valmora | [tGE AU] Excerpts From Editorials (Sandy musing)

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Excerpts from Editorials
A small peek into Sandy's head

Sandy gets put on indefinite suspension from the hockey team after breaking four of the other guy's ribs and knocking out a couple of teeth. His parents don't know what to do with him, other than pay the bills and send him to counseling, as usual.

Counseling, Sandy can tell them, doesn't help, but that doesn't seem to matter. Talking about why he gets angry hasn't been helping to keep it from happening again.

And okay, maybe some of it is the fact that his standards are so high that sexual frustration is the word of the lifetime; maybe some of it is the fact that he's never met anybody who could kick his ass in a brawl; maybe some of it is stress-venting. Who knows. All it means is a lot of headaches for the shrink.

It's as if, some have quipped, Sandy was born on PMS. Sandy has laughed at the joke before. It's usually RJ who says it, so it's okay, because RJ doesn't mean it like an insult.

Roger's never said it, and Sandy is how grateful for that? Enough that it makes his skin burn, enough that his palms itch to reach out and -

This is about the point at which something happens to piss him off - either his alarm clock goes off, or some stupid preppy girl giggles, or some boy says something Darwinistically stupid, and some of the gears in his head get their teeth out of line and he's suddenly unreasoningly angry, shoving them into walls or hitting them or saying something biting and heartless.

He knows he has a reputation as a complete bastard who will kill a guy so much as look at him. He also knows that his being gay is a wide-open secret, and that some people believe he's Roger's muscle, his Mafioso enforcer. Whatever. They can think what they want.

They can think what they want until they realize it's Roger who stops him from hurting people worse than he does.