Meet The Anderson's

Hey guys! It's a day later than I wanted it to be but it's here Chapter 12. Thank you so much to everyone who read, reviewed, followed and favourited after the last chapter it's totally amazing that so many people are still interested in this story after all this time. To answer some questions from the reviews Kurt and Blaine's relationship status will be addressed in the next chapter and further ones all you need to know for now is that our boys are pretty sneaky ;) . Also there was no way that I could kill Finn off in this world he means too much to each of the Anderson brothers by now so he's in this story for the long haul. Anyway please enjoy chapter 12 you guys and let me know what you think!

End Of The Line

Lucas groaned as he watched Austin and Pippin stumble yawning from the younger twins room, joining the line currently waiting in the hallway. Sighing he banged his fist repeatedly off of the bathroom door, "Kurt would you get out of the damn bathroom already you've been in there for over an hour and a line's formed!"

"Use Sam and the twins'!" Kurt responded a resounding crash making each of the brothers wince while Austin perked up at the string of curse words that followed, as proud as if he had been the one to teach them to Kurt himself.

Reed jigged around on the spot, shoving Sebastian when he laughed at him, "Blaine's been in that one for an hour."

"Tough then."

"Kurt I'm desperate!" Reed whined bouncing up and down and biting his bottom lip.

"I'm going to go use the freaking garden hose," Noah mumbled rolling his eyes and pushing down the stairs.

Sebastian sniggered before shrugging and following after the pharmacist, dragging a protesting Reed down the stairs with him as he went. Austin and Pippin glanced to each other, grinning and hightailing it down the stairs after the newly founded couple. Reed's resounding shriek moments later confirmed to the others stood in the hallway that he had been used as the guinea pig for the new method of 'showering' they had decided to attempt.

Elijah emerged from a closed door and eyed the group still waiting on the landing, "What are you idiots standing around for?"

"Kurt and Blaine are hogging the bathrooms," Sam yawned, leaning heavily on Ollie's shoulder. The dancer eyed him suspiciously, elbowing him away in disgust when Sam started to drool on his shoulder. Grabbing the t-shirt the blonde haired boy was holding he wiped the drool off before side eyeing him and switching places in the line with Jude.

Sam quickly uncrumpled his t-shirt staring at the drool patch in utter horror. "Oliver what am I going to wear from graduation now?"

Ollie stared at him, "You are joking right? There's no way you were going to wear that for your graduation." Sam's look of confusion told Ollie everything he needed to know and he shook his head in despair using one hand to massage his temple, "Sweet Jesus."

Snickering Elijah shook his head and folded his arms across his chest, "Sam you've lived here for over a year…"

"Yep."

"How many bathrooms are there in this place?" Elijah smirked eyebrow raised.

Sam's face slowly turned to a grin and he thundered down the stairs, "There's a shower in the basement. See you later suckers."

"Pity that Kitty's already in that one," Elijah chuckled glancing to the other four still gathered in the hallway. "There's a bathroom in Burt and Carole's room that they said we could use…" The words instantly triggered a stampede of the remaining occupants in the hallway and Elijah dove out of the way with a shriek to avoid being trampled on by the enthusiastic young men.

Ollie winning the battle at the door he promptly slammed it in the trio's faces, Elijah sniggering as they slumped back into the hallway sulking. "This is not freaking fair," Lucas whined, "I was one of the first awake!"

"Should've got ready straight away then," Kurt smirked emerging from the bathroom in tight blue pants and a matching blazer.

"Thanks Kurt," Jude grinned slipping between his brothers and shutting the door forcefully laughing and ignoring the pounding on the door.

"I would've been so happy as an only child," Lucas growled, ignoring Kurt and Elijah laughing as they headed to find out what Burt and Carole were up to.

"Blaine what are you doing?" Cooper questioned with a raised eyebrow, a slice of buttered toast hanging halfway between his plate and his mouth while he watched his brother stumble around the kitchen as though he were drunk.

"Not Blaine," the twin mumbled, arms stretched out in front of himself.

Rolling his eyes and standing to force Bentley into a chair before he injured himself before his graduation ceremony, Cooper placed a gentle hand on one of his baby brothers shoulders. "And where exactly are your glasses?"

Bentley ran a hand through his curls breathing out a ragged sigh, "As far as I knew where I always leave them when I go to sleep, on the edge of the desk in our room."

"Oh Benny, rookie mistake."

