One Condition

"Blaine? Blaine where are you?!" Kurt's excited voice rang off the marble floors and high ceiling of the atrium.
Suddenly an arm snaked around his waist and another around his chest, dragging him backwards into a dark secluded alcove behind some ferns.
"Blaine! Stop it, c-c'mon..." Kurt laughed as Blaine kissed him up and down the side of his neck in exactly the way he knew Kurt loved because it tickled.
" mmmmm... and what are you gonna do if I don't?" Blaine smiled, spinning Kurt so that they were now facing each other, with no space between their bodies.
Kurt dipped his head and kissed Blaine hard and mumbled into his lips, "I'm going to yell rape at the top of my lungs... should be interesting to see who comes running."
Blaine chuckled and hugged Kurt close for a moment then obeyed his request and released him, sliding down the wall of the semi circle alcove to the floor where he crossed his legs and looked up at his boyfriend expectantly, "So... your text seemed urgent..."
"Well... yes, I need... I have something important to talk to you about." Kurt stumbled over his words as he slid down the wall opposite Blaine.
"Hey... what's wrong?" Blaine's brow furrowed in worry as he took both Kurt's hands in his.
"Um... not wrong, per say... just, well... God I don't know how to say this..." Kurt muttered looking intently at the floor.
"Hey," Blaine said softly, tenderly lifting Kurt's chin so that he was looking him in the eyes, "You can tell me..."
"I'm thinking of going back to Mackinley." Kurt spat out quickly, breathlessly, dropping his gaze once again.
Blaine felt the words wash over him like ice water.
"Your... you... what?" Blaine said in confusion.
"I'm considering returning to Mackinley." Kurt said a little stronger this time, making eye contact again.
"Um...uh..." Blaine dropped Kurt's hands to run them through his hair, "Please tell me that this isn't just because they're going to nationals."
"No... not at all! No!" Kurt said insistently, grabbing both Blaine's hands and clutching them between his, kissing them gently.
"Then... why?" Blaine asked feeling monumentally confused.
"Well... when we were at regionals, and we were sitting in the crowd while New Directions was performing their original songs... I realized how much I really do miss all of them, all my friends... and then I remembered why I left, why I had to leave... and I feel ashamed, I feel weak and ashamed," Kurt paused and took a shuddering breath as tears threatened to spill over, "Blaine... I want to go back... because I want to face him." Kurt finished.
Blaine sat quietly for a beat, just looking into Kurt's eyes and observing the fiery stubbornness and pride there that he so loved. Then very slowly Blaine leaned forward and took Kurt's face in his hand.
" Okay." He whispered as his lips brushed Kurt's.
"Okay?"  Kurt whispered back, kissing his boyfriend appreciatively.
" Yes, but with one condition." Blaine said pulling back and smiling at Kurt mischievously.
"Wh-what? A condition?" Kurt asked suspiciously, mentally noting how he loved the way Blaine's hair had become untamed and how the curls stuck out in every direction.    
"Yes, one condition." Blaine said playfully, a twinkle in his eye suggesting that he thought that he had had a moment of brilliance.
" Alright mister, what is it?" Kurt chuckled.
"I'm coming with you."
"WHAT?!" Kurt sat up straight, eyes widened to their full extent.
"I said I'm coming with you silly." Blaine laughed at his reaction.
"I heard what you said! I mean... Blaine, you cant's just drop everything... you love it here!"
"No I don't, I love you-"
"Wait," Kurt's mouth dropped open slightly, tears coming to his eyes again, "You love me?"
"Well... yes, more than anything, I thought you knew that?"  Blaine said, only realizing after what Kurt was getting at.
"You've never put it in words before, I knew you loved me... but you never said the words." Kurt hiccoughed slightly as happy tears fell from his eyes.
Blaine leaned forward and stroked the tears from Kurt's cheek with his thumb, "Guess I was just waiting for the right moment for it to slip out."
Kurt chuckled and leaned his face into Blaine's hand "I love you too..."
Blaine chuckled, "knew it!"
"But I still can't let you drop everything for me."
"Kurt listen to me, I don't love it here, I love you... and to tell the honest truth before you came here I was only living day to day, feel alone and oppressed. I told you that I got scared away from my old school because of bullies, well at my old school I used to be a lot like you-"
"A diva?" Kurt smiled cheekily.
Blaine laughed, "Passionate. And loud, and ever since I've come to this school I've regretted it because I feel so oppressed and contained, I just feel like I'm another face in a sea of blue and red uniforms and nothing more. Kurt if I could go back to my old school and face the guys who scared me away, believe me I would. But they graduated last year and I have no desire to face the teachers there ever again. What I'm trying to say is that if you're going to face your demons then you're not going to do it alone."
  Kurt said nothing; he just wordlessly kissed the rambling curly haired boy who happily kissed him back.
"So it's decided then?" Kurt muttered, lovingly nuzzling into Blaine neck.
"Yup... we're walking right into the dragons den."
"I'm so lucky to have you." Kurt sighed and moved so that he was sitting beside Blaine, putting his head on his shoulder.
"Not as lucky as I am to have you." Blaine sighed and kissed his boyfriend on the cheek.
They sat in comfortable silence for a while, Blaine and Kurt intertwining their fingers.
"You are partially going back because of Nationals though aren't you?" Blaine murmured, not really caring what the answer was, he would support Kurt no matter what at this point.
"Maybe a little."