#elodie aftg

[bimafe]

neil and jean are walking in the early foggy mornings. trying to escape each other from their abusive parents. safety only in each other's arms. silly platonic dates in the woods and fields. walking in the rain. sneaking onto the roof through jean's room while his parents are at work. constant teasing each other. studying late into the night because neil is too distracted and jean is too in love with him. it's "if you don't stop smoking, I won't kiss you, you bastard" and "you won't last five minutes without kissing me." making quiet calls in french late at night and talking about where they'd run away to when they grew up. listening to music, mostly on vinyl because "it sounds better than anything on a phone or player". knowing every street cat and planning how they'd take each one home if they lived together. riding bikes to neighboring towns. it's always giving the other one bunches of wildflowers because "it's too long to walk to you, you're too fucking long." they're the epitome of platonic soulmates if you asked elodie and she's glad her older brother has one.

[starrycassi]

What if I tell you I'm writing an AU where Elodie is alive and well. What if I tell you. What if I

Would anyone be interested in reading that? Because I have SO many idea oh god

[hamrikaa]

"Why didn't they love her enough to keep her safe?"

[dawnatlas]

"Did you think you were special?"

[verdiris]

The team bonding exercise was actually just the three of them trying to get Jeremy to have a meltdown 😌

[eeriethacus]

"Did you think you were special?"

[deadliestpieceontheboard]

"She was a child. She was my baby sister, and I should have protected her, but I— I was just a child, too."

[kevindavidday]

you guys don't understand how insane the sentence "why didn't they love her enough to keep her safe?" is coming from the protagonist of a series like all for the game. none of the foxes, even in their most delirious state, would have that expectation from the people who had betrayed them. jean is such a deeply genuine and emotional person, so different from the perspective neil provides, that it actually hurts more to know he had any hope at all for elodie's survival

[aftgphoenix]

Hehe have a short Jean, Cat, and Jeremy story!

Neil: Back at the airport. Flight lands at 3pm

Andrew: k

Kevin: How is Jean?

Neil: Alive. Talk later.

...

Andrew and Kevin were waiting for him at the airport when Neil landed. He was exhausted. After he'd dropped Jean off back at his house, Neil had gone to meet Stuart at a hotel room where they had talked strategy late into the night. He'd verified that his hit on Grayson had reached the right people and would be taken care of in the next day or two. And he asked Uncle Stuart for one extra favor. He went to the airport after that and slept on the plane.

He gave them a brief rundown of what had happened, omitting the parts about Grayson and Elodie. He wasn't sure Jean would want him sharing about that with Kevin. He'd fill Andrew in on the rest later, when they were in private. 

A week later, a package was delivered to his school mailbox with no return address. Neil ignored all of Kevin's questions about it. The next day, he dragged Andrew down with him to the school post office and mailed off the package to Jean.

...

Cat grabbed the mail from the mailbox before she went inside the house after practice. It was more of the same, junk mail, a bill for electricity, some catalogues, but at the bottom is a large white envelope. There was a Palmetto return address but no name and it was addressed to Jean. Curious, she beelined for the boys' room.

They were both in there. Jeremy was afraid to leave Jean alone after what had happened with Grayson. That was only further complicated by Grayson's second suicide attempt. This time he'd succeeded and it had sent Lucas into a spiral. Jean had barely reacted, which only served to concern herself, Laila, and Jeremy even more. 

"You got a package, Jean. Looks like it's from Palmetto," she said, handing the package to Jean. He took it tentatively, like he was scared to find what was inside it. Cat hesitated for a moment, wondering if she should stay or let him open it in peace. She decided that if he wanted to open it alone, he could set it aside. Instead, he carefully lifted the tape that was sealing the envelope closed.

He waited a moment before he slid the contents out on the bed. It was a pile of photographs.

"Wait, is that you?" she asked as she caught sight of a familiar scowling boy about ten years old. It was strange seeing him without his 3 tattoo. Jean didn't answer but instead gently reached his finger out to touch the little girl next to him in the photo.

"She was so young," he whispered. Jeremy had moved over to Jean's bed as well.

"Do you want to look at them alone?" he asked.

Jean hesitated a moment, then shook his head.

"Stay," he said, almost too quiet to hear. Jeremy sat down next to him and Cat sat on the other side.

"Who is the girl?" Jeremy asked. 

"Elodie," Jean said. "She was my little sister."

Cat felt her blood run cold as she realized what Jean was saying. Neither she nor Jeremy said anything as Jean slowly flipped through the small pile of photographs. Each one was of him and Elodie. In some, he was holding her hand or playing with her. In one, he was glaring at the camera and holding her protectively against himself. In the last one, Elodie was crying and Jean looked angry. He was hugging the girl. It was the oldest he looked out of all the photos. Cat didn't say anything when she saw a tear slip off of Jean's nose and splash onto his arm. She leaned her head against him comfortingly.

As Jean set the last photo aside, Cat saw there was a note underneath it. In messy handwriting was scrawled a short message:

You're worth just as much as she was -N

ao3 link if you want to save it

[w0opwo0p]

“See you on the other side”

“Oh, Jean, no, there is no other side. This is it”

[daddyduncan69]

Do you think Stuart spent those 30 seconds thinking of Mary and the years he also spent hoping?

[mcmeasle]

anyway if you can’t tell what part of the book made the top three moments that destroyed me

[even-the-devil-has-no-ideas]

Okay, Elodie Moreau is my Roman empire

[deersiderare]

Jean being an amazing big brother to his little sister in the short time they were together makes me sick I can't think Abt them for more than 5 minutes without crying

[dawnatlas]

did you go and make promises you can't keep?

[jeanmoreaue]

Jean and Elodie Moreau circa France sometime before both of their tragic fates rip