#abbott 2x09

[forbescaroline]

TOP 5/10 CHARACTERS PER SHOW (as voted by my followers) ↳ abbott elementary edition #5. Ava Coleman portrayed by Janelle James

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ABBOTT ELEMENTARY

Sick Day (2x09)

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ABBOTT ELEMENTARY — 2.09 : “Sick Day”

[miladythewinter]

ava abbott elementary funniest character on tv

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Ava looks so gorgeous

[chrrispine]

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY

Sick Day (2x09)

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ABBOTT ELEMENTARY

Sick Day (2x09)

[kitconnor]

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY  2x09 ● “Sick Day”

[tvuniverse]

AVA COLEMAN AND GREGORY EDDIE in Abbott Elementary ➤ 2x09 Sick Day

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Abbott Elementary - 2x09

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ABBOTT ELEMENTARY

Sick Day (2x09)

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ABBOTT ELEMENTARY

Sick Day (2x09)

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Janine Teagues in every episode

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY 2x09 - SICK DAY

[cdyssey]

Maggie’s Abbott/Yellowjackets Masterpost

For my organization. :’) |  Last Updated: 8/23/23

Abbott Elementary:

Fics:

Drill Day [Tumblr / AO3] → After Abbott Elementary's now traditional Drill Day—which requires the teachers and students to practice four mandated emergency drills over the course of a single day—Barbara checks on her own: Gregory, Jacob, Janine, and, of course, Melissa.

Wounds [Tumblr / AO3] → After Barbara accidentally cuts her hand in the break room, Melissa is there to clean up the wound; however, ever since Draymond's visit at the school, there has been an unspoken tension dividing the space between the two women like a knife.

I’ve Been Loving You Too Long [AO3] → Work Wives/Teddie collaboration fic with @straperine (Michael), my beloved. (2/4 Chapters)

Zipper [Tumblr / AO3] → Frankly, Barbara Howard has never had so much trouble with a damn zipper before. A Secret Santa gift for athenaseden.

Trust Me [Tumblr / AO3] → Melissa had to put someone down as her emergency contact. A Secret Santa gift for Michael.

From the Classroom:

A collection of prompts and one-shots I've written for Abbott Elementary. Mostly Barbara/Melissa. Prompts open!

Baby [AO3] → Barbara and Melissa call each other baby in front of their coworkers.

Fix You [Tumblr / AO3] → The Abbott staff meets up at a bar after work, and a guy hits on Melissa and Barbara becomes protective.

Tattoo [Tumblr / AO3] → Barbara finds it hot that Melissa has a tattoo.

Birthdays [Tumblr / AO3] → Melissa snaps at Janine and makes her cry. Some cute mothery apologies follow.

Crab Bisque [Tumblr / AO3] → When Barbara is desperately craving her late mother's crab bisque, she calls Melissa over to help her make it.

Horrible [Tumblr / AO3] → After the events of 2x09, Melissa and Barbara quickly realize how horrible they had been.

The Art Teacher [Tumblr / AO3] → Pre-relationship Melissa/Barbara where Barb is getting jealous over Mel’s new fling? Could be a new teacher who’s a woman as well?

Hard Candy Christmas [Tumblr / AO3] → After their holiday dinner, Melissa and Barbara ensure that a tipsy Jacob makes it home safely.

Aunt Mel [Tumblr / AO3] → Before Open House is officially over, Taylor pays her Aunt Mel a visit. Set during 1x10.

Silent Night [Tumblr / AO3] → Au where Mel and Barb live together happily and spend a cozy snow day at home thanks to a torrential blizzard/storm. They do all the blissful domestic things like bake/cook, watch movies, cuddle, read, dance, etc. Either the girls are smaller and they build forts/play, or they’ve grown up and moved out by then, whichever! :’)

Sea Barbara [Tumblr / AO3] → One year after her divorce with Gerald, Sea Barbara is a little in love with everyone... including, and perhaps specifically, her best friend.

The View [AO3] → Melissa simply watches her wife as she works in their shared garden, enamored, so in love.

