The Rising Sun
Plot Summary: AU. It started when Kurt was 8 and had survived a near death accident that took his mother. Since then, Kurt's has had special abilities that could only be explained as powers of the dead. He unexpectedly finds answers when he goes to Dalton Academy and meets Blaine Anderson, a boy with pyrokinesis abilities. They begin to fall in love but what happens when Kurt's powers are beyond anything even Blaine has ever seen?
Hey guys! Here's presenting my first AU story involving Klaine with superpowers. I know, not exactly new on here but I got the idea in my head and couldn't let it go. I think it was inspired by Stephen King's Firestarter (my favorite Stephen King novel) and a little tiny bit from Watchmen. Its rated M for future chapters and it's my first AU fic. Not going to lie, a little bit nervous about how this could be perceived so criticisms welcomed, but please don't flame. As a side note, I plan to write this along side the sequel to Ours.
So with that all in, I hope you enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Glee or it's characters. If I did, it'd probably be focused on Klaine (well, no probably about it).
()()()(Kurt)()()()
8 years old should have been the number of death for Kurt Hummel. There was barely anything left of his mother after the drunk drive collided with the front of their car and Burt had told Kurt numerous times just how terrible he looked. It was nothing compared to actually seeing the photos where Kurt didn't even look human. Blood caked everywhere, skin ripped in most places and swollen where it wasn't, limps broken and bent unnaturally like he was a puppet rather than a kid. However, not only had he survived, but there wasn't any real sign that he was ever even involved in an accident except for the faint scar that aligned with his back.
People he told about the accident always asked one question; if he remembered anything about it. Kurt tells them he remembers the overpowering smell of copper and a pain so strong he couldn't properly describe it. It was just pain, and it wasn't something no one ever wanted to feel. Both those things are true, but he never tells them what else he remembers. He also remembers it stopping for a short period as his world descended to black. He remembered feeling nonexistent—like air or wind or maybe more like a parachute opening during a sky dive. So powerful yet so light. The darkness then turned into light and for a moment or so it felt like there was no more Kurt Hummel, just before he's thrust back into the broken, solid body and the pain that came with it. It's perhaps not the best explanation of the experience but he doesn't know how else to describe it, which is why he doesn't talk about it. That, and that this was a sacred moment for him. As if no one was to know about it but him.
However, soon after he heals he notices things happening. Things seem to move from one place to another when he is around and people often complain of feeling cold around him. The big thing though happens when he's ten while he's waiting for his dad to pick him up from school. A bully of his finds him along with a group of friends and offers to give him a closer look at the boy's bathroom toilets. The ten year old takes off and runs as fast as he can around the playground. He takes refuge under the slide, crouching down and trying to control the fall of his tears. In his mind just chanting please don't let them find me; please don't let them find me.
He holds his breath when the bully comes around and is staring right at Kurt. Kurt starts sobbing harder and the bully looks around dumbly.
Kurt stops crying when he realizes his eyes are set on him again, but they aren't focused. After another moment or so the bully turns around and shouts out to his friends "You guys find Hummel yet?" Kurt's confused and glances around, gasping when he sees right through his hands.
This is momentary. When he blinks, his flesh is there again and everything is completely normal. Kurt's 10-year-old mind can't make sense of it. He hears the honk of a car in the distance and he sees his father in the distance. Kurt makes a break for it and manages to make it just as the bully spots him.
When Kurt tries to tell his father this, Burt just thinks Kurt is being imaginative. He was always a creative child after all. Kurt then just believes his father's assurances that he's fine and normal and that it was all his imagination. That the little things that continue to happen are just effects of a spooky vision.
He's less easy to convince when a different incident occurs at 14. Kurt's still getting bullied but he's been able to fight back slightly with sarcastic comments. Although one particularly bad morning, he says the wrong thing to Dave Karofsky and finds himself pinned against the wall a fist being raised to hit Kurt across the face—eyes red with rage.
"What did you say, Hummel?"
Kurt thinks of simply taking it back, but his tongue won't allow it. He's tired of these bullies pushing him around and doing whatever they want and not having any way to fight back. His words might not mean much but if they jab at him just a little…"I said for someone who hates gays so much you sure talk about my ass a lot..."
