The Challenge: Fic A Day with a twist! One fic, every day, based on a sentence submitted by someone else, posted after 7 pm EST, in the theme of nighttimes, sexy times and/or drunk times.
Author: darriness
Word Count: 760
Summary: Blaine would rather die than see the expression that is on Kurt’s face at this moment. (submitted by @neverhaveieverbooks)
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Blaine would rather die than see the expression that is on Kurt’s face at this moment. He actually sort of feels like he’s dying anyway. Everything in him feels like it’s seizing up and boiling and he’s not sure what to do to relieve this pressure. The fact that all of this is his fault isn’t helping anything.
Kurt turns away from him, wiping at his nose in the process, and Blaine feels like maybe if he doesn’t have to look at Kurt’s face anymore it will feel less like Blaine is dying. Turns out that’s not the case. If anything, Kurt’s lack of attention makes the feeling worse.
“Kurt, please. Talk to me.” Blaine begs, half a second away from falling to his knees on the ground.
He can see the muscles in Kurt’s cheek twitch as if he were about to smile but Blaine knows that’s not the case. More than likely he’s clenching his jaw and Blaine feels his own clench in response.
His jaw is so tense he has to bring a hand up to massage it open and his eyes pinch when Kurt remains silent, “Kurt…” He all but moans.
“Get out.” Kurt says it so softly Blaine isn’t sure he heard at first. He squints as if that will make his hearing better and shakes his head.
“What did you…” He starts but is interrupted.
“Get out.” Kurt repeats, looking over at Blaine once again.
Blaine freezes but then shakes his head, “Can’t we talk about this?” He asks.
Kurt sniffs, bringing his hand up to his nose and swiping at it again. He looks so sad, one arm curled around himself and shoulders slumped, but his eyes are hard and Blaine knows that it’s those eyes that will make the decision.
“Get. Out.” Kurt emphasizes each word. He’s not yelling but his quiet authoritative tone is enough to make Blaine flinch like he had screamed the words.
Blaine begins to panic, can feel something trying to claw its way up his throat and feels like everything is moving too fast and yet too slow at the same time, “It’s the middle of the night.”
It’s quite possibly the stupidest thing he could have said in this moment but they were the only words his brain provided him. By the flaring of Kurt’s nostrils, his fiance also finds the offering less than palatable.
“I could care less.” Kurt growls, all sadness seemingly gone. His body is now all rigid lines and tense anger, “Get out, Blaine. Now.”
“Kurt…” Blaine tries one more time, taking a step toward the other man and feels everything inside him drop when Kurt takes a step back.
“Get out!” This time Kurt does yell it, pointing needlessly to the door as if his meaning isn’t abundantly clear.
Blaine shrinks back and stares at Kurt for a moment. Kurt’s no longer looking at him, frozen with one arm pointing to the apartment door and his eyes on a patch of carpet at Blaine’s feet.
Blaine knows he needs to go, knows that nothing can be solved now, but the idea of leaving is so abhorrent that he can’t stomach it. He moves without further words toward the door to put on his shoes and grab his keys and wallet but every move he makes feels like he’s ripping off his own arms.
When he’s ready, but so very not ready, he turns back to Kurt to find him still standing in the same spot, his eyes on the same patch of floor but his arm no longer raised.
“I’ll...go stay at Sam’s. I’ll...call you in the morning.” He whispers.
Kurt blinks and is silent so long that Blaine’s not sure he’s going to get a response, but eventually Kurt lifts emotionless eyes toward Blaine and whispers, “Do whatever you want, Blaine. That’s what you do, remember? I don’t factor into your decisions at all. Maybe I never have.”
Kurt lifts one shoulder in a sad shrug before he turns and leaves the room, closing the door to their bedroom behind him.
Blaine feels like he can’t breath and wants nothing more than to go into the bedroom and make Kurt talk to him, but instead he decides to listen to Kurt - he’ll leave, even though it’s the last thing he wants to do.
He’s got his hand on the doorknob when he hears a sob emit from the bedroom and it takes everything in him to leave the apartment, though he knows, for sure, he’s left his heart behind.