Scrunching his face in confusion, Bentley turned to the blob that he presumed was his brother, "What do you mean?"

Cooper grinned, "Who were you sharing a room with last night?" Watching his brother slowly do the math in his head, Cooper chuckled in amusement.

"I'm going to kill them!" Bentley growled standing up and immediately bumping into the table, whimpering at his stubbed toe.

"Jesus Benny sit down before you injure yourself further, let me handle this." Wincing when Bentley's head fell to the table with a resounding thud, Cooper turned to the glass door leading to outside where the older twins and Jude were currently conspiring over something in the corner.

"You broke them?" Jude gasped taking the two halves of Bentley's glasses from Pippin's hands. Grimacing, he noted the thoroughly shattered glass of the left eye and the snap running clear over where the bridge of the nose should have been.

Pippin wrung his hands together looking thoroughly remorseful, "It was an accident! I rolled on them in the middle of the night."

"Holy crap Pip, how much do you weigh?"

"I am offended by that question thank you very much. I just happen to be a very active sleeper."

"Meaning he was playing with them in his sleep and managed to snap them literally in two," Austin drawled staring at the broken frames remorsefully.

"You broke Benny's glasses?" Cooper hissed, smirking when the trio of brothers held up their hands.

"Not us," Austin and Jude sighed.

"I didn't mean to Coop, honest, I wouldn't today of all days. They're stressed enough as it is for some reason." Pippin ran his hands through his long curls and groaned loudly leaning his head on Austin's shoulder, smiling slightly when he felt his twins arm wrap tightly around him.

Cooper rolled his eyes and fell to the soft grass beckoning his brothers to join him on the ground and pulling his sunglasses over his eyes to block a little of the gloriously shining early morning sun. "Just because they actually care about their graduation and not about how many firecrackers they can get away with before getting kicked out."

Pippin and Austin hi-fived, remembering the sheer glee of being able to aggravate the teachers that they had hated one final time. Of course their brothers had found the incident hilarious, the faculty of Bryce-Wood Prep not so much, but the teachers had been thankful to see the backs of the Anderson twins after that day.

"They're not stressed about graduation," Jude ran his hands over his face and let out a long breath, "Mother and Father are in Ohio. Blaine saw it in the newspaper last night they have some fancy dinner thing to go to."

Cooper paled and the twins sat up straighter Austin giving up with picking at the grass as they all stared at Jude. "You can't be serious."

"Deadly."

Resuming his grass picking again, Austin muttered to himself under his breath only stopping to throw a handful of grass into the air. "Can we focus on one problem at a time? What are we going to do about Benny's glasses?" Tossing the two halves into the middle of the circle the others all sighed collectively, turning back to the house when they heard laughter drifting their way.

Blaine leaned back on the bannister of the wrap around veranda, eyes covered by his yellow sunglasses and a smirk covering the lower half of his face. "You do know that you're being played right?" At their curious gazes he rolled his eyes and lifted his sunglasses onto his gelled head. "You guys realise he has like six spare pairs because he always breaks them right? He knew fine well who had them and was seeing how far he could push you."

Pippin's mouth opened and closed like a fish, pushing himself to his feet, "That little sneak I'm going to kill him."

Cooper stood up quickly, grabbing Pippin by the collar of his navy and red checked shirt when he tried to push past Blaine into the house. "No you're not, not today at least."

Blaine grinned, "Look at it this way Pip, if you don't get him back straight away he'll never know when it's coming and we're together through Sunday. That's plenty of time and two more flights until we separate again."

"Excellent," Pippin smirked tossing Bentley's broken glasses to Blaine and heading back inside to see if he could rustle up some breakfast.

"Why do we always seem to be making death threats to each other?" Cooper muttered, wrapping an arm around Blaine's shoulders and leading him inside the house.

"We're brothers, it's what we do," Blaine shrugged, straightening the edge of Cooper's collar.

"One day one of us will actually act on that impulse," Jude yawned only to be met with a hand to the back of his head from Cooper.

"Do not give them ideas Julian."

"How are they graduating?" Cooper sniffled, surreptitiously wiping under his eyes when he spotted his two baby brother's sat in amongst the graduating seniors on the McKinley football pitch.

Burt chuckled softly and patted him on the shoulder comfortingly, fending off Lucas when he moved to make fun of Cooper. "Seems like two minutes ago they were just babies right?"

