Time has brought your heart to me
Author: xLoveMitchiex
Word count: 3.526 words
Characters/Pairings: Sory/Flanevans/Ram (whatever you like to call it! ;D)
Rating: PG-13
Warning: uhm...angst? XD
Summary: Everyone at McKinley thought that Rory was just a simple exchange student from Ireland, (he had worked really hard on that accent by the way) but the truth was that he had been sent back in time, along with his best friends Harmony and Sugar, to make sure their parents, who were currently having some relationship troubles, got together so they would be born.
That was his mission. He wasn´t supposed to fall in love. That had never been the plan.
Author´s note: Welcome to my new ship, I just think these two are utterly adorable!!! *__* This fic goes along with a photoset I made, it´s based on the theories that Rory is the Klaine baby and came from the future to make sure his Dad´s really got together. Lots of angst with a little bit of romance and a guest apperance from Harmony and Sugar.
I hope you guys enjoy this, it´s 3am and I haven´t read through it again, so if you find any grammar mistakes, please keep them! ;D
Hey Rory, wait up!“ Sam´s voice echoed through the hallway and Rory stopped in his tracks.
Sam had caught up to him fast and was now standing in front of him, grinning widely.
“I joined the synchronized swimming team!”
Rory raised an eyebrow. “So?”
“Well I thought you could join too, you know, it means a lot of shirtless time together!” The grin on Sam´s face turned into a smirk.
“Sam…” Rory muttered and was momentarily distracted by the thought of Sam shirtless, only in his swimming trunks, and wet. It was something he would certainly enjoy, but the tight feeling in his stomach returned just a few seconds later and he bit his lip.
“Sam please, I told you we can´t do this.”
Everyone at McKinley thought that Rory was just a simple exchange student from Ireland, (he had worked really hard on that accent by the way) but the truth was that he had been sent back in time, along with his best friends Harmony and Sugar, to make sure their parents, who were currently having some relationship troubles, got together so they would be born.
That was his mission. He wasn´t supposed to fall in love. That had never been the plan.
He had never thought it would happen, but he clearly hadn´t counted on Sam Evans. Sam that was suddenly the same age and damn was he good looking. As if it wasn´t already hard enough to make sure your Dad´s end up together and won´t break up because of some random guy that suddenly had the hots for Blaine.
“Why? Because you don´t like boys? Well you shouldn´t have kissed me at Rachel´s party then.”
Well that had been a mistake, Rory had never wanted to kiss him.
Ok, that was a lie, he had really wanted to kiss Sam, but that didn´t change the fact that it had been, and always would be, a mistake.
Rory lowered his eyes so that he was staring at Sam´s feet now, he couldn´t possibly say this to his face.
“Well yeah, I really shouldn´t have.”
There was a short silence and Rory caught himself waiting for a response, for anything, but nothing came. He looked up again and found Sam staring at him, the smile had vanished from his face.
“I don´t get you.” Sam said, clearly looking disappointed.
“It´s not your fault, you wouldn´t understand.” Rory sighed and was already turned half around, when Sam grabbed him by the shoulder to hold him back.
“You could try to explain it to me, I really want you to.” He said and the look on his face was so sincere, so full of hope, that it made Rory cringe inside.
“I can´t, I´m sorry.” And with that he turned around and disappeared into the crowd of students, leaving Sam behind.
In Glee Club, Rory noticed that Sam was staring at him almost the entire time. He forced himself not to look directly at the other boy, but he couldn´t help to look from the corner of his eye once in a while. It was a good thing they were just doing some vocal exercises, otherwise Rory would have probably had to be all happy and smiley during a song, but now he could just do his best to block out all of his surroundings.
After Glee Club Sam was walking over to Rory, but the other boy somehow managed to avoid hi by engaging into a conversation with Brittany. He had no idea what she was actually talking about, but he looked busy and that was all that counted in that moment.
Sam shot him a disappointed look and shrugged his shoulders before leaving the classroom.
Rory really felt like hitting his head against the next best wall. Why did he have to fall in love with Sam? He had always know that going back in time wouldn´t be easy, but how could he have been prepared for this? At least he finally began to understand what his Dad meant when he was talking about his early crush on Uncle Finn and how he knew that he could never be with him. Even though Rory was sure that this couldn´t really be compared to getting send back in time and falling in love with the man that read you comics all night and taught you how to play baseball when you were little.
