Two Students, both alike in dignity, In Fair Kent, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes. A pair of star-crossed lovers cause a stir… For the Beauty to love the Geek… Can they defy the stars… or will they be Fortune’s Fool?
Characters: Sophie Beckett, Benedict Bridgerton, Kate Sharma, Anthony Bridgerton, Thomas Dorset, Footman John (Bridgerton)
❗️Warnings: all characters are of legal age in the Uk, beauty and the geek AU, Sex, first time sex, sexual content, oral sex (both),
Chapter Index
Chapter 1: "Did my heart love till now? Foreswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
Chapter 2: "Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again."
Chapter 3: “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.”
Chapter 4: O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!
Chapter 5: Oh, I am fortune’s fool!
Chapter 6: “There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself”
Chapter 7: Give me, give me, O tell not me of fear!
Chapter 8: "Why, love, I say! Madam! Sweetheart! Why, bride”
Chapter 9: Is it e’en so? Then I defy you, stars!
Chapter 10: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
jesus christ. i think ive accidentally allowed someone to have at least 15% control over my mood for the day. ive known kicked dogs to have more self respect
Chapter summary: Romeo learns that his Juliet is not to be taken for granted and someone learns that the hard way
Warnings: none just some lovesick teenagers and the odd punch and kick to the balls
Word count: 2482
Fuck. was the first thought that ran through Benedict’s mind followed by, Do you think he saw me… and if he could run away. He was relatively light on his feet but as he heard “BRIDGERTON” being called out he knew he was stuck.
“Footman…” Benedict said wearily. His mother was expecting him home soon, he had told Anthony that he was walking Sophie home in a text and they were supposed to be taking Eloise and Francesca, the other set of twins to the Featherington’s party tonight, Hyacinth had a cold so their mum couldn’t take them so he knew his brother would come looking for him soon, or at least call him which might get him out of this “to what do I owe the pleasure” Benedict asked trying to keep his tone friendly.
“You know fine well what I’m fucking doing here! You stole my girlfriend and I want her back!” John said, walking towards Benedict, his face red and his fists by his side.
“You can’t steal a person. Sophie is fully capable of making her own decisions and if she doesn’t want you, then that’s your tough luck! You should have treated her better!” Benedict said, hoping his nonchalant tone would cover the way his heart was racing and he was having to fight his flight or fight response.
“I treat her perfectly well before you came along and put some fucking spell on her! You’re a fucking Geek! Girls like Sophie don’t belong with GEEKS like you” John spat.
Benedict snorted “and girls like Sophie belong with men who treat them like the fucking goddess they are not some fucking trophy”
“Come on mate, girls like her…”
“Are the same as every other girl you fucking neanderthal… you wouldn’t treat your sister like that… you don’t fucking treat anyone like that” Benedict hissed back, the fury at this idiots behaviour and attitude.
“I don’t have a sister” John said rather stupidly
“That explains a lot” Benedict snorted
“It makes no difference if i have a sister or not. I want my girlfriend back! You stole her from me and I want her back!!!” he said petulantly.
“Why?” Benedict asked.
“Why what?” John asked
“Why do you want her back?” Benedict said, rolling his eyes.
“Because she was mine first!” John said pulling a face
“Technically she wasn’t… she was Mark’s before you… and Karl’s… and I think Daniel was in there before everyone so…” Benedict said being deliberately obtuse. “Sophie is a big girl, she can make her own decisions, if she wanted to be with you, she would be. She doesn’t… and for the moment she wants to be with me… be a fucking man and respect her decision”
“No. She’s a girl, she doesn't know what’s best for her! She’s just caught up in the the fucking play… she’s just pitying you, she’ll come crawling back to a real man soon” John said puffing his chest out
“Then you’ve got nothing to worry about… but I'm not sure you count as a real man if you don’t know a single thing about pleasuring a woman,” Benedict snorted, taking a step around the shorter man.
Benedict was the tallest in their year, but he was lanky and scrawny, he had a rower’s body unlike John who was thick set, burly and very much the front rower of the rugby team so his entire body was at least twice as wide as Benedict’s but he was at least a head shorter. He could see the other was getting more and more frustrated with each passing second
“Fuck you Bridgerton, you’re nothing but a passing fancy. She’ll come crawling back, her type always does…”
“Her type?” Benedict asked bristling a bit.
“Desperate and pathetic” John said.
