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March 5, 2012, 11:59 a.m.
Once Upon...: Chapter 15 (Epilogue)
E - Words: 1,097 - Last Updated: Mar 05, 2012 Story: Complete - Chapters: 15/15 - Created: Feb 09, 2012 - Updated: Mar 05, 2012 11,922 0 57 0 1
After a week had passed, mostly lost to the sudden and absolute realness of reality as it clawed its way back into their lives, Kurt took them back to Grimms past the street where they'd first met.
It seemed so much smaller now, even in the dark; the open pavement and asphalt where he'd found his prince, bleeding and brand new, less than a month ago.
It felt like a century.
He remembered the look on Blaine's face, Blaine's hand on his arm, the grazes on his palms. The pounding of adrenaline in his veins and the way the world had changed in an instant, in a single terrified breath when he'd refused to run.
Are you alright, brave knight?
It was so long ago, but barely any time had passed.
They stumbled home again after a round at the bar, arms around each other's backs, riding a pleasant, heady buzz. In Blaine's case, with his fairly inexperienced liver, the buzz gave way to full-blow-drunk all to soon and he collapsed on the couch with his arms in the air, waxing poetic about the joys of good mead.
Kurt laughed and climbed over him, winding their fingers together. He settled down on the couch, staring at Blaine's bright and beautiful face as he spoke.
He didn't quite take in the words, too lost in the honey-brown warmth of Blaine's eyes as they darted everywhere, flashing and widening and falling again for emphasis. He traced them with his gaze, memorising the long dark lines of his eyelashes, the slope of his nose, and the soft pink swell of his lips.
This is real.
Leaning down, Kurt silenced him with a tiny, chaste kiss. He barely pulled away before Blaine's mouth was chasing his retreat, and he settled in again with a laugh, brushing their lips together in soft sweeps until Blaine opened up beneath him, sweet and pliant, eager to surrender everything.
Kurt rolled down on top of him, dipped his tongue deep and mapped the smooth, warm lines of Blaine's mouth, moaning as Blaine's hands found his hips and squeezed.
It was slow, and raw like it had always been; the world fell away when they had each other spread out and willing to be explored. Kurt stripped them both down carefully, still tingling from the evening's adventures and smiling sleepily as Blaine laid himself out on the cushions, naked and unabashed and beautiful as ever, offering up his body with dark and lustful eyes.
Kurt took his time, sucking marks into his skin, re-learning the cut of his hipbones and the sounds he made when he grazed his teeth over a nipple. He kept them twined together, always touching, drifting in and out on a lazy rhythm. It had been hours since they got home, but it always took that long now - unwilling to miss a single inch of skin with their mouths, with their hands, kissing and rutting and stroking each other to completion, and long after it.
When they slowed again, Kurt slipped into the crevice between Blaine and the couch cushions, snuggling down with Blaine's arm coiled under his shoulder. He reached out to sweep his fingers through Blaine's hair, to push the curls back off his face and feel how soft they were, twisting around his fingertips. He smiled as he thumbed over the white line of Blaine's scar, still slightly pink around the edges from healing.
"Kurt," Blaine said softly.
"Mmm?"
"When I asked you," he began carefully, staring at the ceiling as he trailed light patterns over Kurt's shoulder, "to marry me, I- I need you to know, I meant it."
"I know."
"It wasn't about Dalt-"
"I know," Kurt cut him off, rolling his head against the warm skin of his chest and pressing a wet kiss to it. "Nothing's changed."
"Everything's changed," Blaine said. "But for the better."
Kurt smiled sleepily.
"I have this whole… life here now." Blaine's voice had shifted slightly, more serious now, and clear. "There's so much I want to see. To do. To read. I want to spend days in that library."
With a laugh, Kurt closed his eyes.
"I want to spend … years, seeing the world. Experiencing what's out there. But-"
Kurt tilted, trying to catch the look on his face, too warm and too comfortable to properly move.
"I want to spend the rest of my life … with you."
Nuzzling against his chest, Kurt coiled his arms tightly around Blaine's body, squeezing to reinforce he felt the same.
"Do you know maybe what you might want to do, for a living?" Kurt asked after a moment.
He felt Blaine move beneath him, a tiny shift that could easily have been nodding.
"I think - I want to teach."
Kurt smiled.
"I love to learn. I want to learn everything, as much as I can, and then - to share it."
He tried not to melt at the sudden flash of images that his imagination conjured; Blaine standing in a classroom with chalk handprints on the pockets of his pants, surrounded by kindergarteners all staring up at him in wide-eyed wonder.
"It sounds … perfect," Kurt told him.
"Kurt?"
"Mmm?"
"Do you believe in fate?"
Kurt considered for a moment, eyes wandering over the dimly lit room, not really looking for anything in particular. "I didn't before."
"But now?"
"I think-" Kurt sighed softly. "I think there's something. I don't know what it is, but Rachel and Quinn, and the way everything happened…"
"I came here," Blaine began, wetting his lips. "On a street that happened to be on your way home."
