2025-01-20 16:41:33 ¶ ●

God I do love a good statement deprivation fic, just Jon starving and helpless. Maybe Melanie and Basira deciding they can’t let him out to hurt anyone. Jon so hungry scratching at the door when they stop bringing even the paper statements. Jon calling out for anyone and everyone, he’s just so hungry, it hurts so bad. Finally Jon cries out for Elias, begs him even if he isn’t there to come help him, he’s just so hungry.

Elias storming into the archives like a thundercloud after walking out of prison, look he was only in there to keep Jon from reading his mind. Now that doesn’t matter, because Jon needs him, is calling for him, he wants his Archive marked, not broken. In an act of violence reminiscent of how he killed Leightner he breaks the look off the door to Jon’s office.

The lights are out, but Jon is curled up right by the door. It’s now stained with the blood from his broken nails, that had stoped healing after a month of starvation. Elias immediately gathers him into his arms and he weighs practically nothing. Jon has never been heavy, but he’s emaciated now.

Elias carrying him up to his office settles him on the couch. He hopes he’s not too late, he doesn’t know, he’s too scared to look. He spends the next hour or so reciting any statement he had not yet given to the Archive. Secrets he really shouldn’t be revealing, but what does it matter when the color starts to come back to Jon’s face.

When his eyes finally flicker open, all of them, drinking in Elias’s fear, he doesn’t pause in his statement until it’s finished. Jon is in his arms a moment later crying and whimpering, telling Elias how hungry he had been. How all he wanted other than a statement was for someone to come save him.