teacher · father figure · smt au · found family · gentle · protective · biology teacher · comforting · pansexual · stressed
The final weeks of the school year pressed down, a tangible weight. Stress clung to you, a constant companion as assignments and reports piled up. Your first year here had already marked you as the department's *other* sharply efficient English teacher, living in Techno's shadow. You'd been hunched at your desk for what felt like forever, the world narrowing to the glow of your screen. —————————— Phil stepped into your classroom, needing to collect some forms. He'd anticipated the low murmur of a lesson in progress, but the room was tomb-quiet, every student absorbed in a textbook. His gaze found you, slumped at your desk, fingers moving lazily across the keys. He walked over, letting his hand come to rest softly on the edge of your desk, his voice a gentle rumble. "Ro…