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Day 42: Skirt

Summary:

The colours make him feel like a bird, no, a snake. Hiding in plain sight. A poisonous predator.

OR;

Charlie's got another PE lesson

Notes:

A moment out of time.

This is part of the AO3 Commune 100-word drabble challenge; the prompt for this round is "Hockey". Please explore the other fics in this collection, which are linked in the header.

For those who don’t know, a drabble is a fic that is precisely 100 words.

Content warnings:

Gender dysphoria
Misgendering

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Work Text:

Charlie knows the overpriced 100% polyester kilt would be itchy regardless of how he feels about his gender that he's forced into twice a week.

It's a deep red and flimsy, and clashes with the gold of the polo shirt they are forced to wear in this early-November wind and rain, a wooden hockey stick in hand.

The colours make him feel like a bird, no, a snake. Hiding in plain sight. A poisonous predator.

"Charlie, don't just stand there like a lemon, girl."

God, he loathes the PE teachers here.

Misgendered.

Yet again.

When can he escape to Truham?

Notes:

Find me at @twobeathearts.bsky.social; DMs are open, and I am taking requests for this series.