Kurt squeezes his eyes closes and tenses; sure the fist is colliding forward. Suddenly, he's falling backwards. When he opens his eyes, he's not pressed against the wall, but facing instillation in the janitor's closet. He hears screaming through the walls and he's grateful that it seems to be Karofsky and not him.
But the relief is short lived—he can't deny it anymore. Maybe a ten year old could imagine maybe having super powers, but actually going through a wall and your bully having the bruises to prove it (though no one believed Karofsky thank god) it was enough to scare him.
He didn't bother telling his father again but tried experimenting with powers. By 16, he has somewhat of a grasp on his powers. Kurt found he could move things if he thought about it without touching them—not heavy things, but things he could lift with his physical body. He could in fact move through walls and taught himself enough that he could do it without running into the occasional wall. Learning how to disappear on command wasn't so easy, but he found he could do it if he focused enough on it. He learned off a website that he may have other powers like possession or mediumship. He hadn't come across any spirits yet but honestly, he kind of hoped he never would.
One other thing he read was that people with his sort of abilities tended to heal and regenerate. Kurt thought about the accident that had killed his mother and the vision he saw that night. How he should have been dead or paralyzed and neither had happened. He had come out alive and apparently, very powerful. It was awesome and sickening all at once.
Online however, he doesn't find anyone like him. Hasn't heard of any one with powers before, let alone powers like his. It makes him scared to tell anyone. Karofsky knows. And his stepbrother Finn after an incident in which Finn had washed a dry clean only sweater and Kurt motioned (that was what he called him when he moved an object without touching it) a vase at him. Finn, once he gets over the fear, thinks it's the coolest thing ever but Kurt swears him to secrecy. He's trying to keep a hand on this and if people started finding out, he may lose control of how his powers are contained or someone could provoke him into using them.
He couldn't bear the though of losing control. Not just because he could hurt someone, but because he could lose his sanity.
()()()(Blaine)()()()
It's different for Blaine. There was always a chance he might get powers. His mother had the ability of empathy, which allowed her to control emotions, take them away, or manipulate a person's brain by picking or removing a particular memory. Because of this, she is a value employee for GAIA (Government for Advanced Individuals of America) who shocked everyone by marrying a mere human with no powers what so ever.
Blaine's older brother, Cooper has powers too. His are more related to Compulsion which allow him to manipulate a person thoughts or actions, sometimes even being able to make them into little more than zombies. Cooper's often used his powers to make Blaine hit himself in the face or run into walls. He doesn't get powers himself until he reaches puberty, but Blaine's hoping for something completely kick-ass so he can get Cooper back.
And lucky him, it does happen.
Blaine is 12, nearly two weeks away from 13 when it happens. He had complained about feeling tired and dizzy all day and since no one his around to tell him so (his father working hard as a lawyer and his mother with GAIA) Blaine takes it upon himself to nap. He can't sleep though because the temperature in his room is slowly climbing. He throws the blanket off his body but he's still unbelievably hot. He forces himself up to open windows and turn on the fan. He returns to his bed dripping in sweat.
It's late fall outside, slightly chilly out. Blaine's positive he has a fever but he shouldn't be this hot. Blaine practically peels the shirt off his body and throws it to the floor barely hearing the heavy wet slap.
It's still too hot. Much too hot. He strips off his pants and boxers. Fingers graze across skin and it's all frying at the touch. He feels like he's in an oven that's been turned up all the way—and it's getter hotter still. He's starting to realize this is getting serious. For it to be this warm, he must have one hell of a fever.
Blaine makes the decision that he should get up and take an icy shower, maybe a cold bath. However the minute he jumps back up to his feet he screams loud enough the neighbors can probably hear. Something snapped when Blaine got back up to his feet. The hot feeling has officially started burning. He falls back onto the bed, curling around himself and screaming. He does so until the pain is too intense and he is simply paralyzed with agony. The burning feels like it's gone on for hours, but in reality, it was minutes before he finally passed out.
