A/N: Wow I'm cranking em out today, you get 2 chapter within less than 12 hrs. Aren't you lucky?
"Kurt?" She said gently. The boy looked up, clearly expecting to see his best friend, or maybe Quinn, and obviously disappointed to see only Rachel.
"Go away! I don't want to talk to you now."
"Well, I'm guessing you don't really want to talk to anyone right now. Maybe Mercedes or Quinn, but not me right? Not silly, over the top, onbnoxious Rachel, right?" Despite his pain, Kurt felt a little bad, he really didn't hate Rachel anymore, and the last thing he wanted to do was hurt her feelings.
"I'm sorry. Just, I This just hurts so bad." Kurt said, finally breaking down. "I just want to go off somewhere and die! Like I thought it was bad when Finn rejected me, and when he flipped out about my redecoraton of the room, but it doesn't even register on a scale compared to this. I feel like my life has no meaning, like he stole my soul along with my heart."
"I know." Rachel said quietly. "Kurt, I know!" And it struck him then that she really did know, better than any of his other friends. Mercedes, she'd never had this heartbreak, her crush on him had been just that, a foolish crush, and her short-lived fling with Puck had ended on her terms. Quinn, even thought the break-up with Finn had hurt her, she had known it was possible at any time, and in a way, she'd already moved on. But Rachel, first with Finn and his idiocy, then with Jesse St. Jerkface, she'd been where he was now.
"Kurt, I know that what's happened to you isn't the same as for me. At the very least you didn't get pelted by eggs, though that one word was maybe worse. But, you've been there for me so I want to be here for you." She sat down beside him and put an arm around his shoulders. "If it makes you feel any better, Finn, Noah, Matt and Mike went to beat him up." At Kurt's cry of alarm, she smiled reassuringly. "Don't worry, on the way out here I called Mr. Schuester and told him where they were headed. He went to cut them off."
"Good. I mean not that I'm worried about him getting hurt, I just don't want…"
"Him getting hurt, and them in trouble. I get it Kurt, why do you think I tried to stop Finn and Noah from going and attacking Vocal Adrenaline's cars? Thank goodness that that person who shares some genes with me, actually had a heart for once and kept them from getting expelled."
"Your mother?" Kurt asked laughing a little at her description.
"Shhh…we do not give her that title, she doesn't deserve it!" Rachel said almost angrily. "Here, why don't you try, experiencing the heartbreak you've got right now, except from the one person you figured would love you unconditionally and would never intentionally hurt you."Kurt thought about that, yeah that would kinda suck worse than his current situation.
"I'm sorry." Rachel said suddenly. "I shouldn't have just dumped that on you, I'm still a little bitter I guess."
"You have perfect right to be, about all of it. I think that this is going to bother me for the rest of my life!"
"No it won't." Rachel said matter-of-factly. "The hurt starts to fade, the constant memory goes away, the nightmares stop."
"How did you know I've,"
"Been there, remember? You still can't look at him or think of him without wishing he would be eaten by a lion, but it doesn't haunt you every second anymore. Kurt, we're seniors. Three more months here and we're done! No more slushie facials, no more getting thrown in dumpster, no more nasty slurs shouted at you in the hallway."
"No boyfriend that you thought was the one, saying a word you never ever expected him of all people to use, a word that stings every time a jock hurls it at you casually, like it's your name, a word that rips you open when your friend, your almost-brother uses it in a fit of anger, a word that tears you into a million little tiny pieces then stomps all over them leaving you too broken to move on, said like its no big deal by the one person who you thought loved you too much to ever use it, someone you thought was just like you?" Kurt asks Rachel, breaking down into sobs again.
