Hello! I'm stella, aka tumblr user dylanbruced. This is a crosspost of my Orphan Black High School AU. A couple things are changed about the clones' relationships and such, but they are all in there, and there are a couple events that even parallel the show! It doesn't really have a determined length yet, and I have about five chapters written so far, so do enjoy! Chapters will be published once/twice weekly, probably on tuesdays or thursdays unless i go on hiatus!
The phone rang.
And again.
And again.
That was the thing Sarah hated about phones. They rang. Typically at the most inconvenient times. Like when she was sprawled out on her bed, uniform half unbuttoned, with an almost six foot senior on top of her, his lips doing all the right things in all the right places. However, it was difficult to remain aroused and blushing when Milkshake by Kelis was blaring into her right ear.
Moving away from the boy, Sarah rolled over and picked up the phone, not bothering to hide her frustration.
"What is it?"
"Look, Sarah. Don't get snappy with me just because I was the one forced to call you. We all know you're off snogging Vic." She could tell it was Alison. The last person Sarah needed on the phone. "Now listen up while I tell you what's going on. Helena got evaluated."
Sarah's breath hitched. Vic was wrapping his arms around her, but Sarah pushed him off, standing up and buttoning her shirt with one hand and holding her phone in the other. "What's going to happen to her?"
Alison sighed. "What we knew was coming. They're sending her away. Pulling her out of school. She's going to a school for..." Her sentence trailed off. They both knew where Helena was going.
Helena was quite troubled. She was, for the lack of a better term, the runt of the kids. With a handful of mental disorders and no idea of how to treat them, she had gone untreated for most of her life. But when a school counselor had stepped in, the worst had come of it.
"Alison, does Cosima know?"
"Of course not, but I can't keep her from finding out. You know she has her ways."
"I'll be home soon."
"You know Helena will try to-"
"She won't be able to." Sarah snapped, hanging up before Alison could protest. She put on her blazer and turned to look at Vic, who sat on the bed, pleasingly shirtless and hair sticking up in all directions. "I have things to attend to." Sarah said pointedly.
"Can't it wait?" Vic asked.
"No." She said curtly, picking up her backpack. "Family before everything."
Sarah could only hope that Alison had everything under control.
Sarah couldn't say she was surprised when she came home and found that Alison had nothing under control. Not that she ever did. Cosima was half crying, half screaming over her homework while Beth tried desperately to cook dinner. Sadly, beth couldn't cook. Alison was nowhere to be found, and so Sarah was left trying to make sense of what was going on.
Of course, Cosima could have been crying about her homework, but she also could have been crying about the fact that it was hard to breathe with all the clutter in the dining room. There was everything everywhere: documents, clothes, dishes- the girls were too busy with their individual passions to do something as petty as clean.
"Beth." she said, walking into the kitchen and dropping her backpack on the floor. "Where is Alison?"
She glanced up from the food. "Debate."
"Wh-" Sarah paused. That sly dog. Dropping the responsibility of telling her two other sisters about Helena onto her. With a groan, Sarah walked over to Beth. "Why is Cosima in hysterics?" Beth shrugged.
Sarah could always count on Beth to be emotionally detached. She walked to Cosima, pulling up a chair beside her and stiffly wrapping an arm around her shoulder.
"What's wrong?"
Cosima looked at Sarah and sniffled. "The substitute for Physics didn't teach us anything but assigned us the same homework we would have received anyways." She muttered, wiping her face with the back of her hand.
"Isn't that what Google is for?" Sarah asked her.
Cosima looked at her angrily. "You're not helping."
Sarah took the hint and got off her like she was on fire. "Just try it, alright?"
Cosima looked back down to her paper, sniffling quietly. Sarah decided the damage was done and walked back to Beth. She crossed her arms and didn't bother waiting for her to top stirring the Kraft Mac N Cheese before saying,
"Helena is being sent to a special school." She spoke loud enough for Beth to hear, but soft enough for Cosima to miss.
Beth looked at her through the corner of her eyes and then looked back at the Mac N Cheese. "About time."
Sarah almost growled at her. "Don't you understand what that means? She could hurt Danielle or Aryanna!" Her voice became a harsh whisper.
"And?" Beth said, turning to face Sarah. "They are states away from us! Dad doesn't even know we know about them, which is for the better of all of us. If Helena kills either of her sisters, we shouldn't do anything to stop it. It's dog eat dog, Sarah." She paused. "You're supposed to be the tough one, why am I telling you this?"
She didn't wait for an answer before turning back to the stove. Sarah leaned closer to her older sister. "You know how Helena is. She could easily find out about Cosima. We're supposed to protect her, she's the youngest. She's also the least knowledgable about the other half of us. Now shut up and get the plates out."
Sarah muttered something under her breath and got the plates out, setting them down loudly on the counter before saying curtly that she wasn't hungry. She ran upstairs and walked into her room, collapsing on her bed still in her uniform and falling asleep almost immediately.
Her rest was short-lived, as Sarah was awoken by Alison knocking her off her bed. Sarah sat up, groaning and squinting her eyes. "What the hell, Alison?" She said, rubbing her eyes and smearing the makeup she had forgotten to remove.
"Why wasn't Beth told about Helena?"
Sarah frowned. "Beth was told about Helena. I would know. I was there."
Alison chuckled sarcastically. "Very funny. I just spoke to Beth and she had no idea what I was saying."
"Look, it's not my fault she doesn't care about anything other than her Leadership teacher. Maybe if she paid attention to me once in a while we wouldn't have our-" She made air quotes, "Communication issues."
Alison made a face. "I guess it's okay so long as Cosima is oblivious."
Sarah just crawled back into her bed and went to sleep, leaving Alison to deal with Beth.
Thank you for reading chapter 1! Do not be afraid to give feedback on anything, it is quite appreciated!
