Title: Beating The Odds Author: saar_fantasy Pairings:Puck/Kurt Rating: PG-13 Word Count: ~ Genre: Established relationship, Drama, Angst, Romance Warnings: Cancer and all the drama that comes with it (don't worry...It's a happy ending)
Disclaimer: As much as I wished I did, I don't own any of them.
Summary: Puck has been keeping a secret from his boyfriend. From everyone of his friends actually. It takes a fight between the couple for Kurt to realise what's wrong.
A/N: There will be an epilogue, but that's for the new year :)
Puck was sitting in his wheelchair in the park, surrounded by the boys, while Kurt and the girls were making a snowman.
Brittany said she wanted to make him look like Puck, so Kurt had taken a hat and a scarf from him at home so they could drape it around the snowman's neck and on his head when he was finished.
He was able to walk, but Kurt insisted on taking him in the wheelchair when it was too far from their house.
Yes, their. Kurt had practically been living with the Puckermans. So had Santana.
"You alright, dude?" Artie's voice brought Puck out of his thoughts.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Puck answered with a smile, "Glad to be outside again."
Artie smiled back knowingly, "I can imagine. Now I'm not the only one in a wheelchair too."
The 5 boys, Artie included, all laughed while the girls, and Kurt, were still building at their Puckersnowman.
"So dude," Sam piped up this time, "I heard that Santana has been at your house every day since you're back."
Puck nodded, "Yeah. Sometimes she brings Bittany along, but she comes alone most of the time."
"She misses you, man," Mike replies, putting his hand on Puck's shoulder, "We all do."
Puck's eyes well up with tears a little, but he's able to keep them down.
"Thanks, guys. That means a lot."
"Dude," Finn says, and Puck can always count on him to either break the weird moments, or make them even more weird, it depends. "Don't get too soft on us."
They all laugh again and Puck punches Finn's shoulder, both grinning at each other.
Then Brittany comes over to ask the boys for help with the snowman. They all go, even Artie, except for Puck, who grabs hold of Finn's wrist before he can follow the others.
"I need to talk to you, dude," Puck says and nods towards the bench, "Sit down."
Finn frowns, but does as he's told and sits down, looking expectantly at his friend.
"What's up?"
"I've been thinking a lot lately and no, it didn't hurt," Finn snorts and Puck smiles, albeit a little nervously, "It's about Kurt."
Finn frowns again and leans a little closer, "What about him?"
"The "little" dude has been my rock through all of this and I've been thinking about how I could ever thank him for it." He sticks his hand in the pocket of his coat and holds up a little black, velvet box, making Finn's eyes grow comically wide. "My mom knows, Burt and Carole know. Now I only had to tell you about it."
Finn blinked rapidly, "You...You're gonna ask him to marry you?"
Puck shook his head, "Not yet. This is just a promise for later. You know...When we get out of high school." Puck stops and looks into his best friend's eyes, "You ok with that?"
There's silence for a while and Puck can almost see the wheels turning inside Finn's mind. Then a smile breaks out over his face.
"That's awesome dude. Kurt is gonna freak out when you give it to him."
"I just hope he'll like it."
"I'm sure he will. When are you gonna give it to him?"
"How about now?"
Finn blinked, "Now?"
"Yeah. Could you get him for me?"
"Sure," Finn says, standing up again, "Oh and, dude. You better come back to school soon. Even Karofsky isn't the same since you're gone."
Puck smirks, "I knew he had a crush on me."
Finn snorts and squeezes Puck's shoulder before he's gone to get Kurt.
Puck just hopes this will go well.
-..-
"What's going on?" Kurt asks as he's standing in front of his boyfriend, "Are you ok? Do you want to go home?"
Puck smiles at him, "I'm fine, babe." then he pats his legs, "Sit down with me for a minute."
Kurt frowns a little but does sit down, turning his head so he can look at his boyfriend's face.
Puck presses a quick kiss against his lips before taking the little box he showed Finn and holding it in front of Kurt.
"Look to the front, babe."
When Kurt turned to look at his front, he gasped when he saw the box in Puck's palm.
"Noah?" he whispered, "Noah, what is this?"
Puck kissed Kurt's earlobe and whispered, "Open it."
Kurt did open it with shaking hands. When he saw the ring inside, he clasped his hand in front of his mouth and just stared.
"What do you think?"
"I..." Kurt stammered, "I don't...This is too much..."
"It's just a promise ring, Kurt. It's for when we get out of high school, or better, even after college."
Kurt looks back over his shoulder, tears in his eyes, "You want to marry me?"
Puck snorted, as if Kurt just asked him the most stupid question ever.
"Of course I want to marry you, and legally too. You're it for me,babe."
Kurt leaned forward and kissed his boyfriend pationately as tears rolled down his cheeks.
Puck kissed back and when they pulled away, he gently brushed the tears off his boyfriend's face.
"So, what do you think of the ring? You like it."
Kurt looked back at the ring in the box and beamed, "It's beautiful."
He took the ring out of the box, gave it a closer inspectation before holding his hand out and the ring.
Puck recognized the gesture and took the ring, sliding it on Kurt's finger.
Kurt held his hand up, the ring shining on his finger now.
"Noah, it fits perfectly!" Kurt said in awe, throwing his arms around Puck's neck, "Thank you. You're the best boyfriend I could ever wish for."
Puck's face broke out into a smile and he kissed Kurt again.
"Santana helped me pick out the ring."
"Yeah, so you'd better let me be your bridesmaid."
Both boys looked up at the dark haired and blond haired grinning girls in front of them.
"You and Brittany can both be our bridesmaids," Kurt answered with a soft smile, "The ring is really beautiful, Santana. Thank you."
"I know, right." Santana answered in her own cocky way. "We actually came to tell you that the snowman is ready."
"Well, drive me to it." Puck said as Brittany pulled Kurt of his lap and Santana stood behind him with the handles in her hands, pushing Puck towards the snowman.
When they were next to the snowman, Brittany pulled off the hat of the snowman and said almost proudly.
"Look, there's a scar on his head so he looks even more like you." Silence fell and Brittany looked around, completely confused. "What? Did I say something wrong?"
Santana was just opening her mouth to say something when Puck beat her to it.
"Thank you, Britt. It's perfect."
Everyone let out a breath of relief, the tension gone, and Brittany beamed, feeling very proud of herself.
Santana ruffled her hand over Puck's hat, then gave him a thankful wink before she moved over to her girlfriend to share her enthusiasm over their work.
"Is that a ring on your finger, white boy?" Mercedes suddenly shrieked and that was the time for Kurt to brag about his ring and getting the attention to something else.
It was a nice distraction. Although nobody blamed Britt for the tension before, she didn't want to make anyone feel bad.
Puck caught Kurt's eye and blew him a kiss, whispering "I love you."
Kurt beamed at him and mouthed "Love you too," back before the girls, and even the boys, started fussing over his ring again.
Puck stared up at the snowman they all made for him and smiled.
His life couldn't get any better for now.
If only the cancer could stay away. Forever.
Then his life would be just marvelous.