A/N: I know it's pretty damn short. It just felt really really right like this, exactly like this.
Poison
Chapter 12
Blaine had not known. Blaine had had no idea Kurt, in the time they had been broken up had, especially in the early days of their break-up, become quite a frequent visitor to the website they had once stumbled upon together.
Their resources on depression had helped Kurt put himself back together when nothing else had worked. Because the hardest part for Kurt had been to understand what had been happening with him, what had been going on inside his own head, making him feel restless and all too completely drained at the same time.
Blaine, too, has no idea what has become of his video since he first posted it on the site last Wednesday, nor that the self-help site has an alert function for new content that might be of interest to any bearer of an account, such as Kurt. And Blaine could not possibly have known that the heading he had chosen that day for his video "Bullying at School" would lead his video directly into Kurt's email account.
Blaine visibly draws in on himself then, "You saw the video?"
"Love ..."
Blaine takes several steps back, "No. Please, just ...," Blaine heaves a shaking breath, "I don't ..., I hadn't meant for you to ..."
Kurt steps forward then, reaches for Blaine's shaking hands and holds them tight in his own, pulls Blaine lightly closer to himself again by them, "I know, Love, I know you are trying to figure out the right thing to do ... with all this," Kurt runs a hand carefully along Blaine's shoulder, down his uninjured side. "And I love you so much, and I respect you, but I cannot pretend I am not glad that site linked me, by coincidence, to your video. I respect you being your own person, and I admire you for fighting back in your own way, by turning to the people who might be going through the same instead of pumping energy into the empty space between you and your bullies. But I am your boyfriend and I love you too much," Kurt's tears, gathering in his eyes all along start running again then, "I love you far too much to just walk away. I promise we will do this your way, but please let me be here for you, with you. I cannot sit in New York and watch another video of you all bruised up like that. Before you say anything, I am not jeopardizing anything either, I promise you. I spent all of Friday putting things right with my professors for this week, and I worked double shifts at the diner all weekend so I would get all of this week off. I choose to be here with you. Please let me be here for you."
Blaine allows himself then for the first time all day to be fully pulled into Kurt's arms.
They simply stand like this for a while, Blaine's face soon buried in the fabric of Kurt's shirt, new tears disappearing there.
When the quiet holds, after the tears have tangibly stopped, Blaine's form completely still, Kurt asks, "Blaine?"
Blaine's arms in answer wind around Kurt's middle, pull him as close as he possibly can be, then a whisper "We don't have to be apart anymore?"
Kurt had not even thought about it in this way so far, mind too preoccupied with getting here, being here, for Blaine, for himself. Now though, hearing Blaine's words, taking them fully in, Kurt lets out a deep breath of relief, "We don't have to be apart anymore."