Rory sighed as they stepped out into the parking lot and was suddenly greeted by the sight of one of his best friends, Harmony Berry-Fabray.
“Hey sweetie!” she smiled and kissed him on the cheek.
Rory was taken aback a little. “What are you doing here?” he asked and hadn´t even noticed that Sugar had appeared next to him.
“We need to talk.” She said and Rory jumped a little. “Emergency meeting at the Lima Bean.” Even if he wouldn´t have wanted to go, Rory had no chance, because both girls linked arms with him, taking him into their middle.
They found a table in the back of the coffee shop. Harmony was carrying the coffee and placed 2 of the cups in front of her friends while Sugar was carrying a whole plate of cupcakes and muffins. When they sat down, she pushed it across the table so it rested in front of Rory.
The boy gave her a questioning look, was he supposed to eat them all by himself?
“Chocolate and sweets always help with love sickness.” Harmony stated and took a sip from her coffee cup while scrutinizing her best friend.
Love sickness?
“I was there when you kissed at the party, remember?” Sugar said and suddenly Rory knew what they were talking about here.
“But…but how? Everyone was insanely smashed!”
“You just think that, because you were insanely smashed. I was completely sober, and let me tell you even in that state it was fairly difficult to stop my Mom from making out with everybody. At least now I get why they rarely go out and there´s never any alcohol in the house.”
Oh.
“But…but…” Those two girls were his best friends and they usually talked about everything, but right now he really didn´t want to talk to anybody about this. It was something he had to deal with on his own.
“So what´s the problem here? I don´t think it´s weird for you because you know him as your uncle, because hell, I´ve seen the way you look at him.”
Rory bit his lip.
“Or are you worried that he doesn´t like you back? Then don´t be, because I´ve seen the way he looks at you. That guy´s head over heels in love with you.”
Crying wasn´t his thing, and he really didn´t want to cry right now, but Rory had a hard time holding back the tears. Why was everything so complicated?
“Oh sweetie, it´s ok!” Harmony touched his arm. “Just tell us, I´m sure it´s just half as bad as you think it is!”
Rory knew that they were just trying to help, but they didn´t have any idea how he felt.
“Listen, I have enough to worry about with making sure that my Dad´s end up together. I don´t know how you can be so calm Harmony, you´ve got the hardest mission out of us three, you parents are not together, they´re not even considering that they might be attracted to each other.”
Harmony shrugged her shoulders and took another sip of coffee. “Everything´s working out fine, don´t worry about me. We need to make sure you stop being such a whiny bitch and get your man!”
Rory really didn´t want to talk about this whole situation anymore, which was the reason he excused himself from the girls only a few minutes later and made his way home. He didn´t quite know how he had managed to actually get away from them, because usually his best friends were rather persistent.
He got the answer a few minutes later though, when he walked through the gate and found Sam sitting on the front porch.
“Oh God I hate you…” Rory cursed under his breath. Why would they do this? They didn´t know a thing about his problems, they didn´t have any problems for God´s sake!
“Hey.” Sam looked up and Rory froze. He wanted to say something, but he wasn´t really trusting his own voice right now.
“Can we please talk about this?”
Rory swallowed hard and walked towards the door, indicating Sam to follow him. Brittany and her parents weren´t home, Rory guessed that it was a good thing.
“So…” Sam was shuffling from one foot to the other and Rory forced himself to turn around and look at the other boy. “Look Rory, I really like you ok. It´s not just some crush or a fling or something if that´s what you think. I would love to be with you.”
With every word Rory felt the pain in his chest growing. His stomach twisted more and more, and not in the good way.
Why did this have to happen? It would have been so much easier if Sam didn´t love him back, why did he have to love him back?
“Sam…please…I can´t…” he managed to say, but it sounded like a whisper more than anything else.
“You told me that, but why? I can´t seem to find a single logical reason. Are you afraid what people will say? Because I´m sure we can deal with that! I´d even take a slushy for you every day if I have to!”
Rory gasped at that statement. This boy, Sam, he...he really loved him.
“Would you now please explain to me what the problem is? Because I´d like to fix it, so I can finally kiss you!”
Sam was smiling and came a few steps closer, while Rory just stood there, completely frozen. He couldn´t tell Sam, he wouldn´t understand.
