A/N:
I posted an outtake from Tears Stained as Once Warblers Always Friends, it is an alternate first meeting between Wes and Blaine in Tears Stained that did not fit the story anymore after I had made some changes but I loved it too much to just delete it.
I'd love to know which you liked better, the one I ended up using here or the other. If you should read it, let me know maybe?
Also, now that I have finished writing Poison this is the next project on my list to finish up, meaning I will be consistently writing for this story now. This chapter is just the beginning of the end though. Plenty more to come.
Lots of Love to everyone (still or newly) with me here,
M
Tears Stained
Chapter 17: Ir-responsibility
With Wes beside him it is suddenly surprisingly easy to get Blaine to eat breakfast, or maybe it is more the fact that it is much easier to get a smoothie down than a meal that requires all sorts of chewing. Somewhere in there, between having half and fully finished his smoothie Kurt offers Blaine his pills to take.
When the three of them are cuddled up again on the bed, this time sitting up against the headboard, the empty glasses put aside, Wes asks, "So this Sebastian guy … want to tell me what's the deal with him?"
Before really thinking too much, Blaine snuggled tight into his side, Kurt answers, "This is getting more out of hand than the whole Karofsky tragedy."
"The what?" Wes asks confused.
And this is how Wes learns about the day Blaine had disappeared from Dalton.
The story really just spills out of Kurt, and Wes feels Blaine flinch next to him when Kurt talks about the kiss forced onto him and the boy, that football player that had kept coming after him until the day Kurt had left and come to Dalton. "And I thought about it a lot the last days," Kurt adds, holding Blaine a little tighter in that moment, "Sebastian Smythe is a lot with Blaine like Karofsky had been with me. Persistent in a way that borders on obsession, and sure he had not tried to hurt Blaine directly, but right after he learned that Blaine had another half already, he started attacking me, I bet Karofsky would have done the same to Blaine had he been with me already then. That one time in the stairwell at school he had in a way. And I would not put it past Smythe, if Blaine had not been with me but still not interested in him, that he would have started attacking Blaine directly."
"So basically," Wes says, "he does not understand personal boundaries and builds up aggression he does not know what to do with, as soon as someone tells him no, and then lashes out?"
"Basically," Blaine confirms quietly, sounding sad and sleepy again now that the new pills are taking effect.
Wes reaches over and takes one of Blaine's hands in his, "Fits with what I've seen."
Kurt and Blaine both look at him with a frown.
"What?" Wes asks.
"You have seen Smythe? When?" Blaine asks, eyes still tired but wide.
"My flight yesterday might have gotten in earlier than I let on," Wes answers looking somewhat guilty now. "I hadn't known the operation had been moved to yesterday or I would have come here right away."
"Wes?" Blaine asks worriedly, squeezing the boys hand in his still tightly. Blaine at this point does not trust anymore that Smythe is beyond hurting anyone he cares about.
"You mostly went to see your parents, right?" Kurt asks, feeling his own heart beat harder, afraid of the alternative.
"No, the house was and is empty as ever. Only ran into the gardener."
"What did you do there all day?" Blaine asks in a scared whisper.
Heaving a sigh, and keeping hold of Blaine's hand in his, Wes answers, "So … I went to my parents' home to get my Dalton uniform … ."
"Your uniform?" Kurt frowns.
The fear cuts clear through Blaine's voice, "Wes?"