What are some of your very most favourite fanfics?
So, if you want fandom favorite fics - look here: Fandom Favorite fanfics up to 2020 and 2020-25 I would say a lot of my favorite fics are on this list, especially the Symphony Verse, or Lovesong, 99 perspectives on a single love story or Reprise to name four.
I want to shout out others that are not on those lists, but I always return to. Here are 60+ great fics, that I really love. (I've tried to limit it to one per author but failed on a few occasions!)
I know you asked for very most favorite, but I struggle to shorten the list, probably the top two here and those mentioned above are my 6 favorites.
Thanks for the ask! I'd love to see other people's lists. ~Jen
Pancakes and the simple life by rainjoyswritings
Set the morning after Prom Queen. Warnings: Seriously, somehow I ended up in Karofsky's head. Because he's obsessed with Kurt Hummel too? Look, basically, deals with some of the intensely creepy shit going on in his head between NBK and Furt and if you don't want to know then that's cool, I didn't really either.
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How Something Like luck you are by OhQuixotica
Kurt and Blaine have a crappy date, then make up for it on the playground, and Blaine never does find his shoes.
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Never quite as it seems by @scatter-the-stars
A weekend away proves to be more fun than Blaine planned.
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The Fiddler and the Maestro by dahlstrom
Symphony AU. Kurt is the 27-year-old first violinist and concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra in Portland. Blaine arrives in town to guest conduct their concert of Holst's The Planets.
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Through Crooked Aim by @heartsmadeofbooks
After his father’s death, Kurt took over the family business, a diner that was Burt Hummel’s pride and joy. He never thought he could be happy in Lima, but five years later he can’t picture himself anywhere else. His husband does not understand his sudden love for the small town he was once desperate to leave behind. Blaine Anderson never had much, but he loves the diner. His entire life revolves around it ever since he met Burt when he was still a kid and he took Blaine under his wing. Now that Burt’s gone, it looks like Blaine doesn’t have a reason to stay around… except for one he’s not willing to admit to anyone, sometimes not even himself.
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Senator Blaine AU by luthien82
This is the ongoing tale of Blaine Anderson, reigning Ohio Senator, and his PA Kurt Hummel, on whom he has a massive crush. Read about their growing friendship that evolves into something more as time goes by, seeing them through laughter, tears, hard decisions and compromise. In short: life. This series is Blaine-centric.
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Seven by @scatter-the-stars
How far would you go for someone you love? For Kurt, that means doing the unimaginable. But if it means saving his dad, he’s willing to take that risk. A risk that has him leaving his home to go states away to spend a week with the last person he ever expected to meet. Over the course of the next seven days, things don’t go as planned, or thought.
Can seven days change everything?
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True Like by DualWielding
Kurt loves his job at the off-Broadway theater. As for Blaine Anderson, Kurt might have to work with him, but he doesn’t have to like him.
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The Handcuffing of Kurt Hummel by K8Malloy
A/U. Most of the time, people were charmed by Deputy Sheriff Blaine Anderson, even while receiving a well-deserved traffic ticket. Of course, Kurt Hummel wasn’t ‘most people’. How long will it take before Kurt finds himself in handcuffs - with Deputy Anderson holding the key?
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Barking up the wrong bakery by maanorchidee @forabeatofadrum
Kurt is the biggest dog party planner in Los Angeles. When his usual dog bakery cancels on Kurt, he’s in the dire need of a last minute replacement. Luckily, he comes across the Dalton Doggy dog bakery, which is run by Blaine and Cooper Anderson. Cooper’s a mess, but Blaine manages to charm Kurt. Will Kurt be able to keep it professional?
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Bicycle Patrol Unit by @caramelcoffeeaddict CoffeeAddict80
When NYPD bicycle cop, Blaine Anderson, begins to fall for Kurt Hummel - the gorgeous man that he first notices while Kurt is jogging through the park during Blaine’s patrol there - it causes a rift between him and his patrol partner, Sebastian Smythe
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Wednesday by @spaceorphan18
Just an average day in the life of Kurt Hummel, Blaine Anderson, and their baby Katie.
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Come What May 2026 Drabbles by @misqueue
17 vignettes regarding Season 6 and developing
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To Be Happy by DireDyre [PDF]
Kurt and Blaine are living their dream in New York, but what happens when Kurt decides he needs a change? They need to manage family, their relationship, and career. Domestic Klaine with some smut.
