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Challenge Of The Super Sons #14
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Loving In Leaving
A/N: This fic has been a long time coming. I started it like two weeks ago and I had writer’s block real bad so I had the hardest time editing it. But I finally did it! I don’t have much else to say except next week I will be starting my new writing schedule and will be posting one-shots every Wednesday and Saturday (fingers crossed it works out) and headcanons in between. I have a couple GNR, Metallica, and Aerosmith one-shots/headcanons that will be coming out in the next month. Requests are always open and if you have any questions or just want to talk, feel free to message me. I hope y’all enjoy.
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Jon Bon Jovi x Reader
Part 1 of 2
Summary: Jon is days away from leaving for tour and he couldn’t be more excited. Y/n, on the other hand, isn’t over the moon about it. The singer talks about touring, leaving her, in a light that casts doubt on their relationship and Y/n is wondering if what they have is worth it to him.
Word Count: 2.2k
Warnings: None? (unless you count length) I guess angst
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Jon let out a groan, running a hand through his fluffy brown hair. All he wanted to do was pack for tour in peace, enjoying his last few days at home with his girlfriend, but it seemed he couldn’t do that. Y/n told him that she was excited for him to go on tour as that was something that he enjoyed more than anything in the world, yet she wasn’t acting like.
Her behavior wasn’t all that different, but it was enough. She still held herself the same and used the same hand gestures, it just didn’t feel the same. There was this tension that was hovering in the air, making Jon’s muscles go tight, and he could have sworn that he could taste it. Something was off, that much was clear, and he couldn’t stand it.
“What’s your problem, Y/n? You were all happy yesterday, what changed?” he asked, catching her arm as she pulled clothes out of the dresser for him. “You’ve known for a long time I was going on tour and you know nothing’s gonna keep me from going.”
Y/n rolled her eyes at the statement. She’d heard that one too many times to even care anymore. That’s all he ever said. Nothing could keep him from going and she wasn’t going to challenge that - touring was too important to him for her to try. How he looked at touring, though, that was something she wanted to change. That always seemed more important to him than anything else, than her, and it was annoying. 
When he spoke of touring, which was all the time, he acted as if he wasn’t going to miss what he was leaving behind. Touring was this great experience that nothing else could compare to and she was starting to wonder if she stood a chance against it. Y/n wasn’t trying to be selfish, but she didn’t want him to forget about her once he left. It was stupid to think he would, but the way he spoke about it made it seem like it wasn’t. 
If she were to be honest with her self, she wanted to know whether their relationship would make it through the tour. If their relationship would make it in general. All Y/n wanted to know was whether or not everything she would go through would be worth it. He would be out having fun, partying, and seeing places of the world she had only dreamed about. And she would be in New Jersey, working, cleaning, and feeling sorry for herself - wishing that she was right next to him.
“I’m gonna miss you, that’s all.” She shook her arm loose, placing the clothes on the bed. It was true, there was no doubt in her mind that she would miss him the second he stepped onto the plane. “It’s gonna be different without you here.”
Jon scoffed, not believing a word of it. They’d been together long enough for him to know better than to believe her bullshit. “Don’t lie to me, Y/n.”
She sighed, turning around and leaning against the dresser. “Alright, you wanna know what my problem is?”
He nodded, his puffy hair falling in his face. 
Y/n licked her lips, hoping she could figure out when to stop herself before she did too much damage and how to express the way she was actually feeling. “My problem is that you make such a big deal out of this, out of touring, that it seemed like you don’t want to be here,” she stated as calming as she could, her blood starting to boil. She’d been holding back for far too long. And she just wanted to know if he thought she was worth it. If he knew, without a doubt, that he wanted to come back to her.
He rolled his eyes, turning away from her. 
Unbelieve. This was what making music was all about to him. It wasn’t the fame or the money, it was performing, feeling the music in his chest, and meeting fans, people that loved what he did. It was much more than anything she could ever comprehend. 
“Oh, you don’t like that answer.” She watched as he slowly turned back around, hurt in his eyes. “Would you rather I give you the typical answer? That I don’t know how I’ll survive without you, that I’ll die missing you? Is that what you want Jon?”
“What do you want me to say to that, Y/n?” he asked, hitting his foot against the bed. “It’s not like I can quite tour to stay here with you! And it’s not like you can come with me, but to think that I don’t want to be here?!” he winced at the thought. He loved being home with her, but home wasn’t where the money was. She had to know that.
Y/n shrugged, folding her arms over her chest. “You always act like touring is better. That it’s better than being home, that it’s better than me and everything we do together.”
Jon didn’t know what to say to that. Thinking back on it, everything he said came off that way but that's not how he meant it. He didn’t know what he meant, but it wasn’t how she had taken it. Jon thought that actions spoke louder than words and that she’d be able to see through his actions how he felt.
“I don’t know what to say.”
She rolled her eyes, grabbing her keys off the dresser. “It’s alright, Jon, you never do.”
Pushing herself off the dresser, Y/n walked passed Jon, leaving the room. He didn’t chase after her, she didn’t expect him to. He stood there, frozen in place, starring at the wall in front of him. He hadn’t expected her to walk out like that.
That was the problem with their relationship, they never expected much of each other. Jon didn’t expect Y/n to understand his love for music, his passion for it, and Y/n didn’t expect Jon to understand how she viewed his lifestyle. The ups and downs in their relationship were always swept under the rug, they would get to it eventually, but what happened if eventually didn’t come? 
Jon put everything into his music, blood, sweat, and tears. When he wasn’t focused on music, he was hanging out with the band and when he wasn’t with the band, he was with other artists. To say Y/n was annoyed was an understatement. She was pissed. Jon rarely spent time with her, rarely wanted to spend time with her it seemed, yet he claimed to love her. Bullshit! If he loved her, he would have found ways to be around her more. If he loved her, he would have asked if she wanted to go on tour with him, but that was a big “if”. Saying she couldn’t go on tour with him was bullshit! If he had asked, maybe she would have found a way to, but he never did that. All he did was assume she couldn’t go, but he never put any effort in. 
He wasn’t the only one at fault, though. Y/n was just as bad, if not worse, in other areas of their relationship. Jon may have put too much into his career, but Y/n put too much into her thoughts. With how Jon talked about touring, about getting away, it often let fears creep in and she would often wonder if their relationship was worth it. Was she just some chick to keep him company? If so, then would he find another on tour? There are plenty out there. It would have been better to ask Jon about the direction their relationship was taking instead of trying to figure it out for herself, but she was terrified of the answer. What if she was replaceable like she feared? 
` So, instead of fixing the problem, she did the one thing that could make things worse.
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“You need to talk to him.”
Y/n rolled her eyes, taking a seat at the table. She thought going home, seeing her parents and catching up on all the town gossip would help ease her mind, but not with her mother around it seemed.
“Don’t roll your eyes at me, missy. You’re miserable and he probably is too,” her mother snapped, taking a pot of boiling water off the stove. 
“I know, but what if he doesn’t want to talk to me, mom? I did leave, after all.”
The thought of turning around, going back and talking things out, had occurred to her on the drive over but she thought it was too late. The damage was done and there was nothing that could fix it but time. But was that the right answer? Probably not. Either way, it was too late now. Jon had already left for tour and he was probably having more fun without her. 
Her mother shook her head. “Honestly, child, who raised you? Because I’m sure it wasn’t me.”
Y/n raised a brow, waiting for an explanation.
Her mother walked around the counter, taking a seat across from her daughter. “Y/n, leaving doesn’t mean anything. People leave for all sorts of reasons.” She reached across the table, grasping Y/n’s hands. “Some people leave because they can, others because they have to. I left your father once, not because I didn’t love him and he didn’t love me, but because I was scared of throwing my life away for someone that could leave me at any moment.”
“You left dad?”
She nodded, laughing at the memory. “Yep, and I came back when I realized he was probably scared of the same thing.”
Y/n hummed, mulling over the information. Her mother had a good point, but her situation wasn’t the same. She wasn’t afraid of throwing her life away for Jon, she was afraid of him discarding her like she was nothing more than a piece of trash. Like everything they had together wasn’t worth it.
“I almost didn’t come back, though.”
“What?”
Her mother shrugged. “I know what your thinking, Y/n. It’s not the same, right? Well, I guess you’re right. My experience and your’s are different, but at the end of the day they are the same.” Y/n made a face, causing her mother to laugh. “I know it sounds weird, but it’s true. I wasn’t afraid of throwing my life away or whatever old people like to call it when young people are in love, I was afraid of what life was throwing at me. I didn’t know that’s what it was then, but I do now. I didn’t think I could handle what was placed in front of me, I didn’t know how to handle it. But that’s just life, you never know what you’re doing and those people that say they do are lying.”
Y/n let out a sigh, leaning back in her chair. Her mother had a good point there. She was unsure of what she was doing. Of walking out on Jon, of driving away, of everything in between. She had no clue if she was making the right decision and it terrified her. One wrong move could send everything tumbling down and her relationship could be in ruins. So, she wasn’t afraid that it was too late to go back and repair what she’d done, she was afraid that in the end, everything she would do would be in vain. 
“I know…” she looked around the room, trying to find something to say. “But what if… what if I want to fix things and he doesn’t. What then? What if this problem between me and Jon isn’t like the problem between you and dad?” she asked, watching as her mother pondered the questions. 
“You’ll never know until you try, Y/n,” the woman finally said. “It may not be the same and things may not work out but you won’t know that until you try.”
Standing from the table, Y/n slipped her hands out from underneath her mothers and muttered a small agreement before slipping out of the kitchen and exiting the house. Outside in the fresh air, she took a deep breath, weighing her options. 
What ate at her wasn’t the fact that her relationship may not be worth it, it was the fact that she wanted a change. She wanted Jon to change and maybe in a way he couldn’t. She didn’t want him to change his mindset just his perspective, but those two things often sounded the same. Y/n didn’t want him to be a whole new person, but what she was asking for would seem like a lot. 
And she knew that he wasn’t the only one that needed to see things differently.
Her perspective was just as sked as his and she was willing to change that if he was willing to talk to her about it. But was he willing to?
“Just do it,” she whispered to herself as she leaned against the hood of her father’s beat-up Ford. “He’ll either want you or he won’t.”
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Reviewing time for MAG149! /X_X/*
- Statement-giver was a pure delight and I’m still snickering every time over this passage:
(MAG149, Judith O’Neill) “I usually head out with the other specimen tech, Fernanda Miqado, a local – and by local, I mean she’s from Manaus, about 200 miles away. Brazil’s… pretty big. And if there’s one thing she’s really good on that I’m not, it’s the weather. I’m pretty hopeless at figuring out what any given day’s going to be like, and just have to rely on whatever weather site I’m currently losing faith in. It doesn’t help that the weather in the Amazon is just plain weird, with rains coming out of nowhere months before the wind should actually be bringing in the clouds, and… n–no one knows why. But… Fernanda, she might not know why but, somehow, she always knew when – to the point where, if she said it might be bad, I would just cancel the expedition. No further evidence needed. Not that day, though. No; that day, we had the world’s pushiest climate scientist breathing down our necks. Doctor Nikos Anastas.”
I’m So Glad Martin read that one because his snappiness was so good with Judith’s voice. They can all be pretty snappy but… Martin sure is something.
(- Not sure if it’s “doctor Anastas” but at the very least: Judith/Martin/Alex ABSOLUTELY gave up on pronouncing his name towards the end, and we got “That was the last I ever saw of Dr. Nikos [Asantas]”, and I’m still laughing every time too.)
- Judith knew that you speak Portuguese in Brazil! Progress from MAG033’s Carlita and her trouble getting understood due to her “bad Spanish” =D
- At first, when the statement appeared to be in Brazil in an isolated area, I thought about the Tundra again. And it’s true that the Extinction statements technically have technically been happening in remote areas – isolated or inaccessible or hidden in plain sight or in what felt like an alternate reality (Bernadette in Garland Hillier’s flat, Judith mentioning feeling disorientated after the fall and that something was wrong), and I’m vaguely suspecting that Peter and/or Adelard’s reading of the new Fear may indeed be… off, and that their summary of it only matches with the statements they consulted but not with the essence of what it is actually…? I can see how Gertrude was dubious about it, since every statement so far is also reminiscent of other stories/elements involving other Fears.
- Faaaaaaaaaaavourite “Holy Heck” moments were (because I’m super easy):
(MAG149, Judith O’Neill) “They were completely still, but there was something about them that made my mouth dry up, and my mind scream to run. [STATIC:] It didn’t feel like they were statues. It felt like they were choosing not to move. [/STATIC] […] I don’t know if it was me or Fernanda screaming. Maybe it was both of us. But I know it was her who first spotted that the detritus figures [STATIC:] were no longer choosing to stand still. [/STATIC]”
… And the tape recorder went all static when the statues were described + Judith’s Fear:
(MAG149, Judith O’Neill) “There’s something in there, [STATIC:] and I don’t know which scares me more: the thought that it’s more than just the things we left behind? Or that that’s all it is, and we can’t escape the ruins of our own future. [/STATIC]”
It had also reacted to Garland’s door and the “description” of the Inheritors, and to Gary’s numbers, before…
- The Extinction statements are getting closer and closer to the current in-universe present time, and this was the most recent statement about The Extinction involving Dekker:
* MAG134: Statement of Adelard Dekker, taken from a letter to Gertrude Robinson dated 22nd January 2006. * MAG144: Statement of Gary Boylan, given October 3rd, 2009. * MAG113: Statement of Adelard Dekker. Statement undated, likely circa 2012. * MAG149: Statement of Judith O’Neill, given May 13th, 2013.
… How convenient for Jon that Adelard hadn’t mentioned “The Extinction” by name in MAG113, and that there wasn’t any note talking about it either ^^
Assuming that Jon’s approximate dating of MAG113 had been right, then this statement was also the closest in time involving Adelard Dekker at all. That’s still… five years before current time, and we haven’t heard of what his status has been in the meantime. What happened to you, dude.
(Also, according to Gertrude’s note, Adelard had sent Judith to the Institute… and yeeet, it’s a written statement. Gertrude was way better at the “not jumping on people for their live-statements” thing than Jon, but it also raises the question, once again: why was Gertrude choosing to record some? Why Walter about the old Archives, why Lucia about the Last Feast? Why couldn’t she ask them to write it down, in those cases…?)
- … Isn’t it funny how, so far, each of The Extinction statements had something that felt like a personal jab at Martin. Garland Hillier had the bad poetry; Gary Boylan had the concept of being stuck with a parent (and the fear of being like your dad, or becoming like him)
(MAG134, Adelard Dekker) “[Garland Hillier] spent the next twenty years publishing widely derided collections of poetry, as well as essays on belief and atheism that were roundly ignored by the philosophical salons of the time. He was supported by several literary friends, as he was reputedly a gifted editor, even if his own work was often all but incomprehensible.”
(MAG144, Gary Boylan) “Something kept me rooted there, sleeping in a bedroom that hadn’t changed since I was fifteen, and caring for a man who I’d rather just shut up…! [SIGH] We were both… trapped there, I think. Bound together in a sort of wordless misery. I would look at him, and see a grim sort of destiny for myself: trapped here, until I became him – any future I might have had, sacrificed to his. [SIGH]”
Here, Judith actually had a degree, contrary to Martin… but was hired for another reason (and why did Elias hire Martin exactly?).
