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Saturday flew by with Kurt and the New Direction's girl shopping at the mall in Dayton. After reaching his spending limit he went home and cooked dinner with Carole, falling asleep as soon as he finished putting his new clothes away.
Sunday night found Kurt, Finn, and Mike in the basement on the couch playing video games.
"Do ya think Sam's mouth is too big for his face?" Finn asked with a red vine hanging out of his mouth.
Mike shrugged while Kurt rolled his eyes.
Kurt answered. "It's just more prominent than most."
Finn narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment, "So…it is too big for his face?" he asked.
Mike snorted from his seat the distraction causing him to die in the game, "Aww, man." He frowned.
Kurt rolled his eyes and smacked Mike on the back of the head, "That's what you get, Mikey." He turned towards his brother but kept his eyes on the TV. "No, Finn. It just means his mouth and lips stand out more than the average person's do. But he does have rather full lips."
That seemed to appease Finn, the boy nodded, "Okay." And stuffed another candy in his mouth.
"Any ideas on the assignment for next week?" Mike brought up after a few more rounds of Halo.
Finn shrugged, "It's not like we can accidentally get high again and have it work out in our favor."
"We are so lucky our parents didn't hear about that." Kurt said before biting his lip. "I have an idea for the assignment."
Mike paused the game and looked expectantly at Kurt, noticing Finn doing the same, "Well?" He prompted.
Kurt sighed, "Well, we're doing a mash up, right?" He asked getting nods in return. "Well, I thought we could do Black Eyed Peas 'I gotta Feeling' and Jason Derulo's 'In My Head', I thought that we could mix them together. It'll make for something easy to dance to and everyone likes the songs. We'd probably have the girls swooning if we do it right."
He looked from Finn to Mike and back, they looked like they were playing it out in their heads. It was more than a little creepy to watch as identical grins spread across their faces at the same time.
Kurt swallowed, "So?" he asked.
"That's awesome!"
"Awesome!"
They spoke at the same time and high fived while laughing before looking back at Kurt together.
This is just getting creepier, Kurt thought.
"Can you guys not do that?" Kurt asked a little pleadingly.
Receiving simultaneous, "What?"'s.
He buried his face in his hands, "Unbelievable." He mumbled. He felt the seat next to him bounce a bit.
"Oh, come on, Kurty. We really like your idea!" said an excited Mike, "Me and you can show off our awesome dance moves. I still can't believe the New Directions don't know how great you can dance, our moms put us in dance together when we were like four years old. I'm still really glad your mom had talked mine into it."
Kurt looked up to his friend and smile, "Yeah, that was one of mom's best ideas. The rest of glee club believes I can't dance that well just like they think I'm anorexic and nothing but skin and bones underneath my layers of amazing clothes."
Finn snorted loudly causing the other two teens to laugh. "Bro, you eat just as much as me! The only reason you don't eat a lot in front of them is 'cause the girls give the evil eye to anyone not eating salad."
Mike nodded in agreement, "They know I'm a dancer and that's how I got my abs and muscle. If they found out you're a dancer like me I'm pretty sure they'd rip off your clothes to see what you're hiding underneath." He pointed out.
With narrowed eyes Kurt said seriously, "They rip my clothes and I'll destroy them."
Mike and Finn went a little wide eyed for a moment before breaking out into laughter. Kurt pouted at them before joining in.
Finally calming down Finn wiped his eyes and looked to his brother, "I wish everyone knew how awesome you are. They seriously have no clue what they're missing out on."
Mike nodded before turning to Finn, "It's really their loss though and our gain."
Finn nodded and grinned to Mike, before Kurt could figure out what the two were mentally talking about he was in the middle of being hugged on both sides by the taller teens.
"Guys!" His yell was muffled.
It went unnoticed that Burt and Carole came downstairs to tell the boys goodnight.
Mike pet Kurt's hair, "Shh, Kurty. Embrace the love of the bro-hug-sandwich." He told the smaller teen.
Finn nodded and then smirked, he opened his mouth and started singing.
I need a hug
You need a hug
Your mom needs a hug
And your dad needs a hug
Mike grinned and added in.
Your brother needs a hug
And your sister needs a hug
Oh god. They were singing the hug song to him.
And everybody needs a hug, like
I need a hu-hug
Give me a hu-hug…
Kurt couldn't hold in his laughter. Here he was the schools out cast gay boy being hugged to death by two members of the Varsity football team while they sung him the hug song.
The two boys stopped singing and laughed along, because yeah the world sucks but they had each other to keep happy.
"Love ya, little bro."
"Love you, Kurty."
Kurt felt his eyes sting, but smiled, "You two are so mushy, but I love you both too."
