Summary: There are rumours at the university about Doctor and his wife Rose about them being a vampire and werewolf respectively.
"Hey Launa, which teachers do you have?" Amaryllis asked, bounding up to the girl.
The girl in question ducked her head down to read her timetable, a curtain of mousy brown hair shielding her from view. "For physics, I have Doctor Smith, fo-"
"No way!" Tammy shrieked.
Launa looked up in confusion at the interruption.
Tammy flushed at the expectant expression of the shorter girl due to her outburst.
"Sorry, it's just he's practically a legend around here."
"Really?" Launa asked, disbelief colouring her tone but Amaryllis was already nodding eagerly in agreement with her friend.
The two friends were second-year students at the university Launa was doing an exchange programme at for the year. They'd needed an extra roommate or two after the set of twins they were supposed to be living with had dropped out. Launa had been desperate, and the girls had been welcoming so it had seemed like a no-brainer, particularly when they offered to show her around.
"Oh yeah," Amaryllis cut in, "He's been here for like ever, some say he's been here longer than the university. Emily heard that he sleeps in the basement of the university. He's super weird but in a cool way, not a creepy way."
Tammy rolled her eyes at her friend, "He's eccentric." She corrected. "But seriously he once mentioned 'his friend Shakespeare' and how he wrote a sonnet for his friend, there's a rumour that he's actually immortal which isn't that ridiculous if you look at any old staff photos, that man has not aged since the 60s. There are also photos of him from the nineteenth century hidden somewhere too. His lectures are always super crowded because other students like to slip in and listen, so make sure you get there early if you want a seat."
"I'm still placing bets on him being a Keanu Reeves-esque immortal." Amaryllis shrugged.
Tammy quirked an eyebrow at her friend, "Who said Keanu Reeves isn't a vampire?"
Amaryllis scoffed but didn't acknowledge her friend's point as she turned to the other girl in their group, a freshman by the name of Charlotte, their fourth and final roommate. "What about you 'Lottes, who've you got?"
Charlotte flustered at the sudden change in focus onto herself, scrambling to unfold her timetable as she stuttered, "Oh uh I've got Professor Tyler for art hist-"
"No way!" "Oh, come on!" The two friends exclaimed in unison.
"That's so unfair that you both got the coolest professors on your first go."
"Urgh, I was on a waitlist for her classes for 2 months last year for sociology." Amaryllis groaned.
"I thought she took art history?" Launa queried with a frown; she was sure that was what Charlotte had been about to say before the duo had interrupted the timid girl.
"Oh, they both teach a bunch of subjects." Tammy waved her off.
"Yeah, it's just that Rose's classes are separated into different subjects while the Doctor does a ton of classes, but you never know what you're getting that day?"
"Rose?" Charlotte asked carefully.
"Yeah, that's what they prefer to be called, Rose and the Doctor. Technically the Doctor is a professor too; he just doesn't like to use that title." Amaryllis shrugged.
"Wait," Launa interjected, already feeling lost, "He doesn't always teach physics?"
"He's supposed to teach physics, but he'll go on tangents about poetry and stuff. You'll learn so much in his classes and they're so easy to pass, as long as you're passionate." Tammy reassured.
"Never mind that. Brandon said he heard howling coming from Rose's office last year, like honest to god, wolf howling! Apparently, her office has been checked nineteen times because they're certain she's keeping one as a pet in there as part of her zoological research. But they never find anything."
"Oh, I heard that one. And you can't eat in her classes because she has the nose of a bloodhound, and no matter how full that lecture theatre is she always pinpoints it. Even in summer when it gets a little too hot and gross because the ventilation is shit, she'll still find it."
"Really? The vampire and the werewolf? You're pulling our legs."
The two friends immediately looked defensive at Launa's comment.
"It's true! The Doctor once said he'd been tutored by Leonardo Da Vinci, and while he'd been a dab hand at the inventions, he couldn't keep up with the art as that had always been more his wife's thing."
"Yeah! And Rose said that the Royal blood condition that first affected Queen Victoria was the result of a wolf bite. And half the university can vouch that they've seen her eyes flash gold at least once, she's also like, weirdly fast? Michael saw her on a morning jog once and she wasn't even out of breath after practically sprinting for half a mile." Tammy carried on from her friend.
"Mhmm." Amaryllis nodded in agreement. "And the Doctor was knighted by Queen Victoria, there's a record of it in the archives. And he has all these letters from historical figures framed in his office, like Benjamin Franklin and Queen Elizabeth the first."
"I think you're getting your mythology mixed up." Charlotte piped up uncertainly.
"Urgh, you'll see," Amaryllis told them spinning on her heel, Tammy quickly following after her, leaving the two new girls to look at each other in confusion.
There was never any consensus as to just what was up with the Doctor and Rose, but two months into the year the two former sceptics could safely say there was definitely something weird about their professors.
A/N: Was thinking about how there's not that many vampire dw aus and was trying to decide who would fit and obviously it would be twelve 'has been at the university for centuries', and there's never enough werewolf Rose. I bashed both of these out super quickly so they're not the best but I did them instead of my assignment that's worth 50% of my grade so happy Halloween!
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