(Warning: People (Ty) being bullied because he has Autism and for being gay. This is set a few years after lord of shadows so both Kit and Ty are in Year 12. Sorry if any characters are a bit OOC. I found some of them - particularly Ty - really hard to write. If anything offends anyone, please tell me!)
Kit's POV
I'll freely admit it. I thought that sending Ty to a mundane school was the worst idea ever. It was -- actually, I don't even know whose terrible idea it was. My poor boyfriend was never going to cope in the harsh environment commonly known as a school, and you can trust me- I went to one for most of my life.
Third Person (Ty) POV
As Ty sat in the small classroom in the tutor time, a wrinkled old woman called out his name. "Tiberius Blackthorn, are you here? Tiberius?"
All the other kids in his class were laughing at him. Ty had nodded his head to say he was there, why were they laughing at him? Ty was scared. He wanted Kit --- he needed Kit. The wrinkly old lady who had introduced herself as Ms. Sitter asked for the classes attention, and asked for them to quieten down, but stifled laughter could still be heard. Ms. Sitter quietly said something to Ty.
"When I call your name, you say here." The fact that they were laughing at Ty because he hadn't said that he was there didn't seem like a very nice thing to do, and Ty believed that he had done nothing wrong.
"So class, in the remaining 20 minutes of tutor time, we are going to play a game called 2 Truths and a Lie!" Exclaimed Ms. Sitter. The class collectively groaned at the thought of the childish game. They were year 12 students, not bored 9 year olds!
"Who wants to go first?" No one raised their hand.
"No one? Okay, Tiberius, given that you are new to the school, would you come up and have the first go." It was one of those requests that teachers make that aren't really requests, but are actually demands.
"What do I do?" Ty asked, the whole class gasped. A few kids were brave enough to yell out things like
"Have you been living under a rock? Wait- you can't have been- the rock might have taught you something because even a rock would be a million times smarter than you!"
"Stay away from us because you are just so dumb it's infectious!"
Ty didn't understand why someone would say being dumb in infectious- It wasn't... was it? And Kit had told him that he wasn't dumb - he just was autistic- he was just different and some people didn't like that. What if Kit didn't actually like him and was just pretending the whole time? What if--
"Tiberius, take a seat. I will call someone else up to do a demonstration, and you can go next. Okay, Miles, come up and show everyone how to play. I need to photocopy something, sorry. I will be back in a minute." Ms. Sitter said, and the boy who made the remark about how dumb Ty was and the fact that it was probably infectious came and stood at the front of the classroom.
"Okay, so the first one is that Tiberius is an idiot, the second is that I'm the most dope person in the world and the last one is that Tiberius is going to be single forevermore because he is so ugly." He said. Tiberius didn't understand why he'd say something like that, and was rather upset that he did say that, but thought about what Kit would do. Kit was not only Ty's boyfriend, but also his idol, his inspiration. Kit would make a stupid, sassy remark, so Ty did exactly that.
"Well, I do act like an idiot occasionally, you are probably on drugs so you are a dope in that aspect and I have an amazing boyfriend, so the lie must be that I will stay single forever." The black haired boy looked pleased with himself and the idiot up the front was glaring at Ty.
A bell that sounded distinctly similar to a kitchen timer went off.
"Unfortunately, that is all we have time for today. Goodbye!"
Ty wandered off into the hall, along with all the other students, when someone pushed him through a door. He immediately turned around and saw none other than the bitch named Miles. The door slowly closed and all the light disappeared. Ty listened to try and get a good idea of where Miles was before punching. The punch made contact with Miles, but Miles managed to kick Ty's knee, knocking him off balance. Ty hit a metal bucket during his fall, and heard something in his leg go crack as he hit the concrete. (AN: By the way, I am aware that Ty would beat a mundane in a fight, but just go with it) Ty screamed out in pain. Taking this as a sign he won, Miles said
"Serves you right for being a dumb fag!" Miles walked out and shut the door behind him.
Ty screamed as loud as he could. He needed to get someone's attention. Finally, after what seemed like hours, an old man in a cleaners outfit walked in. He introduced himself as Matt. Matt helped Ty up, and took him to the nurses office. By the time they reached the office, Ty was in agony. After hearing what had happened and inspecting his leg, the nurse confirmed that Ty's leg was broken. She told him that he was going to need to call someone to pick him up. Ty rang the institute phone.