"Exactly," Cooper laughed softly, rubbing at his eyes, "Oh man, allergies."

"Of course its allergies Cooper," Burt snorted shaking his head. "It has nothing to do with the fact that the last of the kids you basically raised are graduating from high school at all." Glancing down the row to where his wife had her arms wrapped around a sobbing Elijah he chuckled softly, "You and Elijah did a damn good job raising kids as kids yourselves."

Cooper shrugged, waving at Bentley when he started waving at the family like a madman and laughing when Blaine pulled him back down into his seat again. "They're my brothers. We stick together."

"And that's the way it should be," Burt smiled his smile growing when he felt Kurt lean his head on his Father's shoulder.

"Family sticks together," The blue eyed teenager beamed, "And we now have one hell of a family."

Principal Figgins stood at the podium, watching the class of graduating seniors thoughtfully and glancing to their families sat further back on the McKinley High School football field. "And now I present the Class of 2013's valedictorian Mr Blaine Anderson." Frowning at the chanting that filled the stadium from the back of the field and at Bentley Anderson and Sam Evans jumping up and down on their own seats the principal gladly handed over the microphone to a red cheeked Blaine. Blaine in turn glared quickly at his brothers, both biological and by circumstance, until they calmed down and seated themselves once more.

Blaine took a deep breath as he took his place at the podium, heart thundering in his chest underneath his gown and crisp sky blue shirt. As a performer Blaine was used to nerves, but standing up in front of his entire high school graduating class was more than a little unnerving. The youngest Anderson took a deep breath before launching into the eight minute speech he had been practicing over Skype with Cooper and Elijah for the past month and a half.

"As a personal hero of mine JK Rowling once said 'We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.' Our time at McKinley high school has helped us to find the power we hold inside ourselves whether that be through football, athletics, the AV club, the glee club or many of the other activities that we each participated in. It is up to us as we move forward with our future careers and college paths to harness the power that McKinley has shown each of us we have and transform that power into something useful so that we can each start to change the world one step at a time…"

Once Blaine's speech was finished and the brothers had finally calmed down from their rapturous applause and cheering Principal Figgins started to rattle through the long list of names of the graduating class. Pausing as he reached each of the graduating Anderson brothers and Sam Evans, he sent a glare into the audience where he believed the never ending cheering was coming from. His eyes flickered over the row of young men who all looked at least vaguely like one another as his former student Kurt Hummel seemed to attempt to battle some of them back into their chairs so that the ceremony could continue.

"I now gladly present to you the McKinley High School class of 2013!" Principal Figgins jumped out of the way as a parade of red caps suddenly flew into the air, cheering echoing throughout the football field as students and families alike began their celebrations.

"I did it, I did it, I did it!" Bentley yelled sprinting towards Burt and Carole and throwing himself into a chuckling Burt's arms, "I actually graduated high school Dad!" Pulling back and grinning at a stunned looking Burt Bentley bounced up and down, letting Carole pull him in for a tight hug, "I actually did it!" Stepping apart from Carole Bentley squeaked with laughter when he found himself at the bottom of a pile on from some of his older brothers.

"He…he called me Dad," Burt murmured in awe, eyes watering as he watched Bentley and Blaine bounce around waving their diplomas in the air while Kurt laughed. He had grown used to many of the Anderson boys calling him 'Dad' by this point, but Bentley had never called him anything but Burt before now.

"I know honey," Carole laughed wrapping an arm around Burt's waist and leaning her head on his shoulder as she watched her boys interacting, Finn looking horrified at something Austin was telling him. "It's about to get extremely quiet at home."

Burt shook his head sadly, "Too quiet, especially with Finn heading to Chicago too. God help the windy city with Pippin and Finn on the loose," He chuckled softly.

"We could always adopt."

Burt turned to look at her as though she'd gone mad, "Carole I love our boys but there are already sixteen of them, when you take into account their other halves, and that is by far enough."

"I guess we'll just have to pull them kicking and screaming back here from time to time then," She smiled, laughing when Sebastian started to chase Reed around the field, catching up to him and throwing him over one shoulder. "I'm really going to miss them."

"They're our boys Carole, we're still going to see all them at every holiday and we'll fly out to see them wherever they are too," Burt smiled holding his wife tightly, "Not to mention we already speak to all of the guys who don't live in Ohio at least once a week."

"I'm still going to miss having them here all the time."

"Me too."

