What Can Go Wrong

Prompt:Cooper is a soldier stationed overseas, and Blaine is called out of class to be informed that something has gone wrong involving his unit. What happened? Is Cooper dead? How do Blaine's parents work their way into this?

Bonus points:

2 if Kurt is present through a portion of the events.

4 if Blaine has a panic attack.

Notes: I know I haven't updated anything in a while but my Blangst muse took over and I literally have no ideas for anything else. This fic will hopefully get me out of my Blangst induced muse funk.

Blaine supposed he should have seen a disaster coming his way sometime soon. After all everything he did in his life seemed to be followed immediately be something bad. He had a good time at a Sadie Hawkins dance even if he'd just gone with a friend and he ended up in a coma, he got up the courage to come out and his father tried to make him 'go straight again', he gained Kurt but nothing too bad had happened yet unless you counted the prom debacle but it had only been an issue for a certain amount of time unlike the other incidents in his life. Like he said Blaine should have seen a disaster coming… but who could predict this.

He was sitting in Spanish when it happened; it was becoming very boring because to be perfectly honest he already spoke Spanish and Mr Schue might be a good Glee teacher but even Finn could speak better Spanish that him and that was saying something. Hence he had completely zoned out thinking about the date he was planning on with Kurt later on, their very first double date with Mike and Tina (they quickly became bored of listening to Rachel talk on double dates with Finchel) and it wasn't even at Breadstix for once. But then there was a rap on the door which pulled his head back to reality. He saw Miss Pillsbury standing at the door and hoped she was here to pull Mr Schue away for wedding planning after his proposal last week but after a brief conversation she turned to the class and said, "Blaine, would you come speak to me outside please? Mr Schuester will be coming too."

Blaine briefly wondered what on earth the school's guidance councillor needed to talk about with him of all people. Oh god, had something happened to Kurt?! With that awful thought he quickly rose from his chair and hurried from the classroom.

There were a few awkward moments as the two adults shifted awkwardly in the corridor for about a minute as if unsure how to begin. So Blaine took the liberty of doing it for them, "you could just tell me what's wrong! Has something happened to Kurt?"

"No, no, Kurt's fine," Miss Pillsbury said and Blaine breathed a sigh of relief before realising that he still didn't know what the real reason was. He made a half-hearted polite gesture to indicate that Miss Pillsbury should continue.

Yet again he wondered why Miss Pillsbury had been hired as she stuttered over her words a little before finally managing to get the words out, "Blaine, your brother's unit in Afghanistan radioed in a roadside bomb and I'm afraid your brother was caught in the blast and they weren't able to get him to the hospital in time."

Just like that Blaine's happy mood snapped and he began to cry hysterically, he collapsed to the floor without caring that bruises were probably going to form the next day from the impact. He felt his breaths shorten and they began to become harder and harder to push out. He could vaguely hear Mr Schue and Miss Pillsbury trying to talk to him – probably to calm him down – but all he could think of to say or even manage to get past his lips was, "please, get Kurt." He kept repeating it like a mantra as he heard two sets of footsteps run off down the hallway.

He had never been close to Cooper; his brother was ten years older than him after all and that was a fairly hefty age gap to work with but Blaine had always tried. Cooper not so much but after all they had been brothers and no matter how critical Cooper had been of him he loved him. The last time he had seen Cooper was when he had come out to his brother just after Cooper had announced he was leaving.

"Squirt, it doesn't matter to me that your gay, why would it? I'm your brother, it's not like you're going to hit on me right," Cooper said with a laugh

It was typical of Cooper to make a joke out of something so serious but that actually made Blaine feel better as it made it seem like something was still normal.

"Please, don't die on me Coop! I feel like you're the only one that will ever support me," Blaine cried.

"Me… die… ha… you're funny Blaine, I'm invincible remember," Cooper had joked although it had always sounded a little fake to Blaine.

Later on Blaine had come to suspect that Cooper hadn't been entirely alright with him being gay (him always scheduling his leave visits when Blaine was unable to get away from Dalton had been his first clue) but Blaine had always appreciated what his brother had done for him then and now he was gone.

He was numb to what was happening around him; the bell could have gone right then and Blaine would have been as oblivious towards it as he was towards the rest of his surroundings until he felt a hand placed on his arm. He was about to shrug it off until he heard Kurt's voice through the silence saying, "hey baby, it's just me, hey, come on, let's get you back home and we can talk about this."