Welcome to the prompts.

Now I said on Twitter that these happened because the ideas were starting to dry up and you would notice more when that happens because these will become more frequent. Having said that, I will, from time to time, come up with ideas for the Wednesday works (the name has stuck now), I will slot them in as and when I can. Basically, the plan is to keep this going (I have a number of tabs open so it will only be my own motivation).

The first thirty is from otp-imagines-cult on Tumblr (if you want the link, message me on Twitter).

Shall we see where my mind has gone this time?

One: Meeting

The first time your OTP met. Introduced through a mutual friend? An accident?

Maybe the power had gone to Eddie's head but he never thought that he would get the chance to be a headteacher (admittingly an acting one) so soon after becoming a deputy. He wanted to go up the ladder but after wanting a head of Maths role for so long and none of the heads of Maths budging so he could fill their roles, he had to look to the next viable step. That was to become a Deputy Head.

And he loved it. Well, he loved it to an extent. The amount of paperwork that was required to be done or the extra boring courses that he would have to do was never mentioned to him when he talked about applying for the role.

And maybe it was a power thing. Being second in charge with his sights on being in charge.

So as much as he wished that he had spent more time under Jack's leadership, he was more than chuffed when the governors made it known to him that he was going to be acting head.

To hear that Ria was coming in on his first day on the job was not welcomed and it made him wonder why the LEA were already sticking their noses into their business. Couldn't they at least give him a couple of weeks to prove himself and to start undoing some of Jack's mistakes?

Hearing the two people laughing in his office made him a little more than curious about what was going on. Was this someone else to stick their nose in their business?

And so he entered his office, with the attitude to be as friendly as possible.

"Ria. Sorry, I'm late." Eddie said.

"Eddie, this is Rachel Mason," Ria said, introducing the other woman that was in the room as she stood up.

"Eddie Lawson." He said, holding out his hand to her to shake.

He had to play nice now and if he needed to be a little… less friendly then he could do it when Ria wasn't there. Or maybe he could mutter about Rachel Mason behind her back. He hadn't really cottoned on to why Rachel was there. And Ria didn't waste any time telling him why once they had exchanged pleasantries.

"Rachel's the new headteacher."

"Sorry?" Was all Eddie felt like he could say.

And to add insult to injury, Rachel chimed in at that point. "Of Waterloo Road." She said, sounding so smug about that fact.

"She's taking over from Jack," Ria said.

Eddie knew that there had to be some misunderstanding. They were going to advertise for the new head, weren't they? He was going to a brilliant job so that when he applied for the role, he could get it. It seemed like the best way. No more change. No more new faces in the management team.

He could tell that Rachel only said something because of the awkward silence that had fallen between them. She didn't have to say anything. She just didn't have to take his job.

"Ria has spoken really highly of you. I'm glad to have you as my deputy."

Yeah right. Eddie thought.

If it wouldn't have been so rude, he probably would have scoffed. Just his mum had brought him up better and it was weird how he could feel the way his mum would have hit the back of his head if she could see him now. Maybe he should be ashamed of how he was acting but the job was his.

"I'm sure you two have a lot to discuss, so, good luck," Ria said.

"Thank you," Rahel said, her smiling seeming to drop as she turned from Ria back to him.

With Ria leaving, Eddie knew that he had to catch her before she left. He had to understand. He was meant to be acting head. Not Rachel Mason being the new headteacher.

"Ria, I just don't…" He said, following her until she stopped in the doorway. "Nigel as good as told me that I'd be acting head."

"Sorry, Eddie, LEA decision. Rachel's going to see this term and next term out. She'll explain her plans."

That annoyed him. If she was only there until the summer, Easter at the worst, then why would they bring Rachel in. It just seemed like more change was on the horizon and it wasn't what he thought that the school needed. The school needed some stability. It needed stable leadership to sort out its problems. Not a new headteacher every couple of terms.

He turned to Rachel briefly, knowing that the woman had (realistically) done nothing to offend him but he had this hatred for her. It wasn't fair but as Ria left, there was nothing else that he could do that turn properly to Rachel, raising his head up tall and rolling his shoulders back. She was a newbie. She had no idea what she was letting herself in for. At least he had a bit of time and experience on her.

"So, these 'plans' of yours, care to expand?" He said, watching her looking rather at home behind his desk.

"Yeah, it's all in here." She said as she walked towards him. "As of today, I'll be changing the curriculum. In five weeks, Waterloo Road will have Business and Enterprise College status." She handed him the booklet. "In 12 months, this place will be transformed - vocational course, specialist staff, an IT infrastructure, dedicated facialists and an Extended school."

He could feel himself scoffing at everything that she was saying. Was she really hearing herself? They were struggling to get some students to leave with D and E grades at GCSE. She was definitely running before she was walking. He was definitely glad that he had the experience of Waterloo Road because she was in for one hell of a shock.

But there was something else that he focused on for the moment. Because everything that she had just said sounding rather expensive for their ever-shrinking budget.

"Where's the money coming from to pay for this?" He said, waving her plans around as if it would prove a point.

"I wouldn't have accepted the job without the promise of hard cash."

Eddie knew she sounded too sure of herself and he couldn't wait for the moment that it would all fall apart of her and he had to swoop in to save the day.

Rachel knew that she liked to be in charge.

