Tacky Christmas Decorations
future!klaine: Kurt gets a new Christmas decoration, sleek and elegant as he is. But Blaine decides that it needs a little touch of... Blaine.
(AN: oh my god, I'm so sorry. this is so stupid. I just wrote this in like an hour. based on this. I'm so sorry.)
The Anderson-Hummel household is always decked out for the holidays. Their Christmas tree has a unique theme every year and Kurt and Blaine always make a day of going to pick out their tree. There is always a matching wreath on the front door. And there are always tiny Christmas lights lining all the walls and hanging in the rafters of their living room because Blaine says that lights always make the magic of Christmas come alive.
Blaine concedes to leave it off while company is there. But not five minutes after they leave, Kurt walks by the counter with all their Christmas cards and the reindeer's ridiculous collar is back. From this day on for the next two weeks Kurt spends his time passive-aggressively hiding the garland from Blaine. But no matter where he hides it, the garland is always back on the poor reindeer by morning. Neither of them say anything about it.
And when Kurt finds Blaine digging through their coat closet when he comes home for the day at lunch time Christmas Eve, he doesn't even think about the garland.
"Your presents aren't in there."
There is a bang from inside the closet and a faint "ow". Regretfully, Kurt's view of Blaine's ass disappears as Blaine's head emerges from the recesses of the closet with Blaine's hand rubbing the crown of it.
"What?"
Kurt smirks. "Your presents aren't in the closet. And no, I'm not telling you where they are. Besides, you aren't five, you can wait until tomorrow."
"But I wanna open at least one tonight, Kurt! We always did that at my house when I was a kid and- wait, no." Blaine shakes his head and looks away muttering,"That's not even what I was looking for."
"Oh?" Kurt questions with his patented bitch face.
Blaine's eyes jerk back up to Kurt. "No, I'm looking for Bruce's scarf."
"Bruce?"
"Bruce the Reindeer."
Kurt tries (and fails) to hide a smile. He just looks at Blaine for a moment, but says nothing, instead reaching a hand down to help him up.
Blaine reluctantly takes his hand, though the look on Kurt's face makes him suspicious. Still, he follows easily when Kurt pulls him down the hallway toward the kitchen. Kurt stops in front of the counter and looks at the rein- at Bruce, but he still keeps his hold of Blaine's hand.
He watches Blaine's face as he realizes that the garland is still wrapped around Bruce's neck. Blaine squeezes his hand as a smile creeps it's way onto Blaine's face. Blaine slowly turns his head to his husband and the look on his face takes Kurt back to earlier days when they were both at McKinley and Blaine would look over at Kurt in the middle of glee and just smile. It was this look of pure contentment and adoration that Kurt would never get tired of seeing.
Kurt snaps back to the present moment and smiles back at his husband.
"You didn't hide it."
"Well it is Christmas Eve. I figured if he had survived this long dealing with it on half the time, he could handle a couple of full days with it until he goes into hibernation for the next 10 months."
"Can I ask you a question?"
"Always." Kurt says, somewhat befuddled that at this point Blaine would still seem this nervous to tell him something.
"Why did you hide it? I mean, I know why you hid it the first time. But, why did you keep hiding it?"
"Honestly?" Kurt gave a deep sigh, "We've both been so busy and we've hardly seen each other the last couple weeks and it was kind of like... a reminder that we were still thinking about each other." Kurt was sheepishly looking away from Blaine, thinking that Blaine would think it a stupid reason to do what he'd been doing.
Kurt couldn't have been more wrong. Blaine pulled Kurt into his arms and Kurt's instinctively wrapped around Blaine's neck. "Kurt..."
"Hey, no. No, it's not your fault. Like I said, we were both busy. I'm just glad we have these next couple days to ourselves."
"Me too." Blaine leaned in impossibly closer and gently pressed his lips to Kurt's, then before moving away he whispered, "Just one present tonight?"
With the mood sufficiently ruined, Kurt pulled back and snorted. "Okay, okay. One. But close your eyes while I go get it. No peeking." Kurt narrows his eyes, knowing how much like a five-year-old his husband is sometimes.
Blaine rolls his eyes before making a show of covering them with his hands. "I can't believe that I didn't notice that the scarf was still on Bruce."
"Well you can be pretty oblivious. Open."
Blaine jumped at how close the voice was, but promptly opened his eyes to see Kurt standing directly in front of him. "Um... did you..."
"It's under the tree. But you can't open it until later. The first unwritten rule of a Hummel Christmas is that no presents shall be opened unless one is in his or her pajamas."
Kurt watched Blaine's eyes glance toward their tree as he tries to get an idea of what his present might be. "Can we get in our pajamas now?"
"No! We have to go meet Rachel and Sam for lunch, remember?"
"When we get home?"
Kurt rolls his eyes once more, and certainly not for the last time, "Maybe, if you're good and eat all your vegetables."
Blaine laughs in full at that and walks back down the hall to get his coat, mittens, and scarf from the closet. "All right husband. Let's go meet our best friends before they decide to ditch us to have sex in a janitor's closet or something."
Kurt picks up his coat from the edge of the couch where he had dropped it when he came in a few minutes earlier "Oh god, so I'm not the only one who's noticed how horny they've been lately?"
"Oh dear god, no. You don't think they're trying to get pregnant do you?" Blaine reemerges, ready for the bitter New York winter outside.
"Maybe they already are?"
Blaine's eyes bug out comically large. "You don't think..."
Kurt just shrugs and raises his eyebrows as he ties his scarf around his neck.
Neither noticed, but as they collected their outerwear, both men glanced at Bruce and smiled to themselves.
Needless to say, Bruce makes a yearly appearance every holiday season, even surviving three moves and even Kurt's big spring cleaning of 2024. ("Blaine, we have too much stuff. Our kids have too much stuff. Our dog has too much stuff. This is ridiculous. I am getting rid of anything we haven't used in the last year." Which wasn't true, because there is a little gum-wrapper ring that still sits in the back of Kurt's dresser.)
