The Magicians Happy Ever After is a Fic and Art Big Bang set to the theme of Romantic Movies. Let's turn those tears into cliches and get the spotlight on some good movie kisses.
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Without further ado, the 2022 MHEA Masterpost:
Team 25:
When Quentin Met Eliot by @nellie-elizabeth Artist: @aniallating
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gene kelly, eat your heart out by @aspiringtoeloquence for @themagicianshea
“I’m not your mother, Eliot. And you’re not gonna make me into some fucking nag who told you what to do. Just because I kicked your ass into gear like a fucking boss doesn’t mean I have to be responsible for validating your martyr complex.”
“That,” Eliot spits stonily, “is not what this is.”
“Oh, yeah?” She bites off whatever the next words are going to be, then pauses. “We’re doing something here. Things are good, right? Pretending you don’t want things for you isn’t a good look, baby, and you know it.”
“We get the happiness we fuckin’ take, Eliot,” Margo says, her jaw tight, and there is something behind it Eliot can’t quite summon the will to interrogate. “And I’m tired of you deciding you don’t deserve it.” He remembers her standing in his dorm room when he woke up (such as he was ever awake, back then), telling him they were blowing this shitty excuse for a popsicle stand.
gene kelly, eat your heart out by @aspiringtoeloquence for @themagicianshea
“I just think, if you have feelings for someone, you should go for it,” he says, looking directly at Eliot’s mouth.
“I guess that was the whole point of the exercise,” Eliot says, his lips moving slowly. Quentin isn’t drunk, not really, but he likes leaning into the freedom of being released from the constraints of sobriety upon occasion.
“No, but like – you know, if there’s something there, it seems stupid to just let it pass by without saying something. It could be great, right? That’s scientific. You have to experiment. Find proof.”
Eliot laughs, a low, kind-of-sexy thing. And Quentin thinks, for a moment, that Eliot is taking the hint, leaning into him, but then there’s a gentle hand on his arm and he opens his eyes – apparently he’d closed them?
gene kelly, eat your heart out by @aspiringtoeloquence for @themagicianshea
“You can say the word depressed, Jules, I won’t turn into a pumpkin.”
“Pumpkin isn’t exactly what I was worried about, Q.”
He hears the quiet snick of her lighter and can almost picture her, reading in light too dim with her tea rapidly getting cold on the counter. “I thought you quit.”
gene kelly, eat your heart out by @aspiringtoeloquence for @themagicianshea
“I think this is yours,” he says, unnecessarily. “It doesn’t really go with any of my clothes.” Eliot reaches out for it, but Quentin pulls his arm back, just a little. “Do you often plant things in the luggage of people you’ve just met?”
gene kelly, eat your heart out by @aspiringtoeloquence for @themagicianshea
They’re in some sort of weird armlock now, Eliot trying to stop him from leaving while Quentin presses towards the nearest exit. He manages to dart to a side entrance, passing by the edge of one set of large tables with excellent views.
Which is, of course, where Alice is sitting.
“Quentin?” Alice sounds baffled, which is fair. She looks him over, like he might be a particularly good costume worn by someone she expects to be here. “Quentin, you’re in France?”
gene kelly, eat your heart out by @aspiringtoeloquence for @themagicianshea
“This is a no-smoking car”, Quentin says, before he can stop himself, and Eliot stops where he’s tapping a cigarette on the metal of the case (who actually does that?).
“Oh no,” says Eliot, with a truly breathtaking level of boredom. He slips the cigarette into his mouth. “What shall I do.”
Quentin is torn between trying to beg a cigarette – he never really smokes, not really, but he’s spent enough time around them, thanks to Julia, that it occurs to him it might calm the nerves zinging under his skin – and pressing the issue. Eliot casts something – maybe it’s something blended with his telekinesis? Quentin doesn’t recognize the movement, which is typically filled with Eliot flourish. When Eliot exhales smoke a few moments later, it comes up to a barrier about six inches from Eliot face and hovers there, contained.
gene kelly, eat your heart out by @aspiringtoeloquence for @themagicianshea
It’s a very narrow townhouse, one in a long string of attached homes with worn trim and a distinctly outdated feel. Quentin can feel the magic here, steeped into the wood and the stone, and he can tell that it has long been steeped into the very ground the house was built on.
The aesthetic, from what Quentin can see, appears to be mismatched antique store meets college chic.
Eliot shouts a still baffling “Bambi?” from the hallway, closing the door behind Quentin and hanging his jacket on a coat stand shaped like a – well, Quentin isn’t entirely sure what it is supposed to be, but it is extremely phallic.
“In here!” a bright voice yells from somewhere further back, and Quentin toes off his sneakers, because he was raised to have manners. Did someone name their child Bambi? Is that, like, a thing?
Eliot disappears down a relatively plain hallway and through a doorway, which Quentin discovers leads to a crowded, but homey, sitting room. Living room? Lounge?
“Bambi, this is Quentin,” Eliot says to the petite woman lounging on what Quentin believes was once a chaise. It is hard to tell, what with it being entirely covered in pillows. “I met him on the plane, and no, you can’t keep him. Quentin, this is Margo, and yes, that Margo.”
gene kelly, eat your heart out by @aspiringtoeloquence for @themagicianshea
“So, who or what is worth…this?” Eliot asks, gesturing towards Quentin’s apparent queasiness and leaning somehow into Quentin’s space without actually moving.
He’s emotionally manspreading. Unbelievable. Doesn’t he know that you’re supposed to be awkwardly silent and keep your thoughts to yourself on public transportation? Quentin has been a New Yorker (New Jersey-er) for long enough to know that subway etiquette is applicable, even thousands of feet in the air.
gene kelly, eat your heart out by @aspiringtoeloquence for @themagicianshea
It’s over an hour’s drive into the center of Paris, where Quentin presumes most of the big hotels are, but he still keeps an eye out for the Eiffel tower – the one big Parisian landmark he’s confident he’ll recognize. But it seems like they must be on the other side of town, or something, because he can’t see anything that looks even remotely like it.
They’re quiet again, Eliot leaning against his door with his eyes closed. Quentin’s eyes float to Eliot’s carry-on, which must have been checked at some point, because it has a slightly ripped IND–EWR tag on it.