#professors au

Professors au comm for @ira-dunfort for her Drarry fic Substitute

mainly bc i'm tiredt and the plot bunnies need to find enrichment elsewhere

anyways here goes

hanahaki!au, only aerion's keeping it well hidden that he's ill. add him coughing up poisonous or spiky flowers for flavor and angst

expansion on the omegaverse dunkaerion babies au - if you thought dyanna and arlan are the only set of multiples, you would be sorely mistaken. baela is probably 1 of 2 single babies that aerion has, the rest are twins or triplets. they have a small army before the eldest 2 graduate high school, and if it had been ye olden days, it would have been near enough to form alliances with all the old Great Houses and maybe a few Medium Houses to boot. omegaverse, same flavor, omega!aerion and alpha!dunk, only aerion's the one who's incredibly aggressive and liable to fly off the handle at any sort of provocation leveled at dunk - and dunk gets quite a lot of provocation, seeing as he's big and most insecure men want to prove their mettle against him. only, aerion and dunk's scents are so intertwined that it really genuinely seems like there's a scrappy, bitey, stabby little alpha throwing down with the gods and everyone on behalf of his big, gentle omega, who's generally having to scoop him out of whatever scuffle aerion's gotten into and cart him away, hurling obscenities and insults and almost-serious curses directed at the offenders' bloodlines.

same deal as above, aerion's the "he asked for no pickles" kinda guy, but also steps it up a notch. if they're having family dinner or he and dunk are out on a double/triple date with some friends (mostly dunk's, let's be honest), aerion's the one double-checking orders and making triple sure there's no allergens.

modern!parents!dunkaerion where dunk is a volunteer sports coach, aerion's running the pta like the navy - grows his hair out long enough to be pulled back into a little ponytail, would absolutely be a karen if he had a mind to be. i don't imagine anyone would voluntarily put aerion in charge of anything involving kids, if only to keep that program from imploding and all those kids leaving. they MIGHT use him as a strategic nuke against certain problematic elements, though, like creepy teachers, cruel ones, etc.

professors!au, that trope of professor overshare being married to professor brick wall, professor overshare has like a 4.9/5 approval rating on ratemyprofessor and like 100+ reviews, there's maybe 50 reviews for professor brick wall and he's sitting pretty at a cool 2.8/5 approval rating. there are no pictures on either of their desks or their lockscreens. this might be an smau, only idk how to do smaus, but it'd be funny to see someone freaking out about seeing professor overshare and professor brick wall arguing over supper, but then kissing in the parking lot.

aerion who's a model and an alleged picky eater, with dunk who's his new private chef that he can't run off this time, not like the other ones - dunk who is also a proper nutritionist, like got the degrees and certifications for it, he just likes cooking better than research and clinics. it's less that aerion has issues with food and more that he realizes that this is one area in his life where he can wield control over other people as opposed to them controlling him. he eats just fine, only he suddenly has problems when it comes to private chefs who were assigned to him by his family and/or the modeling agency, if they weren't one and the same.

merfolk!au! aerion is incredibly bitey and loves to claw at things, what's new. he'd probably be a betta mer, one of those small, aggro, colorful fish. dunk might be a cephalopod? regular fish? idk maybe dunk's a sailor or a scientist's assistant instead, or a fisherman/fisherman's son. aerion finds dunk interesting but Hates his Guts (sure, okay), while dunk has never seen a mer before, much less one like aerion. or if he's seen mer before, they're rare enough as it is, and he's definitely not seen one like aerion. it's funnier if aerion is the mer he bases all the others off of, though, because why are they so... polite? and non-aggressive?? this is not normal???

This is like a university au where both of them are professors and secretly married (they probably divorced before lmao) but their students don't know

So we get oversharer Nico Rosberg here telling his students about how Lewis keeps fumbling all over the place without mentioning him and how "doesn't this old omega deserve better?" (He is literally so fucking beautiful, legit glowing)

And you get stone cold Lewis in the other lecturer where the students only know he's married because of the ring and the one time there was a coffee on the desk with a post it note going "you left your coffee. -britney" so all the students think professor Hamilton married a woman

I wonder how the students find out they were married to each other at the end though👀 (imagine max or someone else knew all along because those were his dads)

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Hi 🪱 Anon!

(I promise I haven't forgotten about Gamer!Max x Nonfamous!Charles and that absolutely adorable ask you sent in 💓😭)

And yes!! Married, divorced, and remarried Brocedes where all of Nico's students know about the extremely turbulent time in his life when his oblivious ex-husband neglected the gorgeous Omega to the point where Nico had to file for divorce and it was only after the paperwork was served to his no good husband that the Alpha came back on bended knee, promising to change, and giving Nico an even bigger engagement ring than the one he had last time 😭

The actual unvarnished truth: Nico and Lewis got into a fight over where they were supposed to spend their summer holiday. Nico wanted Ibiza, Lewis wanted the Cotswolds. In a fit of pique, Nico told him that if he wanted to spend time in a field all by himself then he can do it without an Omega husband dragging him down. And Lewis—who knows Nico down to the marrow of his bones—goaded his beautiful Omega to do it. File for divorce, Nico. I dare you. During the entire time the filing/processing/divorce proceedings were going on, Nico and Lewis were still living together and having occasional hate sex. Lewis still packed Nico's lunch and Nico still made Lewis his morning coffee. Lewis still did their laundry and Nico still kept the house tidy.

Meanwhile on the other side of campus (I imagine Nico is a professor of mechanical engineering while Lewis is an economics professor), you have students nervously shuffling in for Professor Hamilton's lecture while wondering how tf his wife (Britney) actually puts up with him. This man is ridiculously handsome, always sharply dressed, indisputably brilliant, and intimidating as hell 😭

They're also vaguely aware there was a moment in time where Professor Hamilton was harsher than usual for a few months before things leveled out and he was back to normal (or as "normal" as Professor Hamilton ever gets).

What actually happened: During those few months where the "divorce proceedings" were going on, Nico was spitefully going on dates with other Alphas and flaunting them in Lewis's face. The British Alpha was near apoplectic when he saw Nico getting ready to go on his latest date wearing the dress his Alpha bought him for their first wedding anniversary: An elegant and delicate pearl colored silk slip dress trimmed with lace from Nico's beloved Loro Piana. That was when Lewis declared the fun and games were over. He bent Nico over the side of the couch, hiked up his dress, and fucked his pretty boy so hard Nico withdrew his divorce petition with a smile so beautiful it was worth the 7 months of torture he put Lewis through.

➡️ Read the first three chapters on AO3.

Kate Sharma lives by rules—carefully constructed ones designed to keep her safe from repeating the biggest mistake of her life. Anthony Bridgerton treats rules like obstacles to be charmingly negotiated. Unfortunately for both of them, they also have a joint university initiative, a syllabus they cannot agree on, and a frankly alarming amount of unresolved academic (and sexual) tension.

The more they work together, the harder it becomes to ignore the spark they’ve been pretending wasn’t there from their very first contentious email. And when one perfect, catastrophic moment pushes them over the edge, Kate and Anthony have to decide whether their rules are keeping them safe…or keeping them from exactly what they want.

A slow-burn academic rivals-to-lovers romance about rules, rebuilding, trust, and the courage to try again.

Summary:

When Lily Evans stepped on the train to go back to Hogwarts as the new potions professor, she hadn't expected her ex-fiancé to make himself at home in her compartment. Between them, they have years of history, all of which slowly unravels as they ride up to Hogwarts and as they find themselves spending more and more time together.

Written for the September @jilychallenge, Back to School theme

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