Klaine One Shots

Bring Color Into My Life

Soulmate AU based on the prompt that the world is black and white until you meet your soulmate, and then you can see color.

Kurt Hummel moved to New York City after escaping his hometown of Lima, Ohio right away. He was living in the city of his dreams, attending the school of his dreams, and was starting to live his dream. It didn't matter that his world was still black and white, he could live without color for a few more years until he really started to long for it.

Because, sure, he wanted color. He imagined that New York was full of it, hidden away until the fateful day that he would run into his soulmate and the first color he would see were his eyes. Yeah, Kurt was a bit of a hopeless romantic when it came to meeting his soulmate.

The day color came into his life started like any other. With Rachel loudly singing in their apartment.

"Rachel! Shut up, I'm trying to study for our musical theory test tomorrow!" Kurt yells from his bedroom. Rachel's singing stops abruptly, and then she's yelling across the apartment from her own room back at him.

"I need to rehearse, Kurt! I'm playing Fanny and opening night is in two months!" She screams back. Kurt groans as she starts singing "I'm the Greatest Star" once again from the beginning, trying to concentrate on his notes but unable to drown out her voice. Kurt groans in exasperation and gathers his books and notes. He yanks back the curtain separating his room from the rest of the apartment and strides quickly over to Rachel's room. He throws the curtain to the side and she stops singing to look at him in annoyance.

"I'm going to That Coffee Place because at least there I'll have decent coffee while trying to concentrate on this test that we both need to study for," Kurt practically growls, and Rachel just shrugs, looking completely u remorseful at basically kicking Kurt out of the apartment.

"Okay, no problem," she states, waiting a couple seconds before starting to hum the intro to another of the songs in Funny Girl. Kurt sighs loudly, but Rachel just ignores that and he quickly strides out of the apartment and down to the coffee shop that was a couple blocks away. The coffee shop was one of Kurt's favorites, not only for its decent coffee at a decent price, but also because it was located only a couple blocks away from their apartment. That Coffee Place wasn't too busy, just a little loud inside when Kurt walked in, which he was thankful for. Because as much as Rachel annoys him, he actually does like some quiet when he studies and Kurt knows if he tried hard enough, he probably could have gotten her to shut up for at least an hour.

Kurt walked up to the counter and ordered a nonfat mocha before taking his favorite spot in the corner. The table was too small to host a large group of people, but just big enough that he could comfortably spread his books and notes across it and not be too cramped. Kurt has just finished pulling out his music theory notes when his name is called and he hurries to get his coffee.

A couple hours later, Kurt is still in his same spot at the corner, headphones in one ear softly playing music. He taps his pencil on his cheek as he looks down at his study guide. Suddenly, somebody trips next to him and collides heavily on Kurt, the strangers coffee spilling all over his notes.

"Oh my god! I'm so sorry, I didn't see your bag there," the stranger quickly apologizes, rushing to try and salvage the few dry pieces of paper from the desk. Kurt looks up at the boy, about to absolutely murder him for ruining his only copy of notes for his very important test, and stops short.

The stranger has the most beautiful eyes he's ever seen. And they aren't in shades of grey like he's used to seeing, Kurt has to rack his brain, trying to remember the color of them, but he's too dumbstruck to actually be able to find a name for the stranger's eyes. The boy lets out a gasp as he looks at Kurt, and Kurt can't draw his eyes away from the boy to actually notice the world slowly filling with color.