I know I'm more than a little behind right now and I'm really sorry for that. The fifth happened to be my birthday which led to me being kind of busy and then I had to pack and move the rest of my things back to where I study. That was one hell of a tiring train ride since I brought my bike along for the summer, thus I spent the last two days sleeping when I wasn't having Glee afternoons with my friends now that we're all reunited.

But since I'm not that busy tomorrow I promise to catch up, so don't worry :)

Dispute

Actually, it was quite rare for Blaine and Kurt to have a dispute. Every once in a while they weren't sharing the same opinion, but they usually didn't have problems accepting that fact. And even if their points of view clashed they talked it out and didn't stay mad at each other for long.

This rule couldn't be applied to the dispute between them following the 'Rachel Berry incident', though. That was the first time (and one of the very few ones in the distant future) that they didn't talk to each other for more than three days in a row. There was no texting, no mails, no phone calls, nothing.

Blaine – oblivious as he tended to be – had realized within the hour (after he'd cooled down somewhat) that he'd made a huge mistake. He wasn't ready to admit the extent of his stupidity right then, but the following morning at the very latest he had become aware that he needed to fix this if he wanted to stay friends with Kurt.

The solution to his problem turned out to be anything but easy. Kurt wasn't answering his phone (either because he refused to pick it up altogether in his current state of fury or because he saw Blaine's name on the display), he didn't reply to mails or any other means of communication.

When Blaine tried to talk to his friend in person, Burt sent him away. Blaine was pretty sure that Kurt hadn't told his father what exactly Blaine had said that had left them in this state, otherwise he'd probably have disappeared to look for his shotgun as soon as he caught sight of his only son's (obviously former) best friend.

Being left without any way of communicating with Kurt, Blaine didn't know how he was meant to apologize. Of course Kurt wasn't like the guy who'd tormented him for the better part of high school just because he questioned Blaine questioning his sexuality (if that made any sense outside of his head).

To a degree, he could even understand Kurt's reaction. After all, he just sprung that one on him out of nowhere. Blaine had always been so sure of his sexuality and now he was having a date with one of Kurt's best friends. Who not only happened to be a girl but also had an on-off-something sort of relationship with his step-brother. Probably not the best choice he ever made.

So for now, Blaine was left alone with his guilty conscience, trying to figure out a way to apologize. He thought it'd be easy to find the right occasion since they were attending the same school, after all, but Kurt somehow managed to avoid him thoroughly. If it hadn't hurt so much he would have been really impressed by that. Dalton might be a big school but it wasn't that big.

As it was, the first opportunity to really talk to Kurt presented itself after that second kiss in the Lima Bean that had made it quite obvious to him which way he swung. His friend couldn't seem to get rid of the 'I told you so'-look and Blaine had to bear it since Kurt had every right to wear that look for as long as he wanted. At least they were talking again and their friendship seemed no longer at risk (especially after Blaine finally got the chance to apologize profoundly).

The next time they had anything worthy of being called a dispute, Blaine wasn't surprised when Kurt shut him out again. He was about to throw rocks at his window until he'd have to open it and talk to him when the scene in the auditorium happened.

Blaine soon came to the conclusion that whenever they fought, Kurt would be the one to give in, but at the same time he never even gave his boyfriend a chance to apologize. At least not before he'd forgiven him anyway and it always made Blaine's honest apologies sound like empty phrases.

One day, years from that first dispute in the Lima Bean that taught Blaine to let Kurt have his time to think things over before he begged for forgiveness (forcibly, since he was always shut out completely), there was another one. Blaine couldn't even remember what exactly it had been about, he just knew that it was some over-the-top wedding arrangement or other.

It wasn't like Blaine didn't want Kurt to have the wedding he'd always dreamed of, they simply couldn't pay half of that dream without ruining themselves. Kurt knew that, too, but it still frustrated him to no ends and he'd let it out on Blaine once again. Stressed as he was, Blaine had snapped right back and things had gone downhill from there. It had been exactly four days since he'd last spoken to his fiancé.

On the fifth day, Blaine decided to break with their usual pattern. This time, he wouldn't let Kurt alone with his thoughts until his fiancé deemed it time to forgive him. They'd both made mistakes and he wanted them to find the solution together. He couldn't continue letting Kurt find it for them every single time and just agreeing to it.

Thus he somehow pried Kurt's whereabouts out of a scared-looking Rachel and prepared himself to camp in front of that stupid hotel room door. He knocked until his hands hurt, called for Kurt to let him in so he could apologize – so they could both apologize – until his voice gave out. He only ever stopped to recover for a few minutes. People were starting to peek out of the neighboring rooms, but Blaine ignored them fiercely. So what if they called security? He wouldn't go down without a fight, not this time.

Whenever the thought arose that it would be easier to sort things out like they were used to do, Blaine told himself to stay strong. They were going to marry and they couldn't do that if they weren't equal partners. If Kurt couldn't let him in when he was mad at Blaine, how were they supposed to work out?

A few hours after Blaine had first arrived in front of his fiancé's door (and probably minutes before one of the other guests on the floor would have called security), it finally opened to reveal a very upset-looking Kurt. There were tear tracks on his beautiful cheeks, his eyes were red from crying.

The conversation that followed lasted most of the night. Blaine explained why he had refused to take the easy way out this time and Kurt admitted that he didn't want his fiancé to see him that way, which was why he tried to figure out things for himself before he came to talk to Blaine.

They both came to the conclusion that in the future, they would handle those things together, without Kurt shutting Blaine out like that.

And that they did. Sometimes Kurt tried to retreat into himself after a fight – old habits die hard – but Blaine always convinced him to talk it out right after they had both calmed down enough to have a sensible conversation.

That way of handling disputes (and their brutal honesty) was what got them through the difficult times most of their friends didn't survive as a couple. Whenever someone demanded to know their secret Blaine would brag about how he'd found the perfect solution. Kurt would just roll his eyes and change the subject, but he could never suppress the smile tugging at his lips.

It might be true that Blaine had been the one who had insisted on taking on things that way, but in the end they'd found the solution together. They both knew it and that was all they needed.