"So who's driving who to the restaurant then? Let's face it we can't all fit in one car," Noah grinned, twirling his own rental car keys around in his hand and watching Austin toss his own in the air.

Sam and Blaine glanced to each other. "Actually we kind of had another plan," Sam shrugged pulling his ruby red graduation gown over his head.

Bentley beamed as he bounced over to them, "We just want a chilled family night."

"Pizza, movies and family time!" Blaine beamed, glancing to Burt who smiled and nodded in agreement of the boys plan.

Kurt pulled a face, observing Austin's falling keys carefully, "I'm not getting in a car with Austin driving and neither is Blaine."

"Spoilsport," Austin muttered sticking his tongue out at Kurt.

Kurt snorted wrapping an arm around Blaine's waist and drawing him close, "No I'd just rather live to at least see Jude graduate on Friday."

Cooper rolled his eyes, "I'll take the Anderson graduates, Kurt and Kitty, the rest of you fight amongst yourselves." Wandering towards the car park whistling to himself, Cooper grinned when he heard the scrambling of the four teenagers running to catch up with him and fighting breaking out amongst the remaining. His grin grew when he heard Burt intervene ordering the group of boys to the three remaining cars.

"Have I mentioned how proud I am of you?" Kurt beamed, pressing his lips to Blaine's and resting his forehead on the shorter boys, feeling the lump of the hidden ring hanging around Blaine's neck against his chest. "And that I love you."

"Maybe once or twice," Blaine laughed breathlessly, eyes glittering where they gazed directly into Kurt's stormy ones. "I love you too Mio Bella."

Sebastian poked his head round the corner of the alcove in which they were standing, eyebrow raised and signature smirk plastered on his face. "If you two are done being disgustingly lovey dovey Burt said to tell you that the pizzas are here and you're going to miss out if you don't hurry up."

Sebastian stumbled forewards, arms flinging back to grab Reed's legs when he dived onto his back. "Sebastian Edward Smythe leave them alone or I'll let them know exactly how 'lovey dovey' you can be when we're alone."

"You wouldn't dare Anderson," Sebastian growled tickling his legs slightly making Reed yelp and wrap them tighter around his middle.

"Try me Bash," He laughed, leaning his head on Sebastian's when the teenager took off looking for the rest of the family and the pizza. Kurt and Blaine stared after the two in wonder shaking their heads and following in their path, hands clutched tightly between them.

"Did you ever see this coming?" Blaine murmured to Kurt quietly, watching Reed and Sebastian laughing together and curling into one another on the blankets placed on the floor. "I mean I never thought I'd see Seb like this and I've never seen Reed happier."

"I had an inkling," Kurt laughed passing Blaine a plate of pizza and pulling him onto the couch with Jude and Ollie getting ready to start a 'High School Musical' marathon at the request of the twins. "Even the criminal chipmunk needs love Blaine." Blaine cracked up, burrowing his face into Kurt's shoulder as his whole body shook with laughter. The opening bars of 'Start of Something New' chimed and Blaine rested his head on Kurt's shoulder, careful not to get pizza anywhere near Kurt's shirt.

Elijah rolled his eyes with a smile as the first movie started up, "Jeez this is like the sound of your guys childhoods."

Bentley grinned, "Tell me about it."

"We were ten when the first one came out," Blaine grinned through a mouthful of pepperoni earning a disgusted glance from Elijah.

Noah snorted, side eyeing the twins, "Yeah and I remember you idiots trying to perform 'Get'cha Head In The Game' complete with a basketball and nearly breaking your noses that summer."

The twins stuck their tongues out at Noah as the rest of the room shushed them, settling down to watch the musical trilogy.

Three films later and a room full of half asleep young men and Kitty, Burt chuckled lightly, aware that waking them up for their flight to New York in the morning would be a nightmare. "Right bed everyone, we have to be up early tomorrow for the flight to New York," Burt commanded, standing up and stretching whilst Reed and Jude looked at each other in horror.

"I haven't packed yet!" They yelled, thundering up the stairs with their respective boyfriend and husband following just behind.

Burt looked around the large group spread out in the boarding gate and shook his head slowly unable to believe that this was his family now. "Travelling with this many people should be illegal," He mumbled silently doing a head count to make sure that all eighteen people who had checked in were still together.

"Silently doing a head count?" Cooper asked clutching a large coffee in one hand and appearing at Burt's side with a grin.