Barbara and Melissa, Pt. 1 [Tumblr / AO3] → When Barbara and Melissa discover that their husbands are cheating on them—and with each other, no less—their lives as they have known them are suddenly and dramatically upended. Grace and Frankie AU (Pt. I).

Advocate [Tumblr / AO3] → Pizza date??

Lies [Tumblr / AO3] → When Barbara has a flat tire at her church, Melissa goes to help her. Of course she does. (Post-2x13).

Promise [Tumblr / AO3] → Barbara and Melissa - microprompt: You scared me."

Irredeemable [Tumblr / AO3] → Ava and Barbara either as a ship or a dynamic: “Irredeemable.”

Texts [Tumblr / AO3] → Ava & Melissa platonic. “Speaking of Barb...”

Good Mood Day [Tumblr / AO3] → It's a classic Schemmenti good mood day. (It's been a while.)

Valentine’s Day [Tumblr / AO3] → On Valentine's Day, Barbara and Melissa have their worst fight yet. [Pre-2.14 Fic]

Valentine’s Night [Tumblr / AO3] → After her airport date with Gerald, Barbara can't help but call and check up on Melissa. [Post-2.14]

One Bed [Tumblr / AO3] → When Barbara and Melissa get to their conference hotel room, they're unduly shocked that there is only one bed. [Post-2.16] | The wonderful @gatalentan made a recording of their favorite part of “One Bed.” Hhhgh, it made me so emo!! Check it out!

Three Women and a Glass of Wine [Tumblr / AO3] → Barbara and Ava go over to Melissa's house to come up with a plan of action against Legendary Charters. (Regrettably, there is wine involved.) [Post-2.17]

Apology Gifts [Tumblr / AO3] → Though they've already reconciled, Melissa and Barbara also exchange apology gifts. [Post-2.18]

No Children [Tumblr / AO3] → Would you be willing to write more about Melissa and having kids?

Tired [Tumblr / AO3] → In the week since Gerald's test results came back abnormal, Barbara Howard has been so tired. [Pre-2.15]

Different World [Tumblr / AO3] → I re-read your gardening fic recently where Mel's staring at Barb and is heart-eyes at her and it's just so nice, so anything along those lines would be lovely.

Human [Tumblr / AO3] → A quiet moment between Barbara and Janine after they return to the school from their shopping trip. [2.21 Spoilers]

Heavenly Moments [Tumblr / AO3] → Unable to sleep at the Franklin Institute, Barbara searches for Melissa. [2.22 Spoilers]

Wreck [Tumblr / AO3] → When Melissa's nana dies, Barbara is there for her.

Facetious [Tumblr / AO3] → After the end of yet another long work day, Melissa comes to collect Barbara. [Post-1.01]

Blueberry Pie [Tumblr / AO3] → Melissa brings Barbara a blueberry pie as an apology. [Post-1.02]

Other:

This is mostly just a compilation of the bigger/longer stuff, but generally, I post liveblogs, meta, and shorter posts under #maggie blogs! And then you can find any art I do under #maggie doodles.

Abbott 1.06 Rewatch

Abbott 2.14 Thoughts

Abbott 2.15 Thoughts

Abbott 2.19 Thoughts

Abbott 2.22 Reactions

Abbott Elementary: 31 Prompts

Abbott Elementary S1-2 Bracket: You can find all the polls and other posts in my tag #abbott bracket!

Abbott Elementary + Things to Never Say to Someone Who Just Came Out

Abbott Rewatch: Anything I’ve personally made for it!! <3 You can find the main blog at @abbottrewatch.

Barbara Meta (2.13)

Discord WW Fic with Michael

Janine and Ayesha Drabble [post-2.18]

Maggie’s Abbott End of S2 Bingo [Last 3 Eps.] [Update 3]

Maggie’s Work Wives Bingo

Melissa + Thanksgiving Headcanons

Pieces that Fit Together [about Mel post-2.11] — Feat. Michael

Pre-2.16 Work Wives Conference Drabble

Random Work Wives Headcanons

Some domestic Work Wives headcanons!

