"The defense calls Azimio Adams to the stand!"
Azimio stood up, glowering at Kurt with lust and hatred. Thad flashed Azimio his middle finger and mouthed "Fuck yourself, you motherfucking asshole!" to which David glared at him.
"Can you please state your name and address?"
"Azimio Adams. 109 Bachman Ave, Lima, Ohio," he said.
"You go to William McKinley High School and are on the football team, correct?" Tim asked.
"Yes." Azimio asked.
"You had several classes with Kurt Hummel, correct?"
"Yes."
"Did he ever display any kind of sexual advances towards you?" Tim asked.
"Oh the fuck with that!" Artie yelled. "Honestly here! Why the hell would you ask that question? Of course Azimio's gonna say Kurt did, well you know what? That is complete bullshit!"
"Okay! Who asked your opinion?" Tim demanded.
"No one!" Artie yelled.
"Well then shut your mouth or I'm gonna ask the judge to make you leave!" Tim yelled.
"Look, you started it, and I'm gonna end it right now!" Artie shouted. "You know Azimio? You say all the time Kurt will die in hell, but are you gay? Are you gay? Be honest here, because I guess those who can't, teach. How long are you gonna put up with this until you embarrass yourself? You say, "God doesn't hate Hummel because he's gay, he's gay because God hates him!" Why are you quoting Mean Girls? You know what they say about people who scream the loudest!"
"How bout you shut your faggy mouth up, Abrams?" Azimio said.
"Oh really? You're calling me gay, because I call Britt hot? You-you really don't know what gay means, do you? I mean I find all the Cheerios in school really hot! I give Britt an A+! I slept with the woman! Her sex is hot! And did you know Kurt once made out with her on his couch a groped her last year? He said her kissing was so hot, it was like a sex dream! So are you feeling a little more embarrassed? Cause you would look really foolish if Kurt wins this and you leave with handcuffs and a bright orange jump suit! Okay you call Kurt a faggot! Faggot is an English word for the word for bundel of sticks! I'm-I'm pretty sure England didn't exist back when the Bible was written, which was how many years ago, genius?" Artie said, causing several people to howl with laughter. But Santana did not seem happy.
"Artie do everyone in the room a favor and park your hadicapped dick right where it is and keep it there and the best thing you can do to end it is by not opening your mouth!" Santana snapped.
"Zoom in on my mouth, Satan-Santana! Who are you to tell me what I can say when you practcally grew up in the ghetto?!" Artie shot back.
"Too shea!" Santana said.
"Can we move on?" Tim demanded.
Tim asked more questions but only received lies from Azimio, and when Mike's dad questioned him, he received lies as well. Azimio just offered excuses, saying he was "just trying to seperate the 'normal people' from 'the crazies'," but Finn, Blaine, Wes, David, Jeff, Nick, Mercedes, Trent, Rachel, Artie, Mike, Mike's father, Thad, and Burt didn't buy it.
Tim stood up and announced his last witness, however, as soon as Karofsky stood, Blaine wrapped his arm, firmly around Kurt's waste and pulled him close to his side as Kurt's hands began to shake. Kurt could feel Nick's hand on his shoulder, squeezing it hard. Jeff glowered at Karofsky. He couldn't believe what a coward this guy was, yet he had the balls to even look at Kurt the way he was right in front of everyone when it was very clear Kurt didn't want any of his offers. He was pretty sure he could see Kurt's small body tremble. Kurt was getting unhealthily thin, and Jeff knew that was from how sick he was.
"Can you please state your name and address?" Tim called out to Karofsky.
"David Karofsky. 169 Lima Street, Lima, Ohio."
"You go to William McKinley high school and are on the football team, correct?"
"That is correct," Karofsky said.
"Now, Kurt Hummel is falsely accusing you of rape. Why?" Tim asked.
"Look, he's a fag. He came on to me. And if I am gay- which I am now because he caused it- he's the only one to blame. If he didn't wear tight pants that showed off his ass to the entire world, then maybe I won't feel the way that I do," Karofsky sneered.
Behind Kurt, Thad was already shaking his head in disgust. "That son of a bitch," he muttered. He was a liar, but none of the Warblers were going to take any shit from him. They hated that guy. They couldn't even find a word bad enough to describe him. Thad had to remember he needed balls in order to prevent himself from screaming.
"So you are saying he wanted this? That he asked for this?" Tim asked.
