Post by Seek on May 29, 2011 8:29:04 GMT 10
Title: Titration 7
Rating: G
Word count: 313
Pairing: Clary/Mattes
Round/Fight: 4/A
Summary: Mattes doesn’t like wasting chemicals. Clary cannot believe that Mattes is that stupid. Modern college AU. Clary is a chemistry TA. Mattes is a theoretical physicist suffering from the Pauli Effect.
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The first mistake, Clary decided, was believing that Mattes was capable of cleaning up after himself without a disaster of epic proportions happening. “Mattes, are you doing what I think you are?” she demanded, hands on her hips.
Mattes blinked; that look of studious innocenced was utterly practiced, an uncharitable part of Clary decided. “I’m putting back the sodium hydroxide,” he said, very slowly, as if it should have been perfectly obvious to Clary.
“No, you’re pouring sodium hydroxide back into the container. Where did it come from?”
Mattes gave her a flat stare, as if he thought Clary was being deliberately slow. “There was extra left over in the burette, since you said to drip and not to squirt,” the way he stressed the words could have made Clary squirm a little in guilt. Maybe she’d been a bit too strident about Mattes’s errors. “So I didn’t see the point in wasting it. I’m putting it back where I got it.”
“You’re not supposed to!” Clary cried out, and took several deep breaths, trying to calm down, before she spoke again. “Mattes. Once you’ve used some of the sodium hydroxide in an experiment, the rest has been contaminated. You can’t just go around putting it back in.”
“Contaminated by what? It’s been sitting in the burette all day.”
“Things,” Clary said, with a vague, ineffectual wave of her hand. “Anything that’s been left behind from whoever’s been using that burette before you.”
Mattes looked vaguely horrified, affronted, and disgusted. “Your chemistry students can’t even clean a burette properly?” he asked, disdainfully. Clary resisted the urge to remind Mattes that dropping volumetric flasks did not, by any stretch of the imagination, count as ‘properly cleaning up’.
“Look, it’s just standard practice,” Clary said, rather than get into another pointless argument. “Just do it.”
Mattes’s lips quirked into a mysterious smile but he obeyed.
Rating: G
Word count: 313
Pairing: Clary/Mattes
Round/Fight: 4/A
Summary: Mattes doesn’t like wasting chemicals. Clary cannot believe that Mattes is that stupid. Modern college AU. Clary is a chemistry TA. Mattes is a theoretical physicist suffering from the Pauli Effect.
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The first mistake, Clary decided, was believing that Mattes was capable of cleaning up after himself without a disaster of epic proportions happening. “Mattes, are you doing what I think you are?” she demanded, hands on her hips.
Mattes blinked; that look of studious innocenced was utterly practiced, an uncharitable part of Clary decided. “I’m putting back the sodium hydroxide,” he said, very slowly, as if it should have been perfectly obvious to Clary.
“No, you’re pouring sodium hydroxide back into the container. Where did it come from?”
Mattes gave her a flat stare, as if he thought Clary was being deliberately slow. “There was extra left over in the burette, since you said to drip and not to squirt,” the way he stressed the words could have made Clary squirm a little in guilt. Maybe she’d been a bit too strident about Mattes’s errors. “So I didn’t see the point in wasting it. I’m putting it back where I got it.”
“You’re not supposed to!” Clary cried out, and took several deep breaths, trying to calm down, before she spoke again. “Mattes. Once you’ve used some of the sodium hydroxide in an experiment, the rest has been contaminated. You can’t just go around putting it back in.”
“Contaminated by what? It’s been sitting in the burette all day.”
“Things,” Clary said, with a vague, ineffectual wave of her hand. “Anything that’s been left behind from whoever’s been using that burette before you.”
Mattes looked vaguely horrified, affronted, and disgusted. “Your chemistry students can’t even clean a burette properly?” he asked, disdainfully. Clary resisted the urge to remind Mattes that dropping volumetric flasks did not, by any stretch of the imagination, count as ‘properly cleaning up’.
“Look, it’s just standard practice,” Clary said, rather than get into another pointless argument. “Just do it.”
Mattes’s lips quirked into a mysterious smile but he obeyed.