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somuchbetterthanthat:

> > Jonelias week day 6!
> > Setting: time travel // Prompt: Old memories

> Elias sends him flowers. Hardly the apology he thinks it is, if this is an apology at all, which Jon can’t be sure of. It makes him feel uneasy, not to be able to grasp at any knowledge he wants whenever he needs or craves it. He’s been having headaches ever since he woke up in his flat, with very little power left beyond the wisp of compulsion. He wishes he didn’t miss it.

> He wishes he still had it.

> All the same, that wouldn’t help with El– Jonah. He couldn’t know him at the end of the world, and he’s not sure he could ever know him truly here either. Ever since that first week of looking like a mad man, Jon has tried to be more careful, even if it hasn’t yet stopped hurting to see Martin’s eyes so soft and yet so young, so unaware of everything they’ve had and that was destroyed, or Tim’s growing wariness that isn’t quite genuine dislike yet.

> Not!Sasha is not worth talking about; Jon merely wishes he was powerful enough to destroy it all over again.

> And Elias – Jonah –… Well, Jon was under the assumption that he was avoiding him. And now, after weeks of brief conversations by emails – only ever work related, the way they’d… God, the way they’d never been… before… Jon gets this.

> Flowers.

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