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School Councilor Dash Baxter won't know what hit him when he meets sixteen year old trouble child Danny Fenton.
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WARNING! This is an early warning to anyone who begins reading Teacher's Pet who hasn't already read in on FF.net or AO3. Future chapters do contain mentions and topics many will find uncomfortable or wrong. As the story progress's there will be appropriate warnings at the start of each part. This is a tame chapter compared to deeper into the story, but I want to make it perfectly clear I touch upon things that could be triggering to some.
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Looking up from his computer screen that listed the new freshmen entering high school this year at the sound of a knock, the blond man beckoned whoever was at his door to come in. The first person to walk in was a woman older than him, she was a burgundy haired woman with violet eyes that looked friendly enough, but the furrow in her brow told him that this was her concerned mother face. She must have a child entering their first year of high school then.
A man walked in behind her and the councilor had to blink, thinking to himself that a man so large couldn't possibly exists, the man he assumed must be the father shuffled himself in behind his red headed wife. The councilor looked up at them expectantly as the two oddly dressed parents pursed there lips like they didn't know where to start.
So he decided to take the initiative.
"Uh...Dash Baxter, I'm the school councilor here at Casper High...was there uh, anything I could help you with?" he raised himself out of his chair and held out a hand to the two parents. Dash was a little uneasy about the fact that the father was stil a good head or two taller than him. The wife gave a polite smile.
"Maddie Fenton," she took his hand in her black gloved one and shook it. "And my husband Jack, we just recently moved here to Amity Park." she introduced. Dash raised his eyebrow and nodded. Wow...someone actually wanted to live in this haunted hell hole?
"Uhm, well, welcome to Amity, can't say it's the best place what with all he local haunts, but to each their own." Jack and Maddie smiled at this actually and glanced knowingly at each other. Dash offered them a seat and the three sat down.
"So, what can I help you with, I assume you came here because you have a child entering this school?"
"Two actually." Maddie sighed and wrapped her fingers around each other. Our eldest, Jasmine we aren't too worried about, she's a smart and capable girl..." Maddie bit her lip and Jack placed a large but gentle hand over his wifes shoulder and gave her a goofy grin.
"Our youngest, Danny however...seems to have so many issues we just are not sure what to do with him." Maddie finally sighed.
"How old is Danny?" the councilor asked.
"Sixteen." Jack spoke up.
"And what seems to be the problem?"
"Well...It all started around his freshman year in our previous neighborhood. He just started acting out for no apparent reason. He never use to get failing marks, or detention, or skip class. But suddenly we're getting calls from his teachers telling us he never showed, or that he would come in and leave sometime later with an excuse. He misses curfew, no matter what the times we set for him are. We thought it was just some teenage rebellion, but-"
Jack interrupted his wife with a displease scowl.
"Then we get a call saying Danny's science classroom exploded. They pushed the blame on our boy, they kicked him out."
"Wait-What! Did he do it, was there even any proof?" Dash furrowed his brows together again. Sure this Danny sounded like any other trouble youth, skipping classes and failing grades, but these could be easily explainable, more than half the time these kids never tried harming anyone. Just looking for attention, thats all it really seemed to be. But an explosion?
Jack and Maddie gave twin displeased frowns.
"Dan-O claims he didn't, they were just working on some project, he said he must have just confused two chemicals together." Jack sighed. Maddie pinched the bridge of her nose like remembering the whole incident gave her a headache.
"You have to understand Mr. Baxter. My baby boy may be troubled, but he has always been a very reserved but sweet boy. He would bring stray animals home because he didn't like leaving them on the streets to die. I hardly believe he would do something like this on purpose. My Danny couldn't hurt a fly." the mother breathed out her nose sharply, like it was a silent curse to those who thought her son otherwise. Dash's lips quirked in a polite smile as the mother doted on her son. The kid sure sounded like a nice one. But teenagers were teenagers and sometimes they kept how they really feel closed off from their parents.