- So, Martin’s isolation was kind of the point of Peter’s training, and it had been installed as a requirement from the start, with Basira explaining to Jon that she&Melanie weren’t seeing Martin much anymore, Martin trying to cut the interaction short the two moments it happened with Jon – and with multiple mentions, recently, that Peter was growing significantly more absent:
(MAG126) PETER: You talked to him. MARTIN: I… I, I tried not to, I–I, I didn’t mean to… PETER: You talked to him. And that’s understandable, Martin, of course it is! Please don’t think I’m upset, it’s just… not ideal. Shows how much work we still have ahead of us. MARTIN: If I keep avoiding him, people will get suspicious. PETER: [CHUCKLING] They’re already suspicious, Martin, that’s not the problem! I had hoped that all this time apart would have given you the space you needed, but… […] MARTIN: A–a simple “hello” isn’t going to make any difference to– PETER: We’ve been over this. The sort of power you’re going to need relies on your– MARTIN: [SULKY] Obedience. PETER: Isolation. It needs to be you, Martin. You’re the only one who could possibly balance between the two.
(MAG134) PETER: … Look. I’m not gonna pressure you into doing anything you don’t want to. It won’t even work unless you’re willing to commit. In any case, I have plenty of preparations to work on myself, before it’s ready. I’ll see what else I can find to help with your reservations in the meantime, mmkay? Just… don’t hesitate too long. We are on a deadline, after all. MARTIN: … Fine. [SHORT SILENCE] PETER: Right! Then, if you’ll excuse me, I have a family thing to get to.
(MAG138) MARTIN: So… so what? What does it mean? Am I supposed to be reassured that new Entities can be born? That there’s some, some kind of… precedent for The Extinction? … Peter? [SILENCE] Huh. Maybe he has gone to a party. [HUFF] Anyway.
(MAG144) MARTIN: And you? PETER: I have my own explorations I need to attend to. And a, hum… meeting. To arrange. For you…!
Aaand going hand in hand with that, Martin had begun to casually admit that he was beginning to embrace that isolation:
(MAG134) PETER: … Anyway. Point is, I’m not your captor or your torturer. I’m not gonna tell you to stop talking to him, or even saving him if it comes to it. If that’s not a decision you’re willing to make yourself, me scolding you isn’t going to help.
(MAG142) MARTIN: I… can’t believe he’d choose to do something like that. … No, no, I, I can’t think like that, though, I, I can’t let myself, ‘cause I mean, if, if he’s already gone, then all of this is just… [PAUSE] [SIGH] Th–the worst part is I don’t even want to talk to him about it. I’m just… [SIGH] I suppose I’m just getting comfortable with the distance. [SIGH] Cut off. [DRY CHUCKLE] “Lonely”. [INHALE] Mind you, Peter’s not wrong. It really is easier than actually just trying to communicate with people. I should probably try to get him this tape, let him know what happened, that someone came in to… But then, ahah, would that just come across as an accusation? Like, because I don’t wanna… And then, then I guess he’d… hear this bit as well, so… I… I… [LONG EXHALE] What do I do…? […] DAISY: Yeah. Just a… a bit empty around here. You know? MARTIN: Not really. DAISY: Melanie’s out, and… [EXHALE] Jon and Basira’re still off. Bit worried. But they can take care of themselves, you know? MARTIN: Again, not really. [SHORT HUMOURLESS LAUGHTER] No one talks to me anymore. DAISY: ‘Cause they reckon you’re working for the bad guy? MARTIN: Pretty much. … Don’t you?
(MAG144) [VERY SHARP SQUEAL OF DISTORTION] MARTIN: [LONG SIGH] … Well? PETER: I’m impressed! And grateful. MARTIN: I didn’t do it for you. PETER: Even better. MARTIN: … It’s easier, this way. I’m sure you’d have had no problem sending her away. PETER: I hadn’t really thought about it. And now, thanks to you, I don’t need to.
(MAG149) MARTIN: Sort of… surprised Peter hasn’t rocked up with some more… “insights”? Haven’t seen him around for a while, actually. I mean… eh, it’s not like I miss him [CHUCKLING] but, at least he was someone to– [PAUSE] … Ah. [HUFF] [PAPER RUSTLING] Yeah, that makes sense. [EXHALE] A’ight, fine. Just… me on my lonesome for a while, then.
1°) A bit surprised that it doesn’t feel like Martin got reaaaally involved with The Lonely to get Lonely powers, but then, it’s the Institute and Peter has been hovering around him for months so… it probably served as a catalyst?
2°) CRIES BECAUSE:
(MAG142) MARTIN: [LONG EXHALE] What do I do…? [SILENCE WHILE CLOCK STILL TICKS IN THE BACKGROUND] [KNOCK–KNOCK–KNOCK.] MARTIN: [BREATHES] Go away… [KNOCK. KNOCK. KNOCK.] MARTIN: [SIGH] Come in!
(MAG149) MARTIN: A’ight, fine. Just… me on my lonesome for a while, then. … Could be worse. … Peaceful, at least. … I don’t miss all the shouting. [CHUCKLE] Even if it w– [FOOTSTEPS IN THE DISTANCE, COMING CLOSER] MARTIN:  … Wait. [RUFFLING OF CLOTHES] Excuse me! Excuse me, this area is off-limits to the public.
Martin is getting so used to being on his own it’s painful, and:
(MAG144) MARTIN: … It’s easier, this way. I’m sure you’d have had no problem sending her away. PETER: I hadn’t really thought about it. And now, thanks to you, I don’t need to. MARTIN: Yeah, well. It seems to be your go-to move for dealing with anyone. PETER: I’m just not big on confrontation. You understand, I’m sure. MARTIN: We. Are not. The same. PETER: Of course.
3°) Oh, Martin… you’re “not the same” but you sent Jess’s tape without being there (… or only invisible? Though he would have ranted or screamed about Hill Top Road if he had been aware, I think, given his reaction to the Svalbard trip in MAG142?), thus avoiding the… confrontation. And you nop’d out again as soon as Melanie arrived.
I’m curious about his “I don’t miss all the shouting”, though: what is that about…? Is it just The Lonely colouring his memories, and any discussion/slight disagreement is now a Shouting Contest by comparison? Is it about his memories of season 3…?
- Although Martin had kept himself isolated from the Archives but… not from visitors? He took Jess’s complaint in MAG142, and stepped in when he saw Georgie approaching (he wasn’t surprised to see her or that she could see him so… it wasn’t unusual).
(MAG149) [FOOTSTEPS IN THE DISTANCE, COMING CLOSER] MARTIN:  … Wait. [RUFFLING OF CLOTHES] Excuse me! Excuse me, this area is off-limits to the public. GEORGIE: [VOICE ECHOING] Sorry? MARTIN: You can’t be here, it’s not allowed. GEORGIE: Oh, sorry, hum… Melanie told me to wait for her here…? [ECHO DISAPPEARING] MARTIN: Oh, you… you’re here for Melanie? GEORGIE: Yeah. … Georgie. MARTIN: [COUGH] … Sorry. Uh, sorry, I–I didn’t realise. I’m, I’m sure she’s around here somewhere.
;; But aouch, he was… so dry with Georgie when he took her for a random lost visitor? And he only mellowed down when he understood that she was here for Melanie? I’m not sure he is aware of how snappy and cold he sounds – comparing how stern he was here with how he had interacted with Melanie in MAG084 (just before she signed up)… aouch.
Also! “[this area] is off-limits” sounded familiar, AND YEP IT IS:
(Trailer S1T2) ARCHIVIST: Hello? … Hello? … This archive is off-limits. [MUFFLED THUD] Is anyone there? … Martin? Martin, is that you?
(MAG047) ARCHIVIST: I’m sorry, I didn’t… Can I help you? This place is off-limits. MICHAEL: I disagree. ARCHIVIST: Who let you in here?
… I’m not sure where Martin was, exactly, this time, but it indeed sounded like it was possibly in the Archives themselves? No clock in the background, so it wasn’t Elias’s office (… and I doubt that Melanie would tell Georgie to find her around there). The distant voice + door closing combo puts me in mind of MAG084, which had a similar situation and setting: Martin spotting someone right outside his/an office after reading a statement, discussing a bit in the corridor/other room, further from the tape recorder, then coming back inside with the person (though there were more Door Sounds in MAG084, and only the sound of the door closing with Melanie&Georgie’s departure in MAG149).
- … I’m not that surprised/shocked/in pain about Martin pulling a “sharp squeal of distortion” and disappearing at the end of the episode because I… had been assuming… that he had been able to do that for a long while………………………………
(MAG127) BASIRA: … It was a few months back. After the attack. He’d started spending time with Lukas. At least, he said he was. And I wanted answers. He kept telling me to trust him, to hear the guy out even though he still wouldn’t actually show his face. I told him he could… drop me an email or vanish me. ARCHIVIST: … Right. BASIRA: Honestly, I kind of regret not just… grabbing Martin and shaking an explanation out of him. But I didn’t want to push it. He was in a… bad place, what with the attack and his mom and everything, so I didn’t press it. Now, I try and bring it up, he just… disappears. Nothing to be done.
^There was the ambiguity of whether Basira meant “disappears” as just a figure of speech (“he runs away”) or quite literally; but given the wording, I was inclined to think that Martin fading from the scene supernaturally was A Thing already, back then. And Martin’s heavy sigh in MAG149 after Georgie&Melanie’s departure still keeps that open to interpretation: is Martin used to it (and feels blasé about the whole thing, and the sigh was also… mostly about the conversation he just had with Georgie, the fact that Jon is seen as a lost cause by someone who used to be close to him, or about the rude concept of Other People Having Friends And Doing Things Together), or was it a sigh about himself and the fact he… had finally used Lonely powers for the first time (and what it meant for him)? I’m guessing that if this was the first time ever that Martin disappeared, Peter will be obnoxious as hell about it and will make it official, so we should have a confirmation pretty soon.
Other things I’m not sure about: I’m not sure how to interpret the timing of Martin’s disappearance?
(MAG149) GEORGIE: W–… Jumping on a grenade is only heroic if you weren’t the one who actually threw it. MARTIN: That’s not what’s happening. GEORGIE: Okay. It’s still not something I want any part of. MARTIN: Well…! Lucky for you we’re fully staffed, so… [STATIC AND (FAINT) VERY SHARP SQUEAL OF DISTORTION] MELANIE: Hey! You ready? GEORGIE: Oh, uh – yeah. Whenever you are. [SQUEAL OF DISTORTION FADES] MELANIE: Who were you talking to…? GEORGIE: Oh, I was, uh– … [HUFF] No one, apparently. MELANIE: [SIGH] … Yeah. This place will do that to you…! Come on. GEORGIE: Sure. [DOOR CLOSES.] MARTIN: [LONG SIGH] [CLICK.]
(DON’T SAY “WE’RE FULLY STAFFED”, MARTIN… SOMEONE WILL DIE AGAIN AND LEAVE A SPOT VACANT…)
And I see several options:
1°) It was unrelated to Melanie and/or it’s actually because of Martin that Melanie hadn’t been there until now (in the same way that in MAG108, Martin had called Basira, Peter had popped up, and Basira had only answered Martin’s call after Peter’s departure, as if he had only just shouted her name a second ago). Martin chose that timing because the conversation had been unpleasant and he wanted to put a stop to it and/or because Georgie accidentally increased his loneliness.
2°) Peter had imposed a specific prohibition over Martin interacting with Basira&Melanie (who were the only Team Archives members around when Martin began to work for Peter), and Martin is still following that order. It would match with Basira explaining to Jon that she hadn’t been able to see/interact with Martin much in the last months; and indeed, since the beginning of season 4, we have only seen Martin interact with Jon (who surprise! managed to wake up from his coma, something Peter hadn’t factored in his deal with Martin – MAG126: “… You said he’d probably never wake up.” “And he beat the odds. Which is good. But it does make things more complicated. It doesn’t… actually change… anything.”), although Martin cut the conversation short both times; with Daisy (MAG142, MAG144), who had officially been “dead” when Martin made his deal with Peter; and with visitors (Jess in MAG142, Georgie in MAG149).
3°) … Martin specifically disappeared because Melanie was coming; either because “two is a crowd”, either because… It’s Melanie.
And Martin and Melanie’s relationship had never been, uh, the fluffiest ever:
(MAG086) MELANIE: I… I just feel like you two don’t want me here. TIM: We don’t. Martin’s not big on change. I don’t want anyone to be here.
(MAG106) BASIRA: Oh, what? You’re gonna judge me? I literally don’t know anyone here you haven’t made cry. MELANIE: You only know Tim and Martin! BASIRA: And Elias. MELANIE: I made Elias cry? BASIRA: I don't know. Probably. You can be very mean.
(Though there were kinder things: Martin did go have a drink with Basira&Melanie at the end of MAG099, and it was once again the plan at the end of MAG106 (though it didn’t apparently happen, or at least without Melanie, according to MAG108).
… But Elias, at the end of season 3, had commented that Martin deliberately going against Melanie’s pulsion to go for the kill… could make things veeeeeeeeeeeery bad between the two of them:
(MAG118) MARTIN: We… we need to leave. MELANIE: We need to kill him. Look at you! He. needs. to die! MARTIN: … no. No, I… I knew what this was gonna be. MELANIE: It’s not just for you! If we leave him alive– MARTIN: Melanie. Melanie, please. MELANIE: … Alright. Let’s get these somewhere safe.
(MAG120) ELIAS: Hm. No Melanie? MARTIN: [SIGH] ELIAS: I’d have thought she would have wanted to gloat. MARTIN: N… no. I, I d– ELIAS: You didn’t tell her. [CHUCKLE] Worried she might create too much of a scene. I understand. I just hope she… doesn’t hold it against you. MARTIN: That’s– that’s not– […] It’s better than you deserve. ELIAS: Perhaps so. But I’m glad you were sensible about it. I was concerned you might have bought into Melanie’s… fixation.
We don’t really know how they interacted before Martin made his deal with Peter but it… didn’t bode well, back then, already. And we’ve seen Melanie six months later, when Jon came back: ready to jump at anyone’s throat, threatening and fundamentally angry. I… don’t think she was exceptionally kind to Martin in that period.
(+ Does Martin know that, in the end, her anger had been supernaturally focused by The Slaughter’s bullet? The surgery happened in the tunnels; even if Elias indeed doesn’t have access to them (which… is something… we’re still not entirely sure about…), he had been able to guess that it had happened – possibly because Jon and Basira had discussed about it in MAG127. But Peter? Peter has never mentioned Melanie’s ordeal: he talked about Breekon and the coffin and Daisy’s comeback, but never about Melanie.
Did Martin just assume that Melanie was like this… on her own? Like Tim had been angry about Jon and the Institute? I don’t think that Martin would need that to consider that uh, Melanie is not more worth saving than Jon (because Martin always has had his biases) but… it’s possible that he just doesn’t know that Melanie had been so antagonising and violent because it was favoured by the bullet? and that it isn’t the case anymore?)
