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boogiewoogieweeb · 4 months

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thinking about a joplittle/while you were sleeping au where jops is the lucy to ned's jack, with francis as platonic!peter and blanky as saul -i'll leave my (very) scattered thoughts on this in the tags but man the urge to plot this out is overwhelming rn...

#the terror... sort of #joplittle (adjacent)#it's galaxy brain time folks #jopson works as a station assistant on the london underground and crozier is a regular patron #they strike up a friendship and jops comes to see francis as a surrogate father figure #something something alcohol-related accident on the tube and jops gets to ride in the ambulance by claiming frank is his father #at the hospital frank's employees ned hodge irv and blanky show up and are very sceptical abt jops being frank's kid til blanky speaks up #ned especially is wary of jops bc of a recent incident with a certain cornelius 'e.c.' hickey but blanky vouches for his fellow tom #jops asks him 1. how he knew and 2. why he kept up the charade and blanky's like 1. frank is infertile bc of alcoholism and 2. it's fun #yadda yadda yadda frank wakes up and goes i guess i have a son??? okay??? ned and jops bond and frank and jops bond just bonding everywhere #UNTIL *gasp* the fiance arrives aka jfj jets in and is like frank u never told me u had a kid???? and frank's like it's news to me too babe #but never fear for jfj takes a shine to jops and even more bonding occurs #then something something drama jops has to reveal he's not frank's kid; jops breaks up with ned and plans on leaving london for idk canada #BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE ned and jops make up; frank and jfj unofficially adopt jops and everyone gets a happy ending the end #except of course for ratboy - or maybe he does who knows his storyline is undefined in my head as of right now #most of the supporting cast would also show up in the au in one form or another incl but not ltd to bridgplar; tozer; hartnell; dundy etc..

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