#bits of mavinwood and jackeoff

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Another supernatural/urban fantasy AU where, like.

Jeremy’s from a long line of magic users/Chosen Ones and doesn’t know it at first? (Because genre rules?)

Inherits this old mcreepy mansion in the middle of the city, because of course he does. (Like the house in Up, only Scooby Doo-esque type mcreepy mansion.)

When he gets there he’s greeted by this asshole who is the very epitome of the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  emoji in Matt.

This asshole who answers the door with a donut in hand (let’s be real, half a donut) and most likely in some nerd-ish graphic t-shit and all that? Little streak of color in his hair and “Can I help you?”

At which point Jeremy realizes Matt’s the house’s “Caretaker” although he doesn’t know why?

Aside from realizing he has a roommate he has no idea what to make of and all that, things are kind of sort of normal for a while.

But then Shenanigans.

Creepy stuff like ghosts that wander about the mansion at night and things moving by themselves - Jeremy knows for a fact he put the thing down here, but now it’s in an entirely different room?

At first he thinks it’s Matt, but the asshole insists he isn’t doing it. Jeremy doesn’t quite believe him but it’d be super awkward to call him a liar to his face and the whatnot without proof of any kind since roommates and all?

So.

More Shenanigans in which strangers show up at the mansion expecting whatever relative Jeremy inherited the place from and getting him instead.All of them looking to Matt for explanation and him just being ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  because he’s just the Caretaker.

AND THEN.

Something happens/someone mentions something and Jeremy gets all curious because apparently Matt’s been around for a while? Mentions working for the house’s former owner at a time that doesn’t line up with Matt’s apparent age because no way the asshole’s much older than Jeremy, you know?

And he does some digging, the whole Library Montage and whatnot and finds all these old photos to do with the mansion - newspaper articles and the whatnot - and Matt’s in more than a few of them.

Photos that go way back, long before Jeremy was born. Before his parents were born and wouldn’t you know it?

There’s fucking Matt in the background along with whichever relative of Jeremy’s lived in/owned the house at the time. Sometimes Matt’s facing the camera head on, sometimes looking at something off to the side or completely unaware he’s in frame or some such.

All this along with vague-ish comments from Matt and the others Jeremy’s run into have him going back to the mcreepy mansion to ~confront Matt about it although he doesn’t know what the hell good it’s going to do? (Like. Weird as hell, yeah, but he hasn’t gotten the impression Matt’s dangerous�� - to him - at any point? But still DRAMA.)

When he lays out all his ~proof, Matt (who has yet another donut in hand) is like “...I thought you knew?”

And while Jeremy is just HOW WOULD I KNOW Matt sorts through the copies to the photos Jeremy made, this oddly wistful smile on his face at most of them, and this -

Grimace? Something bad on a few that he shuffles to the bottom of the stack like he’d like to forget they existed.

And it turns out that the mcreepy mansion is ~*MAGIC*~ because of course it is.

Started out as your regular mcreepy mansion but Jeremy’s relatives and their friends poured magic into it over the years. Protective spells and the like, and a few of them got all creative or just mucked about with stuff they shouldn’t have?

And then bam, you got yourself a magical - living - house.

One that decided it needed a human-shaped form to manifest in becasue reasons (some crisis or other having to do with one of Jeremy’s relatives) and a summons for help that went sideways and oh, hey, Matt has hands and fingers and legs and toes and all the other human-ish bits?

All that magic and the whatnot that was poured into the house also Matt’s (and it’d been years by that point, you know? All these powerful magic users and their spells and whatever artifacts they had laying around soaking into the very foundations and just.

Matt’s pretty fucking powerful in his own right, is the thing. Mostly defensive magics and the whatnot given everything? But he’s had a long, long time to tinker with his magical abilities and the wolfish look that flits across his face as he says that tells Jeremy he’d be an idiot ot underestimate him.

And then, just.

Look.

Jeremy’s convinced he’s nothing special, didn’t even know the whole magic user lineage thing was real before this? Thought they were all stories and the whatnot his parents told him as a kid and nonsense and he doesn’t even have magic abilities!

To which Matt is like. “Uh-huh,” as he’s heard that line before and something’s always proven it wrong, but whatever.

Anyway, anyway.