"We moved here because of business and for the fact it was the closest town that would accept our son despite his record...He won't talk to us about whats going on, hasn't for a very long time."
The defeated slump of the parents shoulders gave Dash a sour feeling, these parents really cared for their son despite all the trouble. Parents who could still be so doting to their children despite all this trouble were few and far between. He gave them a willing smile.
"What can I do for you Mr. and Mrs. Fenton?"
"Do you think you could possibly take on weekly counseling sessions with him? Just let him know he can talk to you, we just want him to go back to the way it was before."
"I can see what i can do, most cases of misbehavior are usually just the kids vying for attention."
Suddenly there was a sharp bell ringing and Mrs. Fenton slid a phone from a thigh pocket of the teal suit she wore. There was a loving smile on her face as she chuckled.
"Speak of the devil." she said and answered the call.
"Danny, sweetie?" she greeted. Dash could just vaguely hear the young male voice on the other line. It was boyish and had a sort of tone to it that indicated wit.
"Mom? Where did you and dad go?"
"To the school dear, we had to get the enrollment papers for you and Jazz."
There was a long pause on the other line.
"Oh...right...I'm sorry mom I-"
Dash could detect guilt in the muffled, stuttering words and sat back in his chair as he sized the voice up. The kid was guilty, for whatever reason, he doesn't like to bring his parents trouble or cause them grief; probably just had a bad habit of wrong place, wrong time. Yeah...this was an empathetic kid surely.
That same loving smile graced Maddie's lips at the deeply guilty tone over the phone and lifted her dark eyes to the curiously observant councilor with a knowing look.
"Whatever for sweetie? Now what was it you needed me for?"
"Uhh, the movers just got here and they won't listen to me when i told them the lab equipment should only be handled by you and Dad..."
Lab equipment?
"Oh, we better head on home then, see you soon!" Maddie hung up after a mumbled farewell from what had to be their son and turned to a confused Dash.
"Ah we never really specified what it is we do have we?" she laughed in good humor and Jack laughed with her and helped her to her feet. Dash shoot his head and blinked.
"We're scientist, of the paranormal kind!" Jack grinned.
Dash blinked again as the two parents wished him well and scurried off to save their lab equipment. Well, this was bound to be an interesting addition to the town...
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Looking up from his computer screen that listed the new freshmen entering high school this year at the sound of a knock, the blond man beckoned whoever was at his door to come in. The first person to walk in was a woman older than him, she was a burgundy haired woman with violet eyes that looked friendly enough, but the furrow in her brow told him that this was her concerned mother face. She must have a child entering their first year of high school then.
A man walked in behind her and the councilor had to blink, thinking to himself that a man so large couldn't possibly exists, the man he assumed must be the father shuffled himself in behind his red headed wife. The councilor looked up at them expectantly as the two oddly dressed parents pursed there lips like they didn't know where to start.
So he decided to take the initiative.
"Uh...Dash Baxter, I'm the school councilor here at Casper High...was there uh, anything I could help you with?" he raised himself out of his chair and held out a hand to the two parents. Dash was a little uneasy about the fact that the father was stil a good head or two taller than him. The wife gave a polite smile.
"Maddie Fenton," she took his hand in her black gloved one and shook it. "And my husband Jack, we just recently moved here to Amity Park." she introduced. Dash raised his eyebrow and nodded. Wow...someone actually wanted to live in this haunted hell hole?
"Uhm, well, welcome to Amity, can't say it's the best place what with all he local haunts, but to each their own." Jack and Maddie smiled at this actually and glanced knowingly at each other. Dash offered them a seat and the three sat down.
"So, what can I help you with, I assume you came here because you have a child entering this school?"
"Two actually." Maddie sighed and wrapped her fingers around each other. Our eldest, Jasmine we aren't too worried about, she's a smart and capable girl..." Maddie bit her lip and Jack placed a large but gentle hand over his wifes shoulder and gave her a goofy grin.
"Our youngest, Danny however...seems to have so many issues we just are not sure what to do with him." Maddie finally sighed.
