Finn was walking down the street with Kurt after their hospital visit. It was safe to say it wasn't a pleasant trip; Burt was still unconscious so neither of them had a chance to see him for very long. It was only half an hour they were allowed in the hospital room before they were ushered out. Finn wasn't feeling too badly about it - he was disappointed that his step-father wasn't awake at all, but Finn knew that Burt was going to be fine with the care he was getting. Kurt however, seemed really torn up about the whole thing.

Finn watched Kurt for a few moments, before tilting his head to the side. His brother was deep in his thoughts, and whatever it was he was thinking, it wasn't helping his mood any. "Hey, dude. You okay?" He asked, softly.

"What?" Kurt looked up, obviously distracted from his thoughts. Sighing, Kurt crossed his arms over and held them close to his chest. "Yeah... I'm fine," Kurt said, with a wry smile.

"No you're not," Finn said, looking directly at his brother "What's up?"

"I don't want to talk about it, Finn. Okay?" Kurt sighed heavily and shook his head. "It's stupid anyway.

Finn's face fell into a frown and shook his head as Kurt spoke "Kurt, you're my brother. You can talk to me about anything, okay? It doesn't bother me, even if it's stupid or not. And I'm sure whatever it is that's bothering you right now is far from stupid. I mean.. what's going on is enough to get anyone down.. " Finn said, starting to mumble to himself before he looked down at his lap.

Kurt bit down on his lip for a few moments, before sighing and looked at Finn "It's about Dad, obviously." He said, hugging his arms closer to himself. "I mean, it's not just that he's in hospital.. Christmas has always been an important holiday for us." Kurt started, moving closer to Finn and rested his head on his shoulder. He took a breath before speaking again, "The first Christmas after my mum died was the first time I really felt happy since then. Me and my mum used to decorate the tree on Christmas Eve together. We always meant to do it as a family, but she always got so excited before my dad came home and we'd always do it together. My dad totally forgot about it that year until he saw me hanging up the ornament I made out of my mum's old perfume -"

"So, is that what that little bottle is then?" Finn asked. He didn't mean to interrupt, but it was something that was always on his mind when they went home for Christmas, and it was something Kurt always demanded to put on the tree himself.

Kurt was thankfully not too angry when he interrupted and smiled with a nod "Yeah. Anyway, after that, my dad remembered about the tree and took me out of bed to get a tree for that year, and we spent the rest of the night decorating it together. Ever since then, Christmas has been an important time of year for us. It's something that we always do, and I know that it's not possible this year to do it obviously, but I at least just wanted to speak to him for a little while... Even it was just to say 'Merry Christmas' to each other.."

As he finished off the story, Finn noticed that Kurt's voice sounded close to breaking. It was something, that to Finn, Kurt obviously didn't talk about very often. Finn couldn't even remember the last time Kurt really spoke about his mother in front of him, or if he ever did it. Finn suspected that Kurt didn't even talk about his mother at all, unless it was when he and Burt were alone together. Finn was stumped about what to do, however, he felt his heart sinking when Kurt brought up a hand to wipe at his eyes, and brought Kurt close to him as he wrapped an arm tightly around his waist.

"Hey don't cry, okay?" Finn said, grinning softly "I mean.. I know it's not the same as spending Christmas with your dad and all and having the traditions you have but at least we have each other, right? I know we're not real family... but -"

"What are you talking about?" Kurt said, cutting him off. "Of course we're real family you idiot." He laughed softly, as he wrapped his own arm around Finn's waist "And you're right. We do have each other.. I'd hate it if we didn't get to spend time together. I just feel awful for Carole though.. She's needing to spend this Christmas alone. Without us and with out my dad too.."

"She could always come to Cooper's house?" Finn said shrugging "She's a Squib, so she does know about the Wizarding world, and she knows that Cooper isn't the mass murderer everyone thinks he is. So we can go and get her later on. Like, if before dinner's ready, we can go to our house. I don't think it's that far away is it? Or we could get Professor Schuester to Apparate and bring her with him." He suggested with another shrug.

"Yeah, I think we could." Kurt said, grinning "I think Carole would like that, actually. I think she'd love to meet other people from our school. She only met Blaine once, right? And I don't think Professor Schuester would mind Apparting there. I mean, he met us outside of the Order to take us there. I think he should be back at the Order now. Or at least soon. I think he'll want to see Dad for a while too... To make sure everything's going okay with the Healers. He'll know more about what's going on than us. Otherwise, he probably would've taken us back, right?"

"That's true," Finn nodded, before smirking "And speaking of Professor Schue and Blaine, what exactly did happen with you two? I mean, I know you got together last night, but you didn't tell me everything because Professor Schue took us to the hospital, and well.. I don't think either of us wanted to talk about anything there.."