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No Take backs by @rockitman02
Prompt: A year after this father’s death, Kurt is still reeling from the loss. In an attempt to keep holiday traditions going, despite his father’s absence, Kurt meets a guy at a local Christmas Tree Lot who helps him through.
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So much better by maanorchidee @forabeatofadrum
Kurt is very excited to make his Broadway debut in Deaf West’s production of Legally Blonde. He plays the Voice of Emmett and he has to work with Blaine, a Deaf actor who’s been part of the show since the very beginning. They grow closer through the process.
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Nashville! by @hkvoyage
Kurt lands the lead role in a new musical, but it flops during the previews. However, his performance captivates Nashville’s newest country music sensation. They share an instant connection and it grows deeper as they get to know each other. Will Kurt be able to save the musical and keep the man of his dreams? An AU meeting featuring country singer!Blaine and Broadway!Kurt.
~~~~~ Here Comes The Sun by @flowerfan2
AU after 5x02. When the New Directions’ bus crashes before Nationals, Finn is killed and Blaine is badly injured. Grieving and damaged, Kurt and Blaine call off their engagement. This story takes place two years after the tragedy, when Kurt and Blaine run into each other in New York City. Klaine; Blam friendship.
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Last first time by flaming_muse
It’s not until the end of Kurt and Blaine’s second first date - the one after they finally, officially stop tiptoeing around their issues and feelings and decide to work them out and get back together in the spring before Blaine graduates from McKinley - that it gets awkward.
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With a cherry on top by quizasvivamos
Blaine has a less than favorable summer job driving an ice cream truck, but he soon finds that the job has some very sweet perks.
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The Warbler by @thewhiteowl-blog
Kurt is a famous actor and singer who gets threatening messages and phone calls. One night his house is attacked and his manager suggests him to hire a bodyguard… Or better a whole team, the Warblers. Things just turn more complicated when Kurt finds out that the Warblers’ leader is none other than Blaine Anderson, his former one-night stand.
Note: Part 1 of the The Warbler series
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Between The Moon and New York City by @jackabelle73
Kurt arrives in a small coastal town in North Carolina to join his dad and Carole for a few days of their vacation, but under duress. He can’t imagine that this sleepy southern town has anything to offer him…till a very attractive local goes jogging by on the beach.
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Lord of the Manor by divinelady91 @lady-divine-writes
Blaine is the mysterious lord of an estate in the English countryside, rumored to have been inherited under mysterious circumstances. Announcing his intention to marry, he comes to the Hummel household, it is assumed, to claim the eldest Hummel child - Rachel - as his spouse. Once upon a time, her younger brother, Kurt, had been in love with Blaine, and he thought Blaine had feelings for him as well. Sure that those feelings have been thoroughly forgotten, and with his own intention to marry another man yet to be made known, Kurt helps to prepare his sister for the loveless match that awaits her. But what happens when Blaine arrives and tells them that they have all been mistaken?
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Foundations by gentlereader
After breaking up Kurt and Blaine went their separate ways.
Blaine’s now a successful LA musician while Kurt is a high school counselor.
The creation of the Pavarotti Music Foundation was their dream… and now its a reality.
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Exhibit McKinley by @tonks42
AU Season 4. Living so far apart from NYADA student Kurt, Blaine decides to send his boyfriend a series of letters and objects to chronicle his senior year.
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Better Knot Bow Tie Company @gleefulpoppet
Part 1 Blaine Anderson has been a Better Knot Bow Tie Company monthly subscriber for years. He's taken a hiatus from Broadway to facilitate the Journey Performing Arts School's summer program in New York. What happens when a zany bow tie sets off a chain reaction of events that may change their futures forever?
see also part 2 and part 3
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Sweet DREAMers verse by @perryavenue
Blaine Anderson is a business major at Baruch College of the City University of New York (CUNY). Blaine came to the United States from the Philippines on a tourist visa with his mom when he was three years old and since then, has lived in Woodside, Queens with his mom and cousin Marco. As a gay, undocumented student, he has the questionable good fortune to belong to two marginalized populations. One day, while at his part-time job at a book store, Blaine meets Kurt Hummel, a theatre major from Ohio attending New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and begins a tentative friendship. Before it has the chance to bloom into more, Blaine’s immigration status is revealed, creating issues for both of them.
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Empty Nest verse by @coffeegleek
Burt Hummel was an empty nester who discovered a teenager sleeping under his porch. Kurt was just trying to survive in a world that was against everything he was. This is their story.
