Name: A Fallen Star
Characters/Pairings: Kurt, Kurt/Glee Club friendship, eventualKurt/Puck slash
Summary: After an accident involving Kurt and Karofsky at his dad's auto shop, Kurt faces a long recovery
Author's Note: I'm practically getting flooded by ideas for Glee fanfics. Sorry it's short. Title comes from "The End" by The Butterfly Effect
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Burt Hummel glanced at his son, a confused expression on his face, as a large van, followed by a beaten-up car pulled up in the car park of his auto shop. Kurt didn't notice, ear buds in, stretching to reach something in the engine he was currently working on, swaying slightly to the music only he could hear. He watched as teenagers started pouring out of the van and car, some moving to the back of the van.
He walked over to his son, glancing over his shoulder as the teens entered the garage, laughing and joking around. He recognised them as Kurt's Glee friends and turned back to Kurt. He tapped his son on the shoulder and Kurt looked up. He spotted the teens who were standing awkwardly in the large doorway of the garage and instantly broke into a grin, pulling out his ear buds.
"Don't be too long." Burt warned, smiling softly as he disappeared to the office, waving at the kids as they yelled their greetings.
"Hey white boy," Mercedes grinned as he walked up to them, linking arms with him and dragging him to the middle of the garage where the ten other teens stood waiting. He glanced around at them. All were dressed in what was obviously not their best clothes. "Since you couldn't make it to Glee practise and since your dad needs help at the shop, we figured we'd help you out white boy." Kurt glanced around at his fellow Glee members, smiling.
"Do you guys know anything about cars?" Kurt asked cautiously. Puck smirked.
"Kurt Hummel asking Puck the badass if he knows about cars?" Puck replied. "This just keeps getting weirder." He added, glancing Kurt up and down which instantly made Kurt self-conscious since he was wearing a grease covered pair of overalls with a white shirt underneath. He was pretty sure he'd gotten grease on his face and it certainly covered his hands. Kurt raised an eyebrow to hide his self-consciousness. Mercedes tugged on Kurt's arm.
"Doesn't matter boy," she said. "Just show us what to do and we'll do it."
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Four hours later, Kurt and Burt had finally convinced the Glee Club to take their well deserved- for some anyway- break. Burt had emerged at seven, alarmed to discover the teens still at work, Kurt underneath and Mike working on an old SUV chattering, Santana, Brittany and Quinn cleaning another nearby car, whilst Finn and Putt were preparing to change a third car's tyre and Rachel, Mercedes and Matt were cleaning up the garage. He'd called a stop to work and he and Kurt convinced the Gleeks to retire to the break room.
Burt watched as his son waved of his chattering friends, brushing off their efforts to help him as they made their way through the office to the break room. He was about to take a step toward his son when the phone rang, interrupting him. He watched his son slide back under the SUV, ready to finish a few things and he disappeared back into the office, taking the phone out back so he could hear over the teenagers.
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Kurt watched from underneath the car as his dad disappeared back into the office. He was only planning to adjust one last thing before he joined his friends and he moved to the right slightly to get a better look. He was focusing on the car when he heard the sounds of footsteps. He figured they were Finn's or his dad's so he continued working before pushing himself out slightly he heard a snigger. He turned to find Dave Karofsky crouching down.
"They let fags work in auto shops do they now?" He laughed. "Or do you just do this to perv on the guyss that come through?" Kurt was about to make a witty remark when a dark look came over Karofsky's face, a look that scared him. He started to slide out from underneath the car.
Suddenly Karofsky punched him and he lost his focus. Then he heard Karofsky laugh before he realised Karofsky was by the jack holding the car up and before Kurt could say anything, Karofsky kicked it, hard, a few times and within a few seconds the jack failed and the car dropped. Kurt screamed, pain engulfing him.