Is it a weird thought that Konig ships Ghost and Love in the professor AU, not because he likes either of them, but so he gets more time admiring Liebling without having Love distract her from yelling at him? Or is he completely oblivious of the nonsense that his coworkers are causing students and other staff alike, too busy trying to get a smile from his pretty gardener (he may have pulled up another project of hers because he thought she'd appreciate the pretty flowers they were making).

König tries not to pay attention to the goings on of the regular compus, all those people are weird. They all want to ask him questions and talk about life outside of work, and none of them want to talk about the things he wants to talk about. He told one story about choking a man to death and suddenly he's getting weird looks at faculty parties. Well that's just fine, he prefers sticking to the ROTC buildings anyway. He knows the rules there and he's the one enforcing them. The only professors that seem to have any interest in him are the ex-military guys and they're all, ugh, they're fine he supposes. Weak for leaving the army.

The only redeeming quality any of them have is that one of them holds the interest of his fixations' friends. Liebling is spending more time alone with her friend off courting that pathetic philosophy professor, and that's very good for König. He's rooting for them, if only so that his poor liebling is cast aside for him to pick up the pieces. She's so pretty, so sweet with her lonely eyes and wistful staring. He likes watching her work in her little garden. Actually that's why he blew it up in the first place. He spotted her far across the training field and the cadets took his mumbled headings before he could remember they were in the middle of a training exercise. It's only too lucky she wasn't hurt. Though it might have been nice if she were, König could have visited her in the hospital. He could have taken care of her.

He will take care of her. She's his.

Liebling must want him too because she keeps yelling at him. She pays attention to him, notices him noticing her, and she keeps track of it. That's why she yelled about having seen him five times today! That's so sweet of her! Now he just needs to find some way to get her alone so he can ask her out properly. Preferably somewhere without space for her to run, a closet would be good. He could fuck her against the shelves lining the walls and tell her how much it means to him to be seen by someone so pretty, tell her how eager he is to keep her and take care of her.

Maybe he has to sit through one or two terrible, boring, grant hearings because her silly little flowers are all messed up, but that's just fine by König. He gets to sit next to his future wife, settle a big hand on her knee, and watch her squirm. So cute.