Colours part Four (Doctor Who crossover)
Title: Colours (Part Four)
Author: mogamus_ii
Rating: PG13
Pairing: Finn/Kurt
Spoilers: Up to Furt (AU from there on)
Wordcount: (this part) 1495
Warnings: AU (telepathic!Kurt). I started this a while ago, and assumed that Kurt was living at Dalton.
Summary: Crossover with Doctor Who. A strange man tries to stop Kurt going to Dalton. The Warblers are not what they seem. Finn is struggling with strange feelings for his stepbrother and really doesn’t know how to deal with Kurt’s suddenly cold behavior.
The Doctor prodded Finn’s temple.
‘The TARDIS must’ve found some element of telepathy and amplified- Finn! Tell me, and answer truthfully because if your answer is yes then Kurt is very much in trouble.’
‘Tell you what?’ Finn almost yelled.
‘Are you entirely, every little bit of you, completely human?’
‘Y-yes!’ Finn stuttered. The second he answered the Doctor was on his feet, flying from lever to button to wheel and the TARDIS whirred, lurching and tipping Finn across the floor.
They landed with a shriek of ancient, alien brakes and the Doctor was out of the door before the sound had died away.
Amy grabbed Finn’s shoulder.
‘C’mon, let’s go and find your boyfriend.’
‘He’s not…’ But then she too was out of the door and Finn was following, Brittany in tow.
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The room in which the TARDIS had landed in was full of coloured wires. They ran across the walls and hung from the ceiling, dripping with gloopy black alien stuff. Finn shuddered as the oily slime smudged on his skin.
The Doctor poked around at the wires with a stick that hummed and buzzed with a green light.
‘Screwdriver,’ the Doctor said as if he had heard Finn’s unasked question, ‘it’s sonic.’
He prodded the wires once more. ‘Follow the orange wires. No, no, blue. Follow the blue wires.’
It was easier said than done. The wires snaked up and down walls, zigzagged across the ceiling, tied up in huge multi-coloured bundles.
‘Blue over here!’
‘And here!’
‘Blue is a sad colour,’ Brittany said, trailing along behind Finn. ‘Why do we want blue?’
‘The blue wires should lead us to Kurt,’ the Doctor said, sonicking again. A wire sparked and crackled, making them all jump backwards.
Noisenoisewhatnoise?Finn? Finn? Finn?
‘Kurt? Kurt!’ Finn stopped looking for the blue wires and ran towards the thought. Did that even work? Running towards a thought? He wouldn’t have thought so, not before today, but now it made more sense than most of the stuff he’d learned in school.
And there was Kurt. Finn almost missed him, he was lying so still, on his side and surrounded by piles of wiring. What stopped Finn in his tracks was the light. At first he didn’t notice it, a faint haze that seemed to vanish, fading one second, bright the next. The glow washed over Kurt’s skin, green and orange flowing together.
The Doctor crouched down beside him, placing a hand on his head.
‘Oh, you are beautiful,’ he whispered, pressing a button on the screwdriver thing, ‘beautiful.’
Jealousy strikes at the strangest of times, and this was one of them. Finn discovered that he did not like other people, specifically male, to call Kurt beautiful whilst petting his head.
‘He doesn’t like people touching his hair,’ he snapped. The Doctor looked up at him, amused.
‘Amazing, isn’t he?’ The Doctor said, shaking his head. ‘You humans, you don’t notice even if it’s right under your nose…’
‘Notice what?’ Finn snapped because really, he just wanted to get Kurt out of this place and then deal with these feelings that appeared to have snuck up on him. ‘Why is Kurt glowing like that?’
‘Kurt is glowing like that because Kurt isn’t human. Or at least, not completely human.’
Whrrrrrrr
The screwdriver again, scanning Kurt’s prone form.
‘Half, I’d say.’ The Doctor announced as Finn took a careful step closer, near enough to see that the silver ends of the wires ran under Kurt’s pale, too pale, paler than normal skin, pulsing gently. It made Finn wanted to retch.
The Doctor paused for a moment, freezing with a thoughtful expression.
‘What year is it?’
‘2010,’ Finn said slowly. ‘Was that a trick question?’
‘And we’re in… Westerville, Ohio? Is that near Lima?’
‘Yeah, I live there. Lima, I mean. So does Brittany.’
‘Well, it is a small world.’ The Doctor looked a little surprised and a little sad.
‘What do you mean?’ Amy asked with a frown.
‘I know what he is. Daethion.’
‘What?’
