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if Alice,

Were to get premonition stuff watching the potential ends of her bestie and ex, or the goth fates, would they warn ⚠️?

Fd 6 is literally rotting my grey matter.

Oh absolutely. Alice has a tendency to overthink things and worry about the people she cares about. If she got a premonition as vivid as those shown in Final Destination, she wouldn't feel at ease simply doing nothing about it. Jack's presence in her life adds an extra element of the supernatural as well, which can make such premonitions feel all the more like a real warning.

Speaking of warnings...

Content Warning: This post talks about death, near death experiences, manipulation, codependence, trauma bonding, yandere obsession, religious fanaticism, and other such heavy topics.

So, for example, if Alice had a vivid premonition that a stage light would fall on Shaun's head during a shoot, she would insist on being on set with him. Since she can't exactly say that she saw him get crushed and killed without sounding like a lunatic, she would instead bring up her concerns about general safety. She "heard" about the danger of stage lights not being bolted properly, so could he do her a favor and just check to make sure everything is secure? Pretty please?

Shaun would think that Alice is worrying a bit too much, but it feels good to have his crush worry about his safety. Of course, he knows he can't read too much into it, as he knows full well that she tends to be the "mom friend" and is more focused on taking care of her friends than herself. Still, he can indulge her and get to spend a day with her showing off his skills as a director. What's not to like about that?

What does concern him is finding out that one of the bolts had come off a stage light and second was rusty and starting to fall apart. It's actually kind of creepy how close it was to falling. If Alice didn't voice her concerns... if Shaun didn't take them seriously... who knows what might've happened?

It's a confirmation for Alice that what she saw was real. She feels relief that she managed to avert that awful future, but at the same time... why did she have that vision?

Then again, Alice somehow summoned a kids TV show mascot from the 80s to be her best friend forever. Perhaps she should be expecting more supernatural shenanigans in her life now.

The first time it happens, Alice wouldn't be keen to mention to the would-be victim, or even Jack, that she had a vision or a dream. She'd be in denial to some extent, hoping that she was simply worrying too much over a nightmare, but still taking action just in case.

Needless to say, the second time it happens, Alice would know for certain that these visions are deadly serious.

The first person Alice talks to about these premonitions directly is Jack, of course. He won't judge her or tell anyone her secrets. Plus he might have some ideas about what's going on given his own supernatural nature.

Unfortunately, Jack doesn't know anything. He's also a little hurt that Alice hid this from him. She knows she can trust him... right?

Alice, naturally, is quick to assure Jack that she does trust him, since that's why she's telling him now. She just didn't really believe it herself at first... but what is she going to do?

This is a bit of a conundrum for Jack. On the one hand, if his rivals meet some unfortunate end from a freak accident, he doesn't have to worry about losing his sunshine. On the other hand, Sunny Day Jack isn't the type of person who would think something horrible and monstrous like that. Jack is someone who is clean, someone worth caring for. He's not some awful person who would just let someone die, even if he doesn't like them.

Even if those dark thoughts creep up on Jack and whisper that maybe he would still be clean even if he just stood back and did nothing... he knows that Alice isn't going to be okay. If she had a premonition of someone's death and it happened, she would blame herself forever. It would leave another deep scar on her already damaged heart.

Jack could never let his sunshine suffer or let anything diminish her beautiful light.

So even though Jack can't help but feel a pang of ugly jealousy when it comes to Alice worrying so much about other people, he takes solace in the fact that she's looking to him for help. He's the only one she trusts to help with something like this. He's special.

Besides, it took Alice a while to really start depending on Jack in general. She struggles to share her burdens with anyone. She takes on far too much all on her own. What kind of friend would he be if he let her down when she needs him?

The closer Alice and Jack are in their relationship when the premonitions start, the less tempted Jack is to eliminate his competition. After all, if the other love interests aren't a threat, he has no reason to dirty his now clean soul. If he starts feeling insecure, he can just get a bit clingy and Alice will be only too ready to reassure him.

Naturally, things are a bit different in the Bad End AU. Although Jack did set up quite a violent show for Alice to distance her from Shaun and Ian, that trauma was deemed "necessary" at the time due to his insecurities. The result Jack wanted was to have Alice hate Ian and Shaun and not want to be around them. Seeing either of them or Nick die in a premonition, then being unable to save them would just burden her with guilt. If anything, it'd make her mourn them even more, and Jack would be left to feel helplessly jealous of a ghost, with no way of erasing them from his sunshine's heart completely.

