Glee | LATGHAOT They Are A Team | Multiship (14 of 20)
Started my daily ficlets to make the hiatus pass, then decided to keep going with a 2nd cycle and then a 3rd, all through to a 22nd. Now cycle 23!
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LOVE & THE GENTLE HEART ARE ONE THING - [For the full explanation, please refer to Chapter 1
Chapter 14 of 20 They Are A Team
"LOVE & THE GENTLE HEART ARE ONE THING
14. THEY ARE A TEAM"
Multiship
After their play with Mercedes and Anthony, Kurt and Blaine had taken to the sides of the gym, halfway between a dance and a fashion review of those couples they saw parading before them. As far as entertainment went, that could have lasted them a good long while, but then Kurt started eyeing the stage, like a lot of them did… they all wanted to go.
“Go for it,” Blaine told him, without prompt. Kurt looked at him. “Then after, I’m thinking we head back out there,” he nodded to the crowds of dancers.
“I’m in,” Kurt smiled… He would have kissed him right then, he… Oh, screw it… He held his hand to the back of Blaine’s neck and pressed his lips to his. There was just one beat of shock, and then… response. Now he was ready. As they parted, they shared a look, a smile, and Kurt dashed off for his song. He wasn’t sure if his feel still touched the ground, he just coasted, hovering on at boundless speeds… Misguided make-outs and confused quarterbacks had nothing on this… The first one that counted, the one he’d remember for years to come…
“Mr. Schuester, may I?” he came to a forced stop as he reached the current and former directors of New Directions.
“Of course,” Will gave that great big smile of his. He gave the bowl a good shake - not so many cards left - and then offered it. Kurt picked out a card. When he read the title, he had a memory of his father and Carole’s wedding, which made him smile, even if the comparison ended there.
“I’ll take it,” he nodded. Will indicated the stage. And when it was his turn, he went on up. He had a quick look overhead, and he spotted Blaine, right where he’d left him… they were still smiling, both of them. Brad got the card, held up “seven.”
Rachel had been so anxious, leading up to the day of the dance, so focused on details, on colors, and dresses, and flowers, and shoes, and chocolate, and earrings, and suits… And still somehow she’d kept a steady night’s sleep. Once they’d made it to the gym that night… all the preparation had paid off… and none of it mattered as much as the fact that… there they were, her and Finn, together, arm in arm and dancing… For all her sleep, she’d never been at ease and at peace the way she was when she just… they just lived the night.
They danced for a while. Finn was still who he’d always been when it came to dancing, but those lessons with Kurt for the wedding must have paid off somewhere, because Finn’s moves had improved in places. And the rest, well… for that night, she wouldn’t see it. They went round and round, and at some point this led them to see Tina and Mike on the chairs. They’d broken from the dancing couples to go see what had happened. Rachel sat with Tina, knowing from past experience what it must have felt like in that moment. She told these things to Tina and the boys, but she quieted after a while.
She’d been sitting there, mindlessly humming along to the songs, while holding the ice, but then she looked up and she saw Finn there, smiling at her. She smiled back. “What?” Finn turned to Tina instead of answering her.
“I’m going to need to borrow her,” he indicated his girlfriend.
“Take her,” Tina insisted.
So they’d returned to the dance floor, and Rachel felt once again warm, loved, and protected in those arms of his. She could have stayed there and be forever content. But then the call of the stage was pretty strong, and they’d taken to it, then once again when Miss Holiday had recruited Finn for a song. Rachel had watched him happily, Feeling none of the envy that could plague her… She was right where she wanted to be, and that allowed her peace.
After Finn’s song, they’d taken a break, sitting together with Rachel’s head on his shoulder. “I have to say, I’m impressed,” she spoke after a moment.
“About what?” he asked.
“Your dancing,” she smiled up at him. He looked at her as though to say ‘Seriously?’ “Well… compared to… before,” she tilted her head, trying not to cater to ‘controlling Rachel’. He just nodded, and she put her head back down with a smirk. When the song began though, she turned her head up, seeing Kurt on the stage. “Come on, let’s see those moves again,” she turned to Finn. He looked up, just as she had, then turned back with a smile.
“Okay,” he got up, offering his hand. She very nearly unleashed some kind of dreamy-eyed sigh right there, but she kept it in, giving him her hand instead, letting him lead her back among the couples as Kurt began to sing.