Kurt felt happy but more than that as though he was feeling someone else being happy for him too. It was a nice gentle feeling that set in his chest just below his pendant where that second hand anxiousness usually is.
He was brought out of his thoughts by an audible sniffle from the other side of the room. The boys looked up and saw the older Hummel's at the bottom of the stairs. Carole was wiping hers eyes and Burt's looked a little shiny, but they both were smiling.
"Ah, hi?" Finn said after a too long silence.
Burt cleared his throat, "Time for bed, boys. You still have school in the morning sleep over or not."
The boys broke apart and hugged the adults goodnight. When they were alone again they started cleaning the room.
"It's only nine o'clock, guys." Finn pointed out.
They all looked at each other, "Comics?" Mike suggested.
They all nodded and put on shorts to sleep in since it's still warm out. After brushing their teeth they all sat on Kurt's bed with a stack of comics in between them but each had one in hand already.
After going through two comics each, Mike broke the silence. "Do…do you guys ever feel like you're being watched?" He asked unsure.
Kurt internally panicked, he tightened his grip on his comic but didn't look up or answer.
"Yes." Came the timid reply next to him.
He looked up and saw Finn scratching the back of his neck awkwardly. Was it not just him being watched than? Because it sure felt like it. But now Finn said it was happening to him to, but Mike brought it up. He looked to Mike who sighed a little in relief.
"I thought it was just me." The tall Asian said.
Mike and Finn turned towards Kurt who still hadn't answered the question.
The smaller boy looked out the nearby window, "Ye-yeah me too." He said not looking at them. "For a while now." Kurt knew he was being watched right now from outside the house, but he still didn't know by what.
He turned back to his friends, both looked unsure and confused, "What is it?" He asked.
Mike looked down at his comic and fiddled with it before looking back at Kurt. "I only feel like that when I'm around you." He said confused.
Kurt's eyebrows furrowed, "What-"
"Me too." Finn interrupted from his spot on the bed.
Kurt got even more confused, "You think I'm watching you guys?" he asked not liking the thought.
"No!" Both boys nearly shouted in reply.
"It's like.." Finn started trying to figure out how to say what was in his head.
"Like right now someone is outside keeping an eye on us." Mike added, his gaze on the window searching. "But every time I look, there's no one there. It's the same whenever I'm around you." Finn nodded in agreement.
Kurt's eyebrows rose. This is just creepy. It's one thing to feel like someone's watching you, it's another to know that you're not alone in that feeling. That someone really is watching you. But it's not the stalker type of watching. It's so much more.
"How long have you been feeling thing?" He asked both of them.
"Maybe a week and a half." Said Mike.
Both turned towards Finn for his answer.
Finn looked uncomfortable under their gazes, "Since-since after the cut incident. I was like hypersensitive towards everything around me, and I started noticing the feeling."
Kurt sucked in a breath and looked down to his pendant that was resting on his bare chest. What is going on? He reached out and held it in his hand.
"What cut incident?" asked Mike who was studying the brothers. It wasn't like them to keep secrets from him.
Kurt dropped his pendant and it fell back into place on his chest. He knew Finn was looking at him for an answer, either permission to tell Mike or to make up and excuse. He sighed and rubbed his face.
Kurt looked to Mike, "I might be able to heal things." He said vaguely.
Mike just raised an eyebrow, "Explain."
"Fuck." Kurt breathed out, "Finn cut his hand the night our parents went out of town four weeks ago. You were out of town for some Asian thing and couldn't spend the night. But it wasn't a little cut either he managed to make a gash on his palm. He wouldn't let me get him to the hospital because he didn't want our parents to think we were too irresponsible to stay home alone. So he told me to stitch it up for him, though I've never done that before." He gave Finn a quick glare before continuing, "Just as I was about to start stitching it up, I kept thinking about how I didn't want to do it and how I wanted it to heal itself. And…it did. After a couple of seconds it was gone." He finished looking at an expressionless Mike.
"Mike?" He asked after a long pause.
Mike blinked and looked down at the comics, "So, you have powers like this?" He asked holding up a Flash comic.
Kurt rolled his eyes, "No, Flash can vibrate to accelerate the body's natural healing ability in others. I can't vibrate and run like Flash, Mikey."
Mike looked a little disappointed.
"But you have your pendant!" Finn threw in, "It glows whenever you heal stuff."
Mike looked at the pendant and then up at Kurt, "So you're like He-Man and the healing gem?" he asked excited again.
Kurt face-palmed, "Unbelievable." He mumbled shaking his head. "I'm not a superhero or mutant, or whatever else is in these things." He said waving his comic.
They were all quite for a moment and Kurt calmed down.
"Still cool to think about though." Mike stated.
