AN: Prompt was for yellow safeword as well as Blaine taking out his anger on Kurt.
Yellow
Blaine clenched his hand tightly around the highlighter as Kurt's laugh once again interrupted his reading. "She tried to match what color with that pink dress? How on earth did she get this job?"
Huffing loudly, Blaine tried to refocus on his book, the reality of his midterm the next day looming over him. Kurt continued chatting loudly on the phone in the kitchen, talking into a headset as he banged some pots and pans around.
Blaine gritted his teeth, shaking his head as his train of thought was once more pushed away. He looked up and shot a glare at Kurt, his boyfriend not even noticing as he wandered around the kitchen.
He cleared his throat and Kurt turned to look at him, eyebrows raised. "What is it? I'm on the phone with work."
"I can hear that. You mind keeping it down?" Blaine asked, trying to stay polite despite the frustration rising in him.
"Oh, sorry." Kurt covered his mouth, speaking quietly into the phone. "Sorry. I think I'm bugging the boyfriend."
Blaine turned back to his books, managing to finish the chapter before once again, his concentration was shot by Kurt laughing at something said on the phone. Rolling his shoulders, Blaine stood up, walking into the kitchen.
He crossed his arms as he leaned on the doorframe. Kurt gave him a guilty smile. "Am I being loud again?"
"What would make you think that?" Blaine asked sarcastically.
Kurt raised an eyebrow, giving Blaine a cold look. "You don't have to be rude."
"Because it's not rude to talk loudly on the phone when you know I have a test tomorrow? Don't you have a test this week too? Maybe it's time for you to hang up and get some work done." Blaine suggested.
Kurt uncovered the mouth part of his headset. "I'm going to have to call you back later."
He took off the headset and placed it on the table. "Happy now? I'm sorry if you're in a bad mood but you do not get to come in here and tell me off for not doing my work. I get my work done."
"Do you? Because I seem to recall a pretty low score a couple weeks ago. Or do you not remember that?" Blaine asked snippily.
"You know what Blaine? I do not have to put up with your bullshit. You want to go on an egotistical, idiotic rampage, feel free. But I don't have to stay here and deal with it." Kurt grabbed his keys and his cell phone off the counter. "I'll be back but I wouldn't suggest waiting up. I don't think I need to deal with your stupid curfew tonight either."
He began to storm out but Blaine grabbed his hand, prying the keys and phone out of his hand before tugging him back. "No, you don't. I think you need to spend some time in the corner."
Kurt protested, pulling his hand fruitlessly, unable to escape Blaine's grip as he pulled him over to the nearest empty corner.
Pushing his face so his nose was touching the corner, Blaine gave the order to stay there before turning and walking away, taking the keys and phone with him. Kurt fumed in the corner, crossing his arms and tapping his foot for a minute before he turned to face Blaine.
Blaine had returned to his reading and was once more making progress when Kurt turned around to speak. "This isn't fair, Blaine."
Blaine looked up at Kurt and raised an eyebrow. "Turn back to face the corner or I will spank you."
Kurt scoffed. "No. You know what? Yellow. We are going to have a talk about this one."
Before Kurt had said yellow, all Blaine felt was anger and frustration with the brattiness of his boyfriend. He figured it was just Kurt's typical dramatics and he wasn't going to put up with it. But if Kurt was going to use his safeword, there must be something more there. He began to feel a bit of uncertainty grow in his stomach as Kurt crossed the room to sit next to him on the couch.
The two sat in silence for a bit, Blaine waiting for Kurt to speak and Kurt waiting until he was less annoyed. Finally, Kurt began. "I understand you are under a lot of stress right now. And perhaps I was being too noisy on the phone. But you do not get to take out your anger on me. I am your boyfriend, not your punching bag, so the next time you start feeling stressed like that, go to the gym. Don't start trying to punish me."
Blaine's jaw dropped. "I-I'm not using you as my punching bag. I would never hit you like that."
Kurt shook his head. "I don't think you would either. But you know something? You hurt me earlier. I put a hell of a lot of trust in you when it comes to this whole punishing thing and you just abused that because you were angry. So no, you wouldn't use me physically as your punching bag but it's not okay to do it the way you did earlier either."
