More C&DP Highschool AU
No, not another chapter - the idea still hasn't gone so far as to develop an actual plot as such, and if it hasn't yet in all the time it was percolating before I gave in and wrote it writing, it probably isn't going to. Which means that the bunch of leftover details I had for this 'verse that didn't fit into the first chapter are probably going to stay unused. Unless I dump them all together and post that.
Wade lost both his parents at an early age, and has spent the years since bouncing from foster family to foster family, lasting only as long as it took each new candidate to admit they couldn't cope with him. This finally came to an end a couple of years ago when he was placed with an old woman called Blind Al. Wade made it clear he planned to be twice his own weight in trouble, Al explained that she was only fostering for the money and wouldn't be taking any of his crap, and both have been locked in constant battle to make the other's life hell ever since. Secretly they adore each other, even if they'd rarely admit it aloud.
Al is also responsible for sending Wade to martial arts classes when it became apparent that only about every single bully at his school had it in for him, ostensibly to 'help build up his confidence'. You can probably guess how this ended. Fortunately for Wade, a old blind lady who can yell like a drill sergeant and is willing to show up at the principal's office at short notice can have a remarkable effect on one's odds of not getting instantly expelled. Less fortunately, she was also capable of coming up with punishments more creative than anything a mere principal could dream of, but the important thing is that Wade, while still not exactly popular, doesn't get bullied so much anymore.
He's probably got one good friend called Weasel. Maybe another one called Terry too (a.k.a. the one popular, good looking girl in school who ever talks to him).
On first impressions he really was convinced that Nate was going to turn out to be one of the popular (albeit distractingly attractive) arseholes who've always done so much to make his school like a misery, and more than half the reason he approached him in the first place was in hope that if he gave Nate the chance to prove himself a jerk he'd be able to get all the disappointment and dumb crushing over with a lot faster. At least, that's what he told himself when he spotted Nate on the bench that day. He wasn't at all disappointed when his plan backfired so spectacularly.
I don't know where the story's actually headed, beyond the obvious. Nate is probably going to put off having 'the talk' about mutant-hood with Wade for a good long while, mostly because it'll mean admitting he's a mutant too, which will mean admitting that one of his mutant powers is to read minds, which will mean admitting he knows exactly what goes through Wade's mind whenever he's around Nate (and pretty often when he's not), which will mean admitting to Wade that he is interested in guys, just not Wade himself particularly. He's not sure how Wade will deal with that, but he's pretty sure it won't be pleasant. Of course, sooner or later he's going to change his mind about whether he likes Wade back, but he's still going to have to cover the mind reading thing, because there are certain secrets you don't get to keep from someone you're going out with. How long all this takes I have no idea. (Actually, if the story was intended to go beyond one part, the bit about Wade being a mutant wouldn't have been included in the first chapter, but since it was a one-shot, clearing up any possibility that Wade was just a human with a bad skin condition took priority over backing the plot into a corner.)
When they finally do have that conversation, it might go something like this:
Nate: Wade, there's something I need to talk to you about.
Wade: Yeah?
Nate: (deep breath) I can read minds.
Wade: (completely disbelieving) You can not.
Nate: Yes, I can.
Wade: No way!
Nate: I'm not making this up.
Wade: Is this where you pull that trick where you say, 'think of a number', but it has to be between zero and...
Nate: (getting impatient) Do you want to play 'think of a number?' No qualifications. Any number you like.
Wade: Okay, fine.
(pause)
Nate: ...Wade, 'pie' isn't a number.
Wade: It is too! It's a three with a one and a four and a...
Nate: That's not the kind of pie you were picturing. It was the kind with pastry and... pumpkin filling?
Wade: ….holy shit.
Nate: Believe me now?
Wade: Holy shit. How'd you do that?
(etc, where 'etc' probably includes Wade freaking out about what else Nate must've been reading in his mind all this time, and Nate assuring him not only is he not remotely bothered, he's been having corresponding thoughts of his own, and possibly even Wade having an irrational mini-freakout about the idea he's mind-whammied Nate into liking him without even knowing he was doing it, and an increasingly frustrated Nate still trying to explain that it doesn't work like that, and will Wade shut up so they can snog already? Only that part doesn't even get as far as script format, because I am already over my fluff quota for this quarter.)
Or maybe it happens completely differently. IDEK.
