[ The present lasts for just a moment. Because barely after they both get hit by a vision of Rosemary's death, they get a vision of Elias's.
They're in a building, the ruined shell of the Magnus Institute, everything a little wrong as the apocalypse rages among them. Elias is lying on the floor as another man kicks him.
"That was for Sasha." "Jon, wait!" "For Tim. For Gertrude and all the others." "Please, Jon, I don't want to die." "Neither did they. But no one escapes at the end."
The other man, the one who must be Jon, draws a blade and plunges it into Elias, with a deep, wet squish. And as he comes to, as he hears Rosemary scream, Elias is something that he hasn't been in a long time: rattled. ]
Well, [ he says, trying very hard to hide the hint of terror in his voice. ] That was...
[ Unexpected. Horrifying. Something that he suspected might happen but didn't want to see himself. ]
cw: blood and gore here as well
They're in a building, the ruined shell of the Magnus Institute, everything a little wrong as the apocalypse rages among them. Elias is lying on the floor as another man kicks him.
"That was for Sasha."
"Jon, wait!"
"For Tim. For Gertrude and all the others."
"Please, Jon, I don't want to die."
"Neither did they. But no one escapes at the end."
The other man, the one who must be Jon, draws a blade and plunges it into Elias, with a deep, wet squish. And as he comes to, as he hears Rosemary scream, Elias is something that he hasn't been in a long time: rattled. ]
Well, [ he says, trying very hard to hide the hint of terror in his voice. ] That was...
[ Unexpected. Horrifying. Something that he suspected might happen but didn't want to see himself. ]