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Whats a more perfect introduction to some of my interests and my wring than this. A Hadestown x Yellowjackets oneshot! (No Yellowjackets spoilers I’m still on the fist season.) I also posted this on my Wattpad, @ GayFae13. So go check that out if you want more!

Jackie stood at the bar with a drink in her hand, staring across the space at a girl sitting in a booth by herself. Jackie had spotted her first while she was performing for the bar, singing and playing guitar with her band. She had looked so engulfed in their music that Jackie barely had eyes for anyone else through the whole set. She takes a sip of her drink, a light fruity thing, more juice than alcohol at this point. She felt a smile creep over her face as she felt her band mates lingering behind her. They always knew exactly where to be when Jackie was about to get herself into a situation. Nobody wanting to miss Jackie making a fool of herself... again.

"You wanna talk to her?" Nat asks, popping her head over Jackies shoulder.

"Yes," the dirty blonde replies quickly. She turns over her shoulder to stare back at her band mates, her closest friends.  Nat, Lottie, and Van stared back at her with sly grins, they all knew who Jackie had been eyeing up all night. She wasn't exactly subtle after all.

"Go on," Lottie encourages, giving her a little push towards the mysterious girl. She giggles lightly, her laugh like a tinkling bell as she played match maker with her friend.

"Jackie," Van says tentatively, always the voice of reason of the group. Jackie whirls back around for a second time, the band was making her nervous. She knew she wasn't the smoothest, but did they really have to point it out every time?

"Yes...?" she repeats, her eyes wavering as she looks between her three best friends nervously. Their faces softened slightly and Van even lets out a small sigh.

"Don't come on too strong," the three say in unison. Her friends knew her too well, and her tendencies to be awkward and clunky rather than cool and flirty when it came it talking to girls. But this time was going to be different. She wouldn't fumble or say something largely embarrassing or overshare. She wouldn't just talk to this pretty girl like a normal person. A normal person.

Jackie takes a deep breath and turns around again, Lottie giving her another gentle push in the direction of the girl. Jackie maneuvered her way through the bar and the people, eyes focused on the table. As she gets closer she takes another sip of her drink before slipping into the opposite side of the bar from the girl.

"Come home with me," she sputters, immediately regretting the foolish words that had slipped out. Her crew, lingering only a table away, all sighed and shook their heads. Nat holds the bridge of her nose and groans. Ya know, some things never change.

"Who are you?" the girl asks, eyebrow raised suspiciously at the girl who just sat down across from her who was pretty much a stranger. Who was this girl? She had seen her perform with her band earlier in the night, and she was gorgeous. But she had never talked to her, never seen her till this night.

"The girl who's gonna marry you! I'm Jackie," she fumbles again, internally screaming at herself. What was wrong with her? But she reached her hand out anyways, offering the girl a handshake over the table.

"Is she always like this?" the dark haired girl asks, ignoring Jackies hand and looking over at the three other girls, clearly knowing that they are with with dirty blonde in front of her. They were a band after all. She wasn't stupid.

The band tries to act causally, like they aren't involved or were ease dropping on the conversation. They are failing miserably. Typical. They give up the act as Van pushes them a little closer to the table. They already got caught, why not hear a little better. "Yes," the three nod sadly. Tragically, Jackie was always this clumsy with girls.

"I'm Shauna," she says after letting out a small sigh, finally accepting Jackies hand shake. Jackie shakes it excitedly, a smile stretching across her face. She doesn't see her friends a couple feet off trying to get her to play it cool.

"Your name is like a melody," Jackie replies, clinging to Shauna's hands for a couple moments longer than she should before letting it go. Her eyes seemed to glimmer. This wavering spark that almost made her clumsiness attractive.

"A singer? Is that what you are?" Shauna asks teasingly, leaning on her hand on the table. Her dark brown hair sways around her head as she grins, still unimpressed.

"I also play the lyre," Jackie says, staring dazed at the girl before her as she informed her about her own musical endeavors. She loved when people asked her about her music. Her music and her band was her everything. She planned to change the world with her music.

"A lair and a player too? I've met too many girls like you," Shauna says with a scoff, chuckling slightly at her own play on words. Jackie was just another musician looking for her newest muse.

"Oh no, I'm not like that!" Jackie quickly defends, not picking up on the playfulness in her tone or the play on words itself. Hmm, she really was a little slow.

"She's not like any girl you've ever met," Lottie adds, the three girls looming behind Jackie playfully. Like little spirits encouraging her on.

"Tell her what you're working on!" Van encourages, tapping Jackies shoulder excitedly. The three watched Jackie, praying she wouldn't fumble again and that this interaction could still be saved. Plus, Shauna was a pretty young girl.

"I'm working on a song!" Jackie bursts out, clearly excited to share and talk about this piece of music. Her face beams like the sun, like a smiling kid, proud of their own achievements. "It isn't finished yet, but when it's done and when I sing it, spring will come again." She stands on her seat, proclaiming this supposedly musical masterpiece to the whole bar, not just Shauna. Nat whacks her on the back of her head and Jackie sheepishly sits back down, still beaming.

"Come again?" Shauna asks, really taken aback by this big idea. Was that even really possible?

"Spring will come!" Jackie says again, nodding her head like a happy dog.

"When? I haven't seen a spring or fall since... I can't recall," Shauna says, pondering the state of the world they lived in. There was no spring here. Not here. Not now. But Jackie- My- The look on her beaming face looks like it might be enough to bring back spring all on its own. There really was something captivating about her.

"That's what I'm working on! A song to fix what's wrong! Take what's broken and make it whole," she says, spreading her hands out in an arc like she was painting the world before her. And maybe she was, painting over this gray world with the color of her music. There was something about the look in her eyes and the determination in her smile that made Shauna believe that maybe she was right. "A song so beautiful- it brings the world back into tune! Back into time. And all the flowers will bloom- When you become my wife!" And there she goes again.

"Oh she's crazy," Shauna chuckles, giving a teasing look to the three girls who still lingered over Jackie from behind. "And why would I become her wife?"

"Maybe because she'll make you feel alive," Lottie says with that delicate, flowery smile. She patted Jackie's shoulder confidently, and Jackie just beams, her hands spread out on the table. Shauna thought she might be crazy. But sometimes crazy is what it takes to make change. Maybe Jackie really could make spring come. The more she stared at her, the more she thought, if anyone could do it, it would be Jackie.

"Alive," she says quietly, almost pondering the thought to herself. "That's worth a lot." A smile creeps over her face as she looks up at Jackie.

"What else you got?"

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