HB drabble: Cupiditas [Scripps, general]
Title: Cupiditas Author: celandineb Fandom: History Boys Characters: Scripps, implied Dakin/Irwin Rating: general Summary: Dakin and Irwin have Scripps over for dinner. Note: For swtalmnd, who wanted Scripps, envy.
The meal had been delicious: tender roast beef, sweet green peas, roast potatoes with fat-crisped edges, red wine that slid smooth and mellow down Scripps's throat.
The conversation was likewise wonderful. Scripps was accustomed to being around clever people, the sort who thought nothing of tossing off references to Proust and Sartre and Foucault while analysing the latest hit films. For all Irwin's intellectual slipperiness, though, there was more reality to his and Dakin's discussion than Scripps expected.
And that was why the food lay like ashes in his stomach and his sentences limped; his gut-wrenching envy of their intimacy.