A/N: Yay, update! This one is kinda short, and kinda OOC, but I'm on Spring Break, so I may update again very soon. I don't know when I'm going to the beach, so I don't know what my window for updating is. Depends on if we take the laptop with us, and whether or not our hotel room has wi-fi.

I've had this idea for like, forever. Mrs. Mirren is totally based on my chemistry teacher. Professor Mirrow kind of was too, but she was more, I don't know, scatterbrained than my teacher is. Whereas everything that Mrs. Mirren says I can totally hear coming out of my teacher's mouth.

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Salvage

"Please! Ten points, ten points!"

"No, Sora, I'm not giving you ten points of extra credit!" Mrs. Mirren shook her head and took a step back from the frantic brunette on his knees on the floor of her classroom.

Sora scooted a little closer, his hands clasped together; pleading with his teacher. "Please, just ten points! That'll bring my grade up all I need, please!"

Mrs. Mirren rolled her eyes. "Sora, no! I'm not giving you extra credit just because you saved the universe."

"Twice!" Sora held up two fingers. "I saved it twice! And a half! The half being the time I can't remember because Kairi's alter ego wiped my memory! That's gotta count for something!"

Mrs. Mirren rolled her eyes at the boy's desperation. "In the grand scheme of things, we're very thankful for that, but I'm not giving you extra credit for it. Although I have to say, that in my 35 years of teaching I've never had such an original plea for extra credit." She turned and began flipping through the grade book on her desk. "If you want to bring your grade up, I would suggest a tutor." She turned back to stare at him. "As in, someone other than your girlfriend. As you have shown in my class, you find staring at Kairi infinitely more entertaining than chemistry. While having her tutor you may work for you in that you have more time to stare at her, I highly doubt any learning is going on."

Sora stared dejectedly up at his teacher, trying to come up with something, anything else to say that might convince her to give him a few points of extra credit.

"But, but…"

Mrs. Mirren sighed and rolled her eyes again. "No buts. I can barely give you credit for normal assignments! Why should I give you extra credit when you don't even do the regular work?"

"I do too do my work!"

"Oh really?" Mrs. Mirren looked down at her grade book. "Because I have a whole column of red marks that says you don't."

Sora grimaced. "Okay, so I don't always do well, but I do it!"

Mrs. Mirren looked back down at him. "Name the chemical symbol for Antimony."

"Uuh…" Sora thought for a moment. "An?"

His teacher raised an eyebrow. "Do you see an 'An' on that periodic table?" She pointed to the large periodic table hanging on the wall.

Sora bit his lip. "Uh, I meant," he glanced at the periodic table again. Antimony, antimony, which one was antimony? "Uh, it's 'At'?"

"No."

"As?"

"No."

"Ar?"

"Getting colder."

"Ac?"

"You're getting frostbite."

"Um…"

Mrs. Mirren put down her grade book and rubbed her temples. "There isn't an A in it. Kind of like your grades right now. It's 'Sb'."

Sora raised an eyebrow. "Sb?"

"For stibium. The old name for antimony. You were supposed to learn those too."

Sora slumped defeatedly on the floor.

"And you mother wonders why you're failing…"

She started to walk away and Sora, filled with the sudden dread of facing his mother, leaped forward and grasped her ankle, clinging to her leg. "Wait!"

Mrs. Mirren turned to stare at him. "What are you doing?"

"Five points, five points." Sora held up five fingers. "Just five. That'll bring my grade up to a low D, my mom can live with a D, just as long as I don't have an F! And if she can live with it, then that means that I will live because she won't feel the impulse to kill me! And if she doesn't kill me, then I will live to save the universe again! Mrs. Mirren, wouldn't you hate that the universe was destroyed because the person who was supposed to save it was dead because his mother killed him because he failed Chemistry! And all of that could have been avoided if only you'd given him five points of extra credit that would have brought his grade up to something his mother would consider okay. Mrs. Mirren, you are sealing the fate of the universe by failing me!"

Mrs. Mirren sighed and stared down at him. She frowned at Sora for a moment, thinking.

"I can live with that."


A/N: Um, yeah. Not much to say, really. I think the old name for antimony was stibium...I have a good grade in chemistry, promise. I think. I hope. Hmm.