Never Say Never 9/?
Pairing/s Sam/Kurt friendship, actual relationship eventually, any canon couple can be mentioned
Rating: PG
Spoiler/s: All of season 2 that's aired currently
Summary: As the bullying gets worse, Sam notices and an odd friendship is formed.
Chapter Summary: This chapter takes place around the rest of Special Education
Previous chapters:
Chapter 8: http://community.livejournal.com/samkurt/166402.htmlChapter 7: http://community.livejournal.com/samkurt/160830.html
Chapter 6: http://community.livejournal.com/samkurt/157276.html
Chapter 5: http://community.livejournal.com/samkurt/153881.html
Chapter 4: http://community.livejournal.com/samkurt/1 41085.html
Chapter 3: http://community.livejournal.com/samkurt/137853.html
Chapter 2: http://community.livejournal.com/samkurt/1 34481.html#cutid1
Chapter 1: http://community.livejournal.com/samkurt/1 31098.html#cutid1
Author's Note/s: Sorry this chapter is late guys, university was hectic and then I spent most of yesterday worn out after watching and squeeing over the Golden Globes, still it's here now.
Chapter 9
Kurt looked around at the Warbler’s as they were about to go on. He remembered the frantic way he had been preparing this time last year at Sectionals with New Directions, or at Regionals when they were all so scared the club would get cancelled if they lost and yet they had still managed to get there and perform with smiles on their faces. Thanks to Mr Schue, admittedly. Now, looking around at the calm, collected Warblers looking no different to how they normally looked, he wished he could go back to then, to New Directions, to Sam who was becoming the best friend he’d ever had.
“You ok Kurt?” Blaine asked softly, putting his hand on his shoulder.
“I’m fine”
“You’re not, but that’s ok this was always going to be hard for you competing against your friends. Sure you want to do this?”
“Yeah, let’s go” Kurt said, hoping that somehow getting on stage would wipe out the memories.
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He doesn’t belong there was Sam’s first thought when the Warblers started performing. In the precise movements of the rest of the group, the moments when Kurt was half a step behind the rest of them stood out. Of all the times Sam had seen Kurt perform, he had never seen Kurt look so unhappy, performing was meant to be the thing he could escape in. But now he even saw Rachel signalling to Kurt to smile at one point. He grudgingly had to admit that Blaine was good though, even if every time Blaine looked at Kurt, Sam felt himself get more annoyed.
Still he made sure to keep smiling - he didn’t want Kurt to see him and think that Sam was annoyed with him.
Once they finished Sam was one of the first on his feet to support Kurt, catching Kurt’s smile as he saw his friends cheering him on, smiling the kind of smile that had been missing his entire performance.
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“You look beautiful”
She really did look beautiful Sam knew. All the same he couldn’t help but let a sigh loose after she had gone. This felt wrong, the whole atmosphere felt wrong around here, everyone missed Kurt, the Finn/Rachel drama...it just wasn’t right. Even Artie and Brittany seemed to be fighting. But most of all, he couldn’t erase how Kurt had looked in the Warbler’s performance and it was haunting him. He had looked so sad and Sam just wanted to find Kurt and force him up on stage with the rest of them.
“Go” Mercedes whispered.
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Kurt took his seat among the Warblers, hoping that he didn’t look as nervous as he felt; he hadn’t felt this nervous before their performance and he didn’t think the rest of the Warblers would look kindly on him being more nervous about another club doing well.
He smiled broadly as he heard Sam start to sing, pushing down the disappointment that the first competition that Mr Schue didn’t give all the songs to Finn and Rachel he wasn’t there.
His heart sank a little as Quinn joined Sam, this was like having to listen to Lucky again, only worse. He wasn’t stupid, it’s not like he expected Sam to have had a sudden change of heart, broken up with Quinn and come out in the last five days but still he was surprised how much it hurt to see them looking all loved up on stage.
Still he made sure to keep a smile on his face (though he noticed Blaine looking at him suspiciously) and was one of the first to jump to his feet as they finished, ignoring the non-impressed looks from other Warblers.
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“So what did you think?” Sam asked, appearing behind Kurt after the judges had retired to make their decision.
“You were great” Kurt assured him “You all were.”
“You guys were great too”
“Well I didn’t have too much to do with it so don’t give me too much credit”
“Their loss for not using you more”
“Thanks. I’m not sure I could have played a big part in competing against you guys though”
“Yeah I get that...don’t suppose seeing us again convinced you to come back?”
“I’d be back in a heartbeat if I could, you know that. But-“
“Karofsky, right.”
Suddenly the bell went signalling that the results were in.
“Good luck” smiled Sam
“You too”
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“Sam?” Kurt said curiously, answering his phone.
“Hey! Congratulations!”
“Thanks, you too. It was the best result for me really, I’d have been disappointed if either of us had lost”
“Yeah. So how are you anyway? You sound distracted”
“I just had a panic thinking I’d killed this bird”
“....you have a bird?!”
“It’s a real life Warbler, it’s a tradition here that the newest member looks after it, it’s from like a line of Warblers and...if you can stop laughing?”
“I’m sorry but come on! Listen to what you just said and tell me that’s not ridiculously pretentious and so really funny!”
“...You have a point but still, it’s important to them”
“Ok I’ll stop. Hold on why did you think you had killed it? What’s wrong with it?”
“It was losing its fur and not singing but its ok it’s just malting apparently”
“...You have no idea how hard it is not to laugh at that”
“Glad I amuse you! I was really worried!”
“Bless you! Changing the subject - you missed the next step in the Finn/Rachel saga”
“What happened?”
“Well apparently-“
They discussed the Puck/Rachel/Finn/Santana situation for ages before moving on to other things. Kurt was barely aware of any time passing until he got a text from Blaine.
Where are you? Rehearsal started 5 minutes ago!
“Oh shit, Sam I’ve got to go - Warblers rehearsal.
“Right well I’ll talk to you soon. And it’s only a few weeks until you’ll be back for Christmas right?”
“Uh huh, the 17th. I can’t wait”
“Me either”
A week later Blaine dragged Kurt out for coffee, concerned at how much time the younger boy had been spending in his room. They had been seated less than ten minutes when Kurt’s phone went off.
“Let me guess that’s Sam” Blaine said dryly as Kurt scrambled for the phone..
“I can call him back later” Kurt said reluctantly, looking at the screen.
“No don’t be silly, we can catch up later”
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah, I’ll come and hunt you down this evening”
“Deal”
Blaine shook his head as Kurt rushed off. It was sweet as far as he was concerned - and it was amusing that they were practically a couple without either of them realizing it.
Walking off he just hoped that Kurt remembered practice this time, he didn’t fancy excusing his lateness to the Warbler’s again.