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[internship]

[ not as lightning-fast, but: ] Yeah.

What're you hoping to learn from me? It's always good to set goals when I start tutoring someone new.

[scathe]

you're the teacher you figure it out

[internship]

Wow. I give you an opening for something sexy and you toss the ball right back to me?

[scathe]

okay Gwen consider this me taking off your training wheels

you can't always get what you want

[internship]

[ boys!!! ]

I thought you wanted to get under my skirt.

[scathe]

I do

and I thought you wanted to teach the good people of saltburnt the academics

[internship]

Right.

I guess I'm trying to decide if we should start with anatomy or chemistry.

[scathe]

double or nothing

you talk to me about chemistry while I talk to you about anatomy

[internship]

Looking for extra credit, huh. I see how it is.

Are you an expert on anatomy, Elias?

[scathe]

you're gonna find out soon enough

[internship]

Uh-huh. What if I give you a little pop quiz?

[scathe]

is the pop quiz on your body or on a piece of paper?

[internship]

I was thinking a picture, first. Since those seem to work well for you.

[scathe]

okay shoot

lightly nsfw link

[internship]

Okay. I'll give you an easy one.

[ attachment.jpg ]

What hormone is responsible for the growth of breast tissue?

1/3

[scathe]

[thanks he hates this.]

I don't fucking know

[scathe]

astro

no hold on

[scathe]

estrogen

[internship]

Hey, good job.

[ As his reward for a good job, in the next picture she's pulled her shirt down under one of her breasts, exposing it. There's a little gold star sticker just barely covering her nipple. ]

And I know you can give me the primary male sex hormone.

[scathe]

that's hot do all your students get this or just me?

Testosterone

[internship]

I'm test-running how motivational this is on you.

[ And now both tits with little gold stars on the nipples, shirt pulled down underneath them. ]

You get one other picture request. Whatever you want, within reason. Since you aced my very easy quiz.

[scathe]

[oops, she strikes a nerve and he's gone soft even with the photo of her tits left open on his phone.]

watch your words with me I'm not a test subject

[message read. silence. silence. silence. finally:]

I'm cashing the favor in later we're done for now

[internship]

Oh.

[ Embarrassed, suddenly, because this is new and maybe more fragile for Gwen than she realizes. It's fun and exciting until she's sent racy pictures to someone who's shutting her down, and then she wants to unsend them. ]

I didn't mean it like

[ Whatever's made him go sullen. She's not sure she's going to get a response. ]

🎀 - cw allusions of abuse

[scathe]

[elias is aware she didn't mean it how he took it, but he's unreasonable and pissed off and the world is tough enough without a virgin mary grasping at straws. he's not responsible for her feelings, the vulnerability she must be feeling after exposing herself, or whatever she might be feeling because for him she fucked him over. gwen inadvertently reminded him of time lost to him, of heavy hands and being cornered in empty rooms by men in white. he's not entertaining her insecurity or anything else from her today.

✓message read. when he says he's done, he's done.]

🎀🎀

[internship]

[ A couple of hours later, once she's had enough time to stop wondering how she messed up and start feeling a little angry: ]

No, okay, you don't get to "cash in later," Elias.

I'm sorry I hit something that hurt. But I'm not a slot machine for you to come back to when you feel like it.