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6 – Moon
It was a Friday night, and Kurt would have been helping the twins set up the karaoke machine, but he decided, since he was flunking Astronomy, to go straight to the library after said class and study while he waited for Pavel's Astronomy class to get out. He had been doing this for the past week, but he had to deliberately blow the twins off to do it this time.
He was the only person in the library this late at night, even though the doors were open, and he was pretty sure the librarian just never slept… Actually, Kurt had no doubt that she didn't.
And after that shattering tie with his old glee club, Kurt was itching to get away and have text banters with Mercedes and Rachel anyway. So he really wasn't studying… or rather, he was studying, only it was in between texts from his two lovely ladies.
Since coming to Dalton, Kurt had learned to expect the unexpected. He had a cat door in his wall specifically for a pair of mischievous twins to appear through it as cats, for one. He was now trained to know when the twins were around, as they were sneaky little twats at the best of times. So when he felt the presence of another, he looked up and saw Blaine at the end of his little row of bookshelves.
But it wasn't Blaine. It couldn't be, as it was about nine thirty at night, and Blaine was usually Arthur at this time. Kurt was also staring into the silver-flecked brown eyes. Blaine's eyes were usually just brown (but a brilliant shade).
Kurt stood up, "Arthur, I presume?" he asked, eyebrow crooking upwards.
Arthur nodded his head, "Seems like we've all ready met… I mean, for me."
"The watch opens you up, doesn't it?" Kurt asked, pointing to it.
"Sadly, Blaine's asleep," Arthur said through clenched teeth.
Kurt mentally slapped himself, "No, I didn't mean… I wanted to meet you, Arthur."
Arthur looked over at a random book and put a finger on the spine of it. "It's okay. Everyone likes Blaine better. They start adopting his term for me… what was it? 'Royal ass?'"
"I don't… I don't quite know you," Kurt said. "I'm sure if we only… only got to know each other that I would… you don't make a very good first impression."
Arthur's eyebrows shot up, and for a moment, Kurt though he saw Blaine's smirk show up… but it was only Arthur's instead. "You're blunt, Hummel."
"I just… tell it like it is," Kurt replied, fidgeting a little under Arthur's intense stare.
There was an awkward silence for the longest time, and in it, Kurt went back to his table and closed his books before sitting down. Arthur stayed standing, moving on to a new book. Then, using magic, he made the other chair fly towards him and he straddled it, sitting on it backwards as he turned to Kurt.
"How are your… uh… how are your classes going?" he asked, trying to keep the egotistical tone in his voice even.
"You're never awake for them, are you?" Kurt asked, glancing at him, leveling out his own egotistical tone.
Arthur didn't seem intimidated, "No. I need my sleep as much as Blainey here does," he said, taking the watch out of his pocket. He would have waggled it, to tease Kurt a little, but he remembered that he and Blaine were actually trying to get Kurt to fall in love with both of them, and so he decided against it. Even though Kurt was really starting to piss him off at this point.
Kurt saw the other pause before putting the watch away and gave Arthur his diva grimace, "No wonder the twins and Pavel call you a royal ass…" he muttered.
Arthur must have heard this, for he rolled his eyes, his hand fluttering to his heart. This first meeting wasn't supposed to go like this… he was supposed to sweep Kurt off his feet like Blaine had done. Blaine and Arthur were the same person, for Pete's sake! Arthur dropped his hand as quick as it had come to his chest, stood up, and straightened the chair with magic again, going to leave—when he bumped into Pavel.
"Oh!" the little Russian said, looking from Arthur to Kurt. He was very intuitive, Pavel was, and he noticed the slightly darkened aura between the two. He said nothing about it, though. "Kurt, Oliver texted me after class and said they started without us."
Kurt stood up, "Goodness… if the twins have made Victor and Colin sing something all ready, I'm going to strangle them both in their sleep," he said, making his way to his friend. He gave a slightly disgusted look at Arthur, who backed up when the countertenor approached him.
