Not Your Average High School AU
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“Canoeing???” David’s voice goes up an octave.
At this point the only person left in the entry way is pale boy with auburn hair, wearing a baseball-style shirt with blue sleeves. He’s unlacing some sturdy looking mountaineering-type shoes, and looks back at David. His smile is much kinder than Stevie’s, but his eyes are just as wide.
“Yup, canoeing.” He parrots back at him.
(This is not your average high school AU.)
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- Part 1 of Not Your Average High School AU
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Patrick has dark, purplish circles under his eyes, and he certainly looks more pale than normal. It had started last week, when Rachel sent him the New York Times article about that family. A think piece on a certain soap star’s reaction to Sunrise Bay’s cancellation. Right after the Interflix business manager’s tax scandal. Rachel’s message was just an article link with a text underneath. All it read was, “guess he might be coming back.” Patrick didn’t have to read the article to know what she was getting at.
(It's been two years since David left outdoor school, and hearts have been broken. Luckily, he's returned just in time for snowshoe trip.)
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- Part 2 of Not Your Average High School AU
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Patrick can read between the lines. He knows his parents are still confused as to why they broke up. No one grows up with a next door neighbour turned best friend turned high school sweetheart to go back to being best friends. He cycles through every last time they’ve mentioned Rachel since school started a couple weeks ago, the tight sensation in his chest anchoring him down deeper into the mattress, eyes wide open in the darkness of his room.
(Or, snapshots of Patrick and Rachel at outdoor school. A prequel to Crossing Frozen Territory)
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- Part 3 of Not Your Average High School AU
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“What’s this?” David takes the pages, turning them over in his fingers. He’s afraid to open the letter and discover its contents.
“I wrote it,” Patrick says, low and clear. “It’s for you. You don’t have to read it now — you can read it when you’re ready. Or, you know, I’d understand if you wanted to throw it into a fire. But it’s there. Everything.”
“Everything?” David looks back at him, eyes filling with tears.
Patrick nods. “It kind of starts off as an apology, but it’s all there. Might even have turned into song lyrics at the end.” Patrick looks down at his hands and clenches his jaw. He lifts his gaze back to David, and looks at him through his eyelashes. “And if you get to the end and there’s more you want to know, you can just ask.”
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- Part 4 of Not Your Average High School AU
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Lighten Up and Dress Real Fancy by kindofspecificstore for fishyspots
Fandoms: Schitt's Creek
31 Jan 2021
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Since returning to outdoor school and getting back together, David is probably the happiest he’s ever felt. Sometimes it’s too much, and he can’t find a way to express it in words. It’s definitely love, but that isn’t something either of them have managed to share with each other. But that’s okay. He thinks that feeling is most likely there. And in a few weeks time, Patrick’s going to be David’s date to the prom. David can hardly wait.
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- Part 5 of Not Your Average High School AU
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I'll Light the Fire (You Place the Flowers in the Vase) by kindofspecificstore for petrodobreva
Fandoms: Schitt's Creek
16 May 2021
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Two boys fell in love in a canoe at a school in the middle of the woods. This is where they ended up.
Or, the outdoor school au epilogue
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- Part 6 of Not Your Average High School AU