You guys, I need prompts. A lot of prompts. Weird prompts, cool prompts, dirty prompts, ANYTHING, just send 'em my way.
This is an AU prompt (that pretty much saved me, so HUGE HUGE thank you to gleek. me!) for Brittany and Kurt being married while Rachel and Blaine are married, and Kurt and Blaine are in love. It takes place somewhere in the middle of the 20th century… because I can.
Title from the song of the same name, of course.
I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
"Enough!" Kurt stands up. Everyone around the table goes silent. Blaine's eyes go wide; he mouths the word "no". Kurt looks at him, and clenches his jaw. "I'm sorry," he tells Blaine. "But I have to."
"You have to what, darling?" asks Brittany, touching his arm. He pulls away from her.
"No, I'm not 'darling' anymore."
She frowns in confusion. "What do you mean-?"
"I'm not your darling anymore, Brit. I love you, but I can't be with you anymore. Not like this. Not as your husband." The three of them stare at him, and he looks only into Blaine's teary eyes as he speaks. "I love you," he pauses, then says, in a voice no longer terrified, no longer unsure- "Blaine."
The girls gasp and turn to look at Blaine.
"I'm sorry I had to do it like this. I just… I couldn't take it anymore. My heart aches for you, Blaine." He swallows and turns to look at Brittany, who looks back with an expression he cannot decipher. "Brit. You are- always were- my dearest friend. I love you. So much. But not in the way I love him. I can never love you the way I love him, and it would only be spiteful of me to keep leading you on. You are a wonderful woman and you deserve someone to love you better than I can. I'm sorry. I guess one cannot control their heart's desires. And my heart desires him."
Brittany, amazing, marvelous Brittany, takes his hand in hers. She kisses it once, and smiles at him, nodding.
Rachel is still looking at Blaine. Tears are rolling down her face. "You do not love me," she says to him quietly.
He reaches for her hand, which she pulls away. "I do love you. You understand, value, identify with every part of my soul. You don't miss a single beat of my heart. But you're not the one my heart beats for. You cannot be, because he is. I can't change that. Neither can you. We can only accept-"
"I will not accept!" she yells through her tears and stands up. "I will not accept the person- the person I thought loved me, the person who told me he'll be mine and I'll be his for better and for worse till death do us part, I will not accept that person telling me he doesn't love me and never did!"
"Rachel-"
"No!" she sobs, and runs out of the room.
Brittany seems undisturbed. "She won't be upset for long." She stands up slowly. "Although… perhaps I should go speak with her. Leaving her alone won't do any good."
Kurt nods at her. "Tell I her… I apologize again."
She looks over to Blaine, but he's sitting with his head in his hands and she doesn't want to push him. She clutches Kurt's hand tighter before letting go, and he smiles at her gently when she leaves.
Then he goes to comfort his lover.
"Brit is right. She'll understand, eventually."
Blaine lets out one, shaky sob, and Kurt is quick to wrap his arms around him.
"It'll be okay, Blaine, we have to believe it will, or we won't stand a chance."
Blaine shifts, presses his face against Kurt's chest and grips on his biceps. "I love you," he says desperately, because that's all he has left.
Kurt holds him until the sun sinks in the horizon, and then until it rises back up.