Chapter One
"Miss Laurie Watson! Miss Laurie Watson to the Headmasters office!"
A smooth chuckle in her ear got her groaning unhappily. "Best go see what they want, liebling. We have a heavy afternoon ahead of us." A kiss to her shoulder got her sighing and standing up, reaching put to put roll on deodorant on before chucking it back onto her chest of drawers. Laurie began picking up her clothing and putting it on, looking back at the large man. God, he was handsome, blue eyed and blonde and lightly German accented and his hands could do wondrous things. She hungrily leaned forward and kissed him, finally glad to have the frustratingly hard to catch Lukas in her bed as she done her buttons up on her tight tailored blouse. He pulled back with a lazy smile and hot eyes, remarking, "Go."
"Go, he says!" Laurie grabbed her tie and threw it around her shoulders, tugging on her socks and very comfortable school loafers. "Honestly." She picked her brush up running it painfully quick through her dark brown bed mussed hair, and throwing up the very long wavy strands into a high messy bun as usual. "You'd think he'd show some compassion." She sprayed some fruity perfume on, checked her face in the mirror to make sure everything was a-ok and nodded. Humming thoughtfully, she applied her pale pink lipstick, giving Lukas a look of amusement. "You got me all achy from last night, and you now expect me to give you tonight as well? How demanding!" She replied in amusement, smiling widely.
"You can take it." Lukas dismissed, causing her to huff dramatically, and he laughed deeply at that. "You are fine, liebling. It is me who has to go without such an amazing woman. Let me go sneak out now, kleine Hase, and I'll call you after school."
She cocked her head with a knowing wide smile and crossed her arms. "So we won't meet at the Tiny Tom Café at six like we do every Monday?"
"Maybe I would like to change it up?"
Laurie paused, raising her brows, tapping her fingers along her arm.
"Okay. So we'll meet then." The twenty six year old laughed, clapping his younger lover on the back and giving her a hot kiss before unwillingly letting go of her. "Now go. I'll get rid of all of this." He referred to their mess of used condoms and packets, shooing her out like the good little househusband he was being.
Laurie winked cheerfully and set off.
Lukas looked at her back as she went and shook his head. "Woman has far too much energy. Damn crazy martial artist."
Bullworth Academy, her last year of mandatory education; of course Bullworth now had a college attached to it, and with all the space the school owned it was about time they added it. She'd be staying here for another few years and getting a degree. Sure her work with Lukas and a few others paid well, but she was hoping to drop that side of things soon enough before it got too serious.
She went to the secretarial area and seeing no one she shrugged, about to tiredly lean against the wall to wait before hearing the headmasters voice travel across the room. Knowing her school secretaries' hard-on for him, Laurie figured Miss Danvers knickers must get changed a lot, because his voice carried heavily through the room. A little snicker broke through her own quiet and she moved forward to stand at the entrance of the Headmaster's room seeing some new kid being inured to Bullworth's leading teacher.
Poor guy.
"C'mon. Gimme a break…" The skinhead replied to something she'd not listened to.
"Hopkins, you're quite the nastiest boy I've ever encountered. Tell me, why should I waste my time on you?"
'Nastiest, huh?'
"I don't know."
"Because it's my calling!" Dr. Crabblesnitch declared dramatically, nodding to Laurie, who smiled back pleasantly with her own polite nod, inwardly snickering and watched as he turned back to Hopkins, who was giving her a curious look at her appearance. Laurie winked at him and began to mimic the Headmaster humorously. "It's what I do!" The Headmaster then pointed at him and Laurie copied, nodding solemnly. "You excel at causing trouble, and I excel at fixing little boys like you and making you into respectable members of our community here at Bullworth Academy."
Hopkins looked like he was fighting a wide grin.
"I have a feeling about you, boy." Crabblesnitch stated and Laurie raised her brows comically, putting a shocked hand to her opened mouth behind his back. "I have a feeling you and I are going to be great friends, boy."
