#♡ ˟ REL. jackie & jeff

[fatesurvived]

Jackie’s viewpoint on Shauna and Jeff // TW: PREGNANCY MENTION, STILLBIRTH, INFANT LOSS, DEATH.

Jackie had once considered Shauna to be her best friend, the one she wanted to be around, possibly secretly pinned over and had wonderful memories with. That changed after the plane crash and finding out Shauna was pregnant. At first, she went along with the idea that it was Randy’s baby but something felt off, prompting Jackie to read Shauna’s journals. Finding out that Shauna and Jeff had been fucking for god knows how long left her reeling. How many times had they done it? Why hadn’t Shauna or Jeff said a word of it the first time it happened? Being in the wilderness already felt so alone, and the fight with Shauna comes to a head after she outed the truth to their peers.

Despite her own feelings, she tries to be nice to Shauna because it would suck to be pregnant at all let alone in the middle of nowhere on the brink of starvation constantly. When the time came for the baby to arrive she put on her big girl pants and offered support. It was a damned thing to be alone in the world and if she could help for even a second it might be worth it. Everybody was excited for the baby - well maybe not Jackie, she logistically had no idea how they would survive the cold or the starvation. When the baby was delivered deceased she was among the rest crying. Crying for herself and for her former best friend.

After getting rescued, Jackie distances herself from Shauna and Jeff for a good year or two before slowly trying to extend an olive branch to Shauna. She’d come to realize that most of what Shauna had said in the woods in their big fight was true and that she hadn’t been a good friend, certainly not one worthy of the title of being her best friend. There will always be an underlying sense of betrayal, it won’t magically go away, it gets harder when the two eventually get married and have another child.