You Can't Escape The Past
Prompt #27 (by anonymous)
Date: March 11, 2012
Prompt: Blaine gets slushied after he's healed from his surgery. It causes a PTSD like panic attack.
Note: Seeing as the prompter didn't state how long after he was slushied that this happened I've set it in Season 4. My headcanon is that the Glee jocks would have warned people off slushying Blaine during Season 3 but have no control now that they've graduated.
Blaine was having a typical day at McKinley high school which of course meant that he was being taunted for being the gay kid in Glee club. After Kurt's graduation he was the only gay kid out of the closet if you didn't count Unique but seeing as she identified as a girl it didn't really count. Besides he was pretty sure most of the student body had forgotten that Unique was biologically male because their memories didn't extend far enough back to remember the few days she dressed in male clothes at the beginning of the year.
As such he tended to get the worst of the bullying from the jock clique although it had lessened when he joined the Cheerios. Nobody wanted to risk the wrath of Coach Sue by ruining one of her Cheerios uniforms. Plus for some reason Coach Sue had some sort of soft spot for Blaine, people knew this because her nicknames for him, 'young Burt Reynolds,' and 'handsome, non-flammable gay,' were not exactly insults. Blaine didn't even know why maybe it was something to do with his… relationship… with Kurt who she had a soft spot for too. It could also be because she could always get him to babysit Robin and he had really bonded with the baby girl over games of Peek-A-Boo.
But today the risk was slightly less for people who wanted to mess with him for he wasn't wearing his Cheerios uniform. It had started to look dirty so he'd thrown it in the washing machine. Of course this meant he was back in his own style of clothes. But for him a fedora and grey sweatshirt over his usual polo with black skinny jeans was pretty toned down although he'd never be as flamboyant as Kurt. And he really needed to stop thinking about his ex-boyfriend so often.
So when a jock approached him in the hall he just prepared for the insults that were bound to be thrown at him. But instead of insults a purple grape slushie hit him in the face.
He could feel the rock salt in it. There was something rough in there anyway and it stung. His eye flared with pain and he was pretty sure that was him screaming but he didn't really know. Vaguely through the red… no it had been purple hadn't it… slushie he could see Jake and Ryder slamming the jock into the nearby lockers even though they probably didn't know why he was panicking but it hurt and he was back in the parking garage in his mind watching the Warblers turn their back on him as he lay screaming from what Sebastian had done to him. Although he had to admit Tina slapping him backstage at Sectionals this year had been a bit much.
He was certain that a slushie shouldn't burn like this, it just shouldn't. It had been tainted again, there was no way he was imagining this it felt just like the last time. That moment was forever imprinted in his memory. He felt a hand shake his shoulder but it quickly flew away when a whimper escaped his lips. He could barely make out bright pink clothes which meant that it was Sugar who was attempting to comfort him. She was the only one in the school (other than Tina's one pink and orange dress) who ever wore something that ostentatious outside of a glee performance.
He could hear Coach Sue shouting now and the jock who had thrown the slushie appeared to be being suspended. At least that's what he thought her diatribe was about. He couldn't really focus through the feeling of the slushie on his face just like before. Although he had a feeling that this repeat slushie occurrence would be highly talked of in fear of Coach Sue's wrath for months. If not longer.