A/N: It's been forever I know, but this was a back burner fic as I had told you before but now...it's coming to an end. I had written a few chapters of this a head of time, but I felt like I was beating a dead horse. So...these scenes just popped in my head and it fell into place. It's short but I think you'll like the tie ins. This is the end of this verse kids, happy Glee day, happy Klaine week. Enjoy my fluffy end and see the end notes before you leave. Muah! xoxo


Unexpected Perfection


Chapter 3 – Such Great Heights

(CPOV)

*Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap*

Yes I had been writing, well actually I was currently writing but when was I ever not? This whole honeymoon had been filled with adventure and excitement, love and lust, and lots of time to reflect and create. In my case, I had taken the time we hadn't invested in each other and used them to help fuel my new movie script on occasion and Darren had been writing songs and creating his own version of musical solidarity.

But now that I wasn't writing the psychological drama, now, I was recounting each and every precious memory that had happened in the last 10 days. It wasn't my original idea to write down what we had done in any detail throughout the duration of this trip, but a comment that was made on the fifth day of our honeymoon, on the night we finally watched the videos that our friends had given us on our wedding day, something sparked in me to write down all of the memories. So that's what I was doing.

I remember the night well, one where Dare and I sat cuddled, obviously still naked and basking in a glow, that for our trip, seemed ever present, as we pulled my laptop closer to us and pressed play.

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Ashley and Mark's faces had popped up yet again...it seemed our two friends had taken it upon themselves to be the commentators for this particular disc.

"Hey fellas! I'm glad you unwrapped yourselves long enough to actually acknowledge this little thing."

Mark had said this with his usual smirk and I guess the big guy really did know me too well because a very naked Darren curled into my chest just laughed at the irony.

"Anyways, I've said my piece about you guys a few times, and if my level of awesome is anything to go by, I'm sure my wedding speech was articulate n' shit too." Ash over shadowed everything Mark said with nods until she cut him off.

"And Chris sweetie you know I love you, and as much as I would have loved to be your beard I think and I know, that you are meant to be with the hobbit. Hi by the way Dare, you lucky bastard."

"Anyways what my lovely counterpart Ms. Fink is trying to say is that these messages are from your friends, your family and basically anyone that wanted to tell you both that you are loved. It's not long but it gets the point across. So sit back and enjoy this fluffy crap before you go back to inhaling each other like you rightfully should on your honeymoon boys! Bye fuckers! We love you babes!"

With that they had faded the screen only to be replaced by one amazing person after the next, saying things that made us both hold each other closer and smile. It was only once Cory popped up with a shy smile, did we notice the change in tone of the message.

"Hey guys, I hope you're having fun disappearing from the radar for a while, you both deserve it more than any other two men around here. I could be like everyone else and say that I'm so happy for the both of you, and that I can't wait until we get the chance to hang out again but that should be a give in by now, you're both like brothers to me and Lea, but I wanted to take this time to be slightly serious for a moment."

Cory did have these moments where he was intensely serious, his past coming back to shine through his sweet exterior like a haunted ghost that he carried with him always. Unlike Darren I knew this shadow, I had one of my own.

"It's cliché to say, but everything happens for a reason. Chris I know that you know what I went through before I found acting and cleaned myself up, but Darren like almost everyone else, you only know the basics. Well, Dare I was a consumer. Anything that helped erase the pain and rebellion of a youth I chose to forget, was what I did man. I hadn't found an outlet until much later in my youth to help rid the loneliness I felt in my own skin. It was fucking hard man. I had a police record for minor shit, I was loaded a lot of the time, but it was only when I found acting did I really connect with anything again. I had always used music to escape but it was never enough I guess. I didn't think I had a good voice, but I loved to play the drums, but you can only beat up an instrument so much and it be therapeutic."

Cory sighed and ran his hand through his usual coif. Lea appeared beside him from somewhere off camera and gave him a peck on the cheek before blowing a kiss in our direction. That one little peck relaxed Cory, as if numbing the demons that made him halt his words.

"So...I found my outlet. The combination of acting and really taking it seriously, finishing school, and then finding Glee, and true friends really straightened out my shit. I talk a good game, you know this Chris, but until I met Lea and really let myself love her despite all my misgivings about baggage, did I come to the conclusion that life if too fucking short to not take notice of the things we hold dear. So what I'm saying is...grab those fucking horns and never let go guys.

"Dare you're an awesome guy, keep writing your music and never let anyone tell you that you shouldn't just sing in the shower like a 5 years old. Go so far as to dedicate it to your rubber duck cuz it's stupid, because it's a memory that's fond, and fun and happy. Chris write down every fucking thing that pops in your head. I know you do already, but your words are so much of who you are man, that even forgetting one thing is a regret. BE happy guys, just don't think you are. Do stupid shit for no reason.

"Eat an entire brick of cheese for dinner just because you want to, go to a hockey game even if you prefer football or have no interest, just feel the adrenaline in a crowd that's for once not direct at us. Climb a mountain because its there, don't think I don't know you guys are close to where I grew up and I know there's mountains to conquer there..just BE guys! I love you both, so much more than anything and anyone I ever thought this Canadian boy deserved, and I want to make sure you guys know how lucky you are.

