troubled teachers

Chapter 24 (SMUT)

A/N: more Henry drama! Don't worry, there's a hell of a lot of SwanQueen coming up at the end of this chapter and in the next one too! But it's not smooth sailing for our wonderful couple when the final twist of this story is revealed. Also, this is NSFW - sexy times ahead!

Emma hated whole school assemblies. Every teacher did. Close to one thousand children packed into the gym, lined up like sardines as each tutor desperately tried to keep order amongst the thirty students for whom they were responsible. Emma was particularly dreading the one she was currently stood in because she knew in a few short minutes several of her Year 11 boys who be panicking about what was announced.

There was a collective groan when My Gold informed the students about the locker search. Emma didn't think Peter or any of his friends would be stupid enough to bring drugs into school but the headteacher seemed to think it was as good of a place to start as any. Tutors were instructed to take their students back to their classroom and await the block by block searches. Emma's group were unnaturally quiet when they settled in their seats in her classroom and the blonde wondered whether the boys knew exactly what Mr Gold was looking for and where the suspicion fell.

Nothing was found, as Emma predicted. But Peter was clearly rattled, he and Felix huddling together at the back of the classroom long after the search had been completed and her tutor group had been given the all clear.

As soon as the bell rang to signal lessons would resume as normal, there was a rush for the door. Just as the last pony tail was disappearing, a harried looking Regina appeared.

"What's wrong?" Emma asked at once.

"They found some weed in one of my student's lockers," Regina said as she began to pace up and down the classroom.

"Whose?"

"Jakob Davis."

"The little ginger kid who comes up with the most ridiculous lies about why he hasn't done his homework?"

Regina nodded.

"What did he say?"

"I don't know," Regina replied. "Mr Gold marched him off to his office as soon as it was discovered. I'm supposed to go down to speak to him after break."

"Well, Henry did mentioned that Jakob was there the night they went to the promenade," Emma said. "But he just doesn't seem the type, does he?"

Jakob Davis was small for his age with freckles covering every inch of his pale face. His shock of orange hair was always unruly and he had been teased mercilessly when he first arrived at the secondary school. Now he was in Year 10 the bullying had stopped but he wasn't an outgoing or popular kid, preferring to focus on his studies despite his academic grades never being particularly high. He had a few, equally mundane, friends and they were always seen together hanging out by the football field. Emma wasn't aware, however, that they were particularly friendly with the Year 11s involved. The cinema was the first time Henry had mentioned his name, in fact.

"Were Peter and Felix in the clear?" Regina asked.

"Yes," Emma nodded. "But I expected that because neither of them are stupid enough to bring drugs into school, especially after the porn DVD debacle. That said, I would have expected even Jakob to have more brains than to do what he's done."