Klaine Advent 2015 Day 23, "Wish"

Can we be seventeen?
If I am what you choose
If we still have the right
Because youre the one I choose
Youre the one I choose
Youre the one I choose

Seventeen - Heathers

Seven year old Blaine Anderson doesnt want anything.

Why would he? His mommy and daddy do absolutely everything for him. He knows daddy has the money and mommy loves him. Hes like a prince.

He doesnt even know what wanting is.

Thats what Kurt hates the most. Hes been watching Blaine for a year. Now that Blaine is seven, its time for Kurt to Visit him, but what is he supposed to do?

Kurt is a faerie.

He doesnt live up to peoples expectations of faeries though. He does have the wings, but they arent that majestic. He doesnt wear magical clothing, or anything.

And honestly, faeries cant do much for the human race.

Faeries all over the world Visit little kids. When the kids turn seven, faeries grant them one wish. Theyre usually not that special, because the kids are too young to understand.

But they do it, because they come back.

When the kids turn seventeen, faeries will Visit them again. Then it is time for another wish, but not just a wish. Its time for the Wish.

And faeries will grant them (unless theyre horrible. Kurts already had a couple of teenagers Wishing for war, genocide or murder. Then, Kurt just has to make them Forget).

The teenagers dont remember meeting faeries the first time, and they probably wake up thinking it was a dream, but Kurt will always look the same to them.

Thats because faeries cant get older than seventeen. To other species, it must be weird to have the same age as your parents or grandparents, but to faeries its a thing.

Of course they die. After a hunderd years, their power is up.

But Kurt just turned seventeen, so he has eighty more years to go. In those eighty years, hell meet a lot more kids.

Hopefully, they know what wanting is, opposed to Blaine Anderson.

Yet, Kurt has to try.

When Blaines mother turns off the lights and Blaine lies in his bed, Kurt opens the window and goes in.

Blaine immediately notices him.

"Hllo?" he asks. Hes still wide awake.

"Happy birthday, Blaine. My name is Kurt, and Im here to grant you a wish with magic," thats the standard sentence. Of course, Blaine isnt fazed by a winged creature in his room. Hes a child.

He still expects Blaine to at least show him one of his desires, but then he asks: "What is a wish?"

Kurt cant curse in front of children, otherwise he wouldve yelled "What the fuck?" How does a person not know what a wish is?

"It is something you want," Kurt explains. But Blaine looks at him with wide, shocked eyes.

"What is a want?"

Kurt cant believe it. When he said that he thought that Blaine didnt know what wanting means, he was kidding.

"Something you desire," Kurt says, and thinks: dont ask, dont ask, dont as-

"What is desire?" Never mind.

"Is there something you like to have?" Kurt tries, "That is wanting something. Imagine going to the Toys R Us and see a toy, and think: I like that. I need it in my home." That is such a bad explanation, but Kurts not used to explaining the concept of want.

But Blaine shakes his head. "Can you give me an example of a wish?"

"Uh, I granted one yesterday," Kurt starts, "Quinn wanted to go to the bunny island in Japan for a day. So I brought her there!"

"Do I want a bunny?"

"I dont know. Do you?" This is harder than expected.

After half an hour, Kurt is staring to lose hope, which is a first. His time is almost up. A Visit is never longer than 45 minutes.

So instead of granting a wish, he gives him advice. He flies closer to Blaine and gestures to the bed. "May I?"

Blaine tries to make room for Kurt to sit. Kurt takes Blaines hand. "Look, I cannot grant you a wish anymore, but I will tell you something important. Promise me to listen."

Blaine nods.

"Blaine, I dont want to scare you, but there is more in the world than this house," Kurt gestures to the room, "and one day, mommy and daddy wont be able to help. You need to want things sooner or later, because then youll learn to work for them."

"Work?"

Kurt nods. He really doesnt want to scare a seven year old, but it is a tough life out there. Blaine lives in his castle in the sky, but one day, he has to wake up and realize that things can go wrong.

"Dont let people use you," Kurt continues, "Want things and fight for them. Promise?"

Blaine, looking flabbergasted, nods slowly.

Kurt leans closer to kiss him on his forehead. Then he disappears.

Seventeen year old Blaine Anderson wants a lot.

Where to start?

He wants his mother to be happy again.

