#Gavin's holding him at knifepoint and his first words are 'you're beautiful'

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uwu uhh jerevin for you: whatever you do don't imagine skittish golden boy who is super protective of His Crew being nervous and doing a lot of digging or "snooping" for info, and potentially tracking down, newer members just to keep an eye on them, so much so that Geoff starts giving less and less notice to Gav BC "trust me, will you? He won't kill us or you, I've checked." 1/? -B

Jeremy starting off as a new crew member, Gav unknowing, and getting cornered with a knife by Gav in the penthouse like “who are you??! how’d you get in here?! who hired you?!!” Jeremy is just so confused, stuck somewhere between, “okay fuck, a knife pointed at me on first day, what did I do?” and “Who wears this much golden jewelry and is still attractive?”. Geoff rounds the corner, sees this, and just pulls Gav away sighing. Jeremy swears he hears annoyed grumbling and protests from both 2/? BThey later "meet" again on better circumstances (with Geoff in the room, just in case). Gavin, huffly, apologizing but honestly meaning it (even if he does blame geoff for not telling him to expect a stranger). J understands, and honestly probably, would have reacted similarly. Gav getting tasked with taking J to meet the others and enjoys telling him ""true stories"" (rumors) about the others just to spook him. 3/3 -B

(I just got home so I can answer this properly now but aaa anon this was so lovely to see in my inbox thank u omgg 😭)

okay YES tho!! Gav vets people thoroughly, he makes sure he knows every single detail about someone’s history when looking into them.I think it was probably borne from a bad experience, maybe he was stretched a bit too thin in the early days of the crew and did a cursory glance at their background, then just let them in for a meeting with Geoff, only to have it be a fucking ambush and Geoff barely makes it out alive, so Gavin never EVER lets someone near their crew if he doesn’t know their fucking favourite pet’s name, that’s how thorough he is.

And then??? This guy shows up at the penthouse out of nowhere?? Of course the first thing Gavin does is pull his diamond encrusted dagger (a lovely gift from his boi that he treasures and carries with him everywhere) from the sheath in his boot (custom made by Jack, god love her) and presses it against the guy’s throat hard enough to bleed.

Jeremy’s just. Freaking out. Because he knows this guy. The Golden Boy, who doesn’t? But he’s a fan anyway, so he definitely instantly recognises him, realises his mistake but still has a moment of ‘how the fuck does he look that good when practically all he’s wearing is gold!!!’ and just kinda accidentally blurts out “You’re beautiful...” because he’s an idiot, apparently.

And of course Geoff comes running in to pull the knife from Jeremy’s throat and haul Gavin away somewhere private to talk, all the while apologising to Jeremy while Gav’s slung over his shoulder, protesting profusely and pounding his fists on Geoff’s back like a child.

Geoff explains who that was, tells Gavin he’s sorry, but he’s been busy with jobs lately and this guy was a fan, a kid, so easily readable that Geoff knows he’s trustworthy (and the background check Matt did helped, even if it wasn’t nearly as thorough as Gavin’s would have been) and he was going to tell him literally right as Gavin stumbled upon him.

So he arranges a proper meeting this time, and Gavin apologises because he really does feel bad (especially after doing his own background check and finding that there really was nothing to worry about this Jeremy guy) and Jeremy, flustered, tells him that he forgives him and completely understands, makes a joke about how next time Gavin should buy him dinner first, though (which he regrets immediately from how corny that was, even though Gavin clearly doesn’t seem to mind)

And then of course he takes lil’ J around to meet the others, telling him stories that he really should know are fake by how absurd they are, but he must be too starstruck by Gavin to question them, because by the time they get around to meeting Ryan (the one he’d spent the most time hyping up as basically the grim reaper himself), Jeremy looks about ready to pass out.

When he finds out later that these were all lies, the illusion shatters and suddenly Jeremy very much wants to strangle the life out of Gavin (and maybe kiss him too but shut up!! That’s completely unrelated to how gorgeous he’d looked pressing a knife into Jeremy’s throat)