fic: Not Like a Thunderbolt, Part One

[xenachakram12]

Title: Not Like a Thunderbolt
Pairing: Kurt/Finn
Summary: Falling in love with his stepbrother is not like anything Finn’s ever seen in a movie. It’s confusing and life-altering, and between Burt, Blaine, and burnt crêpes, Finn doesn’t know up from down anymore. He does his best to make sense of it all, but in the end he really only knows two

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[epanaphoric]

Okay, I'm rereading without my beta goggles, and just enjoying on a pure level of awesome fic, and oh, this is fun. You've hooked us from the first paragraph, and the idea of S3 Finn being so down on himself he feels he can't feel in love right is a devastating one because it rings so true to how lost he is in canon. I didn't pick up on how subtle this ran through the fic; I'm not sure whether it was intentional, but the boy does not make it easy on himself.

Kurt is being this way for Finn, because he and Finn are bros and friends and yeah, they probably love each other a little bit.

And it was here that my heart started to go flip. Because Finn's astute to know that Kurt loves him, but also realistic enough to know it's not quite in the way he wants just yet.

I mentioned this to you before, but the soul-sweater extended metaphor is probably one of my favourite lines in the fic. As you know, I'm not always fond of imagery used like this, as it can sometimes come across as very forced, but you have Finn thinking in metaphors which are very Finn-like and it works wonderfully for me, and also skips the exposition you'd have if he ruminated about things instead without comparing them to tangible things he's familiar with.

First of all, Kurt is his stepbrother, and most of the time they refer to each other without even using the word ‘step’. Secondly, pretty much everyone in the Glee club is rooting for Kurt to get with Blaine.

Weirdly, in canon Glee, I'm fairly sure it's Finn who's used the word 'step'. Hm. :)

Just because he’s in love with his stepbrother doesn’t mean he’s a weirdo.

Oh, Finn. *snort*

Whenever he has a minute, he thinks about it… and Kurt would probably be grossed out if he knew that Finn thinks about him in the bathroom

You don't shy away from the fact that he's very much an eighteen year-old boy, and that helps keep him so in-character for me. And this is funny! So many amusing moments in between the Finn angst.

“You told me that I needed to decide what I wanted. That I needed to decide if it’s something I want to get over. Well, I don’t. I don’t want to get over it. In fact, I kinda wanna get under it.”

Seriously, stop it! You're killing me, here. Finn's going to give him another heart attack.

Kurt stuck the instructions on the fridge with a magnet, so that if Finn ever craved crêpes in the middle of the night, he would never wake Kurt up for them ever, ever again.

I can imagine it being a little like: "Just this once, Finn," after the breakup with Rachel when Finn's up singing Foreigner and Journey and whatever until about 2am on a school night under the pretences for warm milk and a chat. And then it happens more and more often until Kurt either knows he'll have to teach Finn the damn things, or feign an allergy to wheat.

The crepes scene is always my favourite. (Randomly, as a British girl, the Shepherd's Pie recipe makes me weep. Cream? EVOO? Paprika? Oh, Rachael Ray. Had Finn known Google a little better, he could have realised a can of minced meat topped with instant mashed potato is how the average lazy British person rolls. ;) )

let Kurt go and not burden him with this; because that’s what this is, isn’t it? A burden?

Argh, my creys! And then he tells Kurt, and keeps Kurt's note the morning after! I love small touches like that. And he likes his vest! Smooth, Finn. Not at all twelve year-old. There is so much to read between the lines, here. I love the scenes between Blaine and Finn, because Blaine's trying to say the right thing, dispense advice, but he's so conflicted over what to say. I sense there's a part of him that knew how Kurt felt about Finn in the past, and as Blaine never transferred to McKinley, he only really knows Finn through Kurt's eyes. I wonder how much he knows -- it seems like Kurt might well have glossed over a lot of his and Finn's relationship, because would he really want to admit to the reason their father remarried? Is something maybe holding him back from making a move on Blaine? They're so tentative, even more so in canon. There are so many unanswered questions, actually, but then this isn't a fic from Blaine's perspective. Great characterisation here.

Now for part two. Yay! :)

[xenachakram12]

Oh, darling! It's so sweet for you to go through and read yet again. I read through all the comments as I ate my lunch and just basked in the praise. It made a frozen entree in my cubicle much more enjoyable.

The soul-sweater thing was one of the first things I wrote and it never changed in the editing. I've always kinda loved it, too. :-)

haha, I was worried that Finn thinking about Kurt in the bathroom might gross ppl out, but that's where doodz go to think, okay??

Everyone has a slightly different interpretation of what's going on with Blaine and I love them all! I have a general idea in my head, but not a timeline for him or anything, so nobody is actually right OR wrong. :-D (I keep coming up with ideas for this--dare I say it--'verse. Some of these involve our darling Blaine. Ay ay ay.)

[epanaphoric]

Jenni, this is not the last time I will be reading this, I assure you. ;-)

I keep coming up with ideas for this--dare I say it--'verse. Some of these involve our darling Blaine. Ay ay ay.)

Guessing it's not a giant orgy. Shame.