Chapters: 33/33
Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gerard Keay/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Sasha James & Gerard Keay, Queerplatonic Gerard Keay/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Queerplatonic Gerard Keay/Original Non-Binary Character
Characters: Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Martin Blackwood, Gerard Keay, Sasha James, Gertrude Robinson, Original Non-Binary Character, Nikola Orsinov, Elias Bouchard (mentioned) (derogatory)
Meeting an old acquaintance again can be a bit of a culture shock. Instantly clicking again with your old ride or die… is a different sort of shock entirely.
Jon Sims has an unlooked-for run-in with the old flame of his youth. Still unmistakably the full-blood goth Jon fell for all those years ago.
Gerry Delano really hadn't expected to run into Jon Sims of all people, either. Jon who changed quite a bit, from the looks of it. But that's life.
People change over the years, so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that Jon settled as a librarian-slash-archivist, has a boyfriend, and leads a calmer life now. Gerry themself changed as well, after all.
“Settling into domesticity… it’s not me, not what I want or need. Sure I want a steady life but I don’t want a calm or quiet life, at all. That's the thing. Life's different when he's around. And we both know I like different.”
Yes, this is an older work (from 2021) of mine but I’m still proud of it and I am currently in the process of editing and reworking the story to make it a full-fledged novel. (Meaning, severing all connections to the original fandom given it was a completely disconnected AU anyway.) I haven’t edited this version on AO3 since 2021 so there are quite a bunch of mistakes and errors but since I started writing JonGerry again, I kind of want to draw attention to this older work also. If you would rather read a canon-divergence, click the link in the previous sentence. That current WiP is a canon-divergence by the way of time travel and other shenanigans.
Additional Tags: Nonbinary Gerard Keay, Protective Gerard Keay, Asexual Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Trans Martin Blackwood, Biromantic Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Genderqueer Gerard Keay, Artist Gerard Keay, Barkeeper Gerard Keay, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Aromantic Sasha James (mentioned), They/Them and He/Him Pronouns for Gerard Keay, He/Him Pronouns For Nonbinary Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Guitarist Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Getting Back Together, Alternate Universe - No Entities, Trans Sasha James (mentioned), Unhealthy Relationships, Gerard Keay Has ADHD, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Has ADHD, The Main Characters have ADHD because the writer isn't neurotypical and can't pretend they are, Main Characters are neurodiverse because the writer can't write someone neurotypical, Break Up Talk, Gerard Keay has Depression, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Has Depression, Psychiatric medication, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Workplace Accident, Physical Therapy, Swinger Martin Blackwood, Jealous Martin Blackwood, Minor Martin Blackwood/Tim Stoker, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Being a Little Shit, Making Out, Writer forgot to mention Gerry Keay’s piercings but he definitely has those!, Relationship/Boundary Negotiations, Developing Relationship, Disabled Character, Character(s) using mobility aids, Gender Non-Conforming Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Character(s) using Neo-Pronouns, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist has Generalised Anxiety Disorder, No Smut, No Sex/Smut but the writer put their prowess for that into the several make-out scenes, Bossy Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Sex-Averse Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Sex-Neutral Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Sex-Averse Asexual, Sex-Neutral Asexual, Neurodiverse Character(s), Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist With a Cane, Pre-Relationship, Queerplatonic Relationships, Character(s) with changing pronouns, arophobia, enbyphobia, Emotional Manipulation, Queerplatonic Gerard Keay/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist - Freeform, Aromantic Gerard Keay, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, Aromantic Allosexual Gerard Keay