Lima Meets Liberty 3/?
Glee/Queer as Folk US crossover - Kurt and Blaine visit Kurt's cousin Emmett in Pittsburgh over Spring break. How do the guys react when the finally realize what "Out and Proud Queer" means on Liberty Avenue?
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
OK … the bunnies were not kind to me with this one, at all. First they didn't want to write, at least not this … I have at least 3 floating chapters that will fit SOMEWHERE that they gave me before I made the sit down and give me this one …
So to get even, they give me fucking feelings ! If you have seen the latest ep of glee … no surprises headed your way … if not … watch it !
As always, I just play with these guys, someone else owns all claims on them and copyright infringement is not intended …
**
Liberty Diner
A short time later
Kurt looked up from the counter where he was speaking with Deb when a shout of “Holy fuck Kurtsie, look at you” rang out from the front of the diner. Seconds later he was pulled into a tight hug by a tall, slim man dressed in a salmon long sleeved turtleneck and leather pants.
“Emmett, put me down” he demanded with a smile in his voice. “I need to breathe you know”
“Oh god I am so sorry baby” Emmett rambled “It's just been so many years and fuck if you don't look amazing and I can't believe that you actually made it here and I get to spend a whole week showing you off.”
Kurt ducked his head and chuckled “Damn Em you haven't changed at all, still can talk a mile a minute.” Reaching beside him to pull Blaine under his arm he said “Emmett Honeycutt I'd like you to meet my boyfriend Blaine Anderson. Blaine, this is Auntie Em.”
Blaine politely extended his hand only to be pulled into a bone crushing hug. After a few seconds Emmett pulled himself back out of the hug and held Blaine's shoulders at arms length. Looking him up and down he gently spun him in place before turning to Kurt with a huge gap toothed grin on his face.
“Baby, I don't know where the fuck you found him but please tell me he has a single gay older brother? I'd even take not single if he has playing rights. Blaine has anyone ever told you that you are a fucking wet dream?”
Blaine flushed and looked down at his feet, feeling a bit awkward. “Tell me Emmett, is everyone so damn forward around here?” he said with a nervous laugh. “I already got groped once, Deb says she would turn gay for me and I can't get over the feeling that everyone is staring at my ass.”
“Oh trust me baby” Emmett replied with a smile and a wink “Everyone is looking at that ass and that fucking package as well. I'm serious, I don't think anything as delectable as you has walked in these doors since Sunshine. Second, Deb thinks she is a gay man so that is no surprise and third, was the guy with the grope any good?”
Blaine just shook his head and laughed “Now I know I fell down the rabbit hole Kurt. It's nice to finally meet you Emmett, Kurt has told me a lot about you.”
“It better be all good” Emmett said flashing a look at Kurt “Because if he's been telling tales out of school I have some that you might love from back when he was about 7 or so. Kurt do you remember the time when ….”
“Enough Em” Kurt cut him off quickly “Of course all good you idiot. I may have been 7 the last time we saw each other but you have made quite an impression on me. Both then and since we started talking again. You look good, Pittsburgh must suit you.”
“Grab your drinks and come sit with me babies.” Emmett said leading the way to an open booth in the center of the diner.
**
To put it simply, Blaine Anderson was in love.
Now Blaine had thought he was in love before. He even stood up in front of his entire acapella group his sophomore year and proclaimed it proudly. It was not one of his prouder moments. First he humiliated himself singing a wildly inappropriate song to an older guy at The Gap, only to get him outed and fired. Then after being shot down rather publicly, he felt his heart break. Not only had he humiliated himself, he had also humiliated his best friend who finally admitted after months of knowing each other that he had feelings for Blaine.
Then Blaine had thought he was in love again. He took another chance, albeit a bit more quietly this time, and laid everything he had and felt on the line. Even after all his screw ups along the way and the fact that just days before it felt like Kurt had walked away from his hopes and dreams, this time he was met with open arms and warm sweet lips.
