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Hounds In The Night, Bring Me Home
SUMMARY "Try and patch up something of what used to be us. I missed you— Miss you, right now. Something was gone from my life and I didn't know how to handle it. Yes, that's immature. Yes, I probably should've gotten over it. But I didn't want to. I—I didn't want it to be over, forever, just like that."
"You can want all you like. That doesn't change that there's two of us here." Shauna glares. "Don't I have a say in this?"
"Of course you do,"" and Jackie's eyes look up at her from behind her lashes; pleading to go easy on her.
Shauna considers it; takes in the sagging shoulders and circles under her eyes. Jackie does look worse than she ever did before. College evidently didn't result in a reinvention of herself, or at least not in the way she mused on in high school.

or

In the wake of their time in the wilderness and presumed dead to the world, Shauna and Jackie both need to adjust to life without each other, and with bodies that no longer completely feel like their own. Fall of 1999, Providence, is the setting for an unexpected reunion.

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Shauna Shipman/Jackie Taylor
    • Shauna Shipman & Natalie Scatorccio
    • Shauna Shipman & Taissa Turner
    • Jackie Taylor & Lottie Matthews
    • taivan and lottienat in the background
    Additional Tags
    • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
    • Blood and Gore
    • Supernatural Elements
    • College
    • Chronic Illness

Status: In Progress

Updated on: 25 November 2024

Let's Imagine That No One Is Lost
SUMMARY "Gross..." Shauna pulls a face, but at this point the smell is worse than the sight of it. She's encountered a lot in the past weeks, so this is more common than she'd like to admit. A telling dark web of veins spreads out from a missing chunk at the shoulder. Nasty place to get bit, sure, but it probably didn't leave much time to think about it.

('Below the elbows and knees is good to amputate,' Misty had told her in the first days, when they were happened to be holed up in the same flower shop across town. Jackie had made a sound in disgust. 'Anything closer to the torso is a waste of energy and effort. You'd do better to leave someone behind at that point.')

Shauna hadn't asked exactly how Misty had known that, and didn't feel like it was a reason to convince her to come along in the car. Misty, in her own way, was pretty self-sufficient.

In a surprising turn of events, it's not a plane crash but the end of the world that has Shauna test her survival skills. Besides her own life, there's Jackie to keep an eye on, and while some things change, others remain the same.

An afternoon in the apocalypse, 1996.

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Shauna Shipman & Jackie Taylor
    • Shauna Shipman/Jackie Taylor
    Additional Tags
    • Alternate Universe - Zombie Apocalypse
    • Blood and Gore
    • Open/Ambiguous Ending
    • very much in the realm of I Am A Hero and Warm Bodies if you get what I mean

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 13 October 2024

Shut up! (Kiss me?)
SUMMARY Jackie squints at her. "None of your business.” Her nose twitches. Catch.

"Is it? Did Sadecki say something mean again? Is he not coming to the Easter brunch to flatter your mom?"

Tai relishes in how that gets Jackie gaping at her.

"What the fuck," she starts, pointing first from her spot on the floor and then scrambling to her feet while clinging to the sink to keep herself from slipping on the tile, "gives you the right to say that!"

They're level again now. Taissa likes that much better. An equal opponent is more fun to take down. She leans back against the door as she takes a swig of beer.

"Isn't it the truth? You said too much, he didn't want to hear it. It's how that always goes, right? At least if I have to believe Shauna."" She smirks at Jackie's quickly reddening face.

"Don't you bring her into this." Jackie stomps one foot for emphasis. "You're just a jealous loser, Taissa Turner!"

or

Taissa needs to get away from a certain someone in the crowd, and finds something worse (or better)

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Jackie Taylor/Taissa Turner
    • Taivan mentioned
    • Jackieshauna if you squint
    Additional Tags
    • Dubious Consent
    • Pre-Canon
    • Making out

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 13 September 2024

Stay (I Missed You)
SUMMARY Jackie exhales with what she fears is the lead-in to another series of arguments, but instead, she nods. "Okay…" And doesn't attempt to move out of Shauna's embrace.

"You're not going to die. Not for a long time, I bet."

"Wow, you're so optimistic."

"I mean it. Wanna bet?"

"... Sure. But if I'm dead in the morning, I'll so haunt you."

