Title: Strings
Author: J.J. Smith
Beta: my lovely sister
Rating: T (may get higher later on)
Pairing: Kurtofsky (eventually), Klaine, Finnchel, Blinn, Brittana, Samcedes, Tike, Barole and several others.
Genre: Supernatural/Romance
Warning: Character death in later chapter
Spoilers: AU from the end of season two mostly, some references to season three.
Disclaimer: Not mine, or Glee would have more continuity and a lot more Dave.
Summary: This story takes place in a world where roughly 9 out of 10 people have some superpower. Kurt gets his power and can now see the Strings Of Fate that connect two soul mates.Suddenly the beautiful future he wanted to share with Blaine collapses.
A/N: Please read the summary before reading. This story will be Kurtofsky, that means Kurt Hummel and David Karofsky will date at some point. If you don't like that, please leave.

Chapter 1

It was early, the sun had just risen, birds were tweeting (and no, not on twitter. It refers to the sound they make), everything was pointing to this being a normal day. Until Kurt Hummel woke up. Nothing seemed wrong to him at first. He started his day like any other. A shower followed by his skin care routine. His outfit was already hanging on his closet, ready to make him shine. It was also ready to make his boyfriend stare at his ass. Thank God for those skinny jeans. Kurt was in the kitchen before his brother, like any other day. But this is where things started to change.

He noticed something was different when his father greeted him. There was a red string hanging from his pinky. Odd, Kurt thought, why would he have a string there? Then he saw Carole, she also had a red string. This one wasn't broken but it was going to the wall, no, it was going through the wall! Kurt looked down at his own hands, another string!

It hit Kurt then, he'd read about those strings. Strings Of Fate, they connected two soul mates. This was his superpower?

"Something wrong, kiddo?" Burt asked.

Kurt didn't think twice about it and lied, this was not something he wanted people to know. At least not yet. "I just realized I left one of my books upstairs. I'll just go get it." Kurt hastily made his way upstairs, not really looking where he was going when he bumped into his brother, Finn.

"Careful, dude." Finn said, sounding way too happy this early.

"Don't call me dude!" Kurt snapped at him. Kurt's eyes fell on the red string dangling from Finn's pinky. "And stop being this cheerful!" Kurt added. He nearly pushed Finn down the stairs in his haste to get to his room.

He slammed the door shut behind himself and locked it for good measure. He fell to the floor with a heavy sigh. Kurt had read plenty of stories about people with this power. Some stories were sweet, people finding their soul mate and living happily ever after. Most stories were not so happy. Seeing soul mates was hard, or rather, seeing who didn't belong together was hard.

Snap out of it! Kurt berated himself. This isn't horrible! You're going to school. You're going to see Blaine, your boyfriend, the love of your life. And you're going to be connected to him. And you'll live happily ever after!

Five minutes later, Kurt was driving his brother to school, excited about seeing his boyfriend again. Finn jumped out of the car the second it stopped moving to join his girlfriend, Rachel. Kurt couldn't help but laugh when he saw the two weren't connected. He knew it!

Blaine was waiting by Kurt's locker, a huge smile plastered on his face. "Morning, Kurt!"

Kurt's face fell: his string was not going towards Blaine. They weren't soul mates. We can still be happy. Dad and Carole aren't soul mates and they're happy. I love him and that's all that matters. He plastered a fake smile on his face and braced himself for a long day. No one had to know.

Blaine went home with Kurt that afternoon. Kurt had been acting off all day and he didn't trust it, even if his boyfriend insisted he was fine.

"Blaine, I'm fine! Really! I promise." Kurt close to yelled at his boyfriend. "Stop giving me those looks."

"I'm worried, Kurt. I love you and I don't want you to feel whatever it is that's making you act like this." Blaine hugged Kurt closer to him. "Please tell me what's bothering you."

"I don't want to." Kurt mumbled.

"Okay. But please know that I love you. I love you so incredibly much." Blaine said.

"I love you too."

The two spent the rest of the afternoon cuddled together on Kurt's bed.

Kurt tried to ignore the way Blaine's string kept moving during dinner but it was very hard to do. There was a small bit of him that was curious to see who his boyfriend was destined to be with. Another part, a more dominant part, didn't want to know. He didn't want to know which perfect guy was destined to sweep his boyfriend off his feet and take him away. It hurt just thinking about it.

His thoughts were interrupted by the arrival of Finn and Rachel, always together. Even if they weren't meant to be. That still made Kurt happy. He loved his brother but he knew Rachel was destined for greater things.

Kurt froze.

He saw … no, that couldn't be.

Blaine and Finn… they were… CONNECTED?

"Oh my God!" Kurt yelled.

