Author(s): bijoudraconem Title: Ever to Excel Word count: currently approx 2000 Pairing (or lack thereof): Klaine Summary:
After a bad breakup Kurt applies to spend his Junior Year abroad in St Andrews, a tiny town on a cliff in Scotland where everything is a bit - (a lot) - weird. There’s a bronze statue of a stray cat, a foam fight in a 600 year old quad, a mad dash into the North Sea at dawn, and a charity hitchhike across Europe - not to mention the gorgeous, charismatic Blaine Anderson who Kurt is categorically NOT falling in love with. No. Definitely not.
Well, maybe just a little.
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Short Excerpt:
It rained all three days he was in Edinburgh. He wasn’t prepared for it - the rain or the cold. Sure, it wasn’t a Midwest winter, but this was meant to be summer. He’d have to ask his dad to ship over his winter coat collection stat.
Kurt was beginning to regret the whole Leave-Everything-Behind-And-Move-To-Scotland thing.
When he got his first glimpse of St Andrews the twisting regret in his chest became lodged there. Nestled on the edge of a cliff and shrouded in grey rain, the town looked....terrifying.
St Andrews made Lima look massive. Three streets, pretty much. Though at least those three streets were more interesting than Lima; the university was 600 years old, parts of the town even older. But it was small and grey and didn’t even teach theatre or fashion.
He had no idea what the hell he was doing there.
(That was a lie. He was there for exactly four reasons:
1) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met there - the stamp of royal approval was very important to Kurt, and the idea of walking streets where Kate Middleton had once stepped gave him palpitations,
2) Quinn had been trying to convince him to come for his Junior Year since the moment she got there two years ago
3) He couldn’t face going back to NYADA and having to deal with his ex every day, deal with the gossip and the rumours and the heartbreak all over again
4) His mom had always wanted to visit Europe in general and Scotland in particular. He still had her postcard of the Old Course, the one she’d had taped to the mirror of her dressing table, the one he’d seen every day when he watched her put her makeup on. When he got on the plane from JFK to Edinburgh he felt that little bit closer to her)
Title: Ever to Excel
Word count: currently approx 2000
Pairing (or lack thereof): Klaine
Summary:
After a bad breakup Kurt applies to spend his Junior Year abroad in St Andrews, a tiny town on a cliff in Scotland where everything is a bit - (a lot) - weird. There’s a bronze statue of a stray cat, a foam fight in a 600 year old quad, a mad dash into the North Sea at dawn, and a charity hitchhike across Europe - not to mention the gorgeous, charismatic Blaine Anderson who Kurt is categorically NOT falling in love with. No. Definitely not.
Well, maybe just a little.
*
Short Excerpt:
It rained all three days he was in Edinburgh. He wasn’t prepared for it - the rain or the cold. Sure, it wasn’t a Midwest winter, but this was meant to be summer. He’d have to ask his dad to ship over his winter coat collection stat.
Kurt was beginning to regret the whole Leave-Everything-Behind-And-Move-To-Scotland thing.
When he got his first glimpse of St Andrews the twisting regret in his chest became lodged there. Nestled on the edge of a cliff and shrouded in grey rain, the town looked....terrifying.
St Andrews made Lima look massive. Three streets, pretty much. Though at least those three streets were more interesting than Lima; the university was 600 years old, parts of the town even older. But it was small and grey and didn’t even teach theatre or fashion.
He had no idea what the hell he was doing there.
(That was a lie. He was there for exactly four reasons:
1) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met there - the stamp of royal approval was very important to Kurt, and the idea of walking streets where Kate Middleton had once stepped gave him palpitations,
2) Quinn had been trying to convince him to come for his Junior Year since the moment she got there two years ago
3) He couldn’t face going back to NYADA and having to deal with his ex every day, deal with the gossip and the rumours and the heartbreak all over again
4) His mom had always wanted to visit Europe in general and Scotland in particular. He still had her postcard of the Old Course, the one she’d had taped to the mirror of her dressing table, the one he’d seen every day when he watched her put her makeup on. When he got on the plane from JFK to Edinburgh he felt that little bit closer to her)
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