#jonni graves

[nylongenesis]

Here’s the thing about Timothy stoker

here it is the tim post

People who say tim is an asshole are partially correct.

People who say tim is ‘toxic’ are INCORRECT.

I am very strongly about this because. listen to me. okay.

SPOILERS UP TO TMA SEASON 3 AHEAD

Imagine BEING timothy stoker. After whats probaboy the secondmost traumatizing experience of your life in which you almost die if not by the worms then by the MEDICAL EMERGENCY (respiratory acidosis is a medical emergency :3) your body was put into- plagued with nightmares and the pain of your body being covered in holes and your medical issues, you come back to the archives expecting to see your best friend, That will make it all better. It’ll be so worth it once you can see her again.

And then she acts so distant. And you dont know why.

And you have just lost your friendship. The one that’s kept you going this whole time. The one you were starting to believe might have been unbreakable. And you Don’t. Know. Why.

Eventually after many failed attempts to reconnect, you resign yourself to the fact that she just got tired of you. That you were right this whole time. That she just pitied you. You still don’t know what you did wrong and it’s eating you alive, but she won’t tell you, so you have to settle with pretending to be glad that she’s at least alive, All while your boss is literally going insane and STALKING YOU???

Only to find out after a YEAR of believing you were just unlovable that this person? The person youve been trying to ‘reconnect’ with? That isnt your best friend, Your best friend dies and you never noticed. How could you not notice? But when you see the real picture of her she feels like a stranger and you realize you have no fucking escape from your horrible, unforgivable sin of forgetting your friend. Because no matter what you do, trying to look back at your memories, that *thing* is there instead. You can’t even enjoy your memories before she died.

So you sit there, alone and afraid. Angry, grieving, everything else. What are you supposed to do but make the thing that has haunted you since the disappearance of your Brother feel the kind of pain it is making you feel?

Tim isn’t toxic. Hell I wouldn’t even say he’s that much of an asshole.

He’s a hurt child.

Mentally, especially in season three, he’s having the equivalent of a child’s breakdown. The kind they have when they don’t know how to express the emotions they’re feeling. These emotions- this grief, this anger, this pain- it’s so big, it’s so much, and he feels so small, so incapable and weak, and he cannot properly handle it. He cannot cope. Especially since he’s still somewhat trapped in who he was when his brother was taken.

Now im not saying the way he went about this is at all great, but yknow. Everyone forgives reactions to trauma until they’re personally inconvenient or ugly.

Tim lost everything, and honestly i would be pretty damn similar if I was in his position! That’s DEVASTATING.

In the end, there’s such a horrible tragedy to his entire character that goes almost entirely unnoticed unless you’re like me and you’re insane and overanalyze someone based on one word in an extra audio thats not in the podcast.

Anyways, that’s why I love Tim.

#tma #tma podcast #tma spoilers #the magnus archives #timothy stoker #timsasha #if you squint #He makes me ill #Jonny you absolute madman stop writing so well #every time I think abt tma i just get really upset #this is why the fandom is all shitposts #long post #character analysis #This whole thing stemmed from the audio of tim at sashas grave #specifically the part where he goes #‘I just thought you had finally gotten tired of me or something’ #That ‘finally’ is EVERYTHING. you dont understand. #It says SO MUCH about him and his true self in ONE WORD #Tim is a guy who copes w his horrific trauma and fear of vulnerability by making jokes and it shows. #I miss him.

[theclownfromdowntown]

If I had a nickel for every time I enjoyed something that included a deceitful, antagonistic, non-corporeal woman named Helen who runs a hotel designed to trap people inside, I’d have two nickels.

Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice!

(Helen Distortion art by @mallowemery )

#can’t believe Jonny Sims copied Nintendo’s homework smh #helen distortion #hellen gravely #the magnus archives #luigi’s mansion 3 #luigi’s mansion #tma #smb #the exact intersection of my interests

[sahonithereadwolf]

Siyo! My name is Sahoni. I'm an indigenous and queer game designer and writer and my birthday is next month! I'd love to grab a couple things for myself so please consider checking out my shop below! 🎲 bramblewolfgames.itch.io 📚

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I'm currently developing Protect The Sacred, an anticolonial two-fisted pulp TTRPG in the style of Indiana Jones, Hellboy, or Jonny Quest where adventurers with folkloric powers work to protect, preserve, and reclaim a world of magic, monsters, and mystical artifacts on behalf of and on the terms of the peoples they belong to (and which they are often a part of). TLDR: Basically I made an rpg where a werewolf librarian can fight a robot eyeball tank, a mummy, and/or a grave robber selling human remains to private collectors then go do karaoke with a cynical demigod, the worlds best baker, a coffee-addicted wizard, and a person with a djinn in a ring.