Matt’s ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  about Jeremy finding out Matt’s not just his asshole roommate doesn’t really change things too much and honestly it stops being such a big deal to Jeremy after a bit. (Because Matt being Matt?)

Still.

Jeremy’s curious and starts asking questions and Matt indulges him by telling him stories about ~adventures he had with Jeremy’s relatives over the years.

Clams up when he gets to this one in particular, someone who was apparently a complete bastard and had weird ideas as to what it meant with Matt being the mcreepy mansion’s human-shaped manifestation meant if they owned the house?

Like.

“Moving on,” Matt says, and does just that. Distracting Jeremy from dwelling on that matter further by telling him about that time one of Jeremy’s relatives almost got them drowned in the sewers?

At some point there are more Shenaigans in which Jeremy discovers that hey, wow, he actually does have magic abilities and he and Matt team up to thwart some Evil Bastard’s attempt to enslave all of humanity or whatever his plan was?

Also he meets the others in the middle of all this Thwarting they’re doing, because reasons.

Weird/creepy Ryan with his basement lab/workshop for magical things and the whatnot, who leads him to Geoff and Jack’s shop of curiosities and other magic shit.

Gavin and Michael who are - fuck if Jeremy knows, but there’s a lot of talk about keeping Ryan in line because guy’s a lunatic? But they seem to be a relationship with him when they’re not out hunting monsters or whatever and it’s all Very Confusing. (Also Ryan may or may not be a vampire, and Matts just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  about it even though some of those old photos Jeremy found also have Ryan in them, and just. It’s a lot, okay, a lot.)

Lindsay swans in at some point with Fiona and they’re like. Magic police? But cooler, because of course, and did Jeremy know he’s broken several rules??? (But since he did save the world, they’ll just give him a warning this time.)

Fuck knows what’s going on with Trevor and Alfredo because they just show up at the mcreepy mansion at some point and kind of never leave?

But Matt seems happy to see them and everyone else are okay with them and they only tried to kill Jeremy that one time, so it’s probably okay???

Also, also.

Jeremy may or may not have a Thing for Matt, which is weird and awkward because magical human-shaped manifestation of the mcreepy mansion and all that?

But also Matt and his love for donuts and cats (like, fucking really, adorable as shit watching Matt with the strays that somehow end up living there full-time to the point they can no longer be called strays) and everything else?

Matt being Matt and Jeremy being Jeremy and both of them so stupid it hurts.

But also adorable as hell and everyone is so fucking done with their bullshit even though they start a betting pool about when the two of them get their shit together, and just.

Yes.

Also! While Thwarting a baddie at some point Matt ends up using so much of his ~magic that he can’t do the whole human-shaped manifestation for a while and Jeremy, okay.

He knows Matt’s okay? Just recovering and will do the human-shaped manifestation bit when he’s better and all that? (Ryan reassured Jeremy he would, and Geoff and Jack confirmed it as well, and apparently it’s happened before?)

But still.

Matt drained himself protecting Jeremy and so there’s moping and the whatnot over that and when it gets really bad the mcreepy mansion kind of kicks Jeremy’s ass into stopping that shit?

Little things here and there, like that time Jeremy was all :(((((((((((( in the shower and the hot water was replaced with ice-cold water? Doors shutting in Jeremy’s face when he’s going to tinker about with magic things down in the workshop/whatever and isn’t in the right frame of mind for it? (Might cause an accident and just. NO. Other things like that until Jeremy is like FINE and stops being dumb about things.)

When Matt does finally show up as a human-shaped manifestation it’s at the perfect time to give Jeremy shit for some dumb thing he’s just done, the way one does?

And Jeremy turns around, ready to get into it with him the way they do?

But Matt’s for this stupid soft, horrifically fond smile on his face and he looks tired, you know? Like shit. That streak in his hair that’s usually some color not found in nature (bit of ~rebellion on his part after that one relative of Jeremy’s who shall not be named that he’s kept up all this time) is colorless, and just.

Look.

Jeremy can’t be blamed if he just marches on over and kisses Matt after everything that happened, okay? (Because reasons.)

And if Matt kisses back, well. That’s no one’s business but their own.

(But also everyone else with the whole betting pool shenanigans once they find out and it’s a disaster watching them sort out who won, so yes.)