Then Blaine knew that he was in love. It's funny, the way he came to the conclusion. Sitting in a coffee shop over a medium drip and a non-fat mocha, his heart overtook both his head and his tongue and it just slipped out. Just a simple “I love you” in the middle of a discussion of Kurt's Nationals trip with New Direction. While Kurt may have stuttered just a bit, and Blaine thought his boyfriend was going to choke on the mouthful of mocha he had just drank, Kurt pulled himself together and said it back. Blaine had not once doubted that thought or that feeling once since then.
Then after “West Side Story” Blaine understood, to the depths of his being, what people meant by finding their soul mate. When he and Kurt, after months of self imposed roadblocks, finally took that final step into their relationship he finally understood. There was something about that moment, the moment that you open everything about yourself up to someone for the first time that just tied everything together. The first moments of feeling Kurt slipping deep into him had just made everything so damn real. He knew that what they had was something that was meant to last.
It was odd, because Blaine never thought that anything could ever surpass that feeling, that connection. Sitting here, in a garishly decorated diner, in the middle of Pittsburgh he began to question that. Because for some reason, the feeling of Kurt and he together almost … almost … dimmed compared to the feeling of being able to finally be himself.
**
The three men had ended up in the Liberty gang's usual booth. Kurt was in the corner, leaning against the wall with Blaine seated between his legs, back pressed to his chest, chuckling from time to time. Emmett, for his part, sat facing the door, leaning both elbows on the table as he listened intently to Kurt's rambling monologue.
“And then, this idiot here,” he said with a grin smacking Blaine lightly on the chest “Decided that the quickest way to audition for the New Directions … on his first day, none the less … was to sing Tom Jones in the damn courtyard, during lunch, while doing the Carlton with cheerleaders as backup dancers. I was torn as to whether to be humiliated, proud or turned on.”
Blaine turned his head to capture Kurt's lips in a tender kiss, “Hey, I didn't plan on the cheerleaders you know. That was all Santana … and humiliated? You wound me Hummel.”
Emmett threw his head back and absolutely cackled.
“Oh my god honey, I wish I could have been there to see that. Skin tight red pants, a black polo and a red bow tie? With your body, sweetheart, I can see why the cheerleaders joined in, probably praying you were fucking straight and they could get a piece.”
Blaine ducked his head into Kurt's chest and blushed.
“Yeah Em” Kurt said with a grin “It's one thing to have to beat off a guy in a bar once in a while, but seriously, with this one I want to tattoo “Gay and taken” across his forehead sometimes, cause the women just like him too much.”
“Hey” Blaine said with an exasperated sigh “It was only one time you had to beat off a guy in a bar, tho I will say that all the times you had to do it to him in the Lima Bean were kinda a turn on. Jealous Kurt is a sight to behold Emmett … he gets all possessive, and handsy and does things that he would never do in public otherwise.”
“Yeah, well Sebastard had it coming to him, he was being a fucking jerk.”
Emmett smiled “I think I sense a story there sweeties, am I right?”
Blaine just sighed “I guess you do Emmett, tho it's not one that I am really proud of, cause I still think it was as much my fault as his. After I transferred to McKinley and got the lead in the musical I decided to go visit and invite my old glee club to the opening night of the show. When I got there there was this transfer student, Sebastian - or Sebastard as Kurt likes to call him. It started off with a simple request from him to try and help him understand more about the Warblers over coffee. From there, actually even from the first minute, he was … the best way I can put it is on the hunt … he wouldn't take no for an answer, kept telling me that my relationship with Kurt was irrelevant to us hooking up, kept down talking Kurt every opportunity he got.
“You have to understand Emmett, I was brought up to be a gentleman. Andersons don't start fights, we don't cause conflict … so I just ignored him for the most part. I never really just told him blatantly that I was in love with Kurt and that nothing would ever happen. So he never got the hints. And it escalated, and then when the Regionals competition got closer, it spilled over into the competition between the two groups and it ended up with a prank meant to humiliate Kurt going terribly wrong and I ended up in the hospital and almost lost the sight in my right eye.”
