Fic: The Untitled High School Cliche Fic [1/2]
Title: The Untitled High School Cliche Fic
Fandom: DCU (HSAU)
Pairing: Booster/Ted
Rating/Warnings: PG for adorable gay boys in high school
Word Count: 821
Summary: Written for the boostle kinkmeme prompt: "Booster is the High School Football Hero who has a major thing for science geek Ted."
Michael "Booster" Carter, the star quarterback of Watchtower High's football team, is pretty convinced that he's the biggest creep since the invention of creeps.
In the past two weeks he has managed to casually sit next to Ted Kord in biology eight times out of ten. He's walked past Ted Kord's locker during every passing period, and he might have just doodled Ted Kord's name in little hearts on a page of his math notebook.
Booster quickly tears the page out and crumples it, shoving it deep into a pocket of his backpack and pretending that nothing happened.
This little crush is getting out of hand. It isn't like he can do anything about it, after all. He knows his friends, after all, and he knows exactly what they would do to him if they found out he was a-- if they knew.
But Ted Kord is possibly the hottest and smartest and most adorable guy Booster has ever seen and he can't help having a crush on him. Ted looks like a computer science centerfold. His hair is always perfectly mussed and his shoelaces always look like they've lost a war with the mud-puddles outside. Ted shows up to class every day in a casual not-quite-preppy button-up over a t-shirt that says something Booster doesn't understand and stretches over muscles that are quite defined for someone who doesn't (as far as Booster knows) participate in any physical activity.
And then there are the glasses.
Booster has spent far too much of his young life fantasizing about those glasses. They're just this side of goggles, big and round, and they reflect any light that shines their way and keep Ted's (beautiful) eyes shielded from the rest of the world. Booster thinks that Ted's giant bug-goggles are possibly the sexiest thing he has ever seen. Almost as sexy as the sharp, icy blue of Ted's eyes.
Basically the point is that Booster is in deep like with Ted Kord, and spends the majority of his time finding ways to ogle him.
So he sits next to Ted in biology and blushes a little every time Ted answers a question (always correctly and always something Booster didn't know) and steals little glances Ted's way every chance he can get. He dreams of taking Ted to the prom and kissing him under the bleachers and, maybe, getting with Ted in the back seat of his dad's sedan.
Just once, after a big win when Booster is feeling pretty awesome about himself, he gets up the nerve to lean over and ask Ted a question about crustaceans or something, he doesn't even know, and Ted looks at him like he's the biggest dumbass in the world.
"I... Err... I'm just not that good at this stuff, you know?" Booster says because he desperately, desperately doesn't want Ted to think he's stupid.
"It's cool." Ted says with a grin, "I'm not that great at bio either. Physics is really my thing."
"You... Dude you rock at this kind of stuff." Booster says because he can't keep himself quiet, "I can't even tell a tiger from a giraffe."
Ted wheezes out a little giggle that is the cutest thing Booster has ever heard, "You're fine."
"I'm not really," Booster keep talking mostly because he wants to hear more of Ted's voice, "Ask anyone..."
"You're in Mr. J'onzz's AP history class, though, right?"
"Yeah," Booster says, "but I mean, that's history. History is easy, you just try to remember who died when, and who did the killing."
Ted laughs again and Booster feels something excited and painful in his stomach, "Well I'm shit at history, so I guess we'd make a good team."
Booster tries not to smile too much at that but the little offhand comment, 'we make a good team' stays with him for the rest of the day.
After biology, he goes and sits with Guy and Scott and the other guys from the football team and tries not to glance over at Ted, eating alone, and pretends that he's into Sue just like everyone else he knows. Booster keeps his head down and stays quiet and occasionally says something dumb, so they don't guess a thing.
But he thinks, imagines really, that Ted is looking over at him too. That maybe, just maybe, Ted is thinking something like what he's thinking.
And, if that were the case, Booster thinks it might be worth Guy beating the crap out of him and Scott looking at him with those bewildered eyebrows and Max saying snide, mean things behind he back. It would be worth losing his spot on the team and most of his friends and his actual date to prom if only Ted would turn to him during biology and look back.
Booster glances over to the corner of the lunch room one more time.
