"Go ahead Kurt." Sue said with her arms crossed over her chest and her voice sounding so kind and patient that Kurt had to watch her lips move before he believed it was really her talking. "Tell us what happened the night you found Blaine wounded and helped him."

Kurt let out a long breath and glanced from her to the other members of the council hovering nearby; all except Russell Fabray at least, his spot on the council was still empty. Kurt was glad his father was here, smiling at Kurt and nodding reassuringly.

"I came out into the field to stargaze." Kurt said, glad his voice wasnt wobbling even though he felt nervous enough that it should. "I had my bag and a blanket." He paused then and looked around at the field they all stood in, "I was about here." He looked down at his feet. "When I heard a tumble and a thud and thats when I crept closer to the trees to see what had happened."

Kurt walked to the tree line and everyone followed him. "I stood here and I…" He gulped at the edge of the tree line, evidence of what hed done hitting him slowly. The truth about what happened that night not seeming real. "I could barely make out the form of a person laying still on the ground. I knew they were hurt."

He looked at his dad with tears in his eyes. "I didnt even think… I just moved forward. I remember it was the farthest Id ever gone…" Kurt broke away from his fathers comforting expression to steal a glance at the rest of the council and saw that many people wore looks of shock or skepticism. The only faces that seemed neutral were Sues and, strangely enough, Judy Frabray.

"You say you moved forward from the spot youre at now?" Sue asked, arms still folded, voice and face calm.

"Yes." Kurt answered softly.

"Show us."

"Probably about there." Kurt said pointing to the bottom of the steep hill Blaine had tumbled down.

"No." Sue shook her head. "Show us."

Kurts eyes grew round and he looked back at his father. "I cant. Its across the border."

"It sounds like youve already been across the border son. Were telling you its okay. Show us where you found him."

Kurts heart started beating hard against his chest and his breathing was choppy. The council was telling him to cross Folaighs border, something that was strictly forbidden, a rule ground in ever since he was eleven years old as the one thing you absolutely could not do.

"Go on." Mr. Jones said in his heavy baritone with many of the other members of the council nodded along.

"Things have changed Kurt. We think you changed them. Now show us how." Sue added.

Kurt worried his lip, took a deep breath, and held it before he took a long step forward leaving Folaigh and stepping into the real world.

Explaining to Cooper that he was bailing on their holiday plans to go back to Ireland where hed almost been killed went over about as well as hed expected.

"Like hell." Cooper said over the phone his voice rising in anger. Cooper rarely yelled, unless it was for a role. "You are not doing that Squirt. No way."

"Cooper you dont understand."

"Youre right! I dont understand!" Cooper said getting more excited. "You have a ticket to California. Now just get on the damn plane and get over here!"

"Cooper please hear me out."

Cooper sighed, calming down. "You are meant to spend the holidays with me and not go traipsing off to the dangerous wilds of Ireland. And no way am I letting you go back to the town where you were shot."

"I dont know if Im going to that town or not." Because I dont even know if that town exist in our time. "But theres a chance… Cooper I honestly believe theres a chance I could find Kurt. I… life isnt the same without him." Blaine sat on his bed with his phone cupped between his ear and his shoulder as his fingers gently smoothed over the blooming flowers of his wreath. "You dont know how miserable Ive been or how much I miss him."

"Youre in love." Cooper said solemnly. "I know."

"I never thought I would be in love. I didnt think I had it in me… but Kurt." Blaine closed his eyes picturing Kurt. "Kurt is good and loving and its like... he woke me up Cooper, like I was sleep walking through my life before we met. If there is even a slight chance that I could be with him… I have to take it."

Cooper was silent on the other end and Blaine held his breath.

"I guess winter in Ireland doesnt sound so bad." Cooper finally said. "And depending on how things go we could still make it back by Christmas."

"Thank you Cooper, you have no idea how- wait, did you say we?"

"Im telling you Squirt, you arent going back to the place you were shot without me. And if we end up spending Christmas there together in Ireland then so be it. The parents have ignored you through enough Christmases without me ever standing up for you, its time they miss a Holiday with both of us."

Blaine didnt know what to say.

"Listen, let me see if I can use your ticket to California as credit for a flight to Ireland." Cooper continued. "I can fly to New York and we can go together. Just please dont do this by yourself. I dont understand what the heck is going on, and I know you havent told me everything, but if you go on your own Im going to go cray-cray."

