Ben / James - Somewhere Only We Know (Cross-Posted from KLAINE drabble)
James arrives in his Navigator at McKinley with high hopes. He is wearing an outfit he specifically color coded for the occasion. Black to symbolize the mourning of his leaving from Dalton and white to symbolize his new beginning at McKinley High. He felt he couldn't have possibly made it any more pictures perfect. Hopping out of his car, he spots a group of girls, his group of girls, standing near the steps of the outside lunch area happily chatting away. Smoothly putting on his hat, James begins to walk over to them, bag perfectly slung over his shoulder and shoes quietly clacking against the nice concrete.
Rachel is first to notice him, pointing happily to the other girls in the group of three where he is. Then the whole group of girls runs over to James, screaming his name in pure happiness. He welcomes them into his arms gladly, repeating over and over how he missed them too and how he was glad to see them also. It was a long overdue reunion between the three.
"You look gorgeous James," Mercedes says with a sigh.
"I love the hat," Tina adds, making James blush. "It really makes your outfit just...work."
Just then, James spots Quinn come running over to him, her blond hair down and flopping in the more graceful way possible in her face. She quickly approaches him and gives him a big hug, startling James just a bit.
Rachel, Mercedes, and Tina for some reason just leave then.
James just thinks there's some sort of thing going on between the four.
"Hi James," she says once the hug is over, "welcome back!"
"Hey Quinn," he replies, "you look fabulous. Really."
"Thank you, so do you. You must love the fact that you can wear whatever now."
James snorts out a laugh and then leans against the railing just behind him. "You have no idea. But....I kinda do miss the blazer. It actually has pretty coloring, to be honest."
Quinn laughs and then suddenly bites her lip. She looks nervous to James, and that unsettles him a bit. Is Karofsky near? Is there some other bully he had no clue about behind him?
Was something wrong with his outfit?
"James, do you...miss Ben?"
Sighing, James nods and looks down at his feet. "A lot."
"Well.....prepare to not miss him so much.."
"Wha-"
Suddenly, Quinn hops out of the way from in front of him and points up to the top of the staircase. Only a second after, Ben appears, followed by Wes...and the rest of the Warblers.
"Oh my..."
He looks down to the bottom of the stairs and sees the rest of New Directions form up down there, and the jazz band appears and goes to their instruments. They all just smile up at them, and faintly, James wonders if this is what Jeremiah felt like when he noticed tons of boys in blazers with Ben leading start to file into the small store.
Then again, this is like that times a billion.
He feels Quinn squeeze his shoulder and then watches as she quickly flees his side, a giddy laugh escaping her lips. He turns to his side to watch her go, but then before he can realize it, Ben, his Ben, is right in front of him, his gorgeous baby blue eyes staring at him in pure love. James holds onto the rail just a tad bit tighter than before.
"What is going on?"
"You'll see," is all Ben says before he too leaves him for the band. By now, most of the students that were casually sitting around are either waiting patiently to see exactly what is going to happen or have left the area in sheer hope of avoiding the creepy glee club performance that was to happen.
It's too late the second the Warblers start singing for them to go.
Ben's in the front of them down by the band, and New Directions is scattered around them. Ben's eyes are locked on James, and frankly, James may die from shock.
Or from a love explosion, but whatever.
"I walked across an empty land,
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand.
I felt the Earth beneath my feet,
sat by the river and it made me complete.
Oh simple thing, where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on.
So tell me when you're gonna' let me in,
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin."
James smiles as he begins to hear the faint accompaniment of the band. It really makes the Warbler's sound pretty. He kind of wonders why they never thought of doing a few songs with the music, but then Ben's voice once again sounds.
"I came across a fallen tree,
I felt the branches all looking at me.
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreamin' of?
Oh simple thing, where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on.
So tell me when you're gonna' let me in,
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin.
And if you have a minute why don't we go
talk about it somewhere only we know.
This could be the end of everything,
so why don't we go
somewhere only we know."
James gasps as Ben sprints up to him when the music silences. Ben quickly takes James's hands and kisses James's right hand. James nearly faints.
"Somewhere only we know."
From there, James's suddenly taken by the hand down to where the band and the Warblers are and, before he can realize it, he is spun around in a dance.
He's dancing with Ben at McKinley.
It makes his heart stop.
"And if you have a minute why don't we go
talk about it somewhere only we know.
This could be the end of everything,
so why don't we go,
so why don't we go."
James feels like flying when he hears New Directions join in and sing the chorus for Ben as they dance together. By now, a few happy tears are falling down his face, and Ben is grinning with tears in his own eyes as he sings along with the group.
He could kiss him right now.
"...this could be the end of everything,
so why don't we go
somewhere only we know."
The whole band stops then, and it's just the Warblers. The dance slows, and Ben is inches from James's body, their hands intertwined. Ben looks into James's eyes seriously and bumps their foreheads together. A kiss is just waiting to happen.
"Somewhere only we know...."
Then, while the Warblers are still providing 'music', Ben says, in only a whisper, the final lyric to James, centimeters away from his face.
"Somewhere only we know."
And then, like that, James feels Ben reach down and kiss James deeply, their bodies meeting so that they are sandwiched together as they kissed. James feels Ben's hand travel and finally rest in the back pocket of his black pants, giving James even more of a chance to get closer.
People around them are clapping and cheering for the Glee Club and the Warblers, but a select few are clapping about the kiss.
James and Ben could care less.
"You sly dapper kid, you," James mumbles to Ben as their kiss ends. "That was beautiful. Much better than the whole ordeal with Jeremiah."
"It ended with me in my boyfriend's arms, kissing him and being as close to him as I'd ever want to be," Ben whispers happily into James's ear. "It's far better than Jeremiah."
"I love you, Ben ," James admits with a sigh, "and I swear I'll never let you slip from my mind here. Gosh, i love you."
Ben smirks and gives James a giant hug, his arms easily wrapping around his love.
"You have no clue how much I've wanted to hear that from you. Oh, and James?"
"Yes, my dapper and hot boyfriend who I love?"
Ben snorts.
"Guess what?"
"What?"
"Next year..."
"Yeah..?"
"I'm transferring."
"Oh gosh."
~~~~~The End!~~~