Dance With Somebody [Discontinued]

Sixteen

There was a gentle knock on the door, pulling Kurt out of his thoughts.

"Come in," he said, rather confused. Doctors didn't usually knock.

Before he knew it, he was being hugged. "Are you okay? Are you alright?"

He realized who it was, hugging him back. "I'm okay, Blaine. Well, I don't know if my eyes are, but I am."

"You don't know?"

"They're coming in to take off the bandages in a minute."

"Bandages?" he asked worriedly. "Plural?"

"It got in both my eyes," Kurt confirmed. "Hence the dark glasses. But who all is here? I know you couldn't have come on your own." It wasn't insulting, more of a statement.

"Just David, Sebastian, and me," Wes said. "The others couldn't come."

"I mean, I'll see them soon enough. After they take off the bandages there's nothing else they can do, so I can just leave and I don't want to miss the rest of the day. My Dad was here a minute ago."

"I'm right here, Kurt." They all looked over, seeing him in the doorway. "So, you all are from his school? Why aren't you there?"

"It's our lunch break," Blaine explained. He was the only one who knew Burt Hummel.

"Alright, it's been- Oh! Some visitors?" a doctor asked as he walked in the room.

"We could leave, if we're in the way," Blaine said.

"Well, everyone but Blaine could leave," Kurt corrected.

"No, it's alright." The doctor dimmed the lights in the room so they weren't too bright but it was still easy to see. Kurt took off his glasses and the doctor oh-so-carefully took off the bandages over his eyes.

"Alright. Open."

Kurt opened his eyes, and whatever they were anticipating they would look like, it wasn't that.

They looked perfectly normal.

"What can you see?"

"Did you, like, turn down the lights?" Kurt asked, looking rather worried.

"I did, actually."

"Could you turn them back up?"

"Of course." He did so, Kurt blinking to adjust his eyes. His pupils dilated slow enough that they could notice it happening.

"I..." he swallowed. "You're certain the lights are on?"

"Yes."

Kurt pointed to the window, tracing it's outline. "Is there a window there? Is- wait, don't move away."

Sebastian, who had been blocking the window, had started to move out of the way. "You could see me moving?"

"It's... There's light where the window is, and dark where you were. But just... Just light."

"What does that mean?"

Blaine knew the answer before he asked, but desperately wished he was wrong.

"It means he's blind, at best temporarily. There's a chance his vision could come back or get better, but it may also get worse."