Chapter 20: Nationals
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AN: The last one before 'Goodbye'-sniff. Judging by the promos that episode will make me sob. I hope it lives up to my expectations.
I was thinking, since I love this story so much and it is very near and dear to my heart that I could make a sequel about Klaine over the Summer while Kurt's in New York and Blaine's stuck in Ohio? It may just be a one-shot or multi-chaptered, I'm not sure yet, but what do you think? Should I do it? Would anyone read it?
Obviously there's no Glee over the summer, so it'd be fueled by my imagination alone, but does that idea interest anyone?
BTW, who else noticed that all the couples got a cute little couple-y thing when they got to McKinley after winning Nationals BUT Klaine. What that? I need Klaine to live!
Enjoy :D
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They did it. They won.
All that hard work had paid off. They could now leave high school with an accomplishment on their backs other than not giving into bullies.
Leaving high school…
Blaine sighed softly, clutching Kurt's hands from where his own rested above them.
Kurt was leaving. It had always been there-always looming over his head like the constant evil thing that seemed to make his life worse at every opportunity. But now a few reassuring words from Kurt about staying together and loving him wouldn't put him at ease because Kurt was graduating next week. Then he would go to New York be gone, hundreds of miles away.
Blaine wouldn't be able to hold him or be held by him or sing with him or even properly talk to him. Blaine wasn't stupid, he knew what would happen.
They'd try to stay in touch, at first, but then things would keep piling up and eventually they'd break off contact all together. Maybe one day Kurt would remember he existed and give him a call, but the conversation would be short, stilted, fake.
New York and Broadway were Kurt's dreams-the things he used to help him sleep at night and keep him going and reminded him of his mom. He couldn't be bothered to remember a little annoying thing like Blaine.
Sure, Kurt said he would always love him and put him before anything else, but Blaine knew better.
He trusted Kurt completely-Kurt was the only one he trusted with anything, really; he just knew that he would be ostracized in the wake of Kurt's dreams-not intentionally of course, but still.
"What's wrong, baby? You usually sleep like a rock after sex" Kurt breathed against the back of his neck, tightening his arms around Blaine's waist.
Blaine closed his eyes and savored the feeling of comfort, knowing it would be gone soon, knowing soon he'd be alone again, just like always, because he wasn't worth someone loving him as much of Kurt loved him.
He tucked himself back into the larger boy, letting himself pretend that this could be forever, that they would be the one high-school romance to make it.
"Nothing, I'm just… worried about school work and Glee and-"
"Blaine," Kurt said with a warning edge to his voice. "If you don't tell me the truth I will stop spooning you and you will be cold the rest of the night"
Blaine chuckled a bit, Kurt's adorableness pulling him momentarily from his funk.
He turned in the brunette's arms, shifting so he could nuzzle into Kurt's collarbone when faced with it. Kurt's hummed slightly and petting a few curls on Blaine's head. The calming effect of Kurt's arm still around him, his scent, and his hands in his hair, once again proving to Blaine that he didn't need to be insecure about it, was instantaneous.
"Can we talk about it later?" Blaine asked quietly, wiggling his arms free so he could sloppily arrange them around Kurt's neck. "I'm tired." He yawned to punctuate his point, blinking sleepily up Kurt.
He knew Kurt's weaknesses, one of them being when Blaine was acting sleepy and cuddled up to him. It wasn't exactly manipulating to use that to his advantage-he really was tired-and it was the only way he could think of to get Kurt to drop it, at least until morning.
Blaine really didn't want to have Kurt promise him things and say he loved him when he knew he would end up bitter and alone at the end. His parents hated him, Cooper ignored him (he was slightly better, but not much), the Warblers were better, but they had still nearly blinded him, and the New Directions were splitting up with graduation, too. It was his destiny to end up alone; it was what everyone told his his whole life.
"Okay, baby," Kurt consented, dropping a sweet kiss on top of Blaine's head. "But we will talk about what's bothering you-especially if it's my graduation."
Kurt said it with such certainty. Blaine realized Kurt already knew the basics of what was on his mind.
But they'd talk about that later.