AN: I have no idea when this was last updated... a month? a few weeks at the least and you have every right to throw lamps at me and i am sorry for the delay but i had some writers block and couldn't write a thing and then all of a sudden last night... this happened and its the longest chapter yet being almost 4,000 words so i hope you enjoy it and maybe it makes up for the delay, and well if not the world will never run out of lamps. :)
I sighed as I finally got to lie down on a semi comfortable bed, to tell the truth I would have rather been in my own dorm room lying down and cuddling with Blaine, but of course the teacher who had been so harsh as to give me a detention had decided it best to make me go the nurses office as it was now apparent that I would not be going to any detention any time soon, the miniature explosion in her classroom had made sure of that and as soon as she made the suggestion of taking a trip to the school's nurse while I was on the floor outside her classroom Blaine had agreed with her. Which was the reason I wasn't cuddling with him and was instead in a room about the size of my closet lying on what I hope was a sanitised grey bed, holding Blaine's hand while my brain decided that it would be fun to siege war on my skull and shoot repeatedly at it which made me groan out in pain. The only sign to the outside world that I wasn't alright. The slightly overweight middle aged nurse had of course put it down to shock of the situation, personally I think it was my body reacting not so happily to the new power and for once I was agreeing with my body on something.
I had no idea what the time was but it s definitely some time just after dinner as I could register the minds around me in the hallways, they were buzzing with the excitement of what had happened and of course retelling over exaggerated glossed over stories to make things seem so much more Hollywood than they had really been. Such as Laurence who had sat two seat behind me had told one of his friends that there was actually a pipe bomb under the teachers desk and he had been the one to notice it then partially disable it so the explosion was smaller than it would have been had he not so heroically stepped in. It was actually quite comical really that he thought something as exciting as that would really happen. Of course no one but Blaine and me would ever know the real reason, of course Nick and Jeff would put two and two together if they didn't already know which would shock me knowing that pair, I swear those two were stealthier than the F.B.I sometimes.
Blaine stroked the back of my hand tenderly as my head burst with pain once again and I let out what had to be a very unattractive yelp. I was extremely thankful that Blaine was next to me, it made my painful head drift to thought of the hopeful future where we would stride hand in hand through central park in the spring time, trees overhanging our heads and maybe a squirrel or two casually scurrying around us. It was a good distraction for a bit. Of course as soon as the extremely pale nurse left the room to get something from the Dalton hospital wing (which was for some reason on the other end of the school. Crazy right?) Blaine decided that this was a good time to bring up the whole explosion thing. Yippee.
"Did you know that you were going to get another power?" He asked casually while continuing with the soothing circles in a clockwise motion on top of my hand, it was almost as if he thought the gesture would coax an answer out of me.
"To be honest I didn't even know about the first one until I got it." I said quickly, trying to keep the talking to a minimum and hoping that Blaine would leave it at that.
"So when did you find out about being able to read minds." The black haired boy continued, clearly we were not done on the subject and I inwardly sighed.
"I was about ten, when I first read my father's mind, I thought he was talking to me so I was replying, which freaked him out as he hadn't even said anything." I took a moment to collect my thoughts in the mine field that was my head. "M mother had died two years before that and seeing as it was from her side of the family I had no one to talk to about it, I thought I could talk to my dad but all I got from him was 'I know she could do it but I'll be damned if I understand it.' And that leaves me here in a nurse's office just as confused as you." I had no idea how Blaine was reacting to all of this but for my own mental well being, even thought it wasn't well at the moment anyway, I decided that my eyes would remain shut and I would remain ignorant.
Turns out my streak of luck had not run out yet when my head thought that the mines going off inside of it wasn't enough and it dropped and atomic bomb. The scream that emanated out of my mouth was loud and I'm pretty sure that a few tears were running down my face, at least they could get away from the agony that was pulsing in my head. I squeezed Blaine's hand as a way of trying to ease the pain. It did not work.