- … Another Big Question raised by Martin Whooshing Himself Away… lay with Georgie’s comment:
(MAG149) [STATIC AND (FAINT) VERY SHARP SQUEAL OF DISTORTION] MELANIE: Hey! You ready? GEORGIE: Oh, uh – yeah. Whenever you are. [SQUEAL OF DISTORTION FADES] MELANIE: Who were you talking to…? GEORGIE: Oh, I was, uh– … [HUFF] No one, apparently.
Was Georgie casually savage (“Since Martin chose to disappear, I’m taking this as him fleeing, so that means he’s not worth mentioning and is “no-one”)? Was Georgie extremely descriptive (“… Welp, there is nobody there anymore”)? … Or did Georgie forget about even interacting with Martin and did Martin… make himself “forsaken” in her mind…? ;;
(Because if it’s the last option, AOUCH… Would Martin start disappearing from people’s memory, proportionally to how present he had been around them? Something more gradual than what happened to Sasha? Georgie barely knew Martin outside of Jon’s talks and was meeting him for the first time here; Basira&Melanie… didn’t share a lot with him. But if Jon were to witness, slowly, people around him forgetting about Martin…)
(- Insert horrible snicker here because:
(MAG039) ARCHIVIST: Martin… You’re not, uh… You didn’t die here, did you? MARTIN: What? What? N–no… what?! ARCHIVIST: No, I just… No, just the way you phrased that... MARTIN: Made you think I was a ghost? ARCHIVIST: No… it’s– MARTIN: […] A ghost? Really? ARCHIVIST: [TIREDLY] Shut up Martin.
… Well, Martin kinda become a ghost here. For a few seconds. ……………… Oh no, if Martin is to die soon, will he die IN THE ARCHIVES for maximum irony……………)
- Re: Martin’s own Spooky Sounds when disappearing. It’s definitely close to Peter’s “sharp squeal of distortion” (as it was transcribed in MAG100), but way fainter. Interestingly: Peter’s is a constant background noise when he’s there; here, it only happened when Martin supposedly made himself invisible… and the tape recorder stayed with Martin (we could hear his final sigh). So, the tape recorder doesn’t react to Martin as strongly – and either it means that yeah, Martin is way less of a spook than Peter, either that the tape recorder is a bit desensitised to the Archival staff?
Plus: I’m not suuuuuuuure that there is no static when Peter is there (the distortion is too strong for me to hear) but there was definitely more static than distortion in Martin’s case – a bouquet of static, pretty strong, and it sounds like the usual one… but then, I’m not sure it wasn’t also the same one as the sound we could hear when Jon “forgot” about his lighter in MAG136?
(And technically… Okay, I want to “Hope” (el o el) And Be In Denial until I can’t Think About Web!Martin anymore but!!! If Georgie forgot about Martin’s presence and Melanie was unable to process that he was there: it would be pretty much mind-manipulation and really close to what the lighter is doing with Jon, right?)
- SOBBING because ahaha:
(MAG144) [VERY SHARP SQUEAL OF DISTORTION] MARTIN: [LONG SIGH] … Well? PETER: I’m impressed! And grateful. MARTIN: I didn’t do it for you. PETER: Even better. MARTIN: … It’s easier, this way. I’m sure you’d have had no problem sending her away. PETER: I hadn’t really thought about it. And now, thanks to you, I don’t need to. MARTIN: Yeah, well. It seems to be your go-to move for dealing with anyone. PETER: I’m just not big on confrontation. You understand, I’m sure. MARTIN: We. Are not. The same. PETER: Of course.
… as mentioned above, it wasn’t clear exactly what made/pushed Martin to “disappear” but. Although Martin tended to hide or try to defuse the situation sometimes (encouraging Tim to not blow up at Jon, lying low re:Elias after they had learned what the deal was with the Institute), he also used to be able to explode at people’s face when he had enough (calling Jon out on his Sceptic act in MAG039, savagely ranting at Tim in MAG079, keeping the Receipts of Elias’s actions to throw them in his face in MAG118 – … that’s his “end of season” thing isn’t it.). But here, just fading away in front of Georgie when they were having a disagreement over Jon and/or when Melanie was coming… was quite the “not big on confrontation” thing, and Peter would be so glad and so proud, and I hate Peter so much.
Bonus with:
(MAG134) PETER: Martin… My patron, hopefully our patron someday, doesn’t give me any sort of special insights. I’m not quite the accomplished voyeur that Elias was. I have to keep tabs on things the old-fashioned way. MARTIN: What, turning invisible and eavesdropping? PETER: If you like.
Complete with Martin’s own (faint and static-y) “sharp squeal of distortion”… Martin presumably heard them leave, since he seemed to be on the same “plane” as the tape recorder. So. Uh. Yes. Martin, you’re turning into exactly Peter, and what does that say about you ;;
(My “holding-onto-theories-as-long-as-Jonny-hasn’t-gleefully-and-maniacally-bashed-them-in-with-a-pipe” bleeding heart says “Martin looks exactly like his dad!” and “Lukas!Martin!”.)
- Anyway, getting Lonely or not, Martin is… still a Beholding baby, dutifully recording – WELL, unless he hadn’t noticed the tape recorder this time around, but he had been aware of them last time, so?
(MAG134) PETER: I can’t help but notice you’re recording right now? MARTIN: It… was a statement, right, that’s what we do.
(MAG138) MARTIN: I don’t know what Peter’s planning, but my-my guess is that it might involve something below the Institute. Hopefully, by the time you get these tapes, I’ll have something more concrete for you. [PAUSE] Good luck, Jon, I– … [HUFF] Stay safe.
This time again, Martin was veeeeery “taken” by the statement and gave it his voice, and I’m laughing that, by contrast:
(MAG149) MARTIN: Statement ends. [SHORT INHALE] There’s… hum, a, a note here as well. [PAPER RUSTLING] Looks like Gertrude’s handwriting? Start of a letter to… Dekker, thanking him for sending Judith to her, though… it doesn’t look like it was ever finished or sent. [PAPER RUSTLING] “I assume this is another one he was trying to use to prove The Extinction? It… certainly has something in it. Mankind’s trash giving rise to something terrible. And again, fear of the other, inanimate humanoid figures. That’s all very… Stranger, isn’t it?” [SIGH] [LOW]… It’s never simple, is it…?
… I’m ASSUMING that Martin was quoting Gertrude’s note due to the content (being able to call the similarity with The Stranger, and overall reserves about the concept of “The Extinction”) but… his tone was absolutely not making it obvious. He didn’t read it in Gertrude’s voice or as “someone else’s voice” overall.
So yeah, at the very least: still under Beholding when reading a statement!
(And, small Martin thing: I’m so fond of the fact that he still has trouble introducing the statement – mostly when reading the cases numbers:
(MAG149) MARTIN: Martin Blackwood, assistant to Peter Lukas, Head of the Magnus Institute, recording statement number… 0131305. Statement of Judith O’Neill, given May 13th, 2013. [INHALE] Statement begins.
So many pauses and little hesitations while he reads the numbers! … And, uh. Tim hadn’t bothered with the case number when making An Attempt in MAG086; Melanie didn’t either in MAG086 and MAG106 (Basira did in MAG112 though)… So, uh. Martin has read, what, eleven statements at this point? But I’m still not sure he’s understood that the case numbers are actually constructed from the date, and that giving both of those pieces of information is unnecessary. Hence, probably, why Jon doesn’t bother with it. It had taken Tim 33 episodes to solve The Mystery but. I’m not sure that the information spread.
I’m not sure Martin knows.
Oh, Martin…)
- I’m SO GLAD to hear Georgie’s stance about Jon, and why she… stopped trying and doesn’t want to get involved. To be honest, I’m surprised it… took her this long and happened only after Jon woke up? I had assumed that she had been shaken by Oliver’s encounter and reminded a bit too much of Alex’s situation, and that Jon insisting that he was fine when he couldn’t be had been the things tipping her over, and… it probably contributed. But Georgie really did everything she could in season 3 – housing him, hiding him although she knew the police was searching for him, trying to get him out of his mindset:
(MAG083) GEORGIE: Sure. I just… I know that you get obsessive about stuff, and this right here, I… I’m guessing someone dragged you into something weird, you got hooked in and then it all went wrong. ARCHIVIST: I mean, that is almost exactly what happened. GEORGIE: So what you need now is… distance. ARCHIVIST: You’re right. You’re right. I just… I need to record it. GEORGIE: No, you don’t. This [paper rustles] is not going to help. It’s part of the problem, isn’t it? Look me in the eyes and tell me that it’s not part of the cult or whatever the hell it was that left you homeless. … [SIGH] Come on. What’s it been, four days? ARCHIVIST: Yeah. [SOFTER] Yeah. GEORGIE: It drops through the letter box and you spend four days… like this. It’s not– It isn’t right, Jon. You don’t sleep...
And in response, Jon… had been far from an ideal guest (breaches of trust, insisting he couldn’t stop, being an overall mess):
(MAG083) GEORGIE: Okay. And just so you know: not keen on your weird stalkers knowing my address. Not keen on that. ARCHIVIST: Right. [DOOR CLOSES] Right.
(MAG085) ARCHIVIST: I was just, uh… GEORGIE: You didn’t say we got another one. ARCHIVIST I didn’t want to worry you. GEORGIE: I knew it was something. You’ve been weird all day. ARCHIVIST I’m sorry, I… I don’t know. ARCHIVIST : Look, I’m really not sure about this. ARCHIVIST: I just need to borrow it for a half hour or so. I, I’ll look after it. GEORGIE: Wha– No, I don’t– You can blow it up for all I care. It’s been in the loft for, like, twenty years. If I need tape hiss, I’ll add it in post. ARCHIVIST: So, what’s the problem? GEORGIE: With playing an unmarked tape from your stalker? ARCHIVIST: Uh… Look, you just have to trust me, okay. GEORGIE: Yeah, and I want to do that, but how can I when you still won’t tell me what’s going on? ARCHIVIST: You wouldn’t believe me! GEORGIE: Try me. […] Come on, I’m not throwing you out, Jon. I know you wouldn’t be here if you had anywhere else to go, and I… I do want to help, but… y’know, you’re a good person. You were, at least. But whatever this is, it’s messing you up! [SIGH] Look I’ve, I’ve got work to do. You listen, or don’t listen, or cross-record, or whatever you want, just… just think about it first, okay? You can choose to leave it alone. [DOOR CLOSES] ARCHIVIST: [SIGH] [TAPE PLAYER IS LOADED] [CLICK–] […] GEORGIE: That’s it. Whatever the hell this deal is, the tapes, documents, I don’t want them in my house. ARCHIVIST: Look, look… No, no… Look, you, you don’t need to be scared. GEORGIE: I’m not! You are! Look at you, you can barely stand! ARCHIVIST: But I… But I need– GEORGIE: Listen to me, Jon. I can’t stop you doing… whatever secret bullshit you want to do, and I’m… not going to throw you out on the street, but I’m not having it in by home. ARCHIVIST: No… No, they won’t. I’ll make sure it doesn’t… I’ll keep it far away. GEORGIE: No, you need to stop. ARCHIVIST: I’m not sure I can.
(MAG093) ARCHIVIST: Georgie, I just, I needed to do one more. GEORGIE: I asked you not to record them here. ARCHIVIST: I’m sorry, I… I honestly forgot. It’s been a hell of a week. GEORGIE: Yeah, not just for you. What, you think you just disappear for five days, then turn up looking like the, like the end of Die Hard, and I’ll just write it off? “Classic Jon, what an interesting life he must lead.” ARCHIVIST: No, I– GEORGIE: Where have you been? And what happened to your hand? ARCHIVIST: I don’t want to talk about it. GEORGIE: Tough. ARCHIVIST: Look, I’m moving out anyway, so just… just forget it. I’m out of your life. Alright? GEORGIE: No.
(MAG099) ARCHIVIST: You know that’s not what I mean. I feel like I’m putting you in danger. GEORGIE: Well, yeah. You are. A horrible mannequin thing turned up. Had to change all my lightbulbs. ARCHIVIST: Yeah. This, this is my point! GEORGIE: I said I’m fine with it. At least until you’re properly back on your feet. You’re not doing well. You keep apologising and saying you're changing, but it's all just the same. If you leave, I think it's just going to get worse, and I don’t want that.
(MAG149) MARTIN: Why aren’t you talking? GEORGIE: Ah…! … Because… I think… he’s going to… destroy himself. And… anyone who lets him get too close. And I don’t want that to include me. Or Melanie. […] But, he just carried on anyway– MARTIN: … Yeah, he will do that… GEORGIE:  –and I realised if I kept trying, it was gonna hurt me more than I was willing to accept. MARTIN: Well… [AUDIBLY SMILING] sometimes, helping people hurts. GEORGIE: Sure, but that doesn’t mean… everything painful helps. Sometimes, people have problems that will wreck you long before you can make a dent in them. … And some people don’t want help, they just… want other people suffering with them. […] MARTIN: It’s easy to pass judgement from the outside…! GEORGIE: One more reason to stay on the outside…!
I’m mostly sad that in the end, it all accumulated and went so badly that Georgie changed her mind, but she’s been… the most irreproachable of all, I feel? She did try, really hard, and it didn’t work to pull Jon out, because Jon kept repeating that there wasn’t any problem and proved himself untrustworthy (he still recorded things in her home and… caught her in his nightmares, and never acknowledged nor apologised about it).
Though, regarding Georgie’s perception of the situation:
1°) I didn’t really understand the “grenade” image…?
(MAG149) MARTIN: Look, we’re all just trying to do the right thing. GEORGIE: Maybe. [SIGH] Look… Life forces you to make hard decisions. But… I can never trust someone who goes around, looking for hard decisions to make. MARTIN: And what do you mean by that? GEORGIE: W–… Jumping on a grenade is only heroic if you weren’t the one who actually threw it. MARTIN: That’s not what’s happening. GEORGIE: Okay. It’s still not something I want any part of. MARTIN: Well…! Lucky for you we’re fully staffed, so…
Or was that literally about The Unknowing – the fact that they had placed bombs there? Does Georgie know that it had been the ritual attempt? (She knew Jon was ~trying to save the world~ but maybe she didn’t know that it had happened then?)
2°) Georgie used a lot of sentences presented as maxims or proverbs, as Objective Truths, and it made her words feel very stiff and sometimes cold…… and at the same time, it makes sense. She can’t feel fear; it would make sense that she learnt to function by rationalising, hence putting aside the emotional aspect of things when it comes to self-preservation, because it’s the only way she is able to tell that things are getting bad.
3°) ;; Her descriptions put me in mind of…… what had happened to Alex – and I wonder if she’s not assimilating what she experienced with The End and what Jon is currently doing?
