mr. schuester.

Will had been watching them take in the result. Of course, just after the result, he had been comforting them. But now, while they were comforting each other and he stood nearby, leaning against the wall. He was trying to take it all in. He hadn’t even called Emma yet. What would he say?

He was brought out of his thoughts when he heard Blaine. He looked at his student in front of him. “In the past, I would have hope.” Will told him. “But now…I really can’t see her changing her mind. You know what she is like.” Will said. This year hadn’t been going well at all.

“You can’t give up hope now either.”  Blaine’s attention kept splitting itself between Will and Sam.  Every so soften, his gaze would drift past Will’s shoulder to the boy who looked so broken that Blaine swore there was a hole in the pit of his stomach with how bad it hurt to see him like that.

Reaching over, he gently squeezed Will’s arm and looked directly into his eyes to show how serious he felt about what he was going to say.  “I know what she’s like but we need to figure out something for them.  This is bigger than grudges or bias or games.  This is us we’re talking about here and we need this,” his hurt and frustration was nearly impossible to hide and it was easy to tell he was struggling to keep it in check.  “Don’t tell me you’re going to give up?”

mr. schuester.

Will stood there watching the New Directions chatting after they came off stage after the results had been announced. He knew what this loss meant. He hadn’t heard anyone come over to him until he heard a voice from beside him. Looking over, he noticed Blaine. “There is always a chance we could lose. I just had so much hope.”  He told him. Will tried to seem positive, but deep down, he was heartbroken.

“I’ll be right back,” he murmured to his best friends.  Blaine gently patted Sam’s shoulder he’d been holding onto and gave the blond a pensive smile.  Tina took over, her arm fit around Sam’s back and she hugged him close.  From the corners of his eyes, he’d caught sight of someone else who was as devastated as they were.  Only.  He was bearing the weight of their loss alone.

There were times when Blaine questioned everything about William Schuester.  But now wasn’t the time.  Instead, he approached him and said the only thing that came to mind.  “We all had a lot of hope riding on this but..I mean.  We’ll find a way.  Right?”  Hazel eyes drifted over every saddened face gathered around.  “We have to.  It can’t be over.” 

kurt.

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( sms : blaine ) I know.
( sms : blaine ) I guess it’s definitely been a while. Especially anywhere near Lima. 
( sms : blaine ) You’ve got mail. 🤗
( sms : blaine ) No flash mobs. 

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( mssg » kurt | sent ) Good.  I’m glad you do.  That part will never change.  Ever.
( mssg » kurt | sent ) It’s hard to believe it’s been only since Christmas.  Feels a lot longer than that.
( mssg » kurt | sent ) Thank you!  I’ll give it a look!
( mssg » kurt | sent ) No flash mobs.  I promise.
( mssg » kurt | sent ) Wait.  Was that a veiled jab at me?  Were you being facetious or making a request?  You aren’t ever going to let me live that down.  Are you?

sugar.

      ❛ i just don’t understand why no one will let me pay off the judges so we WIN. it’s not like i can’t afford it. hello – i’m RICH. i could give them anything they wanted, and daddy would give me the money to do it. which is why i don’t understand why people keep telling me NO. ❜

“As tempting as that offer might be?  I think winning because we’re the most talented group on the stage is going to feel a lot better.  Though.  If I’m honest with you?  If Mr. Schue doesn’t get us seriously focused on Sectionals sooner rather than later,” he shrugged not saying the obvious but fully insinuating with the look on his face that they might need to keep her option on the back burner.  Not that he’d ever TRULY consider it.  No.  Not at all.

cooper.

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( text : blaine  ▻  delivered )  or maybe she does. perhaps that would be the drama thanksgiving could use this year. unearthing the mystery of pam anderson. it would look great on my resume, though! experience with prison setting, comfortable behind bars, looks great in an orange jumpsuit.
( text : blaine  ▻  delivered )  unfortunately, the nda i signed prevents me from giving you any details about possibly or possibly not justin timberlake.
( text : blaine  ▻  delivered )  as grateful as i am for your assistance, blaine, you don’t understand hollywood quite like my actual assistant does. i’ll run the scandals by her. you’ll have to keep an eye out for my name floating around your school and breaking the internet like a kardashian.
( text : blaine  ▻  delivered )  last week? it was barely damaged, no need to get all environment protector on me.
( text : blaine  ▻  delivered )  is this your subtle attempt to get me to come home and spend time with you, squirt?
( text : blaine  ▻  delivered )  again, nda signed. i can neither confirm nor deny the existence of a pilot that may or may not be filming next month potentially or potentially not on the warner brother’s lot. maybe.

