#coworkers!Klaine

[klaineccfanficlibrary]

I'm trying to find a fanfic that I read a while back where Blaine was a famous toy maker that was working undercover at Vogue, and Kurt was a single dad that he met there. I tried searching your blog for "toy maker" and "single dad" but couldn't find anything that sounded like what I’m looking for. Does this story sound familiar to anyone?

Precocious Princesses by CoffeeAddict80/ @caramelcoffeeaddict

Based off a prompt found on tumblr – We’re coworkers and I overheard you complaining about how your ex was supposed to get a specific toy for your child’s birthday tomorrow but they completely forgot and you’ve been going crazy trying to find one - don’t ask why but I happen to have one I can give you

[only-one-brain-cell]

Spencer when he sees his mom again: mom I’m sooo sorry I was gone so long

Diana: it’s ok your friend JJ stopped by you didn’t mention how pretty she is.

Spencer: MOM she’s married!

Diana: for now

Spencer under his breath: ok shes going back to Houston

[kurtsascot]

fic masterlist

wips:

klaine!clueless au

complete:

treading water 90k+ words, multichap, kurt pov, explicit

tropes/important tags: angst, kurt being dumb, blaine being smitten

fic playlist

feel my heart's intention. 17k words, blaine pov, explicit

tropes/important tags: enemies to lovers, coworkers, bisexual blaine

rate my professor 7k words, kurt pov, mature

tropes/important tags: professors!klaine, mutual pining, oblivious!kurt

distraction 7k words, blaine pov, explicit

tropes/important tags: age gap, manager!kurt, musician!actor!blaine

unexpected 4k words, blaine pov, teen

tropes/important tags: pining, oblivious!blaine, meet ugly adjacent

spring break and the snowbank 4k words, blaine character study, teen

tropes/important tags: early!klaine, kurt teaching blaine to drive, canon compliant-ish

getting older 2k words, blaine pov, teen

tropes/important tags: canon compliant, blaine being insecure, glasses

[porcelainvino]

Jeremiah/Matt lore???

OKAY i should get into their backstory first so around nov 2022 i had this obsession with jeremiah (the backstory for my obsession would take even longer to explain so i’m not going to) and i was desperate for content and i found this klaine fanfiction where it was klaine from different characters perspectives?? idk it’s been a while, i’m sure it’s a good fanfiction but i couldn’t tell you because i just skipped to the jeremiah chapter.. the chapter was like blaine and jeremiah getting coffee and blaine kept talking about kurt or some other gay shit. after reading, i got curious, so i went to the next chapter where it was MATT’s perspective and matt saw kurt and blaine at/outside a gap store. i didn’t read past that but in my head i was like “what if jeremiah and matt crossed paths……..” then i forgot about it for like 5 months UNTIL i suddenly had an obsession with matt (who KNOWS why?? i cant even explain this one) so i remembered my little idea of them crossing paths so now they’re dating 🫶🫶

OKAY MY LORE FOR THEM (my headcanon is matt was a senior in s1 and graduated) matt and jeremiah and coworkers at the gap. jeremiah has dreams of becoming a fashion designer but is stuck at his minimum wage job and feels that he’s obligated to work there for money/stability. matt is studying to become an opera singer (my other matt headcanon is he has an operatic voice which isn’t true at all for the actor but let me cook) and is working at the gap to make some money. matt has HUGE crush on jeremiah, but jeremiah is oblivious (and demiromantic wow the headcanons just keep coming). matt finally gets the motivation on VALENTINE’S DAY to confess his love to jeremiah. he gets to his shift with a bouquet of flowers except JEREMIAH ISN’T THERE!! OMG!!!! matt asks his boss “uh is jeremiah sick or something?? he always comes to work” and his boss is like “i just fired him he just left a few minutes ago” and then matt’s like “I QUIT THEN!!!” cuz he was only motivated to stay at that job to see jeremiah. he cHASES after jeremiah but before matt can say anything, jeremiah is like “jESUS CHRIST YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT JUST HAPPENED SOME KID SERENADED ME AND GOT ME FIRED-“ and he rants about his job, how he just wants to get out of ohio, how he doesn’t know what to do and rants and rants and rants until he finally calms down and then he’s like “aren’t you supposed to be at work? who are the flowers from??” and matt’s like “i quit….. and these are for you….” and then matt dramatically confesses his love to jeremiah except i’m too stupid to write a confession so you’re just gonna have to make that up in your head and then matt’s like “i understand if you don’t want to date me after all the stuff that happened today-“ AND THEN HE’S CUT OFF BY JEREMIAH KISSING HIM AND ITS BEAUTIFUL AND THERES FIREWORKS AND MATT PULLS BACK AND ASSURES HIM “we’ll get out of ohio. i’ll help you start you’re own clothing line. i’ll help you follow your dream you’ve been pushing aside. we’ll get through this. together.”

and then like however many years later, jeremiah becomes the ceo of gap the end

[spaceorphan18]

@yadivagirl - do you mind if I elaborate on your tags? Because I feel like I'm going to get an ask about it anyway, and it's on my mind. Please don't take this as me arguing with your or anything, I just kind of wanted a platform to say what's in my head.