(MAG094) GEORGIE: As the woman got closer, I could see something in Alex tighten, wind so taut that it finally snapped. She lunged forward, grabbed the corpse by its shoulders, and began to scream into its face. What did it want? What had it done? Demanding answers. The dead woman with the shaved head ignored her grip, leaned close to her neck and opened her mouth. For a moment I had visions of teeth sinking into Alex’s flesh, of arterial spray coating the clean, white laminate, but all that passed between them was a whisper. Something soft spoken into Alex’s ear. Her arms dropped to her sides, and she turned to look at me. Her eyes were different. They were still hers, and I could tell they still knew me, but something in them was gone. As my gaze met hers, Alex gave a simple, small shrug, so slowly, it was if every ounce of will she had went into that one small gesture. Her head drooped, staring at the floor, and she gently lowered herself down to lie there. And just like that I was on my own. It feels strange to think that even then I couldn’t find the strength to run. If I’m feeling generous to myself I try to believe it’s because I was unwilling to abandon Alex, or maybe the thing had some power to keep me there, but honestly, it was fight, flight or freeze. And I froze. I saw the dead woman approaching me. Smelt the chemicals that kept her from rotting, saw her lean towards me, saw her lips begin to form words. In desperation I slammed my hands over my ears and shut my eyes, willing myself not to hear, not to understand. As far as defences go, it was basically nothing, but I still think it saved me, at least a bit.
(MAG120) ELIAS: Another dissection room. Another figure standing in its centre; but this one is calm. She simply looks at him sadly, a pity in her face that burns him worse than any flame. More than anything, the Archivist wants to look away, to turn his Eye from her gentle sadness, from the disappointment for what she sees in him; but he cannot. So he watches her, until she simply fades away.
Georgie witnessed a friend running into danger, getting destroyed in the process, and was almost taken by it in turn. She already experienced this. Of course, she would feel like Jon is threatening to do a repeat of the situation, although more gradual.
- …
(MAG149) MARTIN: Oh. … Oh, wai–wait, I thought Melanie-Georgie, and Jon-Georgie were… GEORGIE: Oh, uh, s–same, same Georgie. MARTIN: Oh. … Ah. Aah, so you and Jon…
Does it mean that Georgie and Melanie are friendly exes too. Does it mean that Jon & Melanie have actually kissed the same person, and would it count as a kiss by proxy. How many seconds before Melanie would gouge her eyes out at the notion.
(Melanie had mentioned Georgie to Basira, but not onscreen to Martin! So Martin used to be on talking basis with Melanie, enough for her to talk about her close ones…? ;w;)
- I’m assuming that Georgie was taking Melanie to therapy again and Hhhhhhh, I’m so glad that 1°) Georgie DID POINT OUT that Melanie is currently making efforts to get better – unlike Jon, and that that’s why Georgie is ready to help in Melanie’s case and less so with Jon (we could hear in MAG145 how… no, Jon isn’t really trying at all), 2°) Melanie indeed sounds quieter and more peaceful. Still really hoping that, whether her therapist is a surprise Lonely/Web/Beholding/Extinction!spook or not, it’s actually valid and regular therapy at work.
- The Martin-Georgie exchange also revealed that they hadn’t met each other at the hospital when Jon was in the coma! Though we still don’t know if Martin was a frequent visitor (we only heard him during the s4 trailer and there was no indication as to whether he had been visiting often or not).
… I was fearing that Martin would be meaner than this given that Georgie is Jon’s (friendly) ex but he (more or less) behaved, amazing. Bow down to Georgie’s powers, able to master Martin’s pettiness.
(Although yes, there is an undercurrent of… “I would do this if I were you!” in what Martin is telling her, so Martin is fully aware of who she is and what she represents for Jon <33)
- I’m half-laughing, half-sobbing over the fact that, when people are telling him that they aren’t talking with Jon, Martin’s reaction is to inquire Why and treat it as a serious issue:
(MAG149) MARTIN: Oh. … Ah. Aah, so you and Jon… GEORGIE: … aren’t… really talking anymore. MARTIN: Rrright. [SILENCE] … Why not? GEORGIE: Excuse me? MARTIN: Why aren’t you talking?
Martin, please. You really can’t fathom that people might not want to talk to Jon and his Charming Personality, or that they have their Own Agenda Preventing Them From Talking With Jon just like you, uh. (Forget Fear Patron-shopping: Martin is Jon-aligned in the “do what I say, not what I DO” department.)
- MmMMMMMmm so, Daisy had already made it transparent that Jon was talking a bit more about Martin than we hear on tape:
(MAG144) DAISY: I, uh… I mentioned our conversation to him; he asked me to check on– MARTIN: Just leave. DAISY: Sorry?
……………….. but the novelty is that APPARENTLY, Jon was talking about Martin behind our backs in season 3 already?!
(MAG149) MARTIN: Oh, you… you’re here for Melanie? GEORGIE: Yeah. … Georgie. MARTIN: [COUGH] … Sorry. Uh, sorry, I–I didn’t realise. I’m, I’m sure she’s around here somewhere. GEORGIE: You must be Martin. MARTIN: Y–yeah. Has… Melanie been talking about me? GEORGIE: Oh, hum… Jon used to go on about you a lot.
(… To be fair, there were two other guys working in the Archives and one of them is dead, so identifying Martin on sight… probably wasn’t that hard. Still, “to go on about you A LOT” is… Big, from Jon.
And he had immediately equated “talking with the others” (Georgie’s advice from MAG099) to “talking with Martin specifically” (in MAG102, one month and a long kidnapping&sequestration later):
(MAG099) ARCHIVIST: Is it… Why are you so insistent on keeping me around? GEORGIE: Because you’re trying to cut yourself off, and that’s… that’s really bad! Look, when’s the last time you spoke to someone who wasn’t me? ARCHIVIST: That’s… I… I–I talked to Martin a, a… a… a few weeks ago…? GEORGIE: Did you talk to him? Or did he talk to you, while you tried to find a way to escape? ARCHIVIST: I… uh… GEORGIE: Look, you’re worried. I get it. But if you really think you’re turning into something… inhuman, you need people around you. You need anchors. ARCHIVIST: All my “anchors” are just as deep in this as me. GEORGIE: Well, you still need them. ARCHIVIST: [SIGH] Maybe you’re right. I… I’ll talk to the others.
(MAG102) ARCHIVIST: In the meantime I… I have a new flat. I should try to get comfortable, change the locks. Even if I might need to be leaving it for a while. Oh, and… I suppose I… I did tell Georgie I’d try to talk to Martin.
Jon. Joooooon…)
(- I’m!! Still!! Unsure!! Whether Jon’s brooding over Martin in season 4 is meant to be potentially romantic or not. There are so many issues entangled right now that it doesn’t feel like a primary option: Martin is doing something dangerous, is the last one of Jon’s original team alive, and was representing a bit of stability/familiarity. It’s only natural and obvious that Jon would be sick-worried over him and longing for any contact, since Tim is now dead and Jon has been sinking further into spooks and monsterhood.
But the idea that Jon was (positively?) talking a bit more about Martin unprompted in season 3 already… Mmmmmmmmmmm…)
- It was an excellent confrontation of different points of view, with much awkwardness (Georgie and Martin both obviously trying to say Where They Were Standing about some issues even when the conversation wasn’t exactly about it – it really felt like they… weren’t really able to talk “together”, mostly exchanging point of views and mutually using the other as a way to justify themselves), but. At the same time. I feel like Martin’s stances were almost completely invalidated given his situation and what happened with his mother?
(MAG118) [STATIC BEGINS] ELIAS: Your mother. MARTIN: [BREATHES SHARPLY] ELIAS: She’s always been… “difficult”, hasn’t she? You take care of her for years, feed her, clean up after her and now, with her condition degrading even further, she is the one that asked to move into a home, to have it left to the nurses! She is the one that refuses your visits. MARTIN: Sh– she’s always been– ELIAS: Strong-willed? Stubborn? No. No, Martin; you know the reason. Your mother… simply hates you. You just don’t know why! It’s not your fault. Though I know that isn’t any consolation, it’s just bad luck, really. How old were you when your father left? Eight? Nine? When you mother began to sicken and he decided he was done with you both. Not old enough to remember him with any great clarity, especially when your mother refused to keep any pictures of him. She never recovered from that betrayal. He just tore her heart right out!, and took it with him. The thing is, though, Martin: if you ever do want to know exactly what your father looked like… all you have to do~ is look in a mirror~ MARTIN: [HEAVY BREATHING] ELIAS: The resemblance is quite uncanny: the face of the man she hates, who destroyed her life, watching over her; feeding her; cleaning her; looking down on her with such pity– MARTIN: [RAGGED] Shut! Up! ELIAS: Do you want to know what she sees when she looks a you? [STATIC INTENSIFIES]
… MARTIN, HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO CONCLUDE, ONE YEAR LATER, THAT
(MAG149) MARTIN: … Maybe he just needs some help. GEORGIE: I did help him! As much as I safely could. But, he just carried on anyway– MARTIN: … Yeah, he will do that… GEORGIE:  –and I realised if I kept trying, it was gonna hurt me more than I was willing to accept. MARTIN: Well… sometimes, helping people hurts. GEORGIE: Sure, but that doesn’t mean… everything painful helps. Sometimes, people have problems that will wreck you long before you can make a dent in them. … And some people don’t want help, they just… want other people suffering with them. MARTIN: Nn, Jon doesn’t want that.
… It’s not only that “sometimes, helping people hurts”: it’s also that sometimes, trying to force your conception of “help” over someone who doesn’t want it hurts them on top of hurting yourself.
Fortunately, Jon is not Martin’s mother, and Freud can remain Buried, but. Martin, oh, Martin… you learned absolutely nothing, did you…?
(I’m wrecked over the fact that you could HEAR that he was forcefully smiling, when saying that “sometimes, helping people hurts”. You could just. Hear it. And gosh, Martin, no…)
- ;; Extra-wrecked that, so far, no, Martin’s conception of care… hasn’t really helped anybody. It didn’t work with Tim when Martin was more or less trying to check on him in season 3, and Tim even cut any contact with Martin when he went on his own crusade against the Circus; Basira dismissed him a bit about it in MAG110; trying to tend to his mother… didn’t really work either. Jon has been craving Anything Martin in season 4, though, which is the main difference with the others. So maybe just being there could help, indeed, and that’s precisely something Martin doesn’t feel like he can afford to do at the moment… If he indeed consciously sent Jess’s tape to the other assistants, it means that although Martin hesitated, he was able to step in and take measures after learning that Jon was on the wrong path. So maybe hearing about how isolated Jon currently is, and how even Georgie has given up on him, could push Martin to send another message…?
- I’m a bit relieved by Georgie’s stance about Jon, too, because… yes, if someone should have these feelings about him, it’s her. And at the same time, I feel like the fact that she made them explicit is also a way to say that this is not the only option – it’s hers and her perception of current events, but it’s not… fundamentally the ones other characters will choose and pursue. There will probably be alternatives, there will probably be many different ways to interact with Jon; we’ve already seen Basira’s and it’s not certain that Martin will keep doing his best to not interact ~for everyone’s greater good in the long-run~ now that he’s getting more information about how bad things are going currently. (Or not, and he could still persist in his isolation anyway.)
I’m still curious about Daisy’s and Melanie’s stances because both of them know they’ve been under influence, and Jon was the one who gave them other options. Both would have personal reasons to feel very mad at him (Jonathan “Do what I say, not what I do” Sims had told Melanie it was time to heal, and told Daisy that There Were Always Choices… when he had already attacked two people), with various degrees of betrayal. I’m sad in advance for Daisy, as she had grown kinda close to Jon since she had come back from the coffin and he… hadn’t… told her… about the live-statements… although she would have been the most likely to understand…, and it’s probably not a good idea at all to have them interact without supervision (if Daisy was beginning to “hear her blood” when thinking about Elias, what would happen now that she knows that Jon had been going more monster-y?) but. I want to hear Daisy’s perspective on these things. (Although I’m worried about Jon’s hesitation in MAG148, please, don’t be Hunting again ;;). As for Melanie, I want her to kick Jon’s butt and call him out on his hypocrisy about “healing” and (break of) trust; at the same time, given that she’s currently making efforts to make better, she’s probably in the best position to do so in a productive way.
(Though there is still the question of What Can They Do?, re:Jon… Melanie got a clearer head (and some additional trauma) following the bullet’s removal. Daisy, who had been a Hunter for a looong time, was cut from The Hunt thanks to the coffin. But how could they possibly cut Jon from The Eye? He was still using his powers in the coffin and his personality has been aligned to Beholding for a long time (Georgie had pointed out that Jon had always been the kind to ask questions that could get himself punched), to the point that it’s extremely hard to establish if Jon had been influenced or if it had been him without any spook involved at various points in the series – the gnawing curiosity about the tunnels all through season 2 is a prime example, and although most of Jon’s actions made sense in context (coming along with Basira to be there to help if Hill Top Road turns out too dangerous; seeing the Dark Sun to neutralise it; agreeing to come with Basira to the North Pole to make sure that The Dark wouldn’t succeed its ritual; going down in the coffin to save Daisy; going to talk to Jared and agreeing to exchange a rib against his statement to learn who had sent Jared after the archival staff; planning Melanie’s surgery; going to The Unknowing because he was worried about Tim’s safety; etc.), it’s still possible that Jon wanted to know and experience these things, first-hand, and was only rationalising to himself secondary reasons to put himself in danger like this.So how would they be able to remove him from The Eye’s influence in the same way that Daisy got cut from The Hunt in the coffin…? Could using The Dark or The Stranger or The Spiral help, given how they feel like opposite to The Eye? Gouging Jon’s eyes out? Anchoring him to another avatar like what happened with Gertrude and Agnes…?)
- ;; Kinda hoping that this isn’t the last we’re hearing of Georgie, nor of Georgie-and-Jon… because we already got the “Jon used to get along with x person for years / Jon fucked up hard / too many fuckups / now x person is giving up on him, and it’s Definite And Absolute and their relationship is broken forever” scenario with… Tim? And the series tends to break more long-lasting bonds than it creates (I doubt that Basira&Daisy will stay a duo for long, especially now with the fact that 1°) Basira had hidden that she had let Jon extort Floyd’s statement, 2°) Basira had hidden she has been following Elias’s leads through the season; Basira and Jon, who used to share the same humour, are a Disaster this season; Melanie, who was kinda getting along with Basira as a gossip unit, felt objectified by her; Melanie and Jon never really got along to begin with… There is still Georgie-and-Melanie at the moment, and a bit of Melanie-and-Daisy in the background, but… that’s it.
And in Georgie-and-Jon’s case: there is the fact that Jon mentioned to Melanie, back in season 2, that their break-up had been… bad, at least according to him. Yet, they were still able to be super friendly in season 3. Which means that they have a history of Patching Things Up even though their relationship changes. As mentioned, we already got The Definitive Fall-Out thing with Tim, so I still want to hope that Jon&Georgie cooould… manage to talk things out at some point, or at least have a proper goodbye to give themselves some closure or something. Unless Jon launches The Watcher’s Crown in the next 10 episodes.
… I want to see The Admiral and hear him purr again, gdi.
(- AND I’M STILL “????” OVER THE NEAR ABSOLUTE ABSENCE OF TIM MENTIONS THIS SEASON… From Melanie&Daisy&Basira, I’m not surprised; and right, he’s been dead for a year at this point, and Martin additionally had his mother and we didn’t hear his own feelings about it either; but it’s only been a few months from Jon, and I’m still ? over the fact that Jon… wasn’t able to remember how they had neutralised The Unknowing, back in MAG122.