Laughing softly, Kurt stroked his thumb down the the ladder of Blaine's ribs, lost in the beautiful expanse of olive skin as it rose and fell beside him. "I do, believe in fate. Even if fairytales were always just stories. They were made by someone. They're real... to someone. To us."
"I think," Blaine swallowed, "that I was - made - for you."
Kurt closed his eyes tightly, throat hollow and skin burning hot with a surge of sudden affection as he rose up to kiss Blaine again, and again, sinking down into the couch cushions as their bodies came together completely.
The tiny, doubting voice in his head had been silenced in the wake of the week before. It wasn't a question anymore, it was a proven reality, their reality - and so much that had seemed unreal, that surely had to be a dream, had fallen into place like the hands of a clock meeting midnight.
For now, drifting and aching and crying out again in ecstasy under the hands of his prince, he was content to forget the person he was - a man who didn't believe in love, and didn't know the truth about fairytales,
Once upon a time.
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Absolutely perfect ending to a perfect fic
Ugh. . . it's like you gave my heart a cup of hot choclate to warm it up on a very cold day. . . i think fluffy stuff makes me dizzy and stupid. . . Well just wanted to say thank you for writing this story . . .
I have such a big grin on my face right now. I'm sooo sorry to see this one finished but I'm sooo happy that Blaine and Kurt got their happily ever after. And Blaine's gonna be a teacher! Just...Aaaaaw!Great story, and I am looking forward for more of your stories!
Wow this story totally took my breath away! Thank you so much for writing it!
Aww I loved the epilogue and this entire fic. I'm so sad for it to be over.
I never dreamed a Disney AU could move me to tears and make me think about how I see the world. Of course, I never expect any of your writing to do that, but it almost always does. Thank you for another incredible story.
It was so hard to read this epilogue while crying. As always you have taken me on a journey to a beautiful place. Thank you for letting me live there for a time.
No doubt this was one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read!!
Perf. Absolutely perf.
Ahhhh that was fabulous!! You should make a sequel!
Such a beauiful creative storyLoved it :D
Excellent. :) You did a wonderful job. hpswst101
thank you!! thank you!! amazing story
Beautiful. Thank you for writing this!
This was perfect. This whole thing was perfect. Thank you.
Oh my creys. I just have all the Klaine feels and this was lovely. I loved every bit of it :)
I loved every second of it and I still can't believe how beautiful you write...Please keep up the great work!
Hummelberry made me cry so badly in the previous chapter. And now I just want to cry over the perfection of this- everything. Wedding one-shot or sequel to this, please? It'll be so much fun to discover all about our world with Blaine in little one-shots, each an episode in which Blaine discovers something new, and perhaps when or how he became a kindergarten teacher. Mmm just saying ;) You and your fics are forever magical like in fairytales. They work magic to my heart. *insert more cheesy happy sighs*
This was the perfect ending for this perfect fic. When I discovered that the epilogue was finally out I kinda freaked out because I didn't want it to come to an end :( anyway thank you for writing such a beautiful thing!
this can't be the end, because this story is so perfect, amazing, beautiful, cute, sweet etc. i love yhis and all the story!!! thank you for that!!!
Ahh that was so good!!! And just perfect!!!
Aw, yaaaaaay! This was so lovely, Blaine as an actual Disney princess is definitely something special. <333
Just perfect! Congrat's...
This is an awesome, awesome fic. Quite magical and wonderful. It's going in my favorites. :D
Such a beautiful story. Based on Enchanted but still entirely its own. I can't even describe how much I enjoyed reading it.
Wow! Just wow! This was my first story based on the whole "fairytale" theme - and I really enjoyed it (I haven't seen the film "Enchanted"). So much so that I read it in one sitting! Your writing was very believable and chapter 12 was just breathtaking :) I'll definitely be looking for more of your fanfics to devour! Many thanks for a great read.
Beautiful! This story has been an absolute pleasure to read!!
Gah. Lovely & perfect story :)
Wow couldn't stop reading it was amazing story telling they found there prince charming ... Happy ever after and story lives on ...
Better than Disney!
*takes a deep breath*Omg. I just. I can't even.ALL the feels.This was so precious and angsty and tense and perfect /flailing. Somewhere around chapter 8 I couldn't resist it anymore and I put 'So close' on repeat and that just made it better :') so uhm.. thanks? <3
Okay so I read this epilogue earlier today but I had to dash to uni and didnt get the time to properly review so here it is: I guess the contingency in this story, the plotline, the flow, the dynamics between the stories main protagonists, the themes involved, the clarity of your writing all contributed to this wonderful sum of an epilogue you presented here. You took everything you had been mixing in from the first chapter, tossed it all together, and polished it off in the last paragraph of the story. It is evident that things become full circle, especially for Kurt, who can look back on it as say "Once upon a time..." and the brilliance if those four words are that they are systematically a very clever pun too. Needless to say, I absolutely loved this. I admire your dedication and creativity and thank you for your efforts. I don't know how authors like yourself manage to create such polished work, as we can all understand the demands of our personal lives, but you completed this with nil jagged edges; rather you let the reader slide through this easily enough as one watches a Disney movie ;)
NEAF. RIP MY HEART OUT, THROW IT ON THE GROUND AND STOMP ALL OVER IT WILL YA?!?!?!? JFC, I CAN'T WITH THIS. HVBKFDVHDBFVHBD!
