kinkfest | Weiss Kreuz (Crawford/Schuldich) (Reply)

Title: High School Drama (Song About a Prodigy-mix)
Author:

misura
Rating: PG
Warnings: None, really. More than a bit short.
Summary: Science has it there's a connection between fair play at school and honesty in relationships. Schuldich disagrees.

"You never cheated on a test, I assume?"

Nagi's been sent to his room without dinner - to surf the Internet and plunder his private stash of snack-food, which makes the whole punishment rather pointless in Schuldich's opinion, although he is, of course, too smart to say so to Crawford.

"Did you?" Crawford's tone fails to provide Schuldich with a clue as to whether or not Crawford puts any stock in the results of a scientific experiment which suggest that people who cheated at tests as kids will also cheat on their significant others as adults.

"Of course. I mean, hey, hard not to, when you're a telepath." High-school is not Schuldich's favorite time to remember. Then again, neither is any other time - the here and now is as good as it's ever gotten, and any day now, Schuldich knows that stupid bastard Takatori is going to spoil it, if Estet doesn't beat him to the punch. "Most of the time, I didn't even need to try."

"Your teachers must have gotten quite suspicious after a while."

"It did occur to some people that it was kind of strange I tended to get the same questions wrong as whomever happened to sit closest to me. They were fair though, I'll grant them that. Since they were never able to actually catch me at it, they all acted as if they believed I didn't cheat."

"You cheated," Crawford says. "I studied."

"Considering where it both got us in the end, it doesn't seem to have made much of a difference."

"No." Crawford's smile is very faint. "Then again, I did use my gift to learn in advance what subjects we'd be questioned about and which ones were safe to ignore."

Schuldich considers pointing out that sounds a lot like cheating to him.

"Any method that leads to success is valid. I didn't exclude Nagi from dinner because he cheated on a test, but because the method he chose in order to pass the test didn't lead to success."