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storypaint) wrote2009-01-12 12:30 pm
storypaint) wrote2009-01-12 12:30 pm
Blowing The Lab Up Does Not Give Extra Credit (Jane & Belle gen)
Title: Blowing The Lab Up Does Not Give Extra Credit
Length: 284 words
Fandom: Beauty and the Beast/Tarzan
Pairing/characters: Jane and Belle gen
Rating: G
Warnings: college students AU (Disney Hall)
Prompt/challenge you're answering: no_true_pair: Belle and Jane, working together
Excerpt: From the outside, it looked like the perfect partnership. Belle and Jane held the two highest averages in their chemistry class. They were meticulous memorizers, devoted seekers of knowledge.
From the outside, it looked like the perfect partnership. Belle and Jane held the two highest averages in their chemistry class. They were meticulous memorizers, devoted seekers of knowledge.
They were terrible lab partners.
Belle was much more creative than practical, her head already three steps ahead of procedure, and modifying it for ease of experimentation. Jane was unsure of herself, hesitant to speak up.
They first time their experiment went awry, they thought it was a coincidence. The second time, they turned away from each other in frustration.
People whispered when they were marked down for incorrect results. Jane rested her head on her desk after class, wondering why she hadn't brought up the solubility of that particular substance. Belle stalked around her dorm room, angrily scratching at the dry, itchy skin that hse had splashed chemicals on in class. It wasn't dangerous, but it was irritating.
But they were both raised to be polite, and in any case, they weren't each sure they could blame the other. There were too many things that could go wrong in a lab environment.
When their third experiment ended in two broken test tubes and a bad burn across Jane's thumb, the teacher reassigned them to other partners. Blushing, neither girl protested, but Jane caught Belle in the hallway after class.
"I'm sorry," she said, casting her eyes down, and to her surprise, Belle hugged her warmly.
"It's just school," she said, waving a hand.
("Even though it's important," they both thought immediately.)
"We can still be friends," Belle continued, and Jane smiled.
"What do you think of the results from the last one?" she asked, and Belle told her theories as they walked down the hall together.
Length: 284 words
Fandom: Beauty and the Beast/Tarzan
Pairing/characters: Jane and Belle gen
Rating: G
Warnings: college students AU (Disney Hall)
Prompt/challenge you're answering: no_true_pair: Belle and Jane, working together
Excerpt: From the outside, it looked like the perfect partnership. Belle and Jane held the two highest averages in their chemistry class. They were meticulous memorizers, devoted seekers of knowledge.
From the outside, it looked like the perfect partnership. Belle and Jane held the two highest averages in their chemistry class. They were meticulous memorizers, devoted seekers of knowledge.
They were terrible lab partners.
Belle was much more creative than practical, her head already three steps ahead of procedure, and modifying it for ease of experimentation. Jane was unsure of herself, hesitant to speak up.
They first time their experiment went awry, they thought it was a coincidence. The second time, they turned away from each other in frustration.
People whispered when they were marked down for incorrect results. Jane rested her head on her desk after class, wondering why she hadn't brought up the solubility of that particular substance. Belle stalked around her dorm room, angrily scratching at the dry, itchy skin that hse had splashed chemicals on in class. It wasn't dangerous, but it was irritating.
But they were both raised to be polite, and in any case, they weren't each sure they could blame the other. There were too many things that could go wrong in a lab environment.
When their third experiment ended in two broken test tubes and a bad burn across Jane's thumb, the teacher reassigned them to other partners. Blushing, neither girl protested, but Jane caught Belle in the hallway after class.
"I'm sorry," she said, casting her eyes down, and to her surprise, Belle hugged her warmly.
"It's just school," she said, waving a hand.
("Even though it's important," they both thought immediately.)
"We can still be friends," Belle continued, and Jane smiled.
"What do you think of the results from the last one?" she asked, and Belle told her theories as they walked down the hall together.