A/N: This is a one shot and it is my take on how Blaine and Kurt should have interacted during Shooting Stars. It was sad to see Blaine all huddled up alone and looking scared without anyone comforting him in the original so if I had a say in directing this intense episode, it would be like this.. I hope you guys will enjoy it!
Disclaimer: GLEE and all the characters mentioned in this fanfiction is not mine. No copyrights infringements intended. All rights (except for the interaction that happened between Kurt and Blaine) goes to Ryan Murphy and Fox.
Was that really a gun shot? Is this really happening?
Blaine looked up and saw that everyone in the room was all spread out huddling at corners they could possibly hide, looking frightened and pale. From that alone, he could tell that this was indeed real and he couldn't stop the cold shiver that went down his spine at the thought of their lives being in danger with the possibility of not all of them being able to get out alive. Another shiver shook his entire body and he silently wish he were anywhere but there as he hugged himself tighter.
The room was eerily silent aside from the ticking of the clock and Marley's soft sniffles. Blaine almost let out a shout when Mr Schue suddenly stepped up without caution towards the piano Blaine was hiding under.
"Everyone... Hey, guys, guys, guys!" Mr Schue spoke only loud enough for them to hear. "Start texting, tweeting and let everyone knows what's going on but don't tell them that we're here, alright? Shooters have smartphones too."
The moment Mr Schue squatted down everyone immediately took out their phones and began typing away. Blaine wasn't any different. He took out his phone with trembling hands and without hesitating, he started composing a simple mass message of 'I love you' and sent it to his parents and Cooper. He didn't really want to worry his family by telling them what was going on but if there was a chance of him not being able to get out alive, at least he wants his family to know that he loves them.
"Look guys, we most probably gonna stay here, okay? We got nowhere to be, we don't know what's out there—" The sound of a door opening cut off Mr Schue sentence as all of their heads swivelled towards the direction of the sound in nervousness.
A couple of soft hushes were made as all of them nervously waited for something to happen. With no movements or noise made after a couple of seconds later, Blaine let out a thankful breath but was quickly short-lived when a vibration that was too loud in the silence almost had him jumping out of his skin. He turned to glare at Kitty that was quickly scrambling to stop the vibration. Marley let out a loud sob but thankfully Jake were there beside her to pull her into a comforting hug.
"I love you guys." Mr Schue muttered and with a hauntingly defeated expression, he stepped away from the piano and moved back towards Coach Beiste.
Just when he thought everything had finally calmed down, it was as though Fate was playing a joke on with them when footsteps could be heard running down the hallway outside. Blaine found himself holding his breath like as though that would prevent anyone outside from knowing their presence as the footsteps grew louder.
Please don't come here. Please don't come here.
But his plea went unheard when the choir room front door suddenly shook loudly, successfully scaring them. Someone clearly was attempting to get into the room. Could it be the shooter? He thought frightfully. He was glad that he had remembered to lock it earlier amidst the chaos just now, but wait, did anyone locked the back door just now? How about the one that goes through Mr Schue's office? He felt his blood went cold when he heard the footsteps again.
There's no mistaking, that person outside was definitely heading to the back door and true to his words, the back door shook with a force. Thankfully it didn't budge. Someone must have locked that one earlier and Blaine couldn't be thankful enough that someone did.
The person outside who had by now already figured out that the choir room doors won't open swiftly ran again and a door outside the corridor could be heard being opened. When the doors were slammed shut, everyone in the room jumped and cringed at the loud bang.
Blaine involuntarily let out a whimper. He heard some gasps coming around the group as the girls broke out into sobs. When all of them were sure that the owner of the footsteps was gone, he heard Jake shushing at the girls and reassuring them that it was okay.
Blaine so much wanted to believe that but when he still couldn't convince himself, he restlessly shut his eyes closed to gain equilibrium of the situation.
"Sam? Sam! What are you doing?" He heard Mr Schue questioning voice and Blaine opened his eyes to see Sam had started crawling across the room towards them and stood up to stand in front of their teacher. "Sam, get down. Get down!"
Mr Schue attempted to push Sam down but for whatever reasons he fought and grabbed on Mr Schue.
Whatever possessed the guy to make him act like that? He wondered. He was shortly answered with Sam's babbling and caught on with the words, "I need to go get Brittany!" and only then did he realized that the blonde girl wasn't there with them.
After some struggling, Mr Schue managed to push Sam to sit beside Blaine. Then a thought occurred to him.
