Title: a storm whereon they ride
Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: implied animal deaths
Pairings: Kurt/Blaine; unrequited Sebastian/Blaine
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 1015
Point of view: third
"We can't send him to Bishop," Maria tells Ethan as the end of eighth grade approaches. "He'll eat them alive."
Ethan nods, glancing towards the den, where Blaine's playing the piano. Blaine's popular in middle school; he's funny and charming and able to fit into any group he wants.
But high school is different. Blaine's been faking his way for years, and high schoolers are stupid. Someone will do something to set him off.
Maria starts listing off other schools, private schools, they could send Blaine to, and Ethan says, "What about Dalton Academy?" Maria tilts her head in askance, so Ethan adds, "It's where Dale sent Cody, after the incident. They have a zero tolerance policy towards all forms of harassment. It's strenuously enforced."
"We should check it out," Maria says, nodding.
Blaine doesn't have a temper, really. But he doesn't do well with fools. And if they can do anything to keep something… unfortunate from happening – they'll do anything.
.
Dalton is in Westerville, barely half an hour away. But it's cheaper to board instead of dealing with traffic, and Blaine wants to.
He assures his parents he'll do well. "Be good," Dad says as they leave.
Blaine smiles and promises to do his best.
.
Blaine thrives at Dalton. He quickly finds his role to play and it works like a charm; he tries out for the Warblers and acts nervous, unsure. Two of the upperclassmen, one of them part of the Council, take him under their wings. He joins the fencing club and takes Italian, boxes and takes martial arts.
He doesn't talk about his family, but everything else is an open book. Blaine is popular, first with the freshmen but then with everyone. He paves the way in ninth grade, cements it in tenth, and then when junior year rolls around, Blaine is the most popular boy in school. Everyone loves him.
And then Kurt Hummel comes to spy on the Warblers, and stops Blaine on the stairs, and it's a whole new world.
.
Dave Karofsky is not the first. He's the fourth, actually.
Of those first few, though, he is the most satisfying.
Because Kurt is Blaine's. From that moment Blaine turned at the foot of the stairs and looked up at Kurt… Kurt is his.
And Blaine will kill anyone in the world to keep him.
.
Kurt settles into Dalton with ease. He's nervous at first, of course; how couldn't he be, coming from a hellhole where no one ever said a thing every time he was shoved into lockers, or tossed into dumpsters, or had icebergs thrown into his face?
… Blaine really wants to visit McKinley and burn it down. He doesn't, because that would be a bit hard to hide. But Kurt sits too close to him and leans against him and tells him about McKinley, and he uses their names, and once Blaine has their names…
Well.
Kurt is his, and Kurt is scarred, and even if Kurt never knows –
Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve happen before Blaine graduates from high school.
Twelve is the only Dalton boy Blaine ever plays with.
.
"What the fuck?" Sebastian demands. Blaine had invited him to Scandals, and offered to drive, but they're not at Scandals. Not anywhere close.
They're nowhere Sebastian knows, and Blaine pickpocketed his phone before they'd even left Dalton's parking lot.
"I've been with Kurt for almost a year," Blaine tells him conversationally, gesturing for Sebastian to get out of the car. He's still smiling his iI'm such a nice boy/i smile, the one Cooper told him was frightening, and Sebastian stares at him for a moment before swallowing and complying.
"What's going on, Blaine?" Sebastian asks, and he's starting to look nervous.
"If you'd just flirted with me and left him alone, things might be different," Blaine says. "You should have left him alone."
"Blaine, seriously," Sebastian says, and now he's close to panicking. Blaine hasn't even brought out the knife yet.
"There was never any chance I'd leave Kurt for you, even for a moment," Blaine tells him, letting the smile drop. "There are hundreds of boys at Dalton. This is your fault for being both stupid and blind." He shrugs.
Sebastian just blinks dumbly for a second before lunging at Blaine.
Blaine laughs, dodging and using Sebastian's own momentum to get him on the ground. Sebastian is winded and freezes when he feels the blade at his neck.
"Like I said," Blaine whispers, tapping him gently on the face, "stupid."
It was funny, at first, how desperate Sebastian was. And he had a decent voice, so Blaine, Thad, and Marius let him join the Warblers. And if he hadn't been saying all those things to Kurt –
"This is the boneyard," Blaine says, pulling Sebastian up and keeping the knife close. "You'll be here for awhile, Sebastian. You should feel honored, too – no one else has ever seen it." He smiles at Sebastian, and Sebastian shudders.
"Please, Blaine, whatever's going on – " His eyes are on the knife.
Blaine says, "Walk" and shoves Sebastian forwards.
.
The next day, Blaine kisses Kurt breathless, and Kurt clings to him, muffling his laughter in Blaine's neck, and Blaine wishes he could tell Kurt everything. Show him.
Sebastian isn't much missed at Dalton. Everyone knows he just took his grandfather's money and went back to Europe. He'd turn up one day, all smirks and boasts.
He never does, but Dalton forgets him.
Dalton is Blaine's, just like Kurt.
.
Dad asks Blaine what he plans to do after Dalton. Blaine shows him the acceptance letter to NYU Steinhardt.
Mom asks Blaine where he plans to live in New York, if he'll stay in the dorms or find his own place. He tells her that Kurt already has everything planned: their own apartment, tiny though it'll be. Their own space. A home, just him and Kurt.
Cooper asks Blaine if he's happy. Blaine smiles so wide his face hurts.
Blaine has no idea how he existed before Kurt.
He knows that he'll never be without Kurt again.