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( mssg » cooper | sent ) Can you, please, not get a record for a better acting performance for a role that doesn’t exist.  OR!  If one does exist.  Don’t do it then either.  How about you stay arrest free?  Thanksgiving conversations are fine the way they are.  Mostly.
( mssg » cooper | sent ) Are you serious?  What else did maybe Justin Timberlake confess to?  You can’t end that story there!
( mssg » cooper | sent ) I might not know Hollywood but I know show choir.  Scandal and gossip are part of it’s life blood.  Give me a chance before you run it by this assistant of yours?  Come on.
( mssg » cooper | sent ) Are you okay?  Did you hit your head?  That would explain why you considered leaving the scene of another accident.  How do you have a license?
( mssg » cooper | sent ) I didn’t mean.. 
( mssg » cooper | sent )

Um.  Yeah?  What if I said it was?  Would you?
( mssg » cooper | sent ) I may or may not be wishing you luck then.  Let me know if you want to work on your audition with me?  I could try to help you run lines?  Even if it’s on Skype or whatever.

theirquarterback.

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❛    I  MEAN  —–   you  smell  good  to  ME  ;  but  i’m  not  really  your  target  audience,   so …     ❜            shoulders  rise  &  fall  as  a  smile  curves  his  lips.         ❛      ———–  i  don’t  think  it’s  too  much.             it’s  way  better  than  if  you  tried  to  drown  yourself  in  axe  at  least.    ❜

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Blaine laughed, smirking in relief that he wasn’t walking around smelling like a Hershey’s bar.  “I do?  Great!  Thanks.  That’s what I was hoping for.  I don’t think I’ll ever be one of those Axe guys,” he scrunched his nose and batted his fingers in front of it like he was trying to chase off a God awful smell.  “The entire locker room smells like that nonstop during football and hockey season. Any season, really.  Now that I think about it..”  Maybe it’s a McKinley thing?  “Hockey’s just the worst.  Sometimes I wonder if I’ll choke to death on the fumes mid-swing at a punching bag.”

“They lather that stuff on.  Don’t they?”

❣ (pick a muse, any muse)

send in a ❣ for a random kiss.
(roll, 16: a platonic kiss) for sam evans

Blaine meant every word he said.  That without Sam these past couple months, he didn’t know how he would’ve made it out of bed most mornings.  After his confession of feeling like he was the worst person on the planet, the blond made it a point to do everything in his power to show Blaine he wasn’t.  He’d even gone so far as to stay the night on occasion when Blaine was having one of his worst of his not-so-good days.  

Like tonight.

They were sitting in front of the television, game controllers in their hands firing off round after round on Call of Duty until their eyeballs felt too dry to keep staring at the screen.  Another snowfall began hours ago and he could see it clearly through the large french doors that lead from the kitchen onto an outdoor patio already covered in white.  The hot chocolate Blaine suggested he should make warmed his hand as Blaine shifted his attention from the dizzy spinning flakes falling in the dark to Sam’s reflection in the glass windowpanes.  A lopsided grin tugged the corner of his mouth upwards.  

“I think I’d be lost without you, you know?”  Tangling their fingers together, Blaine tugged Sam down just enough that he could rise up and press a kiss to the other’s cheek ignoring how his belly did one of those spinning cartwheels as he lowered back down.  “Just..  Thanks.  For being such a good person, Sam.  One of the best, actually.”  Because that’s what Sam was.

finn hudson.

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Finn was definitely a heavy sleeper. A heavy, UNATTRACTIVE sleeper at that. Mouth open, drooling, snoring. He definitely ticked every box, and had he not have grown closer to Blaine over the past few months, he would have been embarrassed. Luckily, he had started to hang out with Blaine a lot. He was around the house a lot to see Kurt, and Finn made the effort to get to know him. He could be his future… STEP-BROTHER IN LAW.

He grumbled a husky ‘GOOD MORNING’ as he rubbed his eyes and sat up a little. “Dang.” He cleared his throat as he woke up a little more, and took in his surroundings. “I must have fell asleep watching Alien vs Predator… Then dreamt about it..” He shook his head, and stood up from the couch and approached Blaine in the kitchen. “You know what’s so AWESOME about you and Kurt? You’re the first dudes who have ever made me breakfast. Seriously. When I crash at Puck’s, we sleep ‘till lunch time and then make some hot pockets. I don’t know if I can actually make anything besides toast. How’d you get so good at cooking?”

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“Alien vs Predator, huh?  I’m not sure I’d want a dream based off any of those movies.  Alien or Predator.”  Blaine grinned tucked his chin towards his collar with a joking grin curling the corners of his mouth, “But?  That would explain the sounds I heard when I was coming down the stairs.  I wasn’t sure if a human could make them.  Turns out?  You shattered that doubt in two seconds.”  His grin grew before he took a deep breath, eyes sparkling as a silent chuckle broke free.  “I’m kidding.  You might have been,” his right hand lifted from his left forearm and gestured towards Finn and the sofa, “all over that thing.  No Predator noises, though.  Or Alien.  Promise.”