Finally got to read all of this and boy was it worth the wait. You really took a known premise and made it your own - this is Kurt and Blaine's story, just theirs. And it's beautiful.
OH MY GOD THIS WAS FANTASTIC. I almost want to write a follow-up one shot where Kurt finally gets to have his own royal wedding!! And somehow I didn't see it when you first introduced Faberry, but I realized it the moment Quinn did. And then it fell in place. The Red and Blue dresses, the job quitting, the "You've found your princess" and the way Rachel believed Blaine rout away. Amazing. Loveeddd it!!
What a beautiful story! Very well written and thought out.
Foget Enchanted! This is so much better!!!!!!
Wow. I really enjoyed that! Great job.
I must confess, I rightly predicted the exact ending to this fic way back when Blaine first told the tale of the Dual Queens. (Maybe it's because I ship Faberry so hard, or because I took the Enchanted-inspired elements to heart, or because I believe so much in fairy tales?) HOWEVER, I never stopped reading because I enjoyed the ride SO MUCH. This was such a brilliantly laid-out story, simple and yet eloquent. The destination may have been clear, but the path to get there was so murky and twisted and I had to find out how the story was going to get there. Seriously, "I'm not your prince, you're mine" had me rolling, sobbing, and flailing simultaneously. Blaine's transformation from two-dimensional Disney prince to living, breathing, functioning human just knocked me flat on the floor. So believable and well-done.So I guess what I'm trying to say is, thanks for the brilliant fic, you're amazing!!!
Wow! This was fantastic! I absolutely love Enchanted and making it Klaine was awesome!
Oh wow that was brilliant! Such a unique story, it was captivating :)
Oh my god. Oh my god. I've actually died and gone to heaven. I'm drowning in my happy tears. That was STUNNING and...wow. Really speechless. Your talent can never be underrated and you're beautiful and they're beautiful and oh god. Way too emotional. Thank you for sharing this beautiful peace of art. Thank you so much.
And the funny, ironic lines. Just perfect!!!
Okay I know that you've left tumblr but I am PRAYING that you still might have your review alerts turned on here so I can ask you this! I went on your blog today to ask your permission to podfic this story and saw that you'd left! I would really LOVE to record it and wanted to ask if it was okay to do so, so I hope you'll see this message!!!
this story is absolutely AMAZING! It has made me cry it has made me smile, you were able to do that with the power of your words! Congratulations on such a brilliant peice and thank you for sharing it so I got a chance to read it!
THIS MADE ME SO HAPPY I CAN'T EVEN EXPRESS HOW AMAZING THIS IS. Sorry for the capital letters but just. this. and it's Enchanted but Klaine and you don't understand how perfect your writing is. I LOVE THIIIIIS. (also I guessed it would be Faberry when the phonecall happened and there was a voice and I kept reading for a bit before I was like OHMYGOSH THAT WAS QUINN) and yes I should stop rambling and go eat but this is awesome! :D
gd wee stroy :-)
That was wonderful :D
That was like the sweetest story ive ever read!I love all of your stories!
Adorable. Love it! Thanks for writing it and sharing it with us
Oh, my gosh! This was so amazing! It was beautifully written and stunning overall. I had seen Enchanted so I had and inkling where it was going, but even so. There were a lot of pleasant surprises. I just loved this so much!
I didn't think I was gonna love this story as much as I did. It is truly one of my favorites. It has made me cry Android laaugh. Your writing is amazing.
Kurt tried to hold in his exasperated sigh as he went back to his sketches. Fantastic, Rachel. Teach him about body parts and he's going to start asking people how their spleens are doing today. That was hilarious oh my god! This story is perfection! I loved it so much! You had me on Tears!
THIS STORY IS SUPERMEGAFOXYAWESOME HOT!! JUST ASDFGHJKL;!!! BELSS YOU BLESS YOUR SOUL!!
I've passed this story in the archive tons of times and never thought that I would like it. Thankfully I was wrong. This story was simply lovely.
Wow! Just wow! Beuatiful! Gorgeous! Magical! Romantic! Funny! This. Was. Everything. :D I am so fallen in love with this storie... I had to read it through the wohle day.... Is just couldn't stop! Blaine is such a Prince Charmin and Kurt is the most wonderful person in your story.. and the Fabrerry thing... genius! I relly can imgaine both as wonderful queens ;D Thx for this literary wonder!!! Lot's of love <3 Franzi
This was just "wonderful" :DThat joke has probably been way over used.