The Cosmos Is Also Within Us

[robotsfighting]

Title: The Cosmos Is Also Within Us
Rating: PG
Characters: Kurt/Blaine
Words: 3,889
Spoilers: 2.18, Born This Way
Summary: On Kurt's last night at Dalton, Blaine takes him stargazing. Love, history, and science. (Also available on AO3.)

Author's Note: I wrote this for narie, for the kurt_blaine Hiatus Gift Exchange. She was like, "Science!" I was like, "I love

Comments

[fabrisse]

Such beautiful science for such beautiful boys.

[robotsfighting]

Hah, I'm glad you liked it!

[starryeyedmagic]

aw, I adored this

[robotsfighting]

Thank you! I'm very glad.

[smooshysushi]

TYCHO DIED BECAUSE OF THE BLADDER THING ALTHOUGH THEY NOW THINK IT WAS KIDNEY STONES
My astronomy teacher said so :)
This fic was amazing. Amazingly adorable and heartbreaking and Blaine using quantum physics as a metaphor for love was just so BLAINE. And I really loved the "I have to figure out how to be here without you again.” i just can't even. That sentence is perfect in every way. This fic is perfect in every way.

[robotsfighting]

It's still up in the air! They found lethal amounts of mercury in his hair, so no one's really certain. But my personal favorite explanation is totally the bladder thing, 100%.

I'm so glad you liked it! Thank you so much, I'm so glad it worked for you. Particularly that sentence; that paragraph was a struggle, and I'm really happy that it came across well. ♥

[diagon]

That was utterly, perfectly romantic and if Glee was just about Klaine then RIB should have tried to write a scene half as perfect as this because it would have totally fit canon.

“Did you just use a quantum mechanical phenomenon as a romantic metaphor?”
THIS is so utterly Blaine (but so is Kurt thinking "I love you" and hanging on to it for a little longer, just in case)

I love how you captured the worry and uncertainty and Blaine's "Part of me isn't really joking"; “I have to figure out how to be here without you again” combined with his admission that he looked for hiding places when he first came to Dalton is fabulous layering characterisation.

[robotsfighting]

Thank you so much! I'm really happy that you liked it. I'm glad that the metaphor thing fits Blaine; to me, he is just so incredibly nerdy and bad at explaining himself (and bad at romance, as stated) that this is the sort of thing he would do.

And thank you so much for pulling that last part out of this story. As a writer, I seriously can't help but fall worshipfully at your feet for reading that deeply into it. Blaine needing hiding places is a huge piece of his character for me, to the point where I've now written it twice and am prewriting to write about it a third time, and you're right, that has a big role in why Blaine is afraid of Kurt leaving Dalton. I'm glad you caught that, and liked it.

[eaconwell]

oh my god that was so adorable and sweet. i'm going to feel warm and fuzzy all day :)

[robotsfighting]

♥ I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you very much!