A/N: This is a little Thank You! to every single one of you who reviewed. Well, except for that one Guest who had apparently nothing better to do than push the review button to basically call me, well, all sorts of things, really.
I hope you, who enjoyed and loved the story, will like this little extra piece of fluff just as much as the previous chapter.
xo M
To the reviewers without an account on here, I still wanted to answer, so here it goes:
To the guest who signed Melanie – I too have the biggest issue with Blaine apparently cheating after such a short amount of time apart. Just seems so strange to me. Thank you for reading both Broken and Broken?, I loved writing them, well, I NEEDED to write them for my own sanity's sake after the episode. You can vent to me any time you want, Sweety. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. I am a lonely Gleek in a far away country and talking to people like you often makes my day.
To the Guest who credits me with his/her new headcanon: My absolute pleasure, so happy to hear you liked it so very much.
To the guestwho used the word lovely in relation to my story: I looooove that word. Thank you for being such a sweetheart.
To the guest who signed Becca – Thank you to you too for using the word lovely. I really never seem to get enough of that. I thought so too, Blaine would so be like that, be so very hard on himself, and feel like he has done so so very wrong. I love your review. Thank you, so so good to know someone shares my idea of Blaine in that way.
Chapter Two
Saying goodbye this time is even harder than it had been in Lima. Kurt has to get to work, Blaine to the airport.
"I wish I could take you."
"Me too," Blaine breathes back as they stand hugging tightly in front of Kurt's building.
"I promise I'll try harder to listen not just talk," Kurt murmurs into the fabric of Blaine's jacket as he pulls him closer still, not wanting to let go."Please promise you will spend more time around my family's house, Carole is there most of the time even when my dad isn't. And Sam is there too. And you can always sleep in my room whenever things at home get too much."
Blaine wordlessly nods into Kurt's embrace, then chokes out an, "I will, I promise. And I won't ever do anything like that again. Ever. Please believe me?"
Kurt pulls back, and takes Blaine's face in both his hands, "I do." Then he kisses him deeply, right there on the sidewalk.
Blaine is at first taken aback, 'Kurt has never wanted me to kiss him in public.' But remembering his Christmas promise he leans in, arms coming around Kurt's waist.
When they break apart they are both panting, both smiling too, foreheads coming to rest together, Blaine's arms still wound tightly around Kurt's middle, Kurt's fingertips still caressing Blaine's features.
"Will it get harder to say goodbye every single time?" Blaine asks.
"Gosh, I hope not," Kurt breathes back.
"Do you …," Blaine breaks off before he has the question out.
"Yes?" Kurt encourages, tilting his head down a little to try and catch Blaine's eyes.
It is a whisper as it leaves Blaine's throat, "Do you still want me to come back in two weeks? I do have the tickets."
"Blaine."
And then he looks up and their eyes fully meat, Blaine's are full of uncertainty.
"Of course I want you back here. Of course I do."
"I'm still so sorry. I'll always be sorry." Blaine says, heavy tears filling his eyes, brimming over.
"I know you are, okay? I do. And ..., please don't be. Don't beat yourself up. We both have things to be sorry for and that is just how relationships work, they include that stuff we are sorry for. I don't want us to hold it against each other, not for a second more. Okay?"
"Okay."
Kurt leans in for another kiss, and when they break part this time Kurt places another to Blaine's nose and one to his forehead, murmurs sweetly "I love you" into Blaine's skin, and runs a hand through Blaine's free curls one last time. "I'll see you in two weeks from now. And we have a phone date tonight, right?"
Blaine pulls Kurt into another bone crushing hug, " Yes. Yes, we do. I love you," before he lets go for what he hopes will be two very short weeks.
As Kurt walks away he pulls out his phone.
"Dad? Hi. I need a favor from you. Could you make sure you and Carole have Blaine over for dinner as often as you can?"
"Sure, Kiddo. But I am these days only in Lima Fridays and Saturdays, on Holidays, but I will pass it on to Carole too, yes?"
"Thank you. He just. I just saw him. He came to visit me early in New York."
"That's great, Kiddo."
"Yeah. I just, he is …, could you two just hug him for me sometimes, let him stay in my room?"
"Everything okay, Kurt?"
Kurt has to smile, his dad only ever calls him by his name when he senses things are serious.
"He … he needs a home away from his father sometimes. Is that okay?"
"You know, Kurt, I had a key made for him last year already, but you two always were together coming home so I ended up keeping it. Do you think he would still want it?"
"I think he would love that, Dad. I had no idea. Thank you so much. I love you."
"Love you too, Kiddo."
A/N:
Yep:) Some Burt loveliness here too.
I purposefully put this at the very end, so all you lovely people can just forego reading it if you want to, because this goes out to that one reviewer, you know who you are, although I don't since you would not even leave any indication of that, which is of course oh so brave:
To the Guest insulting me – I thought I explained Blaine's behavior, as you call it, by providing insight into its sources. And he says sorry in my story several times, in different maybe for you far too subtle kinds of ways. I am not one for spelling everything out with a sledgehammer as a writer, if you are looking for him lying on his knees begging for forgiveness, you will have to go look for it somewhere else than in my writing. I don't see Blaine as manipulative at all in my story, Blaine to me has always been a very emotional character who does not hold back around the people he truly loves, but is honest with his emotions, with Kurt first and foremost, especially since that talk they had in Miss Pillsbury's office. I to be honest would not even know where to start looking for someone blaming someone for anything in my story. They are trying to communicate after both have been deeply hurt. Do I as a writer think that not everything is as black and white as it appeared to be on the show in a lot of moments? Absolutely! Kurt has done wrong by Blaine too. Cheating is not the one thing that breaks up relationships, you know! Please go somewhere else to find the shallow writing you seem to be looking for.
Kind regards, AweSoMeLAgain
P.S: Thank you for challenging me to have a good hard think about my story, it really helps me grow as a writer.
