I have no idea how Trivia Tuesday works I’m so sorry haha maybe something about San Junopero Jankie or Still Falls The Night Jankie?
Lmao that's pretty much how it works 😊
For San Junipero Jankie:
- Jackie feels a lot more comfortable in 1969 than she did in 1988, which is ironic as she doesn't even remember 1969 she wasn't old enough. But she enjoys the 60s fashion and her beehive hair way more than trying to work big shoulders and perms from the 80s.
- Jan on the other hand can't pic a favourite era!! She tries them all, and loves 1978 when she goes back (catching Grease in the cinema and meeting some mysterious Scottish girl called Rosé there). She also has a great time in 2004 (finding a French beauty at the Candyshop club lol) and befriends a lemon-haired Canadian party girl in 2009 who eventually decides not to stay but they have a good time before she goes.
- Jan decides she likes the other people there as much as the era and that the era doesn't matter as much, while Jackie wants to experience the atmosphere more.
For SFTN Jankie:
- Janpire was turned at Woodstock in 1969, she hitched a ride from NJ, it was littered with vampires lol. Rita was recently back from the UK at the time ...... 👀
- Jackie had started to suspect something vampire-y was going on with Jan before her confession at their anniversary, but she'd been trying to ignore it. Once it's out in the open however, things feel a lot more relaxed. Jan never wants Jackie to decide about turning herself, but Jackie comes to the conclusion herself anyway eventually.
Most memorable scene from a fic you wrote? One word: JANPIRE
Sometimes I still think about how you managed to hide those little details 🤯
Ahhh honestly I LOVED reading everyone talking about it as well!! I'm never gonna be able to have any surprise twists again though lmao 🤣 I feel like everyone reads what I write in detective mode since SFTN!! Tysm!!
#49 because JEEEEAALOUSY ahahaha with Jankie please. 😊 thank you, JunoOoOoo
Lmao Jankie definitely isn’t a rare pair but I will always make an exception for you!! 😊
49: “Is somebody jealous?”
And I know you don’t mind some supernatural stuff so although I’ve been trying to do less of that, as it’s you I’ve written you a little one shot based on Jankie’s story in Still Falls The Night. The song is Mr Brightside Immortal by MARINA as it was on my SFTN playlist anyway and I got inspo from there. Hope you enjoy!
Jan had shifted Jackie's whole world, but not only her world, the entire cosmos - the planets lifted and shuffled and resettled as Jackie started to fall for her, aligning into some form of significance. And sure, Jackie had had some brief fascination with Nicky way back at the start of the semester, but that was just infatuation. With Jan, it was different to any of the people she’d had fleeting time with before.
It wasn’t just simple attraction, but calmness, genuine warmth even though Jan was always cold - cold-blooded, she always joked - the ability to be herself, even if herself meant sharing silence, nothingness. She hadn’t known wanting to be someone's future as well as their present. She hadn’t known wanting someone else in her future as well as her present.
Jackie hadn’t ever known love before Jan.
‘I’m forever chasing after time
But everybody dies’
But now Jan sat before her, their three months of dating behind them along with the stars, a glass of red wine staining her lips and her words, as they sat in this restaurant that Jackie had passed by with stars in her own eyes every week. And Jan had insisted they go to a movie and then go here, in their finery.
So Jackie had dressed to impress in a long purple dress she’d borrowed from Jaida, and Jan had been in black, the icy blue of her eyes striking like some otherworldly creature.
The day had been perfect. Jan’s hand intertwining with hers, the warmth of her gaze obliterating the cold of her skin. Both of them alone in the world, just them and the glitter that shimmered in the air. Brilliant sunshine, springs in their steps. Good company, good food, music that spoke to their souls.
It was utterly, utterly perfect.
The first I love you that slipped out from Jackie was a whisper, a shimmering veil of translucence that might not exist if touched, like a bubble, iridescent in the air; but Jan’s words after it, as Jan’s eyes filled with something pained, but honest; were nothing short of devastating.
Jackie, I have to tell you something.
When the words, tinged with wine, left Jan’s lips, Jackie’s first thought was disbelief.