"Luck is a strange word. People throw it around so easy, much like love I guess. You may have luck but it's not always good. I don't really believe in luck, that was until I met you Chris and everyone that I work with now. I'm lucky to have known and know you guys, and my advice is to record the good luck with happy memories. Make lots and never forget them. I know this is a little heavy but you mean so much to me, and I felt like I would never get this out at your wedding so...here it is. Live life to the fullest and never forget the good times, and use each day as a gift, because that's what it is. I love you both, and make sure to slot some time for karaoke and bowling when you get back, I still need to kick Darren's ass for the schooling him and Chord gave me a few weeks ago. Go create your lives together guys, I'll be here waiting to hear all about it. Love you."

Cory's was the last entry on the disc, and it was a good thing because as Ash and Mark waved profanities and love at us as the screen went black, I don't think that either one of us could fathom or register anything else after Cory's emotional speech.

After a few minutes I closed my laptop and pulled a silently tearing Darren closer and breathed in the scent that I always considered a smell of comfort and home. We had held each other for a quite a while without saying much of anything, we were just being.

"What are you thinking tesoro?"

The pet name brought out a smile that I felt all the way to my ears. Darren had said there was one more surprise that we would be doing tomorrow when we got to Juneau and now that I had watched Cory's little video, I had a feeling what Darren had planned.

"I'm think we should go climb a mountain...just because we can."

Darren had smiled so wide that I could feel it against my chest, I didn't even have to look at him.

"I love you Chris."

"I will always love you Dare."

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Once I had gotten over the view, okay who was I kidding I couldn't get over the view, I was on top of a freaking glacier, after having been taken up here by helicopter, and I had nearly shit my pants from the sheer awesomeness of it all.

The helicopter had swooped up over the mountains, and the ride from the warm Juneau airport across the green coastal mountains to the ice fields and Mendenhall Glacier had taken only a few minutes. The helicopter floated up and over the mountains, and we marvelled at the striking whiteness of the Juneau ice fields below. The whole experience was much like an IMAX movie, only we were part of it. This was what Darren had done to cap off our trip in epic fashion, and it was ironically exactly what Cory had been talking about. Doing shit for the sheer point of it.

Once we were up there, bundled in winter wear that I was extremely thankful for because the wind and air here was excessively cold, I had looked over at the pinked nosed and excited puppy that was my husband.

"So good surprise?" he had asked.

"Total unexpected perfection Dare. I love it, it's truly amazing, much like you."

We kissed under the light falling snow, the air up here thinner and not allowing for such a long kiss but it was a memory that I would take with me for the rest of my days.

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*Tap tap tap*

So that was exactly what I was doing at this very moment, recording that moment permanently into words that I could share with no one or everyone because I always found that words came to me easily, and since I had met Darren, good memories had come much more easily as well.

I guess it sometimes only takes one moment when a person lets their guard down to be affected by their surroundings. It can be something as simple as the touch of fingertips from someone you've only just met in a parking lot that changes your life. Sometimes its when a friend shares his soul and gives the simplest advice of just "being" that makes you truly appreciate all that life has given and not yet taken away. And sometimes all it takes is following your passion, whether it be pottery making, rescuing animals, origami, writing music, or my case writing down the feelings of others and applying them to a story, that makes life seem just a little brighter each day. I hope one day I can look back on this and read it with my grandchildren,(the PG parts anyway), and they can see that their grandparents truly loved each other and made sure that they took the advice of someone wise beyond his years, and applied the simplest of ideals to their lives.

We just lived.

"Tesoro we're docking, you almost done?"

I looked up and closed my laptop with a smile. Darren was standing there, leaning on the door with a breathtaking smile on his face. He never wore a smile that didn't take my breath away, but even as this honeymoon came to a close, I could tell I would get to see that smile on his face for many more years to come. It was a feeling of love and serenity that I was truly "lucky" to find.

"Yeah, yeah I'm done."

I stood up and grabbed his hand after shouldering my bag and looking around the small cabin that had been home to so many memories over the last week and a half, and not one of them bad. This was an accomplishment in itself.

"Onto the next chapter my love?"

Darren just grinned and kissed our joined hands.

"Onto the next chapter beautiful."

The End


The inspiration for this came from the many life lessons I have learned, some of them the hard way. Life is too short, and you really need to take each moment as a gift. Cory's words here came from my heart and I mean each and every one of them...from me to you. Each moment we experience in life should be remembered, because life is important. Writing is my passion but never deny yourself the passion that comes to you. I loved writing this series and I hope to someday soon share with you my original fantasy fiction that I am changing into a Klaine fiction for you guys. (It will be called T'erras more than likely.)

I love you all even if I don't know you, because by sharing in this story, you became a part of the collage that is my writing life. So thank you. Happy Glee day and Klaine week again boys and girls, be well and enjoy life. xoxoxo

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