steelatom one shots

softies part 1

third person pov

first day of junior year, and ray palmer was a nervous wreck. mostly because his major crush is now on the football team. ray has had a crush on the now football quarterback nate heywood since the middle freshman year, when he joined the school. nate is an obvious jock, he's friends with the rest of the jocks and gets all the ladies.

ray was the leader of this group called 'the legends'. it's a group for outcasts and misfits that don't fit in with the rest of the crowd. he had quite a few people in his group that included, sara lance, ava sharpe, john constantine, zari tomaz and charlie. they were all quite close friends and they met together almost everyday after school.

ray's pov

i was currently walking to school with sara and ava, they were one of the most popular couples in school. they always stood up for me when i was getting bullied. nate and his friends were the ones that bullied me. but nate was never the one to do anything, he just stood and watched.

sara, ava and i made it to school with only a few minutes to bare. we all had 6 classes and sara was in 4 of mine and ava was in 3. i had biology first with sara, we said our goodbyes to ava as we parted paths and me and sara went to class. nate was in this class, he was already there with his friends in the back of the room. me and sara sat near the front.

this was my favorite class of the day because it had my favorite teacher in it, professor stein. he is the best and we talk from time to time because him and my mom were good friends.

"hello class today we will be doing a partner project so please, find yourself a partner and we will get started." professor stein said and i turned my head to ask sara if she wanted to be partners but she already sprinted to someone else. i groaned in annoyance because she always does that. everyone else had a partner but me, i sighed while looking around the classroom.

"ray and nathaniel, you 2 seem to be the only ones without a partner." professor stein said and i looked at nate, his eyes were on me the second the professor said that. i slowly walked over to nate as he stared me down as i got closer.

"hi, i- um guess we have to be partners?" i spoke nervously, having to partner up with my crush and the one whose friends bully me is horrible. he shrugged and sat down in the chair next to me, not seeming to care at all. later in the class i heard snickering from beside me. i looked over to see mick rory and leonard snart. the main 2 jocks that bully me daily.

"yo nate, it's too bad you had to get partnered up with this loser." leonard said and nate turned his head and frowned. i focused back on the experiment we were doing, i was mostly doing all the work, nate was just sitting there. eventually the bell rang and i walked to the class which sara nor ava were in, history. i got pushed and whatnot while trying to make it to class, then what do you know? i got shoved into the lockers, nothing new.

of course it was mick and leonard with a few others, rene, roy and thea. thea was oliver queen's sister, oliver was the top student in my junior class. he got very good grades and made lots of friends. he was the kind of person you would want to be friends with. but thea was the complete opposite she was rude and mean and very disrespectful. i was in my own headspace when i heard someone yell from down the hall. i never realized i was beaten quite bad as i was, until i snapped back into reality and groaned in pain. loud footsteps were heard coming my way, i was hoping it was someone to come finish me off.

"get the fuck away from him!" someone screamed but i didn't look up to see who it was, my face really hurt and so did the rest do my body. suddenly i heard punches, kicks and grunts, then multiple footsteps running away. then i felt a gentle hand on my arm and jolted backwards and looked up to see who it was. most people knew not to touch me because of my severe ptsd, only few people i actually trusted could touch me.