GLEE'S ANATOMY // When Glee goes M.D.

Who: rockstarwarbler and justbeingaqueen
What: Patience is a virtue
Where: High Dependency Unit
When: Nearly a week after Blaine fell ill
Rating: Innocent

The latest CT scan of Blaine's brain showed that over the past couple of days, the swellinghad reduced signficantly and the neurologist became confident that he should show signs of waking soon. All sedatives were ceased and they put a step up on his antimalaria drug regime now they were more confident he could cope with them. As the days seemed to drag on with Blaine not waking up, Kurt had been forced to go home to his apartment to try and get a bit of sleep, but he was back at the hospital early each morning to sit and wait for any changes.

And now something was finally looking up. Over the last hour or two, Blaine had been stirring and showing signs of waking. Any medical professional will tell you that in real life, it wasn't like the movies. Someone in Blaine's condition could actually take sometime to regain proper consciousness rather than just bouncing awake and ready to conversations. It was a process, and Kurt was willing to wait it out. As soon as it looked like it might happen, he had dimmed the lights right down so they wouldn't be a strain on Blaine's eyes and he made sure the doctors and nurses were aware in case - god forbid - he took a turn for the worse. But his obs were all stable had dropped out of the dangerous zone. All Kurt could do was just be patient.

He took the time to really study Blaine closely for the first time, despite having been there on and off for days. He was actually stunningly beautiful, as far as Kurt was concerned. His dark features, his curly hair... and he had the longest eyelashes Kurt was sure he had ever seen. Sure, he had a sickly pallor and dark smudges under his eyes. He had tubes up his nose for oxygen and wires feeding out of the top of his gown to monitor any changes in his heart. But he was still beautiful. Kurt had no idea what was going to happen from then on with this situation, and he didn't have time to analyse it, because Blaine started to wake up then. Kurt just rested his hand over Blaine's forehead to comfort him and once his eyes were open, he just smiled. "Hello, Sleeping Beauty. And right before I was about to plant one on you, too. Totally stealing my moment there. Psht, princesses..." he scoffed softly in jest, but he watched in concern to make sure Blaine was okay.

Who: justbeingaqueen and rockstarwarbler
What: Lockdown
Where: Isolation Rooms, ER
When: About 12 hours after Blaine fell sick
Rating: Kurt's trying to be good

By the time Kurt managed to clean up and strip out of his beloved, yet soiled, pink scrubs and replace them with standard-issue pale blue onces with a hospital gown over the top followed by a plastic infection control apron, Andrew had finished his examination of Blaine. When Kurt finally made it into the isolation room where he would be stuck for god only knew how long, Blaine was sleeping and all Andrew could tell him was that they had to wait for the path before they did anything. Literally anything could be wrong with Blaine, and they would be flying blindly without any pathology or test results to lead the way.

At least they finally got him off the gurney and into a proper bed, though, and now twelve hours later, Kurt was sitting on the opposite bed in the small sterile room with his arms crossed over his chest and feet crossed at his ankles as he stared boredly at the TV mounted on the wall opposite. He was sure he had never been so bored in his whole life. Blaine started to cough in his sleep and subsequently woke himself up, so Kurt climbed off the bed and went over to him, brushing the plastic apron down as it rustled when he walked. He picked up the bottle of water nearby and unwrapped the straw to put in it. "Have a drink, darling," he coaxed, catching the straw between his fingers to keep it still as he held it to Blaine's lips.