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    Want to grab dinner later? I know you're going to be working absurdly late anyway, and there's a new Italian place I've been wanting to try. — M
    Yes, that sounds nice. I'll try to be finished by 7:00. — J
    Oh, yes. God forbid you don't work absurdly late. ;) — M

     

     


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    Or: The notes and letters Jon and Martin have written each other, through the years.

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    17 Sep 2023

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    “What?” the other man asks, wiping the smear of flour of his cheek. He examines his hand, frowns, looks back up. “Did I miss a patch?”

     

    “No,” Jon says, despite there being flour all over Martin’s apron, a bit on the tip of his nose, and a healthy smattering in his hair. Something about Martin in the kitchen covered in flour makes his heart squeeze. Just like this, he thinks, the same way a desperate, brokenly in love man would. Let us stay just like this. His eyes catch back on his hair, looking at the flecks in the roots, the spark of orange that has started to nestle among the black and shock of white (a blessing from the Lonely, because unfortunately, most things that love Martin are not the most kind to him). He wants to run his hands through his hair. He wants to ask about the color. Is it natural? Is it new? Is it Martin’s original color? He wants to know, wants the knowledge inside his head and next to his heart, filling up his chest, and for that reason he cannot ask in good conscience. He cannot ask and still know for certain that the answers are given voluntarily.

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    or: Jon learns a softer kind of knowing, finds his heart, goes grocery shopping, and ends the world.

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    15 Aug 2023

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    Martin,

    I know you'll never read this. I know I'm writing to a version of you that no longer exists. It hurts to think it, still. The fact that you're gone. But I'm writing anyway, because I miss you, more than I can put into words.

    And because I saw you today, for the first time since I arrived here.
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    Martin is intrigued by an attractive new customer who comes into the coffee shop - especially when that customer has a strangely intense reaction to seeing him.

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    07 Aug 2023

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    Tim’s calender should be stuck in March 2017, when he stopped changing it. Or maybe not long before that, if he dreamt that. Either way, it should be at the very least after July 2016.
    Instead, his calendar displays October 2015. Tim knows he threw out his 2015 calendar at the end of the year, it shouldn't be in his flat, much less hanging on his wall.
    Either he dreamt all of that- Prentiss, Jon’s paranoia, Not-Sasha, Elias being evil, The Circus, The Unknowing- or he died at the unknowing and traveled back in time.
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    Jon and Tim travel back to 2015

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    08 Jul 2023

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    Time was a constant that- while as immeasurable and nonexistent as ever in the apocalypse- could still be manipulated by a talented seamstress. And she would be well fed by his fear of times already passed. After all, it wasn’t like he was afraid of the future. What else could he possibly fear when he was navigating what came past the end of everything, and completely alone?

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    In which Jon finds a spider, a door to the past, and maybe a way home.

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    26 Jun 2023