"Permission granted."

So Shauna waits while her arm grows a little sore under the weight before she moves it. They don't say much after, not even in sleep. It may be hours before she turns off the lamp again, once Jackie's breaths have evened out against her neck.

or

It's Jackie and Shauna. It always has been Jackie and Shauna, and to some it always will be. Forever linked by a pinkie promise in the first grade and never letting go. Till death do part, and a little beyond.

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Jackie Taylor/Shauna Shipman
    • Shauna Shipman & Taissa Turner
    Tropes
    • Supernatural Elements
    Additional Tags
    • Mild gore
    • Mild smut
    • Deb Shipman!

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 1 August 2024

A Ghost is a Promise
SUMMARY It's nothing. That's what Jeff tells her on the car ride back home. It's what she says to herself in the bathroom mirror, careful not to look too closely at anything that might be moving in the background. It earned Lottie a one-way trip to Switzerland, after all.

"It's nothing," even her mom says to her over a cup of tea. Callie sits gleefully on her knee, just barely able to reach the teaspoon on the table with her tiny hands. "Marilyn was having a hard time with it, though she'd never tell you the full truth of it. I know how I was, when my own birthday came around and I was waiting for the breakfast in bed, still. Your dad even called to check in." She tucks Callie's soft hairs out of her face while Shauna takes a quiet sip.

"It was hard for her, for me, for everyone. The whole town felt it, so it was really a matter of time before the kids would make up stories. Some of it was about what would be going on out there, or a secret rescue and how every transfer student could really be one of you in disguise. Ghost stories were a natural step further."

or

Shauna listens, walks, and has a chat.

Prequel to "A Ghost is a Memory"

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Jackie Taylor/Shauna Shipman
    • and sorry there is the whole shaunajeff but that's because of canon aaa
    Tropes
    • Ghosts
    • Supernatural Elements
    Additional Tags
    • Urban myths your Jackie even more!

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 1 June 2024

Same As It Ever Was
SUMMARY "If it gets too heavy, if they don't find shelter, they could die out there."

It's too loud in the dark room. The silence that meets Shauna has her longing for a night light to make sure that she's not in some endless abyss. There's the bright crack on the windowpane that forms the only thing to hold on to, since Jackie doesn't offer her any comfort with softly-spoken words or a hand to hold. Maybe that was to be expected. The insinuation was there. Briefly, Shauna's thoughts entertain themselves by trying to remember if there is such a thing as murder through negligence, and if she could live with that knowledge. When she dwells upon uncomfortable ideas of her future, she resigns herself to sleep.

And dreams of summer.

The story of winter, from the first snow to the first bloom, in which some things change and some stay the same.

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Jackie Taylor/Shauna Shipman
    • Van Palmer/Taissa Turner
    • Natalie Scatorccio/Lottie Matthews
    Tropes
    • Alternate Univers
    • Jackie Taylor Lives
    • Supernatural Elements
    Warnings
    • Minor character death
    Additional Tags
    • It's plot relevant
    • you know me
    • be warned that this leans very into a The Wilderness Is Supernatural interpretation of the show
    • If you are one of the four people to whom I've talked to about this fic: you are under an NDA haha

Status: Complete!

Updated: 2 September 2024

Dance This Mess Around
SUMMARY "Shipman!"

Shauna turns around to look a surprised Taissa in the face.

"Shauna Shipman!"

Further behind Taissa's head, a pair of arms wave frantically in the air. Shauna catches the white-blond of Nat again, and smiles back with an arm rising to show that she's noticed her. But Nat bumps someone next to her and points in Shauna's direction, and soon after Shauna can feel the blood stop in her veins.

or

Shauna and Jackie haven't spoken in over three years, but the twilight of the milennium and one Natalie Scatorccio hellbent on having Jackie keep her promises might change that.

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Jackie Taylor/Shauna Shipman
    • background taivan
    Tropes
    • Alternate Universe
    • No Plane Crash
    Additional Tags
    • New York City
    • New Year 2000
    • In which Natalie makes up party games and drags them through the city
    • and Shauna tries to avoid them
    • Jackieshauna Weekend (Yellowjackets)
    • One Shot

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 19 May 2024

A Ghost is a Wish
SUMMARY The light from the lampposts bounces on the snow and lights the Wiskayok high school up like it's a set for a movie. Fitting, given how nervous Callie feels about going near it. She's regretting not texting Ilana earlier and getting her involved. As much as she was into all this ghostly bullshit, Ilana had the ability to make everything seem way less heavy. It wouldn't have changed anything, though.

