The Reason-The Prodigal Son

Disclaimer: I do not own Glee.

A/N: Big Thanks to everybody who is reading this story. Thanks for all the reviews and alerts. The song is Father of Mine by Everclear and will be in bold and italics.

Father of mine, Tell me where have you been

You know I just closed my eyes, My whole world disappeared

Father of Mine, Take me back to the day

When I was still your golden Boy, Back before you went away

Paul Karofsky, is not a religious man. The last time he sat on a church pew, had been for his Mothers funeral. Now Sitting on a musty, faded brown recliner, in front of a TV more than ten years old, he begins to re examine his life. His father had been a hard working auto worker, his mother a homemaker. His dad worked sixty hours a week, and Sunday's consisted of church in the mornings and a four course dinner in the evening. Growing up he played games like smear the queer and kick the can. Watched shows about real men, like Gunsmoke, and The Rifleman. In his earlier years Gay still meant to be filled with Glee. Now his son was gay, and it didn't mean that anymore. David has been the antithesis of happy. Angry, sullen, acting out. Why didn't I catch on before. The look he was giving that Hummel boy in the office. There was more to the story. It wasn't that long ago he had a nice home, loving wife and a star football player for a son. Now he has a falling credit score, an angry harpy for a soon to be ex-wife, Most of his dinners are frozen, and a hole in his heart where his son used to reside.

Kurt, location Blaine's bedroom Labor Day Weekend

Kurt felt like he was in a nightmare. School starts in two days, and Blaine was coming with him. The day that he returned home from Dave's, he'd taken Blaine to dinner. His original plan was to go somewhere public, so Blaine wouldn't make a scene and hear him out. A dear John dinner. How is your chicken? By the way I'm dumping you for my former bully, turned reformed hunk. Please don't hate me. Hopefully we can still be best friends. Did you want to split a piece of cheesecake? Foolishly hoping things would run smoothly. Instead he spent the evening consoling his friend, not because he broke up with him, But because his parents had lost everything. Blaine told him what his parents had said, and then what he heard them say when they didn't think he was listening. They told him they were buying a smaller house, instead they were renting one. They told him It was a few bad investments, instead it was all bad investments. His father had even depleted Blaine's college fund, trying to dig them out of the hole he created. So now senior year Blaine has to start over, make new friends and face old fears. Kurt couldn't bring himself to destroy his friend further. Mostly he avoided Dave's calls and when they did talk he kept it short. He was hoping he would find the right time to break it off with Blaine. Knowing all the while he was destroying the two people he loved. How did things get so complicated? He was beginning to loath himself and his cowardice. Blaine had been lied to enough, he didn't need his best friend to do that to him too. Watching him across the table that night Blaine seemed to forget all the trouble between him and Kurt. He was just a scared boy confiding in his best friend. Now Kurt was helping his best friend pack. Blaine's parents had known at the beginning of the summer, what was going to happen but they had waited to drop the bomb on their son until the last moment. Claiming they didn't want to ruin his summer. Kurt just thought they were cowards, like me.

Blaine, " I need to buy clothes. I don't have too many since I've been in a uniform the last couple of years. Guess it's a good thing they will come from the thrift store, since I will probably join the once a day slushy club." He tries to smile but it comes out a grimace.

Kurt, " Actually, things were different at the end of last year. We still have tension between the football team and the Puckheads. For the most part we are left alone. Most people don't want to cross Azimio, and he has the hots for Mercedes." Although if Dave tells him what is going on between us, I'll definitely be on his bad side, along with Blaine. Sighing he turns to grab another box.

The Karofsky House

Dave put in for a work transfer the week before Kurt showed up on his doorstep. His original thought was to surprise him. It will be a surprise all right. Honey I'm home. Maybe I should go get an axe and chop down the Anderson's door. If I'm lucky the cops will shoot me and put me out of my misery. You knew something like this would happen, you knew he would have second thoughts. "Hell." Kicking a box out of his way. He's been unpacking all day, and has orientation at the new store tonight. How much different can this Meijer be than the other one? Groaning he climbs the stairs in search of his bed. His mood went from mad to royally pissed earlier after he had called Kurt, wanting to give him a heads up, only to be informed by Finn that he was out with his boyfriend, exact words.

Thirty minutes and no sleep later, he rubs his eyes and climbs out of bed. Shit what's the saying? You can sleep when your dead. Dead is how I'll feel after my shift tonight. A quick shower and shave and he's out the door in search of coffee. His ma was a tea drinker, and with Dave and his Dad gone she no longer kept coffee in the house. Stopping at the gas station, he eyes their coffee, it looks like it's been there since yesterday. They probably just put more water in and reused the grounds. No Thanks. Grabbing some gum and a water, he heads back to his truck. There at pump seven is Paul Karofsky. Since he had been disowned, he decided to do the same, Refusing to call that man his dad. His steps falter only for a minute. He knew this was gonna happen occasionally, Lima was small after all. And it always seems that the people you don't want to see are the ones you do. He's tried to barricade that part of his heart but it still rips and tears as his father's eyes meet his and turn away. Self righteous fucker, I will not cry you son of a bitch. Driving out of the lot, he wipes away a lone tear.

I remember the blue skies, Walking the Block

I loved it when you held me high, I loved to hear you talk

You would take me to a movie, You would take me to a beach

You would take me to a place Inside, That is so hard to reach

He could understand Kurt's abandonment of him, but his father. Kurt he had hurt and scared, anytime he had with him was a gift. Doesn't make it hurt less. It was something he never thought he would have a taste of to begin with. But a father is supposed to love you unconditionally. Although he had been afraid to come out, he feared his peers reaction more than his parents. I had that one backwards. He had locked his father away in that mental filing cabinet labeled Out Of Mind-Out Of Sight. Now the moment he has been dreading, finally came. Truly it was anticlimactic, but the fast beat of his heart combined with the twisting knots of his stomach tell a different story. That cabinet unlocked, memories flash through his head like a runaway slide show. His first hockey game, his dad brought him hot chocolate . After winning the football championship, He took him out for a steak, A mans meal, he called it. His brain was on overload. Trying to process how the man that could teach his son how to ride a bike, the man that would sit him on his lap allowing Dave to steer the wheel while he operated the pedals around the grocery parking lot, the man who told him scary stories then checked under the bed for monsters, had quit loving him. Kurt was meant to leave him, he just never thought his dad would too.

Father of mine, Tell me where did you go

You had the world inside your hand, But you did not seem to know

Father of mine, Tell me what do you see

When you look back at your wasted life, And you don't see me

Coffee forgotten, he comes back home. Upset, he text Kurt.

DK:" I miss talking to you." Curled on his bed in the dark, he watches as the phone lights up with a reply.

KH: "I miss talking to you too." Kurt, sighs. He's still at Blaine's, and all he really wants to do is be with Dave.

DK: "Where have you been?"I doubt you'll tell me the truth.

KH:" Home, Just busy with school starting."Gaga, all these lies, I'm making quite the web of them. Sooner or later I'm going to get stuck, and be eaten by the spider.

DK: "OH" Whatever you say Fancy, since I just drove by your house and your car was no where in sight.

KH:" I promise I will be around more, just give me a couple of days." I can't keep doing this or I will lose both of them.

DK:" Okay Night Fancy" I love you, even though you'll never know it.

KH: "Night" I love you Dave the Fury Karofsky, please don't let me lose you too.

Father of Mine, Tell me where have you been

I just closed my eyes, And the world disappeared

A/N: Next chapter, Dave returns to the halls of McKinley. Night all.