2025-03-21 4:04:14 ¶ ● ⬈

luckhound:

> # like a carnivorous flower.

> ↻ pairing✦ elias/reader

> ↻ summary✦ You are approached by Elias in the Institute’s break room, after the confrontation in his office. It does not go well.

> ↻ word count✦ 3.9k

> ↻ tags✦ gender neutral reader, elias being elias, toxic dynamic, mind games galore

> > note: can you tell i got to #106 and felt a certain way about it? after reading all 3k words of this, probably. the sloppiest of kisses to sierra for her suggestions and encouragement + liya for keeping me sane while i agonized over this fic.

> “Damn, look at the time. I should go, my break’s nearly over,” Hannah informs you, waving as she heads out. “See you! Don’t be a stranger!”

> You wave back anemically, hoping your expression resembles more of a grin than a grimace. With the last straggler gone, you are finally alone in the break room of the Magnus Institute, London. The pressure that had settled over you dissipates.

> You had never been a social butterfly to begin with, but neither had you been a total recluse. Yet nowadays, you vastly prefer solitude over interacting with the Institute staff. Their gripes and concerns are so far removed from your own that it’s almost grating. You have to stop yourself from scowling the entire time you’re around them.

> You feel a little guilty for being such a curmudgeon, but they’re so… chipper. Oblivious.

> Ignorant.

> Like you once were.

> Keep reading