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Leaps and Dives by @annepi-blog
As the 2024 Paris Olympics unfold, gymnast Blaine Anderson and diver Kurt Hummel find themselves navigating more than just their athletic dreams. Blaine, focused on his second chance at Olympic glory, crosses paths with Kurt, a newcomer to the world of professional diving with extraordinary talent. What begins as a chance encounter blossoms into something neither of them expected.
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Susy's Wonderland by @fallevs
Take a freelance teacher, an eccentric and lively grandmother and a writer in the midst of a momentous uncertainty. Add a cosy cottage in the heart of the British countryside, a cast of quirky characters and best friends who couldn’t be more different. Stir in some cinnamon, orange zest, heartfelt emotions and a generous dash of humour, all topped with festive garlands and twinkling Christmas trees. The result? A recipe for a charming Christmas tale, brimming with warmth, wit and unexpected surprises.
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Home away from Home by @lilyvandersteen
Cooper buys a hotel sight unseen and asks Blaine to run it for him over the summer. Only, the hotel is a health and safety hazard and Inspectors Hummel and Abrams are hell-bent on closing it down. Can Blaine spruce the hotel up in time and save Cooper's investment?
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Annotations of the heart by @gleefulpoppet
Amid a period of healing solitude, Blaine crosses paths with Kurt, an inquisitive journalist. What begins as a casual conversation over an annotated book in a café becomes a blazing fire between their hearts. As the layers of their connection deepen, they learn to navigate the complexities of love, loss, and identity, unraveling a poignant tale that transcends the unexpected boundaries of their pasts.
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It Only Took an Hour by @teddyshoney
Kurt's been set up on a blind date at a bar that he hates. And the blind date is a no-show. There is this really cute boy that walks in, though, and Kurt can't stop watching him dance and flirt. The whole story takes place over the course of an hour with the exception of the prologue.
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Hell & High Water by mmerainbows
Kurt counted the days even though no one else did anymore, and for what, he didn’t know. His dad died eight years ago, and he had no other family to speak of. His days were monotonous and thankless as he hunted for the community he lived in. Long gone were the days when he could dabble in music and fashion because that world no longer existed, and without those things - who was Kurt Hummel really? Until the day an emergency transmission is received and what Kurt is forced to reconsider what is existing and what is truly living.
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Somewhere Close to nowhere by Orphan account
Clairvoyance, or being “psychic” has been a blessing and a curse rolled into one for Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson. With Blaine accompanying Kurt on a case that sounds like all things paranormal, (despite his objections) will they be able to put aside their differences and discover who is behind the haunting of Ashland Ranch?
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Letter to a GI by dyrnekeeper
Cast opposite the successful actor and performer Blaine Anderson as a romantic lead in a historic drama Kurt, a relative newcomer to the screen, has to learn to navigate his relationship with his character – and with his co-star.
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Rewrite This Story by idoltina
Six outer walls, five doors, five rooms, three windows, and one balcony. This is the world in which Blaine Anderson has lived for ten years.
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Husbandly Duties by @anxioussquirrel
Kurt and Blaine have never had sex. They haven't even discussed having sex. They have been best friends for the last two years. Now they're suddenly getting married and it turns out they have very different expectations about intimacy. Dystopia AU.
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Christmas In Cabinland by honeysucklepink
Sam enters Kurt and Blaine in a contest for a “unique Airbnb experience,” which turns out to be a rustic week in 15 acres of the Pacific Northwest rainforest. Far away from civilization, and with little interruption from their eccentric hosts, it’s a Christmas they won’t soon forget.
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Until Further Notice verse by lostinfictionalworlds
Money can't buy happiness. Businessman Kurt is still trying to figure that one out, and performer Blaine thought he knew what he wanted, until he came across a Personal Assistant Ad. A story of acceptance and love, from one's self and that of others, more specifically, one other.
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The boy in the window by lostinfictionalworlds
Kurt is a young city boy, living with his father and stuck in a mundane life, day in-day out life. He knows that he is different to people his age, and he knows that there is something else out there waiting for him, something different, something he may not or just may understand. A simple and sweet, lightly romantic coming of age story with a paranormal twist.
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Kama Seusstra by GSJwrites
When erotica author Kurt Hummel follows the hot guy from the book convention party back to his hotel room, he thinks it’s simply a chance to spark his lackluster sex life. But when a scheduling change finds him sharing a speaker’s podium with his one night stand, he discovers that he has hooked up with Blaine Anderson, America’s darling of children’s literature.
