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literatehiss:

> # A Study of Love

> Written for Day 5 on JonEliasWeek2021.
> Prompt: Soulmate AU
> Jon had been born with a soul mark rejected. A burning brand of silvery-grey on his wrist that would forever mark him as unlovable.

> Elias thinks otherwise.

> Read on AO3 here
> Jon hadn’t meant to do it.

> It was an accident. Tim and Melanie’s twin aggression, powerless against the beings that were destroying them and so turning that anger on him, not that he didn’t deserve it. A shove from Tim that sent Jon *falling* and the sudden vertigo clutched at his heart as it had in Mike Crew’s apartment not all that long ago. The words came out of him before he had even fully recovered from hitting the floor, anger and fear curling around the words and turning them into a dagger.

> “What is your problem, Tim?”
> And well. Tim told him, told him everything and everyone in the Archives watched as Jon ripped the words out of Tim’s head.

> The knife was in Melanie’s hand before he had even managed to get to his feet and Basira was calling Daisy only a few feet away.

> He hadn’t meant to do it.

> But no one cared.

> Keep reading