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[Glee] Love Like You Do (Burt/Finn)
Title: Love Like You Do
Fandom: Glee
Length: 463 words
Prompt: Rarepairs requests for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
glee_anon: Burt/Finn
Pairing: Burt/Finn; Burt/Carole and Finn/Kurt mentioned
Other: Spoilers for 1x20 Theatricality. I named Kurt's mother Mary.
Excerpt: He thought he was doing this for Finn. He thought that the boy needed a father figure, that he could finally quit bothering Kurt with monster truck rallies and baseball games, that he could have another friend as well as another son.
He thought he was doing this for Finn. He thought that the boy needed a father figure, that he could finally quit bothering Kurt with monster truck rallies and baseball games, that he could have another friend as well as another son.
But now he found himself watching, entranced, when Finn licked his lips. When Finn crooked his arm around the back of Burt's seat at the ballgame, comfortably, the warmth on the back of Burt's neck spread to his face and he found himself flushed and half-contemplating, and horribly, horribly guilty when Finn asked him what was wrong.
Maybe this would be easier to justify if he didn't love Carole so much, but he honestly did. He liked men and women. He was-- well, he'd done the research when Kurt really began to show his orientation-- he was bisexual. Sometimes, the literature said, that sort of thing had a genetic component. At the time he'd thought of Mary's lesbian cousin, but maybe it was closer than that.
He danced with Carole across the kitchen floor, laughing. He invited them to move in with guilt deep in his heart, wondering if he would have waited longer had he not been so attached to them both.
He wondered if he would have been so vehement to Finn's outburst if he hadn't thought deep down that maybe this was better for the family. Burt had self-control-- and he had eyes. Even if there was the smallest chance of Finn reciprocating this ridiculous crush, he couldn't go for it. It would crush his son, and Kurt was always more important than romance. Maybe it was best for them all to remove the temptation.
But when Carole asked, voice breaking, not to make her choose between her-- between their sons (and if he was too much too quickly, she was too)-- he had to admit to himself that he couldn't make that choice either.
So Finn stayed a night at a friend's house and came back in the morning, puffy-eyed and apologetic. Burt couldn't resist the hung head and hopeful gaze. So he thumped Finn on the back gruffly and told him to remember the lesson, and watched the boy trudge down the stairs to make yet another apology.
Kurt would forgive him. But then they were back to this complication. Burt sighed.
This wasn't the first time that he'd missed his wife, and it wouldn't be the last. He couldn't help but think that things had been a lot simpler with Mary around.
He'd just try to carve out happiness where he found it. And keep his hands away from the boy. Finn wanted a dad, not a boyfriend.
And Burt was a provider. So he'd provide.
Fandom: Glee
Length: 463 words
Prompt: Rarepairs requests for
glee_anon: Burt/FinnPairing: Burt/Finn; Burt/Carole and Finn/Kurt mentioned
Other: Spoilers for 1x20 Theatricality. I named Kurt's mother Mary.
Excerpt: He thought he was doing this for Finn. He thought that the boy needed a father figure, that he could finally quit bothering Kurt with monster truck rallies and baseball games, that he could have another friend as well as another son.
He thought he was doing this for Finn. He thought that the boy needed a father figure, that he could finally quit bothering Kurt with monster truck rallies and baseball games, that he could have another friend as well as another son.
But now he found himself watching, entranced, when Finn licked his lips. When Finn crooked his arm around the back of Burt's seat at the ballgame, comfortably, the warmth on the back of Burt's neck spread to his face and he found himself flushed and half-contemplating, and horribly, horribly guilty when Finn asked him what was wrong.
Maybe this would be easier to justify if he didn't love Carole so much, but he honestly did. He liked men and women. He was-- well, he'd done the research when Kurt really began to show his orientation-- he was bisexual. Sometimes, the literature said, that sort of thing had a genetic component. At the time he'd thought of Mary's lesbian cousin, but maybe it was closer than that.
He danced with Carole across the kitchen floor, laughing. He invited them to move in with guilt deep in his heart, wondering if he would have waited longer had he not been so attached to them both.
He wondered if he would have been so vehement to Finn's outburst if he hadn't thought deep down that maybe this was better for the family. Burt had self-control-- and he had eyes. Even if there was the smallest chance of Finn reciprocating this ridiculous crush, he couldn't go for it. It would crush his son, and Kurt was always more important than romance. Maybe it was best for them all to remove the temptation.
But when Carole asked, voice breaking, not to make her choose between her-- between their sons (and if he was too much too quickly, she was too)-- he had to admit to himself that he couldn't make that choice either.
So Finn stayed a night at a friend's house and came back in the morning, puffy-eyed and apologetic. Burt couldn't resist the hung head and hopeful gaze. So he thumped Finn on the back gruffly and told him to remember the lesson, and watched the boy trudge down the stairs to make yet another apology.
Kurt would forgive him. But then they were back to this complication. Burt sighed.
This wasn't the first time that he'd missed his wife, and it wouldn't be the last. He couldn't help but think that things had been a lot simpler with Mary around.
He'd just try to carve out happiness where he found it. And keep his hands away from the boy. Finn wanted a dad, not a boyfriend.
And Burt was a provider. So he'd provide.