"I wouldn't have gotten so angry if you hadn't started insulting me." Blaine attempted to defend himself, ignoring what Kurt had said because he knew he was right and it rattled him to think he had done that to his boyfriend. Like any normal person, when confronted with guilt, he tried to deflect it away.
"You were angry before I started insulting you. And I am sorry for that. My temper got away from me. It's something both of us need to work on." Kurt gave Blaine a look at that, clearly stating that he wasn't letting Blaine off the hook.
Blaine huffed and sat back on the couch, crossing his arms around his stomach. He bit at his lip for a while, thinking about what Kurt had said to him and how he had acted earlier. He sighed. "You're right. I just...I see you and you don't even have to try and you do well in classes and I'm here struggling to study while you're having fun, chatting away. It really frustrates me how easy you have it and how you take it for granted."
"Take it for granted? I work my butt off. What kind of crap is that?" Kurt interrupted.
"Yeah, you work your butt off at your job. With school, you are coasting and you know it. You could easily get all A's if you just put some effort into school instead of always focusing on Vogue." Blaine continued on over Kurt's objections.
"Oh, here we go again. Just because I got the job at Vogue does not mean I'm not taking my schooling seriously. But I'm not going to say it's not a lower priority because it is. I'm not going to screw up my job with Vogue just to ace some stupid classes that aren't even helpful in the future." Kurt said angrily to Blaine's comment.
"If it wasn't relevant, it wouldn't be part of the fashion design major."
"It's not any of your business so why don't you just back off?" Kurt stood up from the couch and stomped away from Blaine, face flushed with anger.
The two were silent once more, both of them cooling down from the fight. It wasn't often they got into it and it always left both of them feeling shaken.
"Look, I wasn't trying to accuse you of anything." Blaine started, leaning forward on the couch. Kurt turned to look at him. "I was just saying that you have an easier time with your classes than I do so when I see you not working as hard as I do and still getting as good a grade as me, I get upset. It's not fair to you and I know I shouldn't take it out on you. But it's there."
Kurt sighed and came back to sit next to Blaine. "I'm sorry that your major is harder than mine. But you really can't take it out on me. Look at what it does to our relationship. This kind of stress is not good for my skin, Blaine. Do you really want to be responsible for that?"
Blaine laughed at that, feeling Kurt's hand grab his. "I will try to be more considerate of your studying. I know how hard you work and I don't want to make it worse on you."
Blaine gave Kurt a grateful smile at that, adding his own resolution. "I'll be more careful about taking out my anger on you. I never want you to feel like I'm abusing our relationship or using you as a punching bag."
Kurt leaned over to give Blaine a kiss on the cheek. "I will never let you get away with it."
"Good." Blaine whispered, giving Kurt's hand a squeeze.
"And I know how you can make it up to me for today." Kurt grinned, eying Blaine's body.
Blaine groaned. "Am I going to regret this?"
"Oh yeah." Kurt laughed. "I need someone to design on and you have just volunteered yourself. After your midterm, you are mine for all the measurements and pinning and sewing I could need."
Blaine sighed heavily. "Fine. That's fair."
Kurt clapped his hands together gleefully. "Wonderful. I'm going to get started on dinner and drawing some of the outfits. You get back to studying and I'll be quiet. Unless I'm still in trouble?"
Blaine shook his head, waving Kurt towards the kitchen. Kurt started walking away when Blaine called out. "Kurt?"
Kurt turned. "Hmm?"
"I am sorry." Blaine said sadly, looking up at Kurt.
Kurt walked back to Blaine and tilted his head up, pressing a kiss to his lips. "I know. And it's okay. We both have our faults and we'll work it out."
Blaine gave Kurt a smile before turning to his books as Kurt headed towards the kitchen once more.
AN: So there you are. Everyone who wanted Blaine messing up some, this is the best I think I can do. I know I've gotten quite a few prompts for Blaine spanking too hard and leaving bruises and stuff but I'm not comfortable writing that. While some may argue this story is abuse (Probably not any of you since you've stuck with it so long), I don't think it's abusive but that level of punishment is. And I don't see Blaine getting there. I largely write for myself which means the dom is kind of on the perfect side. It's more fun to write Kurt bratting than it is to write Blaine being a bad dom. I'm not saying it will absolutely never happen but I am saying it's highly unlikely I'll write it. Sorry.
Anyways, I'll update again later on this week. Hope you all are having wonderful lives out there!