[K] “Don't go changing, to try and please me, / You never let me down before, / Don't imagine, you're too familiar, / And I don't see you anymore.
I would not leave you, in times of trouble, / We never could have come this far, / I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, / I'll take you just the way you are.”
She’d wanted it for so long, always told herself that it would never happen for a while, because it was better than the disappointment. But now Finn was making her believe in all those dreams again… the slow dancing, the close hold and beating hearts, the boy looking into your eyes like you were the best thing in the whole world… For so long things had gotten in the way… They liked each other, but he wasn’t single, then he was, but they weren’t ready, then she wasn’t single, and now… She’d put on a brave face, act like it was all happiness, always happiness… Because they were happy, but history had taught her that things could always get in the way and ruin it. And something very nearly did… someone… Finding out about Santana, she’d almost done something so stupid to get back at him, but… She couldn’t go through with it, and in the end she was glad she hadn’t, because now they could move on, back to who they were and were becoming.
[K] “Don't go trying, some new fashion, / Don't change the colour of your hair, / You always have my, unspoken passion, / Although I might not seem to care.
I don't want clever, conversation, / I never want to work that hard, / I just want someone, that I can talk to, / I want you just the way you are.”
He was right where he’d wanted to be, finally… It had always felt like him and Rachel couldn’t be in the same place at the same time, emotionally… But even if they weren’t, they still found it in them to be who they were supposed to be, in some way. They were leaders, both of them… Glee co-captains… and they carried the title as they should. So if they could do that, then it had to only be a matter of time before they could make things work for themselves as well… He’d kept telling himself that, and in the end it had proven true. He wondered if she felt that same sort of fear, that they’d lose one another… To tell the truth though, he wasn’t feeling it at the moment… dancing with her.
[K] “I need to know that you will always be / The same old someone that I knew, / What will it take till you believe in me, / The way that I believe in you?”
Maybe she felt him looking down at her, because then she looked back up, meeting his eyes, matching his smile. Without a moment’s thought, he leaned forward and she pushed herself up on her toes, and they kissed, remaining this close even after… They couldn’t stop staring…
[K] “I said I love you, and that's forever, / And this I promise from the heart, / I couldn't love you, any better, / I love you just the way you are.
I don't want clever, conversation, / I never want to work that hard, / I just want someone, that I can talk to, / I want you just the way you are.”
The last notes had faded away, but still they remained as they were. “Song’s over,” Finn remarked, not moving still.
“I know… But there’ll be another one in a minute,” she pointed out, smiling.
“Yeah… You should take it,” he suggested. She paused right then, and she realized it… she hadn’t even been thinking about it, not really… She’d been so lost in this feeling, with him, and she hadn’t thought about anything else…
“Are you sure?” she asked.
“Sure? About wanting to hear you sing?” he asked back, and she nodded… he had a point. “I’ll be there for you, like you were for me,” he promised, and she beamed.
“Okay…” she agreed.
After the song had ended, the one where Brittany had danced with Mike, Artie had been waiting for her to return, but then… a new song started, and she wasn’t back… only he saw Mike, he wasn’t out there anymore, so where had she disappeared off to? He wasn’t exactly in a position to go cutting through the crowd to find her. He trusted her, it wasn’t about that, but… maybe it was fear that she’d wander off and forget about him…
But then there she came, and from the bounce in her step, he had to imagine that she’d stayed and danced out the next song, which he knew she liked… Did she dance it on her own? “Artie!” she called as she spotted him and hurried her step. “Sorry it took longer, I danced with Santana…”
“It’s fine,” he assured her. She smiled, and then she had that face like she had an idea… which wasn’t always a good sign for him… and in fact…
“I know what we need to do,” she spoke as she moved to stand behind his chair, taking hold of the handles and driving him at a run.
“Careful, Br… Brittany, watch out!” he almost squeezed his eyes shut, fearing she’d crash him. But then it all came to a stop, and he looked up to find himself staring right back at… Tina? “What are you doing?” he turned to look at Brittany, still shaky and out of breath.
“You dance with her now,” she nodded.
“What?” Artie responded… so did Tina. They looked back to one another.
