#dating jack Kelly

[livesincerely]

“Jack,” Davey murmurs, close enough that he can feel the whisper of his breath against his cheeks. “Apparently you haven’t noticed, but we’ve been dating for years. Tomorrow is our three-year anniversary.”

Jack, who had been swaying towards the warmth of Davey’s body, towards the promise of a kiss, freezes dead in his tracks. “What?”

But Davey just smiles. “Three years,” he repeats calmly.

“No, no, I heard you the first time, I jus’…” Jack shakes his head, hard, as if that with somehow make any of what’s happening make any kind of sense. “What?”

“When’s the last time you had sex with anyone but me?” Davey prompts—impossibly patient, all things considered. “Or went out on a date? Gave someone your number?”

“Not in fuckin’ ages,” Jack sputters, offended at the very thought. “You an’ me, we’ve got a good thing goin’. I wouldn’t do that to you.”

“You wouldn’t cheat on me?” Davey specifies, tilting his head.

“Course not!”

“Why would it be cheating if we aren’t together?” Davey asks, pointedly.

Jack stares at him, trying to find the riddle hidden in Davey’s question. Because… Because…

“Oh,” he says blankly.

Davey laughs, curling his hands around Jack’s waist. “Oh,” he agrees.

“Three years?” Jack asks weakly.

“Jackie,” Davey sighs, apparently realizing that Jack needs this spelled out to him. “We live together. We share a bedroom. We spent last Christmas at your mom’s house and you introduced me to Charlie’s kids as ‘Uncle David’.”

“Oh,” Jack says again, because it really bears repeating. “How the hell have you managed to put up with my dumbass for three fucking years?”

“It probably helps that I’m madly in love with you,” Davey says, rolling his eyes even as another soft smile curls over his lips.

“Huh,” Jack says. It’s maybe not the best response, but it’s honestly a miracle he manages to say anything at all.

“You’re in love with me too,” Davey helpfully informs him.

“Well, I knew that part,” Jack huffs. Then, “How did you know that?”

“Because I know you,” Davey says, lacing their fingers together. “But feel free to say it aloud any time you like.”

“I love you, too,” Jack murmurs.

Davey’s smile is like the first days of spring: bright like sunshine, full of promise and full of hope.

And the taste of his kiss is even better.

[loving-jack-kelly]

jack identifies as queer rather than a more specific label because he doesn't do well with introspection and prefers to roll with the punches. so maybe he wants to make out with a dude at the club whatever. doesn't have to be anything.

davey identifies as queer because he did the whole microlabel thing for a long time only to eventually realize that for him specifically all it accomplished was more nitpicking of himself and trying to building himself a smaller and smaller box to fit in so he could fit in a box. maybe he is demihomoromantic graysexual but also he's just queer and isn't it so freeing to just let himself be whatever he is without trying to pin down his own wings?

[we-are-inevitable]

i think it’s more fun when jack and spot are kind of bitter exes

[thatoneandlonelyemo2005]

you ever think David and Mush stand on the side lines and watch Blink and Jack do something stupid?

[ya-what--ya-erster]

what if what if what if

what if (and idk much like history wise so idk if this even works but it is A Thought)

(also worth mentioning that I thought of this cause I dreamed about it-)

in 1936 the Jacobs family travels to Poland to be with family. Jack is absolutely devastated that they leave, all but Les, who stays to go to school. He refuses to return any letters from the family and just wants to forget all about them.

But he picks up a newspaper one day and reads about the war, and what’s happening to Jewish people over there, and suddenly he’s sending a letter every day, praying that by some miracle David or *someone* will answer.

He’s in the middle of writing one of these letters when there’s a knock on his door and none other than Les Jacobs stand across from him, looking like a scared cat on the street, and he just falls into Jacks arms and cries because *did you read the news today*

Headline: David Jacobs, co-leader of Newsies strike killed, along with parents and sister

Jack has never felt more torn apart.

Les moves in with him, because what is he supposed to do, leave him to fend for himself?

And Jack finds his way back to old friends who are all mourning the loss of the boy with bright blue eyes and a smart mouth.

Additionally- I want to hear from y’all if I end up writing about this I want to know what I need to do to be respectful and sensitive of this topic and everything and I want to know everything you have to say! If I’m being a dick I’m relying on y’all to call me tf out on it cause I don’t wanna be a dick

[getyourpaybackwithsomepayback]

crutchie wanted Santa Fe like Jack wanted Katherine. No I will not elaborate. (In tags yes I will)

[jackmkelly]

jack and kath are so cute i am nothing but a sucker for a cute disney romance these two kids love each other so much and thats beautiful to me. i hope he wakes up so excited to see her face and i hope she falls asleep eager to see him again (just like the hit 2011 song then i see u again famously cut bc … the icu..). i love my writer & artist duo sooooo much.

