Klaine Advent 2018 Day 3: Camera

Dimension one: Space

Blaine reaches around him, but there’s nothing but open space. He opens his eyes and he sees Kurt floating next to him.

In space.

As in actual space, with stars and everything.

At least Kurt’s with him in space. In space. Blaine can’t wrap his head around it. The last thing he remembers is watching words surround and attack Kurt. Blaine had grabbed a bag and his phone, but then the words started surrounding him as well.

This must be a really weird dream, because all those words were ‘space’ and now they’re in actual space.

Wait. If they’re in space, how come they’re breathing? Blaine looks down. He’s not even wearing a space suit and neither is Kurt. Blaine’s aware that sci-fi movies and TV shows often fictionalise certain aspects of space travel, but Blaine was certain that there’s no oxygen in space and that the human body cannot survive space without protection.

Blaine tries to speak, but his voice doesn’t carry in space. Kurt’s eyes are closed, so he can’t see Blaine waving.

Suddenly, a flash of light appears and Blaine has to do a double take when a freaking space shuttle appears out of nowhere. It gets even worse when the space shuttle surrounds Blaine in a blue beam and Blaine slowly gets pulled towards the space shuttle.

No, no! Blaine tries to yell when he sees that Kurt’s not being pulled along. He tries to swim (swim?) back to Kurt, but the beam is too strong. Kurt, no!

Blaine gets beamed on board. To his surprise, Wes is standing in front of him.

“Blaine, what the actual hell were you thinking?” he yells, but then he starts to cry and he pulls Blaine into a hug.

“Wes?” Blaine asks, confused.

Suddenly, there’s another hand on his shoulder. Blaine looks over his shoulder and Trent is looking worried. “It’s okay, Blaine, but you do realise we need to check your vitals. You were sucked out of the shuttle without your suit. You should be happy you ended up in an oxygen zone.”

Wes is still sobbing. “We thought we lost you.” Then he presses on his ear. “David, take off!”

The space shuttle rattles and then they take off. Blaine falls over, since he’s not used to it.

“No, Wes, we can’t!” Blaine yells, “We can’t leave Kurt!”

“That McKinley spy is no concern to us,” Wes says coldly. Trent tries to move Blaine towards another place in the space shuttle, probably a hospital wing, but Blaine won’t let that happen.

“What are you talking about?” Blaine says frantically. They just fucking left Kurt in space. “David, take us back!”

“Blaine, you don’t have your comm on you. David can’t hear you,” Trent says.

“Then you tell David to turn back!” Blaine yells.

“Blaine, are you space sick?” Wes asks, clearly worried.

Blaine doesn’t know what to think. His mind is racing. He’s freaking out, because they just left his fiancé in space. The facts that he’s in space and that his friends are a crew on a space shuttle are mind-blowing enough, but he can’t leave Kurt.

He doesn’t know what is going on. He doesn’t know what to think. So he squares up and he stares at Wes. “Wes, I order you to tell David to turn back!”

Wes’s face is stoic, but he says: “Aye, aye, captain.”

Trent has done some tests and then he changed Blaine into ‘his’ space suit. It’s a purple body suit and it is incredibly uncomfortable, but that is the last of his concerns. He does have two utility belts and a space gun.

He put his own clothes in his bag and he watches David steer back to the oxygen zone.

“It’s empty,” David says and he frowns.

“It can’t be,” Blaine says and his heart drops.

“David, do a check,” Nick says.

David pushes on a couple of buttons and Blaine hears a static noise. David shakes his head. “Blaine, the McKinley spy isn’t here.”

“What happened?” Blaine looks at the monitors, but he can’t understand a thing apart from the sentence NO SIGNS OF LIFE.

“You’ve been missing for a couple of days, Blaine,” Jeff says, “The oxygen zone runs out of oxygen after a while. He wasn’t wearing a suit. Maybe he died and his body…” Jeff trails off when he sees the devastated look on Blaine’s face.

“Are you sure this is the same oxygen zone?” Blaine asks, trying not to sound too frantic.

“We have the best oxygen camera in the universe, Blaine,” Wes says, “You know that. This is the same oxygen zone and he isn’t here.”

“You’re telling me he died?” Blaine says and he feels numb. This can’t be real. They can’t be in space and Kurt can’t be dead.

The other Warblers exchange some confused looks. “Well, it is a possibility, but why are you so ups-”

Trent can’t finish his sentence, because the monitors start to change.

“We’re getting a call!” David says.

“Answer it,” Blaine says. He dries his tears.

Rachel Berry pops up on the screen. “This is the McKinley Air Craft 532850, I am pilot Rachel Barbara Berry calling Dalton Space Shuttle 3058200. Are you receiving me?”

“Rachel!” Blaine yells out, “Yes, we’re here!”

“What do you want?” Wes barks at the screen. Rachel’s face is as stoic as Wes’s.

“Our sergeant Kurt Elizabeth Hummel has requested to talk to your captain. We invite captain Blaine Devon Anderson aboard.”

“Are you kidding me?” David yells angrily.

“No fucking way!” Trent yells.

Jeff is shaking his head furiously.

Rachel rolls her eyes and she looks over her shoulder. “I knew they were going to protest.”

But then Rachel gets pushed out of the screen and Kurt appears on the monitors. He’s wearing a space suit as well, and he’s alive. “Blaine, are you there?”

Nick shakes his head and says: “That is captain Blaine Devon Anderson to you!”

But Blaine pushes David out of his chair. “Kurt, it’s me. How can I meet you?”

“Blaine, oh my god, I’ve been so worried!”

“Where are you, Kurt?” Blaine asks.

“Doesn’t matter. We can set up a meeting, can’t we?”

“Yes, of course. I need to see you.”

