'Oh my god!' Katie shouted and Luke jumped off Reid with shock, quickly putting his shirt back on and smoothing his hair down.

'Oh my god!' Katie repeated.
'Yeah, we heard you the first time,' Reid said as he buttoned up his shirt and swivelled around to sit upright on the sofa next to Luke.
'This is why you've been acting weird lately. Because you've been sleeping with a student!' Katie cried.
'I haven't been acting weird lately. I've been happy.' Luke turned at looked at Reid.
'Really?' He asked softly.
'Really.' Reid confirmed and smiled at Luke.

'Oh my god!'
'Stop saying that!' Reid shouted as he stood up from the sofa. Luke stood up behind him and tentatively took Reid's hand into his.
'He was with you on Friday night, wasn't he?' Katie realised.
'Yes.'
'He distracted you from the fridge.'
'Stop going on about the fridge!'

'When did this start? I mean, you could get fired. Let me re-phrase that, you will get fired if anyone finds out.'
'I know. It was about a month ago when we first kissed. It's progressed from there, no matter how many times I tried to stop and lay down new boundaries.'

'Katie, blame me. I forced myself onto him. I fell in love and I made Reid go along with it.'
'That's a lie and you know it.' Reid said to Luke, 'We both fell in love and it was my fault as the responsible adult.'
'Don't patronise me!'
'I'm not.' He stroked Luke's hand with his thumb and faced Katie again.

'You're going to have to be so careful.' She stressed the word careful and Reid sighed. 'But at least Luke's legal now.'
'That's true. So worst comes to worst, I lose my job.'
'And Luke get's kicked out.'
'What?' Reid shouted.
'It's part of the policy. I would've thought, considering the person you're sleeping with, you would have read the bloody leaflet!'
'So we both get kicked out. I can't let that happen to you. You worked so hard to get into this school and I'm not going to muck it up for you.'

'Katie, are you going to tell on us?' Luke asked.
'Of course not! I love you both but I do think it's wildly unprofessional of Reid to be sleeping with his student. You could give him higher grades, etcetera. You have to sort this out.' Luke and Reid both sighed with relief. This gave them time to sort this out.

'Look, you could always drop Biology, Luke. You're a writer and if you are going to be with Reid then you will still learn about it.'
'That wouldn't mean that we would be let off. The policy states that any professor cannot date a student.'
'Look, I was only popping in to see if you were still here, Reid, but it looks like you've got some thinking to do.'

Reid nodded and Katie smiled and left the room. Luke wrapped his arms around Reid and put his chin on the older man's shoulder.

'We're going to have to sort this out. We can't sneak around forever. What if someone else had walked in on us, like my mom.'
'Yeah, we would have been screwed if your mom walked in us.'
'I've got to get home, Reid, but maybe Katie is right about me dropping Biology. You know, as a first step. You can still teach me it out of school.'
'Maybe, I just don't want your education to be compromised because we fell in love.'
'It won't be. I swear. I've got to go. I'll talk to you later?'
'Yeah.' They kissed quickly and Luke left.

Once Reid arrived home Katie ran out of Jacob's room, not a simple feat with 5 inch heels on, and pointed to the sofa.

'Sit.' She ordered.
'But…' He tried to argue.
'Now.'

He sat down on the sofa trying to seem innocent but that look wasn't working on Katie who was sitting beside him with a very angry expression on her face.

'What the hell were you thinking, Reid? Sleeping with a student? The son of your boss and the most important person in this town!' She shouted.
'I know. I didn't think. I tried to lay more and more lines for us not to cross but we couldn't.' He looked sadly down at his hands.
'Right, tell me everything. From the beginning up till now.'
'Really? I mean, that could take a long time and…' Reid tried to protest.
'Talk. Now.'

Two hours later and with two beers already in his system, Reid was feeling more and more able to convey his feelings towards Luke to Katie. She was silent the entire time except to tut when Reid told her that he initiated the first kiss.

'And then you walked in on us.' Reid finished.
'I don't know what to say. I have no idea how you are going to be able to continue seeing each other. At some point in the next three years, someone else will see or suspect and you'll be gone.'
'I can't take Luke down with me. He's too good for me and you know it.'
'I don't think that, perhaps his mother will take exception to her son's situation and not expel him.'
'Do you think?' Reid sat up straight and looked her in the eyes.
'I don't know, Reid. And I can't exactly ask, because then it would look like I wanted to start a relationship with him.'
'I wouldn't blame you if you did.' Reid smiled.

'So you really love each other then?'
'Yes. Definitely. I wouldn't have slept with him if I wasn't sure. I wouldn't have risked my job and reputation for a fling.'
'I know. How was it?' Katie asked, moving from scolding teacher to a wanting-juicy-details roommate.

'What? The sex?'
'Yeah! Was it slow but intimate, or fast and amazing?'
'All of the above.'
'That's all I'm getting?'
'Yes! Katie! That's slightly pervy!'
'Says the man who is sleeping with his eighteen-year-old student!'
He threw a pillow at her and she started laughing.

'What are you going to do, Reid? Look for another job?'
'I've got an even better idea.'

'Luke!' Lily shouted up the stairs of her house. He had moved back to Lily's house instead of the farm. His mom and dad were trying to work things out and he thought it might be better to be living with his siblings instead of alone in the farm.

'What?' He shouted back.
'I have something to tell you, it's important!'

Luke stood up from his desk where he was supposed to have been writing an essay but instead he had been googling Reid. The results were scarily impressive. He was a genius. So why did he give up his practice? Luke would have to look further into the results later on.

'Hey mom, what's the problem?' He asked as he stood in the living room.
'You'd better sit down, honey.'

'Oh crap. She knows.' Luke immediately thought.

'It's your father.'
'Dad? Are you getting back together again?' Luke began to get excited. If his parents got back together that meant that his life was pretty much complete, apart from the fact that he and Reid couldn't come out together for another three years unless the policy changed or Reid moved schools.

'No. Damian, honey. He's back.'

The door knocked and a tall figure walked in.
'Hello, son.'