A/N: Features Female!Lesbian!Kurt (going by Kate, technically Katheryn) and Gay!Blaine. They become best friends, but find they love each other too, despite their orientations prior to falling in love.

They find their exceptions in each other.

Inspired by a Naruto fic, actually, with a Fem!Naruto and Gay!Sasuke.

At some point, someone tells Blaine, "'Sup, Gay Yoda."

The song New Directions wins Nationals with is an 'original' song: Autumn's Monologue by Fiction We Live (voiced by Kate) with Fiction We Live by Fiction We Live (Companion Piece) (voice by Puck) in background/at the same time. Just cause I found it cute.

Original Plotbunny: Exception: Different!Klaine. Kate is passively bullied at school for numerous things. She's the girliest person in school, but she's also the only girl to know how to fix a car, and with the fanciest car on the lot, this makes it so she doesnt get a lot of friends. Karofsky jokes that maybe she's so girly cause she's compensating for something, and Azimio takes this to mean she's a lesbian and begins to pick on her. She has no idea where this is coming from, and eventually blows up at him. He kisses her, trying to prove she is a lesbian (she is, she just hasn't admitted it yet, barely to herself, even), but she doesn't see that, she just sees him trying to force her. Karofsky saves her ass when he hears her yelling, "No!" while waiting for Azimio to get out of the locker room. He tells her to go, and hurry. He's still gay, he doesn't want anything to do with her, and she runs. She keeps going and finds Lima Bean, Westerville. She's crying in the coffee shop, wondering what she should do. Blaine finds her, concerned, and goes up and asks her what's wrong. The whole story spills out, and she ends up crying on his shoulder and admitting she was a lesbian and dammit! this isn't how it was supposed to come out, especially to a stranger who might try and beat her for admitting it. But he just smiled and tucked her hair behind her ear and told her he was gay too. They become hetero/homosexual life partners (aka just really close friends), but Kate gets a crush on Blaine and has a private freak out that mabe she was bi, and that hadn't been something she believed in before, so what the hell?! Blaine developes a crush on her as well, as much as he tries to ignore it because nothing can happen, since she admitted she was a lesbian. When Kate and ND win Nationals, they're all excited, Blaine congratulating her and her team (who he's grown exceptionally close to, since their tie at Sectionals) and end up kissing & then its just silence.

Kate tried hard to keep the tears from coming, but it seemed her willpower had deserted her. Her fingers clenched and unclenched her Navigator's steering wheel in her distress as she drove down the freeway, tears clouding her vision enough to distort the signs as she passed them.

She managed to drive for what felt like a short time, the events in the locker room revolving in her mind, before she realized she should pull over before she got into an accident and killed herself. She was able to push the remaining tears away long enough to see the next sign that read

WESTERVILLE, 1/2 MILE

Westerville is 108 miles west of Lima, her mind told her in her disbelief. Had she been driving for two hours? No, you know what? She was going to ignore that thought for now. She will not think until she managed to stop and rest. That gas station sign under the 1/2 MILE was probably a good stop.

As she made the turn off, Kate noticed a coffee shop, cleverly named the Lima Bean, sitting at the end of the main street. Coffee was familiar, and warm. She was going to pay for the gas and she was going to buy a coffee and then she was going to let herself go and finish crying. No one knew her here.

Kate nodded to herself. She was doing what she did best: plan. Now that she had one, some of the tension in her shoulders eased a little.

Quickly paying for the gas, the bored attendant just nodding and giving her a receipt, Kate drove the car along the somewhat residential street and was in the delightful smelling coffees shop within five minutes of coming up with the plan.

The smell was wonderful, hazelnut and almond with a hint of cream. There was an undercurrent of the bitter coffee beans on sale in the see through counter.

Speaking of which, there wasn't a line. Kate mumbled an order for a grande non-fat mocha, which took less than a minute to be prepared. She felt a little self-conscious standing there as she waited, trying to scope out a table. She finally spotted one she wanted. It was the only available corner in the store—it just happened to be in full view of the front door, hidden from the windows by a bookcase.

Blaine was amazed how fast the Warblers went though their coffee bags. He'd just bought that last ten-pound bag last week! Where the hell was all of it going? No matter, he still needed to go buy more. Maybe if he bought the overpriced twenty-pound bag it would last longer…

The first thing he heard when he opened the door to the Lima Bean was stifled crying. Casting a glance around him, he couldn't immediately locate where it was coming from until he got past the archway.

There was a tall, thin boned brunette girl, face in one hand, the other clenching a half-empty coffee cup, trying to keep her sobbing down. Completely forgetting why he was in the store, he changed course to ask the strange girl if she was okay.

Coffee was good. You weren't supposed to cry in it.

"You okay, miss?" he asked.

She removed her hand from covering her face, turned blue-green eyes up to him, and gave him a long, red-rimmed look, even as her shoulders shook. Finally, she gave a jerky nod, and continued crying.

Blaine took the other seat at her table and offered a hug. She turned into it, resting her head on his shoulder as she tried to stop crying.

Rubbing along her spine, he attempted to soother her. "Shhh… just let it out."

She sobbed for about ten minutes before she stopped, pulling back and rubbing at her face. "Sorry about crying on you. I'm usually not like that," she said in a hoarse voice, sounding almost like wind chimes, in Blaine's mind.

"It's alright. I usually don't hug pretty girls in coffee shops," Blaine said, trying to bring a little humour to the situation. It seemed to work a little, since she gave him a small smile. "I'm Blaine Anderson," he offered a hand.

She took it, seeming to fit like they were meant to hold hands. "Kate Hummel."

"Can I ask why I've never seen you here before?" he asked.

She blushed and gave a halting explanation for her presence. "Something… happened… at school, and I just started driving. I'm from Lima, actually."

(insert a babbling, long explanation here, where Kate admits she's a lesbian in a half-hysterical manner, then realizing what she said.)

Kate looked at Blaine in horror. Had she just admitted that to a near complete stranger?

He just gave her a sad smile before he reached out and tucked some of her errant bangs behind her ear. "It's okay. I'm gay, too. I'm not going to hurt you."

Much, Much Later

"And the winner of the 37th Annual American Show Choir Nationals is… Neeeeeeew Directioooooons!" the smiling announcer proclaimed.

It was an immediate outcry or celebration. "We did it!" "Woo-hoo!" "Hell yeah!" "I knew it!" were various cheers from the New Direction members.

"Blaine! Oh my god!" Kate screamed as she near tackled him, her voice nearly lost in the loud cheering form her teammates. "We did it! We fucking did it!"

"I knew you could!" Blaine laughed as he returned the tight hug after swinging her in a small half-circle. Kate had an amazing voice, and he believed ND broadcasting it under a new song won over the judges.

Kate couldn't help but smack a kiss onto Blaine's lips in her joy, forgetting for a moment that he didn't know how she felt about him.