"You want to come sing, Arthur?" Pavel asked sweetly, knowing music often healed all.
…But not tonight, as Arthur shook his head lightly and bolted out of the library, muttering something about 'going out flying' tonight.
Pavel turned to Kurt, who shook his head, "I don't want to talk about it. I don't even want to think about it right now…"
"There you two are!" Oliver called. It was a Friday night, and he had snuck Andulata in for a little karaoke and then she was staying the night in Oliver and Jeremy's room. Jeremy, for comfort's sake, was staying in Pavel and Kurt's room, probably curled up in his cat form on one of the two's beds.
"I volunteer yours," Kurt had said, pointing and winking at his roommate.
Kurt smiled and kissed Andi on both cheeks, feeling the rough scales on them as he did so. "Have Colin and Victor sung yet?"
"We were just about to sing 'Peacock!'" Colin called, pretending to flip his hair. As it were, he was just a nerdy guy with short brown hair, so the hair-flip made no sense. Being a drag queen, though, made for some odd habits.
"But since you're here," Victor, Colin's not-yet-boyfriend, said, thankful of Pavel and Kurt's arrival, "You can go before us…"
Colin made to do a puppy-dog pout to the black-haired male, but Oliver had grabbed the iPod connected to the karaoke machine, and Jeremy was holding out the microphone to either one of the late arrivals. Kurt put down his books and waved at Pavel, "You go first, Pasha…"
Pasha went over to Oliver after shyly taking the microphone from Jeremy (Must. Not. Play. Matchmaker! Kurt thought, biting his lower lip a little as he went to sit in between Wes and David) to pick out his song. When he found a suitable song, Oliver punched it in and Pavel began to sing:
"I'll find my spot in the world if it takes forever.
One day I'll bring all the spots in the world together.
I'll find one spot or 2 or 3,
I'll find the spot that's meant for me
Ill find my spot in the world if I believe it
And when I do you know I'm never gonna leave it
It is the spot where rainbows start.
I'll find spot inside your heart.
It could be under my nose or across the ocean.
Take all my strength and my emotion.
Deeper than the eye can see,
Find the spot thats meant for me
I'll find my spot in the world if it takes forever.
One day ill bring all the spots in the world together.
I'll find one spot or 2 or 3,
I'll find the spot for me.
I'll find my spot in the world,
If it takes forever."
"Lauren Christy. Such an optimistic song about unrequited love," Colin cooed as Pavel sat down. Colin was part of the Warblers even if his sort-of-boyfriend wasn't.
Pavel flicked him behind the ear, and Colin swatted his knee.
"Oi! Would you two stop getting touchy?" Jeremy growled, quieting them both.
After Pavel's performance, Colin and Victor indeed did their version of 'Peacock," then Wes and David performed a duet of 'It's Tough To Be A God' from The Road to El Dorado. Kurt sang 'Beauty and the Beast,' and tried not to direct it at Pavel and Jeremy. As other boys chose songs and went up to sing, Oliver took a break from helping with the song choosing and sat next to Kurt.
"How's the Pavel and Jeremy thing?" nothing got past Oliver when it had everything to do with his brother, that was for sure.
Kurt looked to Pavel, who was flirting with Colin again, though Pavel never deemed it 'flirting.' Jeremy seemed to look on with a tight scowl on his face. Oliver and Kurt exchanged glances, and then Kurt winked at the older twin, whispering something to Colin.
"Hey! The twins haven't sung anything yet!" he called.
"Oh, yeah!" Andi piped up, "I want to here them sing something."
Then there were chants of "Mc-Doi-le!" throughout the study room. Jeremy looked expectantly at his brother, but Oliver, after winking back at Kurt, shrugged his shoulders. "Not tonight."