I’m a vampire.
Disbelief.
Then revulsion.
And finally betrayal.
‘If I could buy forever at a price
I would buy it twice.’
The bubbles burst in the air as she’d gathered her coat and marched into the sudden burst of rain, knowing she’d have to do some explaining to Jaida as to how her dress would end up covered in mud and water from the rain. And she’d turned and Jan was right behind her, panic behind her eyes, but she tucked it back away as Jackie had frozen beside her, and even as the rain and wind roared around her, Jan’s whisper was the loudest thing in her ears.
Tell me if it’s over.
And Jackie’s tongue had stuck to the roof of her mouth.
She was meant to be repulsed.
Instead she’d tugged Jan to meet her lips, hand on her neck, the cold of her skin finally having a reason, reaching to Jan’s mane of blonde hair, finding Jan’s hands clutch at her waist and her shoulder as if she’d just pulled her from the edge of a cliff, as if Jackie had been about to fall from a precipice.
Maybe she had.
‘But if the Earth ends in fire
And the seas are frozen in time’
Jan had explained everything that night, as they’d both sat in Jackie’s room, hands intertwined, and Jan had emptied herself into this space, earnest truths spilling from her lips.
Growing up in New Jersey in the fifties. Hitching up north to New York for Woodstock in the sixties. Getting drunk, getting high, and getting bitten. It turns out that Woodstock was practically utopia for vampires, so many walking blood bags to feast upon. Jan had had her first taste of blood there too, from some guy who wouldn’t stop hitting on her friend.
But Jan said she’d preferred to be alone, until she’d met Jackie.
“Immortality,” Jackie had murmured.
“Is somebody jealous?” Jan’s smile was small, sad, made Jan shrink. “I don’t think you should be.”
“Are there many more here? On campus?”
“Not many,” Jan had nodded, “but some.”
‘There’ll be just one survivor:
The memory that I was yours
And you were mine’
“No more secrets,” Jackie had whispered, finding her voice more strained than she’d expected.
“None.”
Jan was earnest, nodding and opening her arms to Jackie, and Jackie found herself in them, holding Jan so tightly and not wanting to let go. Jackie noticed that Jan didn’t have a heartbeat as she rested her head on her chest, but something in the back of her mind wondered if she’d always known that. After all, they’d laid like this so many times before.
Maybe she’d just wanted to delude herself all along.
“You shouldn’t have to suffer alone.” Jan’s expression was softening a little. “You have the whole of eternity to torture yourself. Why not spend it with someone?”
But Nicky didn’t want to think about it. She couldn’t bear it.
Still Falls The Night (Final Chapter) is now on AO3! Read it here.
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Chapter summary: Tensions between Nicky and Jan boil over in the aftermath of Jan’s actions. Meanwhile, Rita is back. And she’s not impressed.
Rating: M
Notes: Vampire AU, college AU
CW: Mentions of blood (no graphic violence)
This is the end of SFTN as it is! I have updated the tags, as always please review before reading.
I’m pretty emotional at finishing this to be honest!
Big thank you to everyone who has read and enjoyed this little vampire story, and HUGE thank you to @themetaluna who has supported me every step of the way and been the best beta reader! This would not have happened without her. I hope you enjoy the final chapter!
“Is it all vampire magic, though, Jaida?” Nicky whispered. “Is there no other feeling at all? Is it nothing but vampire magic?”
Because Jaida wasn’t a vampire, but Nicky was starting to feel that she couldn’t be without Jaida, too.
Still Falls The Night, CH7 (penultimate chapter) is now on AO3! Read it here.
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Chapter summary: Jackie is worried that Jaida has gone a step too far, and asks Gigi for help. Meanwhile, Jaida and Nicky must decide on their future arrangement. But will someone else take matters into their own hands to help Jaida?
Rating: M
CW: Mentions of blood (no graphic violence), references to sex (not explicit)
The penultimate chapter is here! Please review the tags on AO3 before reading. Huge big thank you as always to @themetaluna who is the best beta-reader and most supportive person!! I hope you enjoy chapter 7.
