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Title: Hoppípolla (But You Are Standing)
Rating: PG
Characters: Blaine/Kurt
Words: ~3,500
Spoilers: No spoilers.
Summary: The most important thing about New Directions is its heart. Kurt worries that it could change; Blaine won't let it. (A conversation at dawn, in the summer, a while before Kurt leaves for New York.)

Author's Note: I missed you, fandom. ♥ The title is from Hoppípolla by Sigur Rós. If this story could have a soundtrack, it would be that song on repeat. (Note: Edited very slightly after posting; nothing too major, but changed a basic idea of the story that I didn't notice was incongruous until after it was up.)

( Spinning round and round holding hands, the whole world a blur, but you are standing. )

Title: In Our Wheels And Our Hearts
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Finn, Kurt
Words: ~2,200
Summary: They were halfway through their second lap around Rainbow Road when Finn finally just said it. Kurt and Finn have a mutually sort-of-embarrassing conversation, all while playing a video game. Takes place after The First Time.

Author's Note: I actually wrote this and put it on Tumblr a few months ago, but I still like it, and I feel like it deserves to be on my actual fic journal. The title comes from the Mario Kart Love Song, which is the single most adorable thing that anyone has ever made.

( I'll protect you from red shells wherever we go, I promise. )

Title: Since The Day We Found You
Rating: PG
Characters: Blaine/Kurt, Hummel-Hudson cameos
Words: ~2,300
Summary: The Hummel-Hudson house feels like home to Blaine, in a way that his own house never has.

Author's Note: I recently explored this idea a little bit in a ficlet I wrote on Tumblr. (Here!) That was from Finn's perspective, and the concept lingered. Then I heard the song Bronte by Gotye, and it started raining, and the next thing I knew it was two days later, and I had 2300 words of fic, and the song had a playcount of 150. Because the theme really wanted to be explored from Blaine's point of view.

( you have been a friend, and your voice still echoes in the hallways of this house )

This is a collection of snippets of fics which started off well, but somewhere along the way hit a snag that wouldn't untangle. Periodically, I like to release these things into the wild, so that I can write new things without hearing their piteous unfinished voices crying out from the Incomplete folder on my hard drive.

Most of these are fairly lengthy, averaging about 1000 words, with two much longer. Some of them were fully planned out, and those are accompanied by some notes about the unwritten parts. They all feel at least a little like stand-alone fics, if sometimes light. Setting them free like this means that I'm almost definitely never going to finish them. They are organized in chronological order, according to what episode they correspond to.

Feel free to jump around to whatever summary piques your interest. Enjoy!

( 1. If A Body Meet A Body - g - Blaine, OC - After coming out to his parents, pre-series Blaine runs away to New York to see his brother and lose himself in the city. )

( 2. Has There Ever Been A Moment - g - Kurt, Jeff, Nick - 3.18 - After Kurt tells the Warblers that he is going back to McKinley, they begin to drop in on him one at a time. )

( 3. We Found Each Other In The Dark, Kurt POV - g - Kurt/Blaine - 3.20 - Moments mentioned but not seen in my post-Prom Queen fic, We Found Each Other In The Dark, told from Kurt's POV. Includes the argument during the car ride back from the prom. )

( 4. Walking On Your Hands - g - Blaine, Quinn - During a New Directions party over the summer, Blaine and Quinn have a conversation. )

( 5. Down In The Tall Grass - g - Sam, Blaine - Before Sam moves away in the summer, he has his final moments with everyone in New Directions. )

( 6. Anything For You - pg - Kurt/Blaine - 3.05 - Blaine's walk back home from Scandals, and waking up the next morning still feeling terrible. )

( 7. There Will Always Be An Ireland - g - Kurt/Blaine, Rory - 3.06 - Rory spends Thanksgiving with the Hummels-plus-Blaine. )

Title: It's Dangerous To Go Alone (Take This)
Rating: G
Characters: Kurt/Blaine, Joseph (Blaine's old Dalton roommate)
Words: ~5,000
Spoilers: Major for Episode 3.11, Michael
Summary: Blaine and Joseph are terrible at chess, but slightly better at talking about Blaine's feelings. Blaine gives Kurt a gift.

