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iluvroadrunner6) wrote2024-12-11 09:43 pm
iluvroadrunner6) wrote2024-12-11 09:43 pm
Entry tags:
- canon: leverage,
- canon: october daye series,
- canon: original,
- canon: supernatural,
- canon: white collar,
- canon: wynonna earp,
- leverage: sophie devereaux,
- october daye: dianda lorden,
- october daye: patrick lorden,
- october daye: simon torquill,
- prompts: get your words out,
- ship: dean/wynonna,
- ship: dianda/patrick/simon,
- supernatural: dean winchester,
- white collar: neal caffrey,
- wynonna earp: wynonna earp
get your words out { 2025 } challenge tracking
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12/30/25 | september challenge: back to school | original | 358 | COMPLETE
Charlotte slumps into the lunchroom at the high school. She was considering just spending the period staring into the void, but the words escape her before she can take them back. Joshua looks back at her, dead behind the eyes in a way that resonates, and nods.
“Constantly.” He then squints at her. “You teach English. Why are you depressed?”
Charlotte shrugs. “Reading comprehension seems to be getting worse, not better and every time we come across someone who makes a bad choice, they’re called ‘problematic’ and they don’t seem to want to understand that sometimes people need to make poor choices, otherwise you won’t have a story.”
He snorts. “Haven’t they ever heard of a character arc?”
“Apparently not.” She rubs her eyes. “I don’t have to ask, but if you’d like to vent, by all means.”
He shakes his head. “You’re supposed to teach history so that people don’t repeat the same mistakes, but how can you really be effective when you look out at the rest of the world and it seems to be constantly on fire.”
“Fair point.”
“And the kids don’t even care. They’re so zoned out from everything that is happening around them all the time that trying to teach them about dead people is just not landing. And I can’t really say I blame them.”
She nods again, realizing that once you look past the demoralization there’s true depression there, because he has a fair point. Who does want to teach social studies in this current political climate?
“It’s Friday,” she posits. “You doing anything tonight?”
He glances up at her, before raising an eyebrow as he shakes his head. “Not currently, why?”
“Want to go to Lou’s and have many, many drinks?” She smirks. “Not going to fix the state of the world, or our students, but for a little while we might feel better?”
He snorts as he gets up to gather his stuff. “You know what? That sounds like a great plan.”
Charlotte’s smirk shifts to a grin, before nodding. “See you at Lou’s around four?”
“See you there.”