"Kurt, honey I'm going to find the nurse and see if I can't get you some pain med's quicker, I'll make her run and break her hip if I have to. Okay?" He released my hand and before I could say 'No Please don't leave me on my own right now!' he had gone and I was left on my own in a room that looked and smelt like it was meant to be a janitors closet rather than a nurse's office and when I saw the mop and bucket leaning on one of the dark grey walls I started to think that it was a mixture of the two.
Turns out after the A-bomb was dropped, my head was completely clear, like a river on a lazy Sunday morning and I felt completely fine, I could only assume that my body had now adjusted to the new power that I had acquired more than I had mentally. A group of random Dalton students laughed somewhere close to the door and I got up off the bed and blinked a couple of times, just to make sure that I was not about to go into a complete U-turn and burst into flames of pain, but as everything stayed where it was and nothing turned red, I knew that I was completely fine.
"Weird." I muttered to myself as I opened the creaky old door of the nurse's station and edged down the hallway, when I walked, no matter where the destination was I always had time to think and clear my head which is what I definitely needed to do at that moment, the war may be gone but the confusion was left behind and I knew that it needed to leave as much as the pain did. So my feet started walking.
The hallway was still bustling with chatty Dalton upper-classmen, I got a few waves from people Such as Nick and Jeff who both winked at me, clearly they had thought something had gone on between Blaine and I in the nurse's station, which I decided wasn't worth correcting them over, they could think what they wanted, people had certainly thought worse about me so it was only a speck on an already dirty napkin. John from French class asked me if I was okay now, he had been sat two seats over and we had talked a few times before. He wasn't in the warblers where most of my friends were and I wasn't on the basketball team where most of his friends and himself resided so our friendship stayed within the walls of the French room. Lucky for me he was just as stumped at the random explosion as the rest of the French classroom so after asking if his head was okay (which had a huge gash in, but according to him 'He had received worse from skateboarding) I continued towards the end of the hall and turned left, to now be faced with the grand marble staircase that was now one of my favourite parts of Dalton it always flooded me with memories of my first ever visit here when I first met Blaine, learnt about the rock stars of Dalton, held Blaine's hand for the first time and been sang to, it still counted as one of the best days of my life and I couldn't help but thank fate for this amazing place and all the good things that had happened to me since I had gotten here, which definitely far outweighed the bad. I hadn't realised that I had just stopped and stared at the huge spiral staircase which had caused me to get a few strange stares from some of the other students, they all had certain thoughts about my strangeness but luckily they kept them to themselves. The warblers may be the rock stars but I was definitely getting used to the attention that didn't involve people shoving me in lockers or throwing liquid rainbows over my face, it was a nice difference but it was a strange difference which made me speed up the staircase, just in case someone did have a slushie hidden under the huge blue and red blazers and decided to use it on me, I knew it was a stupid thought from the start and I had to wrap my head around the fact that the people in Dalton were different, well most were different and if they weren't, well they were restricted by the rules which was good enough for me.
As I walked around the huge main reception hall at the top of the pristine steps I decided to have a walk around the grounds, feeling that the fresh air would definitely clear my head for sure. I walked through the mahogany double doors and into the gravel and looked around at my beautiful surroundings which were illuminated by the setting sun.
While striding over one of the more grassy areas of the Dalton premises I remembered something that Blaine had told me about Dalton in one of my very first weeks at the magical boarding school "When I feel like the pressures of school life are getting too high or if Wes's gavel has banged one too many times in rehearsal then I just go to this little piece of heaven hidden within the Dalton grounds, there's even a waterfall there and it's just amazing to think that no one else has found it, it's just a bit off to the left of the main entrance but it's hidden until you see it." Yes his description of where it was had been just a bit too high in the realm of vague but I thought at it couldn't kill me to try and find it. Walking in what I thought was the right direction I reached the edge of the forest, staying out of the trees, I tried to hear the giveaway trickling of a waterfall so as soon as I even heard a drip I hustled into the forest and gaped at what I had found. The grass was some shade of deep green that I couldn't begin to describe and sure enough the sound of falling water was louder as I was stood only a few feet from the large pond and waterfall that was cascading down into the waters depths. I took a step forwards and felt lie, I was in some sort of trance, the water was astoundingly pretty and the evening light just accentuated the beauty of Dalton's best kept secret.