Kurt let out a groan and threw his neck back "Ugh, do I really need to talk about it Finn? Can't we just be happy with the fact it happened?"

"No we can't!" Finn smirked further, with full intentions to tease the hell of Kurt over this "I mean, my brother and one of my best friends are together now. I can't help but be curious! Don't make me pout Kurt. I'll pout at you until you tell me."

"You can pout all you want. It still won't be as cute and effective as Bla -" Kurt cut himself off before blushing deeply "Okay, fine. I'll speak." He said, glaring a little at Finn when it looked like his brother was about to burst into laughter.

"Blaine invited me out around London - I think he was wanting to make me feel better about what happened with Dad... - but I was feeling lonely, and you'd went out doing whatever it was you were doing. So I said yes," Kurt started with a soft smile, "I did want to go out with him at some point anyway, but I wasn't sure if you were doing anything... He ended up taking out like, £300 from his bank in Gringotts after converting it, and insisted on spending it all on whatever I wanted. After the shopping, we went for dinner and coffee then went back to the house."

Kurt stopped speaking again, the serene smile on his face was obvious to Finn that he was reliving last night in his mind. Finn was almost tempted to push Kurt into speaking again, but Finn knew Kurt would probably get a bit annoyed at him. It was best to just leave him be for a while. And it was actually refreshing to see Kurt really looking happy again. Finn knew that it had been a rough few months for Kurt after the break up with Sebastian, and a good few of the Slytherins not wanting anything to do with him anymore because of Sebastian's sudden dislike towards Kurt, and Kurt suddenly starting to get really close to Blaine after spending the good part of five years talking about how much he hated the Gryffindor boy.

"Anyway, it was snowing pretty heavily by the time we came back. I'm sure you've seen the size of the garden, right? Well, Blaine invited me to out for a walk around the garden while drinking hot chocolate. After we walked around for a while, we stopped at an archway. He was being all dramatic and saying that he had something he really needed to tell me. I don't think the poor thing would ever have gotten around to telling me if Cooper wasn't bothering him. -"

"What did Cooper do?" Finn asked, eyebrows raised in question.

"Well, you know how Cooper's an Animagus right?" Kurt asked, watching as Finn nodded "Well he was on top of the archway in his Animagus form, meowing and as he shooed him away, I think it relaxed Blaine a little. But I gave him an extra push and..." Kurt sighed softly and shrugged "He told me he loved me."

"And did you say it back?"

"No.. I didn't," Kurt sighed, before narrowing his eyes at Finn "Hey, don't give me that look! I can't help it! I mean.. It's too early to say that I love him. I have no doubt that one day, I will love Blaine if we're together for longer than a few months.. I really do care about him," Kurt frowned a little. He was still confused about his feelings for Blaine, even now. But he could at least make more sense of them. "He was rambling again - I don't think he ever thought I'd like him back - and I knew he wouldn't listen if I tried to speak, so I kissed him. We kissed seconds before it became Christmas.. It really was just... so romantic and perfect. I loved it."

Finn smiled down at Kurt and squeezed him so that Kurt was closer for a few brief moments "I'm really happy for you both. I didn't know Blaine was in love with you, but I knew he really liked you for a while. And I'm not going to lie - I hated Sebastian - he really wasn't good for you. I really do think that he only liked you because he thought you were hot. I can't say how happy I am about this. I knew this would happen ever since you told me you two made out in the Room of Requirement," Finn said, grinning "But Blaine will be good for you. I'm sure you know already, but he's a really nice guy, and he really does care about you."

"Sebastian did actually care about me, Finn. I mean, yeah, I do think part of it was because he thinks I'm hot. But we were friends for a really long time before that. I don't think it was just because of my appearance," Kurt said, shrugging. "But I'm glad, too. Like I said; I really do care about Blaine."

"I know Kurt," Finn said, grinning "I knew for a while actually. You could barely keep your eyes off him during DA meetings," He teased softly, chuckling as Kurt avoided his gaze.

Kurt slowly looked up and frowned in confusion "Hey, when were we back already?" He said, looking up at Cooper's house, "Is it really that close or did we actually talk for that long?"

"A little bit of both, I think" Finn said, chucking softly, and knocked on the door to the house, quickly stepping in before the foul house elf that was responsible for cooking could kick up a fuss. "Do you think Cooper would be mad if I had something to eat before dinner?"

"Probably," Kurt said, chuckling. "I think we're needing to help decorate before hand so that he knows the decorations are perfect. I don't think Cooper trusts the house elves that much.. Either that or it's just the one that cooks he hates..Anyway, we need to talk to Professor Schuester about getting Carole here, right? That is, if he's here."

"That's true.." Finn said, nodding slowly "Let's go into the kitchen, then. If he's anyway, he'll be there."

Kurt nodded as Finn spoke, and followed his brother down the hall.