"How old is Danny?" the councilor asked.
"Sixteen." Jack spoke up.
"And what seems to be the problem?"
"Well...It all started around his freshman year in our previous neighborhood. He just started acting out for no apparent reason. He never use to get failing marks, or detention, or skip class. But suddenly we're getting calls from his teachers telling us he never showed, or that he would come in and leave sometime later with an excuse. He misses curfew, no matter what the times we set for him are. We thought it was just some teenage rebellion, but-"
Jack interrupted his wife with a displease scowl.
"Then we get a call saying Danny's science classroom exploded. They pushed the blame on our boy, they kicked him out."
"Wait-What! Did he do it, was there even any proof?" Dash furrowed his brows together again. Sure this Danny sounded like any other trouble youth, skipping classes and failing grades, but these could be easily explainable, more than half the time these kids never tried harming anyone. Just looking for attention, thats all it really seemed to be. But an explosion?
Jack and Maddie gave twin displeased frowns.
"Dan-O claims he didn't, they were just working on some project, he said he must have just confused two chemicals together." Jack sighed. Maddie pinched the bridge of her nose like remembering the whole incident gave her a headache.
"You have to understand Mr. Baxter. My baby boy may be troubled, but he has always been a very reserved but sweet boy. He would bring stray animals home because he didn't like leaving them on the streets to die. I hardly believe he would do something like this on purpose. My Danny couldn't hurt a fly." the mother breathed out her nose sharply, like it was a silent curse to those who thought her son otherwise. Dash's lips quirked in a polite smile as the mother doted on her son. The kid sure sounded like a nice one. But teenagers were teenagers and sometimes they kept how they really feel closed off from their parents.
"We moved here because of business and for the fact it was the closest town that would accept our son despite his record...He won't talk to us about whats going on, hasn't for a very long time."
The defeated slump of the parents shoulders gave Dash a sour feeling, these parents really cared for their son despite all the trouble. Parents who could still be so doting to their children despite all this trouble were few and far between. He gave them a willing smile.
"What can I do for you Mr. and Mrs. Fenton?"
"Do you think you could possibly take on weekly counseling sessions with him? Just let him know he can talk to you, we just want him to go back to the way it was before."
"I can see what i can do, most cases of misbehavior are usually just the kids vying for attention."
Suddenly there was a sharp bell ringing and Mrs. Fenton slid a phone from a thigh pocket of the teal suit she wore. There was a loving smile on her face as she chuckled.
"Speak of the devil." she said and answered the call.
"Danny, sweetie?" she greeted. Dash could just vaguely hear the young male voice on the other line. It was boyish and had a sort of tone to it that indicated wit.
"Mom? Where did you and dad go?"
"To the school dear, we had to get the enrollment papers for you and Jazz."
There was a long pause on the other line.
"Oh...right...I'm sorry mom I-"
Dash could detect guilt in the muffled, stuttering words and sat back in his chair as he sized the voice up. The kid was guilty, for whatever reason, he doesn't like to bring his parents trouble or cause them grief; probably just had a bad habit of wrong place, wrong time. Yeah...this was an empathetic kid surely.
That same loving smile graced Maddie's lips at the deeply guilty tone over the phone and lifted her dark eyes to the curiously observant councilor with a knowing look.
"Whatever for sweetie? Now what was it you needed me for?"
"Uhh, the movers just got here and they won't listen to me when i told them the lab equipment should only be handled by you and Dad..."
Lab equipment?
"Oh, we better head on home then, see you soon!" Maddie hung up after a mumbled farewell from what had to be their son and turned to a confused Dash.
"Ah we never really specified what it is we do have we?" she laughed in good humor and Jack laughed with her and helped her to her feet. Dash shoot his head and blinked.
"We're scientist, of the paranormal kind!" Jack grinned.
Dash blinked again as the two parents wished him well and scurried off to save their lab equipment. Well, this was bound to be an interesting addition to the town...
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