Klaine @ Hogwarts Ficlet: The Way Things Are
Characters: Kurt/Blaine
Rating: G
Genre: Angst Lite, Harry Potter AU
Summary: Kurt reflects on the reasons why he and Blaine can't be together. (Sequel to I Don't Know What I'm Doing and this RP thread - can be read as a stand alone. You just have to know Kurt's a Slytherin, Blaine's a Hufflepuff, and they kissed.)
Kurt Hummel had been in a foul mood for over a week,, ever since that stupid incident with that stupid Hufflepuff. It turned out knowing what Anderson’s lips felt like made him want to drag the other boy to a broom closet and kiss him more than just wondering what they felt like did. But he couldn’t. Because Anderson didn’t want him to unless he also agreed to do all manner of ridiculous things - hold hands in the corridors, catch lunch together at The Three Broomsticks on Hogsmeade weekends, go on picnics, attend school functions together.
All of which... all right, it didn’t sound entirely unpleasant. But that didn’t mean it was possible! Someone had to be sensible about things, a task that had clearly automatically fallen to Kurt, because Blaine just wasn’t cut out for sense. They two boys came from different backgrounds, different social circles, different houses, different worlds. They couldn’t just throw caution to the wind and expect to live happily ever after in some kind of Hufflepuff-esque fairy tale.
That wasn’t how life worked.
Life was Kurt dating a Slytherin, because that was the sort of person he would inevitably end up with out in the real world, where it wasn’t acceptable for someone like him to date a mudblood or partbreed. There was no point getting attached (not that he was attached) to some uppity halfblood when he was well aware that, in the end, nothing would come of it. He had a reputation to uphold, not just his but his family’s, his bloodline’s. He wasn’t going to forget that. He wasn’t going to forget what had happened to his mother, and where the blame for it lay. And he was tolerably certain Anderson wasn’t going to let go of his own beliefs, ridiculous as they were.
It was best that things just stayed as they had always been - keeping to their respective social circles, on opposite sides of the dungeon, the Great Hall, and whatever classroom they happened to be in. It might not have been the happiest option, or the most fun (or whatever else Hufflepuffs valued over common sense and decorum), but it was the option Kurt had to take.
Things had to stay the way they were.
Rating: G
Genre: Angst Lite, Harry Potter AU
Summary: Kurt reflects on the reasons why he and Blaine can't be together. (Sequel to I Don't Know What I'm Doing and this RP thread - can be read as a stand alone. You just have to know Kurt's a Slytherin, Blaine's a Hufflepuff, and they kissed.)
Kurt Hummel had been in a foul mood for over a week,, ever since that stupid incident with that stupid Hufflepuff. It turned out knowing what Anderson’s lips felt like made him want to drag the other boy to a broom closet and kiss him more than just wondering what they felt like did. But he couldn’t. Because Anderson didn’t want him to unless he also agreed to do all manner of ridiculous things - hold hands in the corridors, catch lunch together at The Three Broomsticks on Hogsmeade weekends, go on picnics, attend school functions together.
All of which... all right, it didn’t sound entirely unpleasant. But that didn’t mean it was possible! Someone had to be sensible about things, a task that had clearly automatically fallen to Kurt, because Blaine just wasn’t cut out for sense. They two boys came from different backgrounds, different social circles, different houses, different worlds. They couldn’t just throw caution to the wind and expect to live happily ever after in some kind of Hufflepuff-esque fairy tale.
That wasn’t how life worked.
Life was Kurt dating a Slytherin, because that was the sort of person he would inevitably end up with out in the real world, where it wasn’t acceptable for someone like him to date a mudblood or partbreed. There was no point getting attached (not that he was attached) to some uppity halfblood when he was well aware that, in the end, nothing would come of it. He had a reputation to uphold, not just his but his family’s, his bloodline’s. He wasn’t going to forget that. He wasn’t going to forget what had happened to his mother, and where the blame for it lay. And he was tolerably certain Anderson wasn’t going to let go of his own beliefs, ridiculous as they were.
It was best that things just stayed as they had always been - keeping to their respective social circles, on opposite sides of the dungeon, the Great Hall, and whatever classroom they happened to be in. It might not have been the happiest option, or the most fun (or whatever else Hufflepuffs valued over common sense and decorum), but it was the option Kurt had to take.
Things had to stay the way they were.