GW fanfic100: 088 - School.
Title: Power (absolute)
Fandom: Green Wing
Characters: Dr ‘Mac’ Macartney
Prompt: 088. School
Word Count: 299
Rating: G
Summary: It was tough being a tiny ginger kid back then.
Author's Notes: I’m basing this fic (not all of my ff100 prompt entries though!) on the premise that Mac went to a private boys’ school and wasn’t always the rather, well, *nice* person that he is now.
Power (absolute)
It’s been years since Mac was at school, but he can still remember his old teachers, like Mrs McNally who would pat your head as she walked by if she liked you, and Miss True who dressed all in red, all the time and told the most outrageous lies.
He remembers the bullies too. At some point he thinks he might have been one himself. It’s pretty much a given considering he went to a private boys’ school, but Mac doesn’t think his childhood would have been much lacking had his school bag not been filled with rocks and dog shit every day for his first week at the school. It was tough being a tiny ginger kid back then.
Mac thinks sometimes that kids these days (and then he stops himself because he sounds old and he’s only thirty-seven, he’s not old) well, younger people, school kids anyway, are too coddled now. He tries not to think about the good old days when the punishment for not fetching the Head Boy’s jumper from the classroom that it was left in was getting your head flushed down the toilet and your homework stolen.
Mac was Head Boy once. Power is indeed corrupting.
But Mac is a doctor now, a surgeon, and he has put enough people back together during emergency rotations to know that school bullies grow up to be thugs and thieves and muggers, so it’s probably a good thing that bullies aren’t tacitly encouraged like they used to be.
Sometimes in moments when people are being particularly annoying he wishes he could thwap them one and be done with it. Then he realises he hated it (the very fact that hadn’t before is somewhat astonishing) and stops.
He wouldn't do it anyway. He's not that person anymore.
Fandom: Green Wing
Characters: Dr ‘Mac’ Macartney
Prompt: 088. School
Word Count: 299
Rating: G
Summary: It was tough being a tiny ginger kid back then.
Author's Notes: I’m basing this fic (not all of my ff100 prompt entries though!) on the premise that Mac went to a private boys’ school and wasn’t always the rather, well, *nice* person that he is now.
Power (absolute)
It’s been years since Mac was at school, but he can still remember his old teachers, like Mrs McNally who would pat your head as she walked by if she liked you, and Miss True who dressed all in red, all the time and told the most outrageous lies.
He remembers the bullies too. At some point he thinks he might have been one himself. It’s pretty much a given considering he went to a private boys’ school, but Mac doesn’t think his childhood would have been much lacking had his school bag not been filled with rocks and dog shit every day for his first week at the school. It was tough being a tiny ginger kid back then.
Mac thinks sometimes that kids these days (and then he stops himself because he sounds old and he’s only thirty-seven, he’s not old) well, younger people, school kids anyway, are too coddled now. He tries not to think about the good old days when the punishment for not fetching the Head Boy’s jumper from the classroom that it was left in was getting your head flushed down the toilet and your homework stolen.
Mac was Head Boy once. Power is indeed corrupting.
But Mac is a doctor now, a surgeon, and he has put enough people back together during emergency rotations to know that school bullies grow up to be thugs and thieves and muggers, so it’s probably a good thing that bullies aren’t tacitly encouraged like they used to be.
Sometimes in moments when people are being particularly annoying he wishes he could thwap them one and be done with it. Then he realises he hated it (the very fact that hadn’t before is somewhat astonishing) and stops.
He wouldn't do it anyway. He's not that person anymore.