Especially right now, with Georgie bringing up self-care and cutting yourself from toxic people, and how some people just spiral into their own destruction… Because, surely, the bottom line can’t be that dying is the best option? Daisy brought that notion back when talking with Martin in MAG142 (about how maybe Melanie had been right to want to kill Elias), and we had a glimpse of that through Tim’s spiralling descent into anger&revenge with a bit of suicide ideation thrown in the mix; it was his Answer to everything that was happening to him, it was the only option he deemed acceptable, he was embracing it and admitted in MAG117 that he probably didn’t want to survive The Unknowing anyway… And so, it was sad as fuck and not something to glorify.)
- And all these Relationship Fall-Outs are a good occasion to remember that Peter Lukas has been running the Institute for around a year, now, and HOW CURIOUS it is that characters have been (even more than usual) unable to work together or to trust each other efficiently.
(… Though, nowadays, Peter is apparently less and less present. So, if he’s indeed been… making things worse just by being there, who is currently casting The Lonely on the Institute? Is it Martin?)
- Also brought up again in the midst of the discussion: the fact that the Institute in itself… isn’t neutral, and potentially influences people:
(MAG062) MARY: Mm. Well, they don’t understand up there. They don’t know what this place is. You do, though, don’t you? We’re on the same side, really, even if Elias disagrees. GERTRUDE: If you say so.
(MAG065) ARCHIVIST: I–I don’t know. But I don’t think I can fire you either. TIM: What? ARCHIVIST: It’s this place. TIM: I don’t understand. ARCHIVIST: Neither do I. [STATIC FADES] I’m trying to figure it out, I’ve– I’ve got the shape of it but… I’m sorry, Tim. Truly I am. But I cannot, and will not, trust you. This place isn’t right, you see that now. I don’t know how or why, but there is something very wrong with the Archives. And I don’t know who here is a victim of it… and who is an agent. TIM: So… what do we do? ARCHIVIST: For now? I suppose we just… do our jobs. TIM: I don’t want to. ARCHIVIST: No…
(MAG079) TIM: There is something in this place, and it’s messing up our heads. It watches us all the time. It stops me quitting. I’m pretty sure it would stop Elias firing Jon even if he decided to actually try running this place for once. MARTIN: You’re sure you don’t just want to stay? TIM: I’m sure. MARTIN: But, like, deep down– TIM: No. MARTIN: … Oh.
(MAG080) ARCHIVIST: This place belongs to one of them, doesn’t it? LEITNER: You know the answer to that. ARCHIVIST: The Eye. LEITNER: I have also heard it called Beholding. ARCHIVIST: And I… LEITNER: You belong to it too.
(MAG090) TIM: … You do know, right? I mean, you must know. ELIAS: Know what? TIM: About this place. About what it does to us. ELIAS: [SIGH] Tim, this place is very old. It has all sorts of... idiosyncrasies and not all of them are good for the people who work here. TIM: I think I’d prefer asbestos.
(MAG092) ELIAS: Jonah Magnus did leave him in that place, Jon. He got the letter, oh yes, and was on good terms with Mordechai Lukas. He could have interceded, perhaps even saved him, but he did not. And it was not out of malice, or because he lacked affection for Barnabas Bennett […]. No, it was because he was curious. Because he had to know, to watch and see it all. That’s what this place is, Jon, never forget it. You may believe yourself to have friends, to have confidantes, but in the end, all they are, is something for you to watch, to know, and ultimately to discard. This, at least, Gertrude understood. […] There’s so much of this place, of ourselves, twisted by forces far beyond us. I just wanted you to know– [DOOR OPENS] […] Yes, I was just saying to Jon. It’s very important to me you understand that no action I have taken has been controlled. I have done everything because I wished to.
(MAG098) TIM: Look, it’s not that. I… [SIGH] This place is evil, Martin. And I think doing what It wants? Probably makes us evil. And It wants those things to be read. I mean, I’m not going to stop you, but, at the same time… MARTIN: I– I get it.
(MAG114) TIM: Anyway, you’re a spook too now, aren’t you? This place loves you too much to let you get swapped.
(MAG123) ARCHIVIST: I don’t understand. MELANIE: No? You don’t, do you? He’s still alive. You are still alive. So THIS PLACE is still–! [HEAVY STRANGLED BREATHING] ARCHIVIST: Melanie! Melanie, this isn’t you–
(MAG128, Breekon) “That was the first time we saw what would become this place, The Eye’s Pedestal. But we were drunk on the dawning horror of transportation and took no heed of it.”
(MAG149) MARTIN: … This place isn’t a sickness. GEORGIE: No, I–I think it’s worse. […] MELANIE: Who were you talking to…? GEORGIE: Oh, I was, uh– … [HUFF] No one, apparently. MELANIE: [SIGH] … Yeah. This place will do that to you…!
How fitting, that Melanie, who sounds better lately… has also been getting out more, at least for therapy. Thus removing herself a bit from the Institute, after spending months holed up in there with Basira. (… This is not an invitation for Jon to go roam outside unsupervised again.)
(And Peter had told Martin that he needed the Institute for his plans, and Martin suspected that it was about the tunnels under it. … is the building getting destroyed by the end of the season. BURN, BABY, BURN.)
- What a perfect time, also, to remember that Jon had wondered out loud back in MAG139 about why they had been “chosen”, and hadn’t been able to find an answer. But we know, concretely, about Some People Who Did Some Choosing, and who are doing their damn bestest to be perceived as comedically useless recently, uh. Peter keeps being away and fake-friendly and not helping with anything even about dealing with The Extinction; and Elias allowed Basira to come see him although he was expecting to get beaten up, and pretended that he had messed up here and there and didn’t know much about anything. But. Elias, why did you specifically pick Jon as the next Archivist, even though Xiaoling had offered someone for the position. Why did you specifically send Peter to meet Martin in MAG108, and why Peter’s fixation with Martin.
(I’m still ?? over that last point because, strategically? Elias had just wrecked Melanie after she had tried to kill him multiple times and wanted to keep going; he wasn’t above doing that. And meanwhile, Tim had provoked him, made it extremely clear he would go against the Circus solo even though Elias was telling him not to – and as far as being lonely/isolated went… Tim was like, the perfect option? Still at a loss with what had happened with Sasha, still grieving his brother? So why did Elias choose to send Peter to Martin, who wasn’t a threat to him at the time? Was it only because of the hopeless pining after Jon – since Melanie&Basira had just made it explicit in MAG106 (… and some part of me still wants to believe that Elias. Hadn’t picked up on it until then. Hadn’t noticed. Because he tended to never take Martin into account)? But then, those were Martin’s feelings for Jon, not the reverse, so even if the plan was to isolate Jon more, it wouldn’t have changed anything…?)
- orz orz orz And it’s always a good (bad) moment to remember that:
(MAG126) MARTIN: … When all this is over, I’m telling him everything, with or without your permission. PETER: Martin… when it’s over, you won’t want to. MARTIN: … Mm. PETER: But he will be safe. They all will. MARTIN: … Yeah.
(MAG138) MARTIN: I think he wants me to join The Lonely. ELIAS: Then it sounds like you have a decision to make. […] MARTIN: I don’t know what I expected. [INHALE] Right. Right, we’re done here. [CHAIR SCRAPING ON THE FLOOR] [STEPS LEAVING] ELIAS: Don’t forget to keep in touch, Martin. There are so many people in here, but without one’s friends… [DOOR LOCKING] it does get rather lonely.
(Gasp, yeah, it sounded almost like ADVICE coming from Elias’s mouth, under the obvious gratuitous jab. Shockingly.)
(Aaaand Peter hadn’t been clear about what would make Martin not want to tell Jon: whether it would be because of Jon’s evolution, or because of Martin’s. Right now, we’re getting both, and Martin is getting more comfortable in his isolation…………………. I still hope that if he had a Plan to backstab Peter, he’ll still carry through it and manage to pull that one off (hey, he had already revealed that he was recording the statements for Jon and intended for the tapes to reach him at some point) but ;; In any case, it won’t be pretty, uh…)
Title for MAG150 is… *Undignified French snicker* Écoutez, je suis une personne simple, on peut vraiment réutiliser le titre de façon dégueulasse si on enfonce cette porte ouverte.
It’s funny, because there is an English equivalent for this one, and Jon was using it so much in season 1 and 2 that I had begun to make the compilation of its occurrences, and it had been used both in its concrete and abstract meanings. … It had specifically been used in MAG041, too, which put me in mind of the tunnels under the Institute (title would fiiiit) and the circle of worms, so I wanna Believe In A Corruption Statement because I’ll do that every week under The Filth gets its share in season 4.
Other options: mmm, we know that Gertrude and Gerry had travelled in France when tracking The Stranger so there could be something additional to this and/or the return of Jon Fluently Reading/Understanding languages he doesn’t know? Or it could be a reference to the movie of the same name – Lonely one, then, possibly? Would be a good title for a Buried statement, too, though we already got the coffin mini-arc not that long ago. Literally, it also puts to mind MAG005’s statement (… and in more than one way) so… could be… about that… too… (in which case: Flesh? Hunt?).
Second meaning of the title is L-O-L, that’s. That’s a nice summary of this little soap opera you call an Archive’s current state of affair. (And it’s… nice to think back to the concrete meaning and how, to get out of one, you have… to admit that you made a mistake and take a few steps back in order to revaluate your options. … Or to pursue your initial plans and to crash against the wall/make the wall crumble. Oh no.)
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Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
3rd person POV
Next morning Arya woke up to find an empty house. There was a note from Emily telling her she made breakfast for her and that both her and Sam were gone for the day.
She had an afternoon shift at the hospital today and it was only eight in the morning. With all the free time she had after breakfast her mind drifted to a certain wolf that haunted both her dreams and reality. With a small sigh and shake of her head she decided she'll need a distraction because he was truly the last thing she wanted to think about. Not only did they barely converse but when they did it was a screaming match with a slap on top of it, but also he was taken and she was most definitely NOT the type to go after someone else's man. She probably wouldn't interest him anyways, because if Rachel is his type, she was far from it.
Turning up the music she washed the dishes and scrubbed the stove clean. Singing „Go your own way“ by Fletwood Mac at the top of her lungs while using the mop as a microphone she cleaned the floor and managed to do a dance (if you can even call it that) combining swaying of her hips, pumping a fist in the air and an occasional jump.
On the other hand, Paul was still sleeping in his wolf form just outside her window and the sound of loud music startled him. Waking up ready to jump at the threat he looked around like a maniac only to realize that the sound was in fact music and coming from the inside. He shifted back and grabbed clothes from a tree nearby and walked inside. Paul was met with a scene of his imprint singing and doing the most ridiculous dance he had ever seen. She was relaxed and free with her body and it only made her look more beautiful and sexy then the day before. Her awkwardness and innocence appealed to him on a different level, but he liked knowing she could let loose and have fun. As she pumped her fist in the air and jumped up a little she almost lost her balance and fell. Her clumsiness made him burst out laughing and she turned around and screamed in shock.
„God, you scared me to death!“
As he continued to double over laughing to the point of tears her cheeks darkened to a crimson color with embarrassment.  
„So how much of that did you see?“ she questioned with a slight crack in her voice.
He was just now catching his breath and finally got a chance to look at her properly. She wore a long black t-shirt with red leggings and grey bunny slippers on her feet. Her hair was raised into a bun on top of her head with a few stray strands escaping and framing her face that was burning red. Beauty she held seemed even more unbelievable in the morning light shinning through the windows showing every line of her make-up free face.
He found himself nervous realizing this would be their first real exchange of words.
„Long enough to see you have some moves, and oh, let's not forget the singing. Daaamn!“ He smirked with a raised eyebrow.
„Oh God“, she used her hands to cover her face, „can we just forget this ever happened, please?“
„Oh, honey, I don't think anything can erase this picture from my memory“ he replies with a playful tone while gesturing to her appearance.
„Okay then, I'm just gonna go and find a hole I can crawl into and die.“
„Not so fast princess. Where are the parents?“
She looks to him with a confused expression „ The parents?“
„Emily and Sam“ he answered in a 'duh' tone.
„Out for the day. I'm here till half past one, but I suppose you guys are allowed inside whenever, am I right?“
„Yeah, so...what's for breakfast?“ he asked not wanting to leave yet.
„There were waffles but you're about twenty minutes late. Just grab something from the fridge while I finish up in here.“
Paul was most definitely not going to tell his imprint he can't cook to save his life so he nodded and walked in thinking he could maybe make some pasta. All he had to do is boil some water, that seemed easy enough. He put a pot with pasta on the stove and turned to observe her. He was so engrossed in her that he didn't smell the burning pasta behind him, but she did. She came running into the kitchen frantically and grabbed a rag to pull the pot of the stove and threw it under the sink. Turning to him with wide eyes she used the most calm voice she could muster at the moment „How does one burn pasta? Better yet, how does one not notice the burning pasta while standing next to the pot? Please explain that to me Paul.“
„You know my name?“ he said in awe like a love-struck puppy.
„Yes I know your name“ she said with annoyance in her voice, „now please explain this enigma to me!“
„I think I, uh, forgot to put water with the pasta and I was just thinking about...a school project I have due soon...yeah a school project....and I just spaced out.“ He started stumbling over his words, nerves of her rejecting him over this thing hitting him full force.
She raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms over her chest with an obvious 'I don't believe a word that just came out of your mouth' face and waited for him to continue enjoying his nervous behavior.
„Okay, I'll just be honest...I can't cook...Like at all...Once I burned water! Ever since then I've been banned from the kitchen.“
She kept her serious face for a few more seconds as a smile started spreading on her face till she couldn't fight any longer and started giggling at his statement, one hand covering her mouth. Her giggles turned into a full blown contagious laughter causing him to laugh with her, both of them sliding to the floor. After a few minutes both of them wiped their tears and finally took a few deep breaths sharing a look that sent chills down their spines.
She was the first one to snap out of it remembering he has a girlfriend „How does bacon and eggs sound?“
„Sound good...really good“, he replies still watching her face intently. He gets up and offers her a hand to pull her up. As their hands touch the heat from his fingers creeps into her consciousness blurring everything around them while the soft touch of her skin caused him to crave more than just her hand to hold.
She turns around and starts working on breakfast for Paul trying to put herself back together while he just leans on the wall behind her thinking how much he was losing the battle with the bond. The worst thing is, it wasn't just the bond anymore, he actually liked her. Sure the bond made him want to be near her, but the small bit she revealed of herself already got him intoxicated. He knew her barely a day and a half and she was already running through his veins.
Everything about her is captivating, just like the aftermath of a storm, he thought.
They were both silent as she gave him his meal and it continued while he ate.
She looked to the clock and saw she still had a few hours to kill before work.
„So, do you really have a school project to finish?“ she asked as he finished his breakfast and leaned back.
„Not really, more like a ton of homework I never get to do since I shifted.“
„Do you want me to help you? I'm pretty good with school.“
„Yeah, why not? Gotta warn you tho', I suck at all things involving school. But also I don't have my things with me right now. Maybe we can work on it later.“
„Sure, maybe others could use my help too.“ He felt a tingle of jealousy for he didn't want to share his time with anyone.
 „Why aren't you in school right now? You don't have patrol.“ She stated.
„I was on patrol last night“, he lied.
„Right..“ He could tell she was suspicious. How was she able to read him so easily?
