Too Cool for School

[mostlyajerk]

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[catchacold]

Then shut up and get lost.

[gotspeed]

I'm sorry but I don't give up this easy.

I think you could do amazing things, I want to help you do them.

[catchacold]

I have a job, I have a family, I've better things to do than indulge your Samaritan streak.

[gotspeed]

See, that's where you're making the mistake. This isn't about me, it's about you. I want you to at least pass science, think of all the cool things you'd know, they'd probably help in your job too.

Give me a chance some time, let me show you.

[catchacold]

Let's talk straight.

You're a cop's kid, Barry.

You're not going to hang out with me. Ever.

[gotspeed]

Technically I'm not. My dad is a doctor. Used to be anyway.

We could hang out. Why couldn't we? I mean I know I just scream 'dork' and I'm about as popular as a pop quiz but there's no reason we can't. Logically.

[catchacold]

You live with a cop. Close enough. A lot too close for comfort.

Look at that. You're pretty dumb for a genius and you want to teach me things?

[gotspeed]

And that means I can't tutor you in science? I want to help you study, I'm not looking to ask for your hand in marriage. Who I live with has nothing to do with this.

I'm not a genius, my friend Cisco is a genius, hence the whole skipping a grade thing, I'm just a science geek.

[catchacold]

I don't study. I don't do homework. It's not my style.

Now I'm getting the inferior geek to learn from? Get me the genius.

[gotspeed]

Why not? Come on, it takes like forty minutes tops to do half the homework you're set and studying can be done at least once a week, doesn't even have to take long.

They're all scared of you so no, that is not happening. You have to settle for an inferior geek.

[catchacold]

Because I have better things to do with my time.

Nah, sorry. I'd have gone for it for an actual genius, but just some random geek? Sorry. Waste of time.

[gotspeed]

Yeah but you could do them later. Like after you pass science.

I'm not just some random geek, I'm like the king of geeks. I went to space camp five years in a row and won 'most likely to go into space'. I got a t-shirt from NASA and everything. Tell me that isn't like geek royalty material.

[catchacold]

I've no idea, but I'm wondering why you're not taped to the flagpole right now.

NASA shirt. How cool.

[gotspeed]

Cause I'm in the safety of class? If I know Tony Woodward and I think I do, I bet he has something in store for me later today because this morning I accidentally bumped into him. So don't worry, they'll be some kind of show tonight. Geek royalty do suffer.

It's too small now but I got a little pin badge as well and I still rock it on my backpack.

[catchacold]

Insecure idiot. But then, so are most of them. Overcompensating because they know they are idiots that won't amount to anything. But at least they can make you drink from a toilet, I guess that's worth something.

Cute.

[gotspeed]

I've drank more water from the toilet than the water fountain here. You get used to it. And they're not idiots, they're just angry. Like Tony, he's just unhappy and he lashes out at me. I'm sure he has his reasons.

I can show it to you before you kick my ass for even speaking to you.

[catchacold]

Sure he has reasons. That doesn't change that he's an idiot. He could be doing something productive instead of lashing out the way he does. That's idiotic. I see you're not offering him science lessons.

Sure. I'll just inspect it while you drink from the toilet.

[gotspeed]

I did. He responded to my offer by stealing all my clothes after gym class and throwing them up onto the roof and then kicking my ass. The offer is still on the table, if he wants it.

As long as you get to see it. Behold it's glory.

[catchacold]

So you're an idiot too. Don't waste your energy. Not on him and not on me. You'll only get yourself into trouble.

[gotspeed]

I'm always in trouble anyway, I may as well try despite it. And some people are worth getting in trouble for.

[catchacold]

Oh, fuck off.

[gotspeed]

After class, true to his words, he got to his feet and followed after Leonard Snart, catching up to him in the hall with a smile because no, he wasn't just going to fuck off. "So, I'll ask again, want to study with me tonight? Because we could do kick it off in the library and I can have you almost full covered for the test in like an hour. The rest would be prep." He said he'd ask, he was just going to ask.

[catchacold]

"No. But if you come up to me again, I'll tell people that you're hitting on me, just to see what happens." Seemed like a fun way to pass the time. Leonard put his hands in his pocket and headed down the hallway, looking for Mick, although odds were that his partner hadn't actually shown up for school. That wouldn't be shocking.

[gotspeed]

"I'll keep asking. You can't deter me."

Barry sighed, wishing he just knew how to reach Leonard Snart. Maybe next time? He just had to be persistent and not give up.