Glee: Free Falling

Passion Is Wonder-ful (Shooting Star)

Glee: Passion is Wonder-ful

By Wilde Abrams

Author's Notes: The 21st episode of season 4 ("Wonder-ful") is one of the most important pieces in for canonical WildeAbrams story arc on Glee. The following was originally written to be included as a chapter in my story The Ballad of Kitty And Artie, which, while outlined, is not being written in sequence. One of the perils of writing something like this piecemeal like this is that sometimes you need to make changes to later chapters to make them fit with the overall story arc. Normally I am okay with this, but in this case, I am really proud of how this version came out. So rather than scrap it, I made a couple small modifications and decided to release it as a standalone story. Consider this a sneak preview of what is to come... Enjoy!

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Wonderful

On the day that Mr Schue announced that Rachel Berry had gotten a call back for Funny Girl, and that they would be doing a Stevie Wonder tribute week, Kitty could not help notice that Artie wasn't himself and she decided that she needed to find out why.

The bell rang, and he was one of the first people out of the room. Kitty followed him out.

"Hey Cripi Longstocking, wait up?"

He stopped, turned around, and retorted "You know what? That's offensive!"

Yeah, something was definitely bothering him. He wasn't usually so defensive.

"Aw, boo-hoo! I have a disability too. My disability is I can't tell when something's offensive.... and for you to point that out is bullying. Care to share what you're so depressed about?"

"I have no idea what you are talking about!"

"Nice try, liar!" she wasn't going to let him off the hook that easily. "You're depressed and I know why. When the girls were performing during Guilty Pleasures week, you used those googly, thyroid-conditioned eyeballs of yours and oggled me like I was Taiwanese streetwalker.... Well I regret to inform you that you will never be climbing all up on THIS." she gestured seductively to her body.

That got his attention. "Actually that's not what I was upset about.... but thank you for giving me something else to make me depressed--"

That confirmed it. He WAS attracted to her as she'd always suspected.

"Aha!" She exclaimed, "I knew you were depressed about something!"

Finally he took a deep breath and relented, "Yesterday when I got home there was an envelope waiting for me; and inside was the news that I got accepted into the Brooklyn Film Academy."

"Wait, are you serious?" she replied, smiling, serious for a moment.

"Yes I actually am.. But you know what? I'm not going"

"Why?"she asked in disbelief.

"Believe it or not I DON'T want to talk about it, and I'd appreciate it if you didn't tell anyone."

She watched him roll away, curiosity piqued. She turned away smiling as the bell rang. She was going to get to the bottom of this.

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Later that day she Googled the Brooklyn Film Academy. She spent her entire free hour combing over their website along with online reviews and students testimonials. She didn't find anything that would make someone not want to go there. By all accounts it was an excellent school. There was more to this than met the eye, and she was going to find out what it was.

As she headed of lunch, she saw Jake and Ryder chatting by Jake's locked, and approached them.

"Hey, I had an idea for our Glee Club assignment and was wondering if the two of you were free after school to help me out?"