"He sure did." Karofsky glared at Kurt with hatred and pure lust. Kurt looked down at his trembling hands. He could hear Wes swapping seats with Sam, obviously needing to get a little closer to where he was. He could feel Wes placing a comforting hand on his arm gently. He leaned over to whisper to Kurt. "It'll be alright. Take it easy, Kurt."
"Did you ever kiss him, which Kurt said earlier in his statement?"
"No! Okay? The homo forced his lips on mine and he made me a fag! What else would he do?!" Karofsky asked.
"So now you are saying that you are gay?"
"Yes, because of him."
"Did Kurt enjoy what you did?" Tim asked.
"Of course he did! Fags always enjoy that kind of thing! He already kissed me forcefully," Karofsky said.
"God dammit shut up Karofsky!" Puck muttered as he ran a hand over his velvety head.
"His mouth should get parked in my handicapped space in the McKinley parking lot," Artie said.
"Somebody just go up there and strangle him please!" Mercedes said softly.
"He's one big huge piece of shit," Jeff hissed.
"Is his lawyer an evil twerp?" Brittany asked, seemingly out of nowhere. Everyone knew to just let it go and ignore her. Kurt knew why they were saying these things. He could tell they were just trying to make him feel better and that they cared, but the fact that they were insulting Karofsky and wishing death on him wasn't enough to make Kurt feel any less nervous. In fact, Kurt could already feel cold sweat trickling on his face. His breathing was already starting to quicken out of nerves.
"Finn, Finn he's lying," he whispered to his stepbrother, hopefully quiet enough for only his ears to hear.
"I know," Finn said softly. He reached over and wound an arm around his stepbrother. "He's going to jail now. It's okay. I think we've already won."
"Trust me Kurt, the jury isn't stupid to accept his excuses. Karofsky's lawyer is an idiot who asks one too many stupid questions. I mean this is a man who got sent to prison for a couple hours after being banned from an indoor skydiving facility for being disrespectful," Mike whispered rolling his eyes as Tim continued offering excuses, doing the cookoo sign as if to say he was crazy. Kurt knew Mike was trying to enlighten it, but it didn't make Kurt feel any better. He gave Mike a short glare as he fought back tears, and Mike realized it wasn't helping.
Everyone else, excluding Kurt, was not worried at all, because they knew that Mike's dad was going to screw up everything Tim and his clients had planned.
"It's quite funny how you said Kurt came onto you, because in the video footage, it was very, very clear that Kurt did not want any of that," Mr. Chang said.
"Oh please, he was begging to be touched. He loved it!" Karofsky said in a snide voice.
"Do you even know the definition of enjoy?"
"Yes, I'm not stupid," Karofsky scoffed.
"You could have fooled me. Give me the definition of the word enjoy," Mike's father said.
"It means to find pleasure in something," Karofsky said rolling his eyes.
"And did Kurt come off that way to you in any form?" Mike Chang, Sr. pressed.
"He sure did," Karofsky sneered.
"Do he scream or tell you 'no'?" Mike's father questioned.
"Not that I recall," Karofsky said.
"That was a yes or no question," Mike's dad said. "Do you want me to repeat that?"
"No," Karofsky said. "He didn't tell me to stop. Although he did scream out in pleasure. He was begging for more."
"Then you must have some serious interpretation issues, don't you? Because in that video, it was very, very clear that Kurt did not want that. He begged you to stop, but you kept on abusing him. He was screaming at the top of his lungs," Mr. Chang said.
"Oh please!" Karofsky scoffed. "Don't go giving me any shit. If he didn't wear such revealing clothes that showed off his ass for the entire motherfucking world to see, and if he didn't ask me for any favors, maybe it wouldn't have happened."
"You don't turn gay by being around others. That's not how it works. And didn't you give the principle the same excuse after Kurt said you threatened to kill him?" Mr. Chang challenged.
Karofsky rolled his eyes.
"Well then how do you explain the blood on the floor of his dormatory?"
"Then he obviously had his 'time of the month'," Karofsky said stupidly, causing Mercedes and Nick to flare up in anger. Mercedes heard Karofsky making jokes about Kurt having 'both parts' all the time, and it wasn't funny. Kurt wasn't a hermaphrodite, and Kurt told Nick that Karofsky would canstantly harass him, calling him a 'shim.'
"Kurt isn't a female, and in reality, even if he was, you don't bleed that much when you have your period and I know because I have a wife, and it never drips to the floor. And didn't Tucker already give an excuse that Kurt 'fell' down the stairs causing him to hit his head, which caused the blood on the floor? When we know from the video that you hit Kurt in the back of his head with what appeared to be a particularly large rock and saw him being dragged out through the window by you and your teammates? How do you explain the footage of that? And in addition to that, outside there are security cameras that have recently been installed on Dalton's campus, and they show you shoving Kurt in the trunk of your Range Rover uncousious. He was out cold. And as much as you want to give excuses, they won't work because the evidence is clear," Mike Chang, Sr. insisted. He really wasn't in the mood for this boy's attitude. He heard from his own son how this boy would assualt Kurt and the New Directions, how he would throw slushies in Kurt's face and threaten him and call him names every day. As if that torture wasn't enough for an innocent child to deal with. His son wasn't a liar, and neither was Kurt.
"Look, he made me to be this, and I don't know how, but he did, so I took matters into my own hands," Karofsky explained.
Mike Chang, Sr. shook his head in disgust. "Nothing further," he spat, making sure to glare at Tim before sitting down.
"That's it," Puck muttered. "I'm so gonna kill him." He began to get up from his chair, but both Quinn and Sam pushed down on his shoulders to sit him down.
"Puck!" Finn hissed. "Have you lost your marbals? If you go up there trying to attack him you're gonna end up in prison!"
"I don't give a fuck as to where I go!" Puck said. "I'd rather end up in juvie, than hear Karofsky's mouth!"
"The defense has no further witnesses," Tim called up to the judge.
"Closing arguments, prosecution?"
Mike's father stood and strolled to the front of the room. "Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, I don't need to beg or plead for you to give me the verdict that I want to hear. The evidence speaks for itself. We should have shown you the sick intuitions of David Karofsky and the torture he put Kurt Hummel through.
"All of the evidence is there. The case speaks for itself. David's semen was found on Kurt's anal examinations, as well as his clothing. Each time Kurt had various injuries and was bleeding intensely. He is in an intense amount of pain, can barely even move, has so many marks that I can't even count, and it is shown, that from earlier statements, especially Wes Montgomery and my son Michael Robert Chang's statements that Kurt was diagnosed with depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, for which he would possibly need to go to rehab for in order to get proper treatment, which will be expensive to pay.
"Excuse me for feeling this way, but isn't this wrong? Isn't this immoral? Isn't this every parent's nightmare? I think that if these teens get away with this unspeakable hate crime, our society will be worse off. So please, Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, please don't make the wrong decision. Let's realize what is at stake and punish these teens for what they had done; the fact that they are responsible for Kurt's trauma and pain. Thank you."
"Defense?"
"Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, let me remind you of something. We've already had numerous witnesses come in and testify that Kurt Hummel is indeed a liar who wanted all of those things to happen. At the end of the day, David Karofsky is innocent and Kurt Hummel indeed forced himself on David and acted as a prostitute. It was simply consensual sex.
"What does this mean? Well, Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, this creates a reasonable doubt, and with reasonable doubt, by law, you must render a verdict of not guilty. Thank you."
The jury stood, clutching their papers and pens, and left the room to sort everything out. Kurt looked down at his shaking hands. He wanted this to end already. He couldn't do this anymore. He couldn't. All he wanted right now was to go home, to curl up with Blaine, Finn or his father on the oil-stained living room couch with a movie playing or a football game on the TV surrounded by junk food and his father's light beer cans resting on the coffee table so he could clear his head completely of worries. He wanted to be away from Karofsky as far as possible, because all he did was stare up and down at him, which made him feel like the most violated human being on the planet. He looked over at Finn as tears blurred his eyes. Finn grabbed him and pulled Kurt closer. Kurt could feel Finn press a kiss to the top of his head gently.
"Shhhhhh," Finn whispered to his stepbrother very, very softly. "It's all gonna be okay, now. They're going to jail now."
After waiting for two hours, the jury finally returned with their conclusion.
"We, the jury, find David Karofsky, Azimio Adams, Tucker Collins, Miles Jacobs, and Stravos Hall guilty as charged with rape, aggravated assault, sexual assault, inappropriate touching, harassment, perjury, probation violation, and stalking. All five of you are sentenced to fifteen years in prison and will be sent to Arizona, and you will all be fined $990,000, as well as pay for Kurt Hummel's medical bills for the damage you caused to him, as well as the bills for when he might need to go to rehab for depression and PTSD."