Thoughts on Abbott women and their relationships to the cameras.

uQuiz: Which Abbott Elementary woman are you?

Work Wives Pre-2.16 Conference Drabble

Yellowjackets:

Baby Shower + Steel Magnolias Thoughts (2.03)

Four tickets to the Barbie movie, please.

I’ve had Bruce for a day and a half.

Jackie + Poppies Edit

Jeff and Shauna Thoughts

Lottie’s Gay Compound

Just a little Yellowjackets uQuiz!

Shauna and Callie Meta (2.02)

Shauna and Motherhood Meta (2.06)

Shauna Meta (2.07)

Taissa the Cringefail Girlflop Thoughts (2.06)

Taissa the Dirt-Eating Lesbian

Yellowjackets + The Righteous Gemstones

Yellowjackets S2 Finale Bingo [Update]

Yellowjackets + Things to Never Say to Someone Who Just Came Out

Yellowjackets 2.02 Thoughts

Yellowjackets 2.03 Thoughts

Yellowjackets 2.04 Reactions

Yellowjackets 2.05 Reactions

Yellowjackets 2.06 Reactions

Yellowjackets 2.07 Reactions

Yellowjackets 2.08 Reactions

Yellowjackets 2.09 Reactions

Fics:

Brink [Tumblr / AO3] → Shauna and Taissa have made it somewhat of a dirty habit now, calling each other, checking-in, at least once or twice a week—even though they damn well know they shouldn't.

Good Mother [Tumblr / AO3] →  When Shauna returns home from the motel, she's surprised to find that Callie waited up for her.

Safe [Tumblr / AO3] → On the night before Natalie's funeral, Tai finds herself on Shauna's doorstep.

[chrrispine]

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY

Sick Day (2x09)

[wandering-words]

prompt 25 for avanine 🤭

(We talked before and you know I already got this one so thanks for sending in a backup request!)

This fulfills prompt 27 - humming/singing.

Set after 2x09 Sick Day.

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Janine talked to the camera crew more than most of the staff at Abbott Elementary did. 

Even Ava, the one who invited the camera crew to film the school in the first place, had a picture-perfect mask to present to the camera. She was a showman first and foremost, it was how she’d survived and gotten to where she was now, but Janine wasn’t used to projecting a personality to the camera. 

She could barely find people who saw her for her and didn’t tease her for it. Even Tariq, the man she dated for nearly twelve years, didn’t really know who she was. Janine was so used to giving and giving and giving to the people around her, her boyfriend, her mom, the staff, the school, and no one seemed to give back, just sucked her energy out of her like a clew of leeches without wondering how she was doing. 

Maybe it meant she projected too much of herself. Maybe people were too quick to dismiss her trauma, her cries for help, all of it. And maybe the camera crew weren’t really her friends, but at this point it was her only outlet to express herself, though a part of her knew logically that the camera crew were listening to her so that they could also extract knowledge that would better their Abbott Elementary documentary. 

The camera crew was meticulous, filming them from 7:30 when school started to when the kids were let out at 2:30. There were also other extraneous filming times when some of the staff members interacted outside of school, but generally the filming schedule was largely the same. Janine was impressed at how they were able to find the most dramatic moments of the school day and compile them into 25 minute episodes. 

Janine was one of the staff members that did talking heads the most, who shared her stories the most, who they painted as the protagonist despite Ava’s protests. 

Part of Ava’s TV persona was hating Janine, but Janine couldn’t help but feel like it was personal. 

The camera crew was suspiciously protective of their camera footage (the teachers saw the documentary as episodes were airing), but Janine was able to pull some strings to change that the day she got sick and couldn’t make it into school. 

She knew Ava liked sabotage—even if she didn’t, she performed it flawlessly—and Janine wanted to make sure that it didn’t affect her class’s learning.

When Janine returned to Abbott that Monday, she asked two of the crew members if she could see some of the footage of Ava being a substitute teacher, just to make sure that everything was running smoothly.  

