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    “We were just discussing our quarry for today. Have you ever met the Beast of the Northern Forest?”

    “No,” Jon replies. The title does register as somehow familiar in his mind, but he immediately buries the feeling. The last thing he needs is a personal connection to today’s victim.

    “You were still very young during the last social season, I suppose,” Elias says. Jon doesn’t respond to the comment, doesn’t allow himself to feel anything about it. Elias continues, “He’s a coveted prize among hunters. Many members of the guild, myself included, have been trying to trap him for years, with no luck. He’s very—”

    Jon stops listening.

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    An incident while filming an episode of Ghost Hunt UK leads Melanie down a deep rabbit hole of research and investigation. Her hunger for answers brings her again and again to Jonathan Sims, who in turn leads her into a hidden world she never could have imagined.

    Melanie never was very good at looking before she leapt.

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    Martin is sixteen when he receives a strange medal in the mail from his father. There is no note, no return address, and no warning that touching it will permanently transform him into a terrifying beast.

    A little context would have been nice.

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    At the end of the world, Jon makes a choice.

    4 years prior, Martin finds something in document storage.

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    “Thanks for waiting with us,” Georgie said, smiling beatifically up at him. Passed out on her shoulder, Melanie let out a drunken snuffle and curled over, like she was thinking of climbing through the spaces of Georgie’s ribcage and sleeping in her chest cavity forever.

     

    “Not a problem,” Martin replied, scratching the back of his neck.

     

    To be honest, waiting with her was as much for his benefit as theirs. At first, he’d thought it was just stress; now, he was very sure that something was wrong. It wasn’t anything specific, or even bad; more like there was a sepia camera filter tinting the world dusty and nostalgic.

     

    After his third drink, he’d looked into Tim’s laughing face and thought he might burst into tears. And he still didn’t know what Sasha was supposed to look like.

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    "Jon, this isn't—you know you're awake right now, right?"
    Jon laughs, low and mirthless.
    "No, I'm not."
    You—you are, though. This is real, this isn't a dream." Martin gives a small, nervous laugh. "I—I know it feels a bit like one, after everything, but—"
    "Yes, it is," Jon says, with absolute certainty. "This is a dream. It has to be."
    "Why?"
    Jon looks at Martin then, with such sadness and longing in his eyes that Martin can barely stand to hold his gaze. "I wouldn't be here with you otherwise."

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    Martin knows that they can't stay here at Upton, that being disconnected from the Eye is affecting Jon. But one more night, he thinks--just one more night can't hurt.

    He's wrong.

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    Premise: there is a cat collar, touched by The Stranger, that turns people into cats. The transformation is slow, and the wearer must submit to a transformation of mind and body simultaneously, giving into the simple pleasure of being a soft, happy cat.

    This series starts with Simplify, Simplify and the other two stories are not chronological.

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    Who was it this time? Plenty of avatars seemed to have a bone to pick with him these days. He closed his eyes, not even attempting to fight back. Just waited for the inevitable “Archivist” said with utter loathing. So the words he heard next surprised him.

    “Empty your pockets. Now.” 

    Jon gets mugged. It's surprising how little this bothers him.

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    Martin pops it in the recorder, puts his headphones on, and presses play.

    “Statement of Jonathan Sims,” the recorder plays into his ear, hissed and cracking. Jon sounds so tired. “Regarding a childhood encounter with a book previously possessed by Jurgen Leitner.”

    Martin goes still.

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    Martin requests a brief break in the never ending slog that is the apocalypse. He discovers something about Jon.

    aka Martin is horribly in love and Jon can use his foley powers to purr.

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    Jonathan Sims is the eye of the pupil, and The Eye doesn't care which version of Jon holds that title, as long as it's him.
    Aka, in another dimension, a poor unsuspecting Jon is abruptly saddled with the archivist powers formerly held by an alternate self, and he honestly just has no clue what's going on.

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    Elias always has his hand on Jon’s back, too – a firm, warm touch to guide him through the masses of people, these crowds full of eyes that look at him, that he looks back at, that then look away. Elias doesn’t mind the looking. He just likes to be efficient.

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    He can smell the scent of decay and somehow he knows he's drawing closer to the Gathering Spire. The intricate shining webbing that held it tall was hard to miss, and the flashing light from The Beyond could be seen in even the darkest of nights. Now, it was his only beacon in the swirling winds that surrounded him. He has to reach the spire. He has to.
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    A Warrior Cats TMA AU with a bit too much lore. No prior knowledge of either of the fandoms is required. Come for the cats, stay for the eldritch horrors.

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    If Jon had known it would end so quickly, he would have tried to memorize it all better—the scent of the rain that caught them while they were out on one of their meandering strolls, the way Martin’s cold fingers warmed in his while they sat in front of the fire, the taste of burnt coffee and dry toast and Martin’s lips.
     
    Five times Jon grieves, and one time he is mourned.

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    In which Jon was born a cat and had an unfortunate run in with a Leitner, so now he’s human, and rather unhappy about it.

    Jon just wants to be a cat again. Being human sucks.

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    The Lonely must not have him. The Archivist must be held tight, the bond must stay, and any good Archival Assistant will do whatever it takes to pull the Archivist back from the brink.

    AKA Jon reads a book, and the book reads him.

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    They save the world, Jon wakes up, and doesn't remember anything.

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    Jon is determined to be more friendly toward the other people in the Archives.

    This goes about as well as anything Jon does.

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    “You can stay.” The voice interrupts his internal panic, and he looks over to find Jon studiously avoiding his gaze, staring hard at a neighboring bush. Martin wonders what caused his sudden change of heart. “But you have to sit on the other side. And don’t talk to me.”

    Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood meet as children. Some things change, others do not.

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