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and the actual heartbreak I experienced when Amy balks after their date I truly felt it so hard and then they falling in love and how Jake is always waiting for her... I love that in every universe (and fic) he has always carried a torch for her but never pushes her. And him being so surprised and nervous when she actually asks him out. I don't know I'll send you this and I'll keep remembering things I loved about it /2

I don't know I'll send you this and I'll keep remembering things I loved about it. You covered so well already but if you ever revisit that fic again it would be great to read Jake's POV since the night everything started, personally I'm a sucker for the pining and Jake's mind and I obviously believe you get his voice right. I'm way past the word limit and probably past normal asks etiquette or something lol so again I'll just say I truly loved the fic. Will be rereading later 💛. /3

FHALDSFKAHSDFLKJ okay i am SEVERAL days late responding to this but these made me SO HAPPY i can’t begin to tell u,,,,HFALDKSFASDFL THANK U!!!!

also!!!! u KNOW i gotta shout out @capnperaltiago for coming up with the original idea that sparked that fic!!!!!!! mel’s basically a goddess walking among us can u believe

so i have thought about going back and doing jake’s pov sort of like what i did with on my heart like a tattoo, but i’ve realized that in you can hear it in the silence, jake’s pov is mostly him very patiently waiting for amy to get out of her head and figure things out lmao. so it’s like him buying coffee every morning and mostly goofing around on his computer while being acutely aware every time amy tries to furtively watch him across their desks

BUT

i did have his pov of that date scene kind of planned out in my head and i may or may not have written it below the cut bc ur such an angel,,,,,,,,,,,

One day you're just a normal adult who reads fanfiction and decides to actually write your first one.

Less than 7 months later, you're watching tiktoks with 1.7k likes about one of your fics.

MEL this is the best prompt ever and i’d like to once again SHOWER you with a billion thank-yous because i haven’t felt this inspired in MONTHS

IT’S NOT GREEDY AT ALL I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

so amy texts the sibling group chat while jake is still on the phone with charles, and she’s distracted by charles’ audible screaming and the dozens of texts that start rolling in immediately

pretty much all the siblings are super happy for her and they all start asking about her whole process and everything that transpired in all the repeats but notably missing from the celebration is david

david finally chimes in like an hour or two after amy gets to work - he hits the groupchat with a wow! and then five minutes later texts amy separately and says only 45 days, huh? that’s really fast. good for you!

and amy’s like well yeah, we’ve been close friends for a really long time and once we sorted things out the pieces fell into place quickly.

basically he kind of insinuates that he thinks amy is lying about how many repeats it actually took, and amy’s on the verge of completely losing it on him when jake finds her out on the balcony and kind of talks her off the edge by reminding her that whether david believes her or not is irrelevant - they know it’s true and besides, the science behind proving repeats is really promising and one day in the near future they’ll be able to take a test (a la a DNA test or something like that lmfao) and will be able to shove physical proof under his nose that it really only was 45 repeats

oh my GOD i love this ask SO MUCH

okay so like obviously jake calls charles pretty much first thing to head off a massive overreaction (or so he thinks) so charles spends a good 5-10 minutes just. shrieking into the phone. like no words are spoken it’s just unintelligible horror movie screaming and squealing (and sobbing at one point)

so once they actually get to work (after MUCH hemming and hawing from jake, who spends the vast majority of the morning trying to convince amy that they should just skip work and spend the day together again LMAO) the next person to see them is rosa, who eyes their clasped hands, smirks, and says “so you finally grabbed each other’s asses?” they both go red in the face, but as soon as jake has his back turned, amy nods and smirks as well

they get up to the bullpen and charles already has a huge banner hung up and he has confetti cannons that go off as soon as the elevator doors open and like celebrate by cool and the gang is blasting and the whole squad is cheering and charles is like jumping and dancing and singing

terry mostly just wants to know if either of them talked to him during their repeats (and is consequently Offended While Pretending Not To Be when he finds out neither of them did) but he’s also very very happy for them because he won the secret precinct betting pool

gina doesn’t notice anything is off or different until the end of the day, when she sees charles’ post on instagram - one of twelve - she’d assumed the celebration in the morning was because jake was wearing a new flannel or hoodie or something like that

holt congratulates both of them and shakes their hands, which jake thinks is a little underwhelming - up until he walks in on holt on the phone with kevin in the evidence lock-up, quietly reminiscing about their own repeats. it’s the softest he’s ever heard holt’s voice and when holt turns and realizes he’s been caught, neither one of them speak - it’s just like a nod in understanding, an exchange of small smiles. and when jake then rushes to tell amy about it, amy gets so excited she practically chokes

and yeah!! after that things pretty much go back to normal with the exception of charles, who wants to spend the next 45 days recreating every single one of their repeats