“Well I danced with Mike, so it’s only fair,” Brittany shrugged.
“You danced with…” Tina started, turning to Mike. He hadn’t gotten around to telling her that part yet, was about to… But she couldn’t blame him so much; he had just carried her back to the chairs after her song, where he’d proceeded to praise her on and on about it, so the subject had not turned back to ‘who did Puck drag you off to?’ yet. “Is that what you want?” she looked back to Artie. It may have been a while now since they’d… since she’d broken up with him, but the tension was still there, a little.
“It’s easy, you just sit on his lap, then you don’t have to walk on your ankle… Actually, you shouldn’t ever walk on your ankle,” Brittany trailed off on that last thought, but then looked back to the two of them with a smile. “Go on,” she insisted, looking to Mike for support. After a moment, he nodded as well. Artie looked to Tina; he was in if she was.
TO BE CONTINUED (TOMORROW)
* IN CONSTRUCTION! *
PREVIOUS DAYS
[Cycle 01] [Cycle 02] [Cycle 03] [Cycle 04] [Cycle 05]
[Cycle 06] [Cycle 07] [Cycle 08] [Cycle 09] [Cycle 10]
[Cycle 11] [Cycle 12] [Cycle 13] [Cycle 14] [Cycle 15]
[Cycle 16] [Cycle 17] [Cycle 18] [Cycle 19] [Cycle 20]
[Cycle 21] [Cycle 22]
[Cycle 23]
[463] [464] [465] [466] [467]
[468] [469] [470] [471] [472]
[473] [474] [475]
Suggestion Drop Off
Title: "Love & the Gentle Heart Are One Thing: 14. They Are A Team"
Pairing: [Capitalized = in this chapter] Carl/Emma, FINN/RACHEL, KURT/BLAINE, ARTIE/BRITTANY, MIKE/TINA, Sam/Quinn, Puck/Santana, Anthony/Mercedes, Will/Holly, Puck/Quinn, Will/Emma, Burt/Carole, Brittany/Santana, ARTIE/TINA, MIKE/BRITTANY and more to come!
Rating: G
Summary: Valentine's Day is coming, and it's shaping up to be a very Glee kind of dance...
Spoilers: Through 210 A Very Glee Christmas
if you have things you would like to see get written, pleeease drop by the suggestion box. The link is further down!
LOVE & THE GENTLE HEART ARE ONE THING - [For the full explanation, please refer to Chapter 1
Chapter 14 of 20 They Are A Team
"LOVE & THE GENTLE HEART ARE ONE THING
14. THEY ARE A TEAM"
Multiship
After their play with Mercedes and Anthony, Kurt and Blaine had taken to the sides of the gym, halfway between a dance and a fashion review of those couples they saw parading before them. As far as entertainment went, that could have lasted them a good long while, but then Kurt started eyeing the stage, like a lot of them did… they all wanted to go.
“Go for it,” Blaine told him, without prompt. Kurt looked at him. “Then after, I’m thinking we head back out there,” he nodded to the crowds of dancers.
“I’m in,” Kurt smiled… He would have kissed him right then, he… Oh, screw it… He held his hand to the back of Blaine’s neck and pressed his lips to his. There was just one beat of shock, and then… response. Now he was ready. As they parted, they shared a look, a smile, and Kurt dashed off for his song. He wasn’t sure if his feel still touched the ground, he just coasted, hovering on at boundless speeds… Misguided make-outs and confused quarterbacks had nothing on this… The first one that counted, the one he’d remember for years to come…
“Mr. Schuester, may I?” he came to a forced stop as he reached the current and former directors of New Directions.
“Of course,” Will gave that great big smile of his. He gave the bowl a good shake - not so many cards left - and then offered it. Kurt picked out a card. When he read the title, he had a memory of his father and Carole’s wedding, which made him smile, even if the comparison ended there.
“I’ll take it,” he nodded. Will indicated the stage. And when it was his turn, he went on up. He had a quick look overhead, and he spotted Blaine, right where he’d left him… they were still smiling, both of them. Brad got the card, held up “seven.”