A ghost is a ghost.

or

Callie gets to know her mom's old friend.

Sequel to "A Ghost is a Memory"

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Ilana & Callie Sadecki
    Tropes
    • Ghosts
    • Supernatural Elements
    Additional Tags
    • or the consequences of poking around in your mom's trauma

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 9 Feb 2024

O Nyghtegale
SUMMARY "For your crimes against this realm, and your failing as a member of my council, you ought to be banished with no hope of return."

The crown weighs heavy from the antlers that sprout from it, but the Queen carries it without showing any sign of weakness. Her eyes look down at you, hard but not without sympathy.

"You are to leave the city gates by this evening. No soul is to address you by your true name, Butcher. Wander the land and either hope to find a place that will bend itself to your will, or seek the key to absolving your crimes and return to life as you knew it."

You see the glimmer of a smile play on her lips. This should be good.

"Bring me the fey princess, dead, and I will offer you forgiveness.""

or

A fairy tale in three parts.

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Shauna Shipman/Jackie Taylor
    Tropes
    • Alternate Universe - Fantasy
    • Enemies to Lovers
    • POV Second Person
    Additional Tags
    • Jackieshauna Weekend (Yellowjackets)
    • Butcher and Princess prompt
    • in which shauna is a knight in exile
    • and jackie a lonely fairtytale creature

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 8 Nov 2023

Chimera
SUMMARY It all blends together between the trees.

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Shauna Shipman/Jackie Taylor
    Tropes
    • One Shot
    • Character Study
    • Canon Compliant
    • Hallucinations
    • Grief/Mourning
    • Angst
    Warnings
    • Canon-Typical Violence
    Additional Tags
    • shauna shipman I want to study you under a microcope
    • YJoctober2023

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 2 Oct 2023

Who's That Knocking At My Window?
SUMMARY She no longer looks frozen, but her skin is still so unnervingly pale. When Jackie lifts her head to look back at Shauna, her eyes flicker for a second when the light catches onto them. But most obvious, and worst of all, is the blood around her mouth. Red going down her chin and stuck on her bared teeth as Jackie pants like she's a goddamn cornered animal.

"Jackie?" Shauna tries again, voice shaking. She leaves the knife on the floor and sits on her knees to reach out a hand. Shauna doesn't care that she might get hurt because (Jackie it's Jackie it's really Jackie).

or

Jackie returns to Shauna, a little bit wrong.

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Shauna Shipman & Jackie Taylor
    • Shauna Shipman/Jackie Taylor
    • Shauna Shipman & Taissa Turner
    • Shauna Shipman & Lottie Matthews
    Tropes
    • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
    • Slow Burn
    • Jackie Taylor Lives
    • Supernatural Elements
    • Horror Elements
    • Post-Season/Series 1
    Warnings
    • Canon-Typical Violence
    • Minor Character Death
    • + Typical Vammpire Warnings
    Additional Tags
    • is it really jackie taylor lives if she's technically undead?

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 22 Aug 2023

A Ghost is a Memory
SUMMARY "They say that if the snow falls early, you can see the her catch fire on the soccer field."

"Ilana, that is the stupidest thing I ever heard."

or

Callie & Co investigate the ghost that may be haunting Wiskayok High.

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Callie Sadecki & Ilana
    Tropes
    • Ghosts
    • Paranormal Investigators
    • Supernatural Elements
    Additional Tags
    • had to get this out of my system after doing that jackie haunting the school art thing
    • so I'll leave you with my favorite tag someone left on it
    • you know what? fuck you /folklores your girlfriend/

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 12 Aug 2023

Party Out Of Bounds
SUMMARY Who's to blame when parties really get out of hand?
Who's to blame when they get poorly planned?