Everyone looked at him, of course they would. Kurt didn't know what to do. This was too much. He did the only thing he could think of: he ran to his room and locked himself inside. He was rocking himself back and forth, a pillow pressed against his chest, trying to forget what he'd just seen. "This can't be happening." He muttered to himself. "This is just a dream. Please be a dream!"

There was someone knocking on his door. "Kurt, are you okay?" Blaine asked. So not the person Kurt wanted to speak to.

"Go away! Just leave me alone!" Kurt yelled back.

"Kiddo, is there anyone here that you do want to talk to? We're all very worried." Burt's soothing voice calmed Kurt down a bit. He did want to talk to someone. Not Blaine, definitely not Finn, Carole wasn't an option and neither was his dad. That left Rachel. Rachel was his friend. She was also Finn's girlfriend but friendship was more important. Bros before hoes, or something like that.

"Rachel. I'll talk to her." Kurt yelled to the door. "Everyone else get away and I'll let her in." Kurt listened to make sure everyone left before quickly letting Rachel in.

"Kurt, what happened in there?" Rachel asked, the concern very clear in her voice.

"You'd best sit down. This is quite a lot to take in."

"Have you been crying?" Rachel asked, though the answer was clear.

"Yes, now please sit down. I really need to tell this to someone." Kurt sat down on his bed and gestured for Rachel to do the same.

"Okay, I'm listening."

"First, you must promise to not tell a soul what I'm about to tell you."

"But-"

"Promise!"

"Okay, I promise." Rachel said.

"Okay." Kurt took a deep breath. This was not going to be easy. "I got my power today. It's not good. It's definitely not good."

"How not good are we talking about here?" Rachel asked.

"I'd rather have your bat sonar. And you know what I think of that screeching." Kurt joked.

"Good, you can still joke. So it could be worse. Right?"

"I guess it could be. Rachel… you know about Strings Of Fate, right?"

"Yes, what about th…" Kurt could see the realization hit Rachel in the face. It was kind of like she had run into a window. Only worse. And not at all funny. "You can see them." She whispered as if her words could make it worse.

"Yes. And Blaine…. He's… Rach, he's not supposed to be with me." Kurt was crying again by now. This was just too painful.

"Oh, sweetie," Rachel hugged Kurt close to him, "I'm so sorry. I know how much you love Blaine and he loves you too. You can still make this work. Plenty of people aren't with their soul mate and they're still happy."

"I know. Dad and Carole are very happy together even though they're no… Shit. I didn't say that. Forget I said that. People shouldn't know whether they're with their soul mate or not." Kurt felt more miserable by the minute.

"I won't tell, Kurt, I promise." They sat in silence together for a while before Rachel asked the question she'd been dying to ask since the beginning of the conversation.

"Kurt, do you know who Blaine's supposed to be with?" She didn't expect to be given an answer when she felt Kurt nodding against her. "Will you tell me?"

"Do you still want to know if it would hurt you? Because I want to tell you but I don't want to hurt you."

"It's okay, tell me. I can take it."

"Don't tell a soul, okay?"

"Promise."

"It's Finn. Blaine's supposed to be with Finn."

That managed to shut them both up for a while. After about three minutes of sitting in absolute silence Rachel started laughing. "Finn and Blaine? Seriously?"

Kurt couldn't help but join her. "I know, it just doesn't make sense."

"I… Kurt, I can't. This is just so unreal."

"Your boyfriend and my boyfriend… together? Rach, what's the world coming to?"

"I'm just glad they can't have babies, can you imagine that?"

"Oh, please don't, I might die laughing."

Their laughing soon turned to crying.

"I don't want to lose Blaine, and I'm thinking you don't want to lose Finn. So we can never tell anyone. Especially not them. Because they might… they might fall in love." He whispered the last words.

"Yes. Perfect. This conversation? It didn't happen. And those strings you see? They're just yarn." Rachel tried to sound convincing. "Who am I kidding, this happened. Sooner or later, those two are going to fall in love. We're going to be dumped and they're going to ride off into the sunset together and live happily ever after."

"Rach, please don't lose all hope. We have soul mates too, you know." These words brought some hope to both of them. "Maybe they'll be better. No, I know they'll be better than Finn and Blaine. And until we meet them we have our current boyfriends."

"Do you know who your soul mate is yet?" Rachel asked.

"No, and I don't know yours either so don't bother asking."

"If you find out, will you tell me?"

"I shouldn't. I really shouldn't, Rachel."

"Please?"

"Okay. I told you about Finn, so I guess I can tell you that. But that's the last one I'll tell you!"

"No it isn't."

"Yeah, you're right, I'll tell you more."