'Oh!' Laurie put her hands to her cheek giving a cute, silent 'Awww!' at him.
"You keep that nose clean boy or I shall clean it myself!"
Her head reared back imperiously to copy the older man's stance, connecting eyes with her fellow students and nodding, before a wide laughing smile broke over her face and looked away with a polite look as she heard the tea set rattle, as did Dr. Crabblesnitch. "Miss Danvers! Are you back?"
"No shit." Laurie muttered to herself under her breath.
The secretary rushed in. "I have your tea, Headmaster." Her voice was coy and feminine and Crabblesnitch nodded politely.
"You are good to me, Miss Danvers." The two turned to the set and Laurie waved at Jimmy with a friendly hand before pointing at those two.
'She wants to fuck him so bad.' She mouthed causing the guy to hold back his laughter as best he could when she started to hump the air in front of her before straightening up at the sound of her name as Crabblesnitch turned to her.
"Miss Watson. As one of our prefects-" Laurie cocked her head, trying to hide her inner anxiety at him knowing about her years of martial arts somehow. Only guys were prefects here because they did the punishments on the seriously rough pupils of Bullworth Academy. Plus they were huge and intimidating and could drag around a friggin' rhinoceros between two of them. At least she liked to think so. The image was amusing. "-Ah yes, I'm reinstating female prefects as I believe it'll bring a lot of comfort to the girls side."
Comfort?
The girls?
Had he met those catty bitches?
She blinked herself out of it and gave a polite smile. "Of course. Thank you for the honour."
"Your first port of duty will be to show Mister Jimmy Hopkins around and get him situated. Miss Danvers will have printed his schedule by then so come to collect it afterwards. On your way." Dr. Crabblesnitch dismissed and she nodded as Jimmy rose up and stood next to her.
"I will." She nudged him and nodded over her shoulder, slowly walking backwards. "C'mon, Hopkins."
"One more thing." Crabblesnitch went to the cloak stand and took off a small blazer passing it to her. "Your blazer. Off you go."
They left and she put it on, admiring the way it fit her pretty darn well, ignoring the confusion of some lesser years as they descended the stairs. "Let's go get you in your uniform."
"Gonna help me into it?"
"You should be so lucky, mate. I'm taken for now." Laurie said, taking out her cheap phone as she got a saucy text from Lukas and gave him a sideways wink. "Nice go of it, though."
He shrugged unapologetically, grinning. "Can't blame a guy for trying. Jimmy Hopkins."
"Laurie Watson. Yes, yes, English accent and 'Watson', I know. Let's not get into the Sherlock thing." She waved away, replying to her man. "So how old are you?"
"Seventeen. You're bubbly, aren't you?"
"Yeah?" She looked up in curiosity. "Year below me then. So I don't have to socially remove myself from you? Oh, good. Everyone needs a friend in this place. Full of sharks out for blood and snakes out to take it all. You be careful, alright?" She eyed him and then waved that away with a grin, bobbing up and down as she walked. "Ah, but you look like a tough enough bloke." She felt her grin drop and sighed regretfully when she saw the little group in front of the Boys Dorm. "So, uh, seems like they knew about the new kid. Here's your initiation, I take it."
"What?"
"Hey! There's the new kid!"
"Listen. Davis brown haired." She muttered to him after giving a quick look. "Trent the blond and Wade the redhead. Bully clique… well un-clique. Just a group of wankers liking to beat people up. Initiation for the guys is to beat one of them up. Pretty much a lose-lose situation. You lose, you get beat up and disrespected. You win, you still come out with a clique against you. At least all you have to do for the girls is steal a bottle from that drunkard teacher of ours. Easy shit. Still, there's about twenty to thirty of them and-"
"Thanks for info." He grunted, stepping up and not letting her finish.
