Evil!Metis AU (For Day 7, Chains, of #gayblackquillweek, Blackbright) part 1: Ever since the day Simon killed Metis to save Athena and hid the body, he is weighed down by the chain of guilt of killing and covering up the crime and the chain of despair of having no future beyond covering up the death of Metis because he thinks no one would love a murderer like him once the truth is out. However whenever Fulbright shows him love, it lessens the weight of chains Simon carries.
Evil!Metis AU (For Day7, Chains, of #gayblackquillweek, Blackbright) part 2: Three kisses, the veryfirst kiss being the aftermath of Turnabout Academy lessening the chain ofdespair, the second being the last kiss before Simon goes to jail lessening thechain of guilt, and the last being the first kiss after Simon serves hissentence and finally free of all/most of his chains, literal and metaphoricalbecause of Fulbright’s (as well as Athena’s and Aura’s platonic) love andsupport.
First of all, I am so sorry that it took me so long to getto this. I wasn’t doing so great andeverything and then I wasn’t sure what I wanted to say ./sigh. Please forgive me, anon!
Also I love this; Simonand chains is just so good, in atragic and angsty kind of way (aka, my fucking life blood lbr).
I imagine that it takeshim a while to be okay; he knows that what he did was wrong, and wants to turnaway from Bobby and Aura and Athena because he doesn’t deserve their love. Atleast, that is what he thinks. While hisactions were to save Athena, he still murderedhis mentor. And he lied about it foryears and years and even tried to pin the blame on someone else. There was no escaping that truth.
He sees chains in hisnightmares often, dragging him down underneath water and drowning him. When he was younger, he would try to breakfree of them, to try and get air and keep himself from suffocating but as the yearswent on, his dream self would stop resisting and just accept his fate. He deserved it, didn’t he? More and more chains and weights were addedon as more time passed.
But then Fulbrightcontinued to love him. With eachcompliment or smile or kiss or anything,Simon felt conflicted. Before the truthcame to light, the chains became worse, because there’s no way Fulbright wouldlove him if he knew the truth. So Simontried pushing him away. But it didn’twork. That damned Fool Bright persisted.
As he’s being led awayto serve time, he’s sure that none of those who loved him once would ever do soagain. But he’s met with Bobby, Aura,and Athena, each saying (in their own way) that they would visit him as much aspossible and would be there for him throughout his years and after he getsout. Simon is surprised, and when Bobbykisses him, he feels lighter. They were…staying? He couldn’t understand why, but it made himsmile.
And when he eventuallygets out, the first person he sees is Fulbright, waiting for him with open armsand an open heart, and Simon feels truly free for the first time in years.
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