“Oh shit baby” Emmett said reaching over and taking Blaine's hand in his. “I mean I am used to the breeders fucking hurting us but one thing I can say is that normally we don't hurt each other like that, at least not here. Are you ok now?”
“Yeah, I really am. Not long after it happened, actually just after Valentine's Day we all got a huge wake up call and it made all of us reevaluate some things. Sebastian, I think, learned more about himself than any of us. He still can be an ass from time to time but he is actually trying now.”
Blaine had looked up a Kurt with a question in his eyes while he was speaking and Kurt took over from him seamlessly.
“You remember me telling you about the guy who was giving me such a hard time Em?”
“Yeah, a closeted jock type right?” Emmett replied
“Simplest answer, yeah, but there was more to it than that. When I transferred back to McKinley last year David and I came to a kind of 'peace' I guess you could say. I understood where he was coming from, being afraid to come out, especially when he had been one of the most vocal homophobes at the school. I tried to be there for him but he transferred out for this year and I hadn't seen him until I ran into him at Scandals the one night we went Gay Bar crashing.
“We talked for a bit and while he was still not out at school he had actually found some friends and understanding at the bar. Apparently 'bear cubs' are popular, whatever the hell that means.” Kurt paused when Emmett laughed before waving his hands “Go on, I'll explain later”
“Well anyways, apparently David somehow latched onto the fact that I was friendly with him and turned it into something much more in his head. He was convinced that he was in love with me, and while Blaine was out recovering from his surgery prior to Valentine's day, I started getting gifts and cards from a secret admirer. I thought it was Blaine, being sweet and romantic, and when I got the 'meet me before the Valentine's Party' I thought it was from him. Instead I find David, professing his undying love.
“If that didn't suck enough, having to tell him that I was in love with Blaine and he would never be more than a friend … one of the guys from his football team was at the restaurant and saw everything. He outed him in the locker room and David couldn't take it. He tried to hang himself...” Kurt paused at Emmett’s gasp and unbidden tears rose in both their eyes.
“His dad found him and he's alright now, physically at least, but it really made all of us take a closer look at ourselves. We don't have what you have here Emmett” Blaine said quietly, taking over from Kurt. “There is no such thing as Liberty Avenue for us. It is basically Kurt and I and our friends Santana and Britt at our school. Our other friends are all supportive but it's not the same. Outside the four of us the only other people we know, our age, are Sebastian and Dave. We have never known what it's like to just fit. You know that Kurt and I can't even hold hands at school or out in public? There is no safe spot for us, other than our homes or the choir room. That pushed Dave over the edge, and all of us feel in some way responsible for that.”
Kurt spoke back up, choking back his emotions “David called me over and over again that week, and I never answered one call. I still think that if I had this never would have happened. And then Sebastian … self centered asshole that he was, had turned Dave down spectacularly … told him he was overweight, unattractive and would be better off staying in the closet because no one would ever want him. It's almost funny, he never really knew David, but he was the one who took it the most to heart I think. Blaine and I have been trying to help David through all this, but Sebastian started to look at himself and his choices. What was it he said Blaine 'It's all fun and games, until it's not'?”
Emmett sat, speechless for once as Blaine said “I think that is one reason that I wanted to come here so bad Em. I needed to see that there actually was acceptance out there, that there was a place where we fit. I needed to know what that felt like. What it felt like to just sit like this, open and honest about who I am and who I love, and not be judged for it. I can tell you, even in the short time that we have been here … I think I have found at least the beginning of what I was looking for.”
Emmett slid out of the booth and pulled both Blaine and Kurt up to stand with him. Wrapping his arms around them both, Blaine held tightly between he and Kurt, he leaned down and gave them both a gently kiss. “I'm so sorry and so glad at the same time babies. I'm sorry you and your friends have had to go through that and so glad that maybe, just maybe, being here can help. I love you both already and whatever I can do, I will.”