"You're quite welcome." She mocked and then winced at the very awfully made punch to the face Jimmy easily dodged. "Yikes. I really can't stand watching such shoddy fist work." She sighed to herself, stretching and then noticed two about to creep up on Jimmy from behind as he began to get a one up on Davis. "Oi! One on one, you cheating bastards!" They slowly followed her words, noting her dark blue prefect blazer.
"Hey, babe."
"Tom." She winked with a quick grin, her normal greeting for everyone, finishing off her text and putting her phone away, letting Lukas go back to his meeting for their next job to get the details. "You got another black eye, mate?" She nudged him jokily.
Tom shrugged, trying to push it away, but by the darkness of it she suspected it was very new. Today or a few hours ago, even. "It ain't nothing to worry about."
"If you say so." She winced as Jimmy gloated and Russell came out, pounding his chest and then charged at Jimmy, smacking him one right in the gob and her mouth formed into a 'oh' of pained sympathy. She'd had many of those. "Ah. Might be a problem... Still standing?" She said in surprise as the maths teacher Hattrick ran passed and bitched the pair of them out, handing them both a detention slip with separate prefect. Jimmy angrily shoved it into a pocket and she noted which it was. "Well, well… I'm impressed."
Not once had she seen anyone stay standing, even she would've been thrown to the ground by such a blow. Not that she'd have been hit by such a move but still.
Damn.
Maybe she should try and get Jimmy in on her jobs? Lukas had been worrying more about her lately on the jobs they did. A bit rough in technique but a few lessons with her a week for a while and he should be up to snuff.
"Ciao, Tom." She swiftly followed Jimmy into the Boys Dorm. "Hey, mate. That was some grade A taking it there."
"Can't believe you didn't tell me about him." Jimmy grumbled, trying to stretch his jaw a bit before taking his words back at her raised brow. "Yeah, yeah I cut you off and charged in."
"Ain't like we could've seen him through solid opaque materials." Laurie brushed it off. "Okay, so to my knowledge I can't go in the bedrooms of the opposite gender, but I can wait for you in there." She pointed to the common room right in front of them and went to lean against the wall at the newest message she got. "So I'll stay here instead." She looked up from it when he simply stood there. "Go on, silly." She smiled and he snorted, moving forward but was quickly intercepted, not that she cared. She could wait.
Impatiently.
"Hey, you're the new kid."
Jimmy turned to him, still in a bad mood, eyeing up the guy in teal in an irritated fashion along with Laurie giving a curious look.
Teal triggered something in her memory as they talked, and she heard some about medication and then it hit her.
Gary Smith, right?
Even she, not bothering much with the gossip reel, had heard some pretty far out tales of him. It was intriguing to actually know who such delightful tales were about.
She took out her phone as it vibrated again, smiling naughtily at the dirty text. 'Don't think I wouldn't go for that, lovely.'
"That's fascinating. Now if you'll excuse me-"
Gary caught Jimmy by the elbow with a firm grip, looking like he hated being dismissed. "I said relax, friend-"
"Get off, man."
Her head shot up and then rolled her eyes at the affectation between them, leaning against the wall with her foot flat up against it, knee bent as she started a game of snake, waiting for the next text.
"Listen to me, tough guy. You've just arrive at the toughest school in America and I'm offering to be your friend. Trust me, in a place like this you're gonna need friends. So it's up to you. You gonna play nice or what?"
"Yeah. Sure." He turned away from the teal guy and turned to the only girl in the Boys Dorm. "So you weren't joking then, Laurie?"
"Huh?" She felt stares on her and looked up quickly but that cost her the game and the ending trill was mocking her, she was sure it was. "Aww!" She was doing shit anyway; those two bastards were loud. "Fuck. You made me lose my game. So, what was the question?" She asked in an upbeat fashion.
"This place and friends?"