Blaine chuckled and let out a breath of relief. "Cooper you are the best brother in the world."

"I know. Now wait for my call about the tickets. Okay?"

Things had seemed weird in town for the past few days. Everyone seemed subdued and thoughtful, with not enough laughter or talking.

"Ive never seen Mason and Madison so quiet." Kurt remarked to his father after running into the McCarthy twins in town. "And its not just them. Everyone is acting peculiar. Or is it just me? Are they acting this way because Im around? Because the past few days everyone has been odd."

"No Kurt that isnt it. Everything has been different since the vote."

"The vote" seemed to be what everyone had started to call the events that actually took place after the vote. Namely, Kurt watching the love of his life being gunned down and then helplessly staying behind as others carried out of town. Kurt still felt nausea build up in him every time he thought about how pale Blaine was and how when his eyes slid closed they didnt open again and the redness of his blood. Kurt still had nightmares where he had Blaines blood all over his hands.

"The only reason you just started noticing how everyone is acting is because you havent really been around people lately." Burt said, pulling Kurt from his disturbing memories.

Kurt couldnt argue with that. He had stayed in his house for weeks after Folaigh disappeared. Much of that time was spent in bed just crying. It was awful enough that he and Blaine could never be together, but not even knowing if Blaine was dead or alive was torture. The only thing that finally got him out of bed were the dark circles under his fathers eyes. His fathers worry over him was going to make Burt sick. So Kurt had gotten out of bed, dried his eyes, bathed and tried to face the world. Yes, he still cried himself to sleep most nights, but he was here out in town and that felt like a huge feat.

Kurt nodded thinking about his friends and neighbors and how what had happened must have been traumatic for them as well.

"The council wants to talk to you." Burt said. "When youre ready. Some… weird things have been happening with Folaigh, and… well wed like to discuss it with you."

"Weird things? What kind of weird things and why talk to me?"

Burt stopped and turned to face his son. "No ones mentioned it to you yet?"

"Mentioned what?" Kurts stomach started to clench with worry.

"Folaigh disappeared on schedule after the Centennial… but we seem to be fading back in little by little." Burt continued as Kurts looked at him in shock. "We can see the trees outside of town; they seem to be getting clearer every day. You dont notice unless you go out to the field though, they are still shrouded in fog."

Kurt opened his mouth and shut it again. He wasnt sure if it was fear or excitement churning inside of him and Burt waited for him to find his voice. "We are appearing in the real world again?" Kurt asked to clarify because he couldnt believe what he was hearing.

"Seems like we may be."

"Does that mean the Miracle has been broken?" Kurt asked, his voice breathy as that idea settled over him.

"We really dont know." Burt said. "All of our powers are tightly bound with the Miracle. It seems like wed feel it if our protection was broke. I really believe wed know if something had gone wrong. Its just… Ive been thinking." He paused as they started walking back home again and Kurt felt nervous energy bouncing around him as he waited for his father to speak.

"The night you first saw Blaine you said he rolled down that hill and you healed him?"

"Yes."

"Do you mean to say he rolled all the way into the clearing?"

"No, he was still at the bottom of the hill and-" Kurt stopped, jerking with the suddenness of his realization, his feet planted to the ground but his mind running fast. Had he been inside the tree line? Had Kurt actually left the field to get to Blaine that first night?

"Yeah." Burt continued. "Youre not in trouble Kurt, but the council definitely wants to talk to you."

The flight to Ireland seemed to take a lifetime. Blaine said goodbye to Sam after asking if he wanted to come along, but Sam had family obligations. Blaine felt very lucky; his family was going with him to Ireland, well, Cooper was at least, and that really was the family that counted.

For the entire seven plus hour flight to Ireland Blaine couldnt sit still and his mind was racing with possibilities. The best explanation that he could come up with for the revival of his flower wreath was that Kurt had to be back. Sam had suggested that maybe Blaine had made the wreath bloom again using left over magic in him from when Kurt healed him. That thought had made his hopes crash and his stomach hurt. Surely that wasnt it, even if Kurts magic was still in him he didnt think it could just be transferred like that. No, Kurt had to be back, he had to be.

Please Kurt please. I dont cant go through the pain of losing you all over again.