Now if they died someplace else, in a way totally unrelated to Alice... that's a different story.

So even in the bad end route, Jack would help Alice in her attempts to save Ian, Shaun, and Nick. He can be her hero... though he can also bring up his concerns about whether or not they're worth all this stress and heartache. If he can prove that they're ungrateful of her help by pushing their paranoia... then, well, it's not Alice's fault if they were an awful person who treated her so badly. If anything, it'd be their fault the worst happened to them, not hers.

They have no one to blame but themselves for their deaths.

Buuuut you know me, I'm a sucker for healing and my OTP being happy together. The bad end is just on the extreme end of possible outcomes for Jack and Alice's story, so virtually every AU with them is going to have a good end.

Though this sort of AU would involve a lot of near-misses and brushes with death to get there. At least Alice has Jack to depend on and share all these traumatic visions with.

While Shaun would be the easiest person for Alice to save, Ian and Nick would be another story. Ian would take any of her concern as a sign that she still loves him. He'd leap at the chance to spend time with her, and he wouldn't hesitate to reminisce about better times between them.

Alice would still want to save Ian even when he's making her feel like absolute garbage for not wanting to get back together with him.

The brush with death, unfortunately, would just make Ian cling more to Alice. The shock would leave him in tears, terrified that his life almost ended before he was forgiven...

Not only did he almost die, but what if what awaited him on the other side wasn't heaven, but an eternity in hell? He did commit adultery after all, one of the top 10 worst sins. Plus isn't having sex before marriage sinful in and of itself?

Alice wouldn't just shake Ian off when he's traumatized. It'd be painful to have him crying into her chest, just like old times. Each apology would be a needle in her heart, but she can forgive him for needing this comfort. He almost died. Even if she can't be with him anymore - for both their sakes - she can give him this moment.

Even if it leaves her feeling like shit.

Not that Ian will want to let her go even after he starts to calm down. The moment Alice starts pulling away, wanting to go, he'd beg her to stay. He needs her. He's too scared to be alone right now. Couldn't she stay the night? Just like old times? Just this once?

Ian knows how to tug at her heart strings. Most of the time, he does it without thinking. This time though... there is some conscious manipulation there. Just a little. Or maybe not so little.

It might be a scummy thing to do, but it'll be worth it in the end as long as Ian can have Alice back.

Naturally, Jack isn't going to just sit back and just let Ian play with his sunshine's heart like that. His voice is going to be in her ear, a gentle but firm reminder that this isn't good for Alice. What happened was frightening, yes... but Ian has other people he can depend on. He has friends and colleagues who were concerned about the incident who can be there for him. It doesn't have to be her.

It shouldn't be her. Alice is so kind. Jack loves that about her, but he worries about other people taking advantage of her kindness. He's worried about how much Ian hurt her... how much Ian is hurting her now.

Ian is taking advantage of it now to try and get back together. Alice set a healthy boundary for herself, and he keeps crossing it. She keeps trying to pull away, and he keeps stopping her. He's reminding her of the past and intentionally trying to make her feel guilty. He's hurting her just to keep her.

That isn't love. What Ian is doing to Alice is just plain cruel.

Alice might have given in to Ian's pleading if not for Jack. She always had such a bad habit of letting Ian do things that hurt her in order for him to feel better. Who knows how far she might have let things go for the sake of old feelings, guilt, and the fear that she might have lost her childhood friend and first love forever?

The premonition might not have come to pass, but Alice saw it. She saw Ian die in a gruesome fashion. He was traumatized by the close call, but she saw the blood, guts, and agony he went through before the light left his eyes...

Even though Alice saved Ian, she's in a terrible place when she gets back home. Ian left her voice mails too... but Jack gently directs her to not listen to them.

Alice did enough. More than enough. She's so kind and compassionate... and Ian took advantage of her in a vulnerable moment. He wanted to take and take and take... just like he used to do.

Alice doesn't deserve that treatment. She's already given far too much.

Jack holds Alice as she cries from the emotional rollercoaster of it all. She couldn't cry before. She had to be strong. She doesn't need to hold it in anymore. Not now. Now with Jack there to take care of her.

