Title: a way home: Kurt
Author: zombie otep
Disclaimer: not mine obviously
Summery: when Brittany refuses a lift home it leads to revelations that wanted to be kept hidden. Based on a prompt I read somewhere age's ago
Author note: so I completely forgot to mention in the last chapter that thisAU set in season 2 but there was no bartie, no brittana locker scenes and we have never been to Brittany's house.
So the general idea is every chapter will be about each member of the club as they try to find ways to help or comfort Brittany, some in there own misguided ways. As I plan on changing the character setting each chapter depending on who is in it, I'd suggest story alerting if you're interested in following.
And thanks to boredsenseless2 for the suggestion of a beta to help with my editing a dyslexia, I'm still looking for one so until then all mistakes are mine
If it's one thing Kurt new, it was shopping.
To Kurt shopping was a cure for all life's problems. A session of retail therapy could calm Kurt and take his mind off whatever was bothering him.
At least that's what he used to think.
It had been two weeks since Brittany's situation had come to light and not even maxing out his credit card could put Kurt's mind at ease over Brittany's predicament. Kurt had never really taken the blond seriously and sure he made his fair share of underhanded comments on her intelligence, but even with all his snarky and sarcastic comments Brittany had been nothing but nice to him, complementing his clothes, his hair and offering to teach him the single ladies routine. No one deserved to be thrown out on the streets least of all Brittany. Especially not Brittany.
All of new directions promised to find ways to help Brittany, and so far Santana was the only one following through by having Brittany over practically every night for dinner and having her over every weekend. And Kurt like most of the other glee members didn't know what to do for her, no matter how small to make her life easier.
So here Kurt was again for the fifth time in two weeks, at the mall shopping.
Shopping
'That's it!' he thought, he could treat Brittany to a day of shopping, get her some new outfits to replace all her charity hand me downs.
'Fabulous'
*Glee*glee*glee*
Convincing Brittany to a day of shopping was actually quite easy. Convincing Santana was another thing.
"The only reason I'm not coming with you is because I have to go to my grandparents" both he and Santana were sitting on her bed while Brittany was in the shower.
"I know, I know. But this will be good for both of you. You've been by her side constantly for over 2 weeks, a little space won't hurt"
Santana rounded on Kurt angrily "Brittany doesn't need space, she needs me. Why can't any one see that?" as she turned away from Kurt she whispered "why can't my parents see that?"
"they do" Kurt took a hold of the Latina's hand "they love Brittany as much as you, but they know they can't legally take care of her but at least they let her over as much as they do."
She turned back towards Kurt with a sigh "I know, I just wish I could do more"
Kurt gave her hand a squeeze as Brittany came out of the bathroom with a huge grin "I'm ready. I've got enough money saved up for a new hat. I hope I can find one with bunny ears"
Kurt smiled at the excited blond "I'm sure we can find you something B."
"Okay a few ground rules before you leave" Santana stated while straightening Brittany's purple cowboy hat "Brittany no wondering of from Kurt, I'm sure he won't mind going to the pet shop with you." Turning to Kurt "don't let her eat anything with mushrooms, she's allergic. Now since I'm not gonna be back till tomorrow afternoon, she need's to be dropped of at Tina's by 5 and everything she needs is in her back pack. Got that?"
"don't worry san" Brittany said giving her best friend a hug "we're just going shopping, and I like going to Tina's, her dads an awesome cook, and they let me cuddle there dog when I can't sleep"
"I know, I'm sorry. I'll call you later tonight and as soon as I get back tomorrow and we can watch that care bear show as much as you want."
"Awesome"
"Sani we are ready to go" and older but no less stunning Latina poked her head through the door. "You know it's along drive and your father likes to leave early. Oh hello Kurt"
"Good morning Mrs. Lopez"
"Hi Maryann, me and Kurt are going shopping today" Brittany informed her excitedly
"That's great honey, I can't wait to hear all about it tomorrow afternoon" she smiled at the blond affectionately before turning to her daughter "your father and Andrew are already in the car so get your things and let's go." Before leaving she leans in to hug Brittany and gives her a kiss on the cheek "Have fun at Tina's tonight sweetheart. 5 minutes sani"
Sighing the brunette grabbed her phone and bag of her dresser before grabbing Brittney's backpack and handing it to Kurt. She then took hold of the blonds hand and led her out the door. "Come on Britt's you can walk me out before Kurt treats you to breakfast"
"Hey!"
Gleegleeglee
"That retro head phone singlet top would go great with those leggings don't you think"
Brittany and Kurt had been wandering around the mall for almost two hours now and Brittany was starting to get tired. And so far Kurt had done nothing but look at different skirts, dressers and other women's clothes.
"Kurt, you are a boy right?"
Kurt stopped not only mid sentence and mid step but also looked as if his eyes were about to pop out of his head. "w-w-what" he stuttered "of course I am, what makes you think other wise"
"Well you keep looking at girl stuff, so, I don't know, I thought maybe you were a girl"
"No boo I'm looking at clothes for you"
"Why? I've only got a little bit of money and I'm saving that for a new hat"
Kurt takes a hold of Brittany's hand and gives her a smile "because I thought you could use some new things. Some clothes that are more stylish, more new"
Brittany just shakes her head and turns to leave the shop. Kurt not expecting that action from the blond, stood stunned for a few moments before taking off to catch up with Brittany. She hadn't gotten far and he easily caught up to her just outside of the shop they had just been in. "Brittany wait up. What's wrong?"
Brittany turned at his voice and for the first time since he's known the blond, she had something other then a smile or a vacant look on her face. She looked annoyed.
"I never told anyone for this reason, I don't want your pity. I don't need your pity."
"Brittany I . . ."
"No. I don't want to do this I want to go home" Brittany was getting agitated
"Brittany, honey, please I'm sorry. I never wanted to make you upset. I – I just wanted to do something for you, make you feel special." Kurt had never felt more bad before in his life
"I don't need clothes, I have clothes, see" Brittany motions to herself
"I know I just thought some new clothes would be good, a new wardrobe always makes me feel good"
"I'm used to hand me downs Kurt. And you've never had a problem with what I wore before. I make do, I've always made do. I at least I get what I need now and if something breaks or doesn't fit I get new ones, like shoes, at least they replace my shoes"
Kurt didn't know what to say. He felt terrible not just for how he made Brittany feel, also the thought of Brittany not being able to have access to necessary things in life. Kurt took clothes for granted, saw fashion as an art form, but for some it was more then that.
"I'm sorry Britt's, I never meant to hurt your feelings, and I just wanted to help" he pulled Brittany into a hug "we all just want to help."
"I know."
"Come on, lets go see if we can find you your kitty eared beanie"
"Okay. Then can we get ice cream?"
Kurt turned to smile and the blond, glad to see her back to her usual self "sure and if I just so happen to buy a shirt that's more your size then mine then so be it"
"I don't know what your talking about, but yay ice cream" Brittany cheered
Kurt just smile and kissed Brittany's cheek. Yeah shopping made everything better.
Gleegleeglee
An: okay so I have plans for all the glee members except for puck, Sam, Finn and artie, so if any one has any ideas let me know in a review or even pm me. Anything from a line of dialog to a small prompt would be awesome on something they can do to help Brittany no matter how miss guided. So yeah hope you enjoyed.