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Prompt Post No. 15

Mar 26, 2011 12:00

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Arthur/librarian!Eames anonymous March 28 2011, 22:49:01 UTC

I've seen lots of prompts that have Arthur as the librarian, but none of the reverse, so.

Eames is a librarian and Arthur is a patron he has a huge and completely ridiculous crush on.

check me out 1 anonymous April 4 2011, 01:35:39 UTC

Eames is pretty sure there’s a rule about engaging in affairs with students, one that says: “Do not do it. You are here to help students, not seduce them. Even if they are grad students and practically your age ( ... )

Re: check me out 2 anonymous April 4 2011, 01:36:53 UTC

Eames starts to anticipate Doctor Jacobs’ tersely worded reference requests, simply because Arthur invariably comes to pick them up, and then Eames can ask him questions. Arthur’s answers are short and clipped, occasionally sharp, but always intelligent. He was studying cultural anthropology. No, he didn’t think anthropology was imperialist bullshit (any more). Yes, he had done field research in Papua New Guinea. No, he had not “gone native.” His favorite band was Radiohead, he didn’t like world music. He thought Eames’ opinions of anthropologists were based solely upon weird stereotypes, and wouldn’t Eames be offended if someone asked why he wasn’t an elderly woman with glasses and grey hair in a bun ( ... )

Re: check me out 3 anonymous April 4 2011, 01:38:07 UTC

The next day Eames has lunch with Yusuf, because he usually has lunch with Yusuf on Fridays.

“There’s a rumor going around about you,” Yusuf says when he sits down.

“Did you find out that my hugely inappropriate crush is on Doctor Jacobs’ T.A.?” Eames asks, because it’s not worth hiding anything from Yusuf. Yusuf knows most of Eames’ secrets; anyway--he’s pretty sure the only reason they’re friends is because they both got terrifically drunk at a faculty and staff party at the end of the previous academic year, and told one another everything there was to know about themselves.

Yusuf laughs, “No. But it does have to do with the fact that Jacobs doesn’t have a T.A.”

Eames blinks at him.

“So you are telling me,” Eames says. “That Doctor Jacobs is a beautiful young man with dark hair who always wears button-ups, and not a doddering old man who likes to chase children off his lawn ( ... )

Re: check me out 4 anonymous April 4 2011, 01:38:53 UTC

Arthur doesn’t come to the library much, after that, although it is the end of the semester, and, since he doesn’t have a T.A., there must be a lot of grading to go through. Eames tries not to think about it; he goes to the club, one night, and sleeps with someone who doesn’t look like Arthur in the slightest. He does not develop inappropriate crushes on other library patrons, be they student or professor ( ... )

Re: check me out 5 anonymous April 4 2011, 01:39:33 UTC

When he gets home, Eames calls Yusuf ( ... )

Re: check me out 6/6 anonymous April 4 2011, 01:40:37 UTC

But Eames has no shame, so he wears a bow tie the next day, and an older pair of tortoise shell reading glasses with thick frames. He spends most of his time with Arthur sucking on the earpiece, and when he glances up, there are twin spots of pink on Arthur’s cheeks ( ... )

Re: check me out 6/6 bloody_american April 4 2011, 03:21:57 UTC

NEVER BE EMBARRASSED, ANON. THIS IS WONDERFUL. IT IS SO WONDERFUL, IN FACT, THAT I AM DE-ANONING TO TELL YOU SO. It's exactly what I'd hoped it would be and more. So many wonderful bits! Eames thinking Arthur was a TA, homg. XD Arthur's librarian fetish is lolsoamazing and Yusuf, Yusuf is such an enabler. I love his relationship with Eames. They are such BFFs. I think I initially posted the prompt almost as a lark but that this fill was written makes me all the more happy I did. <333

-OP

Re: check me out 6/6 anonymous April 4 2011, 04:29:41 UTC

I am so glad you enjoyed it!

50% of my embarrassment is over the totally cornball title. The other 50% is that I do not buy myself as a writer of anything approaching smut.

(I pretty much always write Yusuf and Eames as BFFs. It's an affliction. I probably ship them as BFFs more consistently than I ship anything else in this fandom.)

Re: check me out 6/6 biohazard_03 April 4 2011, 03:23:29 UTC

OH MY GOD, Arthur has GLASSES KINK!!!! XDDDDDDDDDD

Don't be embarrass author!anon, this is GLORIOUS! I almost screamed out loud in part 3 when Yusuf made that "revelation". And Arthur's reaction to Eames' attempt at seduction *dies*

So yah, AWESOME FILL author!anon~~~!!!

Re: check me out 6/6 anonymous April 4 2011, 04:34:24 UTC

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

I thought the bit with Arthur actually being the professor, not the T.A., was ridiculously obvious as I was writing it, so I am glad to hear of near-screams, which I assume were of SURPRISE.

Re: check me out 6/6 anonymous April 4 2011, 05:16:29 UTC

No need to be embarrassed! This grad student anon cannot get enough of academic romance!

Re: check me out 6/6 anonymous April 4 2011, 06:22:46 UTC

I think this is the third fill I've done that has had a university setting completely outside of the prompt...oh man.

Re: check me out 6/6 akayalovesyaoi April 4 2011, 05:34:47 UTC

They're so adorable like this. Lovely story and I loved the confused Eames and snarky Yusuf :DD

Re: check me out 6/6 anonymous April 4 2011, 06:23:13 UTC

Thank you!

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