Author's Note: Hi! It's been a while! Have some fanfiction. The title comes from The Legend of Zelda, making it the second overlong title from a video game for a fic featuring Joseph The Zen Nerd Roommate. Reading the first one (Thank You, Mario, But Our Princess Is In Another Castle) is in no way required. All you need to know is that Blaine had a very nerdy roommate at Dalton to whom he tended to go for advice.

( But when I look at the stars, when I look at the stars, I feel like myself. )

Title: nobody, not even the rain (has such small hands)
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Kurt/Blaine
Words: 1,661
Summary: Kurt and Blaine listen to a summer storm from the safety of Kurt's porch; some kissing, some conversation. "My dad used to take me outside during storms."

Author's Note: I was sitting down to write something entirely different, then I discovered this on my hard drive, and I liked it enough to want to finish it. I'm going to miss you, summer stories. You were quiet and perfect. The title comes from somewhere i have never traveled,gladly beyond by e.e. cummings. (EDIT: Also, my sister, light_is_spent, did some really gorgeous fanart for this.)

( nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility )

Title: Thank You, Mario, But Our Princess Is In Another Castle
Rating: PG
Characters: Blaine, OC (Blaine's roommate)
Words: 2,465
Spoilers: 3.01, The Purple Piano Project
Summary: Blaine's roommate is kind of a Nerd Sage; he doesn't look the part, but he gives extremely good advice. After his conversation on the first day of school with Kurt in the Lima Bean, Blaine goes to Joseph, and they talk about Princess Peach, Bowser, and the Kobayashi Maru.

Author's Note: I've had Joseph in my head ever since I wrote We Found Each Other In The Dark. He's been mentioned briefly in a bunch of other things I've written, but I've been waiting for an opportunity to really write him, and this one was awesome. The episode was so great, oh my god. The very long title comes from Super Mario Bros., and also a song by The Mountain Goats.

( I kept my hat on just for luck, sang simple tunes the whole night through. )

Title: I Always Believed In Futures
Rating: PG
Characters: Kurt/Blaine, Mercedes
Words: 3,039
Spoilers: 2.22, New York
Summary: Kurt and Blaine have the conversation about New York. Blaine remains bad at timing things. Kurt continues to benefit from that.

Author's Note: The title comes from Futures by Jimmy Eat World. This is the last of my hiatus fics! It's all reaction!fic from here on out, I suppose. Four days, guys.

( The past is told by those who win, my darling; what matters is what hasn't been. )

Title: And The Songbirds Keep Singing
Rating: PG-13 [language]
Characters: Santana, OC (Santana's grandfather)
Words: 3,416
Warnings: Fear of and thoughts about homophobia
Summary: She walks on the curb like it’s a balance beam, one flip-flopped foot swinging carefully in front of the other, her arms out to balance her, fingers splayed. She doesn’t care if she looks ridiculous, because it feels good. It feels young, like when things were always at least mostly okay.

A/N: This was written for a prompt given to me by sotto_voice on Tumblr. Many thanks to her for prompting; I was dying to write Santana.

( And the songbirds keep singing like they know the score. )

Title: Take Instead The Ram
Rating: PG
Characters: Blaine, Kurt
Words: 4,056
Warnings: A history of basic emotional neglect, quiet homophobia
Summary: Blaine runs away from the things that scare him, and Kurt chases after him. Takes place some time between Silly Love Songs and Blame It On The Alcohol.

Author's Note: The title is from Abraham by Sufjan Stevens. I might have listened to it for four days straight while I wrote, rewrote and edited this. Also, talking of amazing things, my sister, light_is_spent, drew completely incredible fan art for this story. She's obviously much more talented that I am. I will kill her to gain her power, someday.

This story also now has a really excellent podfic, read by browntroutblues. It's available here.

( Abraham, put off on your son. Take instead the ram, until Jesus comes. )