HB drabble: Watcher [Scripps, general]
Title: Watcher Author: celandineb Fandom: History Boys Character: Scripps Rating: general Summary: Scripps watches others. No one watches him. Note: For emiime.
Scripps watches Posner watch Dakin. He watches Irwin, too. Posner's yearning is unconcealed, sadly hopeful, and Scripps would like to say, "Hide yourself. Even if you don't mind the teasing; you're too vulnerable like this."
Irwin is more closed off. Maybe he worries about being like Hector, maybe it's his nature. Dakin doesn't recognize the looks, wondering aloud to Scripps if Irwin rates him at all, but Scripps sees them.
No one notices him watching. He hides behind his professed faith, his church-going, his not-quite-ostentatious piety, and writes down what he cannot show the world, but cannot conceal from himself.