#jonmartingerry

Just Close Your Eyes and Pretend That Everything’s Fine

Summary: When Jon falls ill on a weekend that Martin's out of town for a library conference, Gerry does his best to step up and take care of him. Unfortunately, Gerry doesn't have much experience caring for someone who's ill, and Jon is very bad at allowing himself to be taken care of. The more they try to act like everything's fine—to themselves, to each other, and to Martin—the worse the actual situation gets.

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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) 

Summary:

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.

Single Dad Martin with toddler Tim

Meeting

Single Dad Jon with pre-schooler Sasha

Because the kindergarten/daycare is the same building

And for those of us who don’t dig JonMartin

Gerry could be one of the pedagogues/educators (or maybe in admin)

gasp, oh hell, imagine Gerry wearing “kid-friendly” pastel/light coloured attire head to toe

And Georgie is also a caretaker/teacher there

There!

JonMartin

MartinGerry

JonGerry

MartinGeorgie

JonGeorgie

… … GerryGeorgie

For accountability, I want to finish and post these TMA fics in March: - Gerry and Michael pining + love confession - Martin & Michael platonic fic, Martin gets a tattoo and dunks on asshole who judges Michael’s pronouns - Last chapter of “When Pain has Forced a Footing There” - Martin goes out for drinks with Mel and Basira post episode 98 - Punk Band AU

jonmartingerry: classic, boring

jongerrymartin: slightly better cuz it makes me picture jon and martin making a gerry sandwich and gerry needs more hugs

jonmartingoth: mix of two naming conventions, not ideal, kinda funny tho

archiveteagoth: calls jon the archivist even if its a no powers or role swap au :/

Here we are! Pre-schedule, I threw a whole bunch of chapters out there, at you.

Chapters 25 to 29 are online!

Update-Summary:

Martin found out about the nude-painting of Jon. Or more precisely, he found out it got published. And he is not exactly amused about that.

Picking the pieces of his fight with Martin back up, Jon knows he has to make a decision. Is his being with Martin worth seeing Gerry hurt and self-doubting? What a good thing, Gerry already offered Jon get a swift butt-kick from Sasha, about what to do.

And, of course, it's not like Jon had had any hope his talk with Sasha would have stayed private. Her being Gerry's best friend, Jon is actually relieved it's not on him to relay all that Sasha set him straight about.

Gerry's 41st birthday (yea, I messed up the ages-time line but now I'm committed to this one!) rolls around, a nice evening with friends, poking fun at Tim, and showing around their photo album takes Jon's mind off things. Oh, also there's some dancing he has to brave through. Not that Gerry is making that hard on him.

The last 4 chapters, I'll keep sitting on a little bit longer, I think

If my own patience doesn't run out

Chapters 18 & 19 went online on the 20th July

I just uploaded the draft of Ch.20 and will now beta Ch.21, to have them both go up on Thursday, the 29th

Update-Summary Ch.18 & 19: