To everybody on the East Coast, stay safe, alright? I hope it's over as quickly as possible!
Oh hey, I forgot to mention last night that I'm in Pottermore now =D I don't have much time to dedicate to it unfortunately but I can't wait to get to Hogwarts! I'm not sure how it works with adding friends but if anybody wants to add ChestnutSky16, go ahead :)
I made sushi plans with a friend for Friday which is depressing because I want it to be Friday now! I haven't been to a Sushi Train in so long...
From EbonyRadford: what about Kurt and Blaine in the McKinley library in NoN, and Blaine sees the Thunderclap, and what the other students have written on his photos?
TGTDOSBDK. Before they meet up with Brittany and Artie and the Karofsky encounter.
Graffiti
"And this is my old cheerleading coach's office." Kurt gestured to a formidable looking room with a grimace. "Not a fun place. I hope we don't run into her tonight, I still haven't returned my uniform."
Blaine shook his head, trying not to laugh. "I still can't believe you were a cheerleader here."
"There's a lot of things you don't know about me." Kurt smirked at him as they continued to walk down the hall. "Mercedes and I would always meet up by her locker every morning to dish on Rachel's outfit for that day - there was perhaps two days of all of last year where she had something we could almost like, but most of the time it was making plans to burn her tights and socks. We never made a successful one."
This time Blaine couldn't keep his laugh back and judging by Kurt's smile, he hadn't wanted him to. "Which one was your locker?"
Kurt pointed down a hallway and they turned, walking down to the locker that had once belonged to Kurt. It was hanging open, empty. Kurt examined it for a moment but Blaine's attention was drawn to the door a few lockers down. "What's in there?"
"Library. Want to look?"
Blaine nodded and the two entered the library. Kurt's eyes were immediately drawn to a chair in the corner and Blaine was about to ask him the significance when he saw a shelf labelled YEARBOOKS. Curious, Blaine wandered over and pulled out last year's one.
"So yeah, just a library. I - wait, no!"
Blaine looked up from where he was flipping through the yearbook to see Kurt looking panicked. "Blaine, don't look in there!"
"Why not?" Blaine didn't want to upset Kurt, but there had to be some kind of reason for him to not look in a yearbook.
And then Kurt started looking shifty. "I - um, I was having a bad hair day?"
"Nice try." Blaine checked the contents page again before flicking through to the Glee club page. "I don't see what the - oh."
Because Blaine had found the page. A picture of the New Directions kids was smiling up at him with a few changes - Santana and Brittany were in Cheerio uniforms, Quinn was pregnant, Sam and Lauren were missing, and graffiti was covering the page. Blaine ran his hand across the photo, taking in the words. The title had been changed, oh so creatively, to 'Geek Club', just about everybody was sporting some kind of facial hair, Rachel had a big LAME arrow pointing at her and someone had scrawled NO DIRECTION just below Kurt.
"I didn't want you to see that." Kurt's voice had gone all quiet. "I'd actually forgotten they did it, there was a huge drama about whether we'd actually get the photo taken because they always did this, but Rachel convinced -"
"I want to see your photo."
Kurt was biting his lip. "Blaine, I don't think -"
"Kurt."
Kurt leant over and silently flipped through to his class. His hand rested over the page for a moment until Blaine reached over and took it in his, moving it off the page.
And there was a picture of his boyfriend, barely discernible underneath the glasses, mohawk and warts that had been drawn on him. But none of that even registered in Blaine's mind, his thoughts fully occupied with the word written straight across Kurt's face.
FAG.
"Blaine, it doesn't matter, honestly."
Blaine's voice was measured as he stared at the yearbook. "You lived with this for years?"
"It's not important. I -"
"Kurt." His boyfriend fell silent and Blaine finally dragged his eyes from the photo. Kurt was staring back at him, looking determined to brush the whole thing off, but Blaine knew him well enough to see the glimmer of residual hurt at the back of his eyes. "This hurt more than you let on."