#indie ttrpg #ttrpg #game design #protect the sacred rpg #exceptionals #x-men #please it's my birthday soon and I want to get yakuza 8 and tacos

[bluebellofbakerstreet]

Number 50 in a series

Others in this series: Basil Rathbone (Fox), Martin Freeman,  Jude Law,  Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams,  Jonny Lee Miller, Vinette Robinson, Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Andrew Scott, Nigel Bruce (Fox), Robert Downey, Jr., Jon Michael Hill, Two Violets, Mark Gatiss, Basil Rathbone (Universal), Nigel Bruce (Universal), Rupert Graves, Evelyn Ankers, Louise Brealey, Lucy Liu, Edward Hardwicke, Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Una Stubbs, Gayle Hunnicut, Hugh Laurie. Robert Sean Leonard, Yasmine Akram, Ronald Howard, Martin Freeman (TAB), Benedict Cumberbatch (TAB), Howard Marion-Crawford, Archie Duncan/Richard Larke, Peter Cushing, Nigel Stock, William Gillette, Edward Fielding/Burford Hampden, Kay Fielding, Rosalie Williams, Andrei Panin, Ingeborga Dapkunayte, Igor Petrenko, Rosalyn Landor, Gareth David-Lloyd, Ben Syder, Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Jared Harris, George Zucco/Ida Lupino

@randomnessoffiction

#myart #miss sherlock #yuko takeuchi #mypaperdolls #paper dolls

[jey-chan]

I have the idea of some rogerd realising for accident that danny is baby and so far i have this ideas:

Danny: So! Before you start with all your rant ablut making me your new hosedecore... i need to ask you someting prtety important, and since you are the frist ghost to show uo today you got tho answer it. I should prefer either Boxy or Lunch Lady but what can you do? Anyway... what does a ghost need to do for theyr Dead Aniversary?

Skuller just blue scren at that last sentence: ... what we do on our deadday?

Danny: yup! i need to be prepared! Sams thinks i could relive my half dead and having that on my paren- The fenton house. Tuker thunks i need to go an shove myself a grave, and Jazz give him that eye rol, but dosent know if its aprpopiated to buy a cake or not

Skuller:.... what... why are you on the ghost mad sentcies lab?

Danny: thats my parents house? And i died there? Like i died opening the portal but-

Skuller: the portal? Like the ghost portal that had ben opened for like 6 monts a least? You died opening the fuking portal on your mad parents basement? The portal that HAD BEN OPEN FOR LEST THAN 6 MONTS PORTAL‽ THAT PORTAL‽

Danny: yup! Kusco! You are doing great!

Sudenly all those extrange things for the ghos punk make sence.

The kid was born as a Gate Protector Spirit. A New Hera Halfa.

HE HAD GONE AFTER A FUKING BABY ACIENT!

Skull: i am not longer going to hunt you. I am going to teach you all you need to know about Ghost culture!

.-.-.-..☆

Lunch laddy just coming to chek on the meny and overhear that the Phantom team where discuting over if they should make a party for Dannys 1st daydead or if they should ask a ghost if they need to prepare someting for it.

Lunch lady: sweetpays... what do you mean Phantom frist deyday?

Tuker: oh yea, Danny is almost 6 monts away of turning a 1 year old halfa, we dont know if its safe for him to stay at his deadplace or not.

.-.-.-.-.

Jonny going to frosbithe for a doctor apointment and hearing the yeti told the ghost kid that he need his 6mts old ghost shot and that he should surrond himself of his obsesion from his 1st deadday.

Jonny and shadow: 0.0 is a baby‽

.-.-.-.-

Jhon Constantine: .... You ARE A BABY‽

#dpxdc #what to do a series of this but idk how to english #sam tuker and danny singlehandled traumatising the ghost comunity #the rouges become overprotective of theyr litle gate guardian

[mechs-incorrect-quotes]

Tim: When I die I want Jonny to lower me into my grave so he can let me down one last time.

