#queliotevermore

while you were out building other worlds where was I?

Created for the Evermore event hosted by @queliotevents​. 

This is the first of several edits inspired by Taylor Swift’s evermore - every song is represented, save “it’s time to go” because by the time it hit and I listened to it I just didn’t have the strength to try to either turn that into Queliot or apply it elsewhere in the show.

There’s an ache in you, put there by the ache in me... Here’s a summary of all the stunning work submitted for the second week of our Queliot Evermore event:

Iron It Out So Nice by @spiders-hth-is-an-outlier​ - inspired by closure

“It's not a small detail, Wicker,” Eliot says, perhaps a little more sharply than necessary. “Whoever he thinks I am, I'm – clearly not. And he's not....”

Damn. Eliot's throat won't quite let him vocalize the rest of the thought, and he resents that small weakness. This young man who lives with Julia now, he's not – he's not the Quentin Coldwater that Eliot carries. He shouldn't hold any power over Eliot at all.

That's the theory, at least.

wreck my plans by @inmediasres-1​ - inspired by willow

Eliot's life was all going to plan.

Until it wasn't.

He hadn't taken into account Quentin Coldwater wrecking them all.

your midas touch by @kadywicker​ - inspired by champagne problems

Quentin had always been selfish. He could remember his mom hurling the word at him time and time again when he was a teenager- how can you be so selfish? At the time, the words had stung, but he’d come to realize she was right over the years. He was selfish and he couldn’t say no to Eliot, not when he still remembered the emptiness after he’d died, not when he still desperately wanted to reach out and remind himself that he was alive now.

The night before Quentin goes on the boat quest, Eliot comes to his room.

One Prize I’d Cheat To Win by @accal1a​ - inspired by willow

Quentin and Eliot have a heart to heart about Quentin's past.

all the things that will be lost now by @freneticfloetry​ - inspired by evermore

Bravery doesn't come free. For Eliot, the price he pays to find answers might just mean losing himself.

this time I’m ready by @mixtapestar​ - inspired by long story short

After the Monster, Eliot gets a chance to make a one-shot trip back in time. He undershoots his intended destination by ten minutes.

How to Cover Up a Scene by @theaudity​ - inspired by no body, no crime

He’d forced himself to stop reading up on missing persons investigative procedures sometime last night. Between the advice to call local hospitals, homeless shelters, morgues, and the constant reminders that if you didn’t find any solid threads to follow within the first 48 hours, well. There was only so long any person could spend tugging at their hair and trying not to hyperventilate. For a moment, he had considered bringing it up the next time he saw his therapist, going back onto something for his resurging anxiety, but no. This was something that needed to be felt. The grey concrete walls of the interview room felt more and more suffocating by the minute.

Muldoon cleared his throat, drawing Brian’s attention back from their warped reflections on the metal table. “Look, I get it. It’s frustrating, I know, but we still can’t even say for sure that he’s actually missing.”

“Yeah, uh-huh, except that he’s, you know, actually fucking missing.”

in a faith-forgotten land by @akisazame​ - inspired by ivy

Margo's image has barely disappeared from the phone screen before Eliot hears the scrape of the front door opening and the rustling sounds of Quentin taking off his coat and shoes. It's only a minute more before he's coming into the kitchen, standing behind Eliot and slipping his arms around his waist. "Hi, love," he says, stretching up on his tiptoes to kiss Eliot's neck and peer over his shoulder. "Mmm, are those blondies?"

And Eliot blurts out, "Would you want to go back to Fillory?"

shipwrecked (in the cracks of light) by @eidetictelekinetic​ - inspired by evermore

Quentin returns to New York, Brakebills, and his old friends after rebirth and a few years away, but coming home is not as simple as returning to a location. It takes time to heal, and time to let himself open up again, but home isn't as lost as he once believed it to be. He just needs to find it in himself to trust that.

On the non-fic side, @mariek-artblog​ has posted art for coney island, gold rush, it’s time to go, and closure; @potato-awesome​ posted an edit for evermore; and @rubickk7​ posted edits for ivy, cowboy like me, long story short, a second for long story short, marjorie, closure, and evermore (and you can check out all her edits for the event, including some non-queliot ones, at her rubievermore tag).

Quentin returns to New York, Brakebills, and his old friends after rebirth and a few years away, but coming home is not as simple as returning to a location. It takes time to heal, and time to let himself open up again, but home isn’t as lost as he once believed it to be. He just needs to find it in himself to trust that.

Sequel to go anywhere i want (just not home)