Someone commented on God the kid looks so sad asking if I was going to continue it and the answer is yes absolutely I'm just fighting through some writers block but I do have half of the next chapter written and I thought I'd share a snippet just in an attempt to nudge open the floodgates in my tired little brain
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Roy only has to much self-restraint. Turns out when you let a kid sob into your chest, you fucking care about them or some shit.
Or that’s what he tells himself as he bangs on Jamie’s door on their one day off.
“Roy?” Jamie says confused as he opens the door.
“Yeah, its fucking me” Roy says pushing past Jamie with bags in his hands.
“What are you doing here?”
“I’m making you lunch.”
“You what?” Jamie asks trailing behind Roy as he walks into Jamie’s kitchen and starts unpacking his shopping bags.
“I’m making you lunch” Roy repeats. “You’ve lost weight”
“Just a little” Jamie says blushing slightly.
“Enough that I noticed” Roy points out pulling out a bag of potatoes and a bag of brown rice.
Ghost and Soap have one kid. They did not particularly want a kid, it was through a very bizarre series of events they wound up with one. But my God do they adore the fuck out of their little princess. You bet your ass Ghost is having tea parties with her when she's little. Soap dresses as the princely compliment to her princess every Halloween.
The issue is that Price and Gaz have 5 kids, all boys (they thought they had 4 boys a girl, but their eldest corrected them pretty early on), all rough and tumble. And yeah the MacTavish's know that they shouldn't be so reluctant to have the kids spend time together, but their little girl is shy and sweet and they don't want her getting trampled by this bunch of wildlings.
Anyway, I can just see a whole childhood full of antics because the parents are competitive and think their kid(s) is better than the other families' kid(s). And then when they start getting older a blind panic happening with the adults because uh oh is anyone else starting to get the sense that all of the Price kids might have a sort of thing for the MacTavish kid? Soap and Ghost cannot possibly have that, their little sweet baby angel will actually never be getting a romantic interest thank you very much she will stay at home with her dads forever. For Price and Gaz they just don't want to be in-laws because they occasionally have intimate relations with Ghost and Soap and they think it would make it weird :')
i love ninho but god the rooms getting smaller and smaller the more the parents get paranoid its just,, depressing??
like holy shit badboyhalo you are so fucking smart but god just seeing this room being built on paranoia, just decked out with secure blocks and removing what little the eggs have of personalizing this small room with things that makes them feel comfort in a situation where they well know they are in danger just makes me feel so sad
like, they're kids. all of those rooms are for little kids. they're safe in there yes, but they're going back to what they didnt want to make the rooms look like, like a prison
Screaming crying throwing up reading Tom's perspective on Alex.
Like how do you, a fourteen year old child, try to help out your best friend who has clearly been through something traumatic, but you don't know what. How do you deal with your friend disappearing for weeks on end and returning with bags under his eyes and scars all over his body. How do you deal with your friend leaving and coming back a little bit more changed each time, a little bit more scarred each time.
like
"When the two of them had finally met again, Tom had been surprised at how much his friend had changed. He had been hurt. Tom had seen some of the scars. But Alex also seemed to have got a lot older. There was something in his eyes that hadn't been there before, as if he had seen things he would never be able to forget." - Scorpia (page 86)
today one of my boys at work (almost 3), dumped a full shovel full of sand into his mouth and then looked at me very stressed out that his mouth was full of sand
every single day i think about nicky close-foster whose entire personality completely shifted when he grew up with a different dad. every day i think about how no matter what kind of person he turned out to be, the core is that both nick and nicholas idolized and loved their dads so much that they tried to be so much like them. in both timelines. the only core of nicky foster/close that stayed the same when he turned from nick to nicholas was the love he had for his father.
i think that if one of the other sons' dads had gotten switched, they hadnt had NEARLY the same kind of reaction to the kid. i think grant, terry, and the twins' personalities would have stayed at least relatively the same. but nicks didnt because he looked up to his dad so much that he based his entire personality off of him
Chapters: 5/?
Fandom: Ted Lasso (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Roy Kent & Jamie Tartt, AFC Richmond Players & Jamie Tartt, Ted Lasso & Jamie Tartt
Characters: Jamie Tartt, Roy Kent, AFC Richmond Players (Ted Lasso), Ted Lasso, Coach Beard (Ted Lasso), Dani Rojas (Ted Lasso), Keeley Jones, Rebecca Welton, Sam Obisanya, Jan Maas, Isaac McAdoo, Richard Montlaur, Colin Hughes
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Cuddling & Snuggling, Hurt Jamie Tartt, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Physical Abuse, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, I'm Bad At Tagging, slight disordered eating
Summary:
Its not that Jamie changes after the events at Wembley, in fact if anything he ups his bravado but everyone has seen behind the carefully curated front Jamie's put on all his life, and suddenly they're realising all the things they missed before. All the things Jamie's hidden behind jokes and smiles.
Used to be he'd make some crude joke and they'd roll their eyes, but now they know the truth that joke is hiding.
Now they look at each other, seeing the same thought reflected around the locker room.