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He Knows You Know by truly_bohemian (PG-13)
Fandom: THE HISTORY BOYS
Pairing: gen, mostly
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truly_bohemian
Author Website:tibby_schlegel is her fic journal
Why this must be read:
A series of ficlets looking at a few of the boys, ten years later. The Posner piece, in particular, is spot-on -- how he's become a great teacher in his own right, but with Hector and Irwin's influences still lingering and casting shadows over his life. It's a touch melancholy without being too bleak, really embodies the Posner of the film's epilogue. The other three ficlets -- looking at Scripps, Lockwood, and Dakin -- are also quite well done, and there's just a hint of optimism for Dakin/Irwin at the end.
“What do you have for us this year then, sir?”
Posner looked up from the sheet of paper on his desk, onto which he had been busily writing. He had thought that all the boys had left. It was five o’clock – but one seemed to have returned, probably after doing some research in the library. It was Harris, a sixth form student. Brash and arrogant, but for all his faults, the most charming in the school. He had only moved to Leeds the year before last. Posner could still remember his first day. It had been so much like someone else’s – it almost felt like déjà vu to Posner. So alone, and yet so confident, as if he was just waiting to choose who he would talk to.
Posner chided himself for thinking that now. Every boy since had been lonely in his eyes.
He Knows You Know
Pairing: gen, mostly
Author on LJ:
truly_bohemianAuthor Website:
tibby_schlegel is her fic journalWhy this must be read:
A series of ficlets looking at a few of the boys, ten years later. The Posner piece, in particular, is spot-on -- how he's become a great teacher in his own right, but with Hector and Irwin's influences still lingering and casting shadows over his life. It's a touch melancholy without being too bleak, really embodies the Posner of the film's epilogue. The other three ficlets -- looking at Scripps, Lockwood, and Dakin -- are also quite well done, and there's just a hint of optimism for Dakin/Irwin at the end.
“What do you have for us this year then, sir?”
Posner looked up from the sheet of paper on his desk, onto which he had been busily writing. He had thought that all the boys had left. It was five o’clock – but one seemed to have returned, probably after doing some research in the library. It was Harris, a sixth form student. Brash and arrogant, but for all his faults, the most charming in the school. He had only moved to Leeds the year before last. Posner could still remember his first day. It had been so much like someone else’s – it almost felt like déjà vu to Posner. So alone, and yet so confident, as if he was just waiting to choose who he would talk to.
Posner chided himself for thinking that now. Every boy since had been lonely in his eyes.
He Knows You Know