AN: Just a little Wes insight during "Born This Way" . Inspired by lyrics from "Let Your Heart Hold Fast" by Fort Atlantic.
Watching Kurt fall into his stepbrother's welcoming embrace, I can feel the tears threatening to fall. As hard as it is to say good-bye, like Blaine I know that this is what is right for Kurt. Dalton had served it's purpose for him. We had been his sanctuary when he needed someplace safe to go but Kurt belonged with his friends at McKinley. This place was home to him in the same way that Dalton was home to me.
I thrived on the history and traditions of Dalton Academy. Proper and strict adherence to the rules was how I had been brought up. A school uniform didn't matter to me because that was what was expected. My whole life had been spent living up to what was expected of me - from my parents, teachers and even my friends. Striaght-laced, dependable Wesley David Hawkins IV. That's who I had always been and who I thought I was destined to be.
And then came Kurt came along. He was my polar opposite. Where I strived everyday to be the person I was expected to be, Kurt fought for his right to be the person he knew he was. Even in a crowd of Blazer sporting teenagers, Kurt had never really been 'one' of us. Little things made him stand out from the crowd and he had taught me that being different was okay. Traditions were fine and dandy but not something that we should hide behind because we were afraid to try new things.
Yes, Kurt had been the Warblers a better group but more importantly, he had made me a better person. The single most important thing I had learned this year hadn't been learned in the classroom but by getting to know the fearful, compassionate, unique individual that had come into our lives last fall - no matter what you choose to do in this world always be yourself.