Can the writer of a popular erotic serial find love with the author who has made bow ties the literary and fashion trend of children everywhere?
Kama Seusstra follows both their efforts to navigate an unlikely relationship as well as their stories: "Out at Home", an online erotic serial set in the world of professional baseball, and "The Brave Little Bow Tie", a children’s story about a bow tie trying to find his place in the world.
This is a story of sex, love and the hard choices we make to balance happiness and success.
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Set of Feathers (Figureskating!Blaine/designer!Kurt Olympics AU) by @wowbright
World-famous figure skater Blaine Anderson loses his costume designer just before the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. When his manager brings in Kurt Hummel as the replacement, Blaine gets more than brilliant costumes. He also gets another chance at love.
A story about falling in love as an adult, interwoven with themes about preserving your voice and humanity when powerful politicians are trying to fuck everyone over. You know, in case any of you can relate.
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The Proposal by drunkonwriting
Based on The Proposal. Kurt is a super uptight music producer from Canada whose work visa has been revoked. Cue Blaine, all-American poster boy from Alaska, who has been Kurt’s assistant (or indentured servant, depending on who you ask) for three years and counting. They pretend to get married so that Kurt doesn’t have to leave the country, and end up falling in love instead.
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Over The Counter by BlurtItAllOut
There’s a 24/7 grocery store in Bushwick, where you can do your emergency purchases at any hour of the day or night. And maybe you can even do a better bargain than you’d ever dream of.
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Gilded Cage by @canarian
In the winter of 1895, Blaine Anderson, the son of a wealthy doctor, and Kurt Hummel, the son of a middle class mechanic, cross paths at a luxury hotel in the quiet seaside town of St. Augustine, Florida. With everyone and everything working to keep them apart, can they find a way to be together?
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Indiscretions by shandyall
As childhood best friends in the 40’s and secret high school sweethearts in the 50’s, Kurt and Blaine never would have guessed they’d both end up married to women in the 60’s. But even when the world they live in keeps them from walking hand in hand, there’s nothing they can’t face side by side.
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Please wear clothes by nineofhearts
I saw a post on Thursday and my brain just kind of… wouldn’t shut up about it. Kurt is a tour guide at OSU. Blaine is a student who apparently struggles to follow the “Please wear clothes” rule.
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Twelve Strikes And You’re Perfect by sarkyblueeyes
Kurt has been in a friendly ten-pin bowling rivalry with his dad for 7 years, but his winning streak hits a snag when a gorgeous employee starts working at the bowling alley. Blaine has an ass that could roll a strike every time, and a terrible habit of bending over at inconvenient times. As well-meaning but hapless acquaintances conspire to push them together, will Kurt finally pluck up the courage to ask out his summer crush?
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There's no such place by pene
When Kurt lost the things he loved the most, he hid himself away from the world - until the night Blaine crashed into his life.
This is an AU. A snowbound cabin romance. And a story where Kurt and Blaine never met, until they did.
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About Us by Wild Hurricane
It’s an ordinary summer day at the diner where Kurt works, when a new guest enters. He’s hot and flirty and orders coffee and fries, and Kurt. Kurt is instantly attracted and flirts back. When the guy waits for Kurt outside the diner, Kurt decides to go with him for a moment of pleasure. But there’s a spark between them that neither anticipated. Soon Kurt finds out that the guy isn’t who he claims to be and that he’s got other secrets as well. He’s mysterious and exciting and Kurt is falling for him hard and fast, but when the secrets are revealed Kurt finds himself between love and aversion and must decide if he should stay and help Blaine out of an impossible situation or leave him and save his own heart.
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We are stars by ariablair
This is a story about fate.
It is a story about tiny tokens that come to tell a history, and discovering things when you were not looking.
This story is about searching. It is about signs, and soulmates. It is about serendipity.
It starts with a chance meeting, and goes on to involve a silk scarf, and a printed piece of music scattered across states, and one remarkable night.
But this is not a love story.
Until it is.
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The Endless Tango of Love and Money by @seeroftodayandtomorrow
When Kurt Hummel hires escort Blaine Anderson to play his boyfriend at a family gathering, he sets in motion a chain of events that ends up with them living together for a year, posing as boyfriends, and struggling with jealous relatives, dancing, money, and love.
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Interruptions by wakeupkid
Kurt and Blaine have been together for nineteen years. Kurt's a high powered fashion designer and Blaine is a successful composer/song writer. They share a home in New York with their two beautiful children. Then, Kurt's doubts threaten to ruin their perfect lives. Again. Is it over, or will it just be another interruption?
