A Fish Riding A Bicycle
Romance short. A repressed wizard is at odds with the Dean of Magical Arts’ new secretary.
4k. Silly banter back and forth between a grumpy Mr Fish and a smug new personal assistant of the Dean’s — Mr Cross. Adapted from a TweetFic.
Everard Fish had never been a very flexible man, nor a friendly one. He was rigid by his nature, he liked things to be in order, well-organised, efficient — despite these preferences, he had chosen academia as his vocation, and worse than that, he was a wizard.
Individual scholars might be trusted on to be organised and to keep a space in order, but Fish had never found that colleges and universities were themselves well-kept — too many people, in his mind, got into it for the love of their areas of study, and this affection distracted them from more important matters: record-keeping, paperwork, a good, robust filing system.
He didn’t have enough love for his area of study to let himself get distracted by it, and he was aware that while he was a competent academic and a good tutor — he received decent enough reviews from his students, even if his personality counted against him — he wasn’t inspired enough in his work to attain any great position for it.
