#in my mchart feels tonight

[dianessunflower]

“But we’re all unreliable and broken somewhere inside and sometimes it seems desperately attractive to be unrooted and breathing nothing but your own solitude. That’s how people find each other and understand.”

—Natalia Ginzburg

[365daysofmchart]

“McHart AU: Diane is Pregnant...”

My final unit (of three prompts) of “5+ Headcanon” prompts begins with the prompt from @dianefuckinglockhart​: McHart AU: Diane is pregnant... There’s a fair deal more to come of this (again, as a whole it will be the product of three prompts) and it is likely to be hosted on AO3... but for now, a teaser to get us started and to round out the final day of the year in which I began this little project. Enjoy! (Read below the “Keep reading”) P.S. Thanks, @dianefuckinglockhart!!! And thank you for being so very patient! ***

“Kurt?” Already awake from her endless tossing and turning, his grunt of a response is immediate. “Hmm?” “I’m late.” While he may be awake, he’s still tired and his brain is foggy. “What?” “My period—I’m late.” At that, Kurt is suddenly awake-awake. “How late?” “Late enough. Eight days.” He sits up then and can feel her shifting beside him, doing the same, as he reaches for the bedside lamp. When he looks over to her, even through the blur as his eyes adjust to the light, he can see the worry clear in her features. He doesn’t say anything at first, still processing, which only sets her off into rambling. She usually gets it on Tuesdays, she explains, and so when she hadn’t gotten it the previous day, alarm bells went off… and when she then thought about it further, it occurred to her that it actually should have been the Tuesday prior. “And I was going to wait to tell you, after I took a test, because it’s probably just a false alarm but I-” She pauses and furrows her brow as she watches Kurt climb out of bed and walk over to the dresser. “What are you doing?”  “Getting dressed so I can run out to the drugstore and pick up a test.”  Her eyes widen. “You want to do that tonight?!”  “Do you think either of us is going to get any sleep if we don’t?”  She frowns. He has a point there. Still though, there was a reason she hadn’t taken one earlier today… she wasn’t ready yet.

[365daysofmchart]

Reflecting on McHart: 3x07 (Between the lines... for the last(?) time!)

For what I hope will be that last time of the season, comin’ at ya with the last of the between the lines McHart reflections! 

1. Staring off, again it’s not exactly relating to McHart, but it is relating to the what I’ve been talking about over the last few of these things, and so... Where’s Maia??? I really was looking forward to seeing more of the relationship between her and Diane as well as potentially Kurt (I didn’t actually think she’d move in with them, but thought we might get something), but not only are we not getting any of that, but the girl is generally nowhere to be found! Look, I was never really thrilled that she was given more screen time and greater storylines than Diane in season 1 (after they had pitched Diane as the main lead, and that it was her spinoff), but this is cold. My heart goes out to any and all of you Maia stans out there!

2. Throughout this episode I was really thinking about how Kurt might feel about it all--it was problematic for Diane (...until it wasn’t any longer, haha), and Kurt is even more morally centered than her, so I think that it’ll be really interesting to see how this all plays out in this next episode (JUST HOURS AWAY).

How do you all think Kurt will react to learning about what Diane’s been up to?

12 and a half hours and counting! -E

P.S. In regards to Christine’s past remarks on Kurt being in 7 episodes this season, I’ve seen some around the Good-isphere a little riled and just wanted to take a quick little minute to address it. Look, she may have misspoken, or she very well (more likely) may not have. Television moves fast, things change, what was intended (and therefore a truth being spoken at the time) back in November/December can be entirely different a few months down the road because circumstance change--it could’ve been availability, adjustment of storytelling, simply a change of mind. Sometimes these things work in your favor (like when actor Bryan Brown couldn’t finish shooting his second episode of TGW in season 3 and they brought in Gary Cole to finish... possibly the only reason we have McHart today!), sometimes they don’t. But Kurt will be back tonight and let’s all just be grateful for that! ...And keep our fingers crossed for the following episodes ;)