He wants his father to speak to him.

He wants to go back to Dalton, because he has bad memories of public schools. He knows his mom cant afford it anymore since his dad left them, but he wants it.

He wants to go to New York, to NYU. Or to college in general. Again: can he afford it?

He wants to be able to marry the man he loves.

He wants to be able to marry. Period.

He wants a lot.

But he really wants to see Kurt again. He knows its been ten years, and he also knows that it is absurd, because magic doesnt exists.

But he wants him to be real.

For ten long, painful years, he always held onto his memory of Kurt. When Cooper left, the memory comforted him. When his dad got bad, he remembered Kurts translucent wings. When his parents didnt accept his sexuality, he thought of Kurt holding his hand and kissing his forehead.

When they left him for dead in that parking lot, Blaine was ready to let go. But then he remembered Kurt telling him to fight for things he wanted. And fuck, he wanted to live.

The thought of faeries is stupid! But it felt so real.

And Blaine knows that his seven year old self wasnt smart enough to come up with someone like Kurt. And even if Kurt was his imaginary friend, then he shouldve left Blaines thoughts already.

Then Blaine shouldve realized that is wasnt real years ago, but a part of Blaine still thinks that it was real.

Its foolish.

And its his birthday!

He cant just get happy today. He knows his Dalton friends have planned something, so he goes home and expects a party.

Home.

That is now a small flat he shares with his mother in the outskirts of Lima.

Thanks dad.

And he was right. All the guys are waiting for him to take him out. Theyre gone till midnight. When he finally gets to bed, hes utterly exhausted.

Hes about to sleep when his window opens. It cant be a burglar, because theyre five high. But then...

No. It cant be.

Kurt flies into his room. Hes just like Blaine remembers him. "Happy birthday, Blaine. My name is Kurt, and Im here to grant you a wish with magic," Kurt says the exact same words, "But weve met before. You probably dont remember, but we-"

"I do!" Blaine yelps. Kurt is speechless. Apparently, remembering a faerie doesnt happen to everyone.

"Oh, well then," Kurt gestures to the bed, "May I?" Blaine once again tries to make room, but despite the fact that his bed is bigger now, he is bigger too.

"Uhm, so no introductions needed, I see-" "What are you?"

Kurt remains silent. Blaine looks away, embarrased. "Sorry, I didnt mean to blurt it out like that," he admits, "But for ten years, your advice has kept me... well, alive." Dont cry, Anderson, don- damnit. "To know youre real is kind of mindblowing."

"And I still look seventeen."

"That too."

So Kurt explains. He tells him everything. And Blaine, who is utterly exhausted, listens. Kurt also tells him that Blaine wasnt supposed to remember him, but how could he ever forget someone like Kurt.

"And I hope you now have a Wish," Kurt says, "because I couldnt grant the wish when you were seven."

And he does have one.

When Blaine wakes up, he has a splitting headache. He didnt drink at the party the Warbler guys threw him (Jeff drank enough for all of them anyways), but hes still exhausted and the lack of sleep isnt helping.

He was up till two.

Because he had this crazy dream. Kurt came back to him after ten years to grant him his Wish. Blaine laughs bitterly. The dream was absolutely amazing, but when you wake up after a glorious dream like that, reality bites you back in the ass.

Reality isnt a beautiful, Wish-granting faerie. Reality is living a life he didnt asked for, but he got it anyway because his dad made sure of it.

He knows its a school day, but his mother had already told him days ago that he didnt have to go today. She mustve expected Blaine to party all night long. (Well, not all night).

So when his mother tells him a friend of his is at the door, Blaine doesnt understand. All the people he knows must be either in school or in bed with a hangover.

He quickly puts on the first shirt he finds and stumbles towards the door. His mother has already let him (her?) into the building.

And when he opens the door, Kurt, without wings, greets him. "Kurt?"

"Your Wish is my command," Kurt only says. Blaine racks his brain. His Wish? His... Wish! He tries not to gasp when he realizes that Kurt is real, and that he has granted his Wish.

"Now that Im human, I am quite hungry. How do you do it every day? I propose we find a place to eat!"

Theyre still standing in Blaines shitty flat. Blaine still knows his dad has fucked his family over. Blaine still misses Dalton.

But Blaines life suddenly got a lot better.