“The flashback explained a lot…” He started slowly, closing his eyes. “I know why I couldn’t remember you and why my memories aren’t really gone but aren’t really completely there either. Once they found out I was…” Kurt spent a few seconds trying to find the word. “I’ll just be blunt. Once they realized that I was pointless to waste their time with, they decided to kill me. Except they waited, because what fun would killing the Muggle Studies teacher be if only three people were around to see it?” Kurt huffed in disgust. “They wanted to gather everyone to see me die just like Burbage. But, of course, that wasn’t enough. I needed to be broken by the time everyone else arrived.”
Kurt could hear the rising anger in his voice and feel it through his body. He hadn’t even known until this moment that he had any anger about what he went through. The numbness, panic attacks and distractions had all kept it away until this second. Is this why talking was good? “They found out about my nightmares. The ones where you died. I remember lying on the ground. My leg was broken too then-after I tried to escape, they didn’t want a repeat of that-and…” Suddenly he could remember being crucio’d, but he didn’t want to think about it. He was on a mission. And it probably would take a little while before he processed that enough to freak out. “…and I was also blinded. And then, since they wanted to take all of the fight out of me, they just kept playing the nightmares. At first it was fine. I knew they weren’t real, I just reminded myself I was lucky to have you. But I think that went on for a day straight, I’m not sure, and by the time you found me they’d done it so many times and it really confused me and…that’s still messing with me.”
Blaine listened intently. Things made a lot more sense now but that didn’t stop it from making him feel worse. They had used him as a weapon against Kurt, something that he never wanted to happen. This was something he was afraid of. Even during the first battle he had been afraid that they would somehow use Blaine against Kurt or the other way around. All because Kurt wasn’t of ‘pure-blood’ whatever the hell that meant, to Blaine Kurt was far better than over half of the ‘pure-bloods’ he had ever met and he still was.
When Kurt was done Blaine leaned forward and kissed him.
“Well…I’m here. I am going to try my best to help you. I know that I am not really the best for this sort of a thing but I am right here. I…I really don’t know what I can do but I am here for whatever you need.” he said quietly.
Kurt listened to Blaine, but he was starting to want to curl up and die from the crucio memory. “Thanks” he whispered as Blaine finshed talking, starting into space. He was clearly a little out of it, trying to work through what he hadn’t even known about. He tried to focus on the present but it was difficult and everything felt fuzzy. Hopefully he wasn’t about to start another panic attack.