#ghost jackie

[cantstandlosingyou]

"omg it's november already, mariah carey is defrosting", yeah well actually the only thing that matters right now is that she's frosting

[jackiefawn]

we about to have the craziest jackie hallucination yet

[gh0stb0nes086]

Jackieshauna as the Blade Runner 2049 drawing trend from like 2 years ago

[a7dromeda]

— THE SUBWAY

ghost! jackie taylor x fem! reader

synopsis : wherein jackie visits you in your final moments after being hunted.

word count : 1.1k words.

— warnings : pure angst, slight hurt/comfort, implied/referenced character death, major character death, blood mentioned, cannibalism mentioned, contains cursing.

— set in yellowjackets season 3 ( but reader is not the pit girl )

a/n : FINALLY a jackie taylor fic?! and yes we are heading straight into jackie haunting the narrative. currently rewatching yj right now as they just started filming s4 . . . jackie come back the kids miss you.

You've been running for hours.

You can feel the cold slowly seeping into your bones, the kind where it is unforgiving — yet you don't want to complain, it's the only honest thing you've felt anyway.

You don't even know where you are, but one thing is for sure — they're still chasing you. The echoes of their howls and screams that continues to ring all throughout the forest. The trees aren't familiar anymore, but you don't stop running, not when they're relentless on having you as their final meal for tonight.

The gold heart pendant presses coldly in your neck, dangling as you continue to run. It was Jackie's necklace — once a symbol of hope, now a reminder of death that continued to loom over your shadow.

Oh Jackie.

The Homecoming Queen, Captain of Yellowjackets.

But it seemed that it didn't want her here. Not when she was the epitome of hope. And when someone's doesn't belong, you always had to make sure they perish.

And then she did.

Half- buried along the snow, clinging tightly to the thin blanket as her face was caked with frost, snow that was determined to cling to her lashes.

You look back, still running as you hear distant footsteps of someone also running not that far behind you, and your heart sinks as you run faster.

It's going to be alright. Nat had gone hours earlier — she's going to find rescue, and they were going to get rescued.

She was going to escape, and she's gonna live.

You run faster, taking a sharp turn by a large tree as you forced yourself to run quicker — hoping you can lose them.

And then you feel it.

You suddenly felt like you were falling, and in a matter of seconds — you almost blacked out.

You landed in a bottom of a cliff not that high up, through the rocks that had spikes resting on the tough surface that you landed on, piercing through your stomach.

Snow fell on your face, your vision starting to blur as you took a sharp breath, feeling the crimson stain starting to spread through your clothes. You tried to move — only to feel pain shoot out in waves as you quietly groaned.

You looked around, slowly turning your head as you looked around the never-ending snow that seemed to bite into your skin, before feeling the copper taste rise from your throat.

You suddenly coughed, only to wipe it off to see the blood staining the back of your palm. You stared at it, the hope on your body slowly starting to wither away. The cold was starting to bite through your skin, too. But

"Is this your idea of skin tanning?"

You suddenly heard a voice, turning around as you see her.

Jackie Taylor.

Still in the same clothes she last wore before she perished, only that her skin still had that vibrant tan — not the pale skin when you all found her outside on the snow, her hair that was untouched— still perfectly made.

You can almost laugh at the irony — of all people who decided to visit you in your final moments, it was your captain who you ate out of survival.

"Is my mind fucking with me or are you actually my designated Grim Reaper?" you suddenly asked, feeling of how your vision still blurred, the numbness of the cold slowly creep underneath your skin.

"I wouldn't say I'm your designated Grim Reaper," Jackie paused, before sitting in the rock not that far from where you lay, "But I guess you could say that."

You didn't reply, trying to regulate your breathing as you can already feel the signs of blood loss.

"They're far, you know." you heard her say, making you chuckle bitterly.

"It wouldn't matter anyway, I'm still going to die." you scoffed as Jackie only continued to look at you.

You suddenly found yourself out of words as silence fell over, the snow continuing to patter into your skin as you can still hear the distant echoes of the animalistic growls of the girls echoing throughout the familiar Wilderness.

"Why are you here, anyway?" you muttered as you continued to breath harshly, "To congratulate me for being their next meal?" you said.

"We both know why I'm here." Jackie said, looking at you. "You knew you were next."

"Yeah, right before fucking rescue." you laughed bitterly as you felt tears prickle into your eyes.

You were so close — so goddamn close to going home, you were so close to seeing your family once again.

"You know, since I'm gonna fucking die anyway—" you paused, "I didn't want to do it."

"God, we didn't want to do it. I don't know what fucking came over us and we did that shit—" you said, pausing as you felt your throat slowly tighten up.

"But I'm fucking sorry." your voice cracked as you looked at the sky, snow still falling into your skin. "You didn't deserve that shit."

She didn't answer, only staring distantly. There were no words spoken in exchange — just the distant howl of winter, and death that loomed over you.

"Oh well," Jackie said as she eventually stood up. "This shit's been... too eventful, don't you think?" as you only chuckled quietly, nodding.

"There's something you want not that far." Jackie said as she looked at you. "Might want to see it."

"And where are you going?" you found yourself asking as you looked at her.

Jackie only continued walking far away, before quietly turning around. "Somewhere." she said.

"Still speaking in riddles after death, huh." you said as Jackie only laughed, waving her hand as she walked away.

"You'll see soon, anyway. Wouldn't want to spoil you." she only said as she slipped further, disappearing into the fog that seemed to surround the area.

Silence washed once again — soon broken as you heard the footsteps and howls edge closer. You reluctantly sat up, feeling the spikes slowly leave through your skin as you bit your lip tightly to prevent any sounds escaping through her lips.