„How about you tell me something about you then? Since all of you know my story, I'd like to get to know you better as well.“
Paul nods. His story began with his family. Sharing the story of how his mother left his father and him for another man and how he had to move back to La Push. Continuing on the part how he shifted and met Sam and Jared conveniently leaving out the part where he was a player and about his relationship with Rachel.
Sometime around noon she was paged to the E.R. and she grabbed her bag not changing her clothes and ran to her car with Paul following her close behind.
As she came to the car she stopped and saw just how damaged 'Seal' really was. With all the excitement yesterday she completely forgot to check the damage Paul caused during his fit. There were large dents on the hood with a few cracks, broken left headlight and side view mirror, her left tire flat. She turned to look at him with anger rolling of her in waves with a dark look that made him want to run and hide. Guess I'm already whipped, he thought, and now I'm going to die, he concluded.
She took a few deep breaths before speaking, „My car is totaled, how am I supposed to get to work? I was paged and being paged means people are dying and I AM VERY MUCH NEEDED!“
He just stood there looking at her blankly for a few moments. „Wait here, I'll be back in a minute“, he said and ran off.
Three minutes passed and she was pacing outside the house. Suddenly a navy blue truck came driving so fast she though it would trample her.
„Get in!“
She looked up only to find Paul grinning at her from the driver's seat. As she climbed in he drove off while she was looking at him with an impressed smile.
„Where? How? You're awesome!“ she exclaimed.
„I know“, he states with a cocky smile.
„Okay, I need to get dressed, which means I'm about to start getting half-naked and if you so much as glance my way I WILL find a silver something to stab you with. Got it?“
„Yes mam'.“ He replies. It felt like a special place in hell was just opened for him as she started to take her shirt off knowing that if he looks he would lose all the progress they made today. He was trying so hard to focus on the road and not on the almost naked imprint sitting right next to him. He ignored all the occasional brush ups of her body against his arm while counting in order to calm himself enough not to grab her face right then and there and kiss her. He wasn't thinking about Rachel or his previously expressed intentions of proving how an imprint bond could be resisted, he was only thinking about how would her lips feel against his.
„It's safe to look now“, her voice broke his train of though.
„We're near, be ready to go.“
„Thank you. I mean I'm still upset over 'Seal' but for now I'm going to let it go.“
„Seal?“ he questioned.
„My car.“
„You named your car? No, wait, scratch that. You named your car 'Seal'?“ he said with amusement in his voice.
„I love animals and when I saw the teal color the only thing that popped up in my mind was a lame rhyme 'Seal', so it worked out in both ways.“ she defended her choice with a giggle.
They were pulling up into the parking lot, the entrance to the E.R. jammed with an ambulance.
„Thank you, I gotta run, bye.“ She said as she waved to Paul jumping out of the car. She could see Carlisle opening the door to the ambulance and called his name to signal she arrived. But just as she was about to near Carlisle she was pulled back abruptly behind a tall shaking figure she identified as Paul.
„Paul, what the hell? I have to get there NOW!“
„You can't Arya“, he said with hate laced in his voice that made her flinch.
He could tell he scared her which cause him to take a few deep breaths,
„You didn't tell us you worked with the leech, why?!“ he asked in a calm voice, but it definitely didn't calm her nerves.
„A leech? What are you talking about?!“ She asked trying to walk around him.
He takes her hand and pulls her back,“wait, you don't know?“ he asks.
„Know what Paul? All I know is that right now there is someone who needs my help and I can't help them if YOU DO NOT MOVE OUT OF MY WAY“, she half shouted trying not to lose her patience while the sense of urgency to get to the E.R. grew.
„Arya he“, Paul gestured towards Carlisle, „HE is a vampire, the cold one, the leech, whatever you wanna name it. He could hurt you.“
Paul spoke fast with hope she'll go with him so he could keep her safe. For a moment there she palled looking back to Carlisle then refocusing her eyes on Paul
„ He won't hurt me. If he wanted to, I'd be dead already. For God's sake he saves people every day Paul. I may not know much about his kind yet, but I know about him. I'm a pretty good judge of character and I believe him to be good. I have to go now.“
She started walking away as Paul called after her.
„Ria, PLEASE!“ he ran after her as she came to a sudden halt with a flinch as he used the new nickname, „I can't protect you here and if you get hurt I'll never forgive myself.“
„Why do you care“ she asked with a sudden sharpness in her voice. He opened his mouth to tell her, but stopped himself for a reason he didn't even know. His stubborn nature reminding him of his fight with the bond making his mouth close shut without a word.
She nods with hurt in her eyes almost as if she wanted him to fight for her and now felt rejected by him.
„That's what I thought, now if you'll excuse me I have work to do.“
Watching her walk away felt like a brutal storm started in his mind with thunder burning pieces of his heart. I took our bond for granted, and in my naivety I'd thought it unbreakable. Am I losing her before I ever even had her? thoughts swirled in his head as she disappeared from view.
With each stride her mind became more clear, more resolute, as if the growing physical distance between them had now become an emotional chasm. Ignoring the pain that settled in her heart, she made a decision. Whatever this was, between her and Paul wasn't going to happen. She wanted him more then anything after only knowing him for a day and a half and maybe that was the problem. She always thought of herself as a one great love in a lifetime kind of person, like a lobster. She was afraid if she fell in love with someone she'd give her whole heart to that person and if it breaks, she'd never love again. So Arya always protected herself when it comes to love. By not letting herself get hurt now, it would prevent an even bigger pain in the future.
He obviously didn't care for you, he was just acting that way due to his loyalty to your brother silly girl, like he'd ever go for you, she thought. She numbed the pain hitting her in waves as she always did and promised herself that she wouldn't let him be the source of her pain ever again.
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Okay so just to set the record straight, who all do you headcanon as Jewish or has Jewish roots? Because we've got Eddie as straight up Jewish, and I think a while back you said Frank came from a family mixed with Italian Catholics and some Jewish ancestry. Who else? 😗
tbh i feel like they All have the ancestry and while they may not be religious or culturally connected to it, they would all be jewish by blood or whatever you want to call that particular kind of connection
so i’m just gonna give a rundown of the list real quick!
frank: italian catholic-jewish. not uncommon, suprisingly! catholic-jewish interfaith families are common enough, and i hc frank as descending from one! i imagine that his mother was fully jewish and his father was italian catholic, so he was raised with both of the loudest possible families on the face of the planet. the man knows how to evade personal questions at a too-large family holiday dinner party and knows how to sweep a loaded religious statement right under the rug.
shane: he’s not especially religious, but i do see him as coming from a non-orthodox, pretty laid back jewish family. he celebrates hanukkah with his grandparents and parents and he had a bar mitzvah, but for the most part he just is Shane Walsh, Southern Dude. still, i cling to the idea of jewish shane for personal reasons and because i’m Lame
david: probably the least “jewish jew” out of all of ‘em. he’s straight up christian, and that’s rad! but i mean, he’s at least descended from jewish folk. it’s in there.
michael: Literally The Biggest Jew On This Whole List. it’s literally canon. i don’t have to say anything except “Hebrew Hammer”.
BJ: BIG HONKIN’ JEW COMING THROUGH. he’s probably laid back about it, too, but i think his dad was jewish (if not practicing) and sally is, too. he’s a casual observer of the faith but certainly culturally connected to it, and had his fair share of cheek pinching at synagogue. 
braxton: again, i don’t really know where i stand on this. he’s got a white brother (ben affleck isn’t jewish as far as i know, but jon is), so,,, probably isn’t? then again i’d love me a jewish brax, just sayin’
grady: eh. in the south there’s a lot of pretty rough antisemitism and i imagine that grady is more christian than anything else, and he’s barely even that. still, i think that he’s got jewish ancestry, and that makes the WWII situation all the more painful.
joe: JEWISH. no doubt in my mind. he’s not religious, i figure, but he’s got a jewish background and parents and family and he certainly had to go the whole nine yards. he’s seen it all, and he’s pretty proud of his heritage, i like to think.
griff/monty: YEP. but lowkey. he’s relaxed about it and is more culturally jewish than anything else. but that’s not to say that this fella won’t go barrelling into a synagogue and yell “RABBI, RABBI, I NEED CONSULTATION” because he wants to talk about getting married in a traditional wedding for his parent’s sake
manny: again, not a very solid contender, imo. he’s like,,,, vaguely jewish to me because basically all jons are in my mind, but he’s less so. i see him as more hispanic-catholic than anything else, ya know?
that should be my Comprehensive List Of Jews!!! lemme know if i missed anyone and i’ll play my little harmonica and the notes will sing out “jeeeewish” or “noooooot a jew, my dude”
i’m a goober i’m so sorry about this deluge
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Damian Wayne as a Father Headcanons
A/N: Reader and Damian are adults in these. I went all out on this, so I really hope you like the structure and everything. Feedback is welcomed. ☺️
(c/n) = child’s name
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Damian as a father would include:
Pregnancy: • Damian was excited when you told him he was going to be a father, well as excited as Damian manages to express.
• He had his concerns about whether he was going to be a good father, based on his family background and upbringing he had his doubts. However after reassuring him, that he managed to change and has become a better person his worry subsided.
• Now when he goes out on patrol, he’s more cautious and careful as he now has two people to come home to and protect.
• Whilst you’re pregnant, Damian is extremely over protective with everything. You are not putting yourself in any danger and he’ll make sure of that. He understands he’s being this way and apologised, explaining he doesn’t want either of you hurt since you’re a prime target now.
• Catering to your cravings the best he can. Sort of. “Pennyworth, we need some strawberries and hot sauce?” “We’re currently out of strawberries Master Damian, Miss (Y/n) has cleared them out.” “Ugh, I’ll be back shortly beloved.” “Really? You have to leave me, I know you’re getting stuff for me but I’m kind of annoyed by that and I don’t know why.” “Hormones (y/n).”
• Trying to comfort you when you get emotional, but since Damian isn’t the best at it he comes up with other solutions. “I could punch you right now!” “Beloved, that’d be a stupid move.” “Oh really? Because I love you… a lot and I didn’t mean that!” You were still yelling and you weren’t sure why. “How about throwing some knives instead?” “What?! NO! That’s ridiculous and I’m actually willing to do it. You’re such a good partner for letting me do this.” By your last statement you were crying and pulling him into an embrace.
• Both of you low-key freaking out when the baby kicks and you’re just hugging each other with massive grins on your faces.
• Receiving visits from Damian’s family, all of which are super excited to be apart of it and looking forward to having a new member in the family.
• Dick encouraging Damian that’s he’s going to be a good father.
• Bruce still not quite getting the fact his son has a proper family that’s almost normal, but enjoys it none the less. “Bruce, you know you’re going to be a granddad right?” “Yes of course I do (y/n), Damian is going to be a father and to be honest… it all feels surreal.” “Tell me about it. It’s gonna be great though.” “It truly is.”
Labour: • When your waters broke, Damian was with you since he’d estimated the most likely time it’d happen. This man was prepared, he was still the son of the original Batman.
• Damian drove you to the hospital as soon as possible, not in the Batmobile much to your disappointment but understood there’d be no easy way to explain that.
• Panicking and being exhausted throughout labour and Damian telling you to breathe.
• “Holy shit (y/n)!!!” Damian actually yelped when you squeezed his hand during labour. “You’re not giving birth Dami!” “You’re a lot stronger than I thought.” “Yep, comes with being your significant other for so long! Ah shit!” “Breathe beloved, breathe.”
• With over 10 hours in labour you finally had your child and you were exhausted. “I did it - Dami I -” “I know beloved, you are so strong. I’m proud of you (y/n), I love you so much.” “Love you too.”
• Holding the baby and you simply can’t believe you’ve created something so pure, suddenly you forget all the pain because it was all worth it for this child in your arms.
• Damian holds them next, and is so smitten that you know this child is gonna be spoilt. He almost cried because he thought he was incapable of producing something this innocent, his family do not have a grip on his baby and they never will.
• The rest of the Batfam piling in minutes later hoping to see their new addition. Dick is super enthusiastic about the whole ordeal and sheds a few tears, whilst promising to be the best uncle ever which was open to dispute. Jason was smiling more than ever, saying “It’s up to (y/n) to make sure we don’t get another demon spawn in the family. Right now though, I’m really proud of you two.” Tim making sure you’re alright, asking about names and how much the baby weighs before checking on the others. Bruce is over the moon and is third to hold his grandchild, he’s quick to congratulate you both and offers for you to stay at the manor so they can all help to get you back on your feet. Cassandra doesn’t say anything, instead hugging you tightly with a wide grin on her face then patting Damian on the shoulder who remained by your bedside. “You’ll make a great auntie Cass.” And that only made her smile more.
General Child Raising: > Taking turns to get up in the night when the baby wakes up.
• Morning cuddles because you’re both exhausted.
• The baby getting lots of attention and babysitters consisting of Damian’s family which you’re eternally grateful for.
• Damian still being smitten as you expected, you find yourself leaning on the doorframe and watching the two interact often, a smile making its way onto your face. “Are you alright beloved?” “Y-yeah, it’s nice to be apart of this family.” You soon join the two.
• Damian teaching your child self defence from a young age and you’re not too thrilled with the idea. “Oh my - Damian! Why does (c/n) have a katana?!” “I’m teaching (c/n) how to wield the weapon beloved.” “Y-yeah, couldn’t you have started with a wooden one. A real one isn’t exactly safe for a 5 year old!” “I did. At the age of 3. (C/n)’s skills have developed since then (y/n).” “Oh my gosh. We’re terrible parents!” You yelped, throwing your hands in the air.
• Your child learning about Damian’s culture and heritage as well as your own so they know where to come from and if they want to celebrate any traditions.
• Both of you helping out with homework from school, Damian specialising in Maths.
• Having to come up with crazy explanations as to why their father came through the window in the dead of night looking like Batman. “Is daddy Santa?” “Uh not exactly… It’s more like the tooth fairy?” “We are not saying that beloved, (c/n) I’m Batman - but you can’t tell anyone as this is a family secret.” “Ok Batdad.” You’re child whispered, giggling at the nickname.
• Damian ok with them joining the family business as long as they pass his training resumés. They don’t go out if they’re sick or injured no matter what as this increases the likelihood of reckless behaviour.
• Teaching them the ways of Wayne Enterprises since they’re the future heir now.
• Your child learning about the hero business when they get older and finally accepting their father isn’t the tooth fairy.
• Giving them the choice of whether they want to become a vigilante with you supporting them 100% and Damian teaching them League of Assassins techniques regardless of their decision.
• Joking with you and Damian about becoming a villain because they’re fully equipped to do so but knowing that’s not how they were brought up.
• Them secretly having a favourite uncle but only Damian and yourself know who it is and refuse to tell the others.
• Kate Kane being the go to person for anything LGBT+ related, if your child is in fact an LGBT citizen or not.
• Generally being quite an open family that comes with a few cracks but you’re happy.
If it’s a Boy: • “Looks like there’s a new son of Batman now.” “Indeed there is, I hope he’ll be my successor one day.”
• Father son bonding activities, most of which included one on one training sessions. There a lot of testosterone in your home.
• Play fights all of the time, literally with anyone of his uncles that comes over. Whether it be Dick, Jason, Tim or Duke he’s going to show them the new moves Damian taught him.
