Fourth Prompt Post
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Karofsky continues until it goes too far for Kurt to handle. The countertenor’s grades start to slip after Karofsky decides to force Kurt on his knees. Kurt is terrified and begins to avoid his friends who suddenly are too busy with Karofsky to remember him.
When he’s called into the Dean’s office, being informed that he failed a test and if he doesn’t pass the next his parents will be called he only nods.
Kurt starts to feel that no one really cares at all until someone sees a bruise. Alex is a Warbler that Kurt didn’t really talk to at all. When he sees the bruise he stares at Kurt who laughs nervously and says he bruises easily. Finn and him were roughhousing because Kurt wanted to watch Project Runway and Finn wanted to watch Deep Blue Sea. Alex looks a little suspicious but lets it drop. Or so that’s what Kurt thinks.
When Karofsky shoves him down the stairs one night when Kurt finally decides it’s worth it, he breaks his wrist. It’s a clean snap and Kurt goes to the hospital. The doctor says nothing as he wraps Kurt’s wrist in a cast. Kurt gives him a fake name and pays him in cash that he’d been saving up for a trip to New York with Mercedes.
When he meets Blaine for coffee the next day, the older boy is with Karofsky. Kurt thinks that it’s best to run and run fast. Blaine spots him quickly and smiles but it quickly vanishes when he sees the cast on Kurt’s wrist.
“What happened?”
“I fell down the stairs last night when I went to get something to eat.” Kurt says simply.
Blaine doesn’t look like he believes it for a second. Looks at Karofsky who actually has the audacity to look shocked at Kurt’s wrist when he caused it. Kurt smiles a small and barely there smile as they talk about the latest issue of Vogue. Karofsky acts like they’re old pals like he always does and Kurt tries to go along with it. Until Karofsky moves to grab some sugar, Kurt jumps and flinches at the same time.
Blaine catches it and his eyes narrow as Kurt stutters that he has homework to do and he needs to go.
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The ex-jock beats Kurt until the countertenor is black and blue. It’s not bullying if he isn’t caught, that’s what Karofsky said the first time Kurt ‘fell’ into a side table.
The countertenor can barely move without feeling pain. The terror and panic that he thought he’d left at McKinley come back full force. He can’t eat and he can’t sleep. Kurt knows he looks terrible but he says nothing.
When Karofsky’s bullying takes a turn away from sexual abuse to emotional Kurt contemplates killing himself. Because with six words Karofsky all but destroyed him.
“Finn told me you were here.”
Finn Hudson, his stepbrother who promised to protect him, had been the one who had told Karofsky where he was. Finn who had sworn he wouldn’t let Karofsky hurt him anymore had told the bully where to transfer. It’s a hit that Kurt didn’t know would hurt so damn much but it did and he wonders what he did to make Finn hate him.
When he goes home that weekend he asks Finn how Karofsky is. Because he wants to know if Finn even knows what he’d done.
“I don’t know dude, according to Azimio he’s got mono.”
Like anyone in their right mind would kiss Karofsky. Then Kurt remembers that Finn is probably too stupid to realize what he’d done.
It all comes to a head the day before Regionals. Kurt’s grades are shaky at best but he’s nowhere near getting his parents called. It’s Blaine and Thad that come to his rescue when Karofsky shoves them into a closet when he thinks they’re alone. When in fact the two Warblers had followed them.
Apparently they’d been worried ever since he’d quit the Warblers. They just didn’t know what was wrong until Blaine had seen him flinch from Karofsky.
Thad punches Karofsky and it sends the bully to the ground in shock. Blaine is staring at Kurt in shock because Karofsky had had his hand down Kurt’s pants and the younger boy had just stared ahead of him with a vacant look in his eyes.
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Kurt is numb to everything when officers ask him what happened. His voice is detached as he recounts the past three and a half months. Three and a half months of his life…it hadn’t seemed that long.
Blaine apologizes every chance he can get and Kurt only shrugs at him. Karofsky is arrested for sexual assault and physical assault. The x-ray that shows Kurt’s broken wrist almost sends Carole into a rage, which takes a lot. Both his parents feel guilty for not noticing. Finn feels horrified for telling Karofsky where Kurt was.
Kurt is sent to therapy to deal with what happened and goes through six different therapists who don’t know how to deal with him. The seventh one though, doesn’t give up until the eighth session where Kurt blows up at him. Screams at him why he didn’t say anything, because he knew people thought he was an attention whore and wouldn’t believe him. Yells what he did wrong to deserve the way he was treated.
The shrink prescribes anti-depressants and anti-anxiety pills. Neither of which Kurt takes because they make him feel worse.
A month later Kurt tells Mercedes and Blaine what happened, leaving no detail spared. He tells them about the physical bullying and the one time things went sexual. Kurt tells them about Finn telling Karofsky where he was and how he’ll never trust his stepbrother again. When Blaine starts crying, Kurt feels guilty because he feels good that he hurt the older boy. Mercedes looks like she wants to kill Blaine and hug Kurt, but mainly she wants to cut Karofsky.
Kurt transfers back to McKinley and is a little shocked when Blaine follows. It makes the transition a little easier but not by much.
In the end, things get better between Kurt and Blaine, but they never go back to how they were before. Kurt starts to trust Finn again, but never with more serious stuff. And he avoids Dalton and the jocks as much as humanly possible.
Because Kurt knew this wasn’t a fairy tale and he wasn’t going to get a happy ending. Dalton had proved that to him in the harshest way possible.
-Fin-
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Wonderful job anon, I loved the sparse/disconnected way you wrote Kurt's POV, especially in the last section.
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