Stepping back out of the embrace he wiped his eyes and said quickly “Enough depressing talk already, ok? We are here to have fun this week and that is what we are going to do. Deb?” he called as they slid back into the booth “I think we need some lemon square therapy over here sweetie.”
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
OK … the bunnies were not kind to me with this one, at all. First they didn't want to write, at least not this … I have at least 3 floating chapters that will fit SOMEWHERE that they gave me before I made the sit down and give me this one …
So to get even, they give me fucking feelings ! If you have seen the latest ep of glee … no surprises headed your way … if not … watch it !
As always, I just play with these guys, someone else owns all claims on them and copyright infringement is not intended …
**
Liberty Diner
A short time later
Kurt looked up from the counter where he was speaking with Deb when a shout of “Holy fuck Kurtsie, look at you” rang out from the front of the diner. Seconds later he was pulled into a tight hug by a tall, slim man dressed in a salmon long sleeved turtleneck and leather pants.
“Emmett, put me down” he demanded with a smile in his voice. “I need to breathe you know”
“Oh god I am so sorry baby” Emmett rambled “It's just been so many years and fuck if you don't look amazing and I can't believe that you actually made it here and I get to spend a whole week showing you off.”
Kurt ducked his head and chuckled “Damn Em you haven't changed at all, still can talk a mile a minute.” Reaching beside him to pull Blaine under his arm he said “Emmett Honeycutt I'd like you to meet my boyfriend Blaine Anderson. Blaine, this is Auntie Em.”
Blaine politely extended his hand only to be pulled into a bone crushing hug. After a few seconds Emmett pulled himself back out of the hug and held Blaine's shoulders at arms length. Looking him up and down he gently spun him in place before turning to Kurt with a huge gap toothed grin on his face.
“Baby, I don't know where the fuck you found him but please tell me he has a single gay older brother? I'd even take not single if he has playing rights. Blaine has anyone ever told you that you are a fucking wet dream?”
Blaine flushed and looked down at his feet, feeling a bit awkward. “Tell me Emmett, is everyone so damn forward around here?” he said with a nervous laugh. “I already got groped once, Deb says she would turn gay for me and I can't get over the feeling that everyone is staring at my ass.”
“Oh trust me baby” Emmett replied with a smile and a wink “Everyone is looking at that ass and that fucking package as well. I'm serious, I don't think anything as delectable as you has walked in these doors since Sunshine. Second, Deb thinks she is a gay man so that is no surprise and third, was the guy with the grope any good?”
Blaine just shook his head and laughed “Now I know I fell down the rabbit hole Kurt. It's nice to finally meet you Emmett, Kurt has told me a lot about you.”
“It better be all good” Emmett said flashing a look at Kurt “Because if he's been telling tales out of school I have some that you might love from back when he was about 7 or so. Kurt do you remember the time when ….”
“Enough Em” Kurt cut him off quickly “Of course all good you idiot. I may have been 7 the last time we saw each other but you have made quite an impression on me. Both then and since we started talking again. You look good, Pittsburgh must suit you.”
“Grab your drinks and come sit with me babies.” Emmett said leading the way to an open booth in the center of the diner.
**
To put it simply, Blaine Anderson was in love.
Now Blaine had thought he was in love before. He even stood up in front of his entire acapella group his sophomore year and proclaimed it proudly. It was not one of his prouder moments. First he humiliated himself singing a wildly inappropriate song to an older guy at The Gap, only to get him outed and fired. Then after being shot down rather publicly, he felt his heart break. Not only had he humiliated himself, he had also humiliated his best friend who finally admitted after months of knowing each other that he had feelings for Blaine.
Then Blaine had thought he was in love again. He took another chance, albeit a bit more quietly this time, and laid everything he had and felt on the line. Even after all his screw ups along the way and the fact that just days before it felt like Kurt had walked away from his hopes and dreams, this time he was met with open arms and warm sweet lips.
