Time Travel AU where Jon doesn’t try to make amends with people while attempting to circumvent the apocalypse. Where instead he loses the last drop of hope he had and changes exactly nothing… kind of. Where he doesn’t bother assigning them research because it was pointless to begin with. Where doing this doesn’t stop him from being marked, because he already was, but Jonah doesn’t fully understand that. Where his apathy at everything and everyone, especially in regard to the archives, make the OG assistants concerned. Where, when he’s confronted by this, he blows smoke in their faces and tells them to bring it up with ‘Elias’. Where he and Jonah play chicken about their knowing the truth. Where Jonah can’t even gloat at having a ‘willing participant’, because it was always about breaking and subjugating Jon to his will. Where Jon still reads the true statements because he’s still dependent on them and they’re the only thing that makes him feel anything anymore. Where, as things get closer and closer to the archives, because Jonah has to start forcing the marks, the OG assistants confront Jon again. Where Jon is finally forced to admit that, to him, they’re ALL already walking corpses. Even him. Where he lays everything out before them, including how to quit, and tells them they can do whatever the fuck they want with the information. Where the smell of smoke clings to him from cigarette after cigarette after cigarette. Where they do what they do and abandon him. Where, when it all comes to the end, he dances every step he’s told and releases the fears like the good puppet he is. And the cycle starts anew.