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Chapter 45: The Zoo

"Can Pav come?" Elizabeth asked and Kurt looked up from where he was packing the bag to see Elizabeth sitting on the floor, her legs spread wide with Pavarotti settled between them, his long ears flopping. Elizabeth was looking at him with wide, hopeful eyes and Kurt chuckled. He would kill Blaine for teaching her that.

"I'm sorry sweetie but he can't come. He's scared of the other animals," Kurt told her gently and she pouted but released Pavarotti and he hopped away. She pulled herself up and wondered over to Kurt, smiling brightly.

"Is grandpa and uncle Coop coming?" Elizabeth asked.

Cooper and Burt had come over and met the two new additions to the family and had immediately fallen in love with them. They spoilt them so much and Carter and Elizabeth adored them. Cooper may or may not have choked up a little but he would deny it.

"Just the four of us," Kurt told her, like he had five times that morning, not that he minded.

"I want to see the Lions," Elizabeth gushed, bouncing slightly. Kurt smiled brightly and bent down to pick her up and settled her on his hip.

"Are they your favourite?"Kurt asked and Elizabeth nodded her head enthusiastically.

"We are dressed and ready to go," Blaine announced, coming out of the bedroom carrying Carter by his feet. Carter was laughing loudly and Blaine winked. He set Carter properly down on the ground and took hold of his hand.

"Then let's go," Kurt beamed, snapping his back shut and slinging it over one of his shoulder. Blaine and Kurt had decided to take the kids to the zoo today and it would be their first public appearance. Both were nervous and thought that the zoo would be perfect as Carter and Elizabeth would be so distracted by the animals they wouldn't notice any of the media.

Kurt carried Elizabeth out who had started to babble about the animals and Blaine and Carter followed, pausing to lock the door behind them and then hurried to catch up to the others.

The zoo was fairly busy and people recognised Blaine Anderson-Hummel and his husband. Their eyes widened when they saw that the two had two small children and respectively gave them their space and allowed them to enjoy their day – not that they didn't try to get pictures of them from a distance.

Carter and Elizabeth were in awe of the animals and squealed with delight at them.

"Daddy! Look," Elizabeth cried and Kurt crashed into Blaine with surprise. The two looked at each other with surprise and then both broke out into grins. They didn't think that they would be called dad for a long time but Carter and Elizabeth were a constant surprise.

"What is it?" Kurt asked, his voice slightly hoarse with emotions.

"I can see the lions," Elizabeth squealed and began to tug Kurt along. Blaine loved and lifted Carter up so he was sitting on his shoulders and hurried to Kurt, taking his hand and together they walked as a family.

"RRRROOOOAAARRR!" Carter roared playfully and Blaine made a show of jumping and Carter laughed loudly, both Blaine and Kurt committing the sound to memory. While they were at the lions Kurt saw out of the corner of his eyes a man with an expensive looking camera snapping pictures of them.

Elizabeth tugged on Kurt's leg and looked up at him.

"I can't see," she pouted and Kurt lifted her easily and settled her on his hip. He pointed out the lions and looked at her.

"Can you see now?" he asked and Elizabeth giggled and nodded.

"That one is sleeping!" she cried and Kurt looked at her adoringly.

"That one licking its self," Carter cried and Blaine laughed loudly, his hands holding Carter's thighs so that he didn't fall off his shoulders.

They spent a while at the lions before they got hungry and they headed to get some food. Blaine had put Carter down and Kurt took his hand while Blaine hurried to get them some food from one of the many places they could choose from.

"When is papa coming back?" Carter whined. "I'm hungry."

"He won't be long," Kurt assured him, his heart flipping in his chest as Carter called Blaine papa. Blaine came back fairly quickly and they found a table to sit down at.

"Thank you papa," Carter beamed as he nicked a chip. Blaine smiled at him and kissed the top of his head. They helped their kids with their food, trying to keep most it off their clothes. It was easy to ignore everything around them as they focused on them and stealing smiles at each other.

They didn't notice that more media had arrived and were taking pictures of them. It wouldn't be long before they would be plastered over the magazines and on the internet. But that didn't matter to Kurt and Blaine. As long as Elizabeth and Carter were having fun, that's all they wanted.

They visited the rest of the animals but Carter and Elizabeth were growing tired and were being carried most of the way now. Kurt and Blaine eventually decided that it was time to go home and have an afternoon nap. Elizabeth waved tiredly goodbye to the animals and smuggled into Kurt's neck as he held her closely in his arms. Carter was fighting to keep his eyes open and Blaine smoothed his curls as they walked, gently kissing the top of his head.

By the time they got home both were asleep and Kurt and Blaine put them down for the afternoon. Kurt and Blaine collapsed onto the couch and snuggled together, Blaine gently caressing his husbands cheeks.

"The perfect day," Blaine murmured and Kurt smiled, pulling Blaine into a sweet kiss.

"Perfect," Kurt agreed.

"Cuddle?" Blaine asked and Kurt beamed, laying down and opening his arms. Blaine grinned and laid down beside Kurt, laying his head on Kurt's chest and hummed when Kurt's fingers worked into his hair, disturbing the gel that he had put in it.

"Love you," Kurt murmured tiredly and Blaine smiled and gently kissed his chest.

"Love you too," he said huskily and allowed his eyes slid shut and bask in the glowing feeling of joy that was burning inside of him, knowing that Kurt was feeling exactly the same.

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