Ian always has this way of carving scars into her heart. Fortunately Alice has Jack there to keep her from falling to pieces. She can trust him with these visions, with how graphic they are and how terrified she is that they might come true. She can vent her feelings about Ian and how that premonition of his death affected her... how being with him to save him hurt her, but not as much as it hurt her to see him die.

It hammers home to Jack how much damage his rivals' deaths will do to Alice, no matter what those darker and insecure thoughts of his might whisper.

The more premonitions Alice has, the more Jack worries about her, and the more paranoid Alice becomes, especially if those visions center around just those three people.

Nick is the trickiest person to save. Alice might get along with him as a nice customer, even if it was awkward that he asked her out that one time, but they're not that close. It's a budding friendship just starting out. Though she doesn't want him to die.

Seeing anyone die, especially someone Alice knows, even if just in passing, would haunt her.

Nick is probably the closest call of all. The result would leave his heart racing, unthinkingly clinging to his heroine after she barely snatched him from the jaws of death.

It'd certainly make his crush on her that much stronger, that's for sure.

Even if Nick asks how Alice knows, he'd be shaken up enough by the moment to buy whatever excuse she gives him... even he notices several holes in her story on later reflection. He's willing to let it go though, just glad to be alive.

It also encourages Nick to stop by the yogurt shop more often. Near death experiences tend to bring people together after all.

Not that Jack will be happy with Nick hanging around Alice. He knows that she doesn't think about Nick that way, but it's still annoying. Nick is stealing away Jack's alone time with his sunshine!

When the premonitions become a regular thing involving Shaun, Nick, and Ian, Alice can't just keep it to herself (and Jack.) She has to somehow convince the three that she has this ability so she can warn them whenever she has a vision. She can't just constantly hover around all three of them all day every day to keep them safe.

Jack isn't all that keen on his sunshine sharing her trust with others besides him, but all these premonitions are doing real damage to Alice's mental health. Constantly seeing the three die in her dreams has left her with real trauma, even if she saved them in reality each time.

All it takes is one mistake, and Alice will be haunted by their death for the rest of her life...

It does make Jack wonder if he should take care of these three... but only in some way his sunshine won't see.

Then again, what if Alice has a premonition of that?

No, no, Jack can't risk it. The idea of Alice seeing him doing something so evil, so filthy... he would never be clean again. She would always see him as a murderer. Even if he just made a few suggestions...

No, Jack can't even think that for fear that it might create a premonition involving him. He'd lose his sunshine forever if she saw him that way.

So letting his rivals die or being involved with their deaths in any way is off the table. Jack needs to stay clean. He needs to find another way to solve this and keep his sunshine safe and happy.

So Jack swallows his jealousy when Alice shares this secret with Shaun. Naturally, Shaun will believe her immediately. After a few near-deaths from freak accidents that were thwarted by Alice, it'd be hard for him not to start thinking that something strange and supernatural is afoot.

At first Shaun would think it's cool... but then really quickly realize it's very much not. Alice has been having such a hard time carrying the weight of these premonitions. He's so much more grateful to have her in his life, looking out for him, so he wants to help her as much as he can.

Alice can't help but feel relieved. Sure she had Jack on her side, but having another friend share the weight of this burden makes it feel just a little less crushing. Having someone "real" believe her would suddenly make this whole thing feel real in a way that it wasn't before. It was as if a part of her was still hanging onto some form of denial.

When Alice starts crying from a mixture of emotion, Shaun doesn't hesitate to hold and reassure her. He understands the trauma she's been going through. He felt it when he lost his parents after all.

Jack isn't exactly happy at this tender moment between the two. It leaves him feeling extra clingy when Alice and Shaun eventually go their separate ways.

Jack has to reassure Alice (and himself) that he'll always be there for her. She'll never have to face this alone. Now that Shaun knows, she doesn't have to worry about him as much. All she has to do is just tell Shaun what to look out for if she has a vision about him, and he'll be able to take care of the rest himself. She doesn't need to work so hard anymore. She can finally get some rest and be the one taken care of for a change.

After all, that's what Jack is there for. No matter what happens, he'll take care of Alice. She can let go of some of her worries and let him help her.

Jack can't help but feel insecure about the way Alice keeps worrying about his three rivals. Maybe giving them some warnings in their dreams will teach them to be more careful and take their safety a little more seriously. It's only fair after all. Alice shouldn't be the one to suffer this burden alone.

