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    "Very well then, officer, take me away. And Martin?"

    "Yes, Elias?"

    Elias opened his mouth as if to say something, then closed it again with a shake of his head.

    "Actually, never mind. I will see how it plays out."

    Martin let out an annoyed sigh as Elias left. Always so goddamn cryptic.

    Hopefully Jon and the others would be back soon to make sense of things.

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    Here's a hypothetical question: What would happen if no one noticed that Jonathan Sims survived the Unknowing?

    What if they looked at his stopped heart and still lungs and decided he was dead?

    What happens when you bury an Archivist?

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    because light reverses, because the dead return by 1248, Tiili97

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    They’re standing entirely too close to each other in front of the hotel desk when the clerk asks them whether they’d like a double, twin, or two singles, and Martin absolutely bottles it.

    ‘Uh,’ he says, at exactly the same time as Jon says, ‘Oh.’

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    There’s a conversation that Martin and Jon need to have after the Lonely. Unfortunately, they are - historically - fairly terrible at putting stuff into words.

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    every good intention (is interpretation) by gruhukens

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    Martin finds them eventually, tapered white wax, twenty or thirty of them beside a box of ancient (but dry) matches, and a little brass dish with a slot that just about fits the base of the candle. He feels like Scrooge, fitting the whole thing together, tucking a few more into his pocket before striking a match -

    Which immediately goes out.

    “Oh, fuck you,” Martin says into the murk.

    Again -

    And again, the fire vanishes. Quick and efficient as a breath. He shivers in the sudden cold.

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    Martin Blackwood inherits an old country house, but there are more inhabitants than he first realises. When eventually the paranormal occurrences become too frequent and dangerous for him to ignore, he has to turn to a group of misfit ghost hunters for help.

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    Antigonish by softlyblue

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    "There is a span of years where Jon doesn’t touch anyone other than the occasional hand shake. It’s not so bad. He’s never been someone who’s needed physical affection."

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    Jon has never been any good at making people want to stick around.

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    A Weather In The Flesh by cuttooth

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    "I'm sorry, you were found alone."

    Jon survived the apocalypse and now will go to the end of this new, unfamiliar world to find Martin again.

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    Out There, Somewhere by Artyphex