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Don't Imagine You're Too Familiar by missbeizy
Kurt and Rachel are a Broadway power couple. When they start to have relationship problems, they seek professional help from marriage counselor Blaine Anderson.
Warnings for: romantic Kurt/Rachel and infidelity.
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We all write our own endings (and we all have our own scars) by wintercreek
It’s not enough that he looks like Blaine; of course he has to sound like him, too. But there is no way Blaine Anderson is running a café in Arizona. No way.
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Callaway Place by @sunshineoptimismandangels
Callaway Place is an old coastal mansion filled with magic, history and secrets. To eleven year old Blaine Anderson it is the place he is forced to spend his summer vacation when he’d rather be anywhere else in the world. But a magic mirror and a spine-tingling enchantment soon have Blaine glad he came.
Kurt Hummel is a young boy growing up in a quiet little town hoping for a bigger future. He is holding onto secrets few know about, while learning about an ancient magic that will transform his life.
Kurt and Blaine’s lives intersect in the most unexpected way and they are both forever changed, but what will they do as they grown into young men and are unable to leave the magic of their childhood behind?
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Sweet! A love story told in sugar by Ohquixotica.
Future AU in which Kurt and Blaine did not meet in high school. Kurt is a pastry chef who runs his own little West Village bakery called BUTTERLUSH. Blaine is an accountant who stumbles--literally--upon the sweetest thing ever.
~~~~~ Love me sweet by @sunshineoptimismandangels
GKM fill: Kurt is a 26 year old virgin living in New York City and wanting to get rid of the virgin title, but not knowing how. He'd always thought he was waiting for love before he had sex for the first time, now he is tired of waiting. He decides the best thing to do is just hire a male escort for one night. Someone experienced that Kurt doesn't have to explain himself to or ever see again. He just wasn't counting on his escort, Blaine, being quit so perfect or so hard to give up. Heaps of blessings upon my wonderful beta lilyvandersteen!
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Somewhere in the World by Water_NIx
Somewhere in the World is the world's most popular children's show, and its star, Blaine Anderson, has been touted as the handsome second coming of Mr. Rogers. Even Kurt watches the show religiously, and his list of Blaine's best attributes is even longer than that of TV's most gushing reviewer. Yes, okay, so Kurt has a little crush. Maybe. Possibly. Shut up. So when he's given the chance to meet the man in the flesh, he can't really say no, can he?
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Don't Do It by @xbeautifulunseenx
Kurt, who works for a letter-writing service, spends a summer writing emails to Blaine, who thinks Kurt is the guy he’s been dating for the past month. Kurt only has one rule: don’t fall in love. Of course, Kurt Hummel was born to push boundaries.
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Ad Eros by the_cimmerians
AU. Kurt grows up. Blaine does too.
(no underage sex).
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Move with Me by @znks
Ballet!Blaine and Modern!Kurt, forced to work together.
“They were at their best when they moved together.”
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The Journeying by @flowerfan2
Freshly graduated from music school, Blaine is thrilled when he is chosen to stay in the cast when the production of Into the Woods he was lucky enough to be part of in Boston moves to Broadway. He knows it’s going to be hard returning to New York City – the scene of his epic breakup with his fiancé and the emotional meltdown which cost him his place at NYADA. But he’s determined that this time, everything will be different. Little does Blaine know that out of thousands of potential castmates, his director has chosen none other than Kurt Hummel to play the part of Jack. Blaine has worked hard to recover from their breakup three years ago, and struggles to find a new way to relate to Kurt and simultaneously protect himself, especially when tragedy strikes.
This story looks at what would have happened if Kurt and Blaine had reacted differently to the break up in 6x01 than they did in canon; if events hadn’t brought them back together as soon, and if forgiveness hadn’t come so easily.
Canon compliant through the end of season 5 (and the breakup as described in 6x01).
Note: Part 1 of Woods series
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In your atmosphere By Mistyday
AU; Kurt's an out of work actor in LA, Blaine's the boy playing guitar on the 3rd Street Promenade. Companion piece to Covered in Rain, in which we explore if it'd been Los Angeles instead of New York.
and follow up Covered in Rain by Mistyday
AU; Blaine plays guitar in a cafe, Kurt's there one day and Blaine's smitten. Inspired by a picture found on Zachary Quinto's twitter and John Mayer's Covered in Rain. A love song to New York City.
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