#jackken

[dayyv1d]

THEY CALLED ME CRAZY.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

I was thinking about the JackKen where Jack ends up helping the ground crews because he can never sleep, and they end up getting him his own coveralls and tool box and give him a nickname so they're not just yelling "Major Kidd!" up and down the hardstands when he's with them.

And I thought, "Oh, I need a goofy nickname. They're razzing him for being tall, maybe. What's the Ohio state tree??"

It's the Buckeye.

Absolutely not. Jack would put rocks into his pockets and walk into a cow pond. But also, I may write the scene where they want to figure it out and go find an encyclopedia because none of them are from Ohio, and when they get to the state tree, they all groan and shout "NO!"

[dayyv1d]

jackken art i made to feed my rarepair soul at 2am ^_^

[dayyv1d]

GUYSYSYS i love them

[dayyv1d]

GUSYSYSS!! My super cool moot wrote this and you guys should def boost it because theyre very nice and cool and i will love you forever if you do 🥹🥹✌️

(if the link doesn't show up its I’m still here by aliens4art on ao3!!)

[dayyv1d]

daysdiary the ceo of jacken from pinterest I know its u.

(It's me LemonDemon if ya remeber)

shh no it isnt..

[sweaterkittensahoy]

It appears visiting cards (aka calling cards) were still somewhat in use in the 1940s, and now I'm imagining Ken showing up in Cleveland with no word ahead to Jack and showing up at his house knowing all the etiquette for arriving and announcing himself and leaving a card.

And Jack's out when Ken gets there but sees the card when he gets back, and he honestly does not know what to do with himself, that Ken's followed protocol to a tee.

He'd been certain Ken wouldn't want to put up with such things just to be with him, and he'd said so near the end of the war. Ken, raised working class in a very small town, hadn't really done that level of manners before, but after Jack had said that to him, he'd gone to some of the other boys from fancier families and had them teach him.

He designed his card himself. It's two lemons and a blue bird. The blue bird is for Jack.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Anyway, Jack and Ken falling in love via being on the ground and stuck in this whole war together in a way that does not translate for anyone else. Ken knows exactly what Jack was up against because he sees it and repairs it on the ground. And Jack learns what Ken's going through because he's now a pilot on the ground.

Jack can't sleep, so he wanders out to the hardstands to see what the ground crews are doing. The other boys are polite and occasionally ask Jack to help if the timing is right. Ken's the only one to go, "Sir, do you how the right end of a wrench?"

"Not for this sort of work," Jack says because it's the truth.

"It's all this sort of work," Ken says and hands him a wrench and puts him to work unfastening panels. Air Exec wants to get his hands dirty, Ken won't turn down an extra pair of hands.

Ken hums while he works. Jack starts singing along if he recognizes the tune.

There's some things Ken has to do himself, but Jack can hold hardware or hand over tools. Which frees up another gorund crew guy to start on the next fort.

The fellas can't sleep even though they're warm and cozy in the tents by the runway, so Jack reads them Peter Pan like his mother did for him.

They fall in love slowly and quietly and under the radar. Neither of them really realizing it for months and months. And then one night, they're laying side-by-side on their stomachs and working inside a floor panel, and Jack slips into the spot without thinking because it's obviously a little too narrow for Ken, and when he looks up to hand Ken the dented up piece they were looking for, Ken leans in and kisses him.

Because Jack understands the stress and the fear and the unstoppable hope of staying on the ground to protect their boys in the sky.

And Jack kisses back.

Because Ken understands that sometimes all there is to do is keep busy and that sometimes silence says everything you want to say.