Prompt: Jean-Luc Picard - "It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." - 'The Next Generation'
Watching Kurt walking down the hallway, on his way to tell his friends he's leaving, I'm well aware of the injustice of the whole situation. My boy hasn't done anything wrong. He's been targeted by this bully because of who he is. It shouldn't matter that he doesn't dress like the other boys his age. That he doesn't share the same interest that most teenage boys do, even when it comes to who they fall in love with. However, it does matter and not in a good way. So while this Karofsky kid gets his sentence overturned by a school board that apparently doesn't care about protecting people, my son is forced to leave because he doesn't feel safe and he's done nothing wrong.
If anything, it's I who have failed. I've failed to protect him, like a father should. Just like I had failed to protect Kathleen. Like Kurt, she was one of those truly good people in this world. She was a much better person than me. She had made me a better person and though I would have given my life for her and hadn't been able to. She had done nothing to deserve an early death but death had found her. It wasn't fair but then that was life.
I may not have been able to protect Kathleen but I could still protect Kurt and I planned on doing just that, no matter what it took.