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a steady hand to hold by livhasnolife for neha (arhcivists)
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
01 Jul 2022
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The first time it happens, Jon can easily brush it off.
Is it… expected? No. Normal? Certainly not. But nearly anything is easy to brush off when it happens just once. Even if his heart speeding up at just a brush of contact is odd and unheard of.
So the first time, that's exactly what Jon does.
The second time, and so on, and so on? Not so much.
or: Martin and Jon fall in love at a normal office job, this time.
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- Part 1 of idiots in an office
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03 Jul 2022
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Jon sends the fears far from Earth and flees London, leaving the others to assume the worst. He settles in a small village and opts to live there quietly until he dies, a self-imposed penance. This plan is foiled when the first former Avatar shows up - and Jon realizes that every domain-keeper in the apocalypse still has some faint connection to him.
After a year of being a shoulder to cry on for confused and distraught former Avatars, Jon leads a moderately happy life. He has a flourishing garden, a cat, and some company. All of that comes crashing around his ears (or his head) when a familiar face shows up to his cabin, demanding answers.
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25 Jun 2022
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"The Lonely clings. Jon Knows this. The fog doesn’t waver; once it catches your scent, it will linger as long as it takes."
After safely returning from the Lonely with Martin, Jon is now marked fully by it. He assumes it will be Martin that the Lonely comes back for--instead, it's Jon that it won't let go of.
Obligatory safehouse-fic with a twist on a classic trope. What would happen if Jon was the one hounded by the Lonely after escaping?
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21 Jun 2022
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He sighs. “I’ve got some work to do. Um, good luck with your pens.” A part of him that isn’t distracted by the utterly devastated look on Jon’s face hears the door creak behind him. Jon’s face shrivels into a frown.
“Martin -”
Martin definitely hears it as the lock clicks shut.Or, Jon and Martin get locked in a storage closet sometime in season 4.
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28 May 2022
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broken, bandaged, fixed by onlythemessenger, SparrowFlight246
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
07 Feb 2021
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“I just— I heard a crash after I knocked, so I just tried the door to see if it would open and it— it did, and —you really should lock it at night, you know, it can be dangerous to keep it open behind you like that, even if you're barely conscious when you get home— and I just found you on the floor all grey and passed out with these bloody bandages and you scared the shit out of me, you know that, you—“
“Martin,” Jon says.
“—yeah, okay, what.”
He squints up at him. “Why are you here?”
“Why am I— Jon, I’m here because of you.”
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Martin changes Jon's bandages after the Prentiss attack.
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26 May 2022
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most tender and terrifying place i know by ivelostmyspectacles
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
16 Feb 2021
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“Can I kiss you?” Martin asks softly, and Jon thinks, oh God, yes.
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24 May 2022
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Rewinding The Tapes by a_suspiciously_large_pig (Queenie_D)
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
20 Mar 2021
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As Martin watched the pages burn, he felt his gaze being drawn to those few words that he could still see, unable to look away from them. In particular his eyes seemed drawn to one sentence that hadn't yet begun to blacken and curl;
"I wouldn’t try too hard to stop reading; there’s every likelihood you’ll just hurt yourself"
He was only pulled away from the trance it had him under when he heard the sound of a body collapsing on the floor.
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Martin prevents the end of the world, but not without consequences.Bookmarked by softtrashcan
23 May 2022
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They survive.
They even live happily ever after.
For a time.
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23 May 2022
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Buried My Love in a Shallow Grave by iamcringebutiamfree
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
09 May 2022
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“Look, this thing with Peter… I need to see it through. And that means I need to be…”
“Lonely,” Jon finished for him.
“Yeah.” Martin raised the damp towel to Jon’s forehead. Gentler this time, he began to wipe away the blood and grime. “But if you think no one will care if you get hurt, then you’re wrong.”
Jon lifted his hand as though to hold Martin’s hand in place, then thought better of it and lowered it into his lap. “Right.”
“And if you go back into that coffin, I’m climbing in after you and pulling you back out.”
Jon glanced up, the ghost of a smile playing on his lips. He looked small, and frail, and so, so tired. Martin could feel his carefully-curated numbness slip away as his heart clenched at the sight.
“When was the last time you ate?” he asked. Old habits die hard.
“I-I don’t know. It didn’t matter so much, in the Buried.”
“Well, you’re not in the Buried anymore. C’mon.”
When Jon gets out of the Buried, he and Martin have a talk.
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12 May 2022
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“We both care about Jon,” says Daisy. “And besides, I really do prefer the company. Think of it as a favor for… for a friend of a friend.”
Martin scowls vaguely at the floor, but he doesn’t argue further, and he doesn’t leave. Daisy goes back to her book, hoping she made the right call.