Cooper napped a lot and chatted up the flight attendants, but Blaine was single minded. Get to Kurt. He kept thinking of that dream of Kurt he had the night before the wreath bloomed again. Kurt had told him to come back to him, so that was exactly what Blaine was trying to do.

If he went back and found no Kurt and no Folaigh he knew he would be devastated, the little pieces his heart that his heart that had been broken before in would be ground into dust. Still, he had to try.

When the plane landed in Ireland they still had a couple hour drive back to the town outside of Folaigh that he and Sam had stayed in before. And then a quick hike to that field, the field hed first fallen in love with Kurt.

If everything went the way Blaine was praying it would he could be with Kurt again by that evening.

"You think I broke the Miracle." Kurt said to the council members gathered in the Hummel home. It wasnt a question either, it was a statement.

"Now we never said that." Mrs. Jones answered. "Were just trying to figure out what is happening to Folaigh."

"I dont believe the Miracle is broken." Sue added, if it was we wouldnt have slowly faded back into the real world, we would have been pulled immediately back."

"Are we all the way back now?" Burt asked and several council members confirmed that Folaigh was completely back in the real world now.

"What do you think I did?" Kurt asked timidly, scared he had destroyed everything.

"First we want to see how far you went, if you really were outside of Folaighs border." Sue said. "Youll have to show us."

Kurt stood inside the tree line, the field surrounding his hometown behind him. His hands were shaking and his throat felt tight. He took another step forward, and then another. Now he was at the base of the hill when hed first found Blaine. He knelt down on put his hand on the soft earth. Blaine had been here.

He stood back up and turned round. The council were all still standing in the field looking at him. He wasnt sure what he could say.

"Im sorry." He voice was gravelly and he thought he might cry. "This is where I healed Blaine for the first time. I didnt even… he was hurt and when someone is hurt I have to help them." Tears were blurring his vision. "I didnt meant to cross the border. I never even realized I did."

"Kurt. Its alright." His dad said from a few feet away, still within the protective border of Folaigh.

"Ive ruined everything."

"You really didnt." Sue said before anyone else could speak. "If you had ended the Miracle, we would have never disappeared at the end of the Festival, it seems to me by leaving Folaigh to help an outsider you changed the Miracle."

"But how?" Judy Fabray spoke up, her voice high-pitched and a little reedy. She looked and sounded like she hadnt slept well in weeks. And she probably hadnt. "How did one boy change the magic that we all used to build this place? How?"

Burt reached out his hand towards Kurt who walked back into the field, feeling relieved to be back where he knew it was safe, and yet at the same time he couldnt help but look back over his shoulder. That was the real world, and Blaine was out there somewhere. His heart tightened in his chest that is, if Blaine was still alive.

Everyone was quiet, seemingly having no answers.

"Love." Emma spoke up and everyone turned to look at her. "We made the Miracle out of love; it is what bound our magic together." She smiled at Kurt. "I think Kurt has changed things through his compassion by not allowing a stranger die. And maybe… maybe we are back in the real world because Kurts love brought us here."

Kurt smiled back at Emma, his heart swelling at the idea.

Sue scowled, not one to be romantic. "So then, can only Porcelain leave Folaigh?"

"More importantly." Mr. Jones said, "Now that we are back in the real world how do we disappear again?"

"I dont want to disappear." Kurt said and everyone looked at him as shock, except Sue who just smiled knowingly. "I want to leave Folaigh."

Cooper drove their rental car out of the city and to the town theyd be staying in. Blaine had offered to drive because he was feeling high strung and jittery, but Cooper insisted, saying Blaine should sleep since he hadnt any on the flight.

There was no way he was sleeping though. No way he could, not when he was this close. He kept thinking that he felt the tingle of Kurts magic under his skin, especially around his scar, but really he was so excitable, it might be nothing more than his imagination.

The flowers though, that wasnt his imagination. He pulled his wreath out of his bag again and kept it in his lap, so scared that it was suddenly going to dry up and die again.

Once they arrived at the hotel they were going to stay at and got their stuff in their room Cooper wanted to go find a place to have dinner.

"No Cooper. I have to go now, I have to go find Kurt."

"Squirt I know youre anxious to see him, but I just traveled half-way around the world and I want some food. Hell still be there tomorrow."

"You dont have to come." Blaine said grabbing one of the room keys and heading to the door.

"Blaine please remember you were almost killed last time you when to this little village." Cooper said putting a hand on his shoulder to stop him. "It will be dark in an hour or so. Please just wait till the morning, well go together."