#the mechanisms #the mechs #mechs-incorrect-quotes #jonny d'ville #gunpowder tim #he means this in a love way #stupid idiot men #i love spurder (space murder)

[hotchsofficialwifey]

Heyo, I'm about as new to requests as you are to writing fanfictions, so please also bear with me if I do this wrong xD Also, just write and don't say sorry, after all we should be thanking you for putting your content out there :3 Thanks for doing this! Looking forward to your stories :-) So for the prompts:

- Jonathan Crane date with scientist!reader (I'd be really interested in something completely different from Crane's interests, like computer science/math). Maybe they know each other from university and get in touch again when he works at Arkham and appears on the news or sth.

- Neil Lewis smut where the reader crushes a little too much on a character in a movie (👀) and Neil gets jealous.

- Jonathan Crane fluff/smut where the reader has a nightmare and Crane tries to comfort them while also being turned on by the fear? xD

hi! thanks so much for your request, sorry it took me so long to get to it. I'll try to do all of your requests but i'll start with the last one. thanks again, hope you enjoy!

summary: your sleeping over at your boyfriend Jonathan's house when you have a terrible nightmare. thankfully, he's there to help.

pairing: jonathan crane x fem!reader

warnings: light smut (jonathan's horny but nothing really happens, more smut to come later ;) ), fluff, descriptions of a bad dream (nothing too scary, dw), use of fear toxin, hurt/comfort,

You're sitting on a field, eating ice cream on a sunny day, and the drizzling rain doesn't deter you from enjoying your summer afternoon. The world is bright, fun, colorful, and at ease.

But it all passes as soon as it came. The drizzling rain turns into booming thunder, and it pours and pours like buckets. You run into a nearby store, soaking wet and praying for a safe place to wait out the storm. The sky is a nauseating shade of grey, you notice once in the safety of the store. Then, you see it. A shadow lurking in the walls with red piercing eyes. Your breath catches in your throat as you inch away from it.

It, however, lunges towards you, and initiates a chase. You're running through the pouring rain, heart pounding and screaming for help, but the world is empty. Silent. Under different circumstances, maybe even peaceful. You run faster and harder, wailing and begging for help, but when you turn around...it's gone! You sigh in relief, but hide behind a tree for safe-keeping. You wait a few moments, but the coast seems clear. As soon as you begin to walk back to the store, your snatched by a shadowy claw wrapped around your neck.

You wake with a jolt, gasping as your eyes shoot open. It was a dream, you think. Just a dream.

"You okay?" A gravely, half-asleep voice asks. You turn to see Jonathan's soft brown eyes, and your heart slows at the sight of him.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine." You say, still slightly breathless. But upon remembering the dream, tears resurface in your eyes. " I just had a really fucked up dream." You say with a quivering voice.

"Oh, baby." Jonathan coos, wrapping his arms around you. "It's okay..." He murmurs. His voice is sweet as honey, but his mind is far from it. The tightening in his pants only grows as tears begin to stream down your face and land on his white shirt. He shifts uncomfortably, hoping you don't notice how flustered he is as his hand rubs your back carefully.

"Jonny?" Your sweet voice calls. "You okay?"

He nods quickly, trying to play it cool.

"Yeah..." he smiles. "Yeah, I'm fine. Let's just go back to sleep, sweetheart..." As you both lay back down, he quickly hides the can of fear toxin he used on you.

a/n: yay, first fic on here!! not my best work, but i wanted to write a little something because i feel like I kept y'all waiting for too long lol. hope this was okay, much more to come soon!

#cillian murphy #cillian murphy smut #cillian murphy x reader #fanfic #jonathan crane #Jonathan crane fluff #light smut #hurt/comfort #nightmares #dc universe #the scarecrow #scarecrow #cillian murphy fluff

[witchinatree]

magnus protocol episode 12 recap

had a really bad/stressful day so it's time to unwind with my favorite. a horror podcast.

every employee of the OIAR drinks coffee except celia who drinks tea... interesting.. wonder if i know any other people who drink tea...