I think Chris and Darren like each other just fine. They've never been bff nor do I think they're close. But I don't think they dislike each other either.

I have a theory about all of this... (and should be taken as the theory that it is) I think they started by decent friendly coworkers. I think when Klaine began to get big - Chris put his foot down and said to Darren (who did not seem to care all that much about it) that they were no longer going to appear together. Because every time they did - the crazies came out and made their lives miserable.

Darren joked about it in an interview once - that even though Mia went through shit (and she, god, went through shit) he was never that bothered by the tinhatting. But Chris /hated/ it. Like, really, really hated it. Which is fine - whatever.

But I think as the show was winding down, and after Cory's death, and after everyone was burnt out and tired of it, Chris got to be more irritating about the whole thing.

Fun fact - the last few years of the show, Darren's wife Mia did all the promotional stuff for Glee -- all of those YouTube Fox Lounge things? Those were Mia. And she purposely put Darren and Chris together cause she's not a stupid woman and knows what sells. I mean, she was getting death threats and human hair sent to her at that point, and she still did this promotional stuff.

Now through my travels I found out through an underground source-- and this is, like, take with a grain of salt stuff even if I have reason to believe it -- Chris was being a pain about it, because he had already determined that he and Darren wouldn't be doing anything together again. And when he was being not great about it - Mia went above him and he was forced to do it. So those kinda weird Fox Lounge interviews where Chris is being somewhat of a distant shithead about it? Was less about Darren, and more about having to do it in the first place. But that's my theory on it.

All of the post-Glee stuff is just them having different personalities. I mean, Chris is very much an introvert and Darren is very much an extrovert and they just have different interests and different friend groups. I've never seen anything -- in any of my travels over the past ten+ years -- that would indicate actual dislike from either of them.

No, I don't think they see each other all that often, and no, I don't think Chris will ever want to do a project with Darren again because of all the insane Klaine stuff - but they both speak nicely of each other -- and even a couple of years ago when they did a reunion thing during Covid, they seemed pretty cool with each other. And Chris did reach out after Darren's brother died.

That's just my two cents -- thank you for indulging me, because it was rolling around in my head. Clearly - I don't know either of them personally, so I can't say anything but theories. But I just needed to get it out...

Is it true that Chris Colfer really hates klaine?

Well, since I am not Chris Colfer, or someone who worked closely with him on set, or one of his good friends - I cannot really answer that question.

I can tell you my opinion as someone very distantly removed though. I think that Chris had a very complicated relationship with the fact that he was one half of a TV power couple.

I think between his natural inclination to be a very independent person, the fact that as an actor he sometimes wanted more drama to play with, and the fact that there were certain members of a certain fandom who so strongly believed he was dating his costar that his life, his costars life, and the both of their significant others' lives were not only disrupted but sometimes threatened - it sometimes felt like a difficult beast to deal with.

But I also think that removed from it - as a concept - it wasn't a thing he had a problem with, and he was well aware of how much the relationship and story meant to people.

I don't think that he hated Klaine in the way that people weaponize it as an excuse to shit on the ship. I don't think it was about the story lines (even if he did have his opinions) or that he hated Darren or anything. (He and Darren are on good terms, were friends on set, and are cordial now.)

I do think that he greatly disliked the fandom monster that it created. The one that demanded every action and every answer had to be related to Klaine. The one that demanded he sacrifice his individuality at the alter of the cult created by the loudest of the loud shippers. He disliked that his privacy was constantly being invaded. And he disliked that people he loved were being harassed by strangers. All of /that/ is what he hated.

Have you read Stranger Than Fanfiction, Nonny? Because I think how Chris feels about shipping and fandom, in general, is pretty close to how he feels about it. I think that was his book to be therapeutic about his experiences. And... he was pretty kind in it. One thing I really got from it is, while he hilariously has no idea what fandoming really is, he understands enough to separate the crazies from the non-crazies. I recommend you read it - it might clarify things for you.

I'll say this though...

Regardless of how Chris felt about it -- his opinion shouldn't reflect on how /you/ feel about it. Kurt's story and Klaine's story was really good television. And Chris's opinion is so biased from living through it -- that it will always color how he feels. And that should not have any bearing on how /you/ feel about it.

People do weaponize Chris's opinions as a way to prove that enjoying the story is wrong. These people are shitheads - and are trying to use anything to justify their own annoying opinions. Just ignore them.