"Yeah." Finn agreed.
Kurt face-palmed again. "Unbelievable. Just unbelievable."
Kurt picked up his comic and started reading again as his brother and best friend argued over him being a superhero.
"This is unbelievable! I need to be with him!" The boy shouted getting frustrated.
"You will be, when the time is right." Said an older calm voice.
The boy turned to the voice, "Wes! He needs me. He doesn't even know what's going on or what to do."
Wes replied just as calm as before, "You are not allowed to go to him."
The boy ran his hand through his curly hair and pulled it in frustration. "That's stupid. You don't understand. He's like a sitting duck out there on his own. Even to those damn high school bullies, that think they have the right to harm him." The boy sighed and clutched the table he was standing in front of. "I can't protect him like this, Wes. This goes against my very existence. I can only send so many out to guard him."
"They volunteer their services."
The boy let out a humorless laugh, "They volunteer their lives."
Wes raised an eyebrow, "They volunteer none the less." Said the teenage looking Asian.
"They should not feel the need to volunteer for something like this, because it shouldn't be a necessary situation!" The boy yelled. "How many must die? How many have already died?"
"In general since the time before or just now on guard?"
"Wesley." He growled.
"You'll just have to wai-"
"You don't know how many life times I've waited for him, Wes!"
Wes sat across from his friend, "Ah, but I do know. You seem to have forgotten that I've been with you from the start."
"But you don't know what it feels like! It is pure luck that damn prophecy was right."
"The prophecies are always right."
"Sometimes I wish they weren't."
Wes looked surprised, "Really? After all this time?"
The boy slammed his fist on to the table, "Damn it, Wes. I meant I wish the one the Seekers foresaw at the beginning was wrong. We wouldn't be in this mess to begin with! I'd still have him…"
Wes stood up and walked around the table placing a gentle hand on the boy's shoulder, "He still would have done it. Even knowing or not knowing the price. He still would have done it." He said gently, "For you, for everyone."
With that Wes left the room. Not hearing the whisper that followed.
"He shouldn't have had to…" While the boy rubbed his pendant below his shirt.
The boys finished off their stack of comics and started settling into bed.
"He's been kicking lately, Mike." Finn warned.
Mike looked to Kurt and narrowed his eye, "No." he told him pointing a finger at the smaller boy.
Kurt rolled his eyes, "You could always sleep on the floor or couch, Mikey."
Mike looked like a kicked puppy, "But-but your bed is so comfy and your blankets are so soft." He whined.
"Then don't complain if I kick you on accident."
"Fair enough."
Kurt turned out the lights and got in bed, Mike was already settled onto his side of the bed.
"Don't cuddle too much." Teased Finn.
"We'll cuddle all we want, Finnick." Mike shot back.
Finn mock gasped, "How rude."
"Don't be jealous of my heterosexual life partner cuddling me, Finn."
Finn got a little confused, "Ah?"
Kurt saved him, "He means platonic soulmate, Finn."
"Oh." Finn nodded in the dark, "Is that why he didn't question if we were telling him the truth earlier?"
Mike nodded, "Probably. I know Kurt won't lie to me and you by extension. I know what you both look like when you're lying and even feel guilty or any emotion for that matter. I'm a little hurt you guys didn't tell me sooner, but I understand you were really confused. Just don't keep me out of the loop, this whole getting watched feeling was freaking me out."
"Sorry, Mikey."
"I said I understood, Kurty." Mike reminded him.
"I still don't get why it feels like we're being watched whenever we're around Kurt." Finn brought up.
Kurt swallowed but was sure of himself, "It's because I am being watched, I think I always have been."
"Like a pedo has always been creeping on you?"
Kurt and Mike both threw pillows at Finn.
Finn yelped, "Ow."
Kurt rolled his eyes, "They were only pillows, Finn."
"I threw a shoe too." Came Mike's smug voice.
Kurt laughed as Finn mumbled curses while rubbing his head.
Rubbing his eyes he answered Finn's question, "No, Finn. No, to the pedo creeping on me. I don't know what's watching me, I only really noticed the feeling maybe two months ago. But when I think back I realize that uneasy feeling has always kind of been there."
"This is all really," Finn made a hand gesture no one including himself could see. "Out there."
Kurt yawned, "Tell me about it."
"We can talk more another time, guys." Mike said tiredly.
"Night, bros."
"Goodnight, guys."
"Goodnight, weirdos."
The crooked figure waited till the boy slept before vanishing. It had to report back to its master after all.
Seekers: Are basically like seers or oracles. They foresee the future and tell prophecies. The prophecies are always correct. I've just decide for some reason to name them Seekers, I thought it fit.
This is started to come across a little mysterious. huh?
I like it. (:
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