#belle and jack

[renegadesstuff]

THIS IS THE MOST ROMANTIC THING I'VE EVER SEEN 🥹🤍🤍

[bellzsad]

MY FUCKING ROMAN EMPIRE.

[hgracieeees]

There's a ship sailing into Port Victory. For a man who lived many years at sea, Jack Dawkins has never dreaded the coming of a ship so much, for this ship brings his wife with it. gif by @loisfreakinglane

this work is currently in early planning stages, chapter 1 expected in the first week of feb, 2024. written as a continuation from the end of season 1 of the artful dodger. title from 'bird on a wire' by sarah blasko (plays at the end of S1E1).

PREMISE: jack dawkins is a free man. with no evidence of his crimes since the mysterious death of captain gaines, and the position of head surgeon a shoe-in since his miraculous resurrection of the governor's daughter, he should have little more to want in life. but jack is not free to have the one thing he does want - lady belle fox. under the guise of kindliness for his new head surgeon, and surely under the heavy influence of his wife, the governor reveals that some old family friends in london have a favour to ask - their young daughter is coming to port victory in search of a husband. the governor, ever one to help those who help him (or rather, save his daughter's life), supplies jack as the ideal groom. how can jack and belle maintain a relationship that is not only secret from her parents, but also from his wife, and how can they ever have a future while he is legally bound to another? luckily for them, there may be more to martha young than meets the eye...

[saturnslight]

finally edited dodgerfox!

[sweetbuckybarnes]

Wake Up, Belle

Pairings: Jack “Artful Dodger” Dawkins + Lady Belle Fox

Summary: What if Belle woke up on the table?

Jack and Sneed had just finished sewing up Belle’s chest, Jack only had time to drop the tools in his hands haphazardly onto the nearby table, before he was cupping her face, bloody fingers leaving red fingerprints on her cheeks.

“Wake up, Belle,” Jack begged, his eyes roaming her face as he is thumb came to rest on the feel of her heartbeat on the side of her neck. Her heart was beating! So why wasn’t she waking up? “Please, wake up, Belle!”

Gaines came around the table gun in one hand, and wrapped his hand around Jack’s upper arm. “Alright, time to go.”

“No, leave me. Belle, wake up,” he didn’t want to slap her awake - she was a lady after all - but if it’s what wakes her up, he’d do it.

Just as Gaines dragged him off Belle’s body, she took in a sudden deep breath, and her eyes cracked open as she caught her breath.

“Oh darling,” Lady Jane pushed herself around to Jack’s side of the table and blocked her daughter’s view of the surgeon. “Oh, my darling!”

“Jack,” Belle called, reaching her hand past her mother and to the man she loves. Lady Jane took hold of her daughter’s hand, who was quick to shake her off. “Jack.”

He peered over her mother’s shoulder, tears of relief filling his eyes. “Welcome back, Lady Belle.”

“Jack,” she reached her hand over for him to take, but pulled her hand away from her mother’s grip once again. “No, I want Jack.”

“Dearest-“

“You didn’t believe me when I told you I had an aortic aneurysm, you tried to tell me I was wrong, but I was right,” she stared her mother down, reaching her hand out for a third time for Jack to take - even with his hands covered in her blood - he took it. “Jack was the only one who believed me.”

Lady Jane stumbled over her words trying to find the right ones which would separate her daughter from the twisted surgeon for good. However, it was Captain Gaines who spoke up. “My lady, he is a criminal and a thief, he will be hung from the gallows in the morning.”

Belle looked up at Jack, whose face had paled - he had saved the love of his life’s life and now he was condemned to death. She turned her head to look at her father. “Papa, will you pardon Jack, please?”

“Belle, my sweet,” the Governor started, looking at his wife (with her eyes, she was telling him to say no), Gaines (who was silently wanting him to allow him to hand Jack Dawkins), then to the man himself - the young man who he presumed to be a few years older than Belle, was as white as a sheet, staring down at Belle both scared for his life and a look of adoration. Then he turns his eyes on Belle, his little girl (despite being the age of 25), as she looks up at him from the theatre table where just five minutes ago was battling with herself to stay alive, she looks over at Jack with the same adoring eyes, and then up at her father. “Do you love him?”

Belle looked back over at Jack, staring up at his face, framed by his dark hair and dark eyes swimming with tears. In the throes of pain, before she was given the ether, she remembers Jack telling her that he loves her.

“I do. I love him.”

“Then he shall be pardoned, and on the Prof’s retirement, shall be made Head Surgeon,” the Governor declares, watching as his daughter’s face lit up, turning her head to look up at Jack and raise a hand to cup his face.

Jack’s face flooded with relief, leaning down so he could press his forehead against Belle’s then nudging his nose along hers.

“I knew you could do it,” Belle tells him, obviously referring to her surgery.

“Edmund, dearest,” his wife comes around the table, digging her fingernails into his arm. “I thought Dr. Sneed was going to be Head Surgeon.”

The Governor looked over at the other surgeon in the room, who was looking at Jack with what could be considered pride. “Dr Dawkins just saved our daughter’s life, we are very lucky to have him as our surgeon in Port Victory.”

Jack hadn’t taken his eyes off Belle, “I’ll be back in a moment, I need to go clean up,” he motioned to his hands covered in her blood, whilst remembering about the spare shirt he keeps in his office.

“Jack,” Belle says, wrapping her hands around a little bit tighter.

“Lady Fanny, will you keep your sister company while I clean up?” Jack asks the youngest Fox daughter.

Fanny nods, hurrying as fast as her skirt would allow her. “Of course, Dr. Dawkins,” she took her sister’s hand, as Jack leaned down and pressed a slightly scandalous kiss to her forehead.

“I’ll be back in a moment, my lady.”

Belle watched, as she tipped her head until she lost sight of him, as Jack made his way to the bowls and cleaned himself up.

“Belle, do you truly love him?” Fanny asked, looking down at her sister in awe and curiosity.

“Yes, I don’t think I could ever stop loving him.”

Belle didn’t pay her mother any kind of attention until Lady Jane made an unladylike noise. “Belle, it is improper from someone of your station to be associated with him. Society will turn its back on you.”

Belle glanced over at her mother. “Don’t you know, mother?” She looks at her. “I am society.”

[locklyle1kanij]

OMG!!! One of the directors posted some BTS of the Artful Dodger and they responded to this comment in the comment section!!

FOR SURE WE WILL?!?!?!?!

[do-these-bats-have-rabbies]

Can someone make a jack and belle zombie au plss im fr begging

[vreskah]

All my mlp redesigns cause I finished watching the show and all equestrian girls

[thatonekimgirl]

If you even feel half the way I do about you… I don't. You don't? I feel it ten times more.

[madartz15]

This scene fucking killed me. Jack keeping his fingers on Belle's pulse all night just to make sure she was still alive is such a romantic yet sad little detail. Man probably didn't get an ounce of sleep that night. 😭

[sluttyhenley]

2x08 | Untapped Potential THE ARTFUL DODGER

[renegadesstuff]

I DON'T CARE IF IT WAS MEANT TO BE A MINI-SERIES, I NEED A SEASON 2! 🥹🤍

[bellzsad]

JACK AND BELLE JACK AND BELLE JACK AND BELLE JACK AND BELLE !!

[queensend]

Jack Dawkins and Belle Fox THE ARTFUL DODGER 1.08 "Untapped Potential"

[hihomeghere]

You could say I’m a bit obsessed with these dumb cowboys <3

[sweetbuckybarnes]

Dodgerfox

Wake Up, Belle: What if Belle woke up on the table?