The important thing is that there's got to be psychic sex somewhere in their future. And eventually, they probably save the world or something.
But hey, if anyone else wants to take this 'verse and run with it, I'd be happy to see it getting used.
Wade lost both his parents at an early age, and has spent the years since bouncing from foster family to foster family, lasting only as long as it took each new candidate to admit they couldn't cope with him. This finally came to an end a couple of years ago when he was placed with an old woman called Blind Al. Wade made it clear he planned to be twice his own weight in trouble, Al explained that she was only fostering for the money and wouldn't be taking any of his crap, and both have been locked in constant battle to make the other's life hell ever since. Secretly they adore each other, even if they'd rarely admit it aloud.
Al is also responsible for sending Wade to martial arts classes when it became apparent that only about every single bully at his school had it in for him, ostensibly to 'help build up his confidence'. You can probably guess how this ended. Fortunately for Wade, a old blind lady who can yell like a drill sergeant and is willing to show up at the principal's office at short notice can have a remarkable effect on one's odds of not getting instantly expelled. Less fortunately, she was also capable of coming up with punishments more creative than anything a mere principal could dream of, but the important thing is that Wade, while still not exactly popular, doesn't get bullied so much anymore.
He's probably got one good friend called Weasel. Maybe another one called Terry too (a.k.a. the one popular, good looking girl in school who ever talks to him).
On first impressions he really was convinced that Nate was going to turn out to be one of the popular (albeit distractingly attractive) arseholes who've always done so much to make his school like a misery, and more than half the reason he approached him in the first place was in hope that if he gave Nate the chance to prove himself a jerk he'd be able to get all the disappointment and dumb crushing over with a lot faster. At least, that's what he told himself when he spotted Nate on the bench that day. He wasn't at all disappointed when his plan backfired so spectacularly.
I don't know where the story's actually headed, beyond the obvious. Nate is probably going to put off having 'the talk' about mutant-hood with Wade for a good long while, mostly because it'll mean admitting he's a mutant too, which will mean admitting that one of his mutant powers is to read minds, which will mean admitting he knows exactly what goes through Wade's mind whenever he's around Nate (and pretty often when he's not), which will mean admitting to Wade that he is interested in guys, just not Wade himself particularly. He's not sure how Wade will deal with that, but he's pretty sure it won't be pleasant. Of course, sooner or later he's going to change his mind about whether he likes Wade back, but he's still going to have to cover the mind reading thing, because there are certain secrets you don't get to keep from someone you're going out with. How long all this takes I have no idea. (Actually, if the story was intended to go beyond one part, the bit about Wade being a mutant wouldn't have been included in the first chapter, but since it was a one-shot, clearing up any possibility that Wade was just a human with a bad skin condition took priority over backing the plot into a corner.)
When they finally do have that conversation, it might go something like this:
Nate: Wade, there's something I need to talk to you about.
Wade: Yeah?
Nate: (deep breath) I can read minds.
Wade: (completely disbelieving) You can not.
Nate: Yes, I can.
Wade: No way!
Nate: I'm not making this up.
Wade: Is this where you pull that trick where you say, 'think of a number', but it has to be between zero and...
Nate: (getting impatient) Do you want to play 'think of a number?' No qualifications. Any number you like.
Wade: Okay, fine.
(pause)
Nate: ...Wade, 'pie' isn't a number.
Wade: It is too! It's a three with a one and a four and a...
Nate: That's not the kind of pie you were picturing. It was the kind with pastry and... pumpkin filling?
Wade: ….holy shit.
Nate: Believe me now?
Wade: Holy shit. How'd you do that?
(etc, where 'etc' probably includes Wade freaking out about what else Nate must've been reading in his mind all this time, and Nate assuring him not only is he not remotely bothered, he's been having corresponding thoughts of his own, and possibly even Wade having an irrational mini-freakout about the idea he's mind-whammied Nate into liking him without even knowing he was doing it, and an increasingly frustrated Nate still trying to explain that it doesn't work like that, and will Wade shut up so they can snog already? Only that part doesn't even get as far as script format, because I am already over my fluff quota for this quarter.)
Or maybe it happens completely differently. IDEK.
The important thing is that there's got to be psychic sex somewhere in their future. And eventually, they probably save the world or something.
But hey, if anyone else wants to take this 'verse and run with it, I'd be happy to see it getting used.