Set after Rescue
TW: Past Childhood Trauma, C-PTSD, Chronic Passive Suicidal Ideation
Hugh Kernan POV (Third Person Omniscient)
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Hugh woke up in the morning and sighed.
They were always tired even though they had gotten more than enough sleep.
They didn't have the energy to pretend they loved life and were thrilled to be alive.
It was going to be another long day at school.
Slowly they got up and got dressed for the day.
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Hugh had gotten to school pretty early since Alex had been called to the precinct a few minutes before the kid woke up.
It had been about a month since they had started school here.
The hallways were practically empty in the early morning when the sun still hadn't come out yet.
The first person they saw at school was their home form teacher.
"Good Morning, Hugh." the teacher welcomed the kid into the classroom.
They were too tired to even think of a response, so they opted for the safe option to stay quiet.
That worked most of the time with their biological parents every time that they were in trouble (which was a lot of the time).
But this time it turned out it wasn't a safe option.
"The polite response to that is to greet the other person back." the teacher said and gave them a lecture about being polite to others.
"Morning," the kid spat out quietly trying to mask the venom in their voice.
'I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be impolite. I'm just so tired of trying to pretend everything was fine.'
The kid then unconsciously started to overanalyze the interaction they just had, thinking that they had somehow angered their teacher and was now mad at them.
Maybe the teacher knew they had autism and thought they didn't know manners. Like it wasn't drilled into their head by their biological parents that they were never respectful enough. They were not already extremely self-conscious of everything they look, do, or say
They sat in uncomfortable silence as the minutes passed by, waiting for the other members of the home form to show up.
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After that year, Hugh didn't like the harshness of the home form teacher and felt like it wasn't a good fit so they requested to change home form teachers even though they knew the normal protocol was to stay with the same home form for all four years of high school.
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