fic - glee - build these walls anew chapter 3
Build These Walls Anew Chapter 3/13 by virdant (Blaine Anderson/Sebastian Smythe, PG, 6275 words (15,370/71,000), ghost marriage AU, trauma & recovery; Part 2 of A House in the Sun, Sequel to A Shifting Foundation)
When Blaine was fifteen, he married his dead betrothed. In the months after, he grew to know Sebastian, dreaming of him every night in long, increasingly intimate dreams. But, weeks before his sophomore year at Dalton, the dreams end, and Sebastian disappears. Blaine makes a decision; he sends his soul searching: into his past, into his future, into the realm of the dead.
The sun had set, and the lights cast long shadows as Wes found an empty patch of cobblestone and lit a flame. The few students still outside cast curious glances, but two Warblers—one of them Wes—making offerings to the dead was a common enough sight that Blaine and Wes were left undisturbed.
Blaine cast a handful of paper money into the flame.
Wes pulled the shrink-wrap from the box of incense. It rustled over the crackle of the fire.
“He’s being bullied.”
“Kurt?”
Blaine nodded. He knew his thoughts should be on his husband, but each smoke-filled breath ached in a familiar pattern—on the right side: the fifth, sixth, and seventh ribs, on the left side: the fourth, seventh, and eighth ribs.
Wes hummed.
“I told him to confront his attackers.”
“Attackers?”
“Bullies,” Blaine corrected, letting another handful drip from his fingertips into the flame. Who could have known that bones could heal so quickly. Who could have known that bones could heal so slowly.
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