"How did you know?"

Elijah laughed softly walking up to Burt's other side, "Because we recognise the look on each others faces as soon as we zone out to do a head count."

Cooper nodded thoughtfully, "We've done far too many to count by this point, especially with how often Blaine and Benny used to wander off whenever they found something interesting."

"Well at least they're better at not getting lost now."

"Yeah after we lost Blaine in the middle of Disney World when he was seven," The oldest brother snorted shaking his head and looking to the youngest brother, currently curled up with his head on Kurt's lap whilst Kurt read a book and threaded his fingers through the napping boys curls.

"You lost Blaine in Disney World?" Burt asked raising his eyebrow.

"Only for an hour…or two," Elijah gulped also glancing to his sleeping brother and smiling at Kurt when the teenager raised his head to look at them.

Burt chuckled softly, "Scariest experience of your lives?"

"You have no idea," The two brothers breathed as one.

"The main thing now is to make sure none of this luggage gets left behind," Elijah sighed glancing around all of the backpacks and cabin sized roll along bags that littered the ground around the make shift family. "We don't need to accidentally cause another airport scare like that again."

Both Burt and Cooper shook their heads solemnly until Burt fully processed what Elijah had said. "Wait, what do you mean again?"

"Why are there so many of us?" Lucas whined climbing carefully over Kurt and Blaine to drop onto the floor beside Reed and Sebastian.

"Because our family is freaking enormous and we somehow managed to practically double it lately?" Reed asked swiping Sebastian's iced coffee from his hand and drinking the rest of it in one go while his boyfriend pouted beside him.

Noah grinned, "Hey look at it this way, we have like the entire coach section of the plane."

"Near enough at least," Blaine mumbled from Kurt's lap, rolling over to face his brothers while Sebastian snickered and pressed a swift kiss to Reed's cheek.

Lucas eyes scanned the group and landed on Bentley talking animatedly with kitty and Finn, "Why is Kitty here anyway?"

Bentley glanced over to them, wandering over and dropping down beside Kurt, resting his head on his shoulder before the teenager could protest, Blaine whining as he ended up trapped between their legs. "Because I invited her have a problem?"

"Nope but the rest of you are looking at prospective apartments right?" Lucas asked eyebrow raised.

Bentley tilted his head to the side in confusion, "Yeah and Kitty's helping, duh."

"Isn't she a junior?"

"Senior thank you very much and I did summer school the last few years so once I've completed this round of summer school, I'll be ready to graduate in the Autumn," Kitty smirked, sauntering over to the group and dropping down onto Bentley and Blaine making the younger groan in pain and try to wriggle further into Kurt. "I need to make sure that when I start NYU in the fall I don't get screwed out of a good room with these guys."

"Now that I can understand," Lucas grinned, "Fighting for the best room is a staple of a big family."

Kitty nodded sighing heavily, "Tell me about it. I have six older sisters."

"That's almost worse than having nine brothers," Noah muttered in horror staring at Kitty with admiration when she nodded and leaned into Bentley, closing her eyes with a yawn.

Austin and Pippin were stood in the middle of their family group singing and trying their hardest to annoy Cooper, full well knowing that his hatred of airports largely stemmed from travelling with the pair of them, "On the road again, goin' places that I've never been… "

"Wait, wait, wait, we've been to New York multiple times before so does this song still apply?" Pippin questioned turning to Austin for answers and ignoring the others laughing around him.

"Hmmm true," Austin tilted his head to the side thoughtfully, "I want to be a part of it…"

"New York, New York!" Everyone joined in laughing while Austin continued the song.

"I really, really hate airports," Cooper sulked, praying that the twins would be sat far, far away from him on the plane.

As if sensing Cooper's need to be very, very far away from them the twins suddenly appeared at his side, one hanging over each of his shoulders, "Hey Coop, guess what?"

Yelping Cooper jumped, turning to glare at each of the twins in turn. "What?" He ground out, teeth gritted in annoyance as he closed the book he was attempting to read.

"You're sitting between us on the flight!" They chimed together, brandishing their tickets for Cooper to read.

Snatching the tickets, Cooper read over the seat numbers several times then looked at his own ticket, squeaking in horror. Glancing round each of the people travelling with him, he noted each of them trying to look busy either pretending to be in deep conversation, or rummaging in their bags, or in Finn's case simply staring at the wall. "Oh god somebody switch with me! Please? Anybody?"