I perched myself at the edge of the cool water and crossed my legs in front of myself. I closed my eyes and decided that this was perfect for trying to clear the storm clouds which had gathered in my head. I took one deep breath in and focused on pushing all of my troubles out of my system, it was the way I had always done things and it had always worked for me. It felt like all of my worries were melting away and the calmness was replacing everything else in my head. If you couldn't take away your troubles by shopping then this was the only other solution.
After what could have been hours but was in fact just 15 minutes I felt calm enough to start to creak open my eyes, I saw the orange Haze of the sunset and smiled at the warm feeling it gave me, it was almost as warm as being hugged by Blaine and it gave me a sense of contentment.
Until I turned around and realised that it wasn't the sunset but actually a bush I had apparently set on fire while I was venting.
I suddenly smelt the smoke which was like a smack in face and brought me back to reality. In a rush of my own thoughts I stripped off my blazer and dunked it in the water, making sure that it was fully drenched as I threw it over the bush, putting the fire out before it could spread further. I sighed in some sort of reliefs but I still felt the panicked need to run the hell away from that spot as fast as I could. So with my wet and now singed blazer firmly in my hand, I sprinted out of the forest and didn't look back, It was strange how quickly things could happen but in my life it felt like the norm for things to keep happening as nothing had ever been boring for me, everything had been happening straight after the other from the get go and to be honest, I wouldn't have it any other way, but I would prefer the things that happened to be a little bit more pleasant. That didn't feel like too much to ask for.
When I was halfway back to Dalton I slowed my pace down to a walk and screamed for Blaine, I was stupid to think for a second that it would work as Blaine was still inside the Dalton building... Probably looking for me as I had so kindly left the grimy nurse's station when Blaine had gone to get pain meds. Woops.
It seemed like a good reason to pick my pace up again and sprint back to the main Dalton entrance, all in all the trip back had taken half an hour and I couldn't believe how long I had been gone, the sky above me was now dark and the sunset had long disappeared down below the horizon, it was one of those things that happened everyday that you would expect. One thing I did not expect was for Trent to run past me into the building, hitting my shoulder as he bulldozed past.
"Watch it Hummel!" He practically bellowed as he kept running, turning left and down another hallway out of my sight.
"Rude." I murmured as I stopped in the middle of the hall to straighten out my shirt. Trent was a high strung person so I assumed he had a test tomorrow that he had forgotten about and let the rudeness slip from my mind. I thanked my one bit of luck that my phone had been in my back pocket and not one of the many blazer pockets as I pulled it out and rang Blaine before anything else chaotic happened. The phone rang once before he picked it up.
"Kurt?" He said his voice full of concern.
"Hey, where are you?" I asked while silently praying that he was close.
"Shouldn't I be asking you that seeing as you were the one who ran away from the nurses' station when I went to get the nurse?" There was no agitation or anger in his voice it was just full of concern and it made my gut feel full with guilt.
"I'm sorry; I'm just in main hall at the moment."
"So you heard about the fire as well?" I prayed that he was not talking about the same fire that I was thinking about.
"What fire Blaine?" I asked with slight apprehension in my voice, it seemed like the room around me was swimming and time had slowed down.
"The one in the forest, Trent was on a walk around the grounds during his perfecting duty and noticed that practically the whole forest was on fire." It made sense now why Trent was running, but the whole forest? I was sure I had put the fire out and even then it was small, it couldn't have been my fault... Could it? To quench my suspicion I ran back outside to check and sure enough the whole forest was roaring with flames licking at the night sky which was being illuminated by the fire but covered with smoke.
"Holy crap."
"I know right? Hey I'm in the main hall now, where are you Kurt?" He asked and I could practically hear his voice through the wall.
"I'm just outside." I replied.
"What! Are you crazy? Get back in here now!" I could feel someone grab my arm and pull me back through the large entranceway. I assumed that it was Blaine and when I looked over my suspicions were confirmed but as soon as I turned to face him he pulled me into an embrace that I could only return with all of my heart as my mind was completely elsewhere.
