As their first Christmas together both Kurt and Blaine had decided it was a resounding success. They slept in, ate breakfast together and traded gifts. When Blaine opened his he'd stared shocked for a good 5 minutes before he launched himself at Kurt, knocking him backwards onto the floor and peppering his face with desperate kisses saying 'I love you' over and over in between. Kurt's eyes had watered when he opened his gifts, first had been an incredibly beautiful watch that opened up under the face like a locket inside was a picture taken of them together and Blaine had it engraved with the words 'With every hour, every second, of every day, I love you more', he'd also put together a scrap book of their entire relationship from the looks of it, on the page of their engagement there was a DVD tucked into a pocket on the page of the entire proposal and the CD that had been played in the car on his way to each destination with 'their' songs on it.

Blaine spent a good hour and a half downloading the software onto his computer and fiddling around with it and writing down lyrics with correlating music in his new notebooks specifically for writing music, pulling out the keyboard from the hall closet while Kurt moved into the kitchen to start preparing for dinner later that night, he began pulling things out of the refrigerator and cupboards with a big smile on his face as he listened happily to Blaine's ministrations. Putting the food into the oven and setting the timer he went back into the living room and came up behind Blaine on the couch who was writing away and wrapped his arms around his shoulders.

"I take it this means you like your gifts yes?" He asked nuzzling into Blaine's neck.

Blaine reached up and squeezed Kurt's arm with his hand twisting his face to meet his lips in a soft kiss with a smile.

"I love my gifts, and I love you even more" He said before cheekily rubbing noses with Kurt in an eskimo kiss.

They called their families and wished everyone a merry Christmas confirming their plans to fly out in a few days to spend a 'second Christmas' with them and New Years before Kurt had to come back to New York for work.

After dinner that night they popped in the video of Blaine's proposal to watch it together, it was Blaine's first time actually watching and seeing Kurt's reactions to everything he'd done for him, he said that he'd wanted to wait to watch it with Kurt. They spent the entire time wrapped around each other with tears in their eyes, Kurt reliving the emotions he felt at the time and Blaine watching how emotional Kurt's reactions were to the various things. He had never felt prouder of anything in that moment than for being the one responsible for putting THAT smile on Kurt's face.

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The day after Christmas Blaine woke up with a fever and sore throat. Kurt had woken up feeling as if he had a furnace next to him and rolled over to see Blaine in a fitful sleep hair slicked with sweat against his forehead groaning as if in pain. Concerned Kurt shook him awake and when Blaine blearily opened his eyes he squeezed them shut with a groan and pressed closer to Kurt's cool hand on his forehead.

"Baby? Blaine?...Oh sweetheart you are burning up... What's wrong...can you tell me what hurts? Is it your throat?" Kurt asked softly stroking a hand threw Blaine's hair.

"Throat...head...everything" Blaine croaked and Kurt winced sympathetically.

"Ok, why don't I set up a nice cool bath for you and you can change your pajamas and I'll make you some soup and get you some medicine, does that sound good?" Kurt asked gently. Blaine nodded miserably and Kurt tried to get up only for Blaine to grab a hold of his shirt "No...don't leave...stay...stay with me." Blaine mumbled.

"Sweetheart I have to go into the bathroom to get your bath set up...but I promise I'll be right back ok?" and with that Blaine grudgingly let go and allowed Kurt to go into the bathroom and start a bath.

Once the bath was full of lukewarm water Kurt went back into the bedroom and assisted Blaine in getting up and partially carried him to the bathroom, helped him undress and settle into the water. Kurt grabbed some Advil from the cabinet and handed two pills to Blaine before getting up to grab him a bottle of water to swallow them, once Blaine had taken the pills, Kurt grabbed a wash cloth and began to gently wash off Blaine's skin and hair, rinsing off all the sweat and grime from his fever and Blaine smiled blissfully in gratitude.

Once Kurt was finished washing Blaine off in the bath, he helped him out and patted him dry with a towel leading him into the bedroom and sitting him on the bed while he grabbed Blaine some fresh pajamas and helped him change into them. He stripped the sheets and quickly changed them into clean ones free of sweat and tucked Blaine in under the sheet leaving the comforter down by the foot of the bed to avoid Blaine overheating. He kissed him on the forehead and told Blaine he'd be right back and walked out into the kitchen to make Blaine a cup of tea for his throat. He would have to slip out at some point to get the ingredients he was missing to make Blaine some chicken soup and probably some sprite or ginger ale along with some Gatorade to keep him hydrated. It would most likely be a good idea to grab some cough drops and throat spray while he was at it, Nyquil...Kurt rarely got sick so as of right now he didn't have the necessary tools for taking care of someone who was. Tea in hand he walked back into the bedroom and set it on the nightstand, putting his palm to Blaine's forehead sighing in relief when he discovered his fever seemed to be going down. Blaine opened his eyes and squinted at Kurt, grimacing up at him.