He will think that I´m insane. And to be honest, he wouldn´t probably believe himself.
“Rory. I promise you, whatever it is, we can do this!”
Oh God why was he so understanding? Why couldn´t Sam just leave him alone?
Because that´s not really what I want… Rory answered his own question immediately.
“Look Sam, I´m not who you think I am.”
Woah. That was not what he had wanted to say. He had wanted to say the same thing to Sam he had said to him earlier. That kissing him had been a mistake and that he didn´t want to be with him.
“I was always a bad liar…” Rory mumbled, but he thought he might have had improved over the last few months, with all the practice he´s had.
“What do you mean? You´re not who I think you are? Are you like…I don´t know, some sort of secret agent?” Sam was smiling and it was clear that he had thought of this as a joke, but Rory stayed silent. The tight feeling in his chest was almost unbearable now, he was clutching to the sofa with one hand, desperately looking for support.
“Rory?” there was worry in Sam´s voice now and he came closer, reaching his hand out to touch his friends arm. Rory gathered all the strength he had and made a few steps back, because he was sure he couldn´t stand Sam touching him right now.
“Please Rory, tell me what´s going on!” the worry was mixing with desperation now and Rory knew he couldn´t hold it in any longer. Maybe he was lucky and he would faint any second so he didn´t have to deal with all of this anymore.
“Look, it´s crazy ok? It sounds insane and you won´t believe me, you will think I´m insane!” the words were coming from his mouth and Rory had no chance to stop them.
“Try me.” Sam replied and, to Rory´s relief, stopped a good five feet away from him.
“Do you…do you know Back to the future?”
“Of course, I love the movies!”
“Well…that´s me.”
“What?” Sam crooked his head to the side and looked rather confused. “What do you mean?”
“I´m from the future, We…I…was sent here to make sure my Dad´s actually end up together, because they´re having trouble and if they break up I will never be born.”
There was silence for a minute and Rory realized how much this sounded like a Science Fiction story, maybe because it actually was one.
“So…you have to prevent your parents from breaking up? Who are your parents?”
Rory was just blankly staring at Sam now. Why wasn´t he freaking out? Or laughing at him? Did he actually…believe him?
“I…I…Kurt and Blaine.” Rory finally stammered.
“Well that makes sense.”
“What?”
“That Sebastian guy is really hitting on Blaine, I was always afraid their relationship might not survive this.”
Rory couldn´t believe it, was Sam mocking him…or?
“I have a picture!” Rory´s voice was cracking slightly and he fumbled for his wallet. Suddenly he was desperate to prove Sam that he was telling the truth. After a few seconds he drew out a small, rather old looking, picture. He handed it over to Sam with shaking hands.
Sam looked down at the picture. It showed Blaine and Kurt in front of a Christmas tree, they were both looking a lot older than right now, but Blaine was still wearing his so well known bow tie and Kurt had a red and gray colored scarf wrapped around his neck. On the ground before them was a little boy, he might have been ten years old at that time, who was smiling happily into the camera. It was Rory.
Sam looked up again and his eyes found Rory´s. “So…you are not actually Irish?”
Rory took a deep breath and was trying to sort out his thoughts. Sam was not freaking out, Sam was believing him, at least that was what it seemed like.
“No…well…I´m half Irish. The surrogate, my Mom, is Irish.”
“But you don´t really have that accent?”
Rory took another breath and cleared his throat. “No, I picked that one up, I needed a cover after all.” And just like that, the accent was gone.
Rory didn´t know if this was where it actually hit Sam, because even though his expression was still the same, his eyes showed just how surprised he was.
“I worked really hard on that one.” It felt weird to suddenly hear his normal voice. He had grown accustomed to the accent over the last few months.
“So…wait, you thought this whole being from the future thing would freak me out? Because it doesn´t. I mean, it´s weird, but in a cool way.”
Rory needed a moment to process what had just happened. He should be happy, Sam knew the truth, but the pain in stomach just wouldn´t go away.
What´s wrong?
But deep inside, Rory knew the answer. It had never been about whether or not Sam would be freaked out.
“So, are we over this now? Can I kiss you now?” Sam was smiling at him, but this only made Rory´s stomach twist even more painfully.
