A Touch of the Fingertips, Chapter 15

[glitterandpaws]

Title: A Touch of the Fingertips
Chapter: 15 - The Guilty Ones
Rating: PG-13 this part, NC-17 overall 
Pairing: Kurt/Blaine 
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Some swearing
Word Count: ~2,100
Summary: Kurt has barely ever made contact with anyone outside of his family because he is a faerie. However, this is not the small, winged creature you expect. It is a

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[silverdragon87]

Oh my god. This comment had to be split into 3 parts because I went over the character limit...

Oh my goodness! Your novel is longer than mine, by quite a bit as well. That's a little really intense.

So this is going to sound completely, utterly cheesy, but whatever. I know Blaine isn't connected to Kurt the same way Kurt's connected to him, but I can't help feeling as though maybe he is, just a little bit, on an emotional level. They can be very co-dependent, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Needing someone is far from a bad thing and it comes out in a sweetly desperate way here, but I do wonder about the future. I'm wondering if it will intensify everything. If they both lose hope at some point, will it send them both spiraling into despair? Will it make whatever fights they do have way worse? If they do fight and they're both a little right and justified in their position, how will that affect them? How long would it take for one or both of them to really need each other?

I'm so happy that you're doing all this research! I love doing research, even if it's "just" for fic, and so often I'll read something here and side-eye it so hard because it's completely obvious that the writer did absolutely no research at all and just kind of made it up as they went, but this is beautiful. I wish I knew more about how these things worked (I almost went into International Relations, wound up going for screenwriting--slightly different). From what I do know though, I believe that's how the process works, the new bill to repeal a law, but dates and everything beyond that I'm not sure about. I'll ask around though. My best friend has a minor in political science and another of my good friends is actually working on the Dream Act which I think repeals a few laws, but I'm not sure.

I'm not surprised that the corruption would happen there too. It's nothing against Britain, just against humans. As long as there are people on this Earth, there will always be people trying to subvert the law and work by their own rules. I think more and more of it happens at such a high level and on so grand a scale, simply because there's so much at stake, and at least in American politics there are lobbyists for different interest groups who will support different bills and amendments to bills and by-laws and whatever, so it's not really even the Senators or Representatives that are putting these things forwards, it's the lobbyist leeches that are controlling the hand that signs off on these things. It's so, so messed up.

I can totally see how this whole faerie business would be as polarizing as the issue of abortion is here. There would be a very outspoken group of people in Washington that would work their damnedest to squash any sympathetic feelings towards faeries and peddle this idea that faeries were meant to be sex slaves. It's horrible to think about, but Kurt's right. The people that are making these decisions about his life, about his rights, they are also the people that probably have faerie slaves, the ones who themselves only bother to think about faeries as possessions, toys even, not as living beings, not as humans. I know faeries aren't entirely human, but they are human to an extent and should be treated with humaneness.

What's almost even more heartbreaking than the situation in Washington is how Kurt feels, how he reacts. I mean, yes, he had to be raised separate from most of the population, but the fact that these views have gotten to him on such a psychological level, that even though he knows that he's not just some barbaric animal (we must remember that humans are actually animals, but this is meant in a different context) that on some level he still thinks it, despite everything, despite his family and Mercedes and Blaine, that he still feels unworthy on some levels, that is heartbreaking. This also makes me wonder about the future and how if the law does get repealed, will he push Blaine away? Will Kurt break? Kurt's strong, so strong, but it would be such a devastating blow and I really hope that it doesn't come down to that, but it could and it worries me.