The other Warblers are starting to protest again, but Blaine understands that there’s a hierarchy now. “I, Blaine Devon Anderson, captain of the Dalton Space Shuttle with a confusingly long number, accept the invitation of sergeant Kurt Elizabeth Hummel from McKinley Air Craft with an equally confusingly long number.”

It was a pain in the ass to arrange the meeting. Blaine doesn’t understand why, but the McKinley Air Crafts and the Dalton Space Shuttles are hostile towards each other.

The two space ships connect and Blaine prepares to go to the McKinley Air Craft. The others are not liking it.

“Remember, just say the word and we’ll attack if necessary, or we’ll report them to General Gilbert,” Wes says.

“That won’t be necessary,” Blaine says and he means it. This is Kurt they’re talking about. Besides, Blaine has no idea who General Gilbert is and he isn’t keen to find out. He wants to leave.

“Good luck then,” Wes says and he hugs Blaine tightly. Then, Wes steps back and Blaine gets transported to the other ship, which feels weird. He closes his eyes and when he feels he’s on something solid again, he opens his eyes.

A couple of members of the New Directions are pointing space guns at him. Blaine holds up his hands in the air.

“Lower your guns,” Kurt yells angrily.

Santana, who’s standing right across from Blaine, shakes her head. “Don’t tell me what to do, Kurt!” she yells angrily, “I am in command of this air craft and we will lower our guns when I say so! I know we usually don’t care about the hierarchy and that we treat each other equal, no matter our rank and titles, but when you allow a captain from the enemies in our ship, I will take my role as captain very seriously.”

“You promised me five minutes, Santana,” Kurt says sharply, “Five minutes to talk to him in private.”

Santana locks eyes with Tina and Mike and she nods. Tina and Mike move towards Blaine and they hold him in their grip.

“Hey now!”

They search him and his bag. They take a space gun out of his utility belt and they throw it to Kurt. They also hand Blaine’s bag to Kurt after they realise it’s filled with clothes.

Mike nods towards Santana.

“Lower your weapons, but keep them loaded,” Santana orders and the others follow suit. Then she turns to Kurt. “Five minutes, Kurt. I trust you, but I do not trust him.”

“I trust Blaine with my life,” Kurt says without hesitation.

Some others look confused, but they keep their guns lowered. Santana raises her gun towards Blaine. “If you hurt him I will make sure that General Gilbert will crush your entire fleet, got that?”

Blaine nods quickly and Santana lowers her gun again. Kurt takes Blaine’s hand and he quickly drags them away from all the others.

“Kurt-”

“We have five minutes, Blaine.”

“What happened?”

Kurt shakes his head. “I woke up on this ship and the next thing I know, Mercedes, our medic, is telling me that I’ve been floating in an oxygen zone for a couple of days. I demanded to know where you are and they started talking about Dalton fleets or something. Blaine, sweetie, I am freaking out, but we don’t have time to freak out. We’ve got five minutes.”

“I woke up in the oxygen zone,” Blaine tells him, while Kurt leads them through the air craft, “You were floating unconsciousness next to me. The Dalton Space Shuttle saved me, but I told them to go back to you, but you were gone. They told me you probably died.”

Blaine feels tears forming in his eyes. “I don’t ever want to have to think that again.”

They stop in a room and Kurt cups Blaine’s face. “I am here.”

And then Kurt kisses him.

But they only have four minutes left. “Blaine, I was confused and wandering around this air craft when I found this.”

Kurt picks something up and it’s the book from the antique store. Kurt opens the book and the first page only has one small word, namely ‘space’. But there’s more. There are two outlines of shapes, one hexagonal and one oval.

“How did this get here?” Blaine asks.

Kurt shakes his head. “I asked Artie about it. Apparently, he’s kind of the mechanic here on this air craft, but he has no idea. But what are those shapes?”

Blaine traces the shapes with his finger, but he has no idea. But when he looks at Kurt again, his eyes fall on Kurt’s space suit. Kurt's space suit looks more like an actual astronaut suit, instead of Blaine’s weird purple cat suit.

Kurt’s wearing a crest of McKinley, but there are planets behind the big white M. It’s an oval crest. Blaine know he has shoulder patches on his ugly suit and he also has an emblem on his chest.

Blaine puts his hand on his chest and Kurt’s eyes widen when he sees the hexagonal shape of his emblem. It’s the Dalton flag, but with stars in the background.

“Blaine…” Kurt takes Blaine’s hand and together they click the emblem off Blaine’s suit. Then they do the same for Kurt’s crest. Together, they put their emblem and crest on the page and to their surprise, they disappear into the page, as if they’re images now.

To make matters more interesting, two words appear on the next page.

“Harry Potter?” Blaine reads out loud.

“What the hell is this book?” Kurt picks it up, “Is it magic?”

“Magic? Are you listening to yourself, Kurt?”

“Blaine, we’re in fucking space and our friends hate each other. And this creepy book showed up on my ship. Something is happening.”

Suddenly, there are a couple of knocks on the door. “Kurt, we know you’re in here. Five minutes are over!” Santana says sternly.

Kurt and Blaine look at each other. “What are we going to do?”

But then they notice that the two words ‘Harry Potter’ have started growing. They shouldn’t be surprised after everything that’s happened, but they are.

“Kurt?” Santana keeps banging on the door, “Kurt, are you alive?”

The words start growing and Santana keeps yelling. Blaine grabs Kurt’s hand. He can’t lose him again. They‘ll have to figure out what is going on later.

The words start to surround them and the last thing they see is Santana. She kicks down the door and she runs in, gun raised, with a couple of others. Then, her eyes widen when she sees what’s happening and she lowers her gun in shock. She opens her mouth to say something.

Then it goes white.