"Im sure the man who shot me is locked up." Blaine said, but he wasnt actually sure of that at all.

"Blaine in the morning."

"It might not be there in the morning!" Blaine snapped feeling frustrated. "I dont… I cant waste time."

Cooper looked at him his expression clouding and Blaine covered his mouth with his hand. What had he just said?

"It may not be there in the morning? What? The village may not be there in the morning? Its going to just up and disappear?" Cooper threw his hands up in the air and smiled at his own joke.

"Cooper…" Blaine closed his eyes and let out a long breath. "Come with me now and Ill tell you the part of all of this Ive been keeping from you."

Cooper narrowed his eyes, but then agreed.

Blaine had promised not to tell about Folaigh, but Cooper was his brother and he was holding him back from Kurt. And. really. what were the chances hed believe Blaine anyway?

Kurt stood in Quinns room as she bustled around in a flurry. Going to her closet and pulling clothes out and throwing them on her bed before rushing to her dresser and grabbing something else and then turning back to her closet again. Kurt calmly sat on her bed and folded the items she was tossing at him.

It was hard for Kurt to be in this house with Russell Fabray downstairs. Russell was under house arrest seeing as the council didnt really know what else to do with him. Kurt didnt want to see him or have anything to do with him at all and he was afraid of what his reaction towards Russell would be. Kurt hated violence, but he also hated the man that may have killed Blaine. Even the thought of that possibility made Kurt sick and filled with anger.

Luckily Kurt didnt see Russell when he entered the house; he must have been smart enough to make himself scarce. And Quinn needed him, so hed just stay here in her room.

"What about this." Quinn said holding up what she called her "fancy dress", the last time hed seen her in it was the first day of the Centennial. "Do you think Ill need this?"

"I dont know." Kurt answered for what felt like the hundredth time. "Sam and Blaines clothes were really different I dont know what women wear in modern times."

Quinn gave him an exasperated look and Kurt knew she was nervous, terrified even, so was he. She needed him to be a friend right now.

"Yes, pack it." He said with a smile. "Even if it isnt the right style a beautiful dress is a beautiful dress and you look lovely in that. Plus, it is what you were wearing when you first met Sam."

"I dont want to leave Folaigh to get to Sam." She said, as she tossed the dress to the bed for Kurt to fold and pack. "You know that. You may want to leave to find Blaine, Im just hoping to… to…" She turned back to Kurt and her eyes were watery. Kurt stood up from the bed and walked to her wrapping her in his arms.

"I want the chance to have a real life." She said face buried in Kurts shoulder.

"I know, so do I."

"What if the council doesnt let us go?" She asked pulling her back.

Kurt couldnt speak for a moment the idea that the council would reset the Miracle and not allow anyone to leave Folaigh made him feel a little ill. He had to leave. He had to find out what had happened to Blaine. "Im a little tired of the council controlling my happiness." Kurt said with more steel in his voice than he expected. "I dont know if I care about their decision."

They walked up a path Blaine at one time would have been afraid to get lost on, but now it was like his heart knew exactly where to go. Cooper had been right, by the time they started to near the field the sun had started to set. The terrain was different now than it had been in the summer. Except for the evergreens, all of the trees had lost their leaves and there was a layer of melting snow over everything.

Blaine would have slowed down and enjoyed the secrecy as the forest was absolutely beautiful, and so quiet in its wintery sleep, but Blaine was single minded. Get to the field... Find Folaigh. Find Kurt.

He had explained everything to Cooper as they walked. The Miracle, the festival, the flower wreath. He showed Cooper the wreath and even though Cooper had seen it when it was when it was dry it wasnt enough to convince him of magic. At this point he was probably following Blaine through the darkening woods hoping his little brother hadnt lost his mind.

Blaine started moving faster and faster as they neared the clearing. His heart in his throat and his stomach tight. The forest was growing foggy and cold, but it didnt slow Blaine down. When he reached the hill outside of Folaigh he was careful making his way down. Watching his feet and hanging on to trees. Once he got to the bottom he stopped and his breath caught in his throat as his heart hammered in his chest.

He could hear Cooper making his way down behind him and called out for him to be careful. Then he forced himself to look up hoping to see the outline of Folaigh from here, but it was too foggy. He stepped forward through the trees and walked into the field, everything was washed in a warm pink light as the sun started to fade over the horizon, and the field was covered in white snow that sparkled with the evening light. Blaine blinked and strained his eyes, not even able to take in the beauty of the moment.