You clutched your stomach tightly, almost vomiting at the sight of blood dripping slowly from the spikes as you slowly stood up, clutching the rough edges as she walked.

You walked slowly, blood pattering through the snow as you soon found a small cave hidden in the treeline, just small enough for you to fit in as you grabbed some tree branches, clutching it through your hands.

You slowly climbed inside, gasping as you used the tree branches to seal the entrance, hiding your body.

You took deep breaths, the numbness now seeping your upper body as your breaths were slowing down.

You couldn't even move anymore, just that you were so goddamn sleepy, so you closed your eyes.

And suddenly, it was peaceful again.

"Hey, come on."

You turned around, seeing Jackie again as she walked closer to you.

You opened your mouth to speak, but she cut you off already. "No questions asked, okay? Just follow me." she muttered.

"Where are we going?" you found yourself asking as you both disappeared into the trees.

"Somewhere we won't be cold."

[snapbarkbite]

Shauna Shipman post-rescue watching Cruel Intentions (1999) and getting jump scared when Sarah Michelle Gellar’s evil lesbian slay looks and sounds a little too much like the Ghost of Jackie Taylor

[marikamlp]

Were girls always doomed to become what they did?

Spoilers to s03e08!!!

I find it interesting that the three characters who didn't want to come back from the wilderness are the three characters who came home to live exactly the life they feared. It's tragic, yet they're the ones who ultimately make it happen as if there was no real choice, like they were always doomed to live it.

Tai

Taissa tells Van in the Wilderness that she fears they won't be able to be together because the society hasn't changed and progressed that much since they left. But this is exactly what she does once they get back! She ditches Van for "respect" and her "law degree". And as Van says, the tragic irony is that she ends up gay anyway. Not only openly married to a woman, but she's a public figure married to a woman. Yet, Tai is clearly unhappy as she gave up a big part of herself, Van, who is always somehow connected to this free side of Tai, and as I've said in my other post, that's Other Tai. We can see the man with no eyes looking over Tai's shoulder when she tells Van she wants to stay, which could let us assume it's Other Tai's decision. It's a decision based on desires, but that has to be abandoned once they are back in the real society, and Tai needs to bury Other Tai and her desires to follow a rational side of herself. She fears losing Van, and she fears it so much that it ultimately leads to them falling apart and her breaking up with Van.

Shauna

I've seen several explanations as to why Shauna doesn't want to come back, and I want to give my own view on this. I think she doesn't want to come back because she fears becoming "boring" again and getting back to living in the shadow. Shauna keeps on telling everyone how 'boring' they are - Jackie, Melissa, Jeff. But it's truly just that she's insecure about being nobody, and it's something ghost Jackie calls her out on again and again. "So much potential and so little to show for it". When Shauna gets back, not only does she spiral back to living in the shadow of Jackie as she tries to live the life she thinks Jackie would have lived, she also becomes exactly what she destined herself to become when playing sleepover games with ghost Jackie in the meat shed: a housewife married to Jeff. When Melissa talks about all those normal boring things she can't wait to do, when girls dream about such boring, everyday life stuff like toilet and bed and a slushie, Shauna is dissociating at the thought. She's terrified of that possibility of a "normal, boring life" as her mind wanders to the exact image she's dreaming of as an adult in the beginning of the episode: a cashier with nothing to show for herself. She and Melissa live the same life in the adult timeline - a marriage out of shame and guilt, mothers. But Melissa likes it, and Shauna hates it and is constantly looking for a thrill that will let her feel the way she felt in the Wilderness. She doesn't want to give up that freedom but her actions in the Wilderness are exactly what makes her fall back into a boring life with Jeff, holding onto the Wilderness is exactly what keeps her from going for what she dreamt of before the plane crash and what leaves her to be what she feared most - a normal, boring housewife.

Lottie

I find it so tragic that Lottie didn't want to go back because she was convinced that she wouldn't be well back in society. Because she knew she had no life to go back to, that she would just be put in a facility to be dealt with, put on meds that make her probably feel not like herself and that she once again will be lost and made to hide her true self as one with different kinds of conditions often is to adapt to the society that wasn't made for them to live in. And it is exactly what happens. She is put in a facility where she goes through such awful and traumatic experiences like shock therapy. And all that after losing something so close to her heart that maybe was the first place she ever felt at home. The Wilderness. When she says that the scientist "will ruin everything", she means it. She knows that the appearance of outside people means everyone will want to go home, and she can't take it because for her it means she's going to lose home. Nobody will believe her again, nobody will listen to her, and nobody will care for her like people did in the Wilderness. She fears it, and she is doomed to live through it. And not only once, but twice. 25 years later, she again loses her cult, the home she built for herself, only to be sent away to be "dealt with" in a facility.

While Tai and Shauna make choices that make them fall right into their destined end, Lottie doesn't get a say in it, which I think makes her story even more tragic and sympathetic (and I am aware she axed a person and ate their brains out). In the end, the girls are living a Greek tragedy. No matter what they do or don't do, they will do exactly what will land them in those positions. It's fate decided by fatum that they can't escape.

[brownbeemolasses]

maybe shauna didn't actually hate being called shipman, she just knew in that dream that jackie was different than the real jackie. when jackie asks her "since when?" and shauna says "since always", maybe it's not her actually hating it when jackie was alive, maybe "since always" means since she hallucinated jackie in the meat shed for the first time

she didn't hate the name she hated hearing it from a ghost she hated knowing that the real jackie was frozen and then eaten down to her bones and would never call her shipman again

[beastsovrevelation]

Ella Purnell as (Ghost) Jackie Taylor in Yellowjackets (3.03)