Chris isn't always right. Look - I love the guy, but there were times when he had opinions or thoughts that I was like -- ooff, bb, no. He'd often refer to all Klaine fans as twelve-year-old girls. And maybe from his vantage point, they were. But eventually (hopefully) a publicist must have jumped in because he did stop saying that. But it took a while, and it was always cringy listening to him talk about the fans. He also would have preferred more drama between Burt and Kurt -- to which I say, no, that's dumb, and I'm glad you didn't write it... Just because he played Kurt doesn't mean that he's /right/.

So, Idk, Nonny - I can't give you a definitive answer. I don't think it's a simple yes or no answer. But I also think you should come to your own conclusions and judge how you want to feel about a thing without needing validation from me, or other loud internet people, or Chris himself.

But that's my two cents. *shrugs*

[hippohead]

Cardinal Sins

Pairing: Blaine Anderson/Kurt Hummel Rating: Mature Words: 3533 Summary: Kurt Hummel, the seven deadly sins, rules, and breaking them.

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Envy. a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else’s possessions, qualities, or luck.

Blaine can’t stand the feeling that keeps settling in his stomach, refusing to be ignored. And the feeling is an attachment, and he’s still sifting through it, figuring it out, but it’s there nonetheless.  

And he knows it’s all useless, anyway. They work for the same company. That would make it messy and complicated and – well, against the rules. Interpersonal relationships in the office have to remain professional, above board, respectable. It was written out and emphasized in the staff booklet that Gloria had given him during his orientation. And he had willingly signed it.  

But then he had met Kurt.  

Kurt. Kurt, who always smiles at him from his desk whenever Blaine passes it. Kurt, who saw him eating alone in the break room during his first week and took the time to see how he was settling in. Kurt, who always wears clothes in a way that makes it so Blaine can’t figure out if he wants to marvel at them or tear them off. Just – Kurt. 

It’s not quite taking over his life yet – the attachment. It is always there; in his chest and the casual conversations they have that feel so easy and could be so much more if only one of them would take a step. And so: there is a distance in his crush.

Until there isn’t.

Maybe Blaine should have anticipated this. It’s Halloween, after all. And even though it’s a staff party, of course Kurt went all out. He lets his eyes fall onto his frame, again, and looks him up and down, again. He’s dressed as a vampire but it’s Kurt, so it’s not just a cheap cape and some plastic teeth. It’s leather boots that go up to his knee and lace up at the front. It’s a cape that is heavy and sweeping and looks handmade, red and gold detailing on the collar. And the fangs – they're veneers, so realistic and taunting and honestly? Blaine would gladly let him bite-

And that is why the distance is falling away. Because up until this point, Kurt has been nothing more than his hot and kind coworker that he pines after but cannot date, cannot have. Now, very explicitly, it has become almost unbearable how much Kurt is someone Blaine wants, feels desperate about. Like something inside of him is being hollowed out and replaced with a pinprick and narrow need for him; like he’ll forget how to breathe if Kurt doesn’t put his hands on him.  

Read the rest on AO3

[ficrecsforklaine]

The Label

Author: ThePause

Summary:

Kurt Hummel is a marketing executive at a record label in Nashville. A chance encounter with a handsome stranger at a karaoke bar unravels when Kurt learns the stranger is also the label's newest signing, Blaine Anderson.

Rating: Mature

Words: 23,351

Chapters: 11/11

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[klaineaddictsfanficrecs]

Fic Name: The Hating Game

Fic Author(s): coffeeorder

Fic Summary: Blaine can count on one hand the amount of people he has hated in his life. But Kurt Hummel is definitely The Worst.

Or: That co-workers AU where they hate each other (until they don't)

Fic Trope(s): Co-workers Klaine, Enemies to Lovers

Fic Length (Word Count): 48,787 words

Fic Rating: Explicit

Fic Warnings or Triggers: None

Fic Status: Complete

My Review: Alright, so I said earlier that another fic was my favorite in this category, but then I remembered this one, and I have to say this one is equally as brilliant. And with me saying that it would not be fair of me to gush over that fic and not do the same for this one. And so I shall.

I'll start by saying I love the premise of them working for the same job, because of course they would. They are both go-getters who work hard to achieve their dreams. The whole story is well-thought-out and fun, and I love how it unfolds.

I've said it many times. Do you want to capture attention? Dialogue. I love the witty banter here, especially Kurt's nickname for Blaine. It's just well-written and fun. I've read this story multiple times, and honestly, it never gets old. They say it's a thin line between love and hate, and here you can tell that their frustration is really admiration. I love the tension.

I love a well-planned ending, and I have to say I love how the author wrapped this up. It really kept me guessing how things would be resolved throughout. I also love the explanation for the reason Kurt calls Blaine cheddar. It's adorable.

Fic Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26007787/chapters/63234091

[kurtstinypurse]

27 with klaine, I’m begging

#27 - Kisses exchanged while one person sits on the other’s lap.

I’ve actually had two anons request this one, so I’m making this a part 2 of my last prompt, with coworkers!klaine - per popular demand ;-)

read the first part here

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Blaine can’t remember how they got here.