Everyone stood up and watched as the police handcuffed Karofsky, Azimio, Miles, Tucker and Stravos and took them away, saying absolutely nothing. Karofsky gave Kurt what appeared to be very strong, obsessive look, as if to say he wanted to have sex with him again, which caused Santana and Thad to give Karofsky looks full of hatred and disgust. Kurt felt every single muscle in his body shake violently as he heard Azimio scream, "Fuck yourself, fag. I'd rather see you kill yourself than be a fucking fairy! I was doing the motherfucking world a favor!" However, even though the cruel words completely crushed his heart into a million pieces, he couldn't see because tears blurred his vision so badly, and everything else was just a big, huge blob of watery colors. Finn wrapped his arm tightly around Kurt and pulled him tightly into his side, tracing circles into his arm.
"Shhh, it's okay. They aren't gonna touch you again," Finn promised Kurt softly. He then just pulled Kurt into his chest, whispering to him gently. "Kurt, never forget how much we love you," he said fiercely. And that was when Kurt's tears came falling down, soaking into Finn's shirt. Kurt could feel Blaine rubbing his back with small, soothing circles, whispering the occasional "Sh, sh, sh, it's alright," "We're right here for you and none of us are going anywhere," and "Everything's going to be okay, honey." Finn then began singing softly.
We clawed, we chained, our hearts in vain
We jumped, never asking why
We kissed, I fell under your spell
A love no one could deny
Don't you ever say I just walked away
I will always want you
I can't live a lie, running for my life
I will always want you
I came in like a wrecking ball
I never hit so hard in love
All I wanted was to break your walls
All you ever did was wreck me
Yeah, you wreck me
I put you high up in the sky
And now, you're not coming down
It slowly turned, you let me burn
And now, we're ashes on the ground
Don't you ever say I just walked away
I will always want you
I can't live a lie, running for my life
I will always want you
I came in like a wrecking ball
I never hit so hard in love
All I wanted was to break your walls
All you ever did was wreck me
I came in like a wrecking ball
Yeah, I just closed my eyes and swung
Left me crouching in a blaze and fall
All you ever did was wreck me
Yeah, you wreck me
I never meant to start a war
I just wanted you to let me in
And instead of using force
I guess I should've let you in
I never meant to start a war
I just wanted you to let me in
I guess I should've let you in
Don't you ever say I just walked away
I will always want you
I came in like a wrecking ball
I never hit so hard in love
All I wanted was to break your walls
All you ever did was wreck me
I came in like a wrecking ball
Yeah, I just closed my eyes and swung
Left me crouching in a blaze and fall
All you ever did was wreck me
Yeah, you wreck me
Yeah, you wreck me
Kurt got into the backseat of the Suburban with Finn as Burt drove them home that night. It took him time to process everything. The look on Azimio's mother's face when it was announced that he was guilty and how angry she was when he was screaming homophobia in there. Kurt didn't understand how Azimio could come from a person as nice as her, but he did feel bad. No mother ever deserved to see her son go to jail for fifteen years of his whole life. But he guessed Azimio had to receive the punishment he needed to get. Even Karofsky. Paul Karofsky just looked so disappointed in his son, as if he didn't even recognize him anymore. Kurt shook his head. He had enough for one day. He just wanted to go to sleep and go back to Dalton next Thursday, but even he knew it was going to take him a while to feel safe there again. He had been taken out of his own dorm room and nearly killed. Kurt caught a sight of Trent's face before leaving for the car. He looked guilty for leaving him alone in the dorm; that was probably why he had been avoiding Kurt because he felt nothing but sickness and guilt, but in a way, it was hard for Kurt to be mad at him when he knew Trent left a video camera in there, a recording that practically saved his life, so he didn't want Trent blaming himself for something that wasnt even his fault when he knew his roommate had the best intentions to try and protect him. Kurt curled into Finn's chest. Finn wrapped an arm around him and pulled him in gently. Kurt was just thankful this was all over with. It finally dawned on him that it was over; Karofsky was no longer going to touch him again. Not ever, because the next time he tried, Finn will kill him.
Author's Note
The song was "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus, which as u know was covered in the "End of Twerk" episode. Hope u loved the chapter. Review please! ;)-Luv Dani! XOXOXO