Leo’s first class- Science!
Helloooo I’m backkkk🧨💥
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^^^^PETER P.O.V^^^^^^^
Today has been pretty normal. Last night’s patrol went well, nothing got too injured and no one died. Then today at school, Flash acted as always. MJ wasn’t able to make it to school today because she had come down with the common cold, Peter’ll miss seeing her. But Ned was there. And Ned was actually the one to share how today wasn’t completely normal.
“Dude- Did you hear about the new kid? We have a new guy in our class this semester!”
Peter stared for a bit, getting new classmates wasn’t exactly the most common thing, so of course he was interested.
What would he be like? Another Flash? Let’s hope not-
“You know what he’s like?” Peter questioned as he pulled his book bags out of his locker.
“Nah, only gossip, which is about as reliable as asking Flash if you knew Spiderman.”
“Ned-keep-it-down!” Peter whispered through his teeth, seriously, Ned could not keep a secret.
“Right- Right, sorry”
Peter sighed as he and Ned made their way to their first class. Science.
He made his way into the classroom, casually taking his seat and taking out his assignments for the day.
“Hey Parker! How’s the fake ‘internship’ going?” Flash’s voice was thick with mockery and he even added finger quotes around the word ‘internship’. Ehg.
Peter chose not to answer, mainly because he just didn’t have anything worth saying to deaf ears.
“Ignoring me huh? That’s the same as agreeing that you’re wrong, ding-gus.”
“For a school meant for genius and people with brains, you seem to lack both. How did you even get in here?” A voice said from the doorway.
Peter raised his head to see who spoke, no one really stands up for him anymore-
Oh, that must be the new guy. Peter’s never seen him before, that would explain it.
The boy had coffee brown skin topped with curly dark brown hair. He had deep chocolate eyes. He wore a casual tee that had an image of a dragon on it, and long jeans with holes in the knees. Strangely enough, as a belt, he instead wore a tan tool belt. Oh, and he was leaning heavily on the short side of the spectrum.
While Flash shuddered mixed between anger, confusion, and embarrassment, the new kid made his way to Peter.
“Hello! My name’s Leo! What’s your’s? That guy was a jerk, don’t worry though I’ll make sure he stays off your back. Have you been to school here before? What’s it like? Do you like dragons? How serious are the teachers about giving detention? Are the labs entertaining?”
The boy, now named as Leo rambled on.
Honestly, Peter was happy, this kid seemed nice.
“Hi, My name’s Peter. Nice to meet you! Yeah, that’s Flash, he likes to belittle everyone else in hopes of one day looking better or something, I don’t even know. Yeah, I guess dragons can be alright. Uhmmmm….yeah, a lot of the teachers do practically enjoy handing out detention to anyone who, in their mind, deserves it. And yeah, the labs are cool if you like that kind of stuff.”
Leo smiled brightly at Peter before taking an empty seat next to him.
As Mrs. Leah, a woman in her late thirties, droned on about scientific explanations for material mass makeup, Peter stole glances at Leo.
The kid was obviously not made for a classroom. He was constantly fidgeting with some pipe cleaners he had in his tool belt, and he didn’t even try to take notes. (Peter made sure to take extra notes in case he needed them later). He bounced his leg and he seemed to continually put his attention anywhere and everywhere that wasn’t the teacher or class.
Finally the lab came, yay!
“Alright class, I need you to pick a partner for this assignment. Do it quick, we don’t have all day.” Mrs. Leah continued.
Leo looked like a lost puppy at that remark.
Peter walked over to him and invited him to be his partner, quickly sending an apologetic smile to Ned after Leo agreed almost instantly.
“Soooooo what’s the chance of these chemicals suddenly blowing up or something?” Leo asked casually as he laid out the beakers onto their desks, which had been arranged to be side to side making a larger working surface.
“Less than 4%. That is unless you already have fire present, then that chance raises to about 43%.” Peter smiled back at Leo. Somehow, his reassurance didn’t seem to reassure Leo much at all though.
“..great” Leo grunted under his breath, quieter than most ear would ever hear, but Peter heard.
Weird.
As Lab went on, Leo and Peter worked together. Their assignment was to create a formula that could dissolve a tin can.
All went good, until about 20 minutes in.
Peter was minding his own business writing notes on the chemical makeup of the metal and the current available chemicals at disposal, when his sensitive nose caught the scent of smoke.
Spider senses started to buzz lightly.
