#jadetabby

[divorcingjimmatthews]

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JadeTabby nation how we feeling out there tonight

[prigorie]

i haven't had time to watch the new episodes of from yet, but i'm glad that season 4 coming out brought more people to my jade/tabitha fics and i'm getting kudos emails almost every day. in case you want to check them out:

i will fall in love with you (over and over again) - the night after the end of s3, probably canon divergent at this point

Snowed in for Christmas - Christmas meet-ugly AU, inspired by me watching all 4 of David Alpay's Hallmark movies right after finishing s3

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Thinking abt them...........

[divorcingjimmatthews]

When you see a man who's raging, And he's jealous and he fears That you've walked through walls He's hid behind for years.

[divorcingjimmatthews]

jim/jade/tabby post-escape scenario

i know they won't escape this season but what if they did. and they were poly about it

jade goes back to NY to sort out his financial business and get his life back in order

he hasn't seen jim and tabitha in a few months now, but he misses them like crazy, specially tabitha

he finally reaches out to ask how they're doing, tabitha says its hard dealing with the separation, etc.

the kids are specially struggling to adjust back to their normal lives, and she feels like she's losing control of the situation

jade asks if money would help. she tells him that actually, if he came for a visit it might really help ethan because he keeps asking about him and victor and everyone else from the town

jade shows up on tabitha's doorstep looking his best, and holding a bouquet of roses

jim is there when she opens the door

"i thought you said you had separated"

turns out, they didn't want to shake up the kids lives even further, so they agreed to keep living together for a couple of years until julie went off to college

apparently the separation really helped the friction between them decrease, so at least the constant arguments are no longer a problem in the household

but jim is still definitely not ready to watch someone else try to woo his ex-wife. he can't decide if it being jade makes it slightly less terrible or a million times worse

he grabs his coat off a hanger in the hallway and walks towards the door

tabitha: "where are you going?"

jim: "for a walk!"

he storms past jade, not caring that he's shoving him with his shoulder as he does so, and closes the door behind him

tabitha takes the flowers and shakes her head with a sigh. "he always does this!"

her accent comes through as she complains

jade can't stop staring at her. he missed her so much, and he realises that he never wants to be far from her again if he can help it

"i'm sorry. this was probably a terrible idea."

tabitha sighs again, but she smiles. she smiles, and it makes his heart swell three times its size

"i really missed you." he points at the roses. "just. ignore those. it just felt right, but, you know—i can be a fucking idiot sometimes, so..."

she just lets him talk. there's a fondness in her eyes.

"can you say something?"

"i... i don't know" she says with a shrug "i don't know. if you want an answer—i don't know"

"no, of course, i... i don't know what i expected. listen, i'll come back later, just text me when the kids are back from school, okay?"

tabitha nods, and he leaves. he runs into jim on his way out, who was just sitting in his car parked right around the corner. jade gets in the car

"look, i can't blame you for trying"

"she said 'i don't know'. what do you think that means?"

"i think it means that you might be in for one hell of a ride."

later, ethan is so happy to see jade, and julie pretends to be barely tolerating him but makes no efforts to leave the room

they all notice how tabitha looks happier with jade around, except for jade who has no frame of reference and assumes she must be just tolerating his presence after the confession

jade offers to take the whole family out for dinner, but julie is working hard to catch up with her studies to graduate with her friends so it's just them and ethan (because jim and tabitha promised julie that they wouldn't make her babysit ethan anymore)

the dinner —at the fanciest restaurant in town, which made jim roll his eyes but provided lots of fun and entertainment for ethan—goes surprisingly well, just like the afternoon went

jim takes ethan and leaves to refuel the car while jade takes care of the check (ethan loves it when his dad explains how cars and fuel work)

"i want this" tabitha says out of the blue while they wait for jim to come back

"what?"

"you wanted an answer. i don't want jim to move out. and i don't want you to leave either. i just want this. i want today, every day. is that crazy?"

"it's not crazy. it sounds—perfect, actually"

he sounds like he's about to tear up

they're standing next to each other outside the restaurant. they nod to each other, and her hand finds his own, and her fingers tentatively find their way to interlace with his

he actually does tear up when she does this, and starts apologising

"fuck—sorry, i..."

he needs to take deep breaths

and no, neither of them have the slightest idea of how they're going to bring this up to jim

[divorcingjimmatthews]

I think the Jade gif caused drama cos people were gagging to see him do that little look and blush. And nobody was doing it lmao until now we have pictorial proof

I ship them but I feel the moment is all Jade's here if that makes sense like he's suddenly aware he is catching feelings and he kinda likes it. He then sees she came to him for help as her first impulse. Then he sort of shelves his very cutesy demure look to become intense worried serious. Tabitha kinda seems oblivious tbh, she's just thinking about the angkooey kids and Ethan rn. She doesn't seem to realise she went haring to Jade for maybe reasons deeper than escaping spirit children. Like she feels safe and understood by him and she's drifting from Jim to Jade. I think Jade is aware now he has feelings for her or cares at least but he puts it aside because it's not appropriate

Whaaat I can't believe there was drama over a JadeTabby gif OMG 😭 it's such a shocker to see other people actively invested in this ship.

And yessss exactly I see it the same way you do, I love how you broke it down! If anything actually happens between them I think it would be way later down the line, in later seasons or maybe even after meeting again years post-escape and post-divorce.

I just really enjoy watching Tabitha drift from Jim to Jade, I ship them just as much as friends if not more. It's less about the romantic ship for me and more about someone supporting her and encouraging her as she steps out of the nuclear family housewife role she's been in for nearly two decades now.

It's just that it's really easy to end up shipping two characters when they have a dynamic like that LMAO.