A/N: This in an AU, non-canon, high school Once Upon A Time homage to The Breakfast Club. Magic doesn't exist, the setting is modern, and the main characters are ages 17-18. Multiple ships but has Established Swan Queen. Slight OOC-ness as this fanfic depicts characters non-canon teen years. Rated T with trigger warnings for mentions of: panic attacks, cutting, abuse, depressive thoughts, bullying, drug & alcohol use, sexual references and language.

The prologue & first eight chapters focus on each student as they arrive to school for detention, but characters may appear in another character's arrival chapter due to a pre-existing association. After those chapters, the story dives right into their detention day unfolding with all the high school drama, tragedy and comedy.

No copyright infringement intended. I plan to update this multi-chapter story on Saturdays (= their detention day, ha).

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PROLOGUE: THEIR DETENTION ESSAY

From the desks of Archibald Hopper, Ruby Lucas, Emma Swan, Robin Hood, Mary Margaret Blanchard, Killian Jones, David Nolan & Regina Mills…

As dictated by Archibald Hopper

Saturday October 10th, 4:15 PM

Dear Principal Reul Ghorm:

You forced the eight of us to sacrifice an entire Saturday in detention that we desperately wanted to spend:

…LARPing near the forest with my Cosplay Meetup group…

…Hammering out the chorus to my song 'Howling In The Wind'…

…Sleeping until dinner…

…Practicing these sick ass take down moves I saw at an invitational match last Friday…

…Passing out flyers to Monday's student rally to save Belle's Books from closing…

…Fishing off the pier while watching the tugboats and freighters sail by…

…Checking out funny Vines and eating buttered toast before work at the animal shelter…

…Chilling with my squad at Starbucks because Apple Spice lattes bitches #SquadGoalsQueen #EvilRegals...

But, your decision to reprimand us by doling out Saturday detentions is understandable. We deserved to be denied the pursuit of our preferred activities for one day. Each of us did something inexcusable to get assigned detention. We recognize our culpability and apologize for creating the negative situations that were rightly addressed with our detention sentences.

However, forcing each of us to write an essay informing you of who we think we are is utterly asinine and profoundly condescending. What's the point when all you'll ever do from your glided principal's chair is judge us in the most convenient, artificial and limited terms?

Despite being our principal for almost four years, you continue to see us as a twitchy nerd, a crass sexpot, a volatile outcast, a bully super-jock, an annoying revolutionist, a creepy goth, an insecure class clown, and a spoiled prom queen.

In your defense, many people in positions of authority would consider your judgments and classifications of us as wholly justified and sufficiently accurate.

After all, that's exactly how we saw each other this morning when we arrived by 7:15 AM to our dusty and hot detention dungeon cell otherwise known as your illustrious high school's library.

But, in our defense, we were students serving detention. We obviously didn't make good judgments in the immediate past.

And we clearly didn't know any better before being forced together this morning...

To Be Continued...

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