"Tina isn't here either." He muttered and his eyes met with Sam's who had his with full of desperation and resignation. He slowly felt sympathy for his friend. He can only imagine if it was someone he was in love with was not with him in times of dangers like this. He would most probably become hysterical and would do more worse to do whatever it takes to get to the side of the love of his life.
The love of my life... Oh God, Kurt. Blaine thought. What I would do to hear him just one last time...
He clenched his hands and realized his phone was still in his hands and he slowly brought it up and stared at the dark screen.
I know Kurt and I had broken up and maybe he had even started to get a move on with that Adam guy but that doesn't mean I had stopped loving him. And I know I probably shouldn't be in his way but...
Making up his mind, Blaine swiftly unlocked his phone and pressed 3 on his speed dial. Even though they had broken up already for a couple of months, Blaine still couldn't bear to change this. After all, in the deepest depth of his heart, he had silently hoped that they would get back together and also if he did delete Kurt from his speed dial, it would only make his breakup more real and he can't accept that.
"Oh hey, Blaine!" Blaine could immediately felt a sense of relief flooding him as Kurt's cheery voice rang through the small speaker of his phone. Even despite the danger he might be facing now, nothing like Kurt's voice could make him feel like as though everything was going to be all right.
"Kurt?" Blaine's voice trembled. "Kurt, I miss you so much."
"Blaine... I-I miss you too." Kurt replied with a hint of surprise in his voice.
And just like that, Blaine broke into tears. Hearing Kurt makes him think of what he might lose out if he were never to make it out and that thought just destroys him. He's just 17. He was still so young. There's so many things he hasn't do, have not explored and it just won't be fair if they were to die like that, having accomplished nothing.
"Blaine?" Kurt asked hesitantly. "God, Blaine, are you crying?"
"I'm so scared." His voice broke at his admission. "I'm so, so scared, Kurt."
"What is wrong, Blaine? Tell me what is wrong so that I could help you." Kurt said calmly though worry was clear in his voice.
"Apparently there was a gun shot in the school just now and most likely there's a shooter on the loose." He heard Kurt gasped but he continued. "I'm so scared, Kurt. I don't wanna die."
"Blaine, if this is a joke, it isn't funny. You're really freaking me out right now."
Blaine let out a humourless laugh. "I wish it is."
Silence, then. "T-there's really a shooter on the loose in there?"
Blaine nodded and he remembered that Kurt couldn't see him so he muttered an affirmation.
"Oh God, you got to get out of there!" Kurt's voice turned high-pitched started as he probably starts to panic.
"We can't. Mr Schue said it isn't safe to move out there. He told us to hide here and just wait for help."
"Wait for help?" He asked in an incredulous tone. "By the time help came, the shooter could probably already get to you guys! The shooter has a gun, Blaine and even though the room in your room are locked now, he can easily break in by shooting down the knob. You got to get out of there!"
"But I don't wanna move, Kurt. I'm so scared the shooter would find us. I'm so scared." Blaine broke into a sob as he clutched his phone tighter to his ears.
"Shh, honey, it will be alright. Everything will be alright. I-If Mr Schue said so then I'm sure help will come soon. Trust him for that." Kurt soothed.
Blaine sniffed and hugged himself. "I don't know where Tina is, Kurt. She never came for Glee club and I'm worried that something had happened to her."
"I'm sure she is fine. Tina is a strong girl. I know she can take care of herself."
"I'm such a horrible friend. I only realized she wasn't here when Sam told us Brittany wasn't here as well. I feel so selfish, worrying only about myself and people in this room. For all I know, the girls are probably somewhere in school all alone and scared and no one is there to help them."
"Oh, Blaine, you can't help that. If you try to find them, you are mostly putting yourself in danger and that's not helping anyone if you got hurt."
"Are you crazy?" Blaine swivelled his head to see Jake grasping on Kitty as she struggled to get up. Mr Schue was nervously glancing outside the door and turning back to the small commotion as both Marley and Jake tried to pull her back. "Kitty! Kitty!"
Pulling the hands off of her, she scrambled across the floor and flung herself to Unique and Ryder, hugging to them for her dear life as all of them sobbed and attempted to comfort each other by rubbing their hands on each other's back.
And just like that, chaos broke as that seems to push Sam off from his composure as he stood up and jumped towards the door. Blaine tried to pull him down but he turned to give a desperate look to Mr Schuester.
"I gotta go. I gotta go." And Sam kept going on about saving Brittany as he tried pushing his way through Mr Schue. "I don't care. I don't care!"
But Mr Schue and Coach Beiste began to hug him. "Sam, Sam! Stop it! Stop it!"
