Post by Seek on May 29, 2011 8:19:55 GMT 10
Title: Titration 4
Rating: G
Word count: 329
Pairing: Clary/Mattes
Round/Fight: 4/A
Summary: Clary and Mattes quibble over what counts as an acceptable shade of blue. Modern college AU. Clary is a chemistry TA. Mattes is a theoretical physicist suffering from the Pauli Effect.
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As much as she was tempted to just step in in the interests of saving time, Clary stood back and let Mattes blunder through the entire experiment on his own. After countless mishaps with the heating apparatus, Mattes finally reached the main part of the experiment. And there, they encountered even more problems.
It was supposed to be simple, really. There was supposed to be a colour change, from red to blue. The problem came because the red became purple before turning a shade of blue and too many students weren’t sure of the difference in colour. And Mattes?
He was hopeless.
“Mattes,” Clary tried, “Is that blue?” (It wasn’t.)
Mattes glanced briefly at the beaker and shrugged carelessly. “Looks blue to me,” he said, just a touch defensively.
Clary sighed and ran fingers through her hair and forced herself to relax. She would go bald if she kept pulling her hair at this rate. “Mattes, it has to be a deeper blue. That’s not blue enough.”
Mattes stared at her as if he suspected Clary of trying to crack a bad joke. “Blue’s blue,” he pointed out. “It’s still blue.”
“No, that’s purple-blue,” Clary said. “You need it to be blue. Just blue.”
“Clary, I’ve done emission spectra before. I know blue when I see it and this is blue. Do you want me to run this through emission lines – “
“No!” Clary exclaimed. She did not need Mattes trying another experiment and messing up more lab equipment in the process. “Look, just trust me, okay Mattes? This is not blue. You need to carry on.”
Mattes gave a sullen shrug and did exactly that.
She had sufficient compensation for the suffering Mattes had put her through, though. Clary enjoyed the expression on Mattes’s face the moment her student completed the entire titration successfully (after all those mishaps, and what must have been six or seven hours later) and she said, “Good. Now repeat this four more times.”
Rating: G
Word count: 329
Pairing: Clary/Mattes
Round/Fight: 4/A
Summary: Clary and Mattes quibble over what counts as an acceptable shade of blue. Modern college AU. Clary is a chemistry TA. Mattes is a theoretical physicist suffering from the Pauli Effect.
-
As much as she was tempted to just step in in the interests of saving time, Clary stood back and let Mattes blunder through the entire experiment on his own. After countless mishaps with the heating apparatus, Mattes finally reached the main part of the experiment. And there, they encountered even more problems.
It was supposed to be simple, really. There was supposed to be a colour change, from red to blue. The problem came because the red became purple before turning a shade of blue and too many students weren’t sure of the difference in colour. And Mattes?
He was hopeless.
“Mattes,” Clary tried, “Is that blue?” (It wasn’t.)
Mattes glanced briefly at the beaker and shrugged carelessly. “Looks blue to me,” he said, just a touch defensively.
Clary sighed and ran fingers through her hair and forced herself to relax. She would go bald if she kept pulling her hair at this rate. “Mattes, it has to be a deeper blue. That’s not blue enough.”
Mattes stared at her as if he suspected Clary of trying to crack a bad joke. “Blue’s blue,” he pointed out. “It’s still blue.”
“No, that’s purple-blue,” Clary said. “You need it to be blue. Just blue.”
“Clary, I’ve done emission spectra before. I know blue when I see it and this is blue. Do you want me to run this through emission lines – “
“No!” Clary exclaimed. She did not need Mattes trying another experiment and messing up more lab equipment in the process. “Look, just trust me, okay Mattes? This is not blue. You need to carry on.”
Mattes gave a sullen shrug and did exactly that.
She had sufficient compensation for the suffering Mattes had put her through, though. Clary enjoyed the expression on Mattes’s face the moment her student completed the entire titration successfully (after all those mishaps, and what must have been six or seven hours later) and she said, “Good. Now repeat this four more times.”