DID SAM JUST ASK CELIA ON A DATE? WAIT ACTUALLY? REALLY? this is kind of sad for alice but also she has gwen if u think about it. OH NO ALICE WAS RIGHT THERE OH NO i might cry for her

"you know it's rude to have absolutely no GAME" "it's been years but you still ask people out like a baby foal" humor is alice's coping mechanism and i LOVE her so much

"i think i'm done with the magnus institute" sam, based on how long this podcast has to go, i don't believe you

MAHTIN!!!!! oh shit yeah the statement was mascot horror again wasn't it???? it's in the episode description followed by "bonzo" so i think i know what happened

jack's? wasn't the thing that celia had happen to her last episode have something to do with "jack" ?

MR BONZO'S ON HIS WAY HELP ME

..uh oh.. who are these guys? like they're the ones gwen delivered the bonzo info to right? baz???

yeah no this is the worst thing that has happened absolutely not i would be running and screaming with tears i would be so gone no career is worth it

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO SLEEP AFTER THIS?? IT'S 11 PM??? i fear i have made a grave error

GAGGED GAGGED NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO HOW DID MR BONZO GET GROSSER HOW DID MR BONZO GET GROSSER

alex newall and jonny sims came armed to the war on monsterfuckers holy shit.

his teeth really weren't soft huh

GWEN??? HAD TO SIT THROUGH THAT??? GWEN HONEY LOVE I'M SO SORRY

gwen opening up to alice in the same episode as sam asking celia on a date oh they're so so so so so so i'm gonna cry

I THOUGHT ALICE WAS BEING SERIOUS I GASPED. I GASPED.

this one was soooooo sooooo interesting i do not feel well

#screaming screaming screaming #feeling ill after that one queens #monsterfuckers how are you guys feeling after that one #the magnus protocol #tmagp #magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #tmagp 12 #fen blogs tmagp #pls ignore me saying rewind instead of unwind if you saw that it was not real

[v0id000]

Soap keeping the skull Balaclava he got when they fought graves and stores in his side table from his bed and sometimes when he feels like everything is getting down he takes the balaclava in his hands and remember how well he and his team did in such a chaotic situation he feels a bit save.

Ghost sneaking in one of his paare of skeleton gloves so Jonny has something to Rember that he will always be there for him , he is just unable to say it to him so he try to show him this through this gift

#ghost call of duty #ghost mw2 #headcanon #drabble #ghostsoap #john soap mactavish #simon ghost riley #soapghost #ghost x soap #soap mw2

[franzis-frantic-thoughts]

thanks for the updates from Maddie and Twitter! I can’t believe whats going on. The relaunch of Magnus in combination with stopping so many cool ongoing shows is so weird

You are very welcome! I actually revived my Twitter account to be able to check regularly for new posts, either from Maddy or others. There doesn’t seem to have been anything new in a few hours now, even if I personally missed it, I’d have heard about it via one of the multiple discords I’m on.

Yes, RQ has made incredibly strange decisions this past year (or even beyond that) which leave me as a fan - and highest tier Noble - incredibly frustrated.

When they shut the discord down, they said they’d reevaluate six months later. RQO recently “celebrated” its first death day. Personally, I don’t want RQO back. But I would have liked to have that promised reevaluation.

The reason the discord had to be shut down can apparently also be traced back to shit communication between RQ and the team of volunteer and unpaid mods.

When Chapter&Multiverse, Trice Forgotten, and Cry Havoc (Ask Questions Later) were announced in late 2021, they were projected to air within the first half of 2022. Instead, only C&M aired “on time”, Trice has a change in director and was delayed until summer, and Cry Havoc has now been pushed back until 2023. It’s great that they don’t want to burn out their cast and crew, but they’ve also been releasing Enthusigasm episodes twice a week and C&M main campaign and specials in parallel earlier this year. Clearly, someone didn’t think their schedule through properly.

Instead of making sure their new shows are taking off, they instead drag TMA’s corpse out of its grave. I love Magnus as much as the next person, it was an incredible show. Writing, acting, soundscaping… but the way RQ keeps pushing it into the limelight and down our throats to the detriment of their other shows (formerly only RQG and STL, but now even more shockingly also new shows like C&M and Trice), has fostered a real resentment towards TMA in me and others.

