sugakane_01
May 30, 2012, 4:09 p.m.
Your Words Will Never Hurt Me
Kurt, Blaine, Brittany and Santana realize that the only power words have is the power they give them.
M - Words: 492 - Last Updated: May 30, 2012 313 0 0 0 Categories: Angst, Characters: Blaine Anderson, Brittany Pierce, Kurt Hummel, Santana Lopez, Tags: friendship,
Author's Notes: Contains homophobic slurs and language
When Santana's laughter died abruptly, Brittany gasped and Kurt jerked to a sudden stop beside him as they rounded the corner, Blaine knew something bad was awaiting him. Every day that week there had been a derogatory slur left on one of their lockers. It had started on Monday when they had returned from lunch to find "Santana's Gay" written across her locker. The Latina had been furious and Brittany hadn't understood why Santana was so upset until Kurt had been forced to gently explain to their friend why in this instance 'Santana's Gay' wasn't the same as saying that she was happy.
The students and their parents had complained, but Figgins had claimed there was nothing he could do about the vandalism since no one had seen the perpetrators. The Principal then assured them that the school would have the offensive slurs removed "as soon as possible." Nothing was done however and then on Tuesday Kurt came out of his history class to find "Hummel the Homo" scrawled across his locker.
Today was Wednesday and the school had yet to remove the insults, a move that had been viewed as a green light by the vandals to continue the harassment. Blaine had known it was just a matter of time before the homophobes got around to him. He steeled himself and followed Santana's line of sight to his locker and felt anger surge through him when he saw that "God hates you" had been written in huge, angry block letters across the front.
As Santana let loose a furious stream of Spanish and Kurt began cursing every "narrow minded, low class, intolerant, ignorant homophobic jackass that inhabites this backwater town", Blaine took a deep breath and asked Brittany if she had a marker in her bag. The pretty blonde nodded her head and passed him a Sharpie. Blaine walked up to his locker and changed the "you" to "your" and added the words "homophobia" before capping the pen.
God hates your homophobia. Seeing how he had changed the message and with that, it's meaning, Blaine's friends stared at him in open mouthed shock. Eventually Santana broke the silence, as she turned to Blaine with a huge smile and said, "Damn Anderson, I didn't think you had it in you."
"I did," Kurt said with a smirk, taking Blaine's hand in his as the quartet continued to make their way down the hall. They stopped at Santana's locker and Blaine passed her the Sharpie. Santana smiled and underneath "Santana's Gay" wrote "and proud of it." She handed the marker to Kurt who went to his locker and underneath "Hummel the Homo" the brunette changed the message so that it read "Hummel the Homo Sapien: Gay by birth, fabulous by choice."
The group of friends then made their way to the choir room with their heads held high and their arms linked in solidarity, proud that they had refused to give an anonymous coward the power to shame them
The students and their parents had complained, but Figgins had claimed there was nothing he could do about the vandalism since no one had seen the perpetrators. The Principal then assured them that the school would have the offensive slurs removed "as soon as possible." Nothing was done however and then on Tuesday Kurt came out of his history class to find "Hummel the Homo" scrawled across his locker.
Today was Wednesday and the school had yet to remove the insults, a move that had been viewed as a green light by the vandals to continue the harassment. Blaine had known it was just a matter of time before the homophobes got around to him. He steeled himself and followed Santana's line of sight to his locker and felt anger surge through him when he saw that "God hates you" had been written in huge, angry block letters across the front.
As Santana let loose a furious stream of Spanish and Kurt began cursing every "narrow minded, low class, intolerant, ignorant homophobic jackass that inhabites this backwater town", Blaine took a deep breath and asked Brittany if she had a marker in her bag. The pretty blonde nodded her head and passed him a Sharpie. Blaine walked up to his locker and changed the "you" to "your" and added the words "homophobia" before capping the pen.
God hates your homophobia. Seeing how he had changed the message and with that, it's meaning, Blaine's friends stared at him in open mouthed shock. Eventually Santana broke the silence, as she turned to Blaine with a huge smile and said, "Damn Anderson, I didn't think you had it in you."
"I did," Kurt said with a smirk, taking Blaine's hand in his as the quartet continued to make their way down the hall. They stopped at Santana's locker and Blaine passed her the Sharpie. Santana smiled and underneath "Santana's Gay" wrote "and proud of it." She handed the marker to Kurt who went to his locker and underneath "Hummel the Homo" the brunette changed the message so that it read "Hummel the Homo Sapien: Gay by birth, fabulous by choice."
The group of friends then made their way to the choir room with their heads held high and their arms linked in solidarity, proud that they had refused to give an anonymous coward the power to shame them
End Notes: A/N: this was actually inspired by true events. I moved around a lot when I was a kid because my dad was in the military and my sophmore year we didn't live on base so the school I attended was in a really conservative, really small town. My bff was out and proud and one day he came back from lunch to find "James Is Gay" written across his locker. It wasn't the first time someone had done it, but it WAS the last time he let it go without fighting back. He busted out a marker and right under it wrote "and proud". The next day someone had written "God hates you" and he changed it to "God Hates Your Homophobia." They repainted his locker door but a week later someone wrote "James is a cocksucker" and he squeezed in the words "damn good" LOL. That afternoon we had an assembly about defacing school property...he still got harassed but no one ever wrote on his locker again. We're still bff's to this day...he's my real life Kurt Hummel. :)