JonElias Week 2024 | Day Six | Prompt: Firsts | Rating: MTags/Warnings: Caught Making Out (Twice), Parties, Hickies, Alcohol Use/Drunkenness, The Magnus Archives is an Office Comedy
[AO3]Jon knows Elias is angry because of how stiffly he sits in the taxi: back straight, chin lifted, legs crossed and hands clasped neatly together at the knee. The man gazes out the window with narrowed eyes, no indication he’s actually seeing the moving ribbon of wintry night beyond it. Freezing rain is a continual drum against the roof, sluicing down the windows.
Jon spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time in his first few weeks— months— in the archive cataloging Elias’ body language in minute detail, on the verge of panic at every turn as he watched desperately for any sign of displeasure, regret. Both of those are certainly present in the rigid pose Elias has adopted now.
It is wildly, wildly funny.