Ch.10 Over the rainbow

The whole car ride to Kurt's home had been quite uncomfortable. First off Puck had refused to let go of Kurt resulting in Blaine having to drive. Second off no one knew quite what to say which resulted in awkward silence. It was only interrupted once by Artie asking if anyone knew the score of last night's football game. Trying, and failing to subdue the silence that had befallen them.

In the back seat of the car Puck curled himself even tighter around Kurt. He didn't know why but clinging to Kurt made him feel better. Internally he was freaking out about what he was going to say all of them. It wasn't like he could tell them the being mugged story, he had way too many fresh bruises for that to be buyable.

They were all going to find out and then his life would be over. Either his father would end it for him or maybe if he was lucky one of the guys would think he was sick enough to end it for him.

After all he was sick bastard because his body had fucking reacted to his father's touches. What kind of freak gets off on being molested and fucked by his father? The whole thing made Puck physically sick. He hated his father, but his own body betrayed him. He was sick and deserved to die.

Sensing that Puck was internally freaking out Kurt began rubbing his back again. He also began humming him the song somewhere over the rainbow.

Puck started to calm once again. He wished for just a moment he could go somewhere over the rainbow.

Soon the four of them arrived at the Hummel residence. Everyone stepped out of the car except for Artie, who Blaine went around to help.

"You two go on in I'll help Artie inside." Blaine announced to the other three.

Kurt led Puck inside the house where they were met by Finn who was lounging on the couch watching cartoons.

Finn looked up from the Tom& Jerry cartoon to see who had entered the house. He immediately jumped up at seeing Puck clinging to his step brother. He didn't look like Puck anymore but instead a small shy child latching on to his mother's skirt.

"Hey guys what's going on?" Finn asked startled by Puck's appearance.

"Hey Finn, would you mind if Puck borrowed some clothes of yours? I doubt whether he'd be able to fit into anything of mine." Kurt greeted Finn with.

"Um sure, I suppose so. I'll go get them." Finn stated leaving the room.

"Hey Noah I think you could probably use a shower. Don't you? I mean after all that running around with no shoes on your feet are covered in mud. Also I bet some of those cuts and bruises could benefit from some nice hot water." Kurt spoke soothingly to Puck.

Puck nodded not too fond of letting go Kurt, but understanding his point. Besides that Puck felt unbelievably disgusting, but knew no matter how many showers he took that feeling would never completely go away.

Kurt led Puck into a surprisingly large bathroom that was obviously decorated by Kurt. Puck couldn't lie it was one of the nicest looking bathrooms he had ever been. That wasn't really say a lot though considering all other bathrooms were preferable to any of the ones in his home.

"You're going to have to let go of me if you want to take that shower." Kurt stated to Puck giving him a small smile.

Puck retracted his hands from Kurt's shirt and placed them around his own middle instead.

Kurt walked over to the clouded glass shower that had a bench inside of it and started messing with the faucet. Once he was content with how warm the water was he stepped back.

"Okay there you go. We'll all be waiting in the living room when you're done. Towels are over there on the rack and soap is inside the shower." Kurt said getting ready to leave the bathroom.

"T-Thank y-you." Puck shakily managed to get out.

Kurt smiled at Puck and waved his hand before exiting the bathroom shutting the door behind him.

Puck took a deep breath in before slowly removing his shorts and stepping into the shower. Pain immediately raked over his body. He had been in such a state of shock trying to run away from the emotional pain that he hadn't even really registered the physical pain yet.

Now as the water was crashing down on him the physical pain crashed through him. His lower back hurt the worse; it was like something had been torn inside of him. The burn marks were also pretty bad especially with the water hitting them. His whole body was sent into over drive with the pain.

It all hurt so much he couldn't help but cry out in pain again. He sat down on the bench another scream escaping him as he did so. He was too tired to stand any longer though so he didn't bother getting up.

After some time of just sitting there the water did at last begin to sooth his sore muscles. He slowly started to scrub himself clean. He scrubbed and scrubbed until his flesh felt raw, but he just couldn't get clean enough. He began to cry at the thought of never being clean again.

The bathroom door was slowly opened. Puck began to shake in terror as thoughts of last night entered his head, until he herd Kurt's voice.

"It's just me; I'm just setting Finn's clothes on the counter for you okay." Kurt said softly to Puck.

Kurt placed Finn's clothing on the sink for Puck, then noticing the shorts on the floor he picked those up before exiting the bathroom.

Kurt was walking down the hallway folding the pair of shorts when he noticed something red coating his hand. His hand brushed over the pair of shorts he had just folded. They were damp and something red and sticky was coming off them.

Kurt dropped the shorts his face struck with horror.