Man’s Best Friend – DareU2Bme
82,616 words — 21 chapters — complete
AU. Blaine, the Hudmel family’s pet, seems to have developed an obsession with Kurt. It is hard to resist Blaine’s adorable infatuation, but Kurt needs to figure out how to deal with this sudden tragic and incredibly inappropriate love interest.
Please realize that this is not your average love story in any way, shape or form. This is a very alternative pairing and if the idea of intellectual in-equals bothers you a great deal, I will be the first to tell you that this is definitely not the story for you. Blaine in this story is not a furre, not a hybrid, not a were-animal, not anything like that… he is a person with a genetically inherited, severely low IQ.
I started reading this fic almost as a joke. “Oh look, Blaine is Kurt’s pet. This could get awkward.” I think it stopped being a joke when I had tears streaming down my face, unable to stop crying, at four in the morning. Glee and Klaine have taught me so much about acceptance, and I sort of half thought that this fic would make me okay with the idea of having humans as pets. I was wrong. Instead, I was swept into a world where humans are kept as pets, and I’m standing opposed to it. This was totally not what I expected it to be, and I’ll be recommending it for years to come… – Wait, there’s a sequel?
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