When the transcripts were put out, after literal years of delay, they were - and still are - full of errors, inconsistent, or incomplete. There have been no responses to feedback given via the appropriate feedback form, there have been no responses to emails, and there have been little to no corrections made to the transcripts, whether for old shows or new ones. Transcripts are Accessibility tools and should fulfil certain standards. Apart from that, the quality of these transcripts offends me on a professional level. RQ has referred to an agency multiple times in their updates. That agency clearly didn’t work to professional standards and RQ didn’t have any quality assurance process internally either. What an utter waste of (my and other patreons’) money.

Some of the TMA transcripts were apparently taken down this week for maintenance, which was ridiculous timing that made people think it was related to the ARG. Again: shit communication.

They’ve lost so many great people in the last two years: Auto and all the mods, Bryn, Mike, now Maddy. I didn’t listen to RQ podcasts, because they were RQ podcasts. I listened to them, because I enjoyed the content and creators. If the creators leave RQ, I’ll follow them to their next endeavours. Go check out @re-dracula for Karim, Jonny, Beth, Alasdair, Sasha, and Ben; @thekilda for Alasdair, Ben and Sasha; @faustiannonsense for Alasdair, Ben, Tim, and Jonny. I hear Mike is in Tiny Terrors. Sasha and Jonny create TTRPGs. Jonny just published his second book. Also check out everyone’s streams (I particularly enjoy Bryn and Auto struggling to solve puzzles together) and individual patreons and kofis.

Sorry this reply turned into a rant. I’m just fed up at the moment. I’ll go to bed and probably feel better in the morning.

#franzis thoughts #rusty quill #maddy searle #rqg #tma #stl #chapter and multiverse #trice forgotten #Faustian nonsense #super suits #the secret of st kilda #re: dracula #tiny terrors

[random-trash-animal]

my family is watching outlander right now. I have brainworms.

I'm not a good writer, but i might have to draw this.

OUTLANDER GHOSTSOAP AU

Jonny as Jaime and Simon as Claire... World War One medic vet Simon, goes to scotland with his wife that isnt working out to try to clear his head. Ends up timetravelling with the stones and sees the prettiest scotsmans he's ever seen.

I don't think they'd meet price and gaz till they go to the colonies... graves would definitely be that one guy who leads the outlaw band. this is lile way later seasons tho

#ghostsoap #ghostsoap au #this is 4 am thoughts dont mind me #i just think it be fun. i also like outlander as like #surface level bc i havent watched as much as my parents #outlander COD au #blurbs #ghostsoap au ideas

[almaprincess66]

MAG 68 The Tale of a Field Hospital

So we know this episode, right? The wierd book with the fanboy reporting.

First I love him! He is so fun! Magnus institue fanboy. Like I know it's the supernatural and there are history nerds and true crime fans existing but would a guy like Joseph Russo exist in real life?

He was so adorble. Finding a potencial first edition of a book and not giving it to a museum or private collector but going to the Magnus Institute of all places!

About the statement, I liked how a bit it mentioned the Slaughter with it's pipes, digging a grave to the dead. If that what it was.

Now enough about the statement because we know how much Jonny liked writing it.

What I want to talk about is my absolute dissapointment. So he mentions that there was a huge document leak in 1999. Now I first connected it with the woman's statement from MAG 60 Observer Effect. You know, the woman who stole the filing paper truck that went to the Magnus Institute.

But that happened in 1984 wich was years before the document leak.

So that was a detail I remembered incorrectly. And it makes me sad. Would have been fun if the two were connected.

Also tried to connect the document leak up with The Magnus Protocol, but the Archives of that version burned down in 1991. And also a lot of stuff I probably missed cus I didn't do the ARG.

#tma #the magnus archives #the magnus archives pod #tma s2 #tma s2 spoilers #mag 60 #mag 68 #the magnus institute #theory #im sad now #i got it wrong

[ducklingducky]

of that colossal wreck ep 7 thoughts :

it was an alright ending! open to interpretation thats fun!

there was a lot that wasn't answered that could have been explained better (e.g what the fuck is up with the whistlers and what happened to the others that haven't woken up yet,,, bc there's meant to be like millions of them right? and only hundreds of graves)

but also mira and luna!!!!!!!!! my little blorbos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anya staying on the station, yeah i get that i mean she's lived there her whole life, she's used to it. but i do get the feeling she's gonna be like that skeleton in the grave all curled up at some point, i don't think anymore are going to wake up if only the 5 of them woke up a month ago tbh.

also what is it with jonny and ending narratives with "Good Luck" (the bifrost incident, tma and now this) lmao

very excited to hear the other neon inkwell podcasts!!!!!