The vague logistics are obvious - he knows they left the bar together, remembers the cab ride from the way Kurt’s palm felt like a searing brand where it rested heavy on Blaine’s upper thigh, but the rest of it has blurred together, entirely unimportant.

It’s all pointless when it’s led him to Kurt’s apartment, on Kurt’s couch, on Kurt’s lap, kissing him.

More than kissing him, actually: fingers of one hand knotted in Kurt’s slightly sweat-dampened hair, other hand rucking up Kurt’s sweater and searching out his skin, soft and smooth and irresistible, alternating sucking Kurt’s bottom lip into his mouth and then his top one, rocking his hips down slowly, infuriatingly slowly, somehow holding himself back enough to allow the heat to build instead of rushing through it.

And he feels Kurt underneath him, too, the way Kurt’s fingers shakily unbuttoned Blaine’s cardigan moments ago and shoved it off his shoulders without so much as breaking their kiss, the way he now has his hands on Blaine’s ass, encouraging him along to ride the undulating waves of the friction they’re creating together, already so much but nowhere near enough.

They’ve barely spoken since they kissed - in fact, it had been an unspoken agreement to leave and to share a cab and for Blaine to come up to Kurt’s apartment, and it’s odd, really, how certain of all of it Blaine had been.

How certain of all of it he still is.

But he’s certain, too, that he needs more, and he’s pretty sure Kurt does, too, from the way he throws his head back against the couch cushions with a shaky breath of a moan when Blaine begins to mouth across Kurt’s jawline and down his neck, taking his time sucking slow, purposeful kisses everywhere he can reach, on every bit of skin that’s exposed. 

If he were completely sober, Blaine would be reveling in the fact that he’s even being allowed to do this, that he’s learned the softness of Kurt’s lips and the salty-sweet taste of his skin, that he’s beginning to learn the way Kurt sounds when he moans and the feeling of Kurt’s cock hard and pressed against his own, even through their pants.

But he’s not sober - he’s not entirely wasted, plenty coherent enough to know what he’s doing and that he wants this and that Kurt wants it, too, but he’s drunk enough to be able to put the wonder and amazement and every other thought out of his mind and focus on this, on figuring out how to make Kurt feel good and actually making it happen.

The rest will come later.

So Blaine pulls back enough to look at Kurt, lifting slightly up on his knees on either side of Kurt’s lap and pressing Kurt further into the back of the couch, leaning their foreheads together, their breathing coming hot and ragged between them - and Kurt looks incredible like this, cheeks flushed from booze and heat and desire, eyes dark and lust-blown with only a ring of dark blue left visible around his pupils, mouth kissed red and swollen and god, what Blaine wouldn’t do to see those lips wrapped around-

“Blaine,” Kurt breathes out in a stuttered exhale, his hands sliding up to rest on Blaine’s bare chest, up under his undershirt, and Blaine realizes he’s just been staring, realizes he’s gone still, realizes that Kurt is nearly trembling underneath him, and Blaine needs to-

He needs to do something.

In as fluid of a motion as he can manage, Blaine pushes himself up off of the couch and up off of Kurt, instead sliding down onto the floor in front of him, gently pressing at both of Kurt’s knees to encourage his legs to part - and he can’t help but feel a tiny thrill at the way they fall open so readily, at the way he can hear the hitch of Kurt’s breath and possibly even a soft whimper, too.

There’s no way to describe how it makes Blaine feel other than powerful, like he’s in control of giving this to Kurt, of taking him apart in hopes of putting him back together, and Kurt is letting him do it, trusting him to.

The powerful feeling persists through his uncoordinated efforts to unlace Kurt’s boots and pull them off, then the sloppy awkwardness of their joint maneuver in getting Kurt’s pants off, too, and then-

And then Kurt’s fingers are twisting in Blaine’s curls, pulling him closer as he leans in to ghost his mouth along the outline of Kurt’s cock straining in his underwear, sucking briefly at the head of it, reveling in the taste as well as the moan that it elicits, low from Kurt’s throat.

Again, if Blaine were sober, he’d want to take his time - draw it out, strip Kurt naked and kiss and savor every part of him, and as much as he still wants that, hopes he’ll have another chance to do it, maybe, someday, he’s far too impatient, the anticipation of months of possibly-mutual stolen glances built up for far too long.

There’s no hope of waiting another second.

And so Blaine reaches to hook his thumb under Kurt’s waistband and tug his underwear long enough to free his cock, to wrap his hand around the length of it, then wasting no time taking it into his mouth.

The weight of Kurt on his tongue, the feeling of his lips stretching around him is incredible, turning Blaine on beyond belief as he sinks as far down as he can manage, and he can’t help but moan at the combination of all of it, nearly overwhelming his senses.

