Another drabble! I hope you enjoy! Please review..... the idea for this comes from a master/doctor fic I read where the author had put in the summary, this is not canon, just based on fan speculations... I have spent quite a while deciding how to do this and decided to settle on a Koschei/Theta pairing, so...

Pairing: Theta/Koschei (kinda)

Based on speculations

Koschei felt someone push him to the ground as he bent to pick up a book, he turned to face the boy who had pushed him, he was tall and pretty well built for his age (the equivalent of about sixteen in earth years), one of the academy's thugs, he shoved Koschei to the ground again, everybody had turned to watch. Koschei could feel his confusion turning to irritation and knew it wouldn't be long before his irritation turned to anger.

The thug grinned at him, placing a heavy foot on his chest, to keep him pinned to the ground, why was no one helping him? "Hey where's that boy... Theta Sigma that you always hang out with?"

Koschei glared up at him, "Theta's sick."

The thug laughed, "no doubt you gave it to him."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Koschei snarled.

The thug pushed his foot down harder, "Your disgusting." He spat at the boy under his foot, who wiped his cheek with the back of his sleeve in repulsion, "You and your little boy friend," He said with emphasis on the last two words, "It's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen, if it where up to me, I'd have you hanged or at least imprisoned, in fact that's probably what they'll do."

Comprehension dawned on Koschei as he looked around, seeing the disgust on the thug's face mimicked on those around him, that's when the headmaster walked up, "What's going on here?" he said adjusting his robes

The thug didn't move his foot, "Koschei here has been doing disgusting things with Theta Sigma."

The headmaster looked around, rubbing the back of his head and sighed, "Ok step aside." He said shoving the thug aside, "Koschei... come with me." Koschei stood up, rubbing his chest and following the headmaster to his office.

"Is this true?" The man asked.

Koschi blinked at him in surprise, "No sir, of course it's not!"

The man sighed, "Look, this is very serious, here on Gallifrey we pride ourselves..."

Koschei held his tongue and tried to ignore the old proud and noble race speech until the headmaster had calmed down a bit, the man sighed again, Koschei refrained from rolling his eyes, "....I don't want to have to call your father-"

Koschei gasped.

"-but don't think I won't"

"No please sir! I swear that there is no truth in it, it's just that Theta and I have been best friends for a while..."

By the time he finally made it out of the headmaster's office, it seemed that the whole acdemy was waiting for him and Koschei was lucky to make it away from the academy for the holidays, all be it with a black eye.

The next day was a day off and Theta found himself feeling must better, he picked up a slice of fruit for breakfast and headed out across the red hills under the morning light of the twin Gallifreyan suns, heading in the direction of Koschei's father's house, though it wasn't long before he found the person he was looking for, "Hey Kosch." Koschei merely grunted, so Theta threw himself onto the ground next to Koschei, who was sat under the shade of a tall tree, Theta grinned mischievously before noticing something, he reached up to touch his friend's face, "Hey Kosch what's that?" He asked staring at the black-blue bruise. Koschei stood up and marched away from him.

"Koschei?" He called, before charging after the stubborn boy, he grabbed him by the shoulders and Koschei turned around abruptly, "Get the hell away from me!"

Theta was speechless, Koschei shoved at him, so that he could get away and Theta toppled to the ground, Koschei marched away. Before he could stop himself, tears where running down Theta's face and then he was quietly sobbing, as soon as Koschei heard the noise he stopped in his tracks, screwing his eyes tight shut and trying to contain his guilt.

He turned around and marched back to his friend, gently lowering himself to his level, he pressed a hand to Theta's cheek, trapping a tear with his thumb, looking at his best friend sadly, bringing his face closer, his eyes trained hungrily to Theta's lips, he gently kissed them... Both boys pulled away abruptly, hands covering their mouths, eyes wide, instantly moving apart. It was Theta who broke the silence, "We could get into so much trouble.."

And then Koschei laughed and Theta couldn't help but do the same until both where in hysterics and flailing around madly on the grass.

Theta sat up first, he was staring at Koschei's black eye, "Is that why...?"

"Yeah," replied Koschei more seriously.

Theta sighed, "I guess I've known for a while..... I mean at least about me, but you know..."

Koschei nodded.

"I mean I like you Kosch."

Koschei blushed, his head bowed, but nodded all the same.

"I mean I really like you Kosch."

"Yeah me too Thete."

Years later when the two glared at each other in false hatred, it was memories like these that they kept buried at the bottom of their hearts.