#of that colossal wreck #neon inkwell #rusty quill

[bluebellofbakerstreet]

Number 51 in a series

Others in this series: Basil Rathbone (Fox), Martin Freeman,  Jude Law,  Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams,  Jonny Lee Miller, Vinette Robinson, Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Andrew Scott, Nigel Bruce (Fox), Robert Downey, Jr., Jon Michael Hill, Two Violets, Mark Gatiss, Basil Rathbone (Universal), Nigel Bruce (Universal), Rupert Graves, Evelyn Ankers, Louise Brealey, Lucy Liu, Edward Hardwicke, Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Una Stubbs, Gayle Hunnicut, Hugh Laurie. Robert Sean Leonard, Yasmine Akram, Ronald Howard, Martin Freeman (TAB), Benedict Cumberbatch (TAB), Howard Marion-Crawford, Archie Duncan/Richard Larke, Peter Cushing, Nigel Stock, William Gillette, Edward Fielding/Burford Hampden, Kay Fielding, Rosalie Williams, Andrei Panin, Ingeborga Dapkunayte, Igor Petrenko, Rosalyn Landor, Gareth David-Lloyd, Ben Syder, Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Jared Harris, George Zucco/Ida Lupino. Yuko Takeuchi

@randomnessoffiction

#miss sherlock #shihori kanjiya #myart #mypaperdolls

[gunpowderdtim]

Narratomancy

You are the author of your own destiny, just as your destiny is the author of you. You are part of a story, you are the story, and you can take the story by the throat and try and kill it but IT IS STRONGER and yet you TRY ANYWAY. There are a million other versions of you walking stumbling crawling down this path this narrative leading towards the grave you will one day fill. This time you will be victorious. You will take the narrative and you will shatter it. You will win. And of course the story is around you and you are the story and the story always wins in the end. After all its a tale to be told. So instead you bend it to you, you are galahad tanking bullets and you are Arthur watching an insane man die. (And you are Jonny shooting yourself between the eyes and knowing you'll wake up again when things are less boring, please let me enjoy the quiet for now)

And the story is endless and the story is loops and the story is tred deeper and deeper and the story is told. What's funny. What's best. What's most pleasing. Marius has a violin. When observed, the nanobots are visible - someone needs to do the worldbuilding around here - but whose to say they are still there when not being looked at? This is a story and whats best to happen will happen. Is it funny? Will it make an audience laugh? Does it make sence? Is it another step towards the ENDING?

Death to the Mechanisms. The Mechanisms to the Death. A final trick of the creator? The bifrost corrupting them? Such things are trivial to the fact is they are Ending - and an ending doesn't always need am awsner when it's a story to itself - and so they ended.

#narratomancy #NONE OF YOU UNDERSTAND ME....

[sattlersquarry]

Hi! Can you do the prompt of: "patching them up" with Jonathan Byers, please.

Absolutely, anon! Happy Valentine's Day and thank you for the request! I've never actually written for Jonathan before, so this was a nice change of pace!

This is the final request for my Valentine's/500 follower event! I may open requests generally in the future, we'll see. 👀

Word Count: ~0.9k. Jonathan Byers x Reader, this takes place in Season 4. tw for mentions of guns/violence, bleeding, and language.

Jonathan tries not to show it, but he’s mad. 

Not at you. You hadn’t done anything, except come by the same day evil soldiers shot up the house. He’s mad at himself.

After him and Nancy’s amicable breakup, Jonathan wanted to keep his head down and not get involved with somebody new. But then he met you. 

And today, you’d gotten hurt because of him.   

“Is it still bleeding?” Jonathan says, voice and hands shaking as he digs through the glovebox of Argyle’s van. He’s searching for first-aid supplies, but all he’s found so far is weed paraphernalia and coupons for free cheesy bread with any pizza order $30 or more. 

You gingerly lift a hand off your hip. You wince and nod. 

“This is gonna leave a scar,” you grumble. “Right before swimsuit season, too. Just my luck.” 

