*sighs dreamily as I write a ficlet where Barnabas’s ghost haunts Jonah, but like he’s a total simp the entire time. Death can’t change that!*
So important to me that Jonah is absolutely mourning Barnabas. He keeps the guy’s bones in his office and (in this fic) talks to them to fill the silence. He weeps for Barnabas, he misses him… And if given the choice, he would absolutely leave Barnabas to die a second time if he had to do it all over again. He would watch again as Barnabas’s fear grows and grows until his body could no longer take the strain, he would drink in his friend’s terror until it ran dry and there was nothing left. And he would gather up the bones again and would mourn him no less a second time.
But he would still do it.