Members of the camera crew shrugged, picking out pieces of footage they’d collected from the day and showing Janine the parts they planned to air. 

What Janine didn’t expect was the lump that rose in her throat when she heard Ava playing her coloring playlist for the kids, singing along softly to “Pick Up Your Feelings” by Jazmine Sullivan. Janine couldn’t help the shy smile that spread over her face when she heard Ava attempt the vocal run, not doing a half-bad job at it. 

It was a surprisingly wholesome moment. Watching Ava’s tough exterior go slightly softer for the kids made an unrecognizable feeling travel through Janine’s veins and she felt a smile tug at the corners of her lips. 

Ava was genuinely trying, and even though it was likely for the kids’ benefit rather than Janine’s, Janine couldn’t help but feel as though she’d seen a vulnerable moment from the taller woman, watching the showman mask crack just a bit so that the kids could be comfortable learning from her. 

Janine was a bit too good at forming unhealthy attachments to people. Barbara was the closest to a mother figure she’d ever had, Melissa was the hard-assed aunt she never had, Gregory was… a great friend, and now she was feeling some type of way about Ava. 

She just knew that her affection wouldn’t be reciprocated because Ava had made it pretty clear that she hated Janine’s guts. 

Janine came back her usual sunshiny self, and she was pleasantly surprised when Melissa and Barbara welcomed her back. Not quite with the most open of arms, but Melissa’s small smile and Barbara’s fond gaze were more than enough. 

The more surprising reaction was Ava’s: she walked into the lounge with her usual swagger, but she was quiet. As she poured her usual mountain of sugar into her otherwise black coffee, her eyes were glazed over, a victim to her own thoughts. 

What was even more surprising was that not only was Ava quiet to everyone in the staff room, but she usually had a few petty insults ready to snark out before she left, and she didn’t even look at Janine before she was swinging open the door and heading back to her office. 

Janine looked directly at the door, not realizing she was lost in her own mental world of wondering where Ava was, what she was feeling, why she was even wondering what Ava was feeling, when she heard Melissa’s smug voice break through her thoughts. 

“You’ve been staring at the door as if Ava’s coming back.” 

Janine felt her face flush and she looked down demurely, but not before she heard an “mmm” from deep in Barbara’s throat, agreeing with the redhead. It was then that Janine tentatively moved from her chair, opening the door and making her way to Ava’s office, feeling her throat constrict and her entire body growing more and more tense with each step. 

She also felt the faint bass and heard the soulful voice of Jazmine Sullivan, though muted, coming from inside Ava’s office. Janine noticed Ava humming along as she flipped through paperwork, and Janine felt some of the tension in her body melt when she noticed Ava being so… unconstricted. Free from her usual unaffected, snarky mask. 

It made Janine’s heart constrict with a new feeling, adrenaline pumping through her veins and making Janine feel a way that she’d only before felt when in the presence of Tariq or Gregory. 

But why Ava? 

“What the hell are you doing out here, Janine?” Ava said, opening the door to her office and looking at Janine with an unaffected expression, her mask effectively slipping back into place. 

“Uh…” Janine wracked her brain for an excuse, “I wanted to thank you again for watching my class. You didn’t have to do that.” 

Ava rolled her eyes. “Actually, I did. I’m not having the superintendent try to fire me again.” Her words were hard but her eyes were soft when she looked at Janine. She looked back at the documentary crew, the one she hired, before snapping at them to cut the cameras. 

To Janine’s surprise, they actually did turn off the cameras. Maybe it was because Ava was ultimately paying them to do this and she would likely try to cut their wages if they filmed her without her consent, but either way, Janine watched the tension seep out of Ava’s shoulders. 

“Thanks, Janine.” 

Her eyes were still soft when they looked at Janine, and Janine felt as though her entire body had been set on fire. 

Janine was so tempted to throw her arms around the taller woman, hear her heartbeat thumping in her chest, feel the comforting weight of Ava’s head resting on top of hers, feel safe, but before she could destroy any sense of self preservation she had, Ava was gone.