[daveys-sister]

Jack: How does your therapist feel about having like, the model patient?

Davey: Listen, I’m a perfectionist control freak, if I’m going to be in therapy, I’m going to be the goddamn best at it

[loiteringandlurking]

'jack, you, uh.... you got something.' jack's eyebrows draw together as davey points to jack's face with his fork.

'something o' what?' jack wipes his hand across his cheek. 'soot? dirt?' davey only giggles behind his hand, which is criminal.

'nah, lemme get it.' davey smiles his horrid smile and reaches across their table. his hand cups jack's cheek as davey swipes his thumb across the corner of jack's mouth, and jack has half a mind to lean over the table and kiss davey then and there as he watches davey's eyebrows knit. he feels davey's thumb on his face, harder this time, dragging out the corner of his lip, and jack swats his hand away.

'davey, what on earth?' jack tries not to smile a cheek-hurtingly amount as davey checks his thumb, his eyes drawing back to that corner of jack's mouth.

davey doesn't say anything (god save the man) and instead leans over their table and their food (his tie almost dragging through their meals) until his face is inches from jacks. jack feels his entire face turn red as Davey thouroughly searches his face, one thumb leaning up to the corner of his mouth again. davey scratches the corner of jack's mouth with his fingernail, and jack yelps. 'ow! dave, what the hell?' he brings his hand up to where davey scratched, the stinging sensation already subsiding.

'you have food on your face!' davey finally says, plopping back down onto his chair. 'there's a little crumb st the corner of your mouth! i don't have my glasses, so I was so proud of myself for noticing it, but it didn't come off! it's stuck to your face, jack! the crumb is fusing with you!'

jack searches davey's incredulous expression for any notes of sarcasm or jokes as he grins.

'davey,' he says carefully, surpressing laughter. 'is it a freckle?'

[dearreader]

honestly jack antonoff being pissed at joe now makes so much sense. if i watched my best friend struggle through a 6.5 year relationship and try so hard to save it when her partner was cheating on her, making her feel like the problem, and her life is why it’s not working out i’d be seeing red and doing a lot more than him

[diorgirl444]

me when the character ai is moving a bit fast

[loving-jack-kelly]

i think jack has the kind of adhd that makes him go deeper and deeper into the random details of what he hyperfixates on but also have no idea that his depth of interest isn't normal. he says oh haha yeah I've been obsessed with cowboys since I was a kid :) and he means "I have a near encyclopedic knowledge of western fashion from the cowboy era and could tell you the names of every outlaw and how they got caught or died from 1800 to 1850 and I have read journal entries and letters from gay cowboys so obscure that gay cowboy researchers I've reached out to find out more have not heard of them. but I have" he'll spend hours on Wikipedia yes but he'll also spend hours in museum archives so he can put real cowboy artifacts in a cowboy painting and add details that nobody but him and maybe two other people in the world will understand in there. but also he'll just say yeah I like cowboys and think that covers it. get him going and he can't stop but mostly he thinks his interest is casual because he's always been like this.

[we-are-inevitable]

for their second or third date davey suggests that he and jack go to one of those wine paint night things because davey likes wine and jack likes paint and its perfect. it’s so perfect. IN THEORY. but it turns into a night of davey seeing jack soooooo stressed bc the way the instructor is painting this scene is so weird, davey, and the colors are kind of off, dave, don’t you see that these don’t have enough contrast, and no one here actually cares about the painting and they just want to get drunk and oh my god davey this is worse than my high school art teacher trying to make us draw vending machine designs for the zoo. and jack is having the worst time of his life and wont stop whispering complaints and “oh my god”s and davey wants him carnally

[frogmanfae]

I'm so sorry but I am such a Something To Believe In hater

[regina-cordium]

Rip jack kelly, you would’ve loved austen by dasha

[kellyscowboy]

something about the newsboys being the cool varsity jocks in high school that are super sweet to everyone, like the schools’ own personal bodyguards 

like imagine some kid nervously inviting them to some party & all they give them is a short “okay” and a nod before turning back to whatever they’re doing. and then when they show up at the part they (very intamidatingly) ask the host “are you so-and-so?” and then say “cool, nice party” and start high fiving these random kids.

jack shoving some random bullies to the floor and scaring them off while david picks up all of the freshmans papers, while racetrack picks the kid up and dusts him off