missing #AaronOliver from Only a Monster Series/Monsters Trilogy hours so bringing back a few of his quotes:
”This is tedious. Should we not just let them go? Half-human or not, the girl is wearing the Hunt mark. They’ve claimed her as one of them. It hardly seems worth escalating matters for sport.”
”He’s out.You hit him rather hard.”
”I’m not sleeping on the ground.”
"Well,of course he won’t look for us here. No one would come here.Rats wouldn’t. Health inspectors clearly haven’t."
”I’m doing the hard part! You just have to jump! (..) Through time!”
”Don’t look at them. Look at me!”
"I travelled. Dragging you along."
"God,you are so fucking..so fucking raw. We can’t change what happened, Joan!”
”That’s the reason you came back!”
”If we can’t trust the records, then we can’t trust anything. Any event could be wrong. Any death. There’d be no way to know what’s going to happen on any given day. (..) Yes. It would be as bad as being human.”
"I cannot believe I’m here with you. I wish I were anywhere but here. I wish I were at home with a good book."
”You! When you realise that you can’t, it’s going to hurt you! Oh, do whatever you want. I’m going to get myself some proper nineties clothes.”
”I wouldn’t have cut you.”
”Every monster goes up against the timeline. Everyone tries to change something at some point.”
”I told you. I’m the one who’s in your—oh, will you stop asking questions so we can do this?”
”Get that pendant out of sight.(..) He probably didn’t want it anywhere near him, and neither do I.”
”Joan. The Court isn’t even reachable. It sits outside time. There’s no way to get there without an invitation and an escort.”
"I don't want to have this stupid conversation."
”If he does, then he’s mixed up in some dangerous things, and we should
stay away from him.”
”You are so fucking reckless.”
”Let me come with you.”
”Listen to me, If you change the timeline, I won’t know you anymore. It’ll be like we never met.”
”All I know is that if you undo the massacre, you can’t ever meet me. You can’t ever trust me. I won’t know. I won’t remember what—won’t remember what you mean to me.”
FROM BOOK 2 /spoilers if you keep reading!/
”Anything else I don’t have to be here for?”
”Where’s the girl?”
”Stop saying my name! Stop saying my name as if you know me!”
”Hah. Hmm. I’ve had the Griffith power used on me before, Last time it felt stronger. What are you—ten steps removed from a head of your family?”
”I think I’m going to die here! I don’t think anyone’s coming to help me!”
”You make me sound so noble.(..) You really don’t know me.”
”Your name is Joan, right? It’s Joan? Okay, Joan. Okay, I believe you.”
”You’re right. I don’t know you. I do know, though, that if I gave you that
brooch, I must have—I must have trusted you very much.”
”We should have coordinated our clothes. (..) I look good! You should all have matched to me!”
”Cold in here. (..) Hmm. Maybe it’s just me.”
”‘Is this a Jonathan Meyer original? It is. I didn’t know this place was here.”
”If that’s happening every day, then what I taught you last time wasn’t
enough. After this is all over, we need to do something about it.”
”Holy shit, there’s stuff from the next three centuries in here. If the Court knew—”
”I’m nervous too.”
”You disagreed. So you informed on them to the King.”
FROM BOOK 3 /spoilers if you keep reading!/
(((?!?! this makes SO MUCH sense as of WHY i loved him so much from the start like my beloved Aaron Oliver is and has been BISEXUAL?! that’s one of us!! and what do you MEAN Nick Ward too? what do you MEAN bi4bi +her?? polyamory? HE FINALLY GETS INCLUDED? the fated couple wants him WITH THEM both? love triangle what? no it’s a throuple!! conclusion to the series? plot? literally who freaking cares. as a bi person and multi-shipper THIS IS BISEXUAL HEAVEN i just wish we had foreshadowing/signs of this sooner than book 2 idk/ BUT SERIOUSLY WHY NOBODY TOLD ME IN THIRD BOOK NICK IS LIKE I LIKE BOTH AND AARON GOES YEAH SO DO I??!! i would FIND a moment to read book 3 AGES AGO you all!!!/)))
“There are two.”