Laurie pushed off the wall as she sauntered up to them, putting hands in skirt pockets. "Ah, yes." Her voice was drawling and the accent got their attentions, making her grin widely in reply to their focus. "This place is amazing with its tenacity in it's want to chew you up and spit you out and make you want more. Or if you're a pussy, run out. You've done quite well so far, step above the other lads I might say. Haven't seen anything like it, if I must be generous, and you see a lot of fights around here. I think you may even be able to beat our resident Hulk. One thing?" Her hand snapped out to swipe the detention note from his pocket, dodging the annoyed swipe by Hopkins and read the person he was serving it with.
Seth.
The worst of the bunch.
'Excellent.'
She could sort this one out.
Jimmy sighed in annoyance, trying again but she stepped out of the way and he gave up. "Hey, just what is up with the people here?!"
The two simply gave him dour looks and Laurie looked back down to the note. "Seth, huh? Biggest of the bunch and loves to take the piss as you do whatever they make you do. I'll deal with this for you so forget you ever had it. I'll 'oversee' your detention. Think of it as a welcome to Bullworth gift."
Jimmy gave her a grin before wincing at his wounded head and she chuckled. "Seriously? Thanks."
"You're quite welcome. Now go get your arse changed and meet me in the common room." She fluttered her fingers at Gary and gave Jimmy a wink, going to the end of the hall and jogging up the stairs to the top where she knew Seth was.
"She's fucking adorable. Know anything about her?" Jimmy asked idly as they walked to his room, looking at door numbers.
Gary's eyes narrowed, going back to his mass knowledge of students and the blackmail he has on them and found it irritably lacking on her memory file. "An actual Brit rather than one of those English accented Preppies. Been here for about two years. Very friendly and apparently energetic, though not particularly close to anyone from what I recall. A Prefect now, too?"
"Crabblesnitch said something about reinstating girls as prefects for the comfort of them?"
The teal male snorted. "You'd think he doesn't work here. Girls are all bitches here." He explained in one short sentence, because that's all it really needed.
"Really? Laurie seems okay?"
"Wait until you mess her around or she gets cheated on and she'll give you hell. All of the girls can handle themselves here." He raised a brow at him. "You've a lot to learn. Didn't you know the rep of this place before you go here?"
"Didn't care." Jimmy entered his room, closing the door behind him.
"Idiot." Gary snickered to himself, leaning against the wall.
Laurie knocked on Seth's door and greeted him with a wink. "Hey, sugar."
"Laurie. They're getting girls again?"
"Yup. Now I want to see if this kids who's got a detention with you is any good." Seth gave her a certain pressing look and she nodded. Seth was also one of the people she worked with outside of Bullworth and any detention she got she'd always had Seth take it over and they discussed their latest jobs given by Carter. He may seem slow and just a big old silverback ape of a man, but he was training under Lukas in hacking for years now and was well-versed in his much preferred literary pursuits, and the two Bullworthians were great friends because of it. "He took a full blow on the cheek from Russell and barely stumbled."
Seth whistled in appreciation. "No wonder you want him. Alright, seeing as even though you'll probably be overlooking girls' detentions, I'll hand over Hopkins just to give you more work." He grinned mockingly.
"What? Hey, hey, we can't trade? I wanna try and build him up a bit, you know? Technique needs lots of refining and all that?"
"Only because you've saved my ass a few times."
"And what a fine arse is it, sweetness." She handed over the pink slip he needed to write on, and he'd be sending out texts to the other three boys on this update if they didn't know about it already. "You're a star, sugar."
"What can I say? I got a weakness for accents."
She laughed brightly and gave him a hug, which he pat her on the back for, hand lingering for a second.
"Oh, here. There was something else as well but I can't think of it yet. Anyway, go show the kid around and scope him out a bit more. Give it a couple weeks." He handed her a small bag of blueberries when she nodded in slow sighing agreement (she kind of just wanted to drag Jimmy along and push him into it, but that was dumb as fuck and way too impulsive) and shooed her off.
She went down the stairs with a satisfied yawn, and then opening the packet noted Smith waiting outside a door. "He's taking his sweet time, isn't he?"
