Post by Seek on May 29, 2011 8:11:23 GMT 10
Title: Titration 2
Rating: G
Word count: 316
Pairing: Clary/Mattes
Round/Fight: 4/A
Summary: Mattes pretends he is proficient at lab. He fails. Badly. Modern college AU. Clary is a chemistry TA. Mattes is a theoretical physicist suffering from the Pauli Effect.
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“Are you sure you’re heating it?” Clary asked, pacing the lab.
Mattes rolled his eyes. “I am a physicist, Clary,” he said, very dryly. “I’d be out on my ear if I couldn’t handle simple heating apparatus. And surely there’s something more sophisticated than a bunsen burner? Like a Teclu?”
Clary gave a small shake of her head. “Show me you can handle a bunsen burner and I’ll let you play with college level equipment. I’m expressly told not to let you handle the centrifuge.”
Mattes brushed aside his fringe with the back of his hand as he blinked and checked the equipment again. “For heaven’s sake,” he said, exasperatedly. “I’m telling you, the thing with the centrifuge wasn’t my fault. Blasted thing just gave out on me.”
“Right,” Clary said, archly. “And expensive lab equipment tends to suffer inexplicable malfunctions when you’re near?”
The bunsen burner flared to life. There was an audible pop! and the flame burned an odd shade of green at the jet. Mattes would have suffered burned fingers if he hadn’t pulled them back swiftly, and he stared, dumbfounded, at the bunsen burner.
“Shut it off!” Clary snapped, and Mattes reached for the gas tap and switched it off. The fire shut off immediately, and Clary sighed. It wasn’t in relief. It was the sigh of a woman who knew she going to have to teach Mattes a lot more than she’d originally expected. She waited, before she couldn’t resist. “I told you so,” Clary said, smugly.
“What was that?”
“A strike back,” Clary said. “You didn’t close the air hole. You have to close the air hole before you light the burner. What was that about ‘I’m a physicist, Clary!’?”
“A theoretical physicist,” Mattes shot back. “Good theoretical physicists suffer from the Pauli Effect.”
“Surely there’s something more sophisticated than a bunsen burner, Clary!” she mocked.
Mattes elbowed her. Hard.
Rating: G
Word count: 316
Pairing: Clary/Mattes
Round/Fight: 4/A
Summary: Mattes pretends he is proficient at lab. He fails. Badly. Modern college AU. Clary is a chemistry TA. Mattes is a theoretical physicist suffering from the Pauli Effect.
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“Are you sure you’re heating it?” Clary asked, pacing the lab.
Mattes rolled his eyes. “I am a physicist, Clary,” he said, very dryly. “I’d be out on my ear if I couldn’t handle simple heating apparatus. And surely there’s something more sophisticated than a bunsen burner? Like a Teclu?”
Clary gave a small shake of her head. “Show me you can handle a bunsen burner and I’ll let you play with college level equipment. I’m expressly told not to let you handle the centrifuge.”
Mattes brushed aside his fringe with the back of his hand as he blinked and checked the equipment again. “For heaven’s sake,” he said, exasperatedly. “I’m telling you, the thing with the centrifuge wasn’t my fault. Blasted thing just gave out on me.”
“Right,” Clary said, archly. “And expensive lab equipment tends to suffer inexplicable malfunctions when you’re near?”
The bunsen burner flared to life. There was an audible pop! and the flame burned an odd shade of green at the jet. Mattes would have suffered burned fingers if he hadn’t pulled them back swiftly, and he stared, dumbfounded, at the bunsen burner.
“Shut it off!” Clary snapped, and Mattes reached for the gas tap and switched it off. The fire shut off immediately, and Clary sighed. It wasn’t in relief. It was the sigh of a woman who knew she going to have to teach Mattes a lot more than she’d originally expected. She waited, before she couldn’t resist. “I told you so,” Clary said, smugly.
“What was that?”
“A strike back,” Clary said. “You didn’t close the air hole. You have to close the air hole before you light the burner. What was that about ‘I’m a physicist, Clary!’?”
“A theoretical physicist,” Mattes shot back. “Good theoretical physicists suffer from the Pauli Effect.”
“Surely there’s something more sophisticated than a bunsen burner, Clary!” she mocked.
Mattes elbowed her. Hard.