“Oh yeah. I love what your sister’s done with the place.”
“So now we’re thieves as well as squatters.”
“Stay in this room with me.”
“Fuck.”
“A couple of playthings that I’m slumming with. That I found on the street.” “I think we should maintain that fiction,” “That I’m bedding you both. Yes.” “Does it make you uncomfortable?”
“I can protect her here.”
“We just saw a wanted poster with your face on it.”
“I can’t think of any other reasonable explanation for having two humans here with me.”
“Well, now that you’re apparently with me . . . Not nearly enough,”
“Are you worried? I’ll protect you when we’re out on the streets. No one will dare hurt you. No one will—No one will touch you.”
“Do you know how much human time I’ve stolen? Honestly, I never gave it a second thought before you—”
“Clark Kent, Aaron had said. He’d probably meant it sarcastically, but Joan had had the same thought.”
“We can save the world and the floor at the same time. Surely.”
“Joan—“You don’t want this. You’re not in your right mind!”
“You don’t want this. I would give you anything you wished for. Anything in my power. But you don’t want me. You want him.”
“You’re hurting so much right now. I couldn’t bear to be the cause of more hurt.”
“Have you done this before?” “We could just do this.”
“You’re so beautiful, Sometimes, I look at you, and I forget to breathe.” “I don’t like the way strangers look at me. But I like the way you look at me.”
“I can’t stand the thought of you living in this world.”
“I love you,”
“See? No one’s bleeding. Not you or me.”
“You haven’t lost me. I’m here, I love you.”
“I suppose in one way, this timeline is better than the last. He isn’t here.”
“This thing between us. Between you and me. I’ve never felt like this before. I didn’t know I could feel like this.”
“You want to know what I think about my counterpart and Nick’s? I think you were dead in this timeline. If your counterpart had lived, it would have been you and Nick in this timeline. You two were together in the vera historia, and the timeline would have brought you back together here too. I suppose I would still have known you both, with Nick as an Oliver gladiator. . . .You would have made sense together, like you did in every timeline.”
“My mother was executed at the Oliver house. In the Lily Garden—you haven’t seen it. It’s at the far west of the estate. I never did like the smell of lilies, and I really can’t stand them now, but . . . the night she died, I sat in that garden for hours. I don’t even know why. I just needed to.”
“I hope he is alive, Please don’t think I wish otherwise.” “The thing is . . .Even if he is dead now, we might have the chance to bring him back. If the timeline isn’t locked, we might still be able to repair it. He’d be alive again in the new iteration. The timeline would bring the two of you back together as it always does. But as for you and me . .We’ll likely forget each other.”
“I’m sorry, Sometimes my mind jumps ahead too far. It’s probably not worth speculating about— We don’t even know if we can still fix the timeline.”
“Last night shouldn’t have happened. We never have to speak of it again. He doesn’t need to know.” “No. You haven’t done anything wrong.”
“Joan . . .I would be with you if there were any chance that I could make you happy. But I can’t. Not while he was dead, and certainly not now he’s alive. You can say that you choose me, but if you kept to that pledge, you’d never stop yearning for him. It would kill you knowing that he’s alive and that he loves you back, and that you weren’t with him. You wouldn’t be able to bear it, and I couldn’t bear that.”
“I saw your face when you realized he was alive. I saw you. I heard the way you said his name. The way he said yours. Tell me that you wouldn’t think of him if you were with me. Tell me you wouldn’t wish to be with him now that he’s alive. Tell me nothing I said was true. Tell me I’m completely wrong.”
“We’re going to stop Eleanor. We’re going to change the timeline, and then you and I will both forget each other, and everything will go back to the way it was always supposed to be.”
“Don’t overreact,” “Don’t be an idiot. You’re still weak, and there are guards out there looking for you!”
“This is a mistake! Don’t you know who I am?”
“So who wants to go first?”
“Listen. We need to figure out how to get out of here. If we don’t, we’re all going to die today.”