The field was empty. Big and open and stretching flat ahead until it met more trees on the other side. Nothing was here, no Folaigh, no Kurt. It was gone just as Sam had said.

Blaine felt sick. He had been so sure. His legs couldnt support his weight anymore and he sunk to his knees, not even caring that he was kneeling in the snow. He heard Cooper come up from behind him and place a hand on his shoulder. "This isnt what you expected, is it?"

Blaine just shook his head and closed his eyes. Hed come all this way just to find out hed been wrong.

Kurt couldnt believe what hed just done, walking over the border of Folaigh with a bag over his shoulder and a suitcase in head. Folaigh had been his home for so long, and even the life he knew before Folaigh would be nothing like the world he was about to discover. After first realizing he may have been the one to change the Miracle he couldnt help but feel excited, but he had waited a few days to see what the council would say.

Folaigh had started to fade again so the endless debating the council was doing got cut short as they had to decided right then if they were going to risk letting people leave Folaigh or not.

In the end there was very little choice to be made. "Kurt is leaving." Burt said quieting the room in the middle of an argument. "Only out of his respect for us has he even waited this long, but he isnt staying in Folaigh. In fact there is a chance he and other young people are planning on leaving now before we fade even more. We can pretend this is a decision that needs to be made, but Folaigh is not a prison and I know Kurt, for one, is going to do what he wants."

"And youre just going to let him?" Judy spoke up.

Burt lifted his eyebrows. "You think Quinn isnt already prepared to leave as well? We sit here trying to make choices for other people, but like I keep saying they are adults now and the choice it theirs. Vote whatever you want, Im going back home before my son sneaks out of town and I never even get the chance to say goodbye."

Kurt had been so grateful for his father and overwhelmed when he learned that Burt was leaving too. "Folaigh was a chance for me to protect you Kurt, it means nothing to me if you arent here."

And now here they were standing outside of the place hed called his home for so long. Kurt couldnt stop shaking; his whole body was trembling with both eagerness and nerves. He and a handful of other people stood in the forest outside of Folaigh, luggage in hand as they watched their home fade away. Once not even a trace of his beloved
Folaigh could be seen Kurt drew a deep breath, the air outside of Folaigh was colder than it had been inside and he was glad hed brought a jacket.

He turned to his dad and smiled. "I guess this is the start of a new adventure." Burt said "Should we go see what is beyond this forest?"

"Just a minute." Kurt answered putting his suitcase on the ground and riffling through his bag he pulled out a long string of flower blooms hed braided together

"Whats that for?" Quinn asked as he walked over to a big oak tree and looped the flowers around it, laying his aplm gently over them and letting his magic flow into them.

"Theyre for Blaine."

"Im sorry Blaine." Cooper said in a low voice. "I dont really understand everything you told me but I know you hoped to find Kurt."

"He isnt here." Blaines voice was monotone. "Nothings here."

"Im sorry." Cooper repeated and Blaine knew he was trying to comfort him even while confused by the situation. "Come on Squirt, get up. Its freezing out here lets go back to the hotel and talk this all over. Okay? I feel like weve been in a whirlwind for the past 24 hours."

Blaine nodded and got to his feet for his brothers sake even though he felt numb all over and it had nothing to do with the cold. They walked back towards the trees and Blaines eyes filled with tears. It felt like losing Kurt all over again and his heart was ripping in two.

"Whats that?" Cooper said and Blaine looked up with a sigh. Cooper was pointing at a nearby tree and even though it was getting darker by the minute Blaine could tell something was wrapped around it. He took a few steps forward and then just stared. Flowers. Fresh, blooming summer flowers. The purple cranes bill from the field, and peasants eye from Kurts garden, and buttercups like the ones in Blaine wreath and the little Bell Heather flowers that were Kurts favorite.

"What is this?" Cooper said coming up beside Blaine. "And how the hell are these flowers not frozen out here?"

Blaine smiled as a tingling feeling flowed through the flowers to his fingertips. "Kurts here. Folaigh isnt but Kurt is." His heart was flipping over in his chest and his hand trembled. "I just have to find him."