It’s been a long time since he’s done this, not just been intimate with someone but ached so desperately to give. He’s a thousand times more focused on Kurt’s release than his own, and though he’s achingly hard and feels himself straining against the fly of his pants, it doesn’t matter - all that matters is the way Kurt reacts when Blaine swirls his tongue around the head of his cock, the way Kurt moans when Blaine takes him in deeper, the way Kurt begins to tremble underneath him, fingers digging more insistently into Blaine’s curls. 

But by the time Kurt is shifting restlessly and panting and moaning underneath Blaine’s hands and his mouth, Blaine is becoming more desperate, too - he reaches down to unbutton and unzip his pants, shoving them down past his hips far enough to slip his hand under his briefs and jerk himself off, too, not caring that it’s his own touch because it’s still connected, still in rhythm with what he’s giving Kurt, still on the path to the pleasure and the heat and the release that they’re searching for together.

“Blaine, I’m- Stop, I-”

Kurt sounds completely and utterly undone, and when Blaine pulls off to look up at him, he looks it, too - debauched and lost in the feeling of all of it, and Blaine did that, Blaine made him this way.

And Blaine needs to pull him through it.

He makes the split decision to push up off of the floor and climb back onto Kurt’s lap, one hand pressed into the couch cushion beside Kurt’s head, knees once again straddling his lap, taking another moment to look at him, to breathe him in and look and memorize just in case, before he leans their foreheads together and reaches down to grasp Kurt’s cock in his hand again, intent on bringing him over the edge.

Even untouched, Blaine is too wound up to properly kiss Kurt while he does it, instead staying impossibly close as their breaths mix hot and heady between them, as he pays attention to Kurt’s soft noises and whimpers to know when he has the right grip, the right touch, as he feels Kurt’s hips bucking up underneath him with an intensity that proves he’s right there at it, close, almost.

When he feels Kurt’s hand snake between their bodies to find Blaine’s cock, too, wrapping around it with surprisingly sure, steady fingers, Blaine is done for, too.

It takes only a handful of strokes for him to come, spilling hot over Kurt’s fist as his orgasm sparks through him like a firework, bright and bold and in pure technicolor, leaving him shaking and breathless and collapsing against Kurt’s body, just in time for him to feel Kurt come, too, and Blaine is close enough to feel it ripple through Kurt’s body, only letting go of Kurt’s cock to clutch him nearer, pressing as close as he can possibly get.

“Oh my god,” Kurt laughs shakily once they’ve begun to come down from it, and Blaine hums in agreement, pressing slower, gentler kisses to Kurt’s jaw, as if it can soothe him, help him, ease him back out of it.

“Was that okay?” he asks quietly, feeling like he should, as he musters all of his energy to lift up enough to look at Kurt, feeling weak and boneless but just needing to check, needing to be sure.

“So okay,” Kurt breathes, rocking up enough to capture Blaine’s lips in a kiss, softer and sweeter than any they’d shared before, making Blaine’s toes curl at the tenderness of it and of the weight it holds - a silent affirmation that this isn’t it, that they can be more, that this is just the beginning.

And Blaine allows himself to sink into it, reveling in the feeling instead of being afraid by it, instead of questioning it, only pulling away when it’s turned into a press of their smiles more than anything else.

Of course, there’s one more thing.

“Did you- Did you really already know who I was?” The question comes out sounding tentative, but Blaine is suddenly desperate to know, slightly afraid of the answer, unsure of what it means either way. 

Kurt smiles slowly, lazily, shifting to lay down on the couch and tugging Blaine down along with him, pulling him close.

“Blaine Anderson,” he murmurs, and Blaine has never loved his name more, has never heard it quite like this, like the beginnings of the melody of a soft, sweet song that only Kurt knows how to sing. “I did a project with Tina, back a couple months ago. She talks about you a lot.”

He can’t help but laugh at that, a breathless, genuine giggle bubbling up and out of his chest, and he tucks his face into Kurt’s neck just because he can - just because he can.

“I didn’t know yours until I overheard it tonight,” Blaine admits softly, feeling silly and oblivious for it, for not having known, for not having thought to ask Tina long ago. “But I... I’ve been seeing you around the building for months now, and I just... There’s something about you.”

Kurt lets out a soft, happy hum, trailing his fingers up and down Blaine’s back, tracing small, weaving patterns along the path.

“Something good, I hope.”

Lifting his head up, Blaine feels no hesitation in pressing his lips to Kurt’s in a slow, languid kiss, whispering the words into it when he speaks.

“Better than I ever could have expected.”

[gleefuldarrencrissfan]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Glee Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Blaine Anderson/Kurt Hummel Characters: Blaine Anderson, Kurt Hummel, Isabelle Wright, Sam Evans, Elliott "Starchild" Gilbert, Tina Cohen Chang, Brittany S. Pierce, Mercedes Jones Additional Tags: quarantine fic, Friends to Lovers, Co-workers, Slow Burn, Fluff, Writer Blaine Anderson, Artist Kurt Hummel Summary:

Kurt Hummel is a once-respected illustrator that's being punished for one misfortunate mistake by being assigned to novice writers that either lack motivation or inspiration until his boss introduces him to a talented up and coming author and former teacher, Blaine Anderson. The catch. It's March 2020, and they are quarantined and they have to conduct their meetings over Zoom.