"I really don't feel good" He wheezed.

"Baby...do you think you will be ok just relaxing here while I go get some stuff from the store on the corner to help make you feel better?" He asked sitting gently beside Blaine and stroking his cheek lightly. Blaine nodded slightly and whispered a soft "ok...but be fast?" Kurt nodded and pressed a soft kiss to Blaine's forehead whispering a sweet "I'll be as fast as I can sweetheart, just rest here ok? I love you" Running his hand through Blaine's hair soothingly one last time he grabbed his house keys and wallet, put on his shoes and hurried off to the store. He grabbed everything he could possibly need for his mom's homemade chicken soup recipe and raided their entire cold and flu section as well as grabbing some vitamin C and Echinacea for Blaine to help boost his immune system. When the woman at the counter saw everything he had she smiled sympathetically and asked him if he was taking care of someone who was ill, when he nodded and explained that his fiancé was running a fever, sore throat, body aches and seemed to be wheezing since he got up that morning, she recommended he also pick up a humidifier for the room and explained how it would help along with offering some home remedies she had for when her family got sick. He thanked her and with arms full of bags made it back to his apartment and a sick Blaine.

Walking inside he heard Blaine coughing harshly from the bedroom and hurriedly set everything down on the kitchen counter yanking out the throat spray, cough drops and cough syrup and ran into the room. He rubbed Blaine's back soothingly until he was able to stop coughing and made him take a cap full of cough syrup despite Blaine's insistence he didn't need any gross medicine and just Kurt being there made things better.

After settling Blaine back onto the bed and propped him against some pillows, Kurt took out his laptop and the lap desk setting them onto Blaine's lap and put in the first Harry Potter movie causing Blaine to smile sleepily at him. Kurt was convinced a sick Blaine was definitely an adorable Blaine. He resorted to being a little kid who just wanted to be cuddled and watch movies.

Kurt walked back into the kitchen and took everything out of the bags, reading the labels of each one of the various medications, vitamins and products he bought. He then took the humidifier and set it up in the bedroom on the nightstand on Blaine's side of the bed, he then grabbed the jar of Vick's vaporub and a warm washcloth, made Blaine unbutton his pajama top slicked on a layer and placed the washcloth over it, re-buttoning only the bottom buttons on Blaine's top and leaving the upper portion open.

Heading back to get started on the soup Kurt set to chopping up the various vegetables after he cut up some boneless chicken breast and browned it on all sides in the pot then adding some salt, pepper, oregano and two pinches of hot curry powder, some grated ginger, and a liberal amount of fresh garlic into the pot along with it, added about seven cups of cold water, turned on the heat and set it to boil on the stove. He cut up the carrots, celery, green beans and a large onion, and some red potatoes. Once the chicken and broth had been boiling for about 40 minutes he pulled out the chicken and set it aside, added the vegetables to the broth, once the vegetables were tender he re-added the chicken to the pot and set it to a low simmer. He let it stew together for about 10 minutes before he turned off the heat and he ladled the soup into a bowl and placed it on a tray to bring it into Blaine who was fast asleep on his side with the movie still running on the bed next to him. Setting the tray on his desk he moved to wake Blaine up.

"Mmmm...Kurt? I'm tired..." Blaine grumbled "Just wanna sleep..."

"I know sweetheart but I really need you to eat some soup for me, it's not good for you to be taking medication on an empty stomach and quite frankly you need the nutrients"

Blaine sighed and allowed Kurt to help him sit up and Kurt brought him the tray with the soup on it. Blaine took the first bite shakily and moaned at the taste. "This is amazing" he murmured taking another large spoon full. Kurt smiled and ran a hand through his hair as he ate; casually checking his forehead pleased to find Blaine's fever had broken. Once Blaine finished the bowl of soup Kurt took the tray and set it aside, he noticed that the movie on the laptop was over and credits were running so he asked Blaine whether or not he wanted to sleep or put in the next movie. Blaine asked Kurt if they could put in the next movie and if Kurt would cuddle with him during it and let him be little spoon. Kurt nodded and climbed in behind Blaine allowing him to spoon against him; he wrapped his arms around Blaine's middle and pushed play on the second Harry Potter movie. By halfway the time the movie ended both boys were fast asleep, Blaine had turned to face Kurt and burrowed his face into Kurt's shirt curling against him as Kurt held him securely with both arms and rested his head over Blaine's.

When they woke up Blaine felt much more rested and announced with a small smile that either the soup was magic or cuddles from Kurt were the best remedy for being sick. Blaine asked for another bowl of soup and Kurt got up to get it for him, also taking time to remake some garlic and honey tea for him which the cashier had recommended for a sore throat, something about garlic being a natural antibacterial/antibiotic and honey soothing inflamed throat tissue and reducing coughing. Whether Blaine liked it or not he'd be drinking it if it would help. Turned out Blaine didn't put up much of a protest with the tea on the count of his throat hurting, he was desperate for it to stop hurting.

