Fic: The Giant, Great And Still
Yes. More Glee. (I really need a Glee icon actually...) I can't help it. I've got a Whitechapel plan coming, but probably not until after the exams... But (as I said during my mocks) I'm a stress!ficcer, so when I'm stressed I end up writing fic at 3/4AM when I can't sleep out of pain and worry and the like (this is one of them) so yeah... there's likely to be more Glee or Whitechapel fic. (Which aren't like the antithesis of each other or anything!)
Title: The Giant, Great And Still
Fandom: Glee
Author: phantomreviewer
Rating: G
Pairing: Kurt/Blaine
Warnings: None.
A/N:: Sequel/Companion fic to Your Eyes Down To Your Feet from Finn's POV. Title from the Robert Louis Stevenson poem "The Land Of Counterpane"
Summary: Finn tries to be a good brother whilst juggling Glee, Kurt being sick and The Little Mermaid.
It sucks when Kurt's ill, not because he becomes more of a bitch (although he does, and Finn mostly tries to get out of the way) but because he always seems defeated by it.
And the Kurt Finn knows isn't defeated by anything, not Coach Sylvester, not Rachel, not even Karofsky. (Although the little voice in his head so helpful points out here that he'd done that to Kurt once, almost a year ago... he worries about what Blaine could do to hurt Kurt sometimes, because he reckons that boyfriend trumps kind of brother on the emotional stakes). But when Kurt's sick, it's different, he cries. And, Finn's seen Kurt cry before -hell, he's made Kurt cry before- but that was always angry or sad tears. These are just tears like Kurt's eyes can't help it. Finn remembers being younger and puking so much he made himself cry and Kurt looks like the effort of being ill is enough to make him cry. If it were Puck or Sam he'd make a comment about him being 'such a girl' but he knows Kurt wouldn't get it.
He's trying.
Promising to tell the others that he's ill seems like the properly brotherly thing to do.
He knows Kurt would do it for him. Kurt would probably get his homework for him as well, but Finn thinks that's a pretty nasty thing to get for someone who's sick, and anyway, Kurt's French teacher scares him slightly.
Normally they drive together, so it's kind of quiet getting to school, but when he's there be kind of forgets Kurt. It's nothing personal. It just happens, only when Mercedes comes up to him to ask "where my boy Kurt?" is does he remember why the drive to school was quiet.
After Spanish Mr Schue takes him by the arm and asks him about Kurt too.
He doesn't really expect anyone else to ask after Kurt, not until Glee at least, but he catches Karofsky's eye and he looks... Finn doesn't understand it, but he doesn't trust him.
Karofsky looks away first.
Finn knows that Kurt would have hated to miss that week's Glee. Would it be kinder to say they did a Disney mash-up or not? It's exactly the sort of thing that he'd have wanted to be involved in. Maybe he'll just let Kurt pick the movie to watch later and not talk about Glee. He'd asked the girls what they liked to do when they were ill- it wasn't that he thought Kurt was a girl, but when he was sick he liked to play his zombie shooter games, and that morning Kurt looked like he was going to be sick just looking at breakfast, so maybe the mouldy flesh of the undead wasn't the best idea- and they'd unanimously said films. Films and someone to make a fuss of them. Finn thought that he'd probably annoy Kurt if he kept making a fuss of him, but he could find a film. A Disney film!
He's sure they've got a copy of something like The Little Mermaid or Beauty and the Beast somewhere, maybe his mom had them? If not Kurt would. It was the kind of thing he'd have.
He was still planning the brother-bonding-time-film-night-slash-Kurt's-epic-recovery when he gets home. Mom and Burt aren't going to be home till later in the evening so they've got plenty of movie time before they start on at him about his homework.
Kurt's Navigator is still in the driveway (obviously) but there's also another car parked up by the house.
The door doesn't look kicked in though. So he guesses that it's fine.
What sort of criminal would lock the door behind them?
He means to go check on Kurt first, but he only realised that he's hungry when he gets in. And Kurt's probably still asleep anyway- he might get prissy if Finn wakes him up without being ready, all movies need popcorn.
There's a bowl of soup in the microwave, which is odd because it wasn't there this morning. And then there's also that old jacket of Kurt's hanging over a chair, and Finn doesn't understand why Kurt would put his old school uniform on to make some soup that he hadn't even eaten when he hears a murmur from the living room.
Oh.
He should be more used to seeing Blaine around the house, but it still seems weird that Kurt's got an actual boyfriend now. He doesn't understand that, how Blaine went from just being his friend to dating him. But Kurt doesn't seem to mind.