And all the people in the room began shushing him and sobbing and trembling in fear of the shooter that was still on the loose finding them from the noise they were making.
Blaine whimpered at the sight and Kurt must have heard it as he began muttering soothing words into his ears. "It's alright, sweetie. It's alright."
Mr Schue finally managed to have a steady hold on Sam as he covered Sam's mouth and pulled him over to the piano with the help of Coach Beiste.
"Sam, listen!" Coach Beiste snapped. "You are putting everybody's life in danger. Look at them. Look at them."
Sam's wept as tears flowed down his cheeks, still struggling lightly in Mr Schue's arm.
"Look at them. Sam, it's okay. It's okay, Sam."
When Sam finally calmed down, Mr Schue dropped him beside Blaine again as Blaine pressed his ears into his phone harder just so that he could feel near to him and hear Kurt's voice still soothing him. Even from a far, Kurt managed to calm him down as he slowly breathed in and out to steady his breath just like how Kurt was gently instructing him to.
"Kurt, stay with me until all of this is over?"
"Sure, honey, anything for you."
Blaine let out a soft smile at the endearment. It probably wasn't the best time to notice this type of things but when death could be knocking down at your door any time soon, he would take whatever it is left for him to take. There was a couple of seconds of silence before Blaine spoke again.
"Kurt, I don't know if I can even make it out alive." He started.
"Of course you will, all of will get out there safely." Kurt chided.
Choosing to ignore him, Blaine continued. "And I don't want to lose any more chances to tell you I love you so I'm just going to lay it all out on you now."
He took a shaky breath and he thought he heard a hitch in Kurt's breath.
"Kurt, I know I had never been a good boyfriend to you, especially a long distance one. You had trusted me and I had broken your trust by cheating you and had slept with a guy that I just barely knew on Facebook. God, I felt so stupid, Kurt. Ever since that had happened, every single day of my life, I have regretted ever hurting you that way. You don't deserve that Kurt. You were the greatest thing that had ever happened to me and I had let my insecurity get the best of me and let you slip away by hurting you. How could I be so stupid? I know I had said sorry a million of times and you probably are already sick of hearing it by now but this might be the last chance I get to say this to you so I'm so sorry Kurt. Please forgive me. Ever since you left, my life had been nothing but miserable and empty. I would do anything and everything to get you back into my life but I know it wouldn't be that easy for you to just let me back in. But I love you, Kurt. I had loved you when I met you at the staircase for the first time. I had loved you when you had confessed to me at the Lima Bean during Valentine's Day. I have loved you during all the times we have explored our first times together. And even now that we had broken up, I had never stopped loving you. You are still the love of my life, Kurt, and I just want you to know that I love you, so, so much. Please forgive me, Kurt."
Kurt let out a sob as he listened to his ex-boyfriend's apology. It sounded so much like a goodbye speech and he hated to think that he might not have a chance to meet with his best friend for the last time ever again.
Kurt's voice trembled as he replied. "I-I forgive you, Blaine but can you please don't speak like as though we are n-not going to s-see each other again?"
"But—"
"No." Kurt said firmly but shakily in between sobs. "Have you forgotten that I will never say goodbye to you? Even when we broke up, I never even did say that. So I won't make this into the first time."
"I love you so much, Kurt."
"I love you too." Kurt's voice broke in the last words as Blaine could hear his soft sniffles through the line. "Blaine?"
"Hmm?"
"I'm going to book a flight back home now. When you get out of there, we are going to have a talk and we would solve this problem between us, will that be okay?"
"Solve this problem? Do you mean...?" Blaine's heart began to accelerate and this time, it was because of a different reason that is potentially good.
"It is exactly what you think it is but we have to talk first and to talk, you need to stay alive so don't go dying on me, Blaine. If not I'm never going to forgive you this time. Do you hear me, hobbit?"
Blaine laughed at the nickname as he nodded in between tears. "Yeah, sure. I will stay alive for you. I would do anything to see you again. I love you, Kurt."
"I love you too, Blaine. Now you better keep your promise. I'm packing right now."
Blaine smiled happily despite him still being in probable danger, the thought of having Kurt back drove him to stay alive and positive. This was no time to be scared. He needs to live through this. Even though the situation seems bleak right now, he gathered everything he needs to keep on going. Hope. Strength. Courage. Whatever it takes, he will get through this alive and when all of this is finally over, he would then be able to go back safely into Kurt's arms.
A/N: Please do review and tell me what you guys think of it! If you guys didn't have enough of Kurt and Blaine, I had a multi-chapter story going on that is called How To Save A Life. Do check it out! Thank you for reading!