Earlier that day, you visited the Byers’ house to check on your boyfriend Jonathan. He pulled you past some sketchy-looking government goons and quietly explained that he, his brother Will, and their friend Mike were going to break out of their “house arrest” to find his sister, Jane. You were very confused, but Jonathan refused to give more details. He ushered you toward the door, thanked you for coming by, and assured you everything was fine.

Two seconds later, an agent got shot in the abdomen by an evil soldier. Chaos ensued.

Another agent got shot, and Jonathan led your group out to Argyle’s waiting van. Hopped up on the adrenaline from getting shot at and seeing a man die in front of you, you didn’t even realize a bullet had grazed your side until you were halfway to the junkyard.

“You still with me?”

You snap your attention back to Jonathan. While you had been replaying the events of the day in your head, Jonathan had moved to sit next to you in the backseat. He now holds a first-aid kit. His face is peaked, brow furrowed and lips pulled in a tight, thin line. 

“I’m here,” you say weakly. 

“Roll your shirt up,” Jonathan says. You oblige. He pops open the kit and groans. 

“Geez, Argyle,” Jonathan grumbles.

The kit is barebones. It’s empty besides some alcohol wipes, Spider-Man bandaids, and a sticky note that says Argyle, don’t forget to buy more medicine shit! Peace, Argyle. 

“This will sting,” Jonathan says. “I’m sorry.”

You huff out a laugh. 

“Don’t apologize,” you say. “You’re not the one who shot at me, Jonny.” 

Jonathan used to hate the nickname Jonny. When you say it, it’s his favorite word. 

You wince and squirm as he dabs at the wound with the alcohol wipes. Jonathan mumbles out more apologies, eyes flicking from the bloodied mess on your hip to the pained look on your face.

“It’s fine, Jonny.”

You try not to think about the pain. You focus on watching Will, Mike, and Argyle through the open van doors. They dig a grave for the agent that got killed. You try not to remember how his face looked as he died. 

Once the wound is sufficiently cleaned, Jonathan considers the Spider-Man bandaids before eyeing an extra Surfer Boy Pizza shirt. He begins ripping the fabric into ribbons.

“Lift your arms, okay?” Jonathan says.

You do, and he wraps the garish yellow fabric around your abdomen. He ties it, tight enough to staunch the bleeding. 

“Good as new,” you say with a weak smile, pulling your shirt back down. 

Jonathan doesn’t return the gesture. He looks at his shaky, bloodstained hands, unable to look you in the eye. 

“I’m sorry,” he croaks. He clears his throat and, louder, adds, “This is all my fault.”

“What?” you say. “No. It isn’t.”

“Yes, it is!” he says. He runs a hand through his hair. “You’re hurt because you came to check on me.” 

“I’m hurt because I came to your house at a bad time,” you correct. You gently place a hand on his cheek. He leans into the touch and closes his eyes. “It’s not your fault, Jonny.” 

You’re too good, and Jonathan doesn’t deserve you. He doesn’t want to drag you into his shit, but it’s too late for that now.

“I wish we could take you back home,” Jonathan says, “but it’s not safe. Those soldier guys are definitely looking for us, and as much as I want to support the Surfer Boy lifestyle, we’re not exactly inconspicuous in this van.”

“The yellow paint must be visible from space,” you say. “Airports should use these bad boys to land planes.” 

Despite the circumstances, Jonathan laughs. You always know how to make him laugh.

“You aren’t wrong,” he says, smiling for the first time since the shootout. It’s small, but it’s something, and it ebbs away some of the pain in your side. 

It fades, and he sucks in a shuddery breath. You can tell he’s gearing up for something big. You reach for his hand and intertwine your fingers together. 

“Listen, I really like you, and I really like being your boyfriend. But I haven’t been honest about my family and my past…”

And so he tells you everything. It’s a strange story, but you listen intently without interruptions.

When Jonathan gets to the end of the story—explaining that they have no clue where Jane/El is being held—you squeeze his hand for reassurance.

“We’ll find her,” you say. “We’ll all work together, and we’ll bring her home.” 

Your tenacity, your willingness to help despite the danger, the way you’re looking at him like you truly see him—it floods Jonathan with a warmth he hasn’t felt in a while. He leans in to kiss you, until—

“Uh, brochachos? Do either of you have a pen? This one doesn’t work.” 

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