🗓 Thursday, October 24th, 2024
While supervising his class taking a test, Kopaka "hallucinates" a hole in the wall between his and Tahu's classrooms. This disturbs him, but he brushes it off when Pohatu stops by to ask if they can switch their trade period. He ends up agreeing to teach his own gym class, and becomes flustered when Pohatu jokingly refers to meeting up for lunch as a date. At lunch, they discuss Kopaka's students, and afterwards Pohatu can't stop thinking about Kopaka, having realized he's fallen in love with him. Going to the office to get some printing, he discusses it a little with Vakama, who encourages him to be forthright with his feelings before freezing up and demanding he go to the gym immediately. On arrival, he realizes a light fixture is going to crash down on Kopaka and tackles him out of the way just in time. That evening, Kopaka is confused by his feelings about Pohatu and concludes that something is wrong with him.
Relevant chapter:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works