#post Mom City (s3e11)

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Title: This Time It's Me That's Leaving You

Author: altschmerzes

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: Gen

Relationships: Keeley Jones & Roy Kent & Jamie Tartt; Leslie Higgins & Jamie Tartt; Ted Lasso & Jamie Tartt

Characters: Jamie Tartt, Roy Kent, Keeley Jones, Leslie Higgins, Ted Lasso

Additional Tags: Post-Episode: s03e11 Mom City (Ted Lasso); Episode Tag; Mental Health Issues; Past AbuseHurt/Comfort; Trauma; tfw you were abused and you have a LOT of baggage about 'forgiveness'; Jamie Tartt Has C-PTSD; going no-contact with a parent; Apologies; Misunderstandings; Touch Starved Jamie Tartt

Language: English

Published: 2023-06-06

Words: 15,824

Chapters: 1/1

Summary:

“I don’t want to see him again,” he says, hoping that leading with the part he knows Ted probably won’t have an issue with might make the next bit less difficult, “and I know you didn’t say that I should, but I also don’t… I tried, and I don’t want to forgive him neither. And that one you did say I should do, and I know you said it was for me and not for him, but it still feels like- like saying nothing he did mattered."

Jamie takes Ted's advice to heart - he forgives. Or he tries to. But it doesn't make things better. It doesn't free him from anything, and the text he sent his father makes everything so much worse, even though it hasn't been answered yet. When Jamie reaches his breaking point, he goes through a series of three conversations, seeking help determining whether something is wrong with him, whether it's okay to not forgive, and whether it's okay to decide that he's done trying.

(post 3x11 'mom city', dealing with... all that. gen.)

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Prompt 1: Depressed Jamie head canon

Jamie has continued bouts and episodes of depression post S3E11 Mom City, and at some point Roy even takes time off to look after Jamie, taking Jamie for vacation and recovery time with his pseudo-dad Ted in Kansas

Along the way, Jamie and Roy fall in love