Not Jackie, thats for sure. She just wants to get Shauna out of the house on the last night before graduation. An odyssey through Wiskayok isn't that bad when your destination is the greatest party of the year, right?

or

the loosely inspired Booksmart AU

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Shauna Shipman & Jackie Taylor
    • Shauna Shipman/Jackie Taylor
    Tropes
    • Alternate Universe - no plane crash
    • Mild Smut
    Warnings
    • Alcohol
    • Accidental Drug Use
    • Vomiting (minor)
    Additional Tags
    • Yellowjackets is a comedy
    • gay dads paul and ben
    • this is mostly and excuse to put these two in a teen party comedy movie

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 25 Jun 2023

Kissing Lessons
SUMMARY Three times Jackie kissed Shauna

and one time Shauna kisses back

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Shauna Shipman & Jackie Taylor
    • Shauna Shipman/Jackie Taylor
    Tropes
    • Canon Compliant
    • 5+1 Things
    • But it's actually 3+1
    • First Kiss
    • Pre-Canon

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 10 Apr 2023

I Want to Believe
SUMMARY
 Angel has a secret. One that he may risk exposing for just one man.

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • OJ Haywood/Angel Torres
    Tropes
    • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
    • Supernatural Elements
    • One Shot
    • Fluff
    • Angel/Human Relationship
    Additional Tags
    • a little bit of angst i guess

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 9 Mar 2023

Mother Instinct
SUMMARY 1998. Behind the Scenes with Phyllis Mayberry.

  • TAGS
  • Tropes
    • Gordy's Home Incident
    • Angst
    Warnings
    • Canon-Typical Violence
    Additional Tags
    • Does Gordy count as a character?
    • Pseudo-parental figure being worried

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 27 Jan 2023

You're the looker, I'm the rotten apple of your eye
SUMMARY Mary Jo Elliott is invited to the Star Lasso Experience.
Things take a turn there.

Part 4 of The Shoe that Stands Suspended

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Mary Jo Elliott & Ricky "Jupe" Park
    • Mary Jo Elliott & OJ Haywood
    Tropes
    • Alternate Univers - Canon Divergence
    • Mary Jo Lives
    • Character Study
    • Physical Disability
    • Trauma
    • Near-Death Experiences
    • Sign Language
    • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
    • Autistic/Neurodivergent OJ
    Warnings
    • Canon-Typical Violence
    Additional Tags
    • Ricky has his canon fate but will come back in flashbacks

Status: Complete!

Rewritten on: 25 Jan 2023

See you Space Cowboy
SUMMARY The bit between a sitcom and a theme park

Part 2 of The Shoe that Stands Suspended

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Amber Park/Ricky "Jupe" Park
    • Mary Jo Elliott & Ricky "Jupe" Park
    Tropes
    • Childhood Trauma
    • Recovery
    • Therapy
    • Coming of Age
    • Sibling Bonding
    Warnings
    • Implied/Referenced Suicide Attempt

Status: Indefinite Hiatus

Updated: 16 Nov 2022

It Was Only A Kiss, It Was Only A Kiss
SUMMARY [N/A]

Part 3 of The Shoe that Stands Suspended

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Mary Jo Elliott/Original Female Character
    Tropes
    • One Shot
    • College
    • Halloween
    • First Kiss
    • Internalized Homophobia
    • Fluff
    Additional Tags
    • typical college party stuff

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 30 Oct 2022

A Wish on the Monkey's Paw
SUMMARY Mary Jo Elliott wants to leave the show.

Part 1 of The Shoe that Stands Suspended

  • TAGS
  • Tropes
    • Character Study
    • Canon-Typical Violence
    • Recovery
    • Trauma
    • Pre-Canon
    • Sibling Bonding
    Additional Tags
    • even if they're not actually siblings
    • mary jo deserved better but this is canon compliant alas

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 1 Sep 2022

Be with you, always
SUMMARY "We never stopped being friends because of it."

"But we did." Donna holds the hands tighter. They're cold, which makes sense, as they're not wearing gloves and the wind whips around them. Still, it feels wrong. "You died. That's when it stopped."
But Laura scrunches her nose in amusement and is quick to flick Donna's with a finger. "You're being silly, muffin. Like that would ever stop me.""

or

Donna sleeps and spills a secret.

  • TAGS
  • Relationships
    • Donna Hayward/Laura Palmer
    Additional Tags
    • and they were besties

Status: Complete!

Completed on: 24 Feb 2024