Out of the blue, you hear your name spoken in a familiar voice. You turn and see the person that matches the voice pushing his way through the crowd.
You stare. “Dr. Grant?”
Standing in the middle of a dive bar in Michigan is Professor Steven Grant, wearing a black dress shirt and a name tag that’s completely redundant to you, considering you couldn’t forget him if you tried.
“Hiya,” he says, tipping his glass to you.
Or: An unexpected encounter leads to something more.
Rating: 18+ only* / minors: do not read/interact
WC:10k
Tags/warnings:slow burn; mutual pining; idiots to lovers; professor/student relationship (eventually)**; smut (eventually); Reader is a “blank slate” but has a backstory; yearning; kissing/making out; angst
A/N:big big shoutout to @nobodys-baby-now for helping me work out the kinks in this chapter after I realized I had to delete 5k words and panicked. thank you so much, bb!
*This series, and my entire blog, are 18+ only. To follow & interact, you must be 18 or older and have your age in your bio.
**Do as I say, not as I fictionalize. It goes without saying that the plot of this series would be extremely inappropriate IRL. Please don’t fuck your professors.
Alright time to burst this is so good I really enjoyed it. The reader just being like ‘yeah I understand it’s ok’ also hit different and Marc wth why did he think it was a good idea to appear out of no where too like bruh poor Steven just spiraling. He makes a good point to say that she was drunk so not a good idea but that just means that next time she could do some convincing
okay so the thing that must be understood about this version of Marc is that he genuinely means well he rly showed up in the mirror with the intention to help Steven calm down and then did the exact opposite! like Marc, babe, you gotta learn that appearing in mirrors like the Ghost of Christmas Past is a liiiiiittle unsettling
(also…she only took two tiny sips of alcohol, she wasn’t drunk and little miss mess knew what she was doing!)
thank you so much @bamposworld!! your support for this series rly means the world