Jeremy sighed and shook his head, but Oliver caught his brother's slump of defeat and said, "Why don't you sing with someone else? If you sang with one of the countertenors, you could sing the guy's part of a show-tune while they sang the girl's part…"
Everyone looked between Pavel and Kurt, but Kurt shook his head, "I'm tired guys. I just had a run-in the Royal Ass an hour ago—" there were many groans of sympathy from all around the room "—so… Pav? Take the fall for me?" he asked.
Pavel suddenly blushed, but Jeremy was all ready up. "Faster we do this, the faster we can be done," he muttered at Pavel, who nodded.
"I'm choosing the song though!" Kurt shouted, taking the iPod from Andi, who was working it, and looking through it. He suddenly smirked as he punched his choice into the karaoke machine…
… And Pavel's eyes widened when he recognized the beginning of the song. Jeremy kept his cool, but Oliver knew he was inwardly sweating.
Pavel sang first:
"Just too unreal, all this
Watching the words fall from my lips…"
Jeremy was next, playing the part of Melchior Gabor.
"Baiting some girl with hypotheses…"
Then together:
"Haven't you heard the word of your body?"
Jeremy:
"Don't feel a thing, you wish…"
Pavel:
"Grasping at pearls with my fingertips…"
Then Jeremy again, at full flush as he first read the words on the screen, and then sang them:
"Holding her hand like some little tease…"
Then they both sang, turned away from each other as they did. They would kill Kurt later, Oliver and Andi could tell:
"Haven't you heard the word of my wanting?
O, I'm gonna be wounded
O, I'm gonna be your wound
O, I'm gonna bruise you
O, you're gonna be my bruise
Just too unreal, all this…"
Pavel sang alone:
"Watching his world slip through my fist…"
Jeremy looked in horror at the words on the screen before he was forced to sing, lest his peers call him a coward:
"Playing with her in your fantasies…"
Then both of them sang. As they did, Kurt made a motion for Pavel to turn to Jeremy—likewise with Oliver to Jeremy. They looked at each other as they sang, but turned away quickly as the lyrics went on:
"Haven't you heard the word – how I want you?
O, I'm gonna be wounded
O, I'm gonna be your wound
O, I'm gonna bruise you
O, you're gonna be my bruise…"
When the song ended, Pavel shot past everyone and out the door toward his room on the second floor. Jeremy gave a murderous look at his brother and Kurt, but Kurt was already picking up his books and following his friend to their room.
"You picked the best song for us…" Pavel said, his head in a pillow.
Kurt rubbed his back as he sat on his bed with him.
"Rather… you picked the best song for me…" Pavel corrected, taking the pillow away from his face.
Kurt sighed, "You've got to get over yourself and make a move on him, Pasha. He obviously thinks you're the best thing to happen to him since he was allowed to turn into a cat whenever he wanted…"
Pavel moaned and dropped his head back into his pillow.
They sat there for a moment, "You know he's still staying the night thanks to Andi's illegal sleepover, right?"
"He usually slept on your bed anyway," Pavel replied, lifting his head to glare at him.
"Put a pillow on the floor," Kurt suggested.
"Jeremy is like a spoiled housecat. He wouldn't dare sleep on the floor," Pavel replied, giving his roommate an incredulous look.
Kurt sighed, "Fine. For penance to my sin of making you sing a song filled with sexual tension, he can sleep with me if he chooses to… which after making him sing said song… might just be the case…" Kurt replied, actually thinking about it.
He moved off Pavel's bed, changed into his pajamas and slipped in under his blankets. Before actually laying down to go to sleep, he looked over at Pavel and said, "If it makes you feel any better, you can make me sing something with Arthur, and we'd be even…"
Pavel made a random groaning noise, but said nothing. So Kurt took out a book and began reading, waiting up for Jeremy.
A/N: Songs Used: "My Spot In The World" by Lauren Christy
"The Word Of Your Body" from Spring Awakening
Coming Up Next: An unfair punishment leads to increased feelings, the twins save the day (night) with their mischief, and Kurt finally learns how to ride a broomstick.