Thor/Glee pt 9 - Kurt/Blaine, PG
Title: I was thinking of a son
Fandom: Glee/Thor movieverse(Norse mythology)
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: spoilers for season 2 Glee; mentions of torture
Pairings: Burt/Mama Hummel, Kurt/Blaine
Rating: PGish
Wordcount: 960
Point of view: third
Part 1
Part 2
Parts 3-8
Six weeks after they meet, a week into Kurt’s enrollment at Dalton, the evening Blaine learns about Kurt’s fascination (and skill!) with Sais swords, Blaine asks him, “Why didn’t you ever use these to intimidate the bullies into leaving you alone?”
Kurt smiles down at the blade in his hand, twisting it around his fingers. “I’ve only been practicing for a little while,” he says. “I’d probably hurt myself.” The explanation sounds half-finished, so Blaine waits silently, watching Kurt watch the knife.
“If I started threatening people who hurt me,” Kurt finally says softly, the Sais going faster and faster, “I wouldn’t be able to stop at just words, at just caressing the skin.” He grips the knife suddenly, stopping all motion, turning his head to meet Blaine’s eyes. “I never fought back,” he says “because I knew it would spiral out of control.”
He spins around, letting the blade fly from his fingers. It hits the bulls-eye.
0o0
Blaine never saw his father much. Even before Iron Man, Tony Stark was a busy man and Blaine knew that. He actually feels guilty, now, for how little he felt when the world thought Dad was dead. He’d seen the man five times in ten years, and when Mom sat him down for ‘bad news,’ he expected her to say she had cancer, or Grandma had died, or they had to move to some little speck of nothing somewhere.
Instead, she said, “Blaine, your father went missing in Afghanistan. He’s… he’s dead, baby.” She was crying and pulled him into her arms.
He cried, of course. He was a sympathetic crier and always had been. But he didn’t know the man.
Three months later, he was crying with his mom again when the world learned that Tony Stark lived. And then Dad took him for the summer, determined to bond, even if it killed them both.
0o0
Kurt looks like his father, though Blaine didn’t see it at first - Mr. Hummel is broader in every sense, and harder, where Kurt is almost fragile-looking, except where he’s sharper.
Kurt is like a blade. His dad is a tire iron, or a crowbar.
The first time Blaine saw a picture of Kurt’s mother, he was shocked. She looked just like her son. They were both beautiful, all ice and angles, and Kurt had her cheekbones. When Blaine turned back to the picture after glancing at Kurt for a comparison, her eyes had changed from stormcloud grey to iridescent green; but he blinked and they were grey again.
Kurt had his father’s eyes, Blaine noticed that evening, when Mr. Hummel frowned at him from across the table. Kurt scowled at his father, Mr. Hummel raised an eyebrow, and Blaine said something nonsensical about football just to see the identical expressions cross their faces.
Kurt, physically, looks like his mother. But he mirrors his father, and they are so alike.
0o0
After Dad became Iron Man - and told the world, in that arrogant, irreverent way of his - he didn’t want Blaine to acknowledge him, and he didn’t acknowledge Blaine. After the summer of bonding, it was like Blaine didn’t even have a father anymore (falsely implying, of course, that he ever did).
Mom promised, “Baby, after all the fervor dies down, he’ll visit again.”
“I don’t care,” Blaine said. “He can do what he wants. I’ve gone this long without a dad - I don’t need one now.”
“Blaine,” she called as he stormed upstairs.
He ignored her.
0o0
Blaine wants to ask Kurt what his powers are. He knows about the improbably perfect aiming, and apparently some sort of shielding ability, but what else? Loki seems capable of everything.
Kurt’s mother is a shapeshifting supervillain god. Blaine’s father is a genius, billionaire, playboy philanthropist who is also a self-proclaimed and self-created superhero. Kurt inherited untold amounts of power and a silver tongue. Blaine got… messy dark hair.
Two days after Blaine learns just who Kathryn Hummel actually was, Loki appears in Blaine’s dreams. “Hello, Blaine,” he says. He’s wearing normal clothes - a suit like one of Dad’s, except Kurt would call it more fashionable and probably be impressed. His hair is slicked back, and a storm is swirling in his eyes.
Blaine is terrified. Loki smiles at him. “Don’t worry,” Loki says soothingly, reaching out to pat Blaine’s shoulder. “My son loves you. So long as he is content, you are mine to protect.”
Hearing that… doesn’t really help. At all. And Loki just keeps smiling. “I’m not here to threaten you,” Loki assures him, still smiling, hand still on Blaine’s shoulder. “I’d just like to get to know the human who managed to capture my youngest child’s heart.”
That pings something inside Blaine, deep down, in the tiny part that does stupid things and gets so angry and has no idea what the word ‘limits’ means.
His spine straightens. He meets those stormy eyes without flinching, and he demands in his most dangerous tone, “Why did you let the bullying get so bad?”
Loki had to have known. If he cares as much as he claims to. (He tore those kidnappers apart. Some pieces are still missing.)
“My son is strong, as you well know,” Loki says, voice sibilant and cold as ice. Blaine hears the woman from the pictures, Kurt’s mother. “Had anyone ever attempted what their puny little words threatened, they would have been summarily unmade.”
“Unmade?” Blaine echoes faintly, his anger gone and replaced by the complete understanding that this man is not human.
“Unmade,” Loki says succinctly, with a sharp, toothy smile. “Have pleasant dreams for the rest of the night, Starkson. You are a worthy match for my child.”
When he wakes up, the only thing he remembers is Loki’s smile.
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