“You aren’t fit to lick Sophie’s fucking boots let alone any other part! Though I bet you’ve not even done that, everything about you screams over compensating, You might be the big sports star now but when you go into the real world you’re going to find out that you’re not going to get far with your small cock and inability to do anything but grunt and ruck with other men” Benedict said, looking disgusted as he stepped around the man to make his way down the street.
“FUCK YOU” John called, grabbing Benedict’s shoulder and whirling him around and throwing a punch.
It wasn’t a particularly hard one but it landed right in Benedict’s left eye and he toppled backwards onto the floor and as John went to lunge forward to continue his assault, they heard a voice “Benedict?!” and Anthony running towards them looking furious.
“Fuck!” John said, backing up and running away. Anthony was a similar build to John but a bit taller, but two pissed off Bridgerton’s was not odds he wanted to face so he ran as quickly as he legs could carry him.
“Ben, are you alright?” Anthony asked as he reached his twin brother’s side and crouched down.
“Mother fucker…” Benedict groaned holding his eye “I’m going to kill him”
“No you’re not, he’ll snap you like a twig…” Anthony said, hauling his brother to his feet, removing his hand from his face to look at him, “that’s gonna be a shiner alright… What the hell happened?”
“He wanted Sophie back, was being a prig about it all and when I told him had a small cock, was overcompensating and wasn’t going to get far in life he seemed to take offence at it” Benedict said, wincing as he touched the skin around his eye.
Anthony laughed “well yeah it’s not really wise to pick a fight with someone with his IQ Ben… besides it’s not up to him what Sophie wants”
“That’s what I told him but he got all belligerent and ridiculous”
“And you wonder why I didn’t join the rugby team…” Anthony chuckled “come on, lets get you back before Mum sends out a search party, she’s gonna have a fit when she sees your eye”
Benedict groaned “wonderful”
“I’m proud of you, losing two big V’s in a week” Anthony grinned as his brother.
Benedict nearly tripped over himself “what… how… two?”
“Kate told me” Anthony said with his brows raised “thanks for the heads up by the way…”
“Shit sorry, I forgot and was too consumed by the fact Soph wasn’t in class…”
“It’s fine Ben I get it…” Anthony said with a chuckle.
“How did it go?” Benedict asked
“Meh, she just wanted to talk to me. Asked if the rumours at Lady G’s were true… and asked if I wanted to hang out over the weekend as she assumed Soph would be with you”
“We could all go out together or something? If Soph even wants to still be with me after this…”
Anthony looked at him like he’d grown a second head. “Why would she not…”
“Well you know that idiot is going to turn this on its head and say I started it…”
“You’ve a witness. He doesn’t” Anthony said “I’ll back you up tomorrow at School if needs be”
“Thanks Ant but suppose we will just have to see, come on, I need to get something on this and we need to get El and Fran out or Mum will have our necks…”
The following morning, Benedict saw the shiner in all its glory as he readied for school that morning, dread in the pit of his stomach.
His mother had been beside herself but Benedict assured her it would be okay and it was nothing but it wasn’t his mother he was worried about. It was Sophie.
He had been in a fight with her ex-boyfriend. He wasn’t even sure if he was her boyfriend or not, they hadn’t actually talked about it. They held hands when they walked home and he had been seen going into the dressing room and she into his but nothing had been said about being together officially.
Eloise, Colin and Daphne had teased him about this eye. Greg and Hyacinth were a little too young at 5 and 4 to totally understand what was going on and Francesca had just rolled her eyes at her siblings over breakfast.
When they got into school, Benedict did his best to keep his head down, avoiding eye contact with anyone. Anthony had gone to see Simon and promised to be back soon. Benedict had his head in his locker as he felt a pair of hands wrap around his waist and Sophie’s familiar scent engulfed his brain “Hey Romeo…” She practically purred into his back.
Benedict took a deep breath and turned around, he saw Kate first who was leaning against her locker just a few doors down from his and he saw her eyes widen in horror and fury as he felt his cheeks go red and he looked down at Sophie “Hey” he said, his voice barely above a whisper as horror dawned on Sophie’s face.
One hand reached up to his cheek “Oh Ben… what happened…?” Sophie asked blinking, he didn’t have the black eye when he left her last night, so it happened sometime between him dropping her at home, and him going home.
“I got punched” Benedict said simply
“No shit Sherlock…” Kate said taking two steps forward “that’s nasty”
“Who punched you?” Sophie asked, looking mildly sick.
