8. You tried to pick me up and hurt your back/lost your grip and suddenly we’re both on the ground in pain
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They’re in that early stage of their relationship where they just want to try everything and anything together. It’s not just in the bedroom either, it’s just whatever comes to mind - both of them are game. Their enthusiasm must be doubled due to the fact they’d spent so long not doing things together.
Annie was sure there was a point last year where they could both barely stay in the same room together; Jeff finding hard to deal with his emotions and Annie finding it hard to handle hers. They were like magnets of the same pole, she now realises. Now though, they’re not the same; they’re north and south and all over each other.
“We should… try…”
Jeff bobs his head, tilting it all the while to get a better angle so he can continue his trail down her neck. They’re pushed up on the wall to the side of his front door; he’d taken her to stock up on some groceries but they’d spent most of the time trying to steal kisses down empty aisles so they both knew what was coming when they opened the apartment door.
“Yeah… umm… yeah.”
He’s picked her up before. Countless times now, which makes Annie’s brain go even foggier than it already is in the moment. She can’t even count how many times they’ve done this and it’s barely been three weeks. It sends an unexpected thrill through her that she has to press up against him even further, her ankles curling up around his calves.
“Maybe you should…”
She tries to direct him into hoisting her up onto his hips but he’s too focused on fumbling around with the back of her blouse where buttons are keeping it fastened at the neck.
“Jeff, I can’t…”
She uses her hands in his hair to try and manoeuvre him into a better holding position but he’s a little bit stiff (which makes her glance down, embarrassingly enough), most definitely getting something out of the position he is in, rather than focusing on her. It’s fine, he’s even made it clear he might be off of his game for a while - his hands still shake a little when he goes to undo his belt buckle or when he tries to unclip her bra. She finds it all very endearing, and sweet and it makes her fall in love with him a little bit more.
She goes to laugh breathily in his hear when his hand tickles up her back but then she leans into his shoulder too far and all of a sudden her tooth is digging into his neck and he’s slamming back down into the carpet.
“Holy... shit. Okay, well, that just happened.”
Although she was laughing for a different reason originally, it carries on out of her and she can feel him sigh and shake his head from where she’s laying across his chest, her hand squashed between them.
“Ha haa, very funny.”
She smiles up at him through a wave of hair and her eyelashes.
“If my hand didn’t feel numb now, you know, this might be an easier position.”
“Who said you have to use your hands.”
“Ohh pfft, like you’re in the mood now. You were saying your back ached after the gym yesterday.”
“I lifted like 310 pounds!”
“Jeff, how much do I weigh?”
“Shut up.”
She kisses him on the chest, pats him in the same place and then rolls off to one side.
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He starts off a little confused when Mason swings his legs around and drops into the barstool next to him, his date seemingly left behind.
“Where did your… openly bi…sexual date go?”
“Eh, we didn’t really hit it off. I don’t always ask people out to hook-up.”
Jack nods at that, relating, before taking a sip of his beer. He’ll probably hang around until Eddie’s closed up so he can go upstairs without worrying if anyone will follow.
“Jack, can I ask you a question?” Mason asks, with the premise and tone of a question that is meant to be more of a challenge. Jack sits up a little, holding his beer tighter. It’s been a strange day even if Paul was returned to his loved-one and Roland did end up bonding with him.
“Is it about being straight?” He grins with usual sarcastic and devilish charm.
“No, it’s about being bi.”
Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Fandom: The Great Indoors (TV 2016)
Characters: Jack Gordon, Mason, Eddie
Additional Tags: end tag, party paul, jack gordon is bisexual, it’s 2017, bisexuality
Notes: (Official headcanon - Jack Gordon is bisexual. Thanks to @rather-be-free for doing a bit of beta-reading. Enjoy!)
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“Christmas parties are for lonely suckers, am I right?” She’d asked, rhetorically he’d presumed. He shrugged anyway, watching her from the corner of his eye.
“Lonely suckers and people looking to hook-up.”
Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: F/M
Fandom: The Great Indoors (TV)
Relationships: Jack Gordon/Esther
Characters: Jack Gordon, Esther
Additional Tags: otp: is there any other way?, we got a bit carried away, this ship has sailed my dudes, by carried away i mean its nearly 3000 words long
Notes: Based on the throwaway line in S01E16, 'Aaron Wolf'
Thanks so much for writing this with me @rather-be-free ! Twas’ fun and I hope people appreciate it. Especially that one TGI writer who shall never know about this. THE SHIP HAS SAILED!
Happy Birthday to the one and only @bumblebeeslies / @rather-be-free / MJ! I’m giving you this because it’s what I know best. This shirt is totally what Joel would DIY for you... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@loosey-goosey said: YOU'RE SO FAST OMG I CAN'T WAIT TO READ
@rather-be-free said: omg!!!!! the speed of your updates never fails to amaze me
i’m replying to both of you: thanks, i’m glad you’re looking forward to it. tbh, i usually write ahead a couple chapters of what i actually publish so this wasn’t a matter of being ‘fast’ but more of being ‘impatient’ since i just really wanted to put the next chapter out there. i was in that kind of a mood. hope you like it!
