Ficlet: When Skies are Gray...
Sierra didn't really remember moving in with Kurt and Finn, but then to be fair she didn't really remember a lot that had happened in the last month. Not since she had come home to find…
The dogs didn't greet her at the door. Normally one couldn't come into the house without being bombarded by what Blaine called "the barking peeps", but that day they were nowhere to be found. Not until she climbed the stairs and found them camped outside the bathroom door, whimpering and clawing at the frame.
For a moment it seemed odd. They never acted like that. Sure, they loved bothering Blaine but they usually let him at least shower in piece...
That was when she noticed there was no water running. No water running, no sounds of Blaine muttering for Chanel and Dior to shut up. Something was wrong. Very very wrong.
Dropping her bag, she ran for the door, fighting to get it open. "Blaine..." It was locked and she was fairly certain that she'd find the doors leading from her room and his locked too. But she also knew there was a key...Blaine kept one in case she...
God, she never thought she'd be the one using it.
She remembered running down the hall to his room, seeing his uniform carefully laid out on the back on his chair, his backpack sitting by his desk. She remembered the stack on books on his nightstand and the guitar sitting in the corner. And she remembered the envelopes, two envelopes laying on his bed. One addressed to her and one addressed to Kurt.
The sight of those both stopped her heart and kick-started her adrenaline, she began pulling out drawers from his desk, overturning things until she finally found the skeleton key hidden beneath some movie tickets. Running for the door that led from Blaine's room to the bathroom, she opened the door and...
All she remembers after that are the screams. Screams that, at first, she didn't even realize were coming from her -- that tore from her throat until it was raw. Until there was nothing left. Until her voice, like Blaine was gone.
After that things get fuzzy. She doesn't remember the funeral or even if she went. She doesn't remember the days spent in Fox Run. She doesn't even remember Kurt and Finn coming to get her, Finn trying to lighten the drive back by telling her the epic tale of how Kurt all but diva slapped her mother when he announced that Sierra would be his "problem" now. She doesn't remember any of it.
All she remembers is that when she came back to herself, she was curled up in Kurt's bed, the other boy watching over her like a mother with a newborn, stroking her hair and softly humming "You Are My Sunshine" -- something Blaine used to use when he tried to make her laugh.
Tears sting at her eyes, but there's the slightest hint of a smile on her lips. Maybe Blaine's not totally gone. Not at long as she and Kurt still have each other. Taking a deep, shuttering breath, she speaks her first word in nearly a month. "Hey..."