Legends of Tomorrow Imagines

John Constantine x Reader

Y/N POV

     Hell. That's how I would describe my experience with John Constantine in one word. A little ironic since his soul belongs to the netherworld. I'd tell him to go to hell but he'd probably just feel right at home. I just can't stand him, his snarky comments, constant flirting, cocky attitude. It drives me crazy. Now that he's joined our ragtag group of misfits, things have just become even more hectic and chaotic than they already were.

     "Well hello there love." I snapped my head to the door of the library to see none other than the damned man himself. He stood leaning against the doorway with a cigarette sticking out of his smirking mouth.

     "What do you want Constantine?" I say turning back to the book I was currently reading. Constantine had been trying to piss me off all day and so far, he was succeeding.

     "Can't ol' Johnny boy just give a simple hello?"

     "Not to me he can't." He stood from leaning against the door and sauntered over to the front of the desk I was sitting at. He placed his hands on the desk and looked at the book in front of me.

     "Whatcha reading there?" I quickly snapped the book closed at his words and look up at him. He seemed taken back by my sudden action but then chuckled knowing that he was getting under my skin.

     "Why must you keep bothering me when you have someone like Mick who is literally a hothead?" I ask leaning back in the chair and crossing my arms.

     "Well I'm not gonna lie love, I like seeing you angry." He spoke lowly leaning farther over the desk. I stood up and decided I had enough of this.

     "I'm so sick of you, I don't even understand why I'm talking to you." I started to step around the desk till he grabbed my hand to stop me.

     "Oh come on love you know you love me." I yanked my hand from his grasp and smacked him straight across his cocky face.

     "No, you want to know exactly how I feel about you?" He reaches up to touch the side of his face only flinching when he does due to the sting I had left.

     "Do tell." He smiles at me challenging me to get even angrier than I already was.

     "You're a pathetic joke of a man who can never take anything seriously! I've had enough of you! Enough of your words, your actions, your stupid game that you play! All you ever do is get drunk, smoke your cigarette, and flirt with anything that walks! All you have to your name is magic, take that away and your just a little boy again wishing to be something better! You've probably never even experienced what real pain feels like!" As soon as those words left my mouth his smile faltered and quickly became a frown. I decided it was time to leave and turned on my heel towards the exit.

     "Astra." I stopped in the doorway at the sudden name announced.

"What?" I ask while slowly turning to look at Constantine. As I see him I can already tell, he is not the same man as he was 15 seconds ago. He was looking down at the ground with his hands in his pockets and his shoulders hunched in pain.

"That's it."

"What's it?" I asked becoming impatient.

"Real pain." He looked up at me and upon seeing my look of confusion he continued. "She was a little girl who was possessed by a demon. Me and some old friends used to be a group of sorcerers and decided to help her. Me being the cocky young man I was decided to resolve the situation myself by summoning an even stronger demon. Nergal. He killed the demon that was inside Astra then..." Constantine looked hurt, broken even. Whatever happened that day still haunts him now. "Nergal killed Astra, damned her to hell for all eternity." I reached up and covered my mouth realizing what memories I had just brought back into his mind. "And it was all my fault." He said with hatred for himself.

"Constantine. I'm so sorry, I didn't know..."

"How could you have known? How could you have known that this sad ol' wanker basically murdered a child?" Tears threat to fall from my eyes but I resisted them as much as possible. "My colleagues all left and decided to forget about me and that day forever. Now how's that for real pain?"

"Constantine, I shouldn't have said what I did. I'm sure I'll never be able to apologize enough for having you say that. You don't have to accept my apology but please do know that I am so sorry." By this point a few of my tears were slowly falling down my cheek. I had been so angry at John all this time and never even thought about what he may have went through in his life. Putting my arms around myself I looked down and finally accepted the tears that wished to flow. I couldn't believe I let my anger get the best of me. How could I have said any of those things? Everyone has experienced real pain in their life at one point or another.

As I stood there mentally beating myself up, I felt two arms pull me into a hug. Even though I knew it was John I still rapped my arms around him for support. One of his arms was around my back and the other was slowly soothing my head.

"Shhh... It's alright love I've got you." I felt bad for soaking his button up with my tears but he currently didn't mind. He stood there calming me down for a couple minutes before pulling away a little to look at me. My tears ceased but I continued to look away from him. He gently grabbed my chin directing my eyes toward him. "I forgive you, (y/n)."

"Why?"

"Because you didn't know, same as I don't know about your past. And plus, how could I stay angry at you." He looked into my eyes and lightly grabbed both sides of my face pulling my lips toward his. I stood surprised at first till relaxing into his touch. He wasn't rough nor was he intense. He was calm. After what felt like mere moments we pulled apart. "Thank you (y/n)."

"For what, John?" He switched his sincere smile into a sly smirk upon hearing his name.

"For being you."

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I'm so sorry for being gone for so long but let's just say that the after school activities that were taking up my time are finally over. But I hoped you liked this Constantine imagine either way. Don't forget to comment whatever requests you have. Love y'all💚