"Hey Blaine."

The slave froze and spun around to see the King walking down the corridor with a large guard beside him.

"I-Um, Hello Sir," He replied.

Kurt's father smiled at him warmly and came to a stop next to the Slave, "How are you?"

"I'm good thank-you Sir, how are you?" Blaine asked, his arms folded neatly in front of him.

"Tired," The King laughed, "As usual."

"You should have a day off Sir," Blaine suggested, "You work so hard. You deserve a holiday."

The King laughed again, "That sounds good to me, try telling it to the governors."

"I doubt they would even look at me Sir," Blaine mumbled, blushing slightly.

The King put his hand on Blaine's shoulder, making his jump about three feet in shock, "I think you're right there Kiddo. Unfortunately."

Blaine nodded slightly.

"So what are you up too?" The King asked.

"I was just going to find the Prince," Blaine explained, "I was in the slavery helping my friend Kathy, we were cleaning the fireplaces."

"I guessed its was something like that," The King grinned and looked at Blaine's soot-covered clothes.

"Your Majesty, We are going to be late," The guard beside him uttered in a gruff voice.

The king let out a little sigh, "Yeah, okay. Tell Kurt I say Hi."

"Of course, Sir," Blaine nodded and watch the King wave at him and walk away, before he hurried up to Kurt's room.

The room was quiet and Blaine glanced to see it was ten o'clock in the morning. Kurt was still buried under his covers breathing deeply, Blaine could only see Kurt's thick, lush locks sticking out of the top on his pillow.

"Kurt?" The Slave asked, edging closer to the bed but not climbing on it. He didn't want to get Kurt's comforter covered in soot, "Kuuuurt?"

"What?" Kurt grumbled, yawning and still hiding under his covers.

"I think it's time to get up."

"No it's not," Kurt disagreed, his head poking out of the top of his covers. His hair messy and his eyes bright.

Blaine laughed softly, "You can't just sleep your whole life away. I've helped Kathy which means that we have the whole day to ourselves."

Kurt perked up a little, running a hand through his tousled hair and smiling, "Okay, I'm up."

Blaine watched Kurt yawn again and stretch before he kicked off his comforter and swung his legs over the side of the bed. He froze in mid motion, staring at Blaine before he started laughing.

"What?" Blaine asked, his eyes narrowing a little and his cheeks coloring.

"You-You look like a panda," Kurt giggled.

"A panda?" Blaine repeated, raising an eyebrow.

Kurt nodded and slipped out of bed, walking over to Blaine and cupping his face, "You have a little black nose and a black patch around your eye."

Blaine felt his cheeks turn even redder, "Oh, right," He moved to wipe it off but Kurt stopped him.

"Don't, not yet. It's so damn cute," Kurt grinned, pressing a soft kiss to Blaine's blackened nose.

"Oh my God," Blaine suddenly groaned.

"What?"

"I was talking to your Dad like this," He complained.

Kurt laughed, "Aw, Don't worry I think he likes Panda's."

"Kurt! Urgh, it's not funny," Blaine grumbled.

"Relax, he'll just think that you're a hard worker," Kurt smiled, "Which you are."

Blaine let out a sigh, "He says Hi by the way."

"Who?"

"You're Dad, he told me to say hi to you," Blaine shrugged, disappearing off into the bathroom.

Kurt stood by the door, watching Blaine fill the sink with water and start to clean his hands and face, "Where were you talking to him?"

"In the corridor, we ran into each other and he started up a conversation with me."

"That's great. Blaine he really likes you," Kurt walked into the bathroom and slipped behind Blaine, wrapping his arms around the shorter-boy's waist and resting his head on his shoulder.

Blaine smiled softly at Kurt's reflection, "He still can't approve of us though."

"Why not?"

"Because it's not up to him. It's up the governors, you know how controlling they are. Kurt we could ruin all the respect people have for him if anyone finds out what's been going on under his nose. You keep forgetting that I'm a Slave, no matter what you think, to everyone else this relationship his disgusting and wrong," Blaine wined slightly, "I don't want to hurt your Dad."

"I don't either. Of course I don't," Kurt mumbled.

"So he can't find out. Who knows, maybe you can marry someone who will completely ignore you and we can still be together in secrete?" Blaine suggested.

"I hadn't thought of that," Kurt's eyebrow shot up, "But...I don't know if I'm okay with cheating, Blaine."

"I'm not going to make you do anything," Blaine shrugged, "But...are you going to choose are let your Dad decide?"

"I...I don't know. I haven't really thought about it," Kurt admitted, "I guess it depends on what my future suitors are like."

