SUPERIOR MIND

he was taken aback slightly by his daughter hugging him, but he returned it, trying not to get too emotional about seeing his daughter again. it had been so long since he ever embraced her like this, he almost forgot what it felt like to hold his child again. but, he noticed a few awkward stares from the rest of the students, before placing a hand on his daughter’s shoulder and instructing, “here, let’s talk outside.” leading her out of the classroom and into the empty hall, he took a deep breath and looked her up and down. “...please tell me you’re doing alright, emmaline.”

how on earth did he not notice his own daughter sitting in the same room as he? maybe strange was right, his vision was going bad. he had forgotten his daughter had been sent to this school, granted, without him knowing until she was gone. oh, that was a bad day at arkham. his lips curled into a wide smile, mirroring her own, and he responded, gently, “surprise, emmaline.”

“Uh…what…does that have to do with this class?” Skye asked, eyeing the door. “We’ve already got a class for that. That you guys also ruined. Look, I just wanna graduate.” This entire fiasco was disorienting to say the least. In all honesty he had considered not even going to class. But with his luck he’d skip a class with a new teacher who didn’t care one bit about anything but being listened to. So he’d dragged himself out of bed and even put on actual clothes…for this?

“good question! NOTHING. it seems that a mr. roy harper has gone a bit too deep in teaching you information that simply going back and teaching everything the correct way wouldn’t even benefit. so, we’re learning about USEFUL SKILLS instead of just... what came before we, as humans, were even alive! don’t you want to use your brain the way it’s supposed to be once you graduate?”