When he wakes, he's no longer in pain. In fact, he feels great. Powerful, Strong. He's never felt better in his entire life. That is until he realizes he's on the floor—bare floor. Last time he checked, his room was carpeted and he had passed out on the bed.
Blaine looks up and sees his melted bed frame, above it air where mattress use to be. Looking over the side and down at him is Cooper who must arrived while he was passed out. His older brother smiles down at him.
"Well, isn't this interesting." Blaine sits up and peers down where he was lying down. A huge area of burnt hardwood where he just was. "Dad's going to be so mad at you."
When his mom gets home, she's shocked to say the least. Not only because her son has managed to burn a hole through his bed, but because of the power he's obviously received. To confirm it, Blaine starts playing around with controlled fires and exploding targets his mom and Cooper set up for him. It's clear as day, Blaine is a pyrokinetic. This is odd because usually a child inherits powers somewhat similar to their parents such as the link between empathy and compulsion. His mother points out that there have been cases of children developing different powers—but it's rare for it to occur.
Contrary to what his brother said, Blaine's father wasn't mad. Just the opposite. He was proud of Blaine. GAIA had restrictions on what humans could know about a super human's abilities. They had to have documentation and pass rigorous tests before GAIA allowed a human into 'the circle' as it was called. Because of this, humans usually reacted two ways. They were either embarrassed by their loved ones abilities, or felt rather superior because of it. In this case, Mr. Anderson loves that he's part of what was a essentially a nation wide secret.
He is however not so proud when Blaine comes out at age 15. In fact he's down right livid about it. He insists that Blaine reconsiders up until Blaine blows up the kitchen table in a fit or rage. After that, Mr. Anderson just stops talking to Blaine all together. Whether it was out of disgust or fear, Blaine didn't know and he didn't care.
His coming out at school was at the Sadie Hawkins dance. He asks his human friend and only other out gay kid at school to go and he agrees. The night starts out wonderful. They have dinner before and they laugh and flirt the entire time. At the dance people give them looks but Blaine is too wrapped up to care. He does something his mother has warned him against many times. He lets his guard down.
They're walking out to wait for his mom to pick them up once the dance is over. His date starts to shiver from the cold air so Blaine sheds his jacket and drapes it over his shoulders. His date gives him a weird look. "Aren't you freezing?"
Blaine's never cold. His body is constantly many degrees above the normal human body temperature. "I'm okay… I'd hate for you to catch a cold because I was a bad date." He teased. Blaine's date smiled.
"Well, I can tell you Blaine Anderson, you are far from a bad date…" The boy leans forward, eyes drooping slightly. Blaine's breathing unknowingly speeds up. He starts leaning in to meet halfway. Their lips are inches apart when a voice interrupts.
"Oh god, look at the queers." The boys both turn to see a group of 4 upperclassmen. Suits disheveled and disgust evident in their eyes. Blaine shots them a glare but doesn't want to cause any trouble. His mother has forbidden him from using his powers in public.
His date huffs and shouts back. "Real subtle, pointing out the gays. Getting lonely in the closet?"
One of the guys snorts and starts walking towards them. "Excuse me? What the hell did you say fag?"
Blaine's date seems to realize he's crossed a line as the 3 other men begin to follow. Blaine protectively steps in front of his date just as the man reaches him. "Look, we're not looking for trouble. Just leave us alone and no one gets hurt."
The men give each other disbelieving looks before breaking out into laughter. Blaine feels his blood racing. Save for the day he received his powers; he's never been so frightened.
Without warning, the man closest punches Blaine in the stomach. The wind is knocked out of him and he can't react as one of the others punch him in the face and knock him down to the pavement.
"Blaine!" His date shouts before his arm is twisted behind his arm. Blaine's non-swelling eye catches his date being knocked against the flagpole. The man that called them out keeps punching him in the face. The terrible sound of skull hitting metal ringing in ears. They punched every part of his body they could reach, taking his breath away just as he regains it.
When he looks up again, his date is lying on the pavement, pain-filled groans escaping his lips. The person who started the fight rolls him over on to his back and without holding back, slams his boot down on the boy's neck.
It's the right amount of air in his lungs and anger in his heart. It's enough that Blaine's eyes start to golden. He focuses on the man and forces all his strength forward.
