Well, That Was A Thing (Good Omens One-Shots)

11; Hallway Whispers In Tadfield High

Context: Human, high-school teacher AU. Mainly from The Them's POV. Basically, Pepper discovers fan-fiction, shipping, gets a bit obsessed with it and passes it onto the rest of her gang. (Much to the annoyance of their English and History teachers, for they, it seems, are their new OTP)

A bit different from the other one-shots I've done here but I had a very specific scene pop into my head and I just had to get to it somehow, so this was the end result.

Word Count: 3,000

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"Guys! Guess what I discovered last night." Said Pepper as she sat at her desk next to the boys.

Brian was the first to ask. "What?"

"She said to 'guess' Brian, not 'ask'." Wensleydale pointed out.

Adam nudged an elbow into his ribs. "Come on Wensley, no one ever actually guesses whatever the person is telling them to guess."

"Well, it isn't my fault no one uses that phrase properly." Said Wensleydale with a shrug.

"Anyway, what'd you find, Pepper?" Asked the gang's leader, putting his phone down.

"Right, so I was on twitter last night and I saw someone had posted a link, something about Spider-Man and Deadpool. I thought it was a comic, but it was a story. Not even an official one, just something a fan did 'cause they were bored. For free!"

Brian raised a brow, obviously confused by the information. "Seriously? Why would someone do that? Can't they get, like, sued?"

"I don't know, but it's called 'fan-fiction' and it's literally stories made by fans. It doesn't matter if it makes sense or not! You can even make stories with characters from different shows and movies and stuff!"

Adam looked very intrigued. "So, if I wanted to make something up where Superman and... He-Man had a big fight, I could do that?" He asked.

The most soft-spoken of the group pipped up once more. "Actually, I believe that's already a comic, but I've never read it so, I'm not sure how it turns out."

Pepper acknowledged Wensleydale's comment with a half-nod but remained focused on Adam. "Yeah, anything goes. You just say it's an AU and no one can say anything about it not being accurate."

"A what-now?" Asked Adam.

"An 'AU' is an 'Alternate Universe'. A world where you can do whatever you want and it just makes sense 'cause it's your world and you're in charge of it. You don't even have to explain how stuff makes sense, it just does. Oh, and then there's the shipping-"

Brian made a face. "Shipping? Like the post or like boats?"

Pepper shook her head, grabbed a pen and started writing on her desk. "No, 'ship' as in 'relationship'. When you ship, you're saying you want two people to be in a relationship. Like..."

Wensleydale tilted his head a bit, providing an example. "Like Chloe and Lucifer?"

"Right. Although, since the show writers have always gone in that direction, it's more canon than ship, I think." She said, not so sure.

"Cannon? This is turning more nautical than I expected." Said Brian, mostly to himself, but everyone heard him.

She shook her head and continued to write on the desk, much to Wensleydale's chagrin. "No, you're thinking of the ones on pirate ships, that's two 'n's. Canon, one 'n', is what the writer says is official in that universe. A 'head-canon' is what a fan would like to be official in that universe but probably isn't and never will be. That's why people make fics, to see their head-canons somewhere other than their head!"