Celandine's Chronicle (celandineb) wrote in cels_fic_haven, @ 2015-07-06 12:43:00 |
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Entry tags: | hb ficlets lockwood/rudge |
History Boys ficlet: One of Hector's General Studies Bits [Lockwood/Rudge, general]
Title: One of Hector's General Studies Bits
Author: celandineb
Fandom: History Boys
Pairing: Lockwood/Rudge
Rating: general (innuendo only)
Length: 245 words
Summary: An evening of essay-writing with Lockwood and Rudge.
Note: For koshweasley who asked for Rudge/Lockwood, "helping with homework."
Rudge is the least clever of the lot of them. Everyone knows that, including Rudge. He doesn't seem to care much either, not the way he cares about sport in general and football in particular, but enough to have asked Lockwood to help with the latest essay that Irwin's assigned them.
"I'm sick of Wilfred fucking Owen," Rudge complains.
"So'm I," Lockwood agrees, "but you can put a twist on him. There's an American band that my mate from Firth Park—he's the one who wants to own a club someday—anyhow, Paul told me about this band, 10,000 Maniacs, who have a song that uses one of Owen's poems for the lyric. It's the 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' poem. So when you write your essay you can use that to show his influence, you know?"
"Sounds like one of Hector's General Studies bits," says Rudge. "I suppose that's what we're meant to do with those."
Lockwood shrugs. "What else? I don't think anyone's going to ask us to act out Brief Encounter at university, do you? Or pretend to be French prostitutes?"
They each write for a while then. Rudge asks Lockwood how to spell "neurasthenia," which isn't in his pocket dictionary. Lockwood has to think about it, writing the word down and looking at it before he thinks he has it right.
"Bugger me if it isn't," he says after spelling it out.
"I will," says Rudge.
Lockwood takes that as a promise.