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   I Wasn't There for You by 3jelly_beanss

   Fandoms: System of a Down (Band)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   30 Jun 2025

   Tags

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   • Daron Malakian/Serj Tankian
   • Daron Malakian & Serj Tankian
   • Shavo Odadjian/Serj Tankian
   • Serj Tankian
   • Daron Malakian
   • Shavo Odadjian
   • John Dolmayan
   • Angst
   • Grumpy Old Men
   • First Kiss
   • Old man yaoi
   • Toxic Yaoi
   • doomed yaoi
   • Dom/sub Undertones
   • sub serj tankian
   • Kind Of
   • Unresolved Tension
   • Light Dry Humping
   • Not Beta Read
   • My First Work in This Fandom
   • help idk what im doing
   • Alternate Universe
   • Streamline is my fav song so i had to include it
   • First Time Blow Jobs
   • Scent Kink
   • Bottom Serj Tankian
   • Possibly Unrequited Love
   • Smoking
   • weed specifically lol
   • Love Triangles
   • Homoeroticism

   Summary

   Serj had always dreaded rehearsals. Even at 57, he worried about the impending show. Especially at 57.
   System shows were so much pressure. He fretted endlessly over the expectations. The crowd wanted Serj from the recordings, Serj from 1998, immortalized forever in their minds by their smartphones.
   He was a very different man now. No more coked out escapades, no more jumping around like a maniac onstage.
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   Serj and Daron get into a fight at a System rehearsal, and things get weird really quick.
   Takes place sometime around present day.

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   English

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