#where Jamie was dating someone who was trying to pressure him into getting veneers

[jamiesfootball]

Fic idea that I´ve been bopping around on discord on and off-

Jamie does go on a reality tv show in season two, but it's not Lust Conquers All. It's one of those shows where the people get real, legally married, only Jamie's agent is shit and Jamie did not understand that going in

But then he got put on the spot on the show and he'd already made it that far so it fell like he had to say yes and now he's. Married. For real

And everything he knows about Being Married is.... well nothing, really. He sort of thinks it's maybe like how he would've liked someone to look after his mum, maybe a bit of the stuff that Keeley broke up with him over thrown into the mix of 'what not to do'

Meanwhile the person he married, they're in it for the lifestyle and the fame and the partying. They're of the opposite mindset as Keeley's 'If Jamie found out the press was snooping into our personal life, he would hate that.' This person thrives on it.

And Jamie does hate it

So he comes back to the team in season two and he still has all of the same drama with the team, except now he’s also married and a complete footballer stereotype

Ted is. Well, for lack of a better word, he’s disappointed in him. (Everyone looks so disappointed in him- Ted, Beard, Keeley, Rebecca, even Sam.) Honestly what were you thinking, making such a big commitment on a whim? I get that it might not be what you wanted, but you did do it, and you have a responsibility your partner to make it work.

Meanwhile Roy is all, “Hide all your valuables unless you want your favourite watch to go missing.”

At home things just deteriorate, because he's with someone who puts on a good face for being kind and considerate but who really does not give a fuck about him beyond his brand

His new partner keeps elbowing him in the side when they go to take a selfie for her insta, telling him to 'stop smiling with your teeth, it's gonna make the picture ugly'

'it's not her fault his teeth look like that. if he'd just look at the brochures she got him for the veneers- but no, he never listens to her, does he?'

It would be a thoughtful deconstruction of the pressures Jamie feels to 'be better' and be accountable and do right by people and what happens when the other person does not reciprocate. Something also about the gradual realization from the people around him that something is Not Right about his new relationship

I don't really know where this is going or how to get him out of it, but it definitely turns into him trying to stay at the club later and later because he simply doesn't want to go home anymore