Quickly, Peter jerked up from his paper to see where the fire was, only to watch as Leo swatted out a flame that had caught on his hair.
What the heck?
Leo made quick work of the flame, with a calmness that spoke of experience.
Now wasn’t that a fun thought?
“Uhhhhh……so like…I may have leaned forward a bit too much while trying to watch the chemical heat up over the fire heater thingy and my.hair.might.have.gotten.in,the.flame…” Leo smiled sheepishly, mumbling at the end of his explanation.
“…oh…yeah you might want to be careful about that”
Peter smiled back reassuringly, and then continued his work.
It only took the two of them half of class to make the formula, the rest they spent doing their own experiments. At least Leo did, Peter worked on his secret stash of emergency web fluid.
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^^^^^^LEO P.O.V^^^^^^
When Leo first entered his classroom, he was met with a lot of people.
Well, the people didn’t notice him until he spoke, but they were still there.
One kid in particular spoke mockingly toward another person, very rudely accusing them of ‘fake internships’ or something else.
Whatever, the guy just screamed ‘school bully’ so of course Leo stepped in.
“For a school meant for genius and people with brains, you seem to lack both. How did you even get in?”
Leo internally smirked as the bully shuddered and flushed an embarrassed red.
Walking over to the kid the bully was mocking, he introduced himself
“Hello! My name’s Leo! What’s your’s? That guy was a jerk, don’t worry though I’ll make sure he stays off your back. Have you been to school here before? What’s it like? Do you like dragons? How serious are the teachers about giving detention? Are the labs entertaining?”
Oh gosh he started ranting, that’s probably not a good start to a friendship? He didn’t know.
Surprisingly, the guy responded happily and answered all his questions (that he asked aloud)
“Hi, My name’s Peter. Nice to meet you! Yeah, that’s Flash, he likes to belittle everyone else in hopes of one day looking better or something, I don’t even know. Yeah, I guess dragons can be alright. Uhmmmm….yeah, a lot of the teachers do practically enjoy handing out detention to anyone who, in their mind, deserves it. And yeah, the labs are cool if you like that kind of stuff.”
Oohh so this was Peter and the jerky guy was Flash. Good to note, good to note. Also great, looks like he’ll be well aquatinted with the detention room by the end of the year. Yay
Leo smiled happily at Peter before inviting himself to take a seat next to him.
Were you supposed to ask permission to take a seat next to someone? It was empty so hopefully Peter doesn’t mind.
Fairly soon, a lady in her probably early forties entered the classroom and started yapping on about some sort of something. Don’t judge, Leo doesn’t have the brain space to waste learning about things he didn’t care about!
He fidgeted with some pipe cleaners and was constantly rearranging himself in his seat. Though, after a few glances from Peter, he tried to quiet down his movements because he didn’t want to disturb him, as he clearly cared about this subject by taking notes and following along with the teacher.
About a long time in the teacher whose name Leo already forgot five seconds after hearing declared it was time for the lab. (Thankyfully Peter was kind enough to play lab buddy with Leo today)
Overall it was fun, though in the beginning after jokingly asking Peter if the chemicals might blow up as Hazel suggested that he try to avoid, when Peter told him that they might when added to fire, Leo was automatically nervous, after all, he was a human torch.
The lab went smoothly, considering he has no experience with chemistry and would much rather be inventing something chaotic for the Stoll brothers.
Until he almost Blew it.
‘It’ being the chemicals.
He had gotten excited as he watched the liquid change color under heat in such a fascinating way, that he hadn’t noticed the fire starting to dance across his head between his curls.
Then he smelled it, and goodness of course he panicked and the fire spiked to probably-noticeable-heights.
After quickly putting it out, he glanced to see if his lab partner had noticed.
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He had.
Peter stared at him with wide brown eyes.
Oops?
How would he get himself out of this one…
Quick, make an excuse,
“Uhhhhh……so like…I may have leaned forward a bit too much while trying to watch the chemical heat up over the fire heater thingy and my.hair.might.have.gotten.in,the.flame…” Leo smiled sheepishly, mumbling at the end of his explanation.
Leo was quite proud of his excuse, it labeled him as reckless rather than Human-who-can-and-will combust-if-too-excited-or-angry.
Peter stared for a bit longer before mumbling a response before going quietly back to his own work.
After a while, Leo and Peter finished the assignment so they both went to do their own things with the chemicals.
Overall, school wasn’t too bad, basing it off of his first class.
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