"I dont understand anything that is going on." Cooper said but Blaine just grabbed a flashlight from his pocket and flipped it on, navigating the forest was going to be harder now but he needed to get back to town.

"Come on Cooper!" He said and started rushing back the way he came.

Kurt knew he was lucky; leaving Folaigh had been a huge risk, walking out into a world they knew very little about and hoping to survive. Things were hard, but better than they had been that first week. A total of fifteen people left Folaigh, not many compared to all the people they left behind, but for these fifteen it was the right thing to do.

Out of the fifteen only three had stayed in the small town outside of where Folaigh use to be. Everyone else went to a bigger city to try and trade the valuables theyd brought with them for money and to disappear into the crowds there.

It was a good idea. Here Kurt and the others were scrutinized and gossiped about, but this is where Kurt had to stay because if Blaine came back and Kurt had gone somewhere else how would they find each other? One of the first things Kurt had asked about when he got to town was about the American that was shot a month or so back. All he could find out was that Blaine had stayed in the small hospital here before being transferred to a bigger hospital out-of-town. That was encouraging, it meant Blaine had made it to medical help, but Kurt had no idea if hed recovered or where he was now.

Kurts ultimate goal was to make it to New York and find Blaine or Sam, but it was expensive and there were laws about traveling out of the country. Kurt worried that hed never find a way out of Ireland. He found a job at a local pub and worked and waited. Shortly after getting the job at the pub the owner had fallen sick, a heart attack; he collapsed behind the bar while Kurt was standing next to him and Kurt was glad the pub had been mostly empty because he was able to surreptitiously use his magic to keep the man alive until the medics came.

After that, Mr. Murphy called Kurt his lucky charm and he let Kurt, Burt, and Quinn stay in the back apartment of the pub. It had a little attached bathroom and they were free to use the pubs kitchen. It wasnt much but it meant they didnt have to use the little money theyd traded for to stay in the awful motel theyd been in when they first arrived.

Burt found a job with a local mechanic. After the wonder of seeing these futuristic automobiles, Burt was able to prove that he could work on almost any "car" even if he didnt know all the correct terms for everything. Quinn was working at a little candy shop wherethey loved her there and insisted she wear all her "old fashioned costumes" as the customers found it charming and the tourists even stopped to take photographs with her. Overall they were doing much better for themselves then could have been expected.

Everyday Kurt got up hoping that this would be the day he learned something more about Blaine. He hoped that Blaine would somehow know that he needed to come back and find him, even though he worried that maybe Blaine hadnt recovered and no matter what Kurt did hed never see him again. He pushed those thoughts aside though, squishing them down deep inside of him where they couldnt make him feel ill with sadness.

"You and Blaine are going to be together again." Quinn said one evening when both she and Kurt were off of work. She was sitting in a big plush chair covered in some kind of fake lather and reading a magazine, she and Kurt read as many magazines and newspapers they could get their hands on since they helped them better understand the world they found themselves in. "I know you will find each other again. I can tell."

"You can tell?" Kurt said with an arched brow as he was played with the flower crown hed wore the day Sam and Blaine had arrived in Folaigh, dry and brittle now.

"I know my magic isnt as obvious as yours or Burts, but it is real. Sometimes I just know things. So believe me when I say that Blaine is alive and youre going to find him again one day."

Kurt smiled and nodded, hope swelling in his heart. Please be right Quinn, please be right. He looked down with a gasp as one of the dried flowers broke off of his wreath; they were some of the only flowers he had left from his old garden and they reminded him of Blaine. Kurt stuck the tip of his tongue out as he repaired the wreath using his magic to make the flowers bloom again and felt a surge in his power that he couldnt explain, gone as quickly as it started.

He looked at the flowers in his hand and then back up at Quinn. "I hope youre right." He was lucky he knew, but everyday he missed the man he loved.

Blaine and Cooper walked into the first open restaurant they was a small, clean, well lit pub and Blaine immediately liked it.

"This isnt where you lost that poker game is it?" Cooper asked looking around.

"No, this is much nicer."

"I think we seat ourselves." Cooper said, nodding over to an empty table in the corner and then heading that direction. Blaine continued to look around the cozy pub; it was fairly full for a chilly night and had a warm glow of lights,filled with the happy chatter of the people eating and drinking. He took a deep breath rubbing his hands together to warm them. The pub smelled like cedar and malt and… flowers.

