Disciplinary Action/Disciplinary Office/First Week/Tihana/Office/Punishment/Impregnate/Parents/No Deal
Well, the rules really didn’t say anything explicitly against you punishing students after school hours, or even taking them to your house. You were given a lot of leeway, however, that still struck you as something that crossed several lines and had way too many risks attached to it.
“I… I…” you muttered, taking your hand back from the woman, “I… I’m afraid I can’t do that, ma’am,” you tried to tell her calmly, “I can’t take a student to my house, and there’s a reason why the rules for incest punishments are written as they are. I can’t just go granting special favors and taking something like that off the table.”
“I… I see,” the woman said, looking down and off to the side for a moment before immediately springing back up, apparently undeterred by the rejection, “Well… well, then how about if she was your wife!? Surely you can have your own wife share your bed, even if she is a student. It shames me a bit to say it, but we knew something like this was going to happen from the moment the new rules were drafted up. We’ve already had the tailor prepare a yellow dress for her. We could have the ceremony tomorrow if you like!”
Holy mother! You could do nothing but sit there in stunned silence at the sudden and rather forceful, almost desperate offer of her daughter’s hand in marriage. True, you did have sex with her, and it’s outright declared that your intention is to have her become pregnant. Going by this town’s standards, that would normally wind up in you being outright forced to marry her, and it wouldn’t even be the first instance of a grown man marrying a barely pubescent child in this town’s recent history, but in the case of your job you were supposed to have protection from that sort of thing. That would be why she was asking rather than demanding, so as your brain slowly tried to tick in order to catch up with all this, you were left merely staring at this woman.
“Please, Mr. Gardner!” she began begging again, “I’m not kidding here, if you leave things as they are now then Tihana is going to be out on the streets by this evening. My husband will have none of this, he’s already talked about possibly kicking her out if it’s ever discovered how she was stealing alcohol from our shop! Now with this, with it getting out this is what she’s been doing with it! She may even be out without the threat of him or my boys having to disgrace themselves, but that’s the line that would push it into a sure thing! Think about Tihana here!”
You were almost tempted to say the same thing back to her in regards to this, she was the one saying her family was going to put her out on the streets. However, you guessed that also was not much of a surprise for this town and the way it was run. You understood it all too well, and it was the same kind of fate you and your sister would have been subjected to if you had ever been caught doing what you were doing in your youth. Well…