"He's unpacking." Gary stated as if it were obvious.
"Still? …Hell, what can I say; I still keep half my stuff in my suitcase 'cause I'm lazy." She admitted with a snigger, smiling up at him as if they were sharing the joke between them.
Such… inclusion was odd for him. He figured his reputation would precede him, especially since she was a regular here. The scarred male looked her over, not really having much contact with her even though he shared some of his advanced lesson with her year group due to his intelligence and the other half with his own age group of seventeen.
Her face was animated, so when she phased out into thought, he thought she wasn't as pretty. Emotion suited her, and he took her for an upbeat positive person, a little grin tilting up one side of her face constantly, even out of concentration on this world. Her body was normal, though her clothing was a bit strained compared to the baggier ones of other girls, and he wondered if her background was rich because he was sure those articles of clothing were tailored. She probably didn't have many skills, which was why his minds' databank didn't have much on her, even though she'd been permanent for a couple years now.
So attractive enough, positive, vibrant, a cute laugh- Hold the phone.
He didn't think nicely of people and wouldn't start now.
Laurie gave a wry smile, raising her brows invitingly and shaking the packet. "Blueberry? Want some?"
His eyes narrowed.
She blinked and he capitulated upon seeing the bright grey eyes looking up welcomingly.
…He did like blueberries.
Gary held his hand out and she tilted out a fair few of them for him, surprising him with her generosity.
"They're my favourite." She blathered on. "I always have packs of these around in my room just waiting to be munched on. What's yours?"
"Don't have one." He said gruffly, not wanting to talk, making himself look unapproachable as he chewed on a few, but she didn't seem to mind. He looked at the bag for the brand name of them but her short nailed fingers were in the way. Soft orange nail varnish merged nicely with the slightly purple blue of the blueberry between her finger and thumb as she plucked another out. He admired the color difference against each other.
Laurie noticed and kept it covered, wanting to keep him intrigued. She'd seen the looks the boys had given him when they'd passed them and figured he probably didn't have that many friends. If she got through his gruff sarcasm and liked being his friend, then maybe she'd try and weasel her way into his trust. "Ah, but you like these, so that's good enough for me. C'mon Hoppykins!" She called into the room impatiently, bobbing up and down on the soles of her feet. "Class is in fifteen and we gotta get your schedule! Knowing my luck I'll probably be on the opposite end of the bloody school, too. Always the way."
Gary smirked at that, taking in everything about her, wondering if he could somehow use the little prefect to his own advantage. She was somewhat impatient and had energy on top of whatever else he'd catalogued and she'd seemed to have gotten rid of Jimmy's detention for today, something that could come in very useful for if he needed a favour from her he'd never repay.
Jimmy opened the door.
"Finally!"
"It was barely five minutes."
"Four minutes and fifty nine seconds too long, my friend. Anywho, we'll go grab your schedule, I'll show you to your first two classes and I can show you around at lunch time. We'll meet in the canteen, yeah?"
"Cool."
"Pushy, aren't you?" Gary scoffed at her planning Jimmy's time out, though Jimmy didn't seem too bothered by it, causing him to also take that in. Easy to control, or maybe it was because it was a girl? Or that girl? He'd have to test it out soon enough. "Let the guy be a man already."
Jimmy was actually inwardly glad someone actually gave a damn and looked past his naturally cross looking face after just being dumped on Bullworth's doorstep that very day.
"Yup. I can be. I'm just looking out for him on the first day after he's gone through friggin' Russell… uh… You." She poked his chest with an unsure nod.
"You?" Gary said in an unimpressed fashion, eyeing her finger. "Really?"
"Actually, I don't even have your name. I'm Laurie Watson."
"Gary Smith."
"Jimmy Hopkins." The new guy said.
"Lovely. Onwards, gentlemen!"
.G.
A/N: Barely edited. Older Story, might not be completed for a long time, but I certainly have about 80k+ words written for this lovely thing.
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