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"Joe, leave me be."
"No, if I leave you be you'll do something stupid, Barry! We are here for you! Let us help you. Let us in. Enough of this silent sitting in bed like your life is over."
Joe perched himself on the bed next to his bedridden son taking his hand to try to reassure him.
"What if I feel it is! I can't run! I'm paralyzed!"
"Barry-"
Barry slipped his hand from Joe’s
"No, get out."
"Bear-"
"GET OUT!"
Crash.
The glass of water Caitlin had set on the bedside table shattered against the doorway to the medbay. Joe reluctantly ducked out of the room, the glass missing his head by a foot at most. Water dripped down the beam. Barry buried his face into his hands letting out a broken sob.
~You think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. But I look around me and see it isn’t so.~
His phone sat innocently on the bedside table ringing out Silly Love Songs from his Warbler days. He gave a weak chuckle and pressed the receive button.
"Hey Sebastian"
Barry toke a deep breath to collect himself.
"Hi Blaine, it's been a long time since we talked."
"Yeah! I'm just checking in to see if you are coming to the Warbler reunion this year. It's in about a week from now and I know that me and you were able to heal our relationship-"
"But me and Lady Hummel were not, or should I say Lady Anderson-Hummel?"
"Bas"
"Congratulations by the way." Barry leaned back, slipping almost comfortably into Sebastian banter.
"Are you going or not?"
Barry tried to shuffle a bit, feeling awkward and remembering his predicament. He started rubbing his dead limbs.
"Where is it?"
"It's at McKinley, ya know because Dalton burnt down 2 years ago and still has parts under renovation."
Barry started squeezing his leg.
"What?! Dalton is gone!"
"Yeah, it happened towards the end of the school year in 2014. We had a memorial in August after that, which is why I'm calling to make sure you come because you missed that."
"Oh god, I was in coma almost that whole year, Blaine. I didn't wake up until October. Fuck, I'm sorry.”
"Wow! You don't need to apologize for that, at all! That is not your fault."
"Oh.. Um..."
"Look do you need help getting to Ohio from...?"
"California, Central City."
"Wow CCC. I've heard it's very sunny there."
"Yeah, I love CC but maybe some time away would be good."
"Cool! Kurt's just been to LA so I'll ask him to fly up on his way to Ohio."
"Blaine, are sure that's a good idea? Sticking me and Lady Andersen-Hummel in tight metal machine ten thousand feet in the air for 4 hours seems like a recipe for disaster."
"It'll be fine. Trust me."
"Are you INSANE!"
Kurt paced frantically around the hotel room, long giving up on looking at his husband on video chat on the computer.
"What in the world possessed you to change my flights just so Sebastian Smythe would not be traveling alone. Why in the world did you think I would even what to be his traveling partner? Furthermore are you forgetting that this guy, this conniving snake, tried to blind you because he had a crush on you!"
"Look, I'm sorry Kurt. I just thought this would be a good time to try patching things up. It's been years since high school. I just want to give him a chance. If you sit the whole flight in silence that fine by me, but the week of the reunion I want you guys to have at least one conversation. I was hoping maybe you guys could do it on the plane where you can't legally rip each other's eyes out."
"I still don't trust him."
"I don't think you ever will. I don't know if I ever will. I just want you to be civil. Get all your aggression of your chest so you're not so wound up for the reunion."
Kurt stilled and took a deep breath.
"I'll try."
Blaine smiled. "That's all I ask."
"But if he does something I'll sock him in the nose."
"I love you so much, thank you!"
"I love you to. Now go to bed!"