Rachel had been so anxious, leading up to the day of the dance, so focused on details, on colors, and dresses, and flowers, and shoes, and chocolate, and earrings, and suits… And still somehow she’d kept a steady night’s sleep. Once they’d made it to the gym that night… all the preparation had paid off… and none of it mattered as much as the fact that… there they were, her and Finn, together, arm in arm and dancing… For all her sleep, she’d never been at ease and at peace the way she was when she just… they just lived the night.
They danced for a while. Finn was still who he’d always been when it came to dancing, but those lessons with Kurt for the wedding must have paid off somewhere, because Finn’s moves had improved in places. And the rest, well… for that night, she wouldn’t see it. They went round and round, and at some point this led them to see Tina and Mike on the chairs. They’d broken from the dancing couples to go see what had happened. Rachel sat with Tina, knowing from past experience what it must have felt like in that moment. She told these things to Tina and the boys, but she quieted after a while.
She’d been sitting there, mindlessly humming along to the songs, while holding the ice, but then she looked up and she saw Finn there, smiling at her. She smiled back. “What?” Finn turned to Tina instead of answering her.
“I’m going to need to borrow her,” he indicated his girlfriend.
“Take her,” Tina insisted.
So they’d returned to the dance floor, and Rachel felt once again warm, loved, and protected in those arms of his. She could have stayed there and be forever content. But then the call of the stage was pretty strong, and they’d taken to it, then once again when Miss Holiday had recruited Finn for a song. Rachel had watched him happily, Feeling none of the envy that could plague her… She was right where she wanted to be, and that allowed her peace.
After Finn’s song, they’d taken a break, sitting together with Rachel’s head on his shoulder. “I have to say, I’m impressed,” she spoke after a moment.
“About what?” he asked.
“Your dancing,” she smiled up at him. He looked at her as though to say ‘Seriously?’ “Well… compared to… before,” she tilted her head, trying not to cater to ‘controlling Rachel’. He just nodded, and she put her head back down with a smirk. When the song began though, she turned her head up, seeing Kurt on the stage. “Come on, let’s see those moves again,” she turned to Finn. He looked up, just as she had, then turned back with a smile.
“Okay,” he got up, offering his hand. She very nearly unleashed some kind of dreamy-eyed sigh right there, but she kept it in, giving him her hand instead, letting him lead her back among the couples as Kurt began to sing.
[K] “Don't go changing, to try and please me, / You never let me down before, / Don't imagine, you're too familiar, / And I don't see you anymore.
I would not leave you, in times of trouble, / We never could have come this far, / I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, / I'll take you just the way you are.”
She’d wanted it for so long, always told herself that it would never happen for a while, because it was better than the disappointment. But now Finn was making her believe in all those dreams again… the slow dancing, the close hold and beating hearts, the boy looking into your eyes like you were the best thing in the whole world… For so long things had gotten in the way… They liked each other, but he wasn’t single, then he was, but they weren’t ready, then she wasn’t single, and now… She’d put on a brave face, act like it was all happiness, always happiness… Because they were happy, but history had taught her that things could always get in the way and ruin it. And something very nearly did… someone… Finding out about Santana, she’d almost done something so stupid to get back at him, but… She couldn’t go through with it, and in the end she was glad she hadn’t, because now they could move on, back to who they were and were becoming.
[K] “Don't go trying, some new fashion, / Don't change the colour of your hair, / You always have my, unspoken passion, / Although I might not seem to care.
I don't want clever, conversation, / I never want to work that hard, / I just want someone, that I can talk to, / I want you just the way you are.”
He was right where he’d wanted to be, finally… It had always felt like him and Rachel couldn’t be in the same place at the same time, emotionally… But even if they weren’t, they still found it in them to be who they were supposed to be, in some way. They were leaders, both of them… Glee co-captains… and they carried the title as they should. So if they could do that, then it had to only be a matter of time before they could make things work for themselves as well… He’d kept telling himself that, and in the end it had proven true. He wondered if she felt that same sort of fear, that they’d lose one another… To tell the truth though, he wasn’t feeling it at the moment… dancing with her.
[K] “I need to know that you will always be / The same old someone that I knew, / What will it take till you believe in me, / The way that I believe in you?”
Maybe she felt him looking down at her, because then she looked back up, meeting his eyes, matching his smile. Without a moment’s thought, he leaned forward and she pushed herself up on her toes, and they kissed, remaining this close even after… They couldn’t stop staring…
[K] “I said I love you, and that's forever, / And this I promise from the heart, / I couldn't love you, any better, / I love you just the way you are.