Kurt's all cuddled up in Blaine's lap. Actually cuddled up in his lap, and Finn just knows that Burt would blow a fuse if he could see them, but it's not like they're doing anything- even if Kurt is wearing a skirt- they're just holding hands and he thinks Blaine's singing under his breath. It's that one they sang at Regional's, their- Kurt and Blaine's that is- duet. That explains the mumbling.
He goes to cough, really loudly, so it's obvious he's trying to get their attention rather than him being ill. Because it would suck if Kurt thought he'd made him ill. But Blaine looks over the back of the sofa, squeezes Kurt's hand and then let's go of Kurt's hand.
"Er, hi Finn."
"Hi Blaine."
There's not enough room on the sofa for Finn as well, but he could watch from the loveseat, Blaine likes Disney. Well probably, when they first met Kurt went on about how similar they were.
"Finn?"
Kurt actually looks like he was asleep on Blaine's lap, and he feels kind of guilty even though he's not done anything.
"Feeling better bro?"
Kurt nods against Blaine's shirt and Finn thinks it's kind of cute. Not Kurt being sick, but the way he doesn't want to let go of Blaine. It was kind of endearing when Rachel was like it with him.
"Blaine bought me soup-" that explains the soup "- and then, I guess I fell asleep."
He means to look kind of approving, but he guesses that it comes out like a frown because Blaine raises his eyebrows, and rubs his hand down Kurt's back.
"Dude no," he did not just mean to convey with his eyes that he thinks they've been up to anything "he's sick. You totally didn't do anything." It's still coming out like an accusation, and sometimes he wishes he could just turn off his mouth.
"If you're still here when Burt gets in then you got here after me, alright?"
Blaine laughs, slightly shakily, Finn thinks that Blaine's a bit scared of Burt, but then everyone Finn knows apart from Kurt and his mom are a bit scared of Burt.
Kurt relaxes into Blaine again, and this kind of proves that he's still sick because Blaine might be over a lot of the time, but he's never really seen them act this couply even at Prom they didn't dance together properly. Not until the stupid Prom Queen thing... but that was different, he guessed. He wished he'd been there. Stupid Jesse St. James. This must be what the girls meant by being made a fuss of though.
Blaine does a better job of it than Finn would have anyway
"How was school Finn?"
Trust it to be Blaine making conversation, he wanted to suggest watching a film to Kurt, but it seemed kind of odd to address himself to Blaine's stomach.
"It was cool- dude did you really buy soup? That's so cool."
For some reason that makes Blaine blush more than the fact that Kurt is in his lap or the fact that he's playing with Kurt's hair.
Kurt's definitely still ill.
"Erm, yeah, I did."
Kurt turns his head slightly, he looks all tired and pale, and maybe Burt wouldn't think anything was up if he saw this anyway.
"How was Glee?"
He starts to say how awesome it was- Mr Schue had brought that funny little guitar thing- but he stopped himself, Kurt would be jealous.
"Want to watch The Little Mermaid?"
Kurt looks so shocked by the suggestion that Finn laughs.
"Yeah, that'd be nice actually, you don't mind Blaine do you?"
Blaine, Finn thinks, looks like he doesn't mind anything that Kurt suggests (even if it was really Finn's idea). He wonders if he looks like that at Quinn, at Rachel?
After a while of sorting stuff out ("Do you have a copy of The Little Mermaid?") ("You don't look too good Kurt..." "Sorry." "Nothing to be sorry about, you're not well." "Least you made it to the bathroom." "Finn!" "What? It's true!") ("Kurt, I know you're the one who's sick and all but can I go eat your soup?") they finally get the film rolling and Kurt enjoys it right up until he falls asleep and Finn would laugh at the way Kurt's month is hanging open, but he really loves that singing crab.
By the end of the film both Blaine and Kurt have somehow managed to fall asleep.
Blaine at least got to the end of the film. They'd chatted a bit and then Blaine had shifted down on the sofa, and Finn thought that he was going to wake Kurt up or maybe kiss him or something and he looked away, but he didn't sit up again.
Finn was going to wake them up when Burt got in, but Burt shook his head and gestured to the kitchen.
"Finn?"
Finn pushed the empty soup can along the table top with his spoon.
"He was here when I got in from Glee, but it can't have been long 'cause he said he came round straight after Dalton finished and he got Kurt soup and everything. It was nice soup too, I know it was for Kurt but he'd just been sick so I thought someone should eat it..."
"I was going to ask how your day was. Didn't want to wake them up."
Finn frowned a moment, but then grinned. Burt was a great step-dad. Blaine didn't have to be scared of him. Not really.
"How's Kurt?"
