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Written for the Spock, Amanda: First day of school prompt at bridge2sickbay
He placed his backpack on the floor next to the table, and when he turned around, he saw his mother smiling at him.
"How was your first day of school?" he wasn't sure why, but when she spoke, he felt something within him break, and the emotions he had fought to keep at bay came to the surface.
"Horrible" Amanda crossed the room, and, kneeling on the floor, put her arms around her son. He returned the embrace.
"What made it so horrible?" slowly, the story came out - how a group of the older boys had started teasing him for being half human, how the other kids had joined in. He had gone to one of the adults to ask them to make the others stop the teasing. The adult in question had only told him to "learn to control his emotions" whcih had only made the teasing worse. Amanda could feel him shake, hear the catch in his voice when he spoke, and knew that he was crying.
Then abruptly, it stopped. Amanda released her son, stood up and turned around to see Sarek standing in the doorway. She wondered briefly how long he had been standing there. She decided it didn't matter, and went to head off her husband before he gave Spock a reprimand.
Listening to the argument that followed, Spock thought he would have preferred the reprimand.