ok so there’s this jordeclan-y oneshot that’s been pinging around in my head that started as something slightly different but i’m realizing i probably won’t write it at least not any time soon so here’s the basic gist entire thing outlined because i just think it’s neat
university-ish/no magic au
jordan is either upper level undergrad studio art or trapped in an mfa and rethinking her life (really not important tbh)
hennessy is doing Hot Girl Shit (re: fraud and forgery)
jordan has been on tinder with underwhelming results
except for that one guy who seemed pretty cool even though they didn’t really talk much and he ghosted her after she complimented his shoes the third time they met up
which
fuck. she didn’t even get his first name.
well whatever
that model in her wednesday evening figure drawing class is pretty cute and is jordan imagining things or is she making really obvious bedroom eyes??
probably nothing
oh fuck oh fuck wait she’s asking to hang out tonight shit (and is her name actually blue or…??)
jordan says yes. hennessy gives jordan shit for it but is like just go for it, whatever. jordan tells hennessy not to burn the apartment down while she’s out. hennessy makes no such promises.
things get weird when jordan realizes blue brought a couple other…. friends ….. to their not-date
the other two guys are actually pretty chill but jordan isn’t looking to be inducted into a (possible?) polycule and one of them is a little too jazzed that jordan is from the uk
he won’t shut the fuck up about welsh kings
oh ohh okay no yeah they’re definitely dating each other
but also….. blue is definitely into jordan so like this could work. at the very least they could hang out tonight and -
what? emergency? another friend did something stupid and is in the hospital? is it bad? is he okay? is he also in the polycule?
the night abruptly ends but at least jordan has a fun story for hennessy. but hennessy isn’t home when jordan gets back…… huh. not unusual but still jordan is slightly concerned.
jordan barely has time to worry about it when blue calls her. maybe the night wont be so bad after all?? but of course not. blue is saying jordan should come to the hospital…..
oh jesus fuck
blue meets jordan outside the hospital and gives her the story (and jordan can totally be mad because that’s an absolutely valid reaction): so yeah blue’s friend ronan (polycule status still unclear) hit hennessy with his car and when he tried to help her they got into a fist fight instead that landed both of them in the emergency room
blue and jordan enter the hospital, and lo and behold the fight is apparently still going on. hennessy has ronan in a choke hold. blue’s two boyfriends watch on in shock while a third guy eats a sandwich and could not look more disinterested
parrish, blue asks, why aren’t you stopping this?
to which sandwich guy says: cant you see they’re having fun?
the guy with the hard on for welsh kings insists that he calls “declan” and leaves to do that
jordan goes to talk to security or a doctor or literally anybody to figure out what’s actually going on.
after talking in a few frustrating circles she overhears a familiar voice saying, “for the last time, gansey, i’m a copywrite attorney. i can’t help with criminal shit.”
and gansey replies something like i literally have no idea how laws work fix this.
jordan goes back to check on hennessy to find that hennessy is fine. more than fine. she’s laughing herself raw at
oh goddamn it of course
it’s that guy jordan had hooked up with a few times who just stopped talking to her and now he’s the one beating the shit out of ronan in the hospital. everyone seems a lot less surprised by this turn of events.
he looks up. he sees jordan. he looks at her. he looks at hennessy. he looks back at jordan.
jordan says hey. declan says nothing.
between parrish and gansey, they get a pretty good picture of what’s going on and they make it so jordan and declan end up away from everyone else. with each other. alone.
declan eventually says hey
jordan asks if he’s seeing any combination of anyone involved in all of this
declan says, “no. that’s weird. one of them is my brother.”
which jordan takes to mean that they don’t have to stay here then right? those guys can deal with this themselves? maybe she and declan can go someplace? her apartment’s free right now……
gansey comes back at that moment and is like hey do you two wanna help -
