themes: single dad Jake, friends to exes to friends (to lovers), Daggers as found family
"Jake's being evicted," Nat greets Bradley when he opens the door. "He and Louise need a place to stay."
She's already squeezing past him, shrugging out of her jacket like she means business and throwing it on the couch on her way to the back of the house before Bradley can process her words. There's a room there that’s supposed to be an office but Bradley had no use for it, so it's been mostly used for storage and the occasional overnight guest that didn’t want to share his bed.
"Wait, what?" Bradley follows her down the hallway, trying to make sense of everything. "I thought he had the rent figured out. He told me so!"
"You know how he is. He probably hoped for a last minute miracle and now his dumb ass – and his daughter's – are sitting on the street."
Nat steps into the office slash storage room and puts her hands on her hips. "How can one person collect so much useless stuff, Bradshaw?"
Bradley cringes. Yeah, he's a bit of a hoarder, but sue him. These things remind him of his parents. He didn’t want to get rid of them when he redid the living room.
"You're not seriously considering them moving in here," Bradley asks, flabbergasted. "Jake and I can’t live together."
"Too bad, 'cause it's happening."
"Nat…"
"Think of Louise. You want her to move into Jake's mom's place?"
Bradley frowns. From everything Bradley knows, that's not an option. Jake avoids his mother at all costs. The relationship between mother and son had already been strenuous due to her alcoholism and the fact she let her late husband beat the shit out of a teen Jake, and it had soured even more when Mrs Seresin had 'found god' in her recovery and started preaching about how Jake was doomed because he was gay. Nevermind that Jake was bisexual and had a daughter with a woman. A woman who hadn’t been ready to be a mother and had left Jake high and dry, to pick up the pieces and raise a child on his own.
Not that they had let him. Their group of friends had picked up the slack; Javy and Nat had even moved in with Jake for the first year of Louise's life.
This had been five years ago. Bradley and Jake had gone from friends to lovers back to friends during that time.
If Bradley was being honest, his heart stung a little every time he was around Jake these days, but he would always take that over not seeing him anymore. Not having him and Louise in his life at all. And he understood. Jake had to put his daughter first, even when Bradley didn’t understand why they couldn’t just raise her together. But when Jake had sat him down two months after their first kiss and had told him he had acted too prematurely in getting into a relationship with Bradley, that he had too much on his plate and Louise deserved to have all his attention, Bradley couldn’t exactly say anything.
"No, of course not," Bradley sighs. He eyes the boxes and is already calculating how long it will take to put them in storage. "Does Jake know you're here?"
"Javy is over there, talking to him."
"He won’t want to."
"He doesn’t have another choice. Sucks for him." She opens the flaps of one of the boxes, peeks inside. Her eyes swing up to him. "This is your mom's stuff?"
"My parents', yeah."
Nat looks around, calculating as she bites her lip. "Maybe we can put them up at a hotel—"
"No, it's fine." He shakes his head, interrupting her before she can say any more. His mom would hit him over the back of his head if he let Jake and Louise stay at a hotel instead of offering them this room. "I'll call Reuben, see if I can borrow his truck."
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Phoenix tries to knock his arm while he’s getting the angle just right, but he sees it coming and lifts his elbow out of range.
“Alright, alright. Easy,” he chuckles. “Play nice, will ya?”
She snorts. “You’re one to talk.”
“Leave me to my work,” he mutters, shifting his hands up an inch.
“You call drooling over him work?”
He ignores the commentary, watches through the frame of his two hands as, yards ahead, Bradley turns into the bright sunlight, looks off down the coastline with a sleepy disposition. He’s like a cat in the sunshine, smiley and loose limbed, content.
“Hey, Bradshaw!” he calls, grinning already.
Those broad shoulders open up in his direction, a smile at the corner of the other man’s lips and Jake admires the sight, drinks it all in. The warmth, the glow, the tan. It’s a damn good view.
spent the whole weekend rewatching Pirates of the Caribbean & needed to draw Hangster as Will and Elizabeth (my OGs) to satisfy my hyperfixation itch. got a little tired of rendering at the end but \o/
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