Kurt knew better than to argue. "Yeah," he admitted quietly, dropping into a seat. "I mean, I'm over it now, but at the time it really stung."
Blaine sat down next to him, taking his hand. "Hey, look at me." Kurt looked up and Blaine locked eyes with him. "I know what it's like, remember. I know the words stick with you, so I need you to know that those kids were idiots and you are none of what they said." Kurt immediately tried to avoid the compliments but Blaine was having none of it. "Kurt, you're amazing. If the fact that I'm your boyfriend isn't enough to prove that, then I'll tell you every day until you start believing it or at least accepting the compliment."
"And what if I don't?" Kurt's voice began defiantly, but petered out, and by the end of the sentence Blaine could tell just how worried he was that he might not be able to accept compliments.
"Well, I'll need to find different ways to tell you and - and maybe show you." Blaine knew he was going out on a limb, but Kurt needed to know. Blaine wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't make sure Kurt knew how incredible he was in Blaine's eyes.
Kurt looked confused before realization hit. "You'd want to do that?"
"You thought I wouldn't?" Blaine shook his head, staring at Kurt in disbelief. "Seriously?"
Kurt blushed, looking down. "Well, you hadn't yet, so I guess I thought you didn't..."
"Kurt, look at me." When he showed no signs of looking up, Blaine reached out and took his chin, gently lifting his head so he could look him in the eyes. "The only reason I haven't is because of everything you've gone through, I wanted to be sure you were totally ready. But trust me, I want to."
He felt Kurt shiver at the intensity of his words before he spoke. "I'm ready, Blaine."
It took a moment for the words to register, but when they did, Blaine wasted no time. Keeping his hand on Kurt's chin, Blaine leant in and gently brushed their lips together. He had intended to keep it simple, but all that failed when Kurt gasped and pressed closer, seeking the contact.
Blaine's hand shifted, running across Kurt's cheek as they kissed. He forgot they were meant to be heading in to see the New Directions performance, or that they were in a situation where any of the jocks that made Kurt's life hell could potentially walk in. All that mattered, or even existed to him, was Kurt's lips.
Apparently Kurt had remembered though, because after a few seconds he pulled away reluctantly. "As much as I'd love to keep doing that, we need to go support my friends."
Blaine nodded, moving to close the Thunderclap before stopping as an idea struck. Grabbing his bag, he rummaged through it before pulling out a permanent marker.
"Blaine?" Kurt looked confused, but Blaine simply uncapped the pen, hovering above Kurt's image. He turned to his boyfriend, seeking permission silently. After a moment, Kurt nodded. Blaine turned back and pressed his pen to the yearbook, crossing out the word FAG before scrawling a couple of words of his own. He showed it to Kurt briefly, eliciting a smile out of the boy, before closing it and putting it away.
"Come on, let's go." He offered an arm to Kurt who stood, and they made their way down to the auditorium.
The next time someone opened the McKinley Thunderclap, flipping through idly to find someone's image to deface, they would pause, reading the words above Kurt's photo with stunned disbelief.
Perfect.
- Blaine Anderson (boyfriend)
I deliberated a little over what Blaine could have written. I wanted to write 'Property of Blaine Anderson' but that's a little possessive and if they do break up, weird.
Ugh, on that note. We did one of those sharing things where you write your name on a piece of paper then pass it around and people write anonymous comments about you that you can read and feel happy about later. I got mine back and my boyfriend at the time had written "You are beautiful." So now I can't read that piece of paper anymore, after all the crap he put me through. I'm tempted to get rid of his line...
MusicalEscape:
Mercedes Jones has uploaded 1 new photo to her album.
Burt Hummel: WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?
Kurt Hummel: Um... today...
Brittany S. Pierce: How did I get on here?
Kurt Hummel: Boo, please stay out of this conversation.
Brittany S. Pierce: I don't know how to, Lord Tubbington won't let me off.
Kurt Hummel: ...what?
Lord Tubbington: Meow.