The Road to Hell

[what_larks]

Title: The Road to Hell
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: homophobia, a couple of instances of homophobic slurs, also, this is pretty heavy on the original characters
Spoilers: None.  In fact, it's best to read this without cannon in mind, Jacobellis v. Ohio was left at a fork miles and miles ago.
Summary: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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[k_persephone]

I think this makes me cry. I'd like to say it's because of the part when Blaine offers Kurt his cardigan, or the people who glance up and then turn back to their papers or their conversations, or their coffee, like things like this happen every day. But that isn't true. In all honesty I don't even know why I'm basically sobbing right now. I don't know why I sympathize with Sarah when I'm not even close to being religious (haven't even had a proper introduction to Christianity *shrug*), I don't know why I understand her mother when it hurts so much to imagine that these good-nature, kind-hearted people must cut each other down from either side of the wall.

It is not difficult to imagine people like Fred Phelps to be full of hate, at least not for me. But my heart breaks because I know some of them, maybe a lot of them, mean differently than we perceive them to do. Some things in me break when I think I would be just another Sarah had I been born in a different family, in a different time. This is the feeling I get when I read about wars. People don't see the faces of their enemies, really see them, until everything is over and it's too late, even for scars.

Thank you,
-P.

[what_larks]

Getting you to sympathize with Sarah was kind of my goal, partly to get you to that very conclusion -- sometimes it hurts more when people think they have your best interests at heart.

Re: your comment about war -- go google "Christmas Truce" -- then come back and we can sob together forever.