#provider!pope

hi hi baby i love you more and sorry if this is not as long as you hoped but i thought it was a good blurb/thought!! thank you for requesting, my love <3. wc: 1.8k

this is soooooo good. i will DIE on the hill that pope has felt so used all of his life that all he wants to do is feel useful in a more positive way!!!!! so when he gets a girl?? yeah that’s HIS girl. his everything. his responsibility. he’ll do anything to take care of her. that means his money isn’t even HIS money, it’s yours. 

you find it so silly how he asks you if he can buy himself something. it’s never for anything minor, mostly the bigger things. “i think our family room needs a new TV. that okay?” 

your eyebrows furrow at this, looking up at him from your textbook. “what?”

“the family room. the television is outdated. can i get a new one?” 

“uhm… yeah?” you’re confused but you don’t voice it. you shrug it off like it’s no big deal. 

until he asks something else a few days later. “been looking at new trucks, think i can get one?” 

you’re in the middle of watching a movie, his rough fingers are massaging your calves after you complained about running back and forth on campus. your eyebrows furrow, looking up at him from your spot. “why are you asking me that?” 

he shrugs. “cause i want to know what you want.” 

you snort, lying your head back down on your pillow. “and if i said you can’t get one?” 

“then i won’t get one.” 

your eyes are wide, sitting up fully, pulling your legs from him. “what? you grabbing from my financial aid for the truck or something? cause i only get my year covered and that seems like a lot, sure, but i can’t just waste that all—“ 

“why would i grab your money? that’s yours.” 

“okay… so…” you’re so fucking confused. you shake your head, waving your arms between the two of you. “okay. am i being slow or something? did i miss an entire part of our conversation? was i focused too much on the movie?” 

and he has the audacity to look confused as he speaks, “my money is yours too.” 

“and… my money is yours?” you ask. 

he scoffs, offended. “why would your money be mine?” 

“i mean… wouldn’t your words mean the—“ 

“no.” he interrupts. 

“but—“ 

“no. my money is yours, your money is yours. not mine.” 

“your money is mine… and it’s not yours?”

“yes.” 

“you’re an idiot.” but you don’t argue. 

you have lots of nice things. nice bags and shoes and makeup, all thanks to the money from pope’s wallet. it’s not like you can’t buy yourself anything. you very much can. you’re good at saving, especially with the job you have, the one he hates. so, when you graduate? oh, he’s spoiling you like crazy. he gets you everything you’ve so much as glanced at. 

warnings. don’t do this seriously 😭😭😭

I have thoughts… of pope and reader who weren’t together very long. reader definitely just saw what they had as nothing but a fling and pope didn’t exactly mind at first either

you’re four months in on whatever you are when you get knocked up. and you heavily debate not having the baby but weirdly enough… having a child with him isn’t the worst ig…

he STEPS UP. all his jobs are for you and that kid. all his money and attention is all yours. he spends time at his brothers bar only to discuss heists with them. they invite him out to drink and he flat out rejects them. why would he drink beers with his brothers when he can be with you?? holding you??

you’re put off by how clingy he’s suddenly being but you don’t fight it. you don’t reject the crib and stroller and car seat and baby clothes and maternity clothes and the food you’re craving ALL the time.

but your hormones are always getting the better of you and he tries to keep up but you breakup with him so many times. by the end of the pregnancy, you’re refusing to take him back because you’ve convinced yourself he’s only with you for your baby girl

but he’s still soooooo incredibly good to you. night feedings, showering her, changing her, letting you get rest whenever you need it. he tells you he has to take care of his twin, because of course she looks JUST like him… it pisses you off sometimes

he gives you the option to not have to work but makes sure that you know you can do what you want when you want. he upgrades your car because baby girl needs to be driven around, of course. your mattress is upgraded too because you try not to cosleep but it’s soo hard and baby girl needs a softer bed. he takes you and baby girl out to dinner and walks and you always have to deny being with him.

“what a lovely couple!”

“we’re not a couple.” you huff.