"Oh, Blaine's been looking after him."
That didn't mean Finn couldn't help him out sometimes. Maybe making your brother's boyfriend look good in front of his dad was even better than letting him watch Disney.
Even if it was a great excuse to watch that awesome crab.
Title: The Giant, Great And Still
Fandom: Glee
Author: phantomreviewer
Rating: G
Pairing: Kurt/Blaine
Warnings: None.
A/N:: Sequel/Companion fic to Your Eyes Down To Your Feet from Finn's POV. Title from the Robert Louis Stevenson poem "The Land Of Counterpane"
Summary: Finn tries to be a good brother whilst juggling Glee, Kurt being sick and The Little Mermaid.
It sucks when Kurt's ill, not because he becomes more of a bitch (although he does, and Finn mostly tries to get out of the way) but because he always seems defeated by it.
And the Kurt Finn knows isn't defeated by anything, not Coach Sylvester, not Rachel, not even Karofsky. (Although the little voice in his head so helpful points out here that he'd done that to Kurt once, almost a year ago... he worries about what Blaine could do to hurt Kurt sometimes, because he reckons that boyfriend trumps kind of brother on the emotional stakes). But when Kurt's sick, it's different, he cries. And, Finn's seen Kurt cry before -hell, he's made Kurt cry before- but that was always angry or sad tears. These are just tears like Kurt's eyes can't help it. Finn remembers being younger and puking so much he made himself cry and Kurt looks like the effort of being ill is enough to make him cry. If it were Puck or Sam he'd make a comment about him being 'such a girl' but he knows Kurt wouldn't get it.
He's trying.
Promising to tell the others that he's ill seems like the properly brotherly thing to do.
He knows Kurt would do it for him. Kurt would probably get his homework for him as well, but Finn thinks that's a pretty nasty thing to get for someone who's sick, and anyway, Kurt's French teacher scares him slightly.
Normally they drive together, so it's kind of quiet getting to school, but when he's there be kind of forgets Kurt. It's nothing personal. It just happens, only when Mercedes comes up to him to ask "where my boy Kurt?" is does he remember why the drive to school was quiet.
After Spanish Mr Schue takes him by the arm and asks him about Kurt too.
He doesn't really expect anyone else to ask after Kurt, not until Glee at least, but he catches Karofsky's eye and he looks... Finn doesn't understand it, but he doesn't trust him.
Karofsky looks away first.
Finn knows that Kurt would have hated to miss that week's Glee. Would it be kinder to say they did a Disney mash-up or not? It's exactly the sort of thing that he'd have wanted to be involved in. Maybe he'll just let Kurt pick the movie to watch later and not talk about Glee. He'd asked the girls what they liked to do when they were ill- it wasn't that he thought Kurt was a girl, but when he was sick he liked to play his zombie shooter games, and that morning Kurt looked like he was going to be sick just looking at breakfast, so maybe the mouldy flesh of the undead wasn't the best idea- and they'd unanimously said films. Films and someone to make a fuss of them. Finn thought that he'd probably annoy Kurt if he kept making a fuss of him, but he could find a film. A Disney film!
He's sure they've got a copy of something like The Little Mermaid or Beauty and the Beast somewhere, maybe his mom had them? If not Kurt would. It was the kind of thing he'd have.
He was still planning the brother-bonding-time-film-night-slash-Kurt's-epic-recovery when he gets home. Mom and Burt aren't going to be home till later in the evening so they've got plenty of movie time before they start on at him about his homework.
Kurt's Navigator is still in the driveway (obviously) but there's also another car parked up by the house.
The door doesn't look kicked in though. So he guesses that it's fine.
What sort of criminal would lock the door behind them?
He means to go check on Kurt first, but he only realised that he's hungry when he gets in. And Kurt's probably still asleep anyway- he might get prissy if Finn wakes him up without being ready, all movies need popcorn.
There's a bowl of soup in the microwave, which is odd because it wasn't there this morning. And then there's also that old jacket of Kurt's hanging over a chair, and Finn doesn't understand why Kurt would put his old school uniform on to make some soup that he hadn't even eaten when he hears a murmur from the living room.
Oh.
He should be more used to seeing Blaine around the house, but it still seems weird that Kurt's got an actual boyfriend now. He doesn't understand that, how Blaine went from just being his friend to dating him. But Kurt doesn't seem to mind.
Kurt's all cuddled up in Blaine's lap. Actually cuddled up in his lap, and Finn just knows that Burt would blow a fuse if he could see them, but it's not like they're doing anything- even if Kurt is wearing a skirt- they're just holding hands and he thinks Blaine's singing under his breath. It's that one they sang at Regional's, their- Kurt and Blaine's that is- duet. That explains the mumbling.