Had I started the fire even though I was sure that it was all out? Maybe a bit off in the side was on fire and I hadn't noticed... Or maybe someone else had done it.
Who was I kidding it was blatantly my fault.
By the time I was back into the lovely space that we call reality, Blaine was snapping his fingers quickly in front of my probably very pale face.
"Kurt, earth to Kurt? Babe you were so away with the divas just then." He smiled, it was amazing how calm Blaine could be when just outside there was a fire blazing and roaring through the forest. Then again Blaine was a normal teenage boy who was amazing in every aspect of him, I loved him with all of my heart and I knew that I didn't deserve him, that I was just being selfish, he deserved someone else who was normal, who wouldn't be such a hassle to love back. Then again that was a thought that I could definitely save for another day, right now there were more dangerous matters to take care of.
"We need to stop the fire." I said with a slight edge of apprehension in my voice and I started back towards where Blaine had pulled me from.
"Hey wait no!" He said and once again grabbed my arm. This time with a little more force. When I turned and stared at him he lessened his grip slightly. "I don't think you or I have the equipment to put out a fire, so let's just wait with the rest of the students."
Sure enough the hall was now filled with Dalton students in all different stages of getting ready for sleep, some were already in their pyjamas, others were in their uniforms and of course Jeff was just in a towel.
"Jeff do I even want to know?" Blaine asked beside me as he tried to repress the slight giggle that was forming in his throat.
"I guess it was a bad time to take a shower." The blond haired boy laughed at his own knack of humour which cracked Blaine up in turn.
With the whole student body of Dalton crammed into one room and the stress of the over excited day I had taken part in, my mind was not as easy to close as it normally was and there were too many thoughts to even try to comprehend. It was like one big concert hall where everyone had a microphone and nobody would shut up.
The hall remained like this for another two hours during which time the fire brigade had shown up and put out the fire, the firemen of Westerville Ohio were not the ones that you see on the calendar let me tell you that, they were all either middle aged or pushing 60 and some were slightly overweight, but I was thankful that they had saved my school from completely burning down. They left the principal's office where they had been for half an hour telling her the damage and if they could, what had caused it. Soon afterwards our principal, who was a lovely lady in her mid thirties, came and stood in front of us. She did not look happy.
"This was no accidental fire, the fire men can't tell what started it but they are sure off this, on, now the police have agreed that if the person comes forward in the next 24 hours then no charges will be pressed against them, but they will be expelled from Dalton. There is no question about that. If during tomorrow the culprit does not come forward then the police will open an investigation and they will be dealt with by the law. I hope you are all smart enough boys to realise which option is the more sensible one to take, then again I thought all of you were more sensible than setting fire to our beloved home." Her face had remained and mixture of angry and distraught throughout the whole of her speech and at one point I thought that she was going to cry. As she made her way back to her office I wondered if she had her own private room back in there as you rarely saw her out of it.
Everyone was starting to disperse and they were starting to whisper among their friends about who they thought could have done it, I was so tempted to just peak inside their heads and see of anyone knew, but I decided that I didn't want to know if they did and the chances were that they didn't. Blaine slotted his hand into mine and we began to walk back towards out dorms, leaving the drama of the main hall back where it was.
"Hey you're sleeping in my dorm tonight, I want to keep an eye on you after the whole French ordeal okay?" the shower boy asked as he smiled lovingly at me.
"I'm absolutely fine... but I will not be passing up the chance to sleep next to you." I smiled back and Blaine laughed which made me laugh. I was glad that I could act as even though I was as calm as a painted picture of the ocean on the outside, on the inside it felt more like world war three had begun and my mind had begun to open to all the thoughts swimming through the heads of the students.
"I can't believe someone set fire to the school... I wonder if they'll serve bacon tomorrow, I really like bacon... Will this mean that homework won't be in for tomorrow?... How could someone be so heartless...? I hope there were no squirrels in the forest... That supernatural freak will get what's coming to him..."
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