30 rock fic!
Title: 1, 2, 3, 4
Summary: four times Jack realizes he's in love with liz
Notes: 30 Rock fic! Jack/Liz all the way.
1, 2, 3, 4
(inspired by the plain white sheets song: four times jack realized he was in love with liz)
(1) because there‘s one thing
When TGS fails to win an Emmy nomination the third year running, Lemon scedules a Star Wars marathon for the night of the broadcast, complete with an elaborate drinking game only she and Toofer seem to get- the rest of them just get indiscriminately wasted. Jenna ambles in right around Obi Wan‘s death, looking crazier than usual and not answering questions about where her publicist is, why she‘s not in LA or what the red stains on her dress are, and Liz just makes shushing noises at her and turns up the volume.
He was halfway to the airport himself when he realized he really had no interest in flying cross-country to watch a bunch of excecs that weren‘t him win awards, so he finds himself on the TGS stage with Lemon and the nerds, cheering on the rebellion and having a good time despite of himself. Two and a half movies later, they‘ve all fallen into a drunken stupor, and Jack‘s lost count of how many bottles of scotch he‘s had. He watches, enchanted, as Lemon mouthes the lines along with the screen, and feels his eyes flutter closed as he rests his head against her knees. She smiles, vaguely, moving her fingers through his hair with surprising gentleness.
„I love you,“ he mutters, seconds away from sleep. Lemon doens‘t even taking her eyes off the screen, wipes a tear away as an Ewok is slain, then presses a simple kiss on his forehead and whispers „I know.“
(2) two do
Carol The Pilot has a near-death experience on a flight from Key West to Tampa involving a flock of pelican, and decides that what he really wants out of life is to get back together with the woman whose child he fathered the night after William McKinley High School‘s Prom in 1966. Lemon tells him all this with a determindedly set jaw and eyes brimming on a Monday morning in his office, and before he knows what he‘s doing, they‘re on the company plane to Lima, Ohio, and he‘s punching Carol in the mouth with all the righteous force and wrath of a Boston street kid.
„Why on earth did you do that?“ She asks him, in the bathroom of a Breadstix off the freeway to the airport, where the appearance of free, unlimited breadsticks cheered her beyond what was reasonable, once he‘s finally allowed her to take a look at his bruised knuckles.
He doesn‘t answer, because of course, he knows exactly why.
Later, back on the plane, he one-handedly picks popcorn off her hair and sweater, and they fall asleep holding hands.
(3) three words
He always knew that Lemon was jealous of Avery, but he figured that was normal, warranted jealousy of someone who was thin, blonde, pregnant, free of foot-problems and able to maintain a twenty-minute conversation about something other than food; so he‘s more than surprised when Pete informs him, quietly and sternly, that he can‘t have Avery milling around in his office anymore because Liz is in love with him and it hurts her feelings to see them together.
It‘s not until later that night when he realizes she used the same tactic to get rid of Avery that he used to get rid of Danny last year, and he finds, to his amazement, that he‘s actually disappointed until he considers that the fact of the matter is that now they‘ve both gone out of their way to sabotage each other‘s relationships, using a little white lie that maybe isn‘t even one.
(4) four you:
When Rose is four months old, Avery tells him motherhood isn‘t for her and disappeares, leaving behind a bewildered infant, a terrified Jack and a disconnected cell phone line. He tries Jonathan first, but that does not work out because Jonathan seems more interested in trying to ascertain whether Jack loves the baby more than him, then Kenneth, which doesn‘t pan out because Kenneth shows up on his door with an actual, live pig on a leash, „For the baby to sleep on, Sir, it keeps ,em warm back home“, and, finally, Liz.
He has to hand it to her: though she sings her lullabies about sandwhiches and blows what she calls „cheese puffs“ on her stomach, for the first time in two days, his daughter isn‘t crying, in fact, she seems perfectly content. They both do. The baby seems to calm down Liz, the fact that there‘s someone in the room who has even less of a clue about anything that she and who needs her, it works for her, somehow.
A couple of months later, he walks into her office to relieve Liz of the baby and finds the two of them on the floor, Liz, with her back to him, saying, „Da-ddy. Daaaa--ddy. C‘mon, you‘re a smart cookie, you can do it. Daaa-ddy. Seriously, his birthday‘s five days from now, put in a little effort, kid. Daaaa-ddy.“
It works for him, too.
i love you
Summary: four times Jack realizes he's in love with liz
Notes: 30 Rock fic! Jack/Liz all the way.