Maybe it was because she knew how out of control life could get. Her dad's adultery along with her mum's addition to sleep tables wasn't really the best start in life and lead to her making some questionable decisions. It was only once she stopped feeling sorry for herself that she realised that she was in control of her own destiny and she knew that she had to teach kids, who are being raised in the same environment that she was raised in, that they had a future if they were prepared to work for it. That they could build a better life for themselves.

It was why she had quickly raced up the ranks, being a deputy head within five years of her qualifying as a teacher and it took her another two years before she took her first headship. Big ambitious plans were her thing and she had always delivered on the promises that she had given the LEA.

Being between jobs, Rachel knew that her next opportunity was coming when she got the phone call from Ria. Ria had become a good friend through her many dealings with the LEA and Rachel knew that she had a reputation of being pushy for what she wanted and when Ria told her of the opportunity, she knew that she had to have big plans for Waterloo Road.

In the 48 hours from Ria telling her about the opportunity at Waterloo Road, she had gathered together her plan and pitched it to the LEA, with them all seeming rather impressed. They still made her wait until the Sunday night before they officially offered her the job and she knew that she had a lot to do.

And Ria had spoken so highly of Eddie and she hoped that once she had explained her plans and got him on board that it would be a piece of cake.

Although she hadn't expected there to be a power struggle and it made her fast forward some of her plans. Grantly and Steph had been blackmarked from her first meeting but she was expecting to see how they were in the classroom before she spoke to them. Eddie's attitude made her strike while the iron was hot and she could tell it was annoying him further. Maybe he should have been a little more discreet with his obvious disappointment over her getting (what she could only assume was) his job.

"I've seen enough," Eddie said after her little chat with Steph, with them both walking into her office.

She could have laughed. She could have laughed earlier when he said that she didn't know the students. It was why she got results. Because she knew exactly what it was like to be a student in a school like Waterloo Road. Everything she was doing was to make sure that none of this generation of students slipped through the net. And bad teachers were a curse to her.

"No, you've not. Not by a long chalk." She said back in retaliation.

"Now, you're not an unintelligent woman, I can see that. But what are you trying to prove? Steph Haydock, Grantly Budgen - they're not the greatest in the world but they've clocked up more teaching years than you've had a life."

"So what? Tell me I'm not right."

She knew that he couldn't and she knew that he was going to change the subject back to her and her abilities. She knew how to be a headteacher. If she was being rather arrogant about it, she would say that she was born to be a headteacher. That this was her calling in life.

"You'd better know what you're doing because…" Eddie started.

"I know exactly what I'm doing." She said, interrupting him.

The problem with Rachel was that she had become accustomed to every man thinking that she wasn't worth the position or drive that she had. Maybe that was because she was a woman or because she still had the aura about her past. The past that made her want to change everyone else's life before it got like hers.

He scoffed. "Such confidence."

Then she wished that he knew her at a time where she had no confidence. Where she probably would have questioned herself as much as he was questioning her. She probably would have taken his criticism of her actions and worried over every little detail.

But she wasn't. And she had the confidence because she knew her methods worked. She couldn't wait for him to see how right she was.

"How long are you staying here?" He continued.

"I don't know." Which was the fair answer. She had a list of things that she needed to do and it depended on how long it took her to get those results. "The first task is to get College status…"

"College status," Eddie said, interrupting her. "Yeah, yeah, we know. After that. It's just that you're doing all this 'bomb up the backside' stuff as if it means something to you. You're an associate head. You'll be gone in six months."

She could watch him sulk off, knowing that he had absolutely no idea about her or that this did all mean something to her. A good set of foundations never went wrong and Waterloo Road had a couple of cracks in theirs. And Rachel really wished she didn't have to add Eddie to her mental list of cracks.

It was a couple of days after his failed bad boys trip that Eddie walked into her office and said something about starting over. He might have been out of the neck brace but there was a certain way that he was holding himself that made her think that he was still rather stiff and in pain.

"Can we start over?" He said.

"How do you mean?" She said, wondering whether it was a good enough distraction from the paperwork that she was having to catch up on from Jack.

"I mean… Can we meet again? Like for the first time."

She wanted to laugh at his request. How were they meant to meet again for the first time? They had already done that and he had made a shocking first impression. There was no way that he could change that.

"Can you do that?" She asked, a smile rising up on her face.

He smiled at her as he held his hand out to her. "Eddie Lawson, deputy head."

The scoff left her before she really had the chance to stop it, meaning that she ended up biting her lip to stop the laugh as well. It felt more ridiculous now that he was doing it.

"Eddie…" She started before she realised that this must have been important to him to ask her. "Rachel Mason, the new headteacher." She said, taking his hand.

"You must have some ideas for the place." He said as he grabbed a chair and placed it in front of her desk.

"Now this is ridiculous." She couldn't stop herself from saying.

"Would it surprise you if I wasn't really listening over the last week or so?"

"No, it doesn't."

"So this Business and Enterprise College status. What would that actually mean?"

If there was one thing that she was going to give Eddie, it was that he was honest with her. And she hoped that honesty would continue between them. That she had a deputy that would tell her when she was wrong and that she could give him that same respect. And because of that they could make a formidable team together. She could deal with Steph in Pastoral Care later. But her and Eddie being able to work together was top of her agenda. Because she was sure that he was the deputy that Ria had spoken about and she couldn't wait to work with him.