Summary: A Glee-Hamilton mash-up! Blaine learns that the smash Broadway hit “Hamilton” is having a casting call and gets a little obsessed while preparing for his audition. Kurt worries that it’s too much…Originally this story was posted as a one shot, but Loras_the_bold challenged us to continue it, and we started to think about how Blaine and Kurt would start to juggle being married, being back in New York, and beginning their performing careers. This is now a four part story.
Lynne’s review: Even though I don’t know any of the songs of Hamilton, they fit very well within this story and the authors did a great job. I always love a story with a little dose of Papa Hummel.
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High school students—Soph, who attends private school in Manhattan, and Tess, a public school student who lives on a dairy farm in New Hampshire—are thrown together as roommates at a week-long writing conference. As they get to know each other and the other young women, both Soph and Tess discover unexpected truths about friendship, their craft, and how to hold fast to their convictions while opening their hearts to love.
@neverhaveieverbooks on AO3 commented on the Valentine’s Day fic and said they went back and reread my “Drunk History” fic, because drunk!Kurt (which I appreciate a lot, thank you!)
SO HERE YOU GO! MORE OF MY DRUNK!KURT FOR EVERYONE!
“Stranded” - college!AU meet-cute, where Blaine gets sexiled from his dorm room and Kurt stumbles upon him in the hallway (this one’s a two-parter, with its sequel, “Recovered” linked at the end of the fic)
“Boystown” - written for the Klaine Road Trip 2015, in which Kurt and Blaine have a night out in Chicago’s LGBT+ neighborhood
“Show and Tell” - Valentine’s Day with married!Klaine
“Drunk History, vol. 206″ - married!Klaine, with Kurt telling Elliot the story of how he and Blaine met
Now available to pre-order: “Snowsisters” by Tom Wilinsky and Jen Sternick
"Your application to attend this year’s Young Women’s Writing Conference has been approved."
High school students—Soph, who attends private school in Manhattan, and Tess, a public school student who lives on a dairy farm in New Hampshire—are thrown together as roommates at a week-long writing conference. As they get to know each other and the other young women, both Soph and Tess discover unexpected truths about friendship, their craft, and how to hold fast to their convictions while opening their hearts to love.
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About the authors:
Tom Wilinsky & Jen Sternick met in high school and started a conversation which, years later, is ongoing through their writing partnership, Never Have I Ever Books.
Tom lives with his partner in New York, where he’s an attorney who likes cold weather, old cars, and anything with zombies.
Jen lives in Rhode Island with her husband, two sons and a cranky, seven-toed cat. She’s a former criminal prosecutor who still works in government. She likes theater, travel, and Twitter, an admitted addiction.
They are both avid readers and share books, recipes, music and strong opinions. As Never Have I Ever Books on Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook, they follow, write, and review YA LGBTQIAP+ fiction, fan fiction, and popular media.
Coming in February: “Snowsisters” by Tom Wilinsky and Jen Sternick
“Your application to attend this year’s Young Women’s Writing Conference has been approved.”
High school students—Soph, who attends private school in Manhattan, and Tess, a public school student who lives on a dairy farm in New Hampshire—are thrown together as roommates at a week-long writing conference. As they get to know each other and the other young women, both Soph and Tess discover unexpected truths about friendship, their craft, and how to hold fast to their convictions while opening their hearts to love.
Available from Duet Books this February 15th: Snowsisters from the writing team of Tom Wilinsky and Jen Sternick.
Somewheeeeeere under the rainbow you'll find that 2018 is bringing lots of beautiful new rainbow books! On the rise from January through June this year are explicit asexual and pansexual representation, romances between bisexual female main characters and genderqueer love interests, and rep of non-w
Thanks to Barnes & Noble for including @neverhaveieverbooks (Tom Wilinsky & Jen Sternick)’s debut, Snowsisters among its most anticipated YA books of 2018!
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Our thanks to The Book Voyagers for hosting the cover reveal for the debut novel from Tom Wilinsky and Jen Sternick, Snowsisters, coming in February from Duet Books. Check out the link for a sneak peek!