[gleepotluckbigbang]

Is it too late to send in a prompt? If not, I'd like to prompt: We’re coworkers and you have a strict no-interoffice dating policy you set for yourself, but I know you like me so I’ve been sending myself notes & gifts from a “secret admirer” to make you jealous (for Klaine if possible)

Never too late :-) The writing part of the Big Bang hasn’t even started yet.

Thanks for you contribution, Nonnie!

[gleefuldarrencrissfan]

I’m reblogging this because I haven’t written much new and this is a favorite of mine that I’ve written. I thought the review was nice, and figured, hmmm, maybe someone would like to read it. Thanks to Gleeful Poppet for the amazing artwork. @calliopemelpomene thanks again for betaing this.

Perfectly Imperfect

Author:  @gleefuldarrencrissfan

Rating:  M

Status:  Completed in May 2022

Word Count:  47,813

Summary:  Blaine is the head jingle writer for the fashion department and son of George Anderson, CEO and founder of Anderson Advertising. Their department head, Wes Montgomery, has hired a new ad writer for their department. Kurt Hummel. Blaine is immediately smitten. Too bad that his dad has forbidden romance between team members. It’s fine though. Nothing will happen at the office. Work trips, on the other hand, are another story entirely.

Tropes/Genre:  coworkers!Klaine, alternate meeting, writer!Kurt, musician!Blaine, friends to lovers, slow build, angst, humor

Lynne’s review:  Loved it! Just enough angst to keep it real, but nothing will keep our boys apart! Great humor provided by Elliott and Santana.

Read at:  AO3

[daltonblaine]

do you happen to have any fic recs? 👀

honestly i constantly need fic recs as well but yes here are couple off the top of my head !!

The Hating Game (E | 48k) - i never thought i'd see an enemies to lovers coworkers au be pulled off for klaine but this fic delightfully—and very humorously—proved me wrong... kicked my feet and twirled my hair reading this <3

Careful what you wish for (T | 31k) - speaking of enemies to lovers, this is a pre-relationship klaine college au body swap fic with elements of enemies to lovers. normally i stay away from body swap aus but this one had wacky early 2000s modern sci-fi movie vibes and i loved it !!

Spinning Out (E | 56k) - something about klaine makes me read tropes i normally don't read ^_^ klaine friends with benefits college au whose humor & banter was so fun to read !! cw MISCOMMUNICATION + explicit nsfw as the trope always entails

Above All Things (M | 51k) - i'm absolutely not surprised that klaine moulin rouge aus exist. i've yet to decide if this pairing + au even works but i just love this movie 😭

Once Upon (E | 53k) - speaking of movie aus... klaine enchanted au where blaine is the darling prince and kurt is the slightly jaded new yorker! what perfect casting...

Karaoke Curiosities (E | 15k) - this new york au klaine fic satisfies a very specific part of my heart that loves the almost non-existent blaine & santana friendship. i love how effortless the writing style of this is + blaine is a little clueless in this fic LOL

Carry Me Home (M | 8k) - one of my favorite types of fics is character studies and this one explores blaine's relationship with Relationships™, and kurt's too tangentially

but just maybe (T | 5k) - this is a s2/3? canon-divergent blam fic but this genuinely. TRULY. rattled me to the CORE when i read it for the first time. even just the fic summary (I’m sixteen, he thinks, and wonders if anyone else holds onto their age like a mantra.) is SUCH a punch to the gut and i literally felt disoriented after finishing it

i'll tell you the truth (but never goodbye) (G | 11k) - another blam fic that's a s4 canon-divergent fake dating au that's just generally really sweet ^_^

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Iz's Glee Fics

hi! welcome to my glee fic masterlist! hope these aren't literally the worst things you've ever read or whatever <3

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fics all under the cut!

Drabbles:

Kiss Prompt Fills | ao3

a kiss as a promise ~800 words, Klaine

a kiss because the world is saved ~300 words, Klaine

a kiss in relief ~600 words, Klaine

in secrecy; out of anger 2 short chapters, ~1,150 words, Klaine

to gain something; desperately; to shut them up 2 short chapters, ~1,450 words, Klaine

One-Shots:

Home for the Holidays | ao3 link

Pure fluff, holiday-inspired Klaine one-shot. ~1,550 words, Klaine

The Name of the Game | ao3 link

I got inspired after listening to ABBA's The Name of the Game one day and started writing this Klaine one-shot featuring badboy!Blaine, the song which inspired the fic, and Kurt and Blaine both being idiots who haven't admitted they like each other yet despite the current nature of their relationship. ~2,650 words, Klaine

A "Safe" Choice | ao3

A self-indulgent Klaine one-shot inspired by a weekly event at my work place in which an armored service technician from the cash-handling company comes to check the safe every Wednesday, and there are a couple technicians that everyone at work agrees are attractive. ~1,500 words, Klaine

3 a.m. | ao3

He's a mess. God, he's a fucking mess. Kurt didn't expect to find himself literally stumbling out of a bar at 3 a.m. but here he was. Drunk and lonely and sad under a streetlight on a New York City sidewalk outside of a bar at 3 a.m. How did he let himself get here?