Blaine nodded slightly, "Well...I'm here for you. Don't be afraid to talk to me about anything."

"We're in this together," Kurt smiled, turning his head to press a kiss to Blaine's cheek, "You really are amazing. Thank-you."

"Not as amazing as you," Blaine smiled back, feeling his cheeks warm a little from Kurt's gesture.

"So...You don't have to do anything else today?" Kurt asked hopefully.

"Nope. I'm completely at your disposal," Blaine smiled back.

Kurt paused for a second, "Want to go into the human world with me?"

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"Come on," Kurt giggled, tugging on Blaine's hand.

"Kurt...We're pretty far from the tree..."

"Stop worrying, we'll be fine. I wanna explore," Kurt's eyes were alight with excitement.

Blaine sighed, "I love you, I'm allowed to worry."

Kurt giggled again, "I love you too. But I also want to have fun."

"We can have fun back at the door," Blaine pressed.

Kurt paused and sighed, leaning heavily against the stone behind him, "I just want to get away from everything for a while. When we're here I feel like we're just two boys who are crazily in love with each other. Can I please just have this break from the truth?"

Blaine's face fell slightly, guilt making his chest tighten, "Of course, I'm sorry."

"It's fine," Kurt smiled, "I just want to get as far away from everyone as possible. Just me and you."

"Come on then, let's explore. Just me and you. Which way do you want to go?"

Kurt looked around a little, humming under his breath before he made a grab for Blaine's hand, "This way."

Blaine let Kurt lead him around the land that made him feel like he was in a wild jungle. Kurt was excited and fascinated about everything, nattering to Blaine about times he'd been here on his own when he was younger and the small hunt type building he'd built over the many visits.

"Where is it?" Blaine asked.

"I don't know. I haven't been this far in years," Kurt was taking long strides and Blaine was trying to hide the fact that he was struggling a little to keep up on his shorter legs.

"Are we trying to find it?" Blaine asked, glancing around a little.

"More like...hoping to bump into it," Kurt shrugged.

"How come you've never told me about it before?"

"I completely forgot about it," Kurt replied absentmindedly, pausing to run his hand over a blue flower-petal, the texture much like that of a fairies wings.

"But you'll never forget me right?"

"Of course not, um...What's your name again?" Kurt teased, spinning around to grin at Blaine.

"Kurt, I'm not joking," Blaine pouted.

"My sweet, sweet Blaine," Kurt sighed in a way that made Blaine feel a little bit like Kurt was making fun of him, his cheeks colored deeply and Kurt took both of Blaine's hands in his own and tugged him close, "How on earth could I ever forget about you?"

Blaine shrugged and looked away, "Can I ask you something?"

Kurt nodded, cupping Blaine's face so he had no choice but to look at him.

"Would you marry me? If we were just two normal fairies living in the kingdom who met one day?"

"In a heartbeat," Kurt replied, "And I'd walk around everyday holding your hand and hugging you close so everyone knew you were mine and no one elses."

Blaine grinned and sighed, "We'd have such a perfect life."

"We would," Kurt agreed, "And even when we didn't have enough money and things got hard, I'd still be able to curl up next to you at night and nothing else would matter."

"Stop, we shouldn't talk about stuff like that. It's just making me sad," Blaine shook his head.

"I wish we could just run away, over the palace gates and never look back," Kurt mumbled.

Blaine nodded sadly, "We could. But the guards would just find you and bring you back."

"Then we'd run away again and again until they just give up."

"Kurt, you know they'd kill me the first time that they found us," Blaine sighed.

Kurt groaned, "Then we can just stay here."

"You can't abandon the kingdom like that, you can't abandon your Dad," Blaine shook his head, "I'm not going to let you."

"You're right. You're always right," Kurt said, slightly bitterly.

"Besides, it's not exactly safe here," Blaine pointed out.

"It's perfectly safe. That ant was just unfortunate," Kurt looked at Blaine firmly.

Blaine replied, "Well, I wouldn't want you to be here without me."

"I wouldn't want to be here without you either, but not for you to protect me. For us to be together always."

"Of course," Blaine agreed, reaching up and locking his arms around Kurt's neck and pull him down for a small kiss.

"I'm really going to have to marry someone aren't I?" Kurt realized, biting his lip with bright, glassy eyes.

"...It looks that way," Blaine spoke carefully, determined not to lie.

"Blaine, I'm so scared," Kurt whimpered.

"I know, I know. I'm so sorry Baby," Blaine held Kurt close to him, "I wish I could stop it, I do."

