Title: Stay Where You Are - Chapter Four
Author: Mistermoons
Fandom: Glee
Characters/Pairing: Kurt/David, The whole Hudson-Hummel gang.
Rating: Eventual NC-17. We’ll go PG-13 for now.
Warnings None in this chapter. Eventual dubcon, somophilia, possession, supernatural whatnot. There will be a lot more to come, I think.
Words: 953 this chapter
Summary:
Based off this prompt in the anonymous kink meme. Kurt is uneasy in his family’s new home. It’s drafty, the doors don’t stay closed, and there are unexplained noises and shadows. Kurt keeps feeling as though someone is watching him and keeps seeing something in his peripheral. And then there are his dreams.
Chapter OneChapter TwoChapter Three Kurt’s house is haunted.
He has admitted this to himself in the vaguest, most noncommittal way possible. He has a hard time thinking in terms of ghosts and haunting. He doesn’t believe in that sort of thing. It seems like admitting there are ghosts is admitting to a whole host of other possibilities Kurt really doesn’t want to think about. But he really doesn’t like lying to himself, either. It’s exhausting.
He’s not just tired and he’s not imaging things. His mirror is missing, the doors are definitely opening and closing on their own, and he keeps hearing phantom noises and smelling phantom scents. He can feels eyes on him when he’s alone and sometimes it feels like someone is sitting right beside him. In the early stages of waking up, there’s the warmth and pressure of a body against his and it feels so real. When he came home from school yesterday, the items on his desk where askew but no one had been home since he left that morning.
He doesn’t want to say to himself “the house is haunted” but he can’t keep telling himself that it’s not. Admitting something in the realm of the supernatural is happening feels more rational than denying it. However, that only goes as far as admitting it to himself. He has made the decision not to mention any of the oddities to his parents or Finn from now own. They are beginning to feel incredibly personal. Besides, if they were meant to know about what was going on, it would be happening to them too, right? He doesn’t want to talk about these things out loud. Keeping everything to himself just seems to right thing to do.
However, Finn already let the cat out of the bag to the whole glee club. For the most part, everyone had forgotten about the whole thing. It wasn’t really important in the grand scheme of everyone’s lives.
Except, a few days later, Tina corners Kurt in the hall after class. “Have you tried a Ouija board?”
Kurt whips around, startled by the strange question. “What?”
“For your haunted house.”
Kurt sighs heavily. “Tina, I don’t -“
“I know it sounds silly, but you never know, it might work. I mean, a lot of peo-“
Kurt tries again, desperately wanting to end this conversation. “Tina, I don’t think-“
“I have one you can borrow, if you don’t own one. I can bring it for you tomorrow,” Tina finishes with a smile, as though Kurt had made no objects at all.
Kurt sighs, defeated. “Okay, sure, fine.”
When she gives it to him at the end of school the next day, he says as little about it as he can. He just accepts the childish thing and slips it into the back of his car. When he takes it, he’s really planning on just leaving it in the backseat and giving back a few days later. But when gets home, he grabs it from the backseat and is halfway upstairs before he realizes what he’s doing. He stops, frowning down at the box before shaking his head and continuing to his room. He shoves the box onto the top shelf of his closet and tries to put it out of his mind. Admitting something is there and trying to talk to it are two very different things.
~~ ~~
“Wait, what?” Kurt’s head goes up immediately, his attention fully in the present for the first time all day. “You’re going out of town this weekend?”
“Yeah, buddy. We mentioned this like, two weeks ago,” Burt replies, looking his son over. “I swear your heads been somewhere else lately.”
Kurt shakes his head a little, “No, no. I guess I just forgot. You’re leaving Friday?”
“Yup. Leaving Friday morning, coming back Sunday night.” After a moment’s thought, Burt adds, “You know, Finn’ll be around so you won’t be totally alone. I know you’re still getting used to living in a new place.”
Kurt shrugs it off, smiling. “Oh, it’s fine. Don’t worry about it.”
When his dad leaves the room, Finn comes up beside him. “Yeah, I’m not going to be around, like, at all this weekend,” He says with a bit of a grin. “Rachel’s dads are going out of town too so…”
Kurt just rolls his eyes and shoves Finn in the shoulder, laughing it off.
When Kurt goes up stairs to get ready for bed that night the feeling of someone watching him creeps up. He can feel eyes on him, watching as he gathers his things and heads to the bathroom to shower. He slows down to a crawling pace as he walks down the hall. There’s the distinct sound of footsteps at the end of the hall. When Kurt looks over his shoulder, he’s alone. He turns into the bathroom and shuts the door.
A whole weekend alone in the house. The thought makes Kurt shiver a little. He doesn’t exactly feel afraid but he definitely feels nervous. When everyone is home, it’s easier to pretend, easier to put all this stuff out of his mind. He’s been hoping that if he ignores it, whatever it is, eventually it will ignore him. But three days alone, with no real distractions… That makes Kurt feel uncomfortable.
But then there are these other feelings. Feelings Kurt is pretty sure aren’t his. It’s as though he keeps picking up remnants of emotions hanging in the air. This time it’s a sort of excited anticipation. Something is really looking forward to Kurt’s weekend alone. He wouldn’t be able to explain it to someone if he wanted to. He can’t even explain it to himself. It’s just something he knows.