I don't want clever, conversation, / I never want to work that hard, / I just want someone, that I can talk to, / I want you just the way you are.”
The last notes had faded away, but still they remained as they were. “Song’s over,” Finn remarked, not moving still.
“I know… But there’ll be another one in a minute,” she pointed out, smiling.
“Yeah… You should take it,” he suggested. She paused right then, and she realized it… she hadn’t even been thinking about it, not really… She’d been so lost in this feeling, with him, and she hadn’t thought about anything else…
“Are you sure?” she asked.
“Sure? About wanting to hear you sing?” he asked back, and she nodded… he had a point. “I’ll be there for you, like you were for me,” he promised, and she beamed.
“Okay…” she agreed.
After the song had ended, the one where Brittany had danced with Mike, Artie had been waiting for her to return, but then… a new song started, and she wasn’t back… only he saw Mike, he wasn’t out there anymore, so where had she disappeared off to? He wasn’t exactly in a position to go cutting through the crowd to find her. He trusted her, it wasn’t about that, but… maybe it was fear that she’d wander off and forget about him…
But then there she came, and from the bounce in her step, he had to imagine that she’d stayed and danced out the next song, which he knew she liked… Did she dance it on her own? “Artie!” she called as she spotted him and hurried her step. “Sorry it took longer, I danced with Santana…”
“It’s fine,” he assured her. She smiled, and then she had that face like she had an idea… which wasn’t always a good sign for him… and in fact…
“I know what we need to do,” she spoke as she moved to stand behind his chair, taking hold of the handles and driving him at a run.
“Careful, Br… Brittany, watch out!” he almost squeezed his eyes shut, fearing she’d crash him. But then it all came to a stop, and he looked up to find himself staring right back at… Tina? “What are you doing?” he turned to look at Brittany, still shaky and out of breath.
“You dance with her now,” she nodded.
“What?” Artie responded… so did Tina. They looked back to one another.
“Well I danced with Mike, so it’s only fair,” Brittany shrugged.
“You danced with…” Tina started, turning to Mike. He hadn’t gotten around to telling her that part yet, was about to… But she couldn’t blame him so much; he had just carried her back to the chairs after her song, where he’d proceeded to praise her on and on about it, so the subject had not turned back to ‘who did Puck drag you off to?’ yet. “Is that what you want?” she looked back to Artie. It may have been a while now since they’d… since she’d broken up with him, but the tension was still there, a little.
“It’s easy, you just sit on his lap, then you don’t have to walk on your ankle… Actually, you shouldn’t ever walk on your ankle,” Brittany trailed off on that last thought, but then looked back to the two of them with a smile. “Go on,” she insisted, looking to Mike for support. After a moment, he nodded as well. Artie looked to Tina; he was in if she was.
TO BE CONTINUED (TOMORROW)
* IN CONSTRUCTION! *
PREVIOUS DAYS
[Cycle 01] [Cycle 02] [Cycle 03] [Cycle 04] [Cycle 05]
[Cycle 06] [Cycle 07] [Cycle 08] [Cycle 09] [Cycle 10]
[Cycle 11] [Cycle 12] [Cycle 13] [Cycle 14] [Cycle 15]
[Cycle 16] [Cycle 17] [Cycle 18] [Cycle 19] [Cycle 20]
[Cycle 21] [Cycle 22]
[Cycle 23]
[463] [464] [465] [466] [467]
[468] [469] [470] [471] [472]
[473] [474] [475]
Suggestion Drop Off
Title: "Love & the Gentle Heart Are One Thing: 14. They Are A Team"
Pairing: [Capitalized = in this chapter] Carl/Emma, FINN/RACHEL, KURT/BLAINE, ARTIE/BRITTANY, MIKE/TINA, Sam/Quinn, Puck/Santana, Anthony/Mercedes, Will/Holly, Puck/Quinn, Will/Emma, Burt/Carole, Brittany/Santana, ARTIE/TINA, MIKE/BRITTANY and more to come!
Rating: G
Summary: Valentine's Day is coming, and it's shaping up to be a very Glee kind of dance...
Spoilers: Through 210 A Very Glee Christmas