“John” Benedict said quietly
“He WHAT?” Sophie said looking up and down “why?! When!?”
“After I dropped you at home last night, as I was walking to meet Ant, he was at the bottom of my street. Demanded I ”give you back” we got into an argument about it, not wanting to hear that you’re your own person and can decide for yourself… and I think he may have took offence at me calling him a small cocked neanderthal”
Kate snorted and looked quite proud of him as she smiled.
“I see…” Sophie said, taking a step back and craning her head to look down the corridor and spotting John down the other end of the corridor.
“Excuse me” she said very stiffly and Benedict frowned
“Soph…?” he started to say but she held up a silencing finger and stalked off down the corridor, the students parted like the red sea as she made her way down to her ex-boyfriend who was leaning against his locker, his Rugby Hoodie tied around his waist and his hair slicked back as though he thought he was one of the T-Birds, talking to Tom who was looking thoroughly disgruntled as well.
“JOHN!” Sophie called out in a voice that caught the attention of every single person standing there in the corridor, Tom slapped his friend and gestured.
“Well well well, little miss Sophie coming crawling back already” John said with a smirk on his face “Knew it wouldn’t take you long to… urgh….” his speech was curtailed back Sophie walking straight up to him and jamming her knee so hard into his balls that he was sure they would have ended up his throat.
Benedict watched the entire thing from down the corridor and his mouth fell open and Kate cackled with pride at her best friend.
Benedict watched as the petite pretty blonde had the attention of the entire school, all looking extremely amused as the school’s Loose head prop was felled and crumbled to the floor. “If you so much as lay a finger on my boyfriend ever again, I will make sure you never walk or use that miniature twig, that you call a monster cock… which FYI it isn’t… again. Do I make myself clear??” Sophie spat a venom and coldness that Benedict was so taken aback by that hadn’t realised what Sophie had said about boyfriend.
John just grunted on the floor as what felt like the entire school watched the scene unfold as the rugby player was felled and embarrassed by his petite ex-girlfriend. He had no words and Benedict could only feel for the bloke, having been felled by a knee to the crotch on a number of occasions from his sister’s he knew that the man’s balls must be in his throat.
Sophie turned, her long blonde hair whipped Tom in the face who was standing next to John before she paused and turned back around, one finger pointed at Tom “and you , if you so much as lay a finger on Ben OR his brother… I swear…”
Tom raised his hands “I’m going nowhere near them… Kate did me a favour anyway, saved me breaking up with her” he said looking absolutely terrified “I was only with her cause John wanted to be with you…”
Sophie’s mouth dropped open “You… you… bastard ” her eyes narrowed and she slapped Tom “You don’t even deserve to breathe the same air as Kate…” she stormed off.
The entire school just stared at her as she walked back over to Benedict, Kate as well as Anthony and Simon who had just joined them all of them staring at her like she’d just grown two heads.
Kate saw the look from Sophie and grabbed Simon and Anthony’s arms “come on geeks, let’s leave Romeo and Juliet be” as she steered the two taller men down the corridor towards their first class that morning.
Sophie looked at Benedict a little sheepishly as the rest of the student body started to disappear towards their first classes. “I’m so sorry that gorilla punched you…” Sophie said, her head at her feet, starting to feel ashamed of her outburst, the sole of her shoe scuffing on the floor “sorry you had to see that… I’ll… i’ll… see you at rehershal…” she said not looking up.
Benedict’s arm shot out and grabbed Sophie before she was able to take more than a step away and pulled her to him. “I’m not…” he said as he tugged her into his arms “sorry that is…” he grinned at her.
“really?” Sophie said blinking at him.
“Nope” he grinned a hand coming up to caress her cheek. “I’d take a thousand punches for you Soph,”
“But that… I just… I embarrassed you?” Sophie said shaking her head
Benedict shook his head “No, that codpiece yesterday was embarrassing… that… what you just did… was hot” he grinned leaning in and pressing a gentle kiss to her temple
“Hot? Really?” She beamed at him, her green eyes alight with happiness.
“Mmhmmm” he grinned “declaring me to be your boyfriend in front of everyone in our year…? Very sexy… in fact… you’ve got a free period now haven’t you?”
Sophie grinned at him “I do indeed…”
Benedict looked around, made sure no one was in the corridor and lifted Sophie to her feet “I think I know just the place…”
Sophie giggled as she let herself be carried out of the hallway feeling very content with life.