~3,800 words, Klaine

Almost Hallmark | ao3

Blaine is homesick during his first Christmas season in New York City. Then he finds a quaint bakery and the handsome baker inside. Written for Klaine Secret Santa 2022 exchange

~2,200 words, Klaine

Zip Tease | ao3

A college party where everyone is a little drunker than they should be, an open fly, and a dare.

Inspired by a post and brainstormed by The Lima Bean discord crew.

Klaine, ~900 words

Remote Learning | ao3

Kurt and Blaine are NYU Tisch Drama professors. They’re also married with two kids. They usually don’t tell students that part, for the sake of keeping some of their personal life private. But when there’s a blizzard that snows everyone in at home for a few days and classes temporarily move online, sometimes there’s no choice but to reveal some pieces of their lives.

Written for Klaine Back-to-School AU Challenge 2023

~2,650 words, Klaine

set up to fall for you | ao3

Kurt knows Mercedes and Sam mean well, but the history of blind dates they’ve set him up on is not pretty. But maybe that’s about to change when he meets Sam’s friend Blaine as his blind date on a “double date” which Mercedes and Sam have convinced them to come along on.

~1,700 words, Klaine

Change of Heart | ao3

It is not the most wonderful time of the year when you're tasked with planning the office holiday party alongside a coworker you can't stand. But what if you actually don't hate them after all...

Written for Klaine Secret Santa 2023 Exchange

~2,900 words, Klaine

Multi-Chapter:

dropping august 7th

Series:

Running in Circles, Coming up Tails:

Running in Circles, Coming up Tails | ao3

Kurt and Adam are married with a seven-year-old daughter, Ellie. "Happily married" is another question.

Ellie takes piano lessons from none other than Blaine Anderson, who also happens to be a good friend of Kurt's since college.

What happens to them when Adam goes to England to star in a West End musical, leaving Kurt and Ellie in New York? What happens when Blaine becomes a more frequently-seen figure in Kurt and Ellie's lives due to Ellie's piano schedule?

Completed, 10 chapters, starts Kadam, Klaine endgame, ~15,500 words

"Just Friends" | ao3

Kurt had promised him many times that he and Blaine Anderson were just friends. But Adam knew from experience what could happen with "just friends." He knew what could happen if "just friends" got too close. He was wary of "just friends."

A one-shot, from Adam's perspective, exploring what might cause someone to cheat on their partner; and indirectly, how that might affect a relationship; and even more indirectly, why Adam might view Blaine as a threat. ~1,000 words

Things I Didn't Tell You | ao3

A collection of cut scenes and conversations from within the Running in Circles, Coming up Tails universe/timeline

More to be added as I think of cut scenes I want to include

Ellie's Version | ao3

A look at some scenes from Running in Circles, Coming up Tails and after that main timeline, but from Ellie's perspective.

~2,500 words

Worth Every Love Song | ao3

4 times Blaine and Kurt talk about marriage + the 1 time he actually asks Kurt to marry him

~2,850 words

New Adventures:

New Adventures Summer Camp | ao3

Kurt doesn't know why he agreed to be a camp counselor with Finn for the summer, he doesn't even like camping. In other words, Kurt is pretty sure this summer is going to suck. Enter cute fellow camp counselor Blaine Anderson. Written for Klaine Word Scramble 2022 Completed, 14 chapters, ~26,400 words, Klaine

run away to mars | ao3

"And on the nights when I get a little homesick, would you look outside and describe the stars for me?” or, how a broken-up Kurt and Blaine begin to find their way back together. completed, 2 chapters, ~3,200 words, Klaine

setting fire to our insides for fun:

no sweet dream (but a hell of a nightmare) | ao3

Quinn was tired of Lima and the face she'd put on for years. Kurt felt the same. It only made sense for them to reinvent themselves.

~1,250 words, Character Study, Kuinn Friendship

physical fatality | ao3

A mid-summer house party led Kurt into a summer fling filled with fire: desire and anger, equally. But fire meant that someone could get burned.

~5,500 words, Kurtbastian

knife with your heart up your sleeve | ao3

Kurt just wanted to finish senior year unbothered and get the hell out of Lima. What he didn’t need was to get attached to someone new. And then Blaine Anderson walked into his life.

