Such a Funny Pair (The Strong One)
Series Title: Such a Funny Pair
Series Summary: A collection of moments from the eyes of Rachel Berry’s dads and Kurt Hummel’s dad.
Title: The Strong One
Author: niblettk
Rating: PG-13 to be safe
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Kurt Hummel, Burt Hummel
Warning: none that I can think of.
Spoilers: Seen Preggers? You’re good.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything.
Genre: angst, hurt/comfort, fluff
Author’s Note: I started writing these sometime during season one and lost them on my computer. I found them recently, and at my sister’s apparent love of them, decided to keep writing them.
Summary: Very suddenly, Burt Hummel’s wife is gone. She was always the strong one, and now he has to step up. This part is written for this prompt.
Word Count: 503
Other Parts: They're Perfect
Kurt is special; Burt knows this, knows that no matter what life-or the boys at school-throws at him, Kurt will survive and he’ll be better than everyone else.
He knows it all comes from Katherine: the talent, the brains, the attitude.
It’s hard to raise a child, he thinks, feeling Kurt’s small hand slip in his own sweaty one. He stares, watching them lower the casket into the ground. Katherine’s mother sobs quietly beside him, the bouquet of white magnolias she’s holding quiver noticeably in her hands.
“Dad,” Kurt whispers quietly. He knows it’s a quiet occasion, that he shouldn’t disrupt the man at the head of the large hole-Burt had wanted a simple ceremony without a preacher, but Jane, Katherine’s mother, had insisted. “Where’s mommy?”
Burt kneels down, feeling the dirt crumble under his knees, and brings Kurt towards him, “Mommy is-She’s gone away, Kurt,” he hears his own voice break, sees the tears start filling Kurt’s eyes, “I’m sorry, baby.”
Small hands wrap around his neck and Kurt steps forward, hugging him tightly. Burt stands and Kurt’s legs cling to his sides; the tears are flowing, Burt can feel a dampness spreading out from where Kurt’s face is pressed to his shoulder.
“Is she coming back?” It’s mumbled into the fabric of his shirt, and the warmth of Kurt’s breath crumbles the thin layer of denial, of pathetic, unwarranted hope, that Burt has been carrying around for ten days now.
His wife isn’t coming back, and he shakes his head, hefting Kurt up a little as he slips and holding him tighter. She’s gone, she’s never coming back.
He’s been through loss: his parents died during his second year at the University of Ohio. But this-this gut wrenching pain that just won’t leave him-is not going away. He isn’t sure it ever will.
Katherine is gone.
He’s alone. He has to raise Kurt on his own, suffer through what both of them knew was coming, what Kate had assured him she could handle. He could take a back seat on the elephant that followed them around, but with Kate gone...
He’d have to deal with it. He’d have to be the strong one.
He thinks about looking up that boy-the one he made fun of for being homosexual-James Watson from his high school, knowing that even though he was a jerk and a bully, James was always better than that.
Except Burt shouldn’t have to be thinking about his son getting bullied, about going to the boy he’d tortured years ago, about how hard it’s going to be to support his family on his own. He shouldn’t have to be thinking at all-not on this day, not in this place.
He closes his eyes as Kurt starts to slacken against him-falling asleep-and stops thinking, even if it’s just for a little while.
He’ll focus on being strong later; on raising and protecting his son; on living without his soul mate.
Series Summary: A collection of moments from the eyes of Rachel Berry’s dads and Kurt Hummel’s dad.
Title: The Strong One
Author: niblettk
Rating: PG-13 to be safe
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Kurt Hummel, Burt Hummel
Warning: none that I can think of.
Spoilers: Seen Preggers? You’re good.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything.
Genre: angst, hurt/comfort, fluff
Author’s Note: I started writing these sometime during season one and lost them on my computer. I found them recently, and at my sister’s apparent love of them, decided to keep writing them.
Summary: Very suddenly, Burt Hummel’s wife is gone. She was always the strong one, and now he has to step up. This part is written for this prompt.
Word Count: 503
Other Parts: They're Perfect
Kurt is special; Burt knows this, knows that no matter what life-or the boys at school-throws at him, Kurt will survive and he’ll be better than everyone else.
He knows it all comes from Katherine: the talent, the brains, the attitude.
It’s hard to raise a child, he thinks, feeling Kurt’s small hand slip in his own sweaty one. He stares, watching them lower the casket into the ground. Katherine’s mother sobs quietly beside him, the bouquet of white magnolias she’s holding quiver noticeably in her hands.
“Dad,” Kurt whispers quietly. He knows it’s a quiet occasion, that he shouldn’t disrupt the man at the head of the large hole-Burt had wanted a simple ceremony without a preacher, but Jane, Katherine’s mother, had insisted. “Where’s mommy?”
Burt kneels down, feeling the dirt crumble under his knees, and brings Kurt towards him, “Mommy is-She’s gone away, Kurt,” he hears his own voice break, sees the tears start filling Kurt’s eyes, “I’m sorry, baby.”
Small hands wrap around his neck and Kurt steps forward, hugging him tightly. Burt stands and Kurt’s legs cling to his sides; the tears are flowing, Burt can feel a dampness spreading out from where Kurt’s face is pressed to his shoulder.
“Is she coming back?” It’s mumbled into the fabric of his shirt, and the warmth of Kurt’s breath crumbles the thin layer of denial, of pathetic, unwarranted hope, that Burt has been carrying around for ten days now.
His wife isn’t coming back, and he shakes his head, hefting Kurt up a little as he slips and holding him tighter. She’s gone, she’s never coming back.
He’s been through loss: his parents died during his second year at the University of Ohio. But this-this gut wrenching pain that just won’t leave him-is not going away. He isn’t sure it ever will.
Katherine is gone.
He’s alone. He has to raise Kurt on his own, suffer through what both of them knew was coming, what Kate had assured him she could handle. He could take a back seat on the elephant that followed them around, but with Kate gone...
He’d have to deal with it. He’d have to be the strong one.
He thinks about looking up that boy-the one he made fun of for being homosexual-James Watson from his high school, knowing that even though he was a jerk and a bully, James was always better than that.
Except Burt shouldn’t have to be thinking about his son getting bullied, about going to the boy he’d tortured years ago, about how hard it’s going to be to support his family on his own. He shouldn’t have to be thinking at all-not on this day, not in this place.
He closes his eyes as Kurt starts to slacken against him-falling asleep-and stops thinking, even if it’s just for a little while.
He’ll focus on being strong later; on raising and protecting his son; on living without his soul mate.