Story: Connecting to Dalton, Chapter 2

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Warnings: Trigger alert, mentions of self harm and allusions to suicide.
Summary: When Kurt transfer back to McKinley, it's not for the reasons many thinks. As the Warblers sing to their goodbye, Kurt thinks back at his time with them, and the friends he have made and which he will miss horribly.
Beta: Thanks to The Other for beta, and all

Comments

[shadowc44]

I really like this! You would think, from the show, that Blaine really was Kurt's only actual friend at Dalton, but it makes more sense to me that he would have had other friends. Mainly from the Warblers, but duh, he had classes with a lot of other people. It seems to me sharing a class is a good way to meet someone. You automatically have something to talk about, and it can be helpful to find someone to do homework with or study with, so yes, Kurt had a chance to meet a number of people at Dalton. If it was actually as open and tolerant as Blaine, Wes and David claimed, then Kurt should have been more relaxed than at McKinley, and found it easier to meet people and make friends

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Thank you! I always felt that we didn't get to see enough of what happened at Dalton, and that Kurt has so many potential friends there. There will be more characters introduced into this story, and some of them will be gay, yes, but with Mikey I wanted to show that there are other things than struggling with your sexuality that can drive you to the edge.

Well, the cutting thing will probably (hopefully) be more worked out in another story I am working on, but I don't believe I will go any deeper in this tory with it.

[shadowc44]

That's another thing I wish they'd explored in more detail on the show. Yes, it's entirely believable that Kurt was subjected to so much bullying, but we saw relatively little for the other students, aside from the occasional slushy. Those are bad enough, and I can't imagine any real school putting up with that for a second, but people are bullied for a huge number of reasons. Most of them are things a person has no control over, but it can be anything, from the things you're interested in, to who you hang around with, what you wear, your grades, your speech; any way in which kids don't fit in the with the pack mindset, they are instantly seen as prey. The Buffy episode "The Pack" (I think that was the name, early first season) was spot-on with this

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Yeah, I remember the first time I saw the show, and how they joked with that Kurt was thrown in the dumpster, and I just kept thinking that it was horrible humour. I know that if all the bullying we see in the show had been happenining in a school in Norway, someone would have done something. I have several times wished I could strange that horrible principal.

I also find it strange that Kurt, as the only out he knows, doesn't contact LGBT and figure out if there is some meetings or something nearby; you would think he would search out some likeminded company. Ugh, yes, there is a lot of potential, and they let them go to waste.