Completed, 11 chapters, ~17,200 words, Klaine

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That was awesome! Writing hasn't come as easily to me these past few months but I just sat down and this all poured out, it was so satisfying. I wrote nearly to the end but started to run out of steam/get hungry. But I think I wrote for over an hour straight and got 2700 words written so I'm feeling very great about this.

The verb tense is literally all over the place and lots to clean up but I DON'T CARE because things were flowing and I love that feeling! Everything else I can fix but I got the ideas and the mood down.

Teaser

For months now, Kurt has wanted nothing more than for Blaine to hold his hand. He has yearned for it, ached for it. But now, now that it is finally happening the only hand Kurt wants to hold is his Dad’s.

I have never felt driven to write a one-shot but today I had an idea driving home from work and now I'm just writing it and WHAT IS HAPPENING??!!

@blaineandersimp you have been warned

[darriness]

Klaine Fic - Title: Except...

Author: darriness

Word Count: ~800

Summary: Blaine's bored

Author's Note: Got a new computer and @darrenismydarcy prompted this fic as the first one I should write on it! So I did! Hope you like it!

AO3 Link

Except...

They’ve been working at home so long that an entire work day can go by and they don’t even really notice each other’s presence in any meaningful way. When they first started working from home, all those months ago, when things were scary and strange, they lost themselves in each other’s arms and bodies like they were teenagers again. It was a coping mechanism as much as it was a novelty. Home all day with only each other? Sure, let’s fuck. A lot.

But as the months wear on, Kurt and Blaine are no less attuned to each other but it’s less of an immediate thing. For a lot of the work day they are in separate rooms. They can hear the other person talking on the phone or typing away on their computer but that alone is usually all they need to feel comforted as they go about their day-to-day tasks.

Except today, Blaine is bored. He’s got no meetings left for the day and he’s caught up on all his paperwork. He’s spun around in his chair enough times to make himself dizzy...twice. He can hear Kurt talking from the other room, his husband had a Zoom meeting that started twenty minutes ago, so he knows wandering over to talk to him isn’t really an option.

Except…

Blaine stops the spin of his chair as an idea pops into his head. He debates with himself for a few moments about whether or not his idea is a good one, and how likely his idea is to get Kurt REALLY mad at him, but in the end he decides to go for it. Idle hands are the devil's plaything after all.

Blaine gets up and slowly makes his way across the hall to Kurt’s office. He walks in, keeping an eye on Kurt out of the corner of his eye as he makes his way to the bookshelf across the room. He notices Kurt look up briefly, give a hint of a smile, but then he’s back to his meeting, nodding to whatever his colleague is saying.

Blaine picks a random book off the shelf, not even paying attention to what book he grabbed, and wanders back out of the room. Once he’s in the hallway, he unceremoniously drops the book and proceeds to pull his shirt over his head. He shakes his hair to settle it back down from the shift taking off his shirt caused, before dropping his shirt on top of the discarded book and making his way back into Kurt’s office.

He tries not to smirk as he makes the same journey from the door to the bookshelf, but this time when Kurt looks up he does a noticeable double take before his eyes are solely on Blaine, tracking him across the room.

Blaine can hear someone talking on the Zoom call and when he turns to face Kurt with an ‘innocent’ smile, his husband looks caught between warring instincts. Blaine tries not to burst out laughing as Kurt tries to almost simultaneously look back at his meeting, nod at his coworker, look at Blaine’s naked chest, and glare at Blaine for the interruption. It looks almost like he’s going in convulsions as he cycles through all of his reactions.

Blaine lifts an eyebrow and just waits. Wondering what Kurt will do next.

Finally, Kurt seems to settle back on his meeting (even though Blaine notices his eyes flicking in Blaine’s direction every few seconds) and he coughs when the woman on the screen stops talking.

“Well, that sounds great, Diane.” Kurt says to the screen and if his voice is a little breathier than normal, Blaine is fairly certain he’s the only one who notices, “I think we all know where to go next. We’ll check in tomorrow.”

Kurt doesn’t even wait for his colleague (or colleagues, Blaine’s not sure how many were present) to respond. He closes his laptop with a snap and turns to Blaine with wide eyes.

“Inappropriate!” He admonishes.

Blaine smirks again, “Whatever do you mean?” He asks.

Kurt rolls his eyes with no heat, “Don’t play innocent. Nothing about that chest and those abs is EVER innocent.”

Blaine shrugs, running a hand down his chest and stomach as Kurt’s eyes track the movement like a hungry tiger, “I was bored.”

“I was in a meeting.” Kurt responds.

“And now you’re not.” Blaine supplies.

Kurt purses his lips and Blaine can tell he doesn’t want to give in. He wants to be mad and not ‘reward’ Blaine’s behaviour but...they both know he’s going to.

“Get over here, you troublemaker.” Kurt says with a smirk.

Blaine bounces slightly on his toes with a happy smile before making his way over to Kurt. Work’s done for the day!