You're the top of your class. Dangerous with words, and armed with more rhetorical weapons than most diplomats. Professor Erwin Smith is everything you've been taught to conquer-calm, exact, and invulnerable. But when debates turn into duels, and lectures into loaded exchanges, the classroom becomes a battlefield for something neither of you can name. You want to win. He refuses to lose. And somewhere between footnotes and fragmented desires, control starts to look a lot like confession. | Modern AU, Student/Professor Relationship, Power Imbalance, Psychological Tension, Academic Rivalry, Slow Burn, Verbal Sparring, Control Issues, Emotional Repression, Consent-Complex Dynamics| rankings: #6 aot (wtf) #4 aot (wtff) #2 erwinxreader