#ember skye

So....  Skye and Jaq are a couple now.  They’d screwed around some awhile before, but Jaq fucked it up royally and they didn’t see each other for nearly a year.  Jaq rode a rollercoaster through hell after that, succumbing to his addictions, going off his meds, and basically being a pain in everyone’s collective ass. 

They met again at Thanksgiving dinner over at Wynter and Xavier’s cabin. Wynter and Skye have worked together for the Parks Dept for years, saved each other’s asses multiple times and are basically brothers.  Jaq was there with his husband Plemon. (an older gentleman that basically saved Jaq from himself) .  Jaq’s brother Eden was there with his daughter Eva and his fiance Teo.  (they’ve since eloped)  Skye was there with his girlfriend, Yelani, and Rivet was there with her bottle of whiskey. 

Jaq and Wynter grew up in the same group home for boys and are basically family.... along with Jaq’s little brother Eden, and Rivet, who is not a boy, but the foster system is a fucked up mess and that’s where she was for long enough to become family.

Skye and his girlfriend hadn’t been dating long, but everyone really loved her and there was a lot of hope for a relationship going forward. Wynter especially was relieved, considering it hadn’t been long before this that Skye had confessed to him that he was possibly falling for Xavier.  

The evening was basically a disaster. Rivet got drunk and her and Jaq made out on the dining room floor while everyone was in the other room chatting and waiting for the turkey to be done.  

Jaq and Rivet had been partners in crime, inseparable best friends and each other’s first kiss when they weren’t even 10 years old  and their feelings for each other are massively complicated.  Jaq feels deeply hurt and downright betrayed when Rivet turned out to be a girl and Rivet, for her part, gave him a black eye for rejecting her because of it.  Neither of them at the time had a clue what “gay” was, and neither of them has ever forgiven the other or gotten over it. 

Plemon walked in on them and rescued them from each other before Wynter found them which would not have ended well.

Wynter got the turkey out of the oven and dinner was served. Then Jaq tried to light Skye’s girlfriend on fire under the dinner table, ranting and raving that she was an evil witch and they were all in danger.  Most everyone was convinced it was because he was jealous, which made him more mad.

Dinner was ruined, Skye and his girlfriend left.  Plemon drug Jaq to the car and they left, Eden and Teo bundled Eva into the car and they left. Rivet blacked out on the couch, cradling her now empty bottle of whiskey.  Wynter struggled not to shift into wolf and vowed, growling of course, never to speak to Jaq ever again, and Xavier drug him off to the bedroom to calm down- the turkey and all the trimmings still uneaten on the table.

Yelani,  who WAS actually using Skye to try to get closer to Wynter and his patched up family full of weirdos and DID have ill intentions, sent Skye away claiming she just needed to rest after the scare she’d had.  Really she just couldn’t handle pretending to be sweet and gentle any more, and she REALLY couldn’t handle him being tender and sweet with her and if he didn’t get out of her face right the hell now, she was going to murder him, which would have ruined all her nefarious plans. She wanted to sulk in peace.

Skye texted Jaq wondering what the hell had gotten in to him.  Jaq explained, this time slightly calmer, and without fire, that he KNEW the girl was evil and he was just trying to save everyone and he was crying because no one would believe him and Plemon was mad at him and he really wasn’t trying to ruin dinner, and Skye just HAD to believe him.

Skye had long suspected that Jaq’s hallucinations, delusions and bizarre behavior were probably not all related to mental illness and figured he probably had some dose of unusual ability.  He had SEEN shit in his life and he was more inclined to believe him than dismiss him, after all, he’d grown up with a witch for a mother, and Skye knew things for fact that Jaq kept guessing at with no concrete information.  Like the fact that Wynter is a werewolf, Xavier’s fae and Rivet’s ....well,  whatever the hell she is.  Jaq swears up and down they’re all aliens from outer space.

Skye then made his way to Jaq and Plemon’s apartment.  They talked, and more.  Jaq breaking the one rule Plemon had set for him regarding male visitors.. that they not end up fucking in his bed.  

They started hanging out again after that as friends with benefits, then decided to take a road trip together.  Their first trip was all the way from Seattle to the east coast of Canada to visit Skye’s mom.  It went better than anyone had anticipated, and Jaq currently believes she’s adopted him as a second son.  Not quite true, but everyone lets Jaq have his delusions so long as they aren’t hurting anyone. The truth is, she didn’t hate him, which is saying a lot compared to how most parents feel about him.

Jaq and Skye fell in love on that trip and became a couple officially.  Jaq was very much married at the time, though things between him and his husband  had already started to change well before the disastrous holiday.  They are still technically married, but only until Plemon can get the final paperwork drafted for the divorce and setting up a trust for Jaq that will last the rest of his life and pay for his meds and whatever else he needs.  They both still wear their wedding bands, but on the wrong hand now,  and every weekend Jaq and Skye go over to Plemon’s apartment for Waffle Sunday.  They both call him Dad and so does Eden.  Eva calls him Grumpa.

Plemon’s currently looking for someone over the age of 45,  that he can take to the ballet, or even just out to dinner, without risking acute embarrassment. He figures that’s setting the bar pretty low, but he’s not interested in another relationship like he had with Jaq. He’s slightly sad, but over all completely relieved that Jaq found someone like Skye and he’s free now to move on with his FAR less disrupted life.

  Tonight?  Jaq and Skye are in a run down hotel.  They got tired of sleeping in Jaq’s old van.  This roadtrip is down to Nevada to Area 51.  Jaq’s convinced the world is ending and they can get the aliens down there to help with the Trump crisis.   Skye made him promise that if they don’t find real aliens,  then they’ll head East and join the protests in DC instead of sitting around waiting for aliens to show up.