The man combusts into flames immediately. Screams ripping from his body as he backs away from the limp young man. Blaine takes advantage of the shocked state of the other men and forces his power on to them. Soon, each of them bursting out into flames. Blaine stands but doesn't stop. He sneers as he makes the fire hotter and hotter.
He smells burning flesh but doesn't care. They deserved to burn. To be marked as different like they had done to him. The power begins to expand and trees are catching on fire too. Cars are flipping as fire explodes from the windows. People in the distance are calling for help and screaming. Blaine can't hear them. The fire is still burning within.
It's not until a harsh hand grasps at his wrist. "BLAINE! STOP!"
His eyes flicker over as he prepares to set out the fire once more. He sees the face of his mother. Blaine's eyes immediately dull back to hazel and the power retracts back into him.
Around him is complete destruction. The trees have started the school on fire. Car alarms are ringing everywhere as cars are flipped and broken across the parking lot. The boys Blaine started on fire are no longer burning but their bodies are melted, horrible figures of what they use to be. He's done this. He's destroyed and murdered.
Blaine's mother raises her hand to wipe a tear from his eye. She then turns away and peers at Blaine's date. She walks over to him and kneels down, ear leaned down near his mouth and fingers pressed against his jugular.
Blaine finds his voice after awhile. "Mom is he…?"
His mom looks up at Blaine with a nervous look. After a moment, she nods. Blaine's heart is crushed by grief as he begins to choke and sob. He feels the power rising again and Mrs. Anderson stands reaching out her hand.
Then Blaine doesn't feel anything. No grief. No sadness. Just nothing. His mom has removed the emotion in order to subdue Blaine. Cooper comes to the scene a few minutes later and uses his compulsion to make Blaine sleep.
He learns later on, his emotions still numbed, that the incident has been covered as a lab explosion. GAIA covers their tracks well, and a superhuman with healing powers is brought in to revive the surviving boys Blaine had burnt back to health. The one that killed his date was dead on the scene. Though their regenerated bodies will never be as good as natural bodies, they'll get to live while nothing can be done about Blaine's date. Cooper instead, uses his compulsion to convince the boy's parents that their son had died in a car accident. Blaine's hands are washed free of the incident but his mind will never forget it. His mother lets Blaine feel the grief a little bit at a time but overwhelming feeling he has is guilt.
Why hadn't stopped those men sooner? Why didn't he grab his date and run before it happened? Questions that had not prevented the two deaths, three altered lives, and an unimaginable burden on Blaine's shoulders.
His mom tells him 3 months after the incident that she had found a new school for Blaine to attend. Dalton Academy. It had a zero-tolerance policy towards bullying which meant Blaine wouldn't have to worry so much about defending himself and losing control. She also mentioned that there were a group of superhuman boys there (under the guise of a singing group) that could perhaps better teach and relate to Blaine than she or Cooper could. He's terrified of the idea of setting foot in another school after what happened, but likes the idea of having some help in learning to keep a hold of his abilities. Plus, it would be nice to be with kids his age who better knew what he was going through.
And that's how he ended up here at Dalton Academy. Since then, he's made friends with the Warblers, the group his mother had told him about, and finds it to be a great support group. The group is led by Wes who can read thoughts and see into the future, David who has super strength, and Thad who had a few different levels of special vision including x-ray, heat vision, and freeze vision.
Blaine's also befriended a few other kids in the group. There's Nick who has the ability to transform into gas or liquid like form. Jeff who can construct shapes from energy, and finally Trent who was the only person in the group with no desire to talk or show his powers. Nonetheless, Blaine made himself a second home there. A new place away from the things in his past.
Except he never forgot. Sometimes he'd wake up screaming in the middle of the night as nightmares plagued him. The scared look on his date's face, the smell of burning flesh, and the look of horror on his mom's face. It all hit him and he would never escape it.
He was trapped in his own personal ring of fire.
And there's the first chapter! It's sort of just an introduction to everything going on, I don't imagine it'll be so rigid in the future. I did keep Blaine's date nameless for a reason—any guesses to who it might've been? Hope you all enjoyed the first chapter and continue reading it :)