Disclaimer: I do not own Glee.
A/N: So here is how I wish that Romeo and Juliet tribute on the show had gone down, so much potential in it, I was disappointed by how little the show did with it.
The Person I Love
Just as Kurt is about to say his first line „Excuse me," a voice can be heard from off stage, „can I speak to Rachel and Kurt for a minute."
"Blaine?" Kurt says, as his boyfriend takes a few tentative steps unto the stage, placing himself in view of Coach Biest, Artie and Miss Pillsbury.
"Sure Blaine, our schedule isn't that packed," Coach Biest says, sporting a slightly confused expression.
"Great, thank you," Blaine answers before turning back to the two performers looking at him completely baffled.
"What are you doing?" Kurt whispers to Blaine as he catches up with his boyfriend already half-way back into the wings of the stage.
Rachel is surprisingly quiet, and Kurt cannot help but think that it has to do with the fact that she too, even she, is uncertain about what they were just about to perform on stage, and Kurt does not know whether to feel angry or sad.
Blaine stops in one of the small dressing rooms adjoining the stage, where they are out of earshot of the directors.
He heaves a sigh before turning to his boyfriend, "Kurt, let me play the lead opposite you. I would say let me play your Juliet, or let me play your female lead, but that would give absolutely the wrong impression of what this is about, to me; and to you, I hope."
"Blaine, you cannot play Juliet," Rachel says completely in shock.
"Rachel, please," Blaine holds up a hand to stop the ramble, which he can already sense Rachel being about to launch herself into, "that is exactly the point."
"What are you…" Kurt tries to ask, but is instantly interrupted by Blaine.
"Kurt, Rachel is a person, I am a person, You are a person, it should not matter, even when playing a part, especially when playing parts written to reveal a person, not showcast a shell. Isn't that what all of Shakespeare's work is about, isn't that what especially Romeo and Juliet and therefore West Side Story, what Maria and Antonio are about? I want to play your lover, and I want you to play mine. I know you can play Tony, I know I can play Tony, and I know Rachel could play Tony if she would put her mind to it. Let me help show others, the directors, that it is the emotions conveyed and the person portrayed with the words given that matter. Let me play a lover, your lover, the lover to your lover. That is what West Side Story is about, loving means taking risks, inspiring each other enough to dare take risks others would never dare…"
Kurt grabs onto Blaine, whispers "Shut up," and kisses him deep but softly, and as he pulls away the tears begin streaming down his face "Blaine, how are you such…"
"…a beautiful person?" Blaine completes it as a question, and Kurt just stands there, hands still softly resting against Blaine's chest.
Blaine smiles "Well, last year a boy came to my school, and he tried to spy on my then Glee Club, we became friends and then lovers, and I learned a lot from him over the summer. He is the most beautiful, amazing person I have ever known."
Kurt smiles and is about to lean back in for another kiss "Kids? Can we go on now with the audition?" Coach Biest's voice can be heard, the way it sounds she must be about to come backstage to look for them herself.
"One moment, we will be right out," Rachel says before turning back to the boys asking "So how do you two want to do this?"
"We need to make them see that the characters are not about their appearances, so Kurt I want you to lose the costume."
"Okay," Kurt says before darting of, Blaine assumes to get changed.
"Blaine?" Rachel says and the boy turns back toward her after watching Kurt disappear out the stage door "You are amazing, my dads will be so excited to hear about this when I get home. What can I do to help?"
"I almost feel bad asking you this, but seeing how it is way too late to run the lines, I think I know most of them anyway, but would you terribly mind being my prompter for this; I could really need the reassurance of knowing you are there."
"With what you are doing for Kurt here, I would agree to pretty much any request from you right now."
"Thank you, Rachel."
"You know, in shakespearean times all the female leads were played by men, women were not even allowed to act at all."
"Wow, no I did not know that, do you think that changes anything for what I have planned here?"
"No Blaine, no. If you were playing Romeo and Kurt playing Juliet maybe, but not with the distribution of parts you have chosen. Do you know how romantic that is, you asking Kurt to play your lover and you offering to play his!"
"Yeah, I guess, I never thought about it that way when I came up with it though."
"Oh, it is. Very romantic," Kurt says, appearing next to Blaine, dressed in what he has been wearing all day to school anyway, white boots, black skinny jeans, a white button-down and a vest with a black and white pattern on the front and a silver lined back.
Blaine is wearing black, somewhat loser jeans himself, a simple dark green t-shirt and converses, one yellow, one turquois.
"Ready?" Blaine says with flushed cheeks.
"Ready."
As all three of them walk back on stage, from the right side, with only Rachel still in costume, PAB look thrown for a moment.
"Okay, soooo?" Miss Pillsbury asks, eyes wide, and Kurt is instantly reminded of the short period of time in which he felt so desperate for some kind of happy feeling that he tried getting drunk before school. He also rememberes, too vividly actually, how that ended.
Blaine notices Kurt's pained look, so he takes his boyfriend's right hand in his own left, whispering "You okay?"
"I feel queasy."
"It will be fine Kurt, I love you.
"Love you too." Blaine smiles adding, "See, those parts where paractically written for us." And Kurt relaxes and even laughs at that. Blaine thinks to himself that probably nothing will ever make him as happy as hearing a genuine laugh from Kurt's lips.
They are taken out of their moment by Coach Biest's voice "What is going on kids?"
"Slight change of plans for this audition," Rachel pipes up then turns to Kurt and Blaine mouthing "I will be right over here for all of it, don't worry," shortly disappearing of stage, on the left, before returning with her copy of the play – 'one has to look professional, even as a prompter' Rachel thinks to herself – and a chair, placing it a good distance away from the improvised bed her and Kurt had arranged earlier for this scene.