah, Nick and Jeff heard I was in the hospital and they came up after school to see me."

"That's quite a drive." Kurt noted. He took Blaine's hand.

"Yeah, we didn't exactly go to the last three classes." Jeff said with a halfhearted shrug.

"We'll probably get in trouble on Monday. Especially since we had Warbler practice today. But we figured that seeing Blaine was a little important." Nick nodded.

Jeff tilted his head and pointed to the cast on Kurt's wrist. "Hey, what happened to your hand?"

Kurt and Blaine exchanged a look, they both hesitated but Kurt didn't see any reason to really hide. And before Blaine could say anything, "I broke a few of my knuckles on Sebastian's face." Kurt said lifting his chin a little.

Jeff and Nick exchanged a look of surprise. They glanced to Blaine who stayed silent.

"Wow. I didn't think Sebastian's face was that hard." Jeff commented.

Blaine smirked a bit. "Well, he was the reason I was in here."

"What?" Nick cocked his head to the side.

"Sebastian tossed a snowball at Kurt that had rock salt in it. I pushed Kurt out of the way and was hit." Blaine explained. He took Kurt's hand in both of his and gazed up in him, Kurt looked down. In Blaine's eyes he saw something that told Kurt he would be more than willing to do the same thing over again. Kurt smiled.

Jeff whistled. "I never-I mean, Sebastian did that? Really?"

"He admitted it to me and my friend." Kurt said. "He even said that it was meant for me. Sebastian didn't seem remotely sorry for what he did to Blaine."

Everyone was quiet. Kurt could tell that Nick and Jeff were trying to process how Sebastian, their friend, would do something like this to another friend. Apparently, it was very uncharacteristic of Sebastian.

"Wow, I mean. I never thought Sebastian would do something like that." Jeff rubbed the back of his neck.

Kurt just shrugged his attention going back to Blaine. He stared up at Kurt with a tiny smile. "I think I'm going to sleep." He said. "Come back in a little bit babe?"

Kurt heaved a sigh, not fully liking the idea of leaving Blaine. He nodded though and leaned down to kiss him on the top of the head. Blaine let out a small laugh and rubbed Kurt's hand.

"I'll be back in a few hours." Kurt said.

Nick and Jeff stood at the same time and bid a good-bye to Blaine. Kurt walked out slowly behind them. He didn't really want to walk with them but had no other choice.

"Kurt," Nick said taking hold of his arm before Kurt could dash off. "We were wondering if you'd have time to get coffee with us."

Kurt looked from Nick's hand up to his face and then over to Jeff. His expression remained neutral. "I have nothing to do for a couple hours while Blaine sleeps. So I guess yes."

Nick let go and gave a grin. "Good. We don't really know our way around here."

Kurt directed the three of them to the nearest Starbucks in town. They ordered their drinks and found a booth. Nick and Jeff sat on the opposite side, leaving Kurt on a bench by himself. He took the lid off his non-fat mocha and blew across the top, cooling the hot liquid.

"I am going to assume that the two of you didn't just invite me out to get coffee and catch up on old times, seeing as how we don't know each other very well. And the last time we met you two weren't exactly polite to me. Even if you think you were, I could tell I wasn't wanted. You apparently don't think I'm good enough for Blaine so I am going to put this out there right now." Kurt replaced the lid and leaned forward on the table. "I love Blaine. You can either respect that or not, I don't care but nothing you say to me is going to change my mind."

Jeff licked his lips and paused mid sip of his latte. He glanced to Nick.

"Kurt," Nick laughed a little, "We're not going to tell you that Blaine is too good for you. And we're sorry if we were jerks to you back around Christmas. You have to understand that Blaine and Sebastian were kind of the 'it' couple at Dalton. It's an guys school so there are few official couples, and of those that were Blaine and Sebastian were what everyone aspired to have."

Kurt put on a fresh bitchface. He lifted his coffee and took a sip. "Right, cause I really want to talk about how great my boyfriend and Sebastian were as a couple."

Nick rubbed his temples. "That's not what I was trying to talk about. We were caught off guard by their breakup. Not that it wasn't a good thing, or that you coming into Blaine's life is bad."

"Yeah, we don't hate you Kurt." Jeff interjected, trying to be helpful.

"But you dislike me." Kurt stated.

"No!" Nick sighed, "Kurt, Sebastian was always kind of sly or devious but going out with Blaine seemed to calm him down a bit. We never thought he'd try to intentionally hurt someone else."

Kurt snorted, "Well he tried to blind me and almost blinded Blaine."

Nick shifted in his seat. He hadn't taken a sip of his coffee yet; in fact he completely ignored it on the table. It sat unwanted off to the side. "Blaine's a great friend. He's one of the best singers Dalton had. We're not condoning what Sebastian did or what he was trying to do."

"I hope not."

"God, Kurt. Would you just listen and let us apologize?" Nick said slaming his hand down on the table.

They were silent for a moment. Nick took a deep breath and continued. "Sorry. Kurt, we shouldn't have been so cold to you. We think that you and Blaine are great together and we can tell the two of you really care for each other. I mean, he pushed you out of the way to protect you from a snowball."

"You punched Sebastian in the face." Jeff added. "Sebastian could be a jerk at times but no one I know would ever have the courage to punch him."

Nick smirked a bit and they all laughed a little. Kurt was even smiling he glanced down at his hand.

"I'm glad you two think it was brave." Kurt murmured.

"Kind of romantic." Nick commented. "He saved you, you avenged him."

Jeff nodded in agreement.

Kurt smiled a little easier. "Thank you."