“we are.” pope ignores you.

anyways he’s perfect and he takes care of his baby girl in ways he was never shown but somehow knew just how to do.

you know when he robs all those banks for lenas college fund? he pulls something like that for you.

you tell him a little about your childhood and your single parent or even if you had both parents, they really struggled to make ends meet. you moved around TOO much and you more often than not, were too close to ending up on the streets with your family, but you don’t speak of that, too embarrassed. the only place you really felt safe in was the public library in your city, escaping into different universes— he knows the types of books you like too, Barnes and Noble easily becomes his top five visited stores from then on.

that being said, you want to make something of yourself badly! but everything is so fucking expensive as a college student. so, yeah, you accept his gifts of going out to eat and restocking your fridge or just scouring his fridge. you never took notice that he only stocks it for you either, he NEVER eats at his own place. but you HATE accepting anything else.

so when your relationship moves further and you’re only barely establishing roots in your new career, you’re still struggling a bit. his suggestion to move in together takes longer than he expected. he gets pissy sometimes that you’re not quicker to accept his forms of love, which is very clearly providing for you!!! hello!!!!! let him!!!!

you’re honest with him that you don’t have the money for a new place, no deposit or first rent. he’s baffled because girl? he’s not talking about renting? you’re going to be owning???!!!! don’t worry about that. you keep promising that you’ll pay him back and he finds it ridiculous.

“i’ll pay you back. im serious.”

he gives you a bored expression. “wives don’t pay their husbands back.”

“we’re not married.”

“we will be though.”

so yeah, you force a budget onto him. you carefully look for places to buy. very carefully. you frustrate him to no end when he shows you a really cool place and doesn’t want to tell you the price because he knows you’ll say no. you say no either way.

he didn’t know the full extent of your childhood. it’s probably said by your sister and he’s shocked. he’s had a bad home life too so he gets it but you not having a secure roof over your heads for years solidifies it for him. he robs MULTIPLE banks and businesses for you, on multiple different days until he has enough for the home he was looking at.

you’re pissed AS HELL!!!!!! when he buys a home without asking you. he lies about the price. says it was cheaper because you need to work on it and some old people died in it. you scold him for saying that but he doesn’t care, he likes the way your eyes light up at every room he shows you.

he works on it all by himself, sometimes with his brothers, but he doesn’t like them around you so it’s not often.the last room he works on is a surprise. he doesn’t let you inside whatsoever. and you’re a good girl duhhhh so you don’t.

yes!!!!! i like to picture that reader with provider!pope is either the older sibling that takes care of everyone or the middle child that isn’t paid any attention to!!!! you’re never anyone’s first thought, not even a second thought. you remember everyone’s favorite snacks and meals and drinks and their way to do things.

and when you first get with pope, you expect it to be that way too. you learn to be attentive to him, learn his quirks and how he likes things. but he surprises you.

it’s the smallest of things. not even BIG. he remembered your coffee order. which, again, big fucking deal!!! it’s just coffee!! but you’d never have someone pay attention to you like that. you’re in COMPLETE shock!!!!!!!!! you shrug it off as a one off though, since you’re not used to it.

and then he keeps doing it. he knows the snacks you like, he knows the color of clothing you prefer for your skin tone, the beauty products you use, even the toothpaste that works for your sensitive teeth. when he starts spending his money on you???? you’re upset at first. anything he gets you, you leave at his place too, you don’t feel okay with taking it out of his home.

10000000%!!!!!! at first, she’s really shy about the way he is. wdymmmmmm what’s mine isn’t yours? but reader starts embracing it!! so when she buys that mamalona she’s been wanting??? baby that’s all hers!!!!!

she loves driving her truck but for date night, she makes him drive cause duh?? and men clap HIM on the back??? but he’s quick to tell them it’s not his, it’s his girls. he boasts like craaaaaaazzy about you too!

a little off topic but… if this is provider!pope, i soooooo canon that reader can more often than not be a fucking bitch to him 😭😭 like the way she was getting overstimulated by her earrings and she snapped at him and that’s not even what UPSET HIM… it was the money

you can be in the worst of fucking moods, slamming cabinets shut and stirring dinner or chopping too intensely and he’d STILL get you flowers and is still so sweet to you

he doesn’t talk much but when you’re not visibly happy like you usually are, all he can do is ask if you’re okay every second… so you do snap at him to shut the fuck up 😭 he shuts up IMMEDIATELY