'We make a good team'
This time, Ted looks back.
TBC when I get around to it...
Fandom: DCU (HSAU)
Pairing: Booster/Ted
Rating/Warnings: PG for adorable gay boys in high school
Word Count: 821
Summary: Written for the boostle kinkmeme prompt: "Booster is the High School Football Hero who has a major thing for science geek Ted."
Michael "Booster" Carter, the star quarterback of Watchtower High's football team, is pretty convinced that he's the biggest creep since the invention of creeps.
In the past two weeks he has managed to casually sit next to Ted Kord in biology eight times out of ten. He's walked past Ted Kord's locker during every passing period, and he might have just doodled Ted Kord's name in little hearts on a page of his math notebook.
Booster quickly tears the page out and crumples it, shoving it deep into a pocket of his backpack and pretending that nothing happened.
This little crush is getting out of hand. It isn't like he can do anything about it, after all. He knows his friends, after all, and he knows exactly what they would do to him if they found out he was a-- if they knew.
But Ted Kord is possibly the hottest and smartest and most adorable guy Booster has ever seen and he can't help having a crush on him. Ted looks like a computer science centerfold. His hair is always perfectly mussed and his shoelaces always look like they've lost a war with the mud-puddles outside. Ted shows up to class every day in a casual not-quite-preppy button-up over a t-shirt that says something Booster doesn't understand and stretches over muscles that are quite defined for someone who doesn't (as far as Booster knows) participate in any physical activity.
And then there are the glasses.
Booster has spent far too much of his young life fantasizing about those glasses. They're just this side of goggles, big and round, and they reflect any light that shines their way and keep Ted's (beautiful) eyes shielded from the rest of the world. Booster thinks that Ted's giant bug-goggles are possibly the sexiest thing he has ever seen. Almost as sexy as the sharp, icy blue of Ted's eyes.
Basically the point is that Booster is in deep like with Ted Kord, and spends the majority of his time finding ways to ogle him.
So he sits next to Ted in biology and blushes a little every time Ted answers a question (always correctly and always something Booster didn't know) and steals little glances Ted's way every chance he can get. He dreams of taking Ted to the prom and kissing him under the bleachers and, maybe, getting with Ted in the back seat of his dad's sedan.
Just once, after a big win when Booster is feeling pretty awesome about himself, he gets up the nerve to lean over and ask Ted a question about crustaceans or something, he doesn't even know, and Ted looks at him like he's the biggest dumbass in the world.
"I... Err... I'm just not that good at this stuff, you know?" Booster says because he desperately, desperately doesn't want Ted to think he's stupid.
"It's cool." Ted says with a grin, "I'm not that great at bio either. Physics is really my thing."
"You... Dude you rock at this kind of stuff." Booster says because he can't keep himself quiet, "I can't even tell a tiger from a giraffe."
Ted wheezes out a little giggle that is the cutest thing Booster has ever heard, "You're fine."
"I'm not really," Booster keep talking mostly because he wants to hear more of Ted's voice, "Ask anyone..."
"You're in Mr. J'onzz's AP history class, though, right?"
"Yeah," Booster says, "but I mean, that's history. History is easy, you just try to remember who died when, and who did the killing."
Ted laughs again and Booster feels something excited and painful in his stomach, "Well I'm shit at history, so I guess we'd make a good team."
Booster tries not to smile too much at that but the little offhand comment, 'we make a good team' stays with him for the rest of the day.
After biology, he goes and sits with Guy and Scott and the other guys from the football team and tries not to glance over at Ted, eating alone, and pretends that he's into Sue just like everyone else he knows. Booster keeps his head down and stays quiet and occasionally says something dumb, so they don't guess a thing.
But he thinks, imagines really, that Ted is looking over at him too. That maybe, just maybe, Ted is thinking something like what he's thinking.
And, if that were the case, Booster thinks it might be worth Guy beating the crap out of him and Scott looking at him with those bewildered eyebrows and Max saying snide, mean things behind he back. It would be worth losing his spot on the team and most of his friends and his actual date to prom if only Ted would turn to him during biology and look back.
Booster glances over to the corner of the lunch room one more time.
'We make a good team'
This time, Ted looks back.
TBC when I get around to it...