Ficlet: Too Young for This Shit
Author: on_the_ground
Title: Too Young for This Shit
Rating: G
Pairing/s: Stiles/Jackson
Character/s: Stiles, Jackson, Mr Jacobs (the principal/OMC), Daniel (mentioned/OCC), Ilya (mentioned/OCC)
Summary: Stiles and Jackson talk to the principal at the school because of what happened with Daniel.
Content Notes: Angst, nobody is dead, future fic.
Warnings: None
Submission Type: Ficlet
Word Count: 974 words
Prompt: #251 - Lost
Author's Notes: The remaining 254 words will be added on AO3. This continues "Little Monsters". This will be part of my series "All I Saw Was You." Thanks so much to my lovely beta once again.
Jackson and Stiles look at the principal, Mr Jacobs, sitting behind his office desk.
“Well, I wish I could have called you under better circumstances but unfortunately that’s not the case. Miss Hamilton told me you’ve spoken to Daniel, so I guess he told you what happened.”
“I talked to him for just a minute. So, I have an idea of what happened, yes, but I don’t know all the details,” Stiles says.
“We know there’s been a fight between Daniel and two kids.” Jackson adds.
“It was mostly your son and this other kid, Luke. Daniel pushed Luke against a tree. Subsequently, he crushed his left arm. We had to call an ambulance which took him to the hospital and guess what? It’s not just some cuts and bruises, Mr Whittemore, Luke has a fracture on his radius--”
“You mean he’s broken it?” Stiles frowns.
“That’s exactly what I’m saying.” Mr Jacobs nods. “And as you can imagine, his parents are enraged right now. They want me to expel Daniel.”
Stiles snorts, raising his eyebrows. “You have to be kidding me…”
“Not really, no…” The principal shakes his head.
“Okay, these people have obviously lost their minds,” Jackson says. “I mean, they know what really happened here… and you do too, right? Their son is a bully whether they want to admit it or not.”
“Yeah, Mr Jacobs.” Stiles continues. “You haven’t mentioned what really happened before Daniel hit this other kid… but you know…”
“I know… I know that Luke and Ian were saying things to him and he got upset--”
“Not to him, to Ilya, his brother. They were calling him all kinds of names… For god’s sake, they were bullying him! Of course, he got upset!”
Jackson looks at Stiles in that way he does when he wants him to calm down. He rests his left hand on Stiles’s forearm and squeezes lightly. Stiles looks at him and when he meets Jackson’s eyes he knows what he is silently asking.
“Okay.” The principal nods. “Yes, Daniel mentioned that and of course, I plan on talking to their parents about it, but all kids argue sometimes, I’m not sure that what they did qualifies as bullying. I think that would be exaggerating things.”
Jackson snorts. “That it doesn’t qualify?” He asks wryly. “I think it qualifies plenty. This is not some isolated incident we’re talking about, this is repeat behaviour for these kids, a pattern which should have been reported to us and dealt with before it happened again and escalated this far. So, it’s clear that the school has totally overlooked the situation instead of preventing it and that’s exactly why my son reacted that way and why we are sitting in your office right now.”
“Well, the school didn’t know about it or we’d have done something.”
“Yeah, but isn’t it your job to know what’s going on?” Stiles frowns.
“The school can only do so much in situations like this and the fact remains that your son punched another kid, younger than him, and caused him to have a serious injury. So you may want to blame the school now, but it was Daniel who used violence instead of talking to a teacher to report their behaviour.”
“Look, we know what he did was wrong, obviously we know that and we’ll talk to him so that this never happens again, but he’s never done anything like this before and it’s clearly been an accident, a very unfortunate accident because we know that he didn’t mean to break his arm.”
“Yes, but he did and now Luke’s parents are furious with me… with the school.”
“Well, it may not sound like it but we are furious too.” Stiles says matter-of-factly. “Very furious. And do you want to know why?” Stiles raises his eyebrows. “Because Ilya is deaf but thank god, he can hear perfectly and he’s also a very smart kid and old enough to realize when somebody is making fun of him just for being different, and these bullies have made fun of him repeatedly, so as wrong as it is, Daniel is also a kid and when he saw his brother hurting he did what he did… but he was protecting him, so no, Daniel is not a violent person, he reacted this way because he loves his brother and he got upset in that moment, but it doesn’t mean that he’s going to do it again.”
“Yeah,” Jackson continues. “We brought Ilya to this school because not only did we want him to be with his brother, but we didn’t want him to feel different because of his disability. We want him to have a normal childhood… or as normal as it can be. He’s way too young to be dealing with this shit. As is Daniel by the way. And if these people can’t educate their children to respect their classmates, with disabilities or not… well, then I think it says a lot about them too.”
“Look, I do understand how you feel. I’m not saying they’re right and you’re wrong. But I’m in the middle here and some action must be taken. It’s true that Daniel is a good student and he’s never been violent before--”
“But?” Stiles raises his eyebrows.
“But, even if we don’t expel him, I need to set an example and he deserves some kind of punishment, so he can’t come back to school for the rest of the week.”
“You’re sending him home for four days? For defending his brother... seriously?” Stiles aks, waving both arms.” I thought you said that you understood what happened.”
“I do understand. But I can’t let this go unpunished in some way or another. My hands are tied.”