‘It’s a name. Kurt is half human and half Daethion, and he’s been trying to communicate with you. Telepathically.’ The Doctor was suddenly up in Finns face, grasping his cheeks with cool hands. He tilted Finn’s head, staring into his eyes and Finn felt a tingle behind his eyes.
‘Hmm. Yeah.’ He nodded and returned his focus to Kurt.
‘Right…’ Finn’s head would be spinning with confusion, but some part in the back of his head had taken over, a part that said get him out of here, Finn.
‘He glows. It’s beautiful,’ Brittany said from where she was sitting at Kurt’s head, playing with his hair.
‘Doctor, I think we need to leave,’ Amy said. Then she scowled as she spotted the wires that ran under Kurt’s skin.
‘What have they done to him?’
Finn decided he liked her, in that moment. Her voice held the appropriate levels of ‘how dare they’ and ‘give me an ass and I’ll kick it for you’.
‘Setting 154, I think.’ The doctor fumbled with the screwdriver again. ‘We need to get these wires out.’
Finn helped hold Kurt still as they teased the wires from under his skin. Not that Kurt was moving, all that much. He was freezing cold, Finn could barely feel the heat from his body through the thin fabric of his shirt.
‘Finn?’ Kurt’s voice startled him, jolting him out of the panic he was beginning to feel deep in his stomach.
‘Kurt, hey…’ he touched Kurt’s cheek, the faint glow flickering over his hand, greens changing to a baby pink.
‘Why am I gl-glowing?’ Kurt asked in a shaky voice.
‘We’ll explain later, but dude, it’s totally cool.’ Or the Doctor would explain, because Finn still didn’t really understand himself.
‘I knew you find me,’ Kurt said tiredly as Finn helped him to his feet. Finn found himself fascinated by the change of colours, light purple when he stumbled, a flash of orange when he winced in pain and a so-soft-it’s-almost-white pink flush as he spoke.
The Doctor herded them all along to the TARDIS, but stopped when they were just a few feet away.
‘Who left the door open?’ he asked slowly, and glared at Finn because he knew really who it was.
‘Sorry…’ Finn mumbled. Why did he have to be so stupid? The door was wide open and The Doctor advanced carefully, peering in before edging inside.
‘Get Kurt in here quickly, they must have worked out that he’s gone by now,’ the Doctor ordered over his shoulder.
‘How?’ Finn asked as he supported Kurt through the door. There hadn’t been an alarm or anything, not that he’d heard, anyway. Maybe there was some alien-slime alarm?
‘You remember what I said about the aliens searching for a power source? Well they found it. Kurt’s species store huge amounts of this…energy stuff. So much that they glow. Well, it’s a little more complicated than that, but we don’t have time right now. Kurt was…plugged in. Like a big, big, powerful battery.’
‘W-wait, my species?’ Kurt stammered and Finn was reminded that Kurt knew nothing about any of this.
‘Aliens?’ Kurt continued, his voice getting higher as he spoke. ‘And is this…bigger on the inside, and who are you and why did Blaine knock me out and will someone please tell me why my skin is glowing? And who are you?’ He stared at the Doctor and Amy for a moment. ‘Have I- wait, you were outside Dalton! Wearing a bow tie and braces, which you’re still wearing now. Please tell me you don’t wear the same thing every day…’
Finn could see that Kurt was on the verge of hyperventilation, the haze around him a dark green.
‘Kurt,’ Finn grabbed his shoulder. ‘Dude, can you freak out later?’
For a moment he thought he was going to hit him. Dark purple. Then his shoulders just slumped and he took Finn’s offered hand. Blue.
‘Okay,’ he muttered, taking deep, slow breaths. Tentatively, Finn rubbed his shoulder, earning a quick look and a quirk of an eyebrow.
‘Right, let’s get out of here.’ The Doctor casually flicked a lever, slammed his hands down on a panel of buttons and-
Nothing happened.
‘Brilliant.’ Amy folded her arms, ‘what’s gone wrong this time?’
‘Well, what I think you should be asking yourselves what’s gone right?’ said a voice (so familiarly high that Finn had to look down at Kurt beside him, just to check) from behind them. They all turned to look.
There was a Kurt in Dalton uniform leaning against one of the struts. He grinned and his teeth were pointed, and the inky black stuff was in his mouth.
Real Kurt looked mildly disgusted and not a little scared.
‘Who are you?’ He snapped, his defensive bitch-shield (usually reserved for the cruellest of the McKinley High jocks) well and truly in place.
Finn wasn’t sure if he could cope with two Kurts.
A/N: Sorry for how short this part was, but there wasn't another convenient point to end it. Also, I really hope this bit makes sense. It's even more complicated than my stuff usually is...