A deafening silence surrounded the car. No screams, no cries, no sounds of breaking glass or tearing metal. Just silence. Blaine blinked fast, trying to comprehend what had just happened. His body ached and he felt a warm gush of blood trailing down his cheek. He breathed in harshly, he cried out as pain shoot through his body with each breath. As Blaine struggled to breathe he heard a small whimper from the driver’s side of the car. Blaine turned his head, ignoring the sharp pain that it caused, and looked over at Kurt. His face was white against a splattering of blood from a large cut on his forehead.
“Kurt, honey. Kurt can you hear me?” Blaine said his voice small and panicked.
Kurt sucked in a shallow breath. “Bbbb…Blaine…it hurts. What happened?”
“Oh Kurt, I know I know. Baby, we were in a car crash…but it will be ok. I am sure help is on the way. Just shh it will be ok.” Blaine twisted his body, and with great effort unbuckled his seatbelt. He slowly turned his body towards Kurt.
“Kurt, baby can you move?” Blaine asked as he put his hand gently on Kurt’s check.
“I don’t know Blaine. It hurts. I am scared.” Kurt said as tears started to cascade down his face leaving tracks in the blood.
“Shhh, Kurt don’t cry. Its alright. Shh, please don’t cry baby. It will be alright.”
As Blaine tried to calm his boyfriend down, Kurt sniffed slightly. As soon as he took air in through his nose his eyes blew wide. “Blaine, we have to get out of the car.” He said his voice rising in a panic. Kurt began to twist in his seat frantically trying to unbuckle himself.
“Kurt, stop moving. You are hurt we will get out of here soon.” Blaine said as he tried to still his boyfriend’s frenzied movements.
“Blaine! Can’t you smell that?” Kurt said as he continued to struggle.
Blaine stopped and smelled the air in the car. His heart stopped as he smelled the harsh scent of gas wafting throughout the car.
“Blaine the gas line must have been damaged in the crash. We need to get out of the car. Before…” Kurt didn’t even have to finish his sentence before Blaine was shoving his full body weight against the passenger side door. His body was screaming at him to stop but blow after blow to the door caused it to slowly open. Soon the damaged door fell off its hinges and Blaine was able to crawl out of the destroyed car. He scrambled over to the drivers side door ignoring the cries of spectators that had gathered around the crash scene.
Blaine reached Kurt’s side of the car just as a team of emergency vehicles pulled onto the scene. The window on Kurt side was smashed in and the boy was covered in shards of glass. “Blaine, hurry. Please. Hurry”. Kurt said his voice seeming distant and weak. Blaine began to muscle the car door open. “I know Kurt, shh. Its ok I will get you out of here. Just hold on Kurt. Just hold on.” Blaine replied.
As Blaine wrestled with the car door he was joined by a crew of fireman. “Whoa, son.” A gruff fireman said as he brought his hands around Blaine’s shoulders.
Blaine resisted the man’s hold and began to yell. “Let me go. I have to help Kurt!”
The fireman tightened his hold on the small boy. “Listen kid. If you struggle I won’t hesitate to throw you over my shoulder. We are going to help your friend. But we need you to get away from the car as well. There is a gas leak and we need to get Kurt out now or things could get really bad. Now why don’t you go with Craig and he will start to fix you up and we will get Kurt out of here.” The fireman said as he motioned over to a younger paramedic to come help Blaine.
Blaine bit his lip and nodded knowing that he wouldn’t be able to get Kurt out of the car alone. Blaine looked into Kurt’s dim eyes. “Kurt, they are going to get you out of here. Ok. I love you.”
Kurt whimpered as Blaine was lead away from the car. Blaine was guided towards a waiting ambulance and was set onto a gurney. As the paramedics began to assess his injuries Blaine kept his focus on the car and the fireman trying to get his boyfriend out of the wreck.
Blaine watched as the scene rushed around him. Fireman pulling out the jaw of life, the jarring sound of metal and glass breaking, shouts and yells from others, sirens. Blaine was too focused on Kurt to notice anything. It wasn’t until he heard the shout of the lead fireman telling everybody to run. Blaine watched in horror as the front of the Escalade began to be consumed in flames. The leak in the gas line had ignited and Kurt was still in the car. Blaine jumped off the gurney and began to run towards the car. “KURT! SOMEONE HELP HIM! KURT!” Blaine was in hysterics as he was pulled back from the car. He continued to yell and fight against the hold of the fireman, but soon the whole scene was shook by an explosion sending Blaine and the paramedics flying onto their backs.