“No, no we can´t.” he drew in a shaky breath. “You don´t understand. As soon as my mission here is over, I will disappear. That can be in 3 months, or it can be next week. I can´t bear the thought of you having to deal with this! And I can´t go back to the future, where you are just thinking of me as your nephew, whom you´ve read bed time stories!”
Rory was talking way too fast and he knew that there were already tears forming in his eyes, but he couldn´t stop.
“I can´t do this! I can´t face you, knowing that I had you, that I kissed you. And I don´t even know if any of you will remember that I was ever here, I know you´ll come around for Christmas with your wife and kids and I couldn’t…I just…It would destroy me.”
Tears were streaming down Rory´s face now. He was shaking and he wanted it to stop, wanted the hurt in his chest to stop. Why was this happening? What had he ever done to deserve this?
Sam was still standing at the same spot, frozen in his movements. He had his arm stretched out, as if he had wanted to touch Rory, but then remembered that he probably shouldn´t.
“What…what if I want to be with you?” he asked quietly, but Rory just shook his head.
“Please…please…” he whispered. “Can you go now?”
Rory needed to calm down. He needed to learn how to control himself so he could go back to school tomorrow and pretend that none of this had ever happened.
He didn´t know for how long he had been standing there, in the middle of the living room, eyes blind from tears. He hadn´t even heard the click of the door, but it didn´t really matter anyway.
Rory hadn´t slept at all during the night, he was only a shadow of himself, walking around the halls of McKinley High. He somehow managed to avoid Sam the entire day, not that it really mattered. It still hurt, but mostly the hurt had been replaced by a numb feeling of emptiness.
He was just thinking about skipping Glee Club, but he hadn´t counted on Sugar, who grabbed him by his arm and yanked him off into the choir room.
“…what?!”
Everyone was already there and chatting lightly with each other. Sugar dragged Rory across the room and forced him to sit down on a chair in the front row.
“Ouch, what´s your problem?” he hissed while rubbing circles over the hurting spot on his arm.
“Shut up and listen!” Rory just gave her a confused look. “Please.”
He was about to reply when he heard Mr. Shuester’s voice, asking everyone to be quiet.
“Sam´s got something prepared for us. Bring it!” he smiled and Sam took the stage.
Rory caught his breath when he saw Sam, who was looking directly at him. The Blonde sat down on a stool and began playing a few chords on his guitar.
Heart beats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave
How can I love when I'm afraid to fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt
Suddenly goes away somehow
Rory felt the music washing over him, crawling under his skin. Sam´s voice was so soft and powerful at the same time, it made Rory shiver.
One step closer
I have died everyday
Waiting for you
Darlin' don't be afraid
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
Sam looked up and his eyes met with Rory´s. A shy smile appeared on the boy´s lips and Rory felt his breath hitch in his throat. Suddenly a wave of warmth rolled over him and made him shiver again. He didn´t know Sam was capable of doing these things to him.
And all along I believed
I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
Rory´s heart was beating like crazy, he was sure that everyone in the room was able to hear it. Sam gave him another smile, one of these gorgeous smiles, and it was then that Rory realized how much he loved him. There were no words to describe how he was feeling right now and he didn´t know if this was making everything better or worse.
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
Sam finished the song, looking directly at Rory. “I´ll love you for a thousand more.” He whispered and Rory was suddenly lost in Sam´s eyes. He didn´t notice the applause from everyone else, or that Sugar was crying. He only saw Sam walking towards him, taking Rory´s hands into his own.
“I love you, I love you so much. And I don´t know if we have a week or a month or longer, but I know that I need you.” He whispered so low that only Rory could hear it. The other boy looked down at their hands and back up into Sam´s eyes. He didn´t know what to say, this all felt so…right.
“And I know you said you couldn´t bear the thought that you kissed me and had me, but wouldn´t it be worse to know you could have had me and never took the chance, because you were scared?”
Another look into Sam´s bright eyes and all of Rory´s resistance was gone. No, he wouldn´t be miserable and he wouldn´t let anything or anyone take away his chance to be with Sam.
He freed his hands from Sam´s and fisted them in the other boy´s shirt instead, pulling him in for a kiss.
Fireworks exploded and Sam smiled against his lips, while the rest of the Glee Club erupted into applause again.
"I love you." Sam whispered as they pulled apart. "And you know what, you can keep the accent, it´s cute!"