He gave Blaine the soup and tea first, and then took out the vitamin C and Echinacea to take along with a dose of Nyquil when he was done eating. When Blaine finished his second bowl of soup and his tea, he took the vitamins and medication Kurt offered him and cuddled back into his pillow feeling about a thousand times better than he had when he woke up in the morning. Kurt was officially the best doctor ever. Anytime Blaine got sick (while in Lima) from this day forward he would be requesting to get sent to New York so Kurt could take care of him, Kurt and his magic soup and super amazing cuddles and cloud bed of happiness.

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Two days later Blaine was feeling considerably better and Kurt had somehow managed to avoid catching whatever bug he had, while Blaine didn't have any idea why he got sick or how unfair it was that Kurt seemed to be immune to everything, he was eternally grateful to Kurt for taking such good care of him and promised that should a fluke occur and Kurt ever get ill, he promised to take just as great of care of him as Kurt had for him.

They packed their bags for their flight to Lima and Blaine couldn't help but be sad to leave. This apartment had become his home away from Lima; this was where Kurt would be coming back to alone once the Holidays were over. The bed Kurt would sleep in holding a pillow because Blaine isn't lying next to him, the couch he would curl up on with a blanket while he talked to Blaine on the phone. The kitchen Kurt would be cooking dinner for one in every night unless one of the girls came over. Blaine realized while it had been difficult to be away from Kurt in Lima, he still had his family, KURTS family, he had Artie, Tina, Sam, Brittany and Sebastian and Blake. Sure he had to go to school every day but he still got friends and glee club. Kurt was for the most part just alone, unless Rachel or Santana came over, he would be here, in this apartment surrounded by memories of their entire relationship, getting up and going to work each day to earn a living, coming home to an empty house, eating dinner alone and going to bed alone. All the while trying to fit in time to Design something good enough to get put on the runway in Paris, and put stuff together for the wedding in a way so that when Blaine could be in New York all he really had to do was pick and choose from the selections Kurt handed him, in his incredibly organized binder that obviously took a lot of time and effort to put together, not to mention the research and phone calls he was making to make sure they all met the specifications for them and their friends. Blaine may have felt lost and lonely without Kurt in Lima simply because Kurt was the most important part of his life, but his support system was huge, he had so many people to lean on and turn to when times got rough and he missed Kurt so much he felt like he couldn't stand it.

But who did Kurt lean on? Rachel and Santana were both in school the majority of the time, they had their own lives and their own issues with missing people and being away from the ones they love. So really, Kurt was handling their distance alone. Not only missing Blaine, but his family too, especially his Dad, and friends, then on top of all of it he had all these new responsibilities with a career and bills...how was Kurt able to do everything without breaking down? From Blaine's perspective before when he'd stupidly thought breaking up with Kurt was the best for him, he'd mostly thought of Kurt having this exciting new life and not missing him and just wishing he was free to enjoy New York, in reality Kurt was working hard with his mind focused on Blaine and preparing for their future, he didn't mind staying at home talking on the phone to the man he was in love with. He knew what he wanted, and it was Blaine, as his husband. So he never felt the need to look for anyone else or consider a life without him.

One of the things Blaine loved about Kurt most is that Kurt was constantly impressing him and humbling him with his strength and dedication and ability to love at the sort of amazing capacity Kurt did. He was the bravest, most incredible man in the world...and to think, Blaine almost gave him up just because he was insecure. Insecure of his relationship with Kurt, Kurt who had waited patiently during Blaine admittedly oblivious phase before they got together, he'd kept on loving Blaine when Blaine broke his heart with Jeremiah and then Rachel of all people, and He just...kept on loving him. Because Kurt saw something in him that was worth that kind of love and devotion, something Blaine couldn't see in himself.

He knew if there was a God, despite what Kurt may believe, he must have had something to do with bringing them together. In fact, every time Blaine listened to the song 'God must have spent, a little more time on you' by N'Sync he swore it could have been written about his feelings for Kurt. So as Kurt slept on beside him on the car ride to Blaine's house, he couldn't really help but flip to the song on his IPod to play it in the car and sing along. Had Blaine paid attention he would have noticed Kurt open his eyes and smile at Blaine and the song before cuddling back into his jacket on his side and falling asleep.

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Once they were finally at the house it was dark outside and Blaine woke up Kurt and helped him grab their bag's. Tonight they'd be staying at the Anderson's and the next day the Hudmels would be coming over for their second Christmas. Blaine's father was waiting for them on the couch reading a book. He welcomed both boys with a hug and when Kurt asked were he'd be sleeping, Mr. Anderson had simply laughed and told him to go ahead and head up to Blaine's room with him, they were going to be married there was no point in making them sleep in separate rooms. They thanked him and headed up to Blaine's room to get some rest. Tomorrow was bound to be a hectic and exciting day and with all the traveling they'd done this break and with Blaine just getting over being sick, they could honestly say they were exhausted.

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