He goes to cough, really loudly, so it's obvious he's trying to get their attention rather than him being ill. Because it would suck if Kurt thought he'd made him ill. But Blaine looks over the back of the sofa, squeezes Kurt's hand and then let's go of Kurt's hand.
"Er, hi Finn."
"Hi Blaine."
There's not enough room on the sofa for Finn as well, but he could watch from the loveseat, Blaine likes Disney. Well probably, when they first met Kurt went on about how similar they were.
"Finn?"
Kurt actually looks like he was asleep on Blaine's lap, and he feels kind of guilty even though he's not done anything.
"Feeling better bro?"
Kurt nods against Blaine's shirt and Finn thinks it's kind of cute. Not Kurt being sick, but the way he doesn't want to let go of Blaine. It was kind of endearing when Rachel was like it with him.
"Blaine bought me soup-" that explains the soup "- and then, I guess I fell asleep."
He means to look kind of approving, but he guesses that it comes out like a frown because Blaine raises his eyebrows, and rubs his hand down Kurt's back.
"Dude no," he did not just mean to convey with his eyes that he thinks they've been up to anything "he's sick. You totally didn't do anything." It's still coming out like an accusation, and sometimes he wishes he could just turn off his mouth.
"If you're still here when Burt gets in then you got here after me, alright?"
Blaine laughs, slightly shakily, Finn thinks that Blaine's a bit scared of Burt, but then everyone Finn knows apart from Kurt and his mom are a bit scared of Burt.
Kurt relaxes into Blaine again, and this kind of proves that he's still sick because Blaine might be over a lot of the time, but he's never really seen them act this couply even at Prom they didn't dance together properly. Not until the stupid Prom Queen thing... but that was different, he guessed. He wished he'd been there. Stupid Jesse St. James. This must be what the girls meant by being made a fuss of though.
Blaine does a better job of it than Finn would have anyway
"How was school Finn?"
Trust it to be Blaine making conversation, he wanted to suggest watching a film to Kurt, but it seemed kind of odd to address himself to Blaine's stomach.
"It was cool- dude did you really buy soup? That's so cool."
For some reason that makes Blaine blush more than the fact that Kurt is in his lap or the fact that he's playing with Kurt's hair.
Kurt's definitely still ill.
"Erm, yeah, I did."
Kurt turns his head slightly, he looks all tired and pale, and maybe Burt wouldn't think anything was up if he saw this anyway.
"How was Glee?"
He starts to say how awesome it was- Mr Schue had brought that funny little guitar thing- but he stopped himself, Kurt would be jealous.
"Want to watch The Little Mermaid?"
Kurt looks so shocked by the suggestion that Finn laughs.
"Yeah, that'd be nice actually, you don't mind Blaine do you?"
Blaine, Finn thinks, looks like he doesn't mind anything that Kurt suggests (even if it was really Finn's idea). He wonders if he looks like that at Quinn, at Rachel?
After a while of sorting stuff out ("Do you have a copy of The Little Mermaid?") ("You don't look too good Kurt..." "Sorry." "Nothing to be sorry about, you're not well." "Least you made it to the bathroom." "Finn!" "What? It's true!") ("Kurt, I know you're the one who's sick and all but can I go eat your soup?") they finally get the film rolling and Kurt enjoys it right up until he falls asleep and Finn would laugh at the way Kurt's month is hanging open, but he really loves that singing crab.
By the end of the film both Blaine and Kurt have somehow managed to fall asleep.
Blaine at least got to the end of the film. They'd chatted a bit and then Blaine had shifted down on the sofa, and Finn thought that he was going to wake Kurt up or maybe kiss him or something and he looked away, but he didn't sit up again.
Finn was going to wake them up when Burt got in, but Burt shook his head and gestured to the kitchen.
"Finn?"
Finn pushed the empty soup can along the table top with his spoon.
"He was here when I got in from Glee, but it can't have been long 'cause he said he came round straight after Dalton finished and he got Kurt soup and everything. It was nice soup too, I know it was for Kurt but he'd just been sick so I thought someone should eat it..."
"I was going to ask how your day was. Didn't want to wake them up."
Finn frowned a moment, but then grinned. Burt was a great step-dad. Blaine didn't have to be scared of him. Not really.
"How's Kurt?"
"Oh, Blaine's been looking after him."
That didn't mean Finn couldn't help him out sometimes. Maybe making your brother's boyfriend look good in front of his dad was even better than letting him watch Disney.
Even if it was a great excuse to watch that awesome crab.