1, 2, 3, 4
(inspired by the plain white sheets song: four times jack realized he was in love with liz)
(1) because there‘s one thing
When TGS fails to win an Emmy nomination the third year running, Lemon scedules a Star Wars marathon for the night of the broadcast, complete with an elaborate drinking game only she and Toofer seem to get- the rest of them just get indiscriminately wasted. Jenna ambles in right around Obi Wan‘s death, looking crazier than usual and not answering questions about where her publicist is, why she‘s not in LA or what the red stains on her dress are, and Liz just makes shushing noises at her and turns up the volume.
He was halfway to the airport himself when he realized he really had no interest in flying cross-country to watch a bunch of excecs that weren‘t him win awards, so he finds himself on the TGS stage with Lemon and the nerds, cheering on the rebellion and having a good time despite of himself. Two and a half movies later, they‘ve all fallen into a drunken stupor, and Jack‘s lost count of how many bottles of scotch he‘s had. He watches, enchanted, as Lemon mouthes the lines along with the screen, and feels his eyes flutter closed as he rests his head against her knees. She smiles, vaguely, moving her fingers through his hair with surprising gentleness.
„I love you,“ he mutters, seconds away from sleep. Lemon doens‘t even taking her eyes off the screen, wipes a tear away as an Ewok is slain, then presses a simple kiss on his forehead and whispers „I know.“
(2) two do
Carol The Pilot has a near-death experience on a flight from Key West to Tampa involving a flock of pelican, and decides that what he really wants out of life is to get back together with the woman whose child he fathered the night after William McKinley High School‘s Prom in 1966. Lemon tells him all this with a determindedly set jaw and eyes brimming on a Monday morning in his office, and before he knows what he‘s doing, they‘re on the company plane to Lima, Ohio, and he‘s punching Carol in the mouth with all the righteous force and wrath of a Boston street kid.
„Why on earth did you do that?“ She asks him, in the bathroom of a Breadstix off the freeway to the airport, where the appearance of free, unlimited breadsticks cheered her beyond what was reasonable, once he‘s finally allowed her to take a look at his bruised knuckles.
He doesn‘t answer, because of course, he knows exactly why.
Later, back on the plane, he one-handedly picks popcorn off her hair and sweater, and they fall asleep holding hands.
(3) three words
He always knew that Lemon was jealous of Avery, but he figured that was normal, warranted jealousy of someone who was thin, blonde, pregnant, free of foot-problems and able to maintain a twenty-minute conversation about something other than food; so he‘s more than surprised when Pete informs him, quietly and sternly, that he can‘t have Avery milling around in his office anymore because Liz is in love with him and it hurts her feelings to see them together.
It‘s not until later that night when he realizes she used the same tactic to get rid of Avery that he used to get rid of Danny last year, and he finds, to his amazement, that he‘s actually disappointed until he considers that the fact of the matter is that now they‘ve both gone out of their way to sabotage each other‘s relationships, using a little white lie that maybe isn‘t even one.
(4) four you:
When Rose is four months old, Avery tells him motherhood isn‘t for her and disappeares, leaving behind a bewildered infant, a terrified Jack and a disconnected cell phone line. He tries Jonathan first, but that does not work out because Jonathan seems more interested in trying to ascertain whether Jack loves the baby more than him, then Kenneth, which doesn‘t pan out because Kenneth shows up on his door with an actual, live pig on a leash, „For the baby to sleep on, Sir, it keeps ,em warm back home“, and, finally, Liz.
He has to hand it to her: though she sings her lullabies about sandwhiches and blows what she calls „cheese puffs“ on her stomach, for the first time in two days, his daughter isn‘t crying, in fact, she seems perfectly content. They both do. The baby seems to calm down Liz, the fact that there‘s someone in the room who has even less of a clue about anything that she and who needs her, it works for her, somehow.
A couple of months later, he walks into her office to relieve Liz of the baby and finds the two of them on the floor, Liz, with her back to him, saying, „Da-ddy. Daaaa--ddy. C‘mon, you‘re a smart cookie, you can do it. Daaa-ddy. Seriously, his birthday‘s five days from now, put in a little effort, kid. Daaaa-ddy.“
It works for him, too.
i love you