Coming Apart At The Seams by Rauchendes_GNU
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandom: The Magnus Archives
Relationship: Jonathan Sims/Elias Bouchard
Characters: Jonathan Sims, Elias Bouchard
Additional Tags: post episode 92: nothing beside remains, Elias Bouchard is his own warning, Elias Bouchard being Elias Bouchard, Manipulative Relationship, Hurt Jonathan Sims, caring for wounds, Hurt/Comfort, sort of, Elias is doing the comforting, make of that what you will, being so tired it makes reality go weird, Asexual Jonathan Sims, Power Imbalance, worship (sort of), again Elias being Elias, Soft Elias Bouchard, First Kiss, Elias may be evil incarnate but he respects the acesJon takes a deep breath to fight back the angry, desperate tears that threaten to spill and clog up his throat. His hands are clenched to painful fists, helping him fight for control, not knowing how fruitless it is.
Elias simply watches him, his piercing gaze almost gentle.
“Don’t,” Jon whispers. “Just leave.”
“You still don’t understand,” Elias says, taking a step and then another, until he’s in front of Jon, only a few centimetres taller, yet seeming to loom over him nonetheless. “You’re my Archivist. You are my priority and my responsibility.”
Or: Jon returns to the institute bleeding and hurting, and Elias decides to look after him.