Then Blaine knew that he was in love. It's funny, the way he came to the conclusion. Sitting in a coffee shop over a medium drip and a non-fat mocha, his heart overtook both his head and his tongue and it just slipped out. Just a simple “I love you” in the middle of a discussion of Kurt's Nationals trip with New Direction. While Kurt may have stuttered just a bit, and Blaine thought his boyfriend was going to choke on the mouthful of mocha he had just drank, Kurt pulled himself together and said it back. Blaine had not once doubted that thought or that feeling once since then.
Then after “West Side Story” Blaine understood, to the depths of his being, what people meant by finding their soul mate. When he and Kurt, after months of self imposed roadblocks, finally took that final step into their relationship he finally understood. There was something about that moment, the moment that you open everything about yourself up to someone for the first time that just tied everything together. The first moments of feeling Kurt slipping deep into him had just made everything so damn real. He knew that what they had was something that was meant to last.
It was odd, because Blaine never thought that anything could ever surpass that feeling, that connection. Sitting here, in a garishly decorated diner, in the middle of Pittsburgh he began to question that. Because for some reason, the feeling of Kurt and he together almost … almost … dimmed compared to the feeling of being able to finally be himself.
**
The three men had ended up in the Liberty gang's usual booth. Kurt was in the corner, leaning against the wall with Blaine seated between his legs, back pressed to his chest, chuckling from time to time. Emmett, for his part, sat facing the door, leaning both elbows on the table as he listened intently to Kurt's rambling monologue.
“And then, this idiot here,” he said with a grin smacking Blaine lightly on the chest “Decided that the quickest way to audition for the New Directions … on his first day, none the less … was to sing Tom Jones in the damn courtyard, during lunch, while doing the Carlton with cheerleaders as backup dancers. I was torn as to whether to be humiliated, proud or turned on.”
Blaine turned his head to capture Kurt's lips in a tender kiss, “Hey, I didn't plan on the cheerleaders you know. That was all Santana … and humiliated? You wound me Hummel.”
Emmett threw his head back and absolutely cackled.
“Oh my god honey, I wish I could have been there to see that. Skin tight red pants, a black polo and a red bow tie? With your body, sweetheart, I can see why the cheerleaders joined in, probably praying you were fucking straight and they could get a piece.”
Blaine ducked his head into Kurt's chest and blushed.
“Yeah Em” Kurt said with a grin “It's one thing to have to beat off a guy in a bar once in a while, but seriously, with this one I want to tattoo “Gay and taken” across his forehead sometimes, cause the women just like him too much.”
“Hey” Blaine said with an exasperated sigh “It was only one time you had to beat off a guy in a bar, tho I will say that all the times you had to do it to him in the Lima Bean were kinda a turn on. Jealous Kurt is a sight to behold Emmett … he gets all possessive, and handsy and does things that he would never do in public otherwise.”
“Yeah, well Sebastard had it coming to him, he was being a fucking jerk.”
Emmett smiled “I think I sense a story there sweeties, am I right?”
Blaine just sighed “I guess you do Emmett, tho it's not one that I am really proud of, cause I still think it was as much my fault as his. After I transferred to McKinley and got the lead in the musical I decided to go visit and invite my old glee club to the opening night of the show. When I got there there was this transfer student, Sebastian - or Sebastard as Kurt likes to call him. It started off with a simple request from him to try and help him understand more about the Warblers over coffee. From there, actually even from the first minute, he was … the best way I can put it is on the hunt … he wouldn't take no for an answer, kept telling me that my relationship with Kurt was irrelevant to us hooking up, kept down talking Kurt every opportunity he got.
“You have to understand Emmett, I was brought up to be a gentleman. Andersons don't start fights, we don't cause conflict … so I just ignored him for the most part. I never really just told him blatantly that I was in love with Kurt and that nothing would ever happen. So he never got the hints. And it escalated, and then when the Regionals competition got closer, it spilled over into the competition between the two groups and it ended up with a prank meant to humiliate Kurt going terribly wrong and I ended up in the hospital and almost lost the sight in my right eye.”
“Oh shit baby” Emmett said reaching over and taking Blaine's hand in his. “I mean I am used to the breeders fucking hurting us but one thing I can say is that normally we don't hurt each other like that, at least not here. Are you ok now?”
