Hi! This is something that I started working on today. It's the first fic that I've posted in a while, although I've written a few (that might get posted eventually). I hope you guys like this, let me know what you think!


Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with this. I don't even own the idea, I got it from a Tumblr post. So yeah.


"Senator Anderson! What are your views on marriage equality?"

Blaine moved out of the way swiftly as a very loud, very nosy reporter shoved a microphone in his father's face. He saw his father's face screw up at the question.

"It's despicable. Marriage is meant for one man and one woman, not two people of the same gender."

Blaine stared at his feet silently, not saying anything. He was used to his father's homophobic attitude. His father suddenly waved the reporter away and began to walk inside the building, Blaine's mother on his arm. Blaine followed quickly, with his brother Cooper walking swiftly behind him. Blaine saw a lot of cameras flashing and tried hard to shield his sensitive eyes. He put a hand over his eyes and quickened his pace, speedwalking into the debate hall with his family. The family made their way to their seats and sat down, waiting patiently or in Blaine's father's case, impatiently for the debate to start.


Senator Hummel entered not long after, with his wife, son and stepson. The man and his family took their seats. It was 6:55pm, and the debate was set to start at 7:00pm and end sometime around 11:00pm. The audience milled around and tried to find seats. As soon as the clock struck seven, there was silence as everyone made their way back to their seats and sat down. A throat was cleared loudly as a woman on stage began to speak.

"I welcome you all to our first annual Presidential debate of 2012. Now give our candidates, Senators Hummel and Anderson, a round of applause."

Senator Hummel smiled warmly at the audience, whilst Blaine's father sat stone faced.

"Now, to kick off the debate, I would like to hear your views on equality for women. Senator Anderson, please start us off with your argument."

Senator Anderson stood up, and Blaine sighed and tuned out of the debate. He knew that his father was only going to make a fool of himself with his backwards views. Blaine had mastered the art of pretending to look interested through his father's many boring dinner parties. He looked over at Senator Hummel and noticed, for the first time, just how attractive his son was. Blaine's breath caught in his throat and his eyes widened as he took in the boy. He was pale, with flawless skin and perfectly styled chesnut hair. He was tall and thin, and wore fashionable clothing. Blaine had never seen anyone more perfect. He noticed the boy roll his eyes at something that his father was saying and blushed. The boy glanced over at Blaine by chance, and looked startled to see Blaine staring at him already. Blaine blushed even deeper and tore his eyes away, suddenly staring at his feet. He glanced up to see the boy frown and look away, back to Blaine's father.


A few hours later found the debate come across the topic of marriage equality. It was no secret that Blaine's father was strongly against marriage equality, and that Senator Hummel was strongly for it. The two men argued for a while, before Senator Hummel said the wrong thing.

"What if one of your sons wanted to marry another man, Anderson?" he challenged. Senator Anderson's eyes bugged out of his head and his face began to turn red with rage. Blaine froze, his eyes widening.

"How dare you!" his father yelled, "how dare you call my sons gay! My sons are normal! They would never try to marry another man!"

By this point Blaine was shaking. He hated it when his father was angry, because his father was a violent person. A violent person who normally took his anger out on Blaine. His dad had never hit Cooper in his life, because Cooper was the golden boy. Cooper was planned. Blaine was what his mother fondly referred to as a "surprise", and what his father icily referred to as an "accident." Since Blaine had taken up boxing two years ago, his father had slowly stopped hitting him as much, focusing more on his political life. Blaine looked up and saw Senator Hummel's son looking at him curiously from across the debate hall, and he realised how terrified he must look. Anyone with a brain could have put two and two together and discovered Blaine's secret. Blaine hurriedly pulled himself together, throwing up the walls and putting on the mask that he had perfected over the years. The woman who had introduced the debate cut Blaine's father off and swiftly announced that the debate was over. The audience began to leave as Blaine's mother stood up and tried to comfort his seething father. Blaine sat where he was, staring at his feet. Cooper sat, emotionless, in the seat next to him.

"Ready to go, Blaine?" he asked. Blaine nodded shakily and the two boys got to their feet. Blaine looked over at Senator Hummel, who was talking to his wife. He noticed his son and hulking stepson talking and laughing at something. Blaine decided to go over and introduce himself.

"I'll be back in a minute," he said to Cooper, before beginning to walk over to the other side of the hall.

"Wait, where are you going?" Cooper asked.

"To introduce myself," Blaine replied over his shoulder. Cooper's eyes widened and he began to walk after his brother.

"Blaine, wait, stop," he called. He reached Blaine just as Blaine reached the two boys.

The boys looked at Blaine with what could only be called distaste. Cooper placed a hand on Blaine's shoulder protectively.

"What do you want?" the tall stepson asked. Blaine gave the boys his best winning, private school boy smile.

"I just came over to say hi and to introduce myself. I'm Blaine Anderson, and this is my brother Cooper."

Blaine stuck out a hand. Both boys looked at it, and Blaine was about to withdraw it as the son grabbed it and shook it quickly.

"Kurt Hummel. This is my stepbrother, Finn Hudson," he said with an air of coldness.

"Kurt," Blaine tested the feel of the name on his tongue, "that's a nice name."

Kurt shot him a weird look and raised an eyebrow. Blaine realised how stupid he had sounded and blushed.

"So, um, interesting debate, huh?" he asked sarcastically.

"Extremely," Kurt replied, his eyes narrowed as he looked at Blaine.

"I really liked what your dad had to say about a lot of stuff," Blaine tried. Kurt's eyes narrowed even further.

"What do you want, Anderson?" he spat. Blaine held up his hands.

"I-I don't want anything! I just thought that maybe we could be friends or someth-"

"You thought that we could be friends?" Kurt asked incredulously, his voice raising and getting slightly higher in pitch as he went on, "my dad and your dad are from different political parties, with entirely different views, and are running for President, against each other, and you want to be friends? What, did you think the four of us could just sit in the corner and have a freaking tea party whilst our dads shouted abuse at each other!? You don't like us, and we don't like you, Anderson-"

"That's enough," Cooper interrupted, an air of authority in his voice. Kurt stopped, breathing heavily, scowling at Blaine and Cooper. Finn stood, looking from Kurt to the Andersons and back, not sure what to say or do.

"Just because my dad believes that things should be a certain way, doesn't mean I do," Blaine said quietly, "come on Coop. Let's just leave."

Blaine sounded and looked defeated. He turned away and walked back to his parents. Cooper looked at Kurt and shook his head disapprovingly before following his brother.


So um...I haven't posted anything in a long time...and I'm sorry. I'll try my best to update this regularly.

I really hope that you like this, and it would mean a lot to me if you reviewed. Thank you so much for reading and thanks to Kelsie for encouraging me to post this. :)

~Rachael. :)