"I can't promise you that you'll never hear that word again Kurt. My dads? They'll come home sometimes, ready to scream and cry, because someone said something hurtful, something that cut too deep to ignore." And Kurt remembers that Rachel is also the only person he knows who has never said that word in her life, and will never ever use it, even in the biggest rage possible. "But Kurt, that kind of hurt fades, each slur gets a little easier to ignore, and one day, someday, your heart will be whole again. You'll meet someone new, they'll fill the void a little, but the true filling comes from inside you. Kurt, you're going to get out of this town, out of Ohio. I think you might even have a better shot at making it out than I do. Though you had better never repeat that. You're going to Defy Gravity and no one can bring you down."
"That was the cheesiest musical theater reference I have ever heard, Miss Berry."
" I know, but it fit. Let's sing it!" She pulls her ipod out of her purse, then brings out a small speaker.
"Oh no Rachel." He says, knowing exactly where she's going with this.
"Yes! It will help Kurt, I promise! Just put everything in the music." He sighs as she presses play and begins to sing.
Rachel:
Something has changed within me,
Something is not the same.
I'm through with playing by the rules
Of someone else's game.
Kurt sighed, what the heck, he definitely couldn't feel worse, so he joined in the all too familiar tune.
Kurt:
Too late for second-guessing,
Too late to go back to sleep.
It's time to trust my instincts,
Close my eyes and leap.
Both:
It's time to try
Defying gravity
I think I'll try
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye I'm
Defying Gravity
And you won't bring me down...
Rachel:
I'm through accepting limits
'Cause someone says they're so.
Kurt:
Some things I cannot change,
But till I try, I'll never know.
Rachel:
Too long I've been afraid of
Kurt:
Losing love I guess I've lost.
Both:
Well, if that's love,
It comes at much too high a cost!
I'd sooner buy
Defying gravity.
Kiss me goodbye,
I'm defying gravity.
I think I'll try
Defying Gravity
And you won't bring me down.
I'd sooner buy
Defying gravity.
Kiss me goodbye,
I'm defying gravity.
I think I'll try
Defying Gravity
As they reached the end of the song, Rachel dropped out quickly and listened with a smile on her face as Kurt effortlessly hit a perfect high F.
Kurt:
And you won't bring me down.
Bring me down!
OhOhOhohoah
"Wow, that did help." Kurt said softly.
"Told you. And that sounded great by the way. I always knew you could hit it. Why didn't you in the diva-off?"
To Kurt's shock, she listened to his story attentively, and when he finished she threw her arms around him in a huge hug.
"Whoa, chill diva girl."
"I like that. Diva girl." She smiled. "It's almost like a nickname from a friend. And I just think it's really sweet that you did that. And I feel bad now because it's almost like I didn't really win."
"First off, I am your friend, diva girl." He laughs at the nickname, and she thinks it's maybe the most beautiful sound she's heard in a while, because Kurt's back. "And secondly, we should totally ask Mr. Schue if we can try that song again, but as a duet this time. No diva-off. We could try to get him to let us use it as the ballad for Nationals."
"Yes! Kurt, that's a great idea!"
"Of course it is, it was my idea!"
When Finn stepped outside to take Rachel home an hour later, he found his girlfriend and step-brother dancing around while singing "Gives You Hell". Despite the fact that that song carried a horrible memory for Finn, how was he ever so stupid as to let Rachel go?, he was so glad to see Kurt smiling and laughing that he barely noticed.
"Hey, you two. Reckon we should head out before it gets dark?" Rachel walked up to him and gave him a pouty face.
"Finn, its only like 4:30. We have plenty of time!" Kurt laughed and stepped forward, swinging an arm around Rachel's shoulders casually.
"Come on, diva. I'm sure Carole won't mind if you come over for dinner. Right Finn?"
"Sure thing." Finn said laughing, he'd have the whole, back off my girl conversation later. Or maybe he wouldn't, it was totally worth it to see the light back in Kurt's eyes, and the new light in Rachel's. He didn't know if he would ever find out exactly what happened between them, but one thing was sure, they certainly had become way better friends that day.
FIN.
A/N: And that's the end. What did you think?
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