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After being rebuffed, Jon quits alone, and winds up back in a coma. Martin and Daisy keep finding each other at his bedside while they wait for him to wake.
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- Part 1 of the road home
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08 May 2022
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"You… you asked me to–to not die.”
“I did.”
“So. So- I–”
“Won’t?”
Jon looked up at him. God, those eyes.
“I wish I could promise you that.”
In the early hours of August 4th, 2017, Jon and Martin say goodbye.
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07 May 2022
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A series of unplanned sleepovers.
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01 May 2022
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Out of the Wind, In From the Cold by Ostentenacity
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
07 Nov 2020
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There are two bedrooms in the safehouse, and two beds.
For a moment, Jon considers asking to share, but decides against it with a wince. “I really loved you,” Martin had told him. Loved. Past tense. And Martin doesn’t exactly have a lot of choices right now in terms of company; it would be cruel to demand he play at feelings he no longer has just to make Jon happy.
(For a moment, Martin considers asking to share. But he dismisses the idea with a shake of his head. Jon has already done so much for him. Martin isn’t about to ask for more, especially not when it’s something he doesn’t really need. He has his right mind back, and he has Jon’s friendship. That should be enough for him. It’ll have to be.)
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Jon thinks that Martin doesn’t love him. Martin thinks that Jon doesn’t love him. They do not, of course, discuss this. Unrequited love is already awkward enough, right? No need to dwell on it.
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29 Apr 2022
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The Lonely is not cold enough to kill; not cold enough to even hurt really. It’s the cold of an empty office in summer when the air con is turned up, staring at the sunshine through thick panes of glass. Still, Martin Blackwood can’t seem to feel warm even hours after leaving it.
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26 Apr 2022
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I don't wanna run, just overwhelm me by acetheticallyy (judesstfrancis)
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
11 Nov 2019
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The look in Martin's eyes softens then, even as a flush rises to his cheeks, burning the tips of his ears a startling shade of red. "Wasn't sure if you remembered that," he says.
It's not an answer, not a proper one, but Jon isn't so sure he has it in him to wait for a proper one, anyway.
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26 Apr 2022
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So. Martin isn't expecting anything to happen. But then, one day, something...does happen. It happens when Martin is passing Jon in the hall, and stops to ask how he’s doing, because Jon always looks a little bit like hell these days, and it makes Martin feel like he has to do something, and useless small talk is pretty much all he can do, so that’s what he does. And instead of grunting or shrugging or mumbling something dismissive, Jon replies, with perfect, involuntary clarity, "Every part of me aches, and I would just about kill to have someone rub my shoulders right now."
There's a positively deafening silence as they both come to grips with this unprecedented turn of events. Then they both start talking at once.
"Ah," says Jon.
"Wow," says Martin, at the same time.
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26 Apr 2022
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Holding the world in my arms by iamcringebutiamfree
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
29 Nov 2021
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Jon yawns from his spot on the couch, stretches his arms over his head, and then falls into Martin’s lap.
“God, I’m exhausted. I don’t think I’ll make it into bed tonight; I barely have the energy to braid my hair.”
I could braid it for you . It’s the sort of thought that used to flash across Martin’s mind occasionally only to be immediately quashed, back when he was still pining after Jon with a fondness he never hoped would be reciprocated. Now, though, there’s nothing stopping him from making the offer out loud, so he does.
“Oh.” Jon blinks up at him. “Could you?”
Martin braids Jon's hair. That's it, that's the fic.
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- Part 2 of Never-Ending Scottish Honeymoon
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25 Apr 2022
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“You said – you said we were going home,” Martin says softly.
“I did,” says Jon, and is grateful that Martin doesn’t comment on him calling the Archives home. “I – I don’t really know where to go. I, uh, I don’t have a flat anymore, I don’t think. We could find a hotel?”
“Let’s go to my place,” says Martin. His hand squeezes Jon’s, more gently than before. Most importantly, Jon notes, he doesn’t let go.
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Jon and Martin go home for a little while.
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- Part 1 of This Must Be The Place
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18 Apr 2022
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“Fine,” Jon says, and he tries to ignore the sulky tone of his voice, “fine. What do you suggest?”
Martin pauses, like he’d not expected Jon to give in so easily. Jon’s never been particularly agreeable, but he still feels vaguely offended by the blatant surprise. “W-we,” Martin stammers, clears his throat, continues on much more confidently, “we go in together.”
Or: it takes close quarters and a full 24 hours to finally get them on the same page.
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18 Apr 2022
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"He stares at the words carved into its surface, DO NOT OPEN, and curls his fingernails into his palms. He can’t. It’s too dangerous. Not until he understands how to get Daisy out of there. To get himself out of there. He needs to know.
Except...doesn’t he, already?"
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Jon needs an anchor, and he knows who it is. Of course he does.
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15 Apr 2022