Time stands still
Beauty in all he is
I will be brave
I will not let anything take away
What´s standing in front of me
Word count: 3.526 words
Characters/Pairings: Sory/Flanevans/Ram (whatever you like to call it! ;D)
Rating: PG-13
Warning: uhm...angst? XD
Summary: Everyone at McKinley thought that Rory was just a simple exchange student from Ireland, (he had worked really hard on that accent by the way) but the truth was that he had been sent back in time, along with his best friends Harmony and Sugar, to make sure their parents, who were currently having some relationship troubles, got together so they would be born.
That was his mission. He wasn´t supposed to fall in love. That had never been the plan.
Author´s note: Welcome to my new ship, I just think these two are utterly adorable!!! *__* This fic goes along with a photoset I made, it´s based on the theories that Rory is the Klaine baby and came from the future to make sure his Dad´s really got together. Lots of angst with a little bit of romance and a guest apperance from Harmony and Sugar.
I hope you guys enjoy this, it´s 3am and I haven´t read through it again, so if you find any grammar mistakes, please keep them! ;D
Hey Rory, wait up!“ Sam´s voice echoed through the hallway and Rory stopped in his tracks.
Sam had caught up to him fast and was now standing in front of him, grinning widely.
“I joined the synchronized swimming team!”
Rory raised an eyebrow. “So?”
“Well I thought you could join too, you know, it means a lot of shirtless time together!” The grin on Sam´s face turned into a smirk.
“Sam…” Rory muttered and was momentarily distracted by the thought of Sam shirtless, only in his swimming trunks, and wet. It was something he would certainly enjoy, but the tight feeling in his stomach returned just a few seconds later and he bit his lip.
“Sam please, I told you we can´t do this.”
Everyone at McKinley thought that Rory was just a simple exchange student from Ireland, (he had worked really hard on that accent by the way) but the truth was that he had been sent back in time, along with his best friends Harmony and Sugar, to make sure their parents, who were currently having some relationship troubles, got together so they would be born.
That was his mission. He wasn´t supposed to fall in love. That had never been the plan.
He had never thought it would happen, but he clearly hadn´t counted on Sam Evans. Sam that was suddenly the same age and damn was he good looking. As if it wasn´t already hard enough to make sure your Dad´s end up together and won´t break up because of some random guy that suddenly had the hots for Blaine.
“Why? Because you don´t like boys? Well you shouldn´t have kissed me at Rachel´s party then.”
Well that had been a mistake, Rory had never wanted to kiss him.
Ok, that was a lie, he had really wanted to kiss Sam, but that didn´t change the fact that it had been, and always would be, a mistake.
Rory lowered his eyes so that he was staring at Sam´s feet now, he couldn´t possibly say this to his face.
“Well yeah, I really shouldn´t have.”
There was a short silence and Rory caught himself waiting for a response, for anything, but nothing came. He looked up again and found Sam staring at him, the smile had vanished from his face.
“I don´t get you.” Sam said, clearly looking disappointed.
“It´s not your fault, you wouldn´t understand.” Rory sighed and was already turned half around, when Sam grabbed him by the shoulder to hold him back.
“You could try to explain it to me, I really want you to.” He said and the look on his face was so sincere, so full of hope, that it made Rory cringe inside.
“I can´t, I´m sorry.” And with that he turned around and disappeared into the crowd of students, leaving Sam behind.
In Glee Club, Rory noticed that Sam was staring at him almost the entire time. He forced himself not to look directly at the other boy, but he couldn´t help to look from the corner of his eye once in a while. It was a good thing they were just doing some vocal exercises, otherwise Rory would have probably had to be all happy and smiley during a song, but now he could just do his best to block out all of his surroundings.
After Glee Club Sam was walking over to Rory, but the other boy somehow managed to avoid hi by engaging into a conversation with Brittany. He had no idea what she was actually talking about, but he looked busy and that was all that counted in that moment.
Sam shot him a disappointed look and shrugged his shoulders before leaving the classroom.
Rory really felt like hitting his head against the next best wall. Why did he have to fall in love with Sam? He had always know that going back in time wouldn´t be easy, but how could he have been prepared for this? At least he finally began to understand what his Dad meant when he was talking about his early crush on Uncle Finn and how he knew that he could never be with him. Even though Rory was sure that this couldn´t really be compared to getting send back in time and falling in love with the man that read you comics all night and taught you how to play baseball when you were little.