• “I’m going to be the next Red Hood. You watch me!” As your son runs around with finger guns yelling ‘pew pew’ at inanimate objects much to your amusement. “I’m going to kill Todd…”
• You’re son actually wanting to have powers like Jon, Supermans son, who visits on some occasions. Though after a long conversation about practicality with his father, (c/n) is convinced he’ll be the next Batman. “Well Superman doesn’t have a Batmobile.” “But he can fly father.” “(C/n) has a point Dami.”
• Your son imitating Damian any chance he gets since he looks up to his father more than he realises. “I am the son of the demon!” “(Y/n), what was that?” “Dick, do you really want to question it? He has Dami’s genes remember.” “That’s who he reminds me of, Damian when he was younger - such a little sh-” Covering Dicks mouth before he could finish that sentence.
• Bruce saying he looks a lot like Damian and is proud of you both for raising your son so well. (C/n) has great manners at Galas when he’s older and is a hit with the ladies. Of course, for now - you’re the most important female in his life until he finds that special someone. Damian couldn’t be more proud. “Meet my parents, Damian and (Y/n) Wayne.” “It’s a pleasure, I hope our son is treating you well.” “Yes, thank you Mrs Wayne.”
If it’s a Girl: • Literally his little princess who he loves dearly.
• Cass coming over to style your daughters hair and spend time with her. Even though Cass isn’t talkative, your daughter speaks enough for the both of them. “Can you do plaits Auntie Cass, like milkmaid ones?” “I bet you can, you’re really good at making hair look pretty.” Cass just kisses her forehead and starts braiding.
• Finding out that she isn’t going to be a girly girl from a very early age. “As I have Batdad, I get to drive the Batmobile when I’m older - maybe I can race!” “I can teach you to drive now princess, I could drive by your age.” “No! Damian, that’s illegal!” “So is vigilantism.” “…”
• Barbara and Stephanie coming over to help out and Stephanie even brought your daughter a Batgirl costume. Stephanie being so involved for personal reasons and just becoming her auntie not that there was any question. “Steph, why did you buy this?” “Why not? She’ll follow in our footsteps one day.” “I’ll make sure she knows all the technical tricks.” Barbara was quick to add referring to her way with computers.
• Kate Kane and Harper Row also visiting to check up on you both. Kate claiming that girls have got to stick together. Your daughter thinking Harpers hair is the coolest thing in the world. “Mommy, can I have my hair just like Harpers? With pink in it and can I have it rainbow?” “That would look so cool!” Came the exaggerated enthusiasm of Harper. “When you’re older, you can dye it however you want.”
• Damian gets over protective when romantic relationships come into the equation. “Father, I fight crime with you at weekends. I’m perfectly capable of handling a romantic partner.” “It’s funny you think they’ll even get a chance to get close to you.” “Mom, a little help?!”
• “Touch my daughter and you’re dead.” “You’re dad is joking right (c/n)?” Came your daughters current interest. “Haha, uh yeah… no. No he’s not joking.” “So what? Beat me to death?” “More like slice you. With his katana.” Your daughter corrected. “And that’s only if your uncles don’t get to them first (c/n)!” “Thanks for that mom.”
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I have always liked the Ford Fiesta's and i turn 17 in october, its unlikely i will be driving till next year! i was just wondering an insurance estimate on, say, an 06 plate? 3Doors Hatchback 1.25L I know it will be fairly expensive! If a company were to insure me. Would just like an average quote please! don't want answers with 'depends on this, this or this'.. Thanks very much!""
How much should a 16 year old pay for State Farm car Insurance for a year in Nevada?
My friend pays 200$ a month. And some with an older car pays 100$ each month.How do I know if I'm getting ripped off or not. My friends say I would get ripped off for paying 200$ ...show more
Car insurance?
ok well im 16 and a male. my mom just bought me a 2007 lexus gs for my bday. i havnt gotten in any accedents, so i wanted to knw how much my car insurance would be. my mom said she spoiled me enough by giving me the car, so she wont help with the insurance.""
""How do I get quotes on things such as insurance, utility cost, and building remodling?""
how do I get quotes on things such as insurance, utility cost, and building remodling when I'm writing a business plan? We finally have found a great location for a bar and grill we have wanted to open and a business plan requires a lot of estimating costs and I want to find the most accurate figures so that I can set myself up for success.""
Teenager car insurance.?
I turn 16 in February and I want to know about how much I'm going to be paying for my car insurance. I'm going to be under my Dad's plan with State Farm. I'm male and my GPA is over a 4.0. I'm going to be driving a 2001 Dodge RAM 1500. I don't know if anyone can give me an exact cost but I justed wanted to know a range.
Glendale auto (car) insurance?
Where can I get auto insurance in Glendale? What do you recommend? I bought a car recently and I'd like to find a cheap way to insure it.
Insurance on Mini Cooper for an 18 year old?
I was wondering if you could get insurance on one of the older ones 1900s pickups or van or normal.I was thinking of a restoration project. But I want to know could I get insurance on one. And roughly how much. I know the restoration will cost a lot but I could do a bit and I have family that could just about cover everything else. I thought I might have 10,000 for everything including insurance. Thank you""
""Any idea how much the car tax is on a vauxhall frontera,and is the insurance expensive?
is it much more than running the average car
Bike insurance?
im getting a 125cc scooter soon and was wondering how much my insurance will be,im 26,the scooter will be stored in a garage,ive 8 years driving cars,and with a cbt""
I need infon about various product/plans available in life insurance?
what are the various products in life insurance available, please do let me know now , it is a request""
What's the average insurance premium for first drivers these days?
I'm 18, and im going to buy a car. It's a 2002/2003 car, so not too recent. Im looking for quotes online and the cheapest im getting is about 4500. This is me being the policy holder and not any other family members. Does this sound right? Personally i think it's outrageous... Thanks.""
How to get different types of insurance?
Dental, health, medical, etc. Im graduating HS and my parents are taking me off there's. They say it's time to grow up and support myself. I fully understand. And I have no complaints. So that's why I'm asking. I just got a job, so would that help?? I'm taking a break from school (college) for a couple years.""
""I totaled my car and it was my fault, how much will i get from my insurance company, please help??
i wrecked my car and its totally non fixable and i do not know how the insurance works and i want to know what to expect on how much i will be getting back!?
How long until I lose my health insurance?
I left my job on August 17, 2012. I had Cigna Health Insurance. How long until I get the letter that says I don't have it anymore?""
What do you think is the cheapest insurance out there? i'm trying to switch from my current one.?
i currently use allstate. I pay about $160 a month and its not even full coverage
What is a private jet's insurance price? and maintenance costs? Averagely.?
For school I have to do a business plan. We are creating a fictive private jet renting company in Colombia but i can't find these informations. It is really important as i is part of our financial statements. Thank you very much.
Vw Lupo S insurance group 1.4L?
What insurance group would a 1.4L Lupo be in. Also roughly what price would it be in that group. Im 17 and after a quote with no modifications.
How much is teen auto insurance?
i normally have bs and as and rarely cs for school. About how much would auto insurance be?
Insurance Question 16 year old?
I am a 16 year old boy, I just got my license. What I have to drive is a 2011 Mustang GT 5.0 liter V8, 2 wheel Drive. The price on the car is $32,565. If both my parents and I are insured on the car, how much should my own personal payment be for 1 month with a normal plan (not collision). My parents have never had an accident and are 40 and 36 years old. If I cannot get an exact quote can someone please tell me about how much the car would be a month to insure? Thanks very much. ***I have also completed a drivers education course that should lower my insurance 10-15%.""
Can anyone recommend a website that will give free quotes for multiple car insurance companies?
I'm trying to find a website that will give different quotes for comprehensive car insurance in Australia. Can anyone recommend one?
How much is the insurance for a ford mustang?
for a teen girl driver thats 15 with a permit
How much would motorcycle insurance cost for a teen?
I'm 17 now, but planning on getting my bike at 18. I'm thinking about getting a Kawaski Ninja 250R or a 500R sports bike.I live in California.""
Bikers: Which cheap bike(125cc?) would be suitable for a new rider who just wants cheap travel and insurance?
I've also been advised to avoid sports bikes where you need to be bent over with your head on the handle bars! I'll be using it for commuting rather than racing and looking cool!
How much would car insurance be for a 16 year old with a 1999 ford mustang cobra?
It has a ton of mods and yes I am looking at fast cars because ive been around them all my life. and dont be that guy that says get a honda. Thanks
Looking for car insurance?
Im 18 and Ive only been driving for a year. No accidents or mishaps and Im looking to buy a car. However, I have to pay for my own insurance and was wondering around how much that would cost a month? And is it possible for me to be under my parents insurance (I still live at home) but with my own car? Would that be cheaper? p.s. I live in California""
""Health Insurance questions, help?
I just got a job as a firefighter in my local town in Mass. Im only 21 y/o and still on my mothers insurance Do you recommend I stay with her's or pursue my own? She is an LPN so her benefits are ok but nothing amazing....blue cross Advice? PRices of FF health insurance? Thanks!
Someone borrowed my truck and a gate fell on the side. Does his insurance pay or mine?
Why should MY rates go up? His insurance is telling him the coverage goes with the VEHICLE, not the driver.""
How much would it cost for car insurance for a second hand classic car for a 17 year old?
Hey, I'm turning 16 in September 2012, and being a boy I am already thinking about my first car. I'm hoping to start work around November-December and am hoping to earn around 1500, which fits perfectly into my price range of 1000 -  2000. Recently I've been thinking down the more 'Classical Route' (extravagant, I know) and found Classic Cars for around this price at www.carandclassic.co.uk I've had my eye on MG mgbgt or Triumph Spitfire and similar. I can afford something like this. The only problem that faces is me now is Insurance. I know that insurance is really quite expensive for this type of car ESPECIALLY for my age. However I have heard that insuring a car at my age is expensive regardless of the type. It's really the only set back for me. I'd love to hear from you how much it would cost to insure this kind of car for my age, as well as any personal experiences, alternatives and any other advice. Thanks. :)""
""Im 18 and i live in mississuaga, im buying a car but im not sure of a cheap insurance?""
hi, i just got my g2 i live in mississuaga ontario, im looking into buying a new car but insurances are going crazy high here, do u guys know any cheap insurances ???? thanx for the help""
CAN YOU GET UNDER YOUR PARENTS CAR INSURANCE IF YOUR CAR IS UNDER YOUR NAME?
I'm looking to buy a new car but I wont be able to afford car insurance on my own plus paying for a car. If i get a car under my name can i still be placed under my parents car insurance? Im 21 btw. Thanks
Best New York Insurance?
Ok I'm 19, my mom's thinking of getting a CR-V or an Odyssey and I live in the Bronx so how much would it be for an insurance?? Any cheaper?? I have experience in driving had so many driving practice. Also what if I add another car? Would the insurance be cheaper or still off the roof? I'm thinking about A Miata that cost around $3,000 about 1996 model. Thanks!!""
Geico car insurance late?
my geico car insurance will be due in 3 days but it will be ten days after that do i get paid do you have a grace period or i time frame after the due date with geico
Car insurance without a license?
Hi! I'm going to get a used car next month. I've had my permit for over a year so that means I have to take the written test again. I'm planning on taking it this month, then getting the car next month, then a few months later taking the road test. I have to practice driving in the car that I'm gonna get so my question is, can I get insurance on the car without having a license yet? My parents don't drive, so I cant get on their insurance. So what do you think is the best thing for me to do and what would be the cheapest? Thanks in advance to anyone kind enough to answer my question.:D""
Health insurance??? Problems with the system??
Personally, I think america needs to get away from depending on employers to provide health insurance. To many U.S. citizens are going without coverage....even though they have jobs. What should be done??""
Car insurance price ?
- so ill be 18 next sateday; im on my grandmas insurance now. i plan on getting my own car & my own insurance in 2 or 3 months. i have already had two wrecks ; how much will my insurance be ? & yes i'm a female
""What is the penalty for driving without insurance on a motorbike, as i feel it was a genuine oversight?""
I was stopped because of a broken rear light and as it happens my insurance had expired about 4 days before. I wasn't aware that the insurance expired , i thought it was at the end of the month. I didn't receive any reminder because i had forgotten to change address with the insurance company, which was completely my fault. This is a genuine oversight on my part, but I'm not sure if they'll look at previous incident i had with my cousins car when i was a teenager about 7 years ago, i got caught driving without insurance. Probably one of the stupidest things i have done but i learned from it, but the court may not look at it like that. Should i get a solicitor and does anyone know how much they cost? Will i be suspended from driving?""
How cheap would my insurance rates be?
A friend on mine had recent gotten a 99 Civic 2 dr and his insurance is 80$ a month. If i get a 94 Civic with 4drs, how much cheaper would it be going to the same insurance company, having a older year, and it not being a sports car? We are both 17. Also, How much do you think my rates would be for a 21 year old owning both a 95 Civic and a 2001 Corvette? Its kind of late to call the insurance company now so i want an opinion. =D Thanks""
Car insurance problem!! I need help!!?
I got in a fender bender yesterday. Did a little damage to my car, but just scuffed the ladies bumper. The cops came and gave me a citation for failure to yield. Here's the problem though, I dont really have insurance, i just have cards saying I do from awhile ago. The cops put down that I have insurance. I called the woman later to tell her I wanted to settle the ordeal with cash without making a claim to insurance and shes cool with it. So! My question is...Is the BMV or cops going to find out I didn't really have insurance????(I live in Ohio)""
Cheap health insurance?
anyone know of any cheaper health insurance (maybe like $ 50/mo) i am a single student. i know my school provides insurance in case of emergency. but i am looking for something to help cover my prescriptions & doc visits.
""If you move to a higher-cost car insurance state, when does the increase take effect?""
If I move to a new state that has higher car theft and higher minimums, which I imagine would definitely increase my premium, would I have to pay as soon as I told the company of the address change? Or, would the increase only be seen on my next bill (a few months later)? This is for moving from Arizona to Washington, if it matters. Thanks!""
Where can i find a cheap mustang and a good deal on insurance?
im 18 and my insurance is cheap but i dont no how much it will go up if i get a mustang. i live in ohio and need a place near me so i dont have to go far
What is a private jet's insurance price? and maintenance costs? Averagely.?
For school I have to do a business plan. We are creating a fictive private jet renting company in Colombia but i can't find these informations. It is really important as i is part of our financial statements. Thank you very much.
What is the cheapest car to insure for a 17 year old?
me and my Dad would like to know how much car insurance would be for a 17 year old and what would be the cheapest car. Now... I know theres no such thing as cheap car insurance but here's the details... I have already been on the road for a year (moped) I am doing my test in July (I'm not 17 yet but we just want some rough estimates) I will be insured on my dads insurance as a second driver (It's not fraud, its perfectly legal because its an option on most car insurance websites) Thanks so much for the help, George.""
Buying car and insurance without driver id in ohio?
hey...i found a very good car deal and i don't wanna miss this car but i just came to usa and i don't have a ohio driver id...(i got my own country's driver id) i have scheduled my driving test for next week but i want to buy this car this week for sure...can i buy the car from owner without driver id ? and if ican buy the car can i buy insurance for this car without driver id ?
Drive like a girl insurance help?
