#jamlin

BCS discord did a secret santa, and my giftee was the amazing solidgoldblum!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Better Call Saul (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Howard Hamlin/Jimmy McGill | Saul Goodman Characters: Howard Hamlin, Jimmy McGill | Saul Goodman Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Priests, Confessional, Flirting, Dirty Talk, Fic Trade Summary:

Sorry it took me ages to get back to you on this!

If you search my “jamlin” tag you’ll find my dark, kinky headcanons for them, which is my preference for this ship. But let me think about what a fluffier version of them would look like…

I think something interesting could be done with this ship during the Mailroom Jimmy era, too. Howard finds himself growing quite fond of good ol’ Charlie Hustle, and Jimmy loves attention and thinks Howard is pretty damn hot. What starts as a few blowjobs in Howard’s office turns into going out for drinks after work (discreetly, of course. Hamlin can’t have people getting the wrong idea), but things start getting awkward as it moves more toward “relationship” territory. And then Chuck finds out and strongly urges Howard to break it off. In the meantime, though, it’s great fun. Howard is never quite comfortable at Jimmy’s dive bars, and Jimmy is awkward and too eager to please at Howard’s swanky lounges (recall, this is the guy who didn’t know what risotto was), and so they both breath a sigh of relief when they finally get to their hotel room after. Jimmy loves being fucked into the mattress, but Howard is always more careful than he needs to be, since he’s never quite sure what Jimmy actually wants and what he’s just putting up with to please Howard. He likes giving Howard shoulder rubs, but he isn’t very good at it.

“I really do like you Jimmy,” Howard often tries to assure him, “I’m not just using you to unwind.”

And Jimmy just smirks back at him. “Hey, no worries! Use me all you want!”

“No, Jimmy, I’m being serious. What we do here, within these four walls, has absolutely no bearing on our professional relationship. Pleasing me won’t earn you a promotion, nor, mutatis mutandis, a demotion.”

“Church and state. Got it.”

But of course Jimmy is still very hurt and confused when Howard comes to tell him he’s not getting hired as a lawyer. He gets a call from Howard a few days later asking to go out and talk things over. Jimmy goes, but of course Howard can’t quite come out and say what’s really going on, re: the situation with Chuck, so Jimmy walks away from the meeting without any decent explanation, and they never go out like that again.

The only conclusion Jimmy can reach is that Howard really was just using him all along. It hurts, and it wounds his con artist’s pride, knowing that he’s susceptible to manipulation like that. But as time goes on, Jimmy finds that he’s also kind of turned on by it, and he starts replaying their encounters in his head, now re-framed as Howard just using him as his fuck toy. The thought always gets him off, but he feels lousy about it afterwards.

(Kim knows absolutely nothing about them, and Jimmy never breathes a word of it.)

Howard looks like a blond Joel lmaoooo. I honestly don't know whether to make it into a comic or what, for now this is it and I already have a first "chapter" or rather an index of almost 1800 words heheh

Btw the zombie concept is basically a copy of the zombies from the movie 28 Days Later :p