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jonelias week day 2:
Elias and Jonathan Bouchard have a perfectly happy marriage, but sometimes, Elias dreams.
Oneshot for JonElias Week 2021, “Domestic AU” prompt.
JonElias week, Day 5: “You have nowhere else to go.” | Post-MAG68.
Elias spends Jon’s ride back to the house stealing glances at him through the driver’s eyes, feeling a curl of satisfaction as he puts together his own idea of what must have happened in the tunnels; an idea that blooms closer to the actual Knowledge of the truth the closer Jon gets to him. He doesn’t indulge in it, though; for once, he wants to hear it first-hand. He wants to hear for himself, in Jon’s words, if something has marked - no matter how lightly - his Archivist tonight.
He’s already waiting, when Jon pounds on the door, but he waits just a moment more before turning the lock and opening up to Jon and the frigid January air.
“Goodness, Jon.” Elias looks him over, concerned but assessing. “Come in. You look a fright.”
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In the split second before the door opens, Jon is afraid. What if it’s the same as it was with Sasha? No, that’s stupid — the driver was fine. Jon thinks he was fine, anyway. He rubs at the back of his arm, hugging it tight to himself.
And then, there’s Elias, awash in gentler light than the street, and he's —
He’s himself. Jon huffs out a hard breath that puffs up in the air between them, and then before he can stop himself, he’s bolting over the threshold and straight into Elias, smashing himself into his chest and wrapping his arms around him. Somehow, Jon is out of breath. His lungs burn from the cold.
“You're—” No, not saying that, that would be insane. All of this, actually, is pretty insane. Jon straightens himself up, looks up at Elias. “Sorry, it’s just.” He laughs humourlessly, his eyes wild and his breath still shallow and uneven. “I’ve had a hell of a time.”
inspired by/excerpt from writing by me & @paradisepuppet.
Carrying on his grandmother’s legacy is a price too high for Jon to pay. He thinks so, anyway, until he’s offered a way out.
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for joneliasweek2021 - prompt: “we have a problem.”
jonelias week 2021 - amnesia au - a playlist for jon losing his consciousness to the archives
jonelias week 2021 - “i don’t feel very well” - a playlist for the sickly side of love
jonelias week 2021 - “At least it can’t get any worse.“ - a playlist for the dawning of a new world
Thinking about OG Elias being stuck in his own head, unable to pilot his body or use his voice. What if he knew what Jonah was going to do, knew about his entire plan and desperately wanted to stop it? He tries everything to get back in control and warn Jon, warn someone. But Jonah is stronger than him, and in the end his body remains a prison
One more thing I love about Elias is that you can often hear his smile as he talks, and he has on more than one occasion been described as someone who seemingly does a lot of grinning.
👀Hello Jon👀
Thank you so much for your engagement!
You can check out the third chapter here.
sketch dump! these are from january-july. the jonahs are my first ever; I’m still figuring out how I want to draw him.
partial credit for the joneliases goes to @paradisepuppet, who keeps me well supplied with Things To Draw. :3
the date is July 26th, 2021. it has been 123 days since MAG200. I am still thinking about the fact that Jon was stabbed in the heart with a blade still covered in Elias’s blood
the date is July 26th, 2021. it has been 123 days since MAG200. I am still thinking about the fact that Jon was stabbed in the heart with a blade still covered in Elias’s blood
#the ROMANCE OF IT ALL #for 123 days i have not known peace
NOR SHALL WE KNOW PEACE EVER AGAIN
oh ABSOLUTELY not
thinking about jonelias ‘you can only touch him when he’s dying’
it’s like this. he loves you and he shouldn’t because you only ever hurt him and the people he cares about. he loves you and he hates you for doing that to him. he loves you and he needs you and he wants you dead at his feet and he believes there is good inside of you no matter how much you show him that there is nothing, nothing at all at the rotten core of you. and he knows this in his head even when his heart is fucking singing for you, in the same way every one of his prey animal instincts are screaming for him to stay away. but, well, he’s never been any good at listening to his survival instincts. so he stays away he stays away he does not touch you. he does not talk to you unless he needs you. and he keeps coming back when he needs you, and you barely have to give him anything to keep him hoping for more. for better. but he will only come to you when he has exhausted all other options, when he needs something and you are deemed less dangerous than the next monster. you cannot touch him unless he is dying, you cannot hear his voice unless it is to beg for his life from something he trusts you to protect him from.
when he has nowhere else to go he will always have you. but before then? will he have you before he has nothing else? never.
hooray my friend got past the season 3 finale so now i can post spoiler artwork without ruining it for her!!!! cries a new lake in my own hubris
been thinkin bout… MAG80 :^)
Deleting my apps because I want to meet someone the right way (them coming to me already marked by the Web and me immediately knowing they’re the one that I must carve into the lynchpin of my ritual to become king of a ruined world).
I am always over here thinking about the concept of elias destroyed by the god he forced into creation…being so desperate for divinity he orchestrates his own downfall…yeah
been thinkin bout… MAG80 :^)
next-day bonus content: the placement of this keeps making me laugh
I’m now imagining this is the elias from my je week fic hoping jon doesn’t suddenly develop telepathy and find out he’s thinking about his murder dreams in the middle of appraising various tomatoes