Rory sighed as they stepped out into the parking lot and was suddenly greeted by the sight of one of his best friends, Harmony Berry-Fabray.
“Hey sweetie!” she smiled and kissed him on the cheek.
Rory was taken aback a little. “What are you doing here?” he asked and hadn´t even noticed that Sugar had appeared next to him.
“We need to talk.” She said and Rory jumped a little. “Emergency meeting at the Lima Bean.” Even if he wouldn´t have wanted to go, Rory had no chance, because both girls linked arms with him, taking him into their middle.
They found a table in the back of the coffee shop. Harmony was carrying the coffee and placed 2 of the cups in front of her friends while Sugar was carrying a whole plate of cupcakes and muffins. When they sat down, she pushed it across the table so it rested in front of Rory.
The boy gave her a questioning look, was he supposed to eat them all by himself?
“Chocolate and sweets always help with love sickness.” Harmony stated and took a sip from her coffee cup while scrutinizing her best friend.
Love sickness?
“I was there when you kissed at the party, remember?” Sugar said and suddenly Rory knew what they were talking about here.
“But…but how? Everyone was insanely smashed!”
“You just think that, because you were insanely smashed. I was completely sober, and let me tell you even in that state it was fairly difficult to stop my Mom from making out with everybody. At least now I get why they rarely go out and there´s never any alcohol in the house.”
Oh.
“But…but…” Those two girls were his best friends and they usually talked about everything, but right now he really didn´t want to talk to anybody about this. It was something he had to deal with on his own.
“So what´s the problem here? I don´t think it´s weird for you because you know him as your uncle, because hell, I´ve seen the way you look at him.”
Rory bit his lip.
“Or are you worried that he doesn´t like you back? Then don´t be, because I´ve seen the way he looks at you. That guy´s head over heels in love with you.”
Crying wasn´t his thing, and he really didn´t want to cry right now, but Rory had a hard time holding back the tears. Why was everything so complicated?
“Oh sweetie, it´s ok!” Harmony touched his arm. “Just tell us, I´m sure it´s just half as bad as you think it is!”
Rory knew that they were just trying to help, but they didn´t have any idea how he felt.
“Listen, I have enough to worry about with making sure that my Dad´s end up together. I don´t know how you can be so calm Harmony, you´ve got the hardest mission out of us three, you parents are not together, they´re not even considering that they might be attracted to each other.”
Harmony shrugged her shoulders and took another sip of coffee. “Everything´s working out fine, don´t worry about me. We need to make sure you stop being such a whiny bitch and get your man!”
Rory really didn´t want to talk about this whole situation anymore, which was the reason he excused himself from the girls only a few minutes later and made his way home. He didn´t quite know how he had managed to actually get away from them, because usually his best friends were rather persistent.
He got the answer a few minutes later though, when he walked through the gate and found Sam sitting on the front porch.
“Oh God I hate you…” Rory cursed under his breath. Why would they do this? They didn´t know a thing about his problems, they didn´t have any problems for God´s sake!
“Hey.” Sam looked up and Rory froze. He wanted to say something, but he wasn´t really trusting his own voice right now.
“Can we please talk about this?”
Rory swallowed hard and walked towards the door, indicating Sam to follow him. Brittany and her parents weren´t home, Rory guessed that it was a good thing.
“So…” Sam was shuffling from one foot to the other and Rory forced himself to turn around and look at the other boy. “Look Rory, I really like you ok. It´s not just some crush or a fling or something if that´s what you think. I would love to be with you.”
With every word Rory felt the pain in his chest growing. His stomach twisted more and more, and not in the good way.
Why did this have to happen? It would have been so much easier if Sam didn´t love him back, why did he have to love him back?
“Sam…please…I can´t…” he managed to say, but it sounded like a whisper more than anything else.
“You told me that, but why? I can´t seem to find a single logical reason. Are you afraid what people will say? Because I´m sure we can deal with that! I´d even take a slushy for you every day if I have to!”
Rory gasped at that statement. This boy, Sam, he...he really loved him.
“Would you now please explain to me what the problem is? Because I´d like to fix it, so I can finally kiss you!”
Sam was smiling and came a few steps closer, while Rory just stood there, completely frozen. He couldn´t tell Sam, he wouldn´t understand.