"Me too," Kurt bit his lip and rested his head on Blaine's shoulder.

Both boy's were quiet for a second before Kurt sighed, "Come on, let's explore a little more and enjoy the time alone."

"Okay," Kurt agreed, looking around again, "You know, I kind of recognize this place."

"It all looks the same to me," Blaine admitted.

"I think my little house is close," Kurt stated, "Can we try and find it?"

"Of course, I'm kind of curious," Blaine nodded, "Do you think it's still all in one piece?"

"I have no idea," Kurt shrugged, "It might be fun to make it look a little more homely if we find it."

"With what? We don't have very good resources," Blaine pointed out, following Kurt as he climbed over a rock.

"I can do a bit of magic and use what we have," Kurt planned.

"Wait? You can do magic?" Blaine asked, his eyebrows shooting up.

"Only a little," Kurt shrugged.

"How? Only witches in the hills can."

"I think my Mom could do magic and it was passed down to me. I was looking through books in the library when I was eight and there was a book on magic, I thought I'd try for fun...and I ended up setting fire to half of the room," Kurt revealed.

"Wow, was anyone hurt?"

"No...Well, I didn't have eyebrows for little under a month but..."

Blaine laughed, "Aww."

"It wasn't funny, I looked like an alien," Kurt pouted, still leading Blaine forward.

"I'm sure you were still beautiful," Blaine smiled softly, linking hands with the Prince.

Kurt smiled back at him, squeezing their joined hands as they continued to explore.

"What magic do you know?"

"Hardly anything. I never really explored it," Kurt shrugged.

"Why not? It's freaking awesome!" Blaine exclaimed, "Hey, maybe it can help us?"

Kurt screwed up his nose, "I don't know. I guess there's a small possibility."

"Do you still have that magic book?"

"Um, it should be still in the library somewhere. But it would take so long to find it, and even longer to find a spell that might help us, and that's even if there is one."

"Well I'll find it. I'll scan very page from cover to back."

Kurt smiled, "I-Oh my God, Blaine there it is."

Blaine looked to where Kurt was staring to see a small shelter made of sticks, it had a back, sides and a roof but the side facing them was completely open and a large yellow flower was hanging low over the top.

"That's so cool! You really built that?"

Kurt nodded, "Imagine if a human found it, they'd be so confused."

Blaine laughed at the thought, "Can we go sit inside?"

"Yeah, hold on though," Kurt walked over and climbed the shelter so he was stood the roof with very little difficulty.

"What are doing?" Blaine asked, eying Kurt carefully to make sure he didn't fall.

Kurt replied as he started tugged on a petal from the yellow flower, "I'm gonna try and make a seat."

"Do you want some help?" Blaine asked.

"No, I'm good," Kurt gave a final tug and the petal came free and floated to the ground in front of Blaine.

"What happens?"

"I don't know," Kurt admitted, climbing back down, "I've never really tried...And you're not allowed to laugh at me."

"Of course I won't," Blaine promised, watching curiously.

Kurt stepped up to the petal and screwed his eyes tightly shut.

"What are you doing?"

"Imagining what I want to happen," Kurt replied, not opening his eyes, "Can you be quiet so I can concentrate?"

"Of course, I'm sorry," Blaine apologized, stepping back a little and watching Kurt intensely.

"No problem," Kurt mummered, his hand running over the petal with his eyes still squeezed shut. The Prince was quiet for a moment before started whispering something under his breath. A strange language that Blaine didn't understand, but he knew it was beautiful. The words were extended and flowing, almost like music. Blaine felt like he was hypnotized until the flower-petal started glowing slightly, stealing his attention. He gasped, glancing at Kurt who still had his eyes closed and was muttering gently under his breath before he saw the petal start to bend in on itself, folding like origami.

It twisted and turned in ways Blaine didn't even know was possible, and before he knew it a simple yet beautiful love-seat was in front of him the color of the sun.

"Wow, Kurt that's fucking amazing," Blaine stated.

Kurt's eyes opened and he looked at his handy-work for a second, "Come on, help me get it inside."

Blaine grabbed one end and Kurt held onto the other, after a bit of awkward shuffling the two had the seat neatly on the left of the shelter.

"There," Kurt announced proudly.

"It's awesome, come sit with me," Blaine threw himself down on one side of the seat and Kurt was soon to follow him, curling up against Blaine's side and resting his head on his chest.

"We should head back soon though," Blaine commented.

"I know," Kurt agreed unwillingly, "But we can come back soon right?"

"As soon as possible."