'And here we go again' Thomas sighed inside of his fairly stuffy and hot car, even though He used a windshield sunshade.
Turning on the radio, he shuffled stations trying to find something good, well that was until he flipped onto 909 MW, BBC radio 5
"reaking news, yet another terrorist attack has unfolded this time in Northern Ireland, specifically Londonderry, Derry. While royal officials have also confirmed that a woman wearing a suicide vest was also apprehended not a few dozen meters from Hillsborough Cas-"
After hearing enough about a terrorist attack he once again started to flip through the stations, however, try as he might he couldn't get the Attacks out of his head, first an attack in Manchester now one in Northern Ireland, and an attempted attack on one of the queen's residences.
"Jesus, as the Chinese love to say 'they don't understand the width of the earth and the height of the heavens', Ahaha" He mocked cheerfully in an attempt to find something else to think about.
When he did finally get home after multiple hours of driving, the first thing he did after redressing into something more homely, and less official like his suit, was sit down and begin grading. When you do anything for hours and hours no matter how much you suck at it, you will become good at it; hence what Thomas could do in 2 hours at the beginning of his career he could do in 20 or 30 minutes.
Due to the massive amounts of papers he has to grade, thousands a week in fact. He changed the grading from correctness to effort, now that isn't to say he gives perfect scores for some who says 'I'm a 400-foot tall purple platypus bear with pink horns and silver wings' on a question asking when someone died, or how that person died. Instead, he leaves correctness to essays, which are only at the end of the unit, and because he is grading essays he has to focus more on the material itself and less on effort thus slowing him down considerably
Another side effect of grading thousands of essays and tests was reading speed and comprehension, meaning he can read an entire 10-page essay in 6 or 7 minutes before marking it for errors and finally grading it, meaning it's a 15ish minute process therefore 324 essays still takes forever. Fortunately for Thomas, the school was gracious enough to lend a scantron machine making the 739 tests to be done in a matter of an hour and not months
And after 5 long hours of grading Thomas got through a whole 20 essays and all of the tests. Thus as he usually does after a long day of grading he walked to his bed and slept.
[Monday]
"Good morning class, today we will begin our unit on Julius Caesar" Thomas declared while walking from the left to the right of the giant stage at the front of the class "Now some of you may know this person, in fact, it's likely that every one of you knows this person, as he is very prominent in Roman history, such as the likes of Napoleon Bonaparte in French history".
"Over the course of this unit, we shall learn about 1. His early life, 2. His social life, 3. His political life and some of his many Military Campaigns which led to triumphs, expansion of his own political scope, and to Rome itself" Thomas continued until a student stood up and shouted 'Professor' while pointing behind him.
Before Thomas could even react to the student who was yelling, he was tackled off the stage by seemingly another student, quickly and easily he pushed the boy off of him even though he was sticking to him like his life depended on it, while Thomas was holding the zip-up Hoodied man to the ground part of the hoodie fell revealing a suicide vest, with bricks of white compact powder held together with tape, and plastic wrap.
Quickly realizing what that was, he yelled 'run' and tried to grab the man's hands so, if it was a manual detonation they wouldn't explode,
After a minute, only around 70 students got out of the room and quickly ran down the hall, a giant explosion rocked the whole building.
[Today a multitude of vicious attacks took place…. We lost a hero today, a teacher who taught thousands the joy of history, not only a teacher but a Former member of the British S.A.S, and throughout a long 20-year career he is responsible for saving the lives of thousands of people earning him the U.S Medal of honor the first foreigner to due so, the French Grand Croix of the Légion d'Honneur, a UN medal, The British Victorian Cross, and finally due to the heroic acts that saved the lives of 70 people today the queen has awarded a George Cross, Sir Andrew Thomas Blight has been killed, and if that wasn't heinous enough the suicide bomber took 184 students with him
Furthermore, 17 other decorated members of society were assassinated including 6 of the 12 living Victoria cross recipients]
( AN: Firstly I'd just like to say, no I have not taken anybody in real life and placed them in this novel, all people, actions, and events are completely fictional and anything else is just coincidence, and secondly no I obviously don't condone terrorism.)