Title: Think only of my love! – my song is gone
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Warnings: takes place after Prom; mentions of character death
Pairings: canon
Rating: PG
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Point of view: third
Prompt: Rachel went snooping around the old Glee Club records, and finds tapes on one from years ago, she plays it and says they should be more like them. Kurt realises it's his mother singing a solo. Do with this what you will!
No one is really listening to the tape. Mercedes saw an argument between Karofsky and Azimio, and she's whispering everything she heard to Kurt; Mike and Tina are cuddling; Santana is simultaneously flirting with Brittany and Finn while Lauren and Puck make out; and Quinn is updating facebook on her phone at the same time Sam and Artie begin a discussion about Avatar versus Lord of the Rings.
Rachel is trying to gain everyone's attention, and Mr. Schue is about to lose his temper, when one ethereal voice soars away from the rest, filling the room and silencing all of them.
Kurt's eyes widen, and then he ducks his head, slamming his eyes shut.
"We need to sound like this!" Rachel screeches. "Listen!"
That once voice completely steals the show; Kurt doesn't even hear the others, plodding and heavy behind her, trying to follow and losing the way. She sang in his dreams, haunted every horrible moment he'd ever experienced, kept him company in dumpsters, whispered how one day, it would all be better.
He knows this song, too. She sang it as a lullaby on the nights he had bad dreams.
"What is she sayin'?" Puck mumbles to Lauren; she shushes him. The song is French, one of his mother's favorites. She used to say she met Dad because of it. They danced around the kitchen while she sang it, Kurt snug between them.
Kurt smiles, swaying to the music, and then he begins to sing. He echoes her, slightly deeper, and tears slip down his face as he duets with his mother again.