Librarian Jon AU University Years!
Jon works towards his library science degree while also picking up some history and religion courses – anything that can help him get more information on the Horrors that lurk behind. Rationally, he knows that he should stop getting invested before he crosses a line, but the hunger has already settled in. (And maybe the guilt as well. He got his bully killed because of a dangerous book, Jon should take responsibility, right?)
Sometimes, he drags Gerry with him to class. Gerry has a 20 minute “discussion” with Jon’s history professor about self-important researchers, thinking they know best.
They live together, although Gerry is in and out of the apartment, tracking down Leitners and other monsters in need of destruction. Jon has school, so he can’t go with him always. He does have a knack for finding books that are bound to entities, or in the state of becoming such, that hadn’t been claimed by Leitner yet.
Georgie is pretty much his only other close friend. They are something for a while that Jon is terrible at putting a term on, and when it fades out, it’s on amicable terms.
After a while (after Georgie nearly touches an anatomy book that reminds her of those on the shelves of the Medical Sciences Building) it occurs to Jon that his library needs a better place to store them. He thinks of the Distortion’s empty endless hallways – he’s never been, but the pamphlet from his school days (London by Daylight!) lets him Know – and wants something similar. Something just like it, but more personal, settled deep into his skin, his very soul.
Gerry, for his part, is very much not on board for taking a tattoo needle and putting a mess of lines on Jon’s back according to the cursed map in the cursed city pamphlet. But he supposes this is the better option than letting Jon try it himself. They are friends, family, the kind of partners in crime you can only be after having been sufficiently fucked up by the same kind of horrors that nobody else gets that being together is natural and comfortable. (“Pretty sure it’s actually codependence, Jon.” “Does that mean you won’t do it?”)
Well, in any case, matching tattoos (shoutout to @samwise-1548 for the idea) and, beyond that, Jon’s back is covered by a library, a bookshelf, script in Latin and Sanskrit and lines that don’t make much sense at all. The tattoo does what it’s supposed to, it stores Jon’s books. Sometimes, A Guest for Mr. Spider crawls up his spine, the title of the pamphlet sometimes escapes to his wrists and it’s alright. Jon’s more comfortable like this. (Or so he lies, his nightmares get worse, but he’s hungry and needs to eat and he can’t destroy what creates him. He crossed the line a while ago, hate and love are near inseparable.) All in all, university is pretty alright. Sure, they nearly get eaten by horrible books a couple of times, and Gerard gets accused of murdering his mother towards the end but hey! They survived this far! Can’t get worse, right?
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