#oc: rory allemond

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Hello people of the internet so I had a couple posts wondering if people would be interested in some of my random drafts and character ships and got some positive responses. I believe it was @apocalypsewriters​ who commented on my post and thanks for that because I honestly don’t know if I’d be posting this without that.

So~ I decided to share some writing on a ship I have Rory & Clyde, They’re both teachers at basically a magical university. Rory has just recently gotten the job and Clyde has worked there for a few years. Me and my friend came up with the school and everything about it as well as a whole magic system but I’m not gonna get into that now, however if you wanna know more about it you can drop questions in my ask box. This is about Rory & Clyde first meeting, I hope you enjoy :)

A left, then a right, and another left? Did he already go that way? how many rights was he supposed to take again?... Was it two or three? He felt like he'd been walking forever through the halls, like the walls themselves were moving. Rory, get your head together, he told himself. His office had to be close, it had to. He looked at the paper that he wrote the number on again but it had gotten smudged "Bloody hell can't I just get one thing right?"  He wanted to cry, getting a new job was always stressful but especially so when you got lost for nearly an hour and were supposed to start working.

"It has to be here" He looked up and caught sight of a door. Rory let out a sigh of relief, this had to be right, it felt right like something drew him towards the door. He reached out and turned the doorknob, surprisingly, it was unlocked. Wasn't he supposed to use a key? He glanced up and to his surprise there was a man sitting at the desk across the room. He just stood frozen for a moment, he was suddenly ten times more nervous. "hey" he mouthed though no words came out.

"Who are you?... and what are you doing here?" The man spoke sharply as he turned his attention upwards, the lights reflecting off his glasses.

Oh god he'd done something wrong hadn't he... "I'm so so sorry I'll- I'll just go" Rory stammered and reached back behind him to grab the door knob, not realizing that when he'd moved, he had accidentally knocked something off the wall. "Shit" He swore as he heard the sound of shattered glass, he was making a terrible impression, oh no he couldn't fail on his first day of work "I'm so sorry I'll clean it up" He was too stressed he couldn't use his magic to fix it, this was even worse then he’d ever imagined.

"Calm down" He watched the man wave a hand causing the shattered picture frame to repair itself and hang back on the wall like nothing happened.

Rory took a deep breath and met the eyes of a significantly shorter man, he seemed so much more intimidating when he was sitting. "Sorry I uh- I thought this was my office, I've been looking all day and I feel like I don't know where anything is, I'm new here I just got a job and- And it's just been a really stressful day and I'm really sorry for interrupting you.” He quickly apologized.

"I see, so it's your first day?" He watched as the brown haired man walked closer and brushed off Rory’s shoulder, perhaps there was some glass that hadn’t gotten cleaned up. He felt his eyes on him and it was almost as if he was examining him- he assumed it was to see if he was fit to work there.

Rory averted his eyes and steadied his breathing, fully aware of his racing heart. He took a moment before replying "Yeah, yeah I'm Rory I Uh- I'm the new charms teacher and I seem to have lost my sense of direction."

"Mm..." The pause left him unsettled like there were definitely words that needed to be said yet instead there was silence. "Clyde, Nice to meet you." Clyde... Cute name, classic in a way. Wait... cute? Now that he thought about it Clyde was definitely attractive, he had this sort of profound energy about him, while the words he spoke were soft and direct there was something more to be desired.

"Yeah totally-" Rory smiled and took Clyde's hand in his own, it was soft... and warm, he kinda liked holding it even if it was brief, well maybe not as brief as he'd thought. Their eyes met for a moment and Rory retracted his hand from Clyde's. He felt strange- like maybe the intense beating of his heart was no longer from anxiety but perhaps from the man in front of him.

Clyde waved a hand and the pile of paper's Rory had dropped flew back into his arms. "You're welcome" there was a hint of a smile as he said that. Is he flirting? Rory immediately found his mind rushing to the conclusion. The prolonged touch, the eye contact, the helpfulness- He was totally flirting, He felt almost giddy inside at the thought but no it was his first day of work and he had to stay professional.

He swallowed a lump in his throat before speaking again "D-do you think you could help me find my office?" Clyde was already back, leaning over his desk and organizing the papers that were stacked on it, probably grading assignments, Rory assumed.

"I have things to-" He looked back and his narrow eyes latched onto Rory's pleading look for a moment before he sighed and said "fine I'll help you."  Clyde gently grabbed him by the arm and led him out of his office. "Do you know if it's the same office as our previous Charms Teacher?"

"I think so..." Rory replied but in all honesty he had no idea, the paper he previously had had been dropped a while ago.

"Okay" Clyde held his arm, Rory quite liked having someone there to keep him from getting lost as he often did.

"Thank you a lot for your help" Rory said, he was genuinely very happy and thankful that he didn't turn out to be one of the super strict arsehole teachers, he actually seemed quite nice.

"Don't mention it.” He replied softly before pushing open a door to a cozy little office that looked like it could've been decorated by someone's grandma. "Here you are, She didn't exactly pack up but the headmaster let's you change it however you please."

Rory looked around at the room, awestruck, his very own office, his own place that he could do whatever he wanted with. "It's amazing." He grinned.

He heard Clyde say something softly under his breath but couldn't quite make it out. He took the box of things out of Rory's hand and sat it down on the still cluttered desk. "Do you need help with anything else? I mean I don't have much work to do so I could help with whatever you desire me to first." He leaned up against the desk.

Rory found himself staring perhaps a bit too long at the slim figure of the man in a blazer. His face was so sweet yet his dark eyes were intense as they glazed over him. He was- Rory couldn't think of the right word but 'pretty' seemed to sum it up for now. And if he wasn't mistaken the attraction was mutual. Rory felt his heart in his chest at that thought, perhaps once they got to know each other better he'd ask him out for a coffee. That sounded nice.

"Oh- well I'm okay for now I mean you did say you had to work." Rory replied, in all honesty he wasn't sure how much more his heart could take, that day had been a whirlwind of emotions and what he really desired was to just relax in his new chair and have a cup of his favorite tea.

"I'll be fine for a bit, plus I needed a break." Clyde had begun to pull things out of Rory's box. And Rory looked up at the dusty bookshelves that were packed full of books, half of which weren't even in English.

"D'you have a place where I can put all the things I don't need in here anymore?" Rory asked as he pulled out a book on cross-stitching.

"You can just put them in the room next door." He gestured to the left.

"What's in the room next door?..." Rory was somehow scared to know the answer but it turns out it was much less alarming than he originally thought.

"Alfie got his office taken away for- reasons- and now we just use it as a storage closet."

"Oh- what'd he do?" Rory asked as he began tossing things he didn't need into a box that he would later take to the 'storage room'

"Had too many ‘guests’” As he said the word Rory immediately understood what he meant, so the theatre teacher found his way around.

“Oh okay- well don’t you have work to do? I can handle this” Rory picked up another stack of weird books the previous charms teacher had kept.

“Mm actually yes there are a few things for me to do~ but it was nice meeting you.” He had a faint smile and Rory found his mind going to the conclusion of flirtation almost immediately once again.

“Yeah.” He smiled as the man left, he felt this warm fuzziness inside him that he found hard to describe, perhaps it was just the spell he’d used earlier to calm his anxiety.

Thanks for reading! Lemme know what else you wanna see from me. Honestly I love these boys and their dynamic is basically cat and dog which you can’t really go wrong with.

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