Blaine spun around searching the whole place. It didnt just smell like flowers it smelled like Kurt. Blaines skin tingled and a lump formed in his throat. His heart was beating heavily and suddenly the general chatter and noise of the pub seemed to grow muffled.

"I knew we had more pretzels in the back." A voice behind him call and Blaine knew that warm lilting voice, he spun to see a tall young man with chestnut hair coming from the pubs backroom with a box in his arms.

"I should have trusted you. Youre always on top of the inventory." The bartender said.

Blaine held his breath as the man with the pretzels placed the box on the floor and stood up wiping dust off his pants. Blaine took in his pale skin and his blue eyes and his perfect pink mouth that tipped into a slight smile as he spoke with the bartender.

"Kurt." Blaine tried to call out but suddenly his throat was tight with tears and he could hardly make a sound. Kurt turned away from the bar and went back to the store room behind it. "Kurt!" Blaine called and this time his voice came out, but Kurt was already out of sight, the door swinging behind him. He surged forward, running into people on his way, hitting his hip against a table and not even noticing.

Blaine raised a palm and pushed the door open following Kurt into the back.

"Hey! Youre not allowed back there!" Someone called behind him, but he didnt stop.

"Kurt!" Blaine stood, mounted to the ground as the man in front of him froze and then slowly turned around. His eyes were wide and his lips parted in awe, and as he looked at Blaine tears started to roll down his cheek.

"Blaine?" His sweet voice was hoarse with emotion and they both stood still for a moment, worried that if they as much as flinched the spell would be broken. Blaine wasnt sure who finally moved first but suddenly Kurt had dropped the package in his hands and they were both running forward Blaine let out an oof of air as Kurt slammed into him, wrapping his arms around Blaines back and clinging so hard it was difficult to breath. Blaine didnt care; he knew he had to be holding Kurt just as tight.

Blaine buried his face in Kurts neck drinking him in, and Kurt trembled in his arms. Together they swayed a little on their feet, rocking as neither of them could find the words to say, but couldnt let go of each other either. Kurt started pressing kisses to the side of Blaines neck and up to his hair and his cheek until Blaine lifted his face enough for Kurt to press a long sweet kiss to his lips.

Sighing, Blaine felt weightless and parted his lips as Kurt began to tug on them with his own. He could feel the pads of Kurts fingers pressing into his back, and his firm chest flattened against his own, Kurt tasted like tea and honey and he smelled of sweet flowers and every one of Blaine senses was consumed with him. Kurt pulled away from the kiss only when they both had to take a breath, Blaine panting as Kurt looked at him with misty blue eyes. They both started talking at the same time.

"How are you here? I went looking for Folaigh but-"

"Blaine youre alive. I didnt know and, oh god."

They both stopped talking and smiled at each other before laughter bubbled up in Blaines chest and he was chuckling and kissing Kurt again.

"I was… so… scared… I didnt know…" Kurt said between kisses before he broke away and leaned his forehead against Blaines while keeping his arms looped around his back. "I didnt know if youd survived or not. The last time I saw you… I keep having nightmares about it." Kurts voice was scratchy and Blaine pecked his lips one more time before he started to explain.

"You saved me. I was in the hospital over a week, but Ive made a complete recovery now. They called it a miracle, but I knew it was you." Blaine moved a hand to wipe a tear from Kurts cheek. "You saved me my love, and I… I came back for you."

"I left Folaigh." Kurt responded, even though that fact was obvious, "But I didnt know how to get to you."

"I found the flowers you wrapped around that tree. You let me know to look for you, but then… you were just here."

Kurt grinned, still holding Blaine close and Blaine could feel him quivering. "I was hoping youd come back to me."

"I always will." Blaine breathed and kissed him again, he couldnt believe this was real, that he really had Kurt, that they had each other and nothing was threatening to keep them apart. He knew they still had a lot to figure out and Cooper was still back in the restaurant waiting for him, and Kurt was in a world he probably didnt understand, and how was he going to get Kurt to New York? Did Kurt even want to go to New York? They had so much to discuss, but for now all that mattered was that he held the man he loved in his arms.

Kurt looked in to Blaines eyes happily, still tearful and with his face splotchy with emotion, but there was a huge smile on him as his blue eyes sparkled. "Now that I have you back." He said breathlessly, "I am never letting you go again. Never."

"Good." Blaine laughed. "Because that was my plan exactly."