I need a mutual to let me brain rot about a very specific idea I have for Jack Abbot x doctor!reader. An outline of events, if you will.
I can’t get this out of my head:
Jack sees the shock on your face before he hears the words he had just said to you.
When had the wind been this defeaning? Or was it the silence?
“J-Jack…you don’t…don’t say th-”
“I’d do it with you. Have kids.” He said again, more definitely this time. More concrete. More real. He thinks about all the time he’s spent alone, of the kind of life he could’ve had had things been different. How you’re a different person, a different doctor, more fierce in every way when a child patient comes through those doors.
And fuck, if it doesn’t make his heart squeeze when he thinks what that can be like with you.
“We don’t have to get married.” He says, eyes watching how your throat constricts and your lips wobbles, tears threatening to free fall again.
His face leans in closer to yours, how it normally does whenever he’s seen you doubt yourself and willed every bit of confidence in you.
“But I want this for you, I want this with you. That asshole down there made you feel like you had to choose one thing and give up another, but you don’t have to give up anything with me. You can have it all, and I want to make that happen for you, if that’s what you want.”
Lord knows he’d rather chew sand than let himself be this vulnerable again.
But with you, he didn’t have to be afraid of anything at all.