Prompt: Ianto Jones - "In a thousand years time, you won't remember me." - 'Torchwood'
Looking around the McKinley courtyard, I could tell we had a captivated audience. We even had impromptu instrumentalists playing the music for us. There would be nobody throwing things at us this time. Nobody was going to get fired and Kurt had an appreciative smile on his face. Like he had taught us, the Warblers had stepped out of their comfort zone to do a performance and it was kind of exhilarating. As much as I enjoyed preforming in front of my peers at Dalton, the Warblers had an establish prestige at the school. It was almost like we could do no wrong. Performing in this environment, you knew you were doing something right.
Kurt may having needed Dalton, and the Warblers, for a time but what we hadn't realized was how much we needed him. Having him as part of the group this year had made the experience magical, even if we had come up short for Nationals. I could only hope that we had provided Kurt the friendship and safety that he had come to Dalton in need of.
When I first heard Kurt's decision to go back, I wasn't sure it was the right one. I could still remember the frightened, unhappy teen that had come to Dalton last fall. I couldn't see how an environment that had made him fear for his own life could possibly have changed that much. As Kurt stepped into the embrace of his stepbrother, and seeing the smiling faces of the other members of New Directions, I knew it wasn't so much the environment changing as it was his support group changing. Kurt's absence had made the McKinley Glee club appreciate Kurt more for who he was as an individual and I knew that it was time for us to let him go. Kurt's place truly was at Dalton.
I was proud to be a part of this momentous performance even if in the grand scheme of things it didn't seem important. We weren't winning any awards. It wouldn't be remembered in a history book. It probably wouldn't even rate a year book mention. However I knew that today would be remembered for as long as we all lived, and for us that was what was important. So what if in a thousand years nobody remembered our names, here today we were celebrating an important event in our life, and that was what mattered.