The Faggy Lamp

Kurt was so excited. He had completely redecorated his room to try and welcome Finn into the idea of living with them. While he wasn't too keen on sharing a room, he understood why he had to since he had the largest one compared to his brothers.

The sound of footsteps on the stair told him someone was coming down, and he both wished it was, and wasn't Finn.

Instead it was Chris to turn into his room off the landing. He stepped into the room and took a look around. His expression guarded, he turned to see Kurt staring at him expectantly.

"Well, what do you think?" He asked slightly worried.

Chris smiled at him. "I think it looks fantastic, he'll love it Kurt." The room was a little over the top for himself, but it was totally Kurt, and if Finn didn't like it then he could get over it. It was just a room.

Again, the sounds of feet on the stairs were brought to the boy's attention. Finn turned the corner, and froze.

"Oh Finn! So I had to skip school to finish it, but I think you're really going to like it." Kurt began as he walked towards where Finn stood. "Consider it a peace offering after all of the yelling we've been doing."

Finn continued to stand there. Chris went to sit on the decorative couch. He wasn't liking the boys reaction so far.

"The room is a perfect blend of the masculine and the feminine." Kurt continued to say. Finn began to walk around the room, just looking. Chris watched his every move, dating him to say something. "The muted and the theatrical."

Finally, Finn turned towards Kurt. "Are you freak 'in insane? I can't live here. I'm a dude."

The hurt expression on Kurt's face was obvious, but Finn must not have seen it because he continued to glance around the room. "And what the hell is that supposed to be?" He asked as he pointed to the room divider.

"It's a privacy partition." Kurt said, looking away from Finn. "It's the only one I could find on such short notice." He stopped and looked at Finn again. "Why are you getting angry about everything? I worked really hard on this."

"That's not a privacy partition!" Finn said, getting a little worked up. He began shouting. "Why is it so hard for you to understand? I don't want to get dressed in front of you. I put my underwear on when I'm in the shower when you're around. I just don't want to have to worry about that kind of stuff when I'm in my own room man."

Chris couldn't believe what he was hearing. Right in front of him he saw Kurt began to get upset. "What stuff are you referring to?"

"You know! You know exactly what I'm talking about. Don't play dumb. Why can't you just accept that I'm not like you?"

"Enough!" Chris shouted. He was sick and tired of this. He stood up and went to stand with Kurt. Kurt himself didn't look too happy, judging from the way he was hugging himself.

Finn seemed to ignore him because he continued anyway. "You think I don't know why you were so excited that we got to share a room together?"

"It's just a room Finn!" Kurt yelled, his emotions at a breaking point. His sudden outburst making Chris jump slightly. "We can redecorate it if you want to!"

"Ok." Finn said, nodding and looking around the room again. "Good. Well then the first thing that needs to go is that faggy lamp!"

Chris gasped. Kurt just flinched with a surprised look taking over his facial expression. Finn was yelling again and tossing stuff around the room.

"And then, we need to get rid of this faggy couch blanket and th-"

"HEY!" Burt shouted from his poison by the stairs. No one had noticed that he and Carson had come down to see what all the yelling was about. "What did you just call them?"

Finn looked surprised and scared. "Oh no no I- I didn't call him anything, I was talking to the blanket."

"You use that word, you're talking about them." He said, pointing in the direction of Chris and Kurt. Finn seemed confused for a moment. He glanced towards the boys, wondering what Burt was getting at before it hit him. While Kurt looked upset, Chris looked sad and horrified as a couple tears slid down his cheeks. Realization hit Finn much too late. He hadn't known that Chris was also gay. The poor boy had just been caught in the cross fires.

Carson slowly walked forward and pulled both boys towards him. They seemed to melt into his arms, especially Chris. He wasn't out and proud like his brother was. He had only told his family his orientation since he didn't feel as if he needed to tell the world. Therefore, he wasn't used to being treated in such a way as his Kurt was at school.

Meanwhile, Finn felt absolutely terrible as Burt continued to interrogate him.

"You use the 'n' word?"

"No, no of course not." Finn replied hastily.

"Yeah? Well how 'bout retard? What about that nice girl on the Cheerios with Kurt, you call her a retard?"

"Becky? No, no she's my friend. She has Down's syndrome; I would never do that, that's cruel."

"But you think it's ok to come in my house, and call my sons fags?!" Burt continued to shout at Finn while Kurt, Chris and Carson held each other on the other side of the room. They had never seen their dad this mad before. Carson looked just as angry.

"But that's not what I meant-"

"I know what you meant!" Burt shouted again. "You think I didn't use that word when I was growing up?" Everyone in the room froze. "Back then, we meant it exactly the way you meant it." He stopped for a moment to look Finn over before continuing. "That being gay is wrong. That it's some kind of punishable offense."

At that Finn looked back over at the boys by the back wall. He couldn't see Chris's expression because he had turned his face into Carson's neck, but the sight of a large dark spot on the shoulder of Carson's shirt was enough to tell he was beyond upset. Kurt just stared at Finn and his dad. Carson glared daggers.

"I really thought you were different Finn." Burt continued, completely unaware of his three sons' feelings and reactions. "You know, I thought with you being in Glee club, and being raised by your mom, that it made you some new generation of dude, that just came into the world, knowing what it has taken me years of struggling to figure out."

Finally, Burt glanced behind him and saw the condition of his boys. Chris was still hiding his face in Carson's neck, but Kurt's hurting eyes were out in the open for all to see. Carson had angry, watery eyes that wouldn't leave Finns face. Burt turned back to Finn.

"I guess I was wrong. I'm sorry Finn, but you can't, you can't stay here." This brought Chris's gaze back on the two standing in the middle of the room, and he was a complete wreck. His eyes were bloodshot, and his cheeks were tear stained. Finn further hated himself for causing such a reaction from the normally self-confident boy.

"Dad..." Kurt started to add, but Burt didn't let him finish as he continued to talk to the taller lad.

"I love your mom, and maybe this is going to cost me her, but my family comes first. I can't have that kind of poison around." He then turned back to his sons, and held eye contact with each one of them before speaking again. "This is our home, guys." He glanced back to Finn. "They are my sons!"

Burt seemed to lose momentum with his speech so he began to wrap it up. "Out in the world, you do what you want. Not under my roof."

Finn looked majorly uncomfortable as he dashed around Burt towards the stairs. As he passed the brothers, he tried to send an apologetic look to Kurt and Chris, but Carson pushed his brothers behind him protectively and gave the taller boy both his middle fingers.

When Finn couldn't be heard on the stairs anymore, Burt took a couple steps towards the three boys huddled together. He glanced around the room, before setting his eyes on Kurt. "The place looks great." He said forcefully. This seemed to further upset Kurt, but Burt didn't see it because he had already turned his attention to Chris.

The boy couldn't have looked more distressed as Burt rested his hand on his shoulder before leaving.

Burt didn't know what to say or do to make the situation better, so he decided to leave, knowing Carson would take care of his brothers.

Once their dad was gone, Carson pulled them towards him again, embracing them in a loving hug.

Carson wasn't going to let Finn ruin his brothers like that. He would do anything for Kurt and Chris.

Don't worry; I'll update a part two of this real soon.