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Series: The Magnus Archives
Pairing: Elias Bouchard/Jonathan Sims
Summary: Jon’s steadily starting to realize that the Institute’s priorities are not quite what they should be, and that maybe, he didn’t understand his new position as well as he thought he did.
for jonelias week day 1 - s1
Notes/Warnings: Season 1, Pre-Slash, Manipulation
AO3“You really don’t consider any of this a concern?”
The clock in the corner of the room ticks and tocks as steady a rhythm as the pen scratching whatever report Elias is working on while Jon tries to conduct their meeting. He hadn’t gone through the typical procedure of scheduling it—finding it far more pressing how increasingly little the man before him cared about the things people actually told them in statements.
“Oh, they’re a concern alright, but not necessarily to us, or this institution. Not to mention, it has nothing to do with what we’re here for, as I believe I’ve told you before,” Elias flicks his attention up briefly from his docket, to catch Jon’s eyes. He’d think they look beautiful if it weren’t for how piercingly hollow they looked—devoid of warmth, but brimming with intensity at whatever they gazed at. Searching him for something, but he never knows what.