Book 4, Chapter 10: Suffer the Fires We've Made

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Title: Suffer the Fires We've Made
Authors: kiltsandlollies and escribo
Characters: Billy and Elijah
Word count: 3906
Summary: Never let schooling interfere with your education.
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( There are ways Billy can rationalize being so unsettled by that smile and comfortable stare of Elijah's; the damage the young man's done to Dominic is going to haunt Billy, too, until at least the end of this year, and in the meantime he's still Billy's student, one with whom Billy still has to deal fairly until he's forced not to by means of Elijah himself, and not in regard to what he's done to another student whose relationship to Billy is meant to be just as distant and not any more fair )