for the trope mashup game: accidently married + poorly timed confession? for whatever ship you feel like!
Trope Mashup Asks
So this spun out into a really contrived pynch au but it's fun to think about so just bear with me lol
So in this setting i like to imagine Ronan and Adam are on the older side like maybe early to mid thirties and they're attending blue and ganseys wedding in...let's say Nevada and/or other Las vegas/touristy area because that's where this would most likely work best (I said it was contrived, didnt i?) And theyve probably had a will-they/wont-they thing going on for years and maybe its fallen a bit more on the wont they side lately, but then they get to talking at the reception. I like to think they're maybe just poking fun at gansey and blue to each other at first but then one of them (probably ronan) says something to the tune of 'I thought I'd be married by now' and Adam just agrees that he thought Ronan would be married too. They're laughing a bit at it and ribbing each other over past relationships and how theyve each run them I to the ground whenever it looked like something was going to happen. They're a little bitterly joking about it never happening and that what hope was there for then really if BLUE had decided to get married despite her oppinions of it being an antiquated and fairly misogynist ritual? it comes up that theres a 24hour drive through chapel not too far away and...well, they could be married that night, mainly to one up blue and gansey but also because they're feeling a bit sorry for themselves. It's a stupid idea but they talk each other into it and figure -whatever- theyll just get it annulled, if those certificates are even real to begin with!
And they find out afterwards that yes the certificates are real and you have to be married for a certain ammount of time before you can seperate and to do a rapid separation you have to seperate in the same state you were married. So now their dumb joke has become a big headache and they end up renting a hotel to wait out the time because yes, maybe they did want to be married by 30, but not like this!
Adam's over thinking the whole thing. Like, he's technically Ronan's next of kin now; what happens if he gets hit by a car before they can get divorced? And Ronan has property he owns in Virginia and Adam's still living in apartments, so is he technically responsible for property taxes during their married time or is that negligible vecause they're only married a month? And is it bad if when hes spiralling Ronan knows exactly how to get him out of his head and forget that any of that matters? Adam regrets going along with such a dumb idea but he's also, selfishly, a little grateful for the time hes getting to spend away from his job and with Ronan. He feels a tad guilty for that and thinks Ronan wouldn't appreciate how needy that idea is.
Except Ronan is actually sort of okay with it. With everything, actually. like, he wants a real marriage and true love and all that...but it doesnt feel like he's made a mistake. In fact, the longer he and Adam are around each other, the more right it feels. They get along well, they know each others habits, and they had sort of been flirting for a few years anyway? So, maybe it isn't all bad. Maybe he wants to actually give it a go with him and see where it leads. He keeps dropping hints about it, but Adam either isnt catching them or is ignoring them. Ronan cant really stand the idea of the second, but hes got to know for sure so he ends up blurting it all out...right as they're about to sign the papers to finalize the divorce and separation papers.
They end up working it out and decide to get together, but it does take about an extra hour to convince the notary and judge that they arent just going to get married again in the next 24 hours.











