whatever you do, don’t imagine jon and tim smoking together when they were both new to the institute, working in research. don’t imagine jon quitting and trying to get tim to do the same. don’t imagine jon watching tim spiral into addiction after they find out about sasha, and not being able to stop him because he drove tim away through his paranoia. don’t imagine tim catching jon smoking while they’re researching the circus and going off on him about how much of a fucking hypocrite he is. and especially don’t imagine the two of them wordlessly sharing a cigarette the night before the unknowing.