“The happy couple,”
“The Olivers? The Olivers were part of the peace talks? No. My father hates humans. He always has. He’d never agree to that.”
“I agreed to stop taking human life?”
“A road map? A road map of what to do?” “Oh my God, tell him. No, no, show him! Show him the road map! Show him what we were supposed to do to stop Eleanor!” “No, show him,”
“Well, are you going to react?” “It’s one line!” “I mean . . . It’s nothing, really. It doesn’t have anything to do with us. It’s because Joan was dead in this timeline. If she’d lived, it would have been you and her.”
“You know . . . I wouldn’t have picked you as liking guys.”
to Nick’s “Well, I do. I like both.” “So do I.”
“As you wish,” Aaron said. There was a lie in his eyes, though. Joan knew that if he had the chance to kill Eleanor, he’d take it.
“Well . . . ,” Aaron said, trailing into Joan’s room after Nick. He shut the door behind him. “This is wonderfully awkward, isn’t it?”
“Are you going to say anything at all?” (NICK) “About which part? The part where you slept with Joan, or the part where you apparently slept with me?” It was Aaron’s turn to flush red. “I don’t know.”
“Both,” Aaron said now. “Either.”
Nick’s gaze turned to Aaron. “You and me in another lifetime, huh?” It was a bit shaky. “Hard to believe, I know,” Aaron said tightly.
“I don’t understand it. Your counterpart and mine couldn’t have been from more different worlds. And . . .You’re you. The mythical hero from my childhood stories—the one who kills my kind.”
“Is this the right date?” Tom asked. “Of course it is,” Aaron said. “I was steering.” He turned to Nick, who was staring into the darkness now. “All right?” he murmured.
“Aaand that’s where we don’t want to go,”
As he turned back to the door, Aaron stopped him again. “Wait,” Aaron said. “Since it’s just us here. And I might not get another chance to say it . . .”
“I don’t know if you felt what I felt back at the Grave house, but it seemed to me that we all had the same thought.”
“I—I mean . . .If we don’t die tonight, I suppose you two would find each other again in the new timeline. I just know where I stand. You two were together in the zhēnshí de lìshǐ and you’ll always be fated to return to each other. So maybe it doesn’t matter what I want. Or what any of us wants. I—I don’t even know what you two want. I just—”
“And you’d want that?”
“I just . . .” Aaron swallowed visibly, and Joan’s heart clenched. “I just think that it doesn’t matter what I want. You two are fated, and . . .” And I’m not.
“Let’s call it a to-be-continued,” he said, gray eyes searching Nick’s face. “If we make it out of here, maybe we can see what happens next.”
“You have to break that bond.”
“You told me you loved me yesterday. I didn’t believe you.” “I know that now. And I know what triggers your power. It comes out when you’re losing someone you love.”
“I love you,. I adore you. Who’d have thought it would be me saving the world at the end?”
“Well . . . I don’t know about you, but I need a hot shower and a change of clothes. And then—I think we had plans for a date?”
“I know. It was like jumping into the gap between stars—I thought I’d never stop falling.”
“This is going to sound strange, but I think the timeline spoke to me. Not in words, but . . . It knew that we’d freed it, and it was grateful. It wanted to give me a gift. To give you a gift. To thank us. So here I am.”
It had been a year since they’d arrived back home, and Aaron had suggested they do something on the anniversary. To celebrate, he’d said. To remember.
“The cost was too high,” Aaron murmured to him.
“We gained more than we lost,” Aaron said now, seriously.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Monsters Series - Vanessa Len
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Joan Chang-Hunt/Aaron Oliver/Nick Ward, Joan Chang-Hunt/Aaron Oliver, Joan Chang-Hunt/Nick Ward, Aaron Oliver/Nick Ward
Characters: Aaron Oliver, Nick Ward, Joan Chang-Hunt
Additional Tags: ONCE A VILLAIN SPOILERS, POV Aaron Oliver, Major Character Undeath, Suicide, i must call it was it is
Summary:
Aaron takes a brief tumble but, of course, returns home.