He will think that I´m insane. And to be honest, he wouldn´t probably believe himself.
“Rory. I promise you, whatever it is, we can do this!”
Oh God why was he so understanding? Why couldn´t Sam just leave him alone?
Because that´s not really what I want… Rory answered his own question immediately.
“Look Sam, I´m not who you think I am.”
Woah. That was not what he had wanted to say. He had wanted to say the same thing to Sam he had said to him earlier. That kissing him had been a mistake and that he didn´t want to be with him.
“I was always a bad liar…” Rory mumbled, but he thought he might have had improved over the last few months, with all the practice he´s had.
“What do you mean? You´re not who I think you are? Are you like…I don´t know, some sort of secret agent?” Sam was smiling and it was clear that he had thought of this as a joke, but Rory stayed silent. The tight feeling in his chest was almost unbearable now, he was clutching to the sofa with one hand, desperately looking for support.
“Rory?” there was worry in Sam´s voice now and he came closer, reaching his hand out to touch his friends arm. Rory gathered all the strength he had and made a few steps back, because he was sure he couldn´t stand Sam touching him right now.
“Please Rory, tell me what´s going on!” the worry was mixing with desperation now and Rory knew he couldn´t hold it in any longer. Maybe he was lucky and he would faint any second so he didn´t have to deal with all of this anymore.
“Look, it´s crazy ok? It sounds insane and you won´t believe me, you will think I´m insane!” the words were coming from his mouth and Rory had no chance to stop them.
“Try me.” Sam replied and, to Rory´s relief, stopped a good five feet away from him.
“Do you…do you know Back to the future?”
“Of course, I love the movies!”
“Well…that´s me.”
“What?” Sam crooked his head to the side and looked rather confused. “What do you mean?”
“I´m from the future, We…I…was sent here to make sure my Dad´s actually end up together, because they´re having trouble and if they break up I will never be born.”
There was silence for a minute and Rory realized how much this sounded like a Science Fiction story, maybe because it actually was one.
“So…you have to prevent your parents from breaking up? Who are your parents?”
Rory was just blankly staring at Sam now. Why wasn´t he freaking out? Or laughing at him? Did he actually…believe him?
“I…I…Kurt and Blaine.” Rory finally stammered.
“Well that makes sense.”
“What?”
“That Sebastian guy is really hitting on Blaine, I was always afraid their relationship might not survive this.”
Rory couldn´t believe it, was Sam mocking him…or?
“I have a picture!” Rory´s voice was cracking slightly and he fumbled for his wallet. Suddenly he was desperate to prove Sam that he was telling the truth. After a few seconds he drew out a small, rather old looking, picture. He handed it over to Sam with shaking hands.
Sam looked down at the picture. It showed Blaine and Kurt in front of a Christmas tree, they were both looking a lot older than right now, but Blaine was still wearing his so well known bow tie and Kurt had a red and gray colored scarf wrapped around his neck. On the ground before them was a little boy, he might have been ten years old at that time, who was smiling happily into the camera. It was Rory.
Sam looked up again and his eyes found Rory´s. “So…you are not actually Irish?”
Rory took a deep breath and was trying to sort out his thoughts. Sam was not freaking out, Sam was believing him, at least that was what it seemed like.
“No…well…I´m half Irish. The surrogate, my Mom, is Irish.”
“But you don´t really have that accent?”
Rory took another breath and cleared his throat. “No, I picked that one up, I needed a cover after all.” And just like that, the accent was gone.
Rory didn´t know if this was where it actually hit Sam, because even though his expression was still the same, his eyes showed just how surprised he was.
“I worked really hard on that one.” It felt weird to suddenly hear his normal voice. He had grown accustomed to the accent over the last few months.
“So…wait, you thought this whole being from the future thing would freak me out? Because it doesn´t. I mean, it´s weird, but in a cool way.”
Rory needed a moment to process what had just happened. He should be happy, Sam knew the truth, but the pain in stomach just wouldn´t go away.
What´s wrong?
But deep inside, Rory knew the answer. It had never been about whether or not Sam would be freaked out.
“So, are we over this now? Can I kiss you now?” Sam was smiling at him, but this only made Rory´s stomach twist even more painfully.
“No, no we can´t.” he drew in a shaky breath. “You don´t understand. As soon as my mission here is over, I will disappear. That can be in 3 months, or it can be next week. I can´t bear the thought of you having to deal with this! And I can´t go back to the future, where you are just thinking of me as your nephew, whom you´ve read bed time stories!”