“Yeah, I really am. Not long after it happened, actually just after Valentine's Day we all got a huge wake up call and it made all of us reevaluate some things. Sebastian, I think, learned more about himself than any of us. He still can be an ass from time to time but he is actually trying now.”
Blaine had looked up a Kurt with a question in his eyes while he was speaking and Kurt took over from him seamlessly.
“You remember me telling you about the guy who was giving me such a hard time Em?”
“Yeah, a closeted jock type right?” Emmett replied
“Simplest answer, yeah, but there was more to it than that. When I transferred back to McKinley last year David and I came to a kind of 'peace' I guess you could say. I understood where he was coming from, being afraid to come out, especially when he had been one of the most vocal homophobes at the school. I tried to be there for him but he transferred out for this year and I hadn't seen him until I ran into him at Scandals the one night we went Gay Bar crashing.
“We talked for a bit and while he was still not out at school he had actually found some friends and understanding at the bar. Apparently 'bear cubs' are popular, whatever the hell that means.” Kurt paused when Emmett laughed before waving his hands “Go on, I'll explain later”
“Well anyways, apparently David somehow latched onto the fact that I was friendly with him and turned it into something much more in his head. He was convinced that he was in love with me, and while Blaine was out recovering from his surgery prior to Valentine's day, I started getting gifts and cards from a secret admirer. I thought it was Blaine, being sweet and romantic, and when I got the 'meet me before the Valentine's Party' I thought it was from him. Instead I find David, professing his undying love.
“If that didn't suck enough, having to tell him that I was in love with Blaine and he would never be more than a friend … one of the guys from his football team was at the restaurant and saw everything. He outed him in the locker room and David couldn't take it. He tried to hang himself...” Kurt paused at Emmett’s gasp and unbidden tears rose in both their eyes.
“His dad found him and he's alright now, physically at least, but it really made all of us take a closer look at ourselves. We don't have what you have here Emmett” Blaine said quietly, taking over from Kurt. “There is no such thing as Liberty Avenue for us. It is basically Kurt and I and our friends Santana and Britt at our school. Our other friends are all supportive but it's not the same. Outside the four of us the only other people we know, our age, are Sebastian and Dave. We have never known what it's like to just fit. You know that Kurt and I can't even hold hands at school or out in public? There is no safe spot for us, other than our homes or the choir room. That pushed Dave over the edge, and all of us feel in some way responsible for that.”
Kurt spoke back up, choking back his emotions “David called me over and over again that week, and I never answered one call. I still think that if I had this never would have happened. And then Sebastian … self centered asshole that he was, had turned Dave down spectacularly … told him he was overweight, unattractive and would be better off staying in the closet because no one would ever want him. It's almost funny, he never really knew David, but he was the one who took it the most to heart I think. Blaine and I have been trying to help David through all this, but Sebastian started to look at himself and his choices. What was it he said Blaine 'It's all fun and games, until it's not'?”
Emmett sat, speechless for once as Blaine said “I think that is one reason that I wanted to come here so bad Em. I needed to see that there actually was acceptance out there, that there was a place where we fit. I needed to know what that felt like. What it felt like to just sit like this, open and honest about who I am and who I love, and not be judged for it. I can tell you, even in the short time that we have been here … I think I have found at least the beginning of what I was looking for.”
Emmett slid out of the booth and pulled both Blaine and Kurt up to stand with him. Wrapping his arms around them both, Blaine held tightly between he and Kurt, he leaned down and gave them both a gently kiss. “I'm so sorry and so glad at the same time babies. I'm sorry you and your friends have had to go through that and so glad that maybe, just maybe, being here can help. I love you both already and whatever I can do, I will.”
Stepping back out of the embrace he wiped his eyes and said quickly “Enough depressing talk already, ok? We are here to have fun this week and that is what we are going to do. Deb?” he called as they slid back into the booth “I think we need some lemon square therapy over here sweetie.”