Im due to take my driving test next month (all goes well) and my parents are VERY keen to get the cheapest insurance quote possible (they are arabs, they will find it.. lol) Anyway I have recently discovered the 'drive like a girl' insurance company and after reading through it decided it looked really good. as I haven't got my full license yet I cant get a quote from them, so for anyone who has insurance with them- could you please give me a price estimate?! I live in a good area just outside of London so im lucky with my quotes. I have an X Reg Ford Ka and most of my quotes have been around 2000 but I have had one at 1600 and another at 1795. Both of those were without telematics box which is why im looking at one now. I cant have one with time restrictions- mainly because I sometimes work until 11 at night and I also care for my sick brother who may need to be driven to the hospital in the middle of the night (would this matter?) Thanks guys for taking the time to read and answer this question.""
Help a 21-year-old choose car insurance?
So I have a 2001 jetta that's being financed. I need full coverage and I have to start looking soon. Anyone havesuggestions on where to get a quote from? What should I expect paying for on a full covered vehicle? By the way, I have a clean record, never been in an accident and this is my first time getting car insurance, or any type of insurance. Thanks in advance...""
I need cheap insurance thats reliable?
In San Diego
Car accident-how much will my insurance premium go up?
I was in a car accident today, driving the speed limit at about 30 miles per hour in a residential neighboorhood, not paying attention and struck the car to the left of me, damaging the driver's door of my car and the other car's passenger door. He was driving his company's truck. I already have an accident on my record from 1/06 that was my fault (not a huge accident, but not a super minor one, no injuries). Today's accident caused no injuries. I can tell my car door and the front bumper will need replacing. I assume that the other car needs the passenger door replaced. My annual insurance premium is $3,240, but last month a traffic ticket just came off my record. My car is a four door 2004 Honda & I am a 42 year old female who lives in Fremont, CA. I'm fearful my monthly car insurance payment will go up a lot! Does anyone know how much it will go up? Thank you so much!""
Home Insurance replacement cost?
Anyone have any idea how insurance companies figure out what it would cost to rebuild an entire house if it burned down or blew away...I live on long island....I would assume it is the square footage multiplied by a cost per foot....any ideas what the actual cost per foot is today????
Auto Insurance In California : how far goes the liability?
I am french and don't know anything about auto insurance in the US. I just received my driver license 2 months ago and a very old bettle (1973, value < 1500$) as first car. I never drive before (even in France), I have a clean record. How work the liability here? Let's say it's not my fault but I crash in a schoolbus and 3 childrens will need medical treatment for the rest of their life because of me. Who will pay for it? And what if it's my fault? [ In France, we have something called civil responsability that will pay for that. It's automatically included in every car insurance. ] I am also browsing the net for cheap but good insurance. I want it cheap because the car is worth nothing. But I want it good because i am a young (no experience) driver. Any tips and links to some websites are welcome. Thank you very much.""
Car insurance for one day - for driver's license test. possible?
So I'm hoping to use my mom's car to take the driver's license test in a few days. I live in the United States. The problem is I'm not insured for her car, but to do so for the full term costs a LOT (I'm 21). And, I'm moving back to school and probably won't drive her car again for a long time. Insurance is necessary to take the test, right? If so, is there any alternative to getting 6-month or whatever coverage?""
""If my mom adds me onto her car insurance, about how much would it go up?""
I'm 17 Shes with GEICO Its a Buick Rendezvous SUV (2004) Our zip is 33312 (South florida, if this helps for those answering that may be in my area) I have a clean record B Average in school""
Can my car insurance company raise my rates if my CA Drivers License was put on hold?
I'm just curious. Can they do that? I was pulled over in 2010 for driving without car insurance or registration and I was given a ticket. I never paid it (I didn't have the money at the time but I just paid it off as of Jan 2013) and I got a notice from the DMV saying my DL was going to be placed on hold (basically suspended) until I paid it then it would be released. At the time I found this out I was trying to insure my new car, and the company told me because of that my rates go up. I've seen my DMV record, it does state that my DL was placed on hold, but it didn't cost me any points. So I still have 0 points on my driving record. Can the charge me more for that? Also no judgement please, I dont want to go into a long story. The ticket from 2010 is a long story and partially caused by a controlling abusive ex. He is now gone, and I am almost finished cleaning up the wreckage he caused, the ticket being one of them.""
Car insurance for 17 year old?
hi im josh and im 17 years old can anyone tell me how to get a cheap car insurance quote from anyone. please help me??
NY resident sport bike motorcycle insurance cost?
i am 18 years old going to be 19 at the end of march, clean driving record and have a motorcycle permit. live in CNY oswego area and i am wondering how much roughly it would cost for me to insure a 600cc crotch rocket. thank you""
Health insurance??? Problems with the system??
Personally, I think america needs to get away from depending on employers to provide health insurance. To many U.S. citizens are going without coverage....even though they have jobs. What should be done??""
How can an 18 year old get dental insurance in the state of texas?
I just turned 18 and i want to get all my insurance started. so in the state of texas, how can i get dental insurance.. i really need to fix my teeth without burning a hole in my pocket.""
""I have asthma and lost my insurance, help?
I live with my family an was fully covered on their MEDICAL. Recently I was put on share of cost and cant afford the deductable but I have asthma and can hardly walk a few blocks ...show more
""What are some type of insurances i can get,if so what company?
because i want some type of insurances in the future but know what kinds there are.
How much is car insurance for a 2009 Benz C300?
I'm 27 years old. I live in the Bronx, New York. I have good credit. TransUnion: 765 Experian: 764 Equifax: 734 I want to financial or lease (I'm not exactly sure what the difference is. Do I still have to get full coverage regardless of which I choose?) a 2009 Benz C300. It's valued at about $30,000. I live in an apartment with my father who has a 2001 Pontiac Montana. He pays about $150-$200 per month in insurance. I tried to find out how much it would cost on Geico and they called me and told me it was gonna be $150 for the first month and $140 for the next seven months. I thought there must have been some mistake because how could it cost the same for a new car and raggedy car? The guy was like, Well, looks like we can get you a great price . Is this a ploy to get me to switch insurance companies and then they'll charge me higher rate after the first year or something? I think they must have thought I already own the car outright and didn't know I was planning on financing it. Or is it because we will have two cars from the same household an we'll get a multi-car discount. I know this was true when my brother had a car on the same policy with my dad and they got a discount, but they lived at separate places. Me and dad live together, so I think they won't even allow me to get insurance. Someone please tell if this is true or not. My friend, who thinks she knows it all, said its a scam and they will charge me alot more as soon as I sign up. But believe me she's just jealous cuz she's high class and I live in the Bronx and she makes way more than me and doesn't have a Benz. So, she is definitely just assuming. If you know for sure let me know you know or that you think that's what will happen. I assumed the insurance would be $400 - $450 per month. Also, if anyone has some idea what the financing per month with credit like mines on a car like this would be, that would also be appreciated. I have never been any serious car accidents, had a DUI or DWI. I hope someone has experience with financing a nice car and insuring, so I can get at least a ball park estimate on how much I will expect to be paying. Thanks for the help!""
""How much do you think my car insurance will be, rough estimate?
im 21 years old. i have 2 speeding tickets on my record both of 11 over in the past year. i live in kansas and i am planning on buying a 1998 dodge viper gts with 490 torque 450 horse power. just curious if someone could give me an idea of what my insurance would be monthly.
How accurate are online auto insurance quotes?
For example, Geico, Progressive, or Esurance? Are they accurate if you are honest about the information? And even though they don't ask for the VIN number?""
How does car insurance work?
I'm looking at getting car insurance but I'm confused how it works i want to pay monthly but u cannot afford to pay the deposit and a month in advance PLEASE HELP! xD
What is cheaper for insurance mustang or charger?
well they would both be 2007. v6 cause my insurance is already high. and what one would you choose i want a mustang but alot of people have them but a charger has a big body
Car accident with no insurance?
I got into a car accident today and totaled my car. the other vehicle just had bumper damage. come to find out my insurance tried to take my payment out my account but were unsuccesfull so they canceled it a month ago. whats gonna happen since i am at fault and no insurance
Will this up my car insurance?
If I buy a normal Volkswagen MKV Golf, and get a new bumper fitted and put some black alloys on it, will it up the insurance by much? I'm not trying to 'chav' it up, I simply want more of an R32/Jetta bumper and grille. I also want to have the interior retrimmed in white leather, how much would this up the insurance by? Thank you :)""
What is the cheapest car insurance place?
Does anyone know a good cheap insurance company for state minium in Tulsa, OK? I pay 150 a month now. i have tried places such as Safe auto, Farmers. etc. All those places are way to high. Im 19, drive a Saturn L300. If that helps with anything. Im looking for something Cheaper than 150. Thanks guys.""
What is a private jet's insurance price? and maintenance costs? Averagely.?
For school I have to do a business plan. We are creating a fictive private jet renting company in Colombia but i can't find these informations. It is really important as i is part of our financial statements. Thank you very much.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-much-average-does-cost-have-16-year-old-student-my-eulah-rosenda-1"
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I am Sorry Chapter 8
The days after Jon and Sansa’s conversations flew past, Tormund was brought it that day and since then the rough around the edges Detective had spent almost everyday locked in Sansa’s hospital room going over every tiny detail of the past eight years.
Every day Rob and Jon would sit outside the room, Rob going through his school reports and Jon finishing off old case files on his laptop. They had commandeered the whole corridor, thankfully Sansa's room was at the end of a corridor, as they had laptop cables and paperwork spread far and wide. They would take it in turns to get coffee and snacks from the hospital cafeteria and Val would bring them lunch whenever she had time.
Arya had left the same day Tormund was brought onto the scene, making the decision to go and collect both Bran and Rickon to bring them back. Bran would be easy he had only gone to Birmingham for a month for a school project, but Rickon would be the challenge. Arya thought he was in the Lake District somewhere while Bran swore last time they had spoken Rickon had been in the highlands near Loch Lomond.
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Sansa liked Tormund Giantsbane, it was as simple as that. She liked his rough northern accent that reminded her of her father and the way he would fill the room with his voice and laughter.
She also like the way he would listen, quietly, with only his pen scratches filling the room. He never asked her to repeat anything or go into further details if he saw her hesitate. And when the tears came, which was less and less as the days passed by, he would just hold her hand rubbing circles on her palm with his calloused hand.
He was funny too, making jokes about the woman he was dating or about his co-workers. He would joke about Jon most of all, those jokes always made Sansa laugh. She was filing them away to repeat to Jon later, to see his reaction.
Five days after Tormund had been listening Sansa changed the subject. Instead of her talk to horror or of her drug hazed observations she asked Tormund a question.
“Can we go outside?”
The question made the Northern Cop raise an eyebrow.
“Outside?”
“I haven’t really been outside in years. I don’t remember what sunshine feels like. Plus no drip anymore.” She said waving her dripless hand in his face. It had been removed earlier that morning.
Tormunds heart broke at the statement, “It's raining today.”
“Good, I forgot what that feels like too.” For the first time since she had woken up from her daze she felt excited, ready to get out of the four walls she had been staring at for god-knows how long.
She pulled the covers back and almost sprung out of bed. The downside of being stuck in a bed for a month is your legs forget how to work, a fact Sansa realised just as she fell to the floor.
Tormund was there almost instantly scooping her up like she was nothing more than a feather and sitting her down in the wheelchair next to her bed.
“Ok Princess let's go outside and get wet.” Breaking the sad look Sansa had about falling over.
The pair pushed their way into the corridor startling of both the boys as they did so. Jon and Rob went to get up but Tormund put out a hand, “Not today boys. This is our day out.”
Rob went to argue but Jon stopped him with a hand to the shoulder and a subtle shake of the head. He then nodded to Tormund and the burly Redhead pushed Sansa away.
The hospital in Bristol, while a stunning older building, did not come with rolling meadows of grass for them to sit upon. Instead they found the coffee shop next door, a cute brunette waitress took their order, while they sat under the not so protected verandah.
Tormund ordered his usual, a long black with plenty of sugar, Sansa on the other hand had forgotten what coffee tasted like. The thought of forgetting her coffee order started to make her hands shake and her head swirl. It use to be such an normal process.
The waitress, a lovely girl with a ‘Hi my names Maisie’ name badge cut off her panic, “What about you try one of our specials, I think a Caramel Double Shot Soy Latte will be perfect for you.”
Tormund thanked her and added two chocolate muffins to the order, Sansa just sat there hands gripping her wheelchair, knuckles going white.
Tormund grabbed one of the clenching hands and engulfed it with his own, “I hate fancy coffee shops, too bloody intimidating.”
Sansa let out a weak laugh and turned back to the detective.
“Thank you for letting me come outside.” The rain was falling quickly, and the cold air felt so good on Sansa’s skin. She had always prefered cold weather to hot.
“Anytime Princess.” He didn’t elaborate or try to make small talk, that wasn’t the kind of man he was. He either had something to say or he had nothing to say.
“Can I ask you something, you can say no if you want?” He nodded his answer and Sansa swallowed the lump in her throat.
“What happened after I disappeared?” The question had be weighing on her mind, she needed to know what had happened to her siblings in the years after she left.
Tormund Giantsbane weighted the question, taking his time to formulate an answer.
“I don’t know all of it, Snow doesn’t talk much about that time, but I can give you to gist of it. What the media said and what I picked up as times gone by.”
“Please.”
The coffees arrived quickly and Tormund took a large mouthful, choking on the heat from the coffee. Sansa delicately picked up the chocolate muffin, tearing it into tiny bite size pieces.
“When you disappeared there was a search. Don’t you ever think there wasn’t. Your siblings scoured the whole of England and Wales for you. But I guess that bloody git had already got his paws on ya. They did telly interviews and radio pleas for anyone to find you. The media covered it with sick fascination. The daughter of the Slain Starks and girlfriend to the murdering bastard Joffrey. You were rather infamous. But time went on with no answers. Rob never really gave up though. He would drop everything every time there was a lead for three years. He flew to fucking Spain twice because there had been ‘sightings’ of you. I don’t know what your sisters or little brothers did. But Snow always worries about the littlest one so I would say they didn't take it well.”
“So they did look for me?”
“Darling Rob and Jon would of searched the globe for you. But life got in the way, Rob had three siblings to raise. And Jon… Jon didn’t take the death of your parents and your disappearance well. I know he had some anger issues, lots of anger issues really. He was lost. So he joined the military four years into your disappearance. He was good there, worked his way up. I don’t know what he did there, Sansa, but when he came back He wasn’t the man I saw on the telly. He’s a bit broken now.”
“Broken like me?”
Tormund half smiled and took a slip of the coffee.
“I don’t think you’re broken Sansa. I think you’re gonna survive us all.”
The two sat and drank their coffees. Sansa savoured the sweet and bitter taste of her coffee, letting the warm liquid flood her tongue. One arm stretched out to feel the wind and rain against her sensitive skin. For a moment she felt normal. Unbroken.
“There you are.” a shiver drove through Sansas spine and into her heart, the voice was almost as sickly sweet as her coffee but in all the possible wrong ways. Her blood stopped flowing and in one second the past weeks melted away and suddenly she was back where she had started.
Turning slowly she took the owner of the voice in, wearing another pinstriped suit, leather shoes and his head slicked back, Petyr Baelish looked every bit like the man of her nightmares.
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