“Hot Pockets at noon,” he nodded tsking wistfully as if he was disappointed he missed such a bountiful meal of microwaved cardboard contained food.  “Brunch of champions.  I hate to disappoint but I was thinking of pancakes, eggs, and toast?”  A thumb jutted over his shoulder before he answered the question.  Instead, Blaine turned towards the kitchen, glancing over his shoulder at Finn and waving for him to follow talking louder as he walked away.  “I, um, just had a lot of practice.  Come on.  You can help me crack some eggs.  Who knows?   Maybe you can graduate to flipping a pancake or two.”

kurt.

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( sms : blaine ) You are still pretty much my best friend.
( sms : blaine ) Great. I’ll be on the lookout for a sign with my name on it. 
( sms : blaine ) I should probably forward you our schedule. 

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( mssg » kurt | sent ) Thanks..  You’re mine too, you know?
( mssg » kurt | sent ) You’re underestimating me if you think a simple sign is going to suffice.  Not after this long since seeing you.
( mssg » kurt | sent ) That’s a good idea.  I don’t want to interrupt any of your plans.  Just let me know when I can steal some of your time?  That’s all I could ask for.

( mssg » kurt | sent ) Hey, Kurt?
( mssg » kurt | sent ) Thank you for this.

kurt.

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          Glasz hues danced with amusement before Kurt let out another muffled laugh, bodies inched significantly closer and hands left to roam freely underneath the covers as he continued to take in each and every inch of his boyfriend’s still sleepy ( yet unsurprisingly adorable ) post-coital existence. There was something different about him. A renewed level of ease, oozing confidence. His face positively radiant — full of bliss now that they had officially reached that next step in their relationship.  ❛ Shouldn’t you be running lines with Rachel? ❜  The corners of Kurt’s mouth tugged up mischievously as cold fingers traced the back of his boyfriend’s bare shoulder, fairly positive running lines with Rachel Berry was sure to be the farthest thing from her Tony’s mind despite it already being the second day of their McKinley wide musical performance. The same fingers that had dug at that exact same spot and caused Blaine to utter sounds unlike anything Kurt had ever experienced from anyone before; part of him wondering when would be considered too soon to request a do-over as Blaine didn’t seem to think twice about bringing their proximity even closer.

           ❛ Blame living under the same roof as one Burt Hummel, ❜  he quietly mouthed, an apologetic smile quick to take over the taller male’s features as his expression softened. Much as Kurt had willed his body to go back to sleep and wake up at the appropriate hour, growing up the sole caretaker within a two man household for almost a decade waking up before the usual 7am alarm had simply become a part of the usual Hummel weekend routine. Especially with a dad who typically preferred your stereotypical not-at-all healthy or nutritious bacon and eggs for breakfast.  

          ❛ Nothing noteworthy, I promise. ❜

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      There was no possible way that Blaine’s eyes could fill with any more stars than the galaxies of happiness already in them.  The invisible hearts floating around his head were, no doubt, a blur of pink and red the size of a flock of birds going South for the winter. A look nothing less than completely absorbed in every tiny detail of Kurt’s face made the dancing shades of hazel and gold go owlishly round and he hinged on every passing second where the reality of last night rushed back sending ripples of chills and ribbons of warmth tangling through his limbs right after. Kurt barely had to do a thing to make it all happen over and over.  Even something as small as a blink or the way his lips curled when he smiled.  The touch that lingered over his shoulder where it was still sensitive and he swore a ghost of Kurt’s sigh, sweet and overwhelming, from their night together danced over the shell of his ear.  He was smitten before.  But now?  Blaine Anderson was simply just..SUNKAnd made no effort or foresaw any real need in the future to try to get back to the surface either.

“Rachel can wait.  I’m sure she’ll understand.  Nothing noteworthy?  Good..”  Blaine whispered as long fingers came up to trace the line of Kurt’s cheekbone before feathering a graze of fingertips through his hair so he could cup the back of his head and pull him in for another kiss.  The way Kurt looked at him made it impossible not to give into the urge.  Not that Blaine was complaining about the need that pooled in his belly anyway.  Their lips touched.  Soft and tender with a hum and a smile Kurt could feel against his lips before every word that followed was spoken against them.  “Kurt?  I swear I’m always going to love you as much as I do right this second.  Never any less and only impossibly more.  If that’s even somehow possible.”

A sheepish, cheeky grin puffed up his cheeks and wrinkled his eyes at their corners.  “Not sure if it is but I guess we all need goals, right?”