OKAY SO the martinelias assistant!au. i want to talk about it (bc i don’t think i’ll ever write it coherently). in this au jm is still a thing but it’s more onesided pining on jon’s part (rip jon) not bc martin’s not interested, but bc his crush gets overwhelmed by his deepening hatred of elias.
meanwhile elias notices jon crushin on his assistant and goes 👀 ‘maybe i can USE this…’ and thinks about putting marto in the lonely like he did in s4. but then he HESITATES, and he’s like, ‘why am i pausing over using my long-time assistant as baOHHHHHHHH, HE’S A SNACK.’
after some angsting he does it anyways, but in this universe instead of the perfect specimen that is 159 martin has enough beholding powers at this point to drag himself out of the lonely. he storms back into the archives and flings open elias’ office, door, shoves past an amused peter lukas, and slams his palms down on elias’ desk.
elias stares up at him in silence for a moment, and martin’s furious glare bleeds into something almost akin to amusement as he snarls ‘what, you thought you could get rid of me?’
elias opens his mouth. closes it. peter muffles his snickers.
‘let me make this clear, elias,’ martin continues, voice going quiet and low. ‘i am your assistant, not something you can just- throw away. i can see you now, jonah. i can always see you. how can i be alone, if i’m dragging you down with me?’
then he straightens back up, dusts himself off, and sweeps out of the room, monotonously going ‘fuck off, peter,’ as he does.
peter looks at his back admiringly for a moment, then turns to elias. ‘i can see why we never worked out,’ he says, smugness radiating out of him. ‘if that’s your type.’