Title: Too Young for This Shit
Rating: G
Pairing/s: Stiles/Jackson
Character/s: Stiles, Jackson, Mr Jacobs (the principal/OMC), Daniel (mentioned/OCC), Ilya (mentioned/OCC)
Summary: Stiles and Jackson talk to the principal at the school because of what happened with Daniel.
Content Notes: Angst, nobody is dead, future fic.
Warnings: None
Submission Type: Ficlet
Word Count: 974 words
Prompt: #251 - Lost
Author's Notes: The remaining 254 words will be added on AO3. This continues "Little Monsters". This will be part of my series "All I Saw Was You." Thanks so much to my lovely beta once again.
Jackson and Stiles look at the principal, Mr Jacobs, sitting behind his office desk.
“Well, I wish I could have called you under better circumstances but unfortunately that’s not the case. Miss Hamilton told me you’ve spoken to Daniel, so I guess he told you what happened.”
“I talked to him for just a minute. So, I have an idea of what happened, yes, but I don’t know all the details,” Stiles says.
“We know there’s been a fight between Daniel and two kids.” Jackson adds.
“It was mostly your son and this other kid, Luke. Daniel pushed Luke against a tree. Subsequently, he crushed his left arm. We had to call an ambulance which took him to the hospital and guess what? It’s not just some cuts and bruises, Mr Whittemore, Luke has a fracture on his radius--”
“You mean he’s broken it?” Stiles frowns.
“That’s exactly what I’m saying.” Mr Jacobs nods. “And as you can imagine, his parents are enraged right now. They want me to expel Daniel.”
Stiles snorts, raising his eyebrows. “You have to be kidding me…”
“Not really, no…” The principal shakes his head.
“Okay, these people have obviously lost their minds,” Jackson says. “I mean, they know what really happened here… and you do too, right? Their son is a bully whether they want to admit it or not.”
“Yeah, Mr Jacobs.” Stiles continues. “You haven’t mentioned what really happened before Daniel hit this other kid… but you know…”
“I know… I know that Luke and Ian were saying things to him and he got upset--”
“Not to him, to Ilya, his brother. They were calling him all kinds of names… For god’s sake, they were bullying him! Of course, he got upset!”
Jackson looks at Stiles in that way he does when he wants him to calm down. He rests his left hand on Stiles’s forearm and squeezes lightly. Stiles looks at him and when he meets Jackson’s eyes he knows what he is silently asking.
“Okay.” The principal nods. “Yes, Daniel mentioned that and of course, I plan on talking to their parents about it, but all kids argue sometimes, I’m not sure that what they did qualifies as bullying. I think that would be exaggerating things.”
Jackson snorts. “That it doesn’t qualify?” He asks wryly. “I think it qualifies plenty. This is not some isolated incident we’re talking about, this is repeat behaviour for these kids, a pattern which should have been reported to us and dealt with before it happened again and escalated this far. So, it’s clear that the school has totally overlooked the situation instead of preventing it and that’s exactly why my son reacted that way and why we are sitting in your office right now.”
“Well, the school didn’t know about it or we’d have done something.”
“Yeah, but isn’t it your job to know what’s going on?” Stiles frowns.
“The school can only do so much in situations like this and the fact remains that your son punched another kid, younger than him, and caused him to have a serious injury. So you may want to blame the school now, but it was Daniel who used violence instead of talking to a teacher to report their behaviour.”
“Look, we know what he did was wrong, obviously we know that and we’ll talk to him so that this never happens again, but he’s never done anything like this before and it’s clearly been an accident, a very unfortunate accident because we know that he didn’t mean to break his arm.”
“Yes, but he did and now Luke’s parents are furious with me… with the school.”
“Well, it may not sound like it but we are furious too.” Stiles says matter-of-factly. “Very furious. And do you want to know why?” Stiles raises his eyebrows. “Because Ilya is deaf but thank god, he can hear perfectly and he’s also a very smart kid and old enough to realize when somebody is making fun of him just for being different, and these bullies have made fun of him repeatedly, so as wrong as it is, Daniel is also a kid and when he saw his brother hurting he did what he did… but he was protecting him, so no, Daniel is not a violent person, he reacted this way because he loves his brother and he got upset in that moment, but it doesn’t mean that he’s going to do it again.”
“Yeah,” Jackson continues. “We brought Ilya to this school because not only did we want him to be with his brother, but we didn’t want him to feel different because of his disability. We want him to have a normal childhood… or as normal as it can be. He’s way too young to be dealing with this shit. As is Daniel by the way. And if these people can’t educate their children to respect their classmates, with disabilities or not… well, then I think it says a lot about them too.”
“Look, I do understand how you feel. I’m not saying they’re right and you’re wrong. But I’m in the middle here and some action must be taken. It’s true that Daniel is a good student and he’s never been violent before--”
“But?” Stiles raises his eyebrows.
“But, even if we don’t expel him, I need to set an example and he deserves some kind of punishment, so he can’t come back to school for the rest of the week.”
“You’re sending him home for four days? For defending his brother... seriously?” Stiles aks, waving both arms.” I thought you said that you understood what happened.”
“I do understand. But I can’t let this go unpunished in some way or another. My hands are tied.”