Rory was talking way too fast and he knew that there were already tears forming in his eyes, but he couldn´t stop.
“I can´t do this! I can´t face you, knowing that I had you, that I kissed you. And I don´t even know if any of you will remember that I was ever here, I know you´ll come around for Christmas with your wife and kids and I couldn’t…I just…It would destroy me.”
Tears were streaming down Rory´s face now. He was shaking and he wanted it to stop, wanted the hurt in his chest to stop. Why was this happening? What had he ever done to deserve this?
Sam was still standing at the same spot, frozen in his movements. He had his arm stretched out, as if he had wanted to touch Rory, but then remembered that he probably shouldn´t.
“What…what if I want to be with you?” he asked quietly, but Rory just shook his head.
“Please…please…” he whispered. “Can you go now?”
Rory needed to calm down. He needed to learn how to control himself so he could go back to school tomorrow and pretend that none of this had ever happened.
He didn´t know for how long he had been standing there, in the middle of the living room, eyes blind from tears. He hadn´t even heard the click of the door, but it didn´t really matter anyway.
Rory hadn´t slept at all during the night, he was only a shadow of himself, walking around the halls of McKinley High. He somehow managed to avoid Sam the entire day, not that it really mattered. It still hurt, but mostly the hurt had been replaced by a numb feeling of emptiness.
He was just thinking about skipping Glee Club, but he hadn´t counted on Sugar, who grabbed him by his arm and yanked him off into the choir room.
“…what?!”
Everyone was already there and chatting lightly with each other. Sugar dragged Rory across the room and forced him to sit down on a chair in the front row.
“Ouch, what´s your problem?” he hissed while rubbing circles over the hurting spot on his arm.
“Shut up and listen!” Rory just gave her a confused look. “Please.”
He was about to reply when he heard Mr. Shuester’s voice, asking everyone to be quiet.
“Sam´s got something prepared for us. Bring it!” he smiled and Sam took the stage.
Rory caught his breath when he saw Sam, who was looking directly at him. The Blonde sat down on a stool and began playing a few chords on his guitar.
Heart beats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave
How can I love when I'm afraid to fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt
Suddenly goes away somehow
Rory felt the music washing over him, crawling under his skin. Sam´s voice was so soft and powerful at the same time, it made Rory shiver.
One step closer
I have died everyday
Waiting for you
Darlin' don't be afraid
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
Sam looked up and his eyes met with Rory´s. A shy smile appeared on the boy´s lips and Rory felt his breath hitch in his throat. Suddenly a wave of warmth rolled over him and made him shiver again. He didn´t know Sam was capable of doing these things to him.
And all along I believed
I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
Rory´s heart was beating like crazy, he was sure that everyone in the room was able to hear it. Sam gave him another smile, one of these gorgeous smiles, and it was then that Rory realized how much he loved him. There were no words to describe how he was feeling right now and he didn´t know if this was making everything better or worse.
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
Sam finished the song, looking directly at Rory. “I´ll love you for a thousand more.” He whispered and Rory was suddenly lost in Sam´s eyes. He didn´t notice the applause from everyone else, or that Sugar was crying. He only saw Sam walking towards him, taking Rory´s hands into his own.
“I love you, I love you so much. And I don´t know if we have a week or a month or longer, but I know that I need you.” He whispered so low that only Rory could hear it. The other boy looked down at their hands and back up into Sam´s eyes. He didn´t know what to say, this all felt so…right.
“And I know you said you couldn´t bear the thought that you kissed me and had me, but wouldn´t it be worse to know you could have had me and never took the chance, because you were scared?”
Another look into Sam´s bright eyes and all of Rory´s resistance was gone. No, he wouldn´t be miserable and he wouldn´t let anything or anyone take away his chance to be with Sam.
He freed his hands from Sam´s and fisted them in the other boy´s shirt instead, pulling him in for a kiss.
Fireworks exploded and Sam smiled against his lips, while the rest of the Glee Club erupted into applause again.
"I love you." Sam whispered as they pulled apart. "And you know what, you can keep the accent, it´s cute!"
Time stands still
Beauty in all he is
I will be brave
I will not let anything take away
What´s standing in front of me