A/N:

We all feel misunderstood sometimes. We often are.

Shots Of Love: Brave

"You think I'm lying."

Blaine is shaking his head, "No Babe, no Kurt, I don't."

"Why then all the questions," Kurt asks, tears spilling over.

"Because I worry," Blaine replies softly. Torn between reaching out and staying the few feet away, from where he is able to take in all of Kurt's reaction.

As he decides on staying put, he notices Kurt's hands begin to shake. With fear, anger or disbelieve he does not know.

"Because you don't believe me," Kurt begins to sob, his hands quickly moving to cover his face; muffling the sound tearing from Kurt's throat, and already tearing at Blaine. Slowly breaking down his resolve.

"Kurt, I asked because I just don't understand. But I am trying. This is me trying. This is me fighting for us, because I don't ever want to not understand you."

"It makes me feel like you think I am lying."

"Not my intention," Blaine murmurs softly as he finally closes the gap between them, guiding Kurt into a deep embrace.

Kurt lets out a shuddering gasp at the first touches, but as he begins to relax his breathing begins to even out again.

"I am sorry," Kurt chokes out.

"I am sorry too," Blaine replies. "I just never want you to think I don't care enough to ask if I don't understand something."

"Did I overreact?" Kurt's voice sounds small forming the sounds.

"Maybe a little," Blaine replies.

"It is just, I am so used to people probing away at me with questions, to taunt me, because they want to make me feel stupid, and themselves good. I'm not used to someone asking me questions and actually wanting to hear answers."

"I will always want to know what you have to say," Blaine is running his right hand softly up and down Kurt's back.

"I'm just not used to people caring."

"Well I do. And I plan on sticking around for a long time, so we better work on that, together."

"Thank you."

"Love, there is no need to thank me, for anything."

Kurt is the one shaking his head now, "Yes there is. For not running out on me, when I started screaming at you."

"I could never leave you, knowing you were in so much pain," Blaine says tilting his head to find Kurt's eyes.

"How did you know I was in pain?"

And it breaks Blaine's heart, so much, to hear Kurt asking this question. How little attention did people pay to him all his life? "I know you well enough. I see the changes in you. Your voice grows different, and I don't mean the screaming. The quality of it, something in it changes. Your face and the way you stand. I don't know how I could miss it."

And now Blaine is watching another change, in Kurt's eyes. Something he is not sure he has ever seen in them before so clear.

And it is once again in his voice too, a new quality altogether.

Like Kurt himself believes it truly, for the first time, feels it truly, for the first time, "You love me."

Blaine himself knows he too has never before sounded or felt so sure of anything, "I love you."