The nightmares are nothing too bad of course! Jack is just showing them what might have happened if Alice wasn't there to save them could make them appreciate their safety more. It'll make them be more alert and put less of a burden on his sunshine. Sure it might make the three a bit more paranoid, but they probably need to be considering death keeps coming for them.

The problem is that these dreams of death are going to bring these four closer together. With or without Jack getting in the mix with dreams of his own, near death experiences have a way of bonding people together with trauma.

Although Jack is going to have these heightened moments of jealousy and insecurity, he is aware that taking care of Alice and what she's going through comes first. She's suffering from these premonitions and her mounting feelings of anxiety. Cuddle time isn't just going to reassure him, but it'll also serve as her means of escape from all the stress, trauma, and fear.

Jack can't die a second time. The premonitions don't ever show her his gruesome death. Alice doesn't have a moment where she looks at him and gets a flash of his bloody, mangled corpse. She saw Shaun, Ian, and Nick die in so many ways... so many brutal ways that they died in varying states of agony.

Alice gets closer to the three from this experience. She appreciates them and their presence in her life more. She doesn't want to lose any of them.

But there's this underlying trauma and tension around the three that grows with each new vision and each death she has to thwart. The burden of these premonitions weighs on her more and more. She is responsible for their lives. If she's not constantly ready to react to whatever new gruesome vision comes her way, one of her friends will die.

Jack has to work that much harder to coax Alice into taking care of herself first for a change. He's the only one who can distract her from these fears and worries. Being with him, wrapped in his gentle warmth, she's reminded that he's alive. She doesn't have to keep fighting to keep him alive. These big, strong arms around her feel secure. Real. She doesn't have to keep fighting when it's just the two of them.

When Alice looks at Jack, she doesn't see blood, guts, and a twisted body slowly dying before her eyes.

In those little moments they have together, Alice can stop carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders, if only for a little while. She can focus on living and being with someone who cares so deeply for her.

Alice has no idea what she'd do without Jack. She probably would've fallen apart without him. He helped her in so many ways, both emotionally and physically. She needs him.

Alice can relax with Jack, but with the other three she can't help but wonder when the next premonition will come. What way will she see her dear friend die next? How agonizing will it be for them?

Will this ever end?

Jack wants to help Alice. He would do anything to make these premonitions stop tormenting her. She doesn't deserve to carry the weight of other peoples' deaths on her shoulders over and over again.

Giving the three nightmares might stress to them the seriousness of the situation and make them more aware, but it adds to the tension of the situation. Ian, Shaun, and Nick might trust Alice's word more, but the three being on edge is only going to add more weight on her shoulders.

Jack wants Alice to distance herself from the three and all the death looming over them, but her kind heart won't let her. Giving his rivals nightmares won't take away her nightmares. This supernatural force won't let her forget about them or stop worrying about them. Giving the three nightmares doesn't actually help his sunshine, it hurts her because it only makes things harder for her, so he stops.

It doesn't erase what Jack did or the lingering guilt that he did something that Sunny Day Jack would never do... and what that might say about the type of man he truly is deep down inside.

As long as these premonitions keep happening, Jack can't get rid of these three rivals. Alice would be devastated if she ever found out that they died after trying so hard to save their lives over and over again.

If only Jack could make whatever is doing this disappear...

Each brush with death makes Ian that much more determined to make amends with Alice. He calls her more, clings to her more when she sees him. She starts growing numb to all his manipulation and all the trauma just starts to tangle together.

Ian wants to move back in together with Alice. He can't sleep at night anymore, he says. He's always afraid of what dreams may come. He doesn't think he'll ever be able to sleep again unless he's with her.

So Jack gets a nice kick in the teeth from karma, as the nightmares he gave his rivals backfired on him spectacularly. He made Alice stressed from the added tension, and Ian is using them as an excuse to add more guilt to Alice.

Jack made a mistake. He can't make mistakes anymore. He needs to do better. He has to do better, or else he'll lose his sunshine.

Or else he'll lose himself again.

Nick starts growing paranoid and at some point starts to distance himself from Alice. By this point he believes her premonitions, but a small doubt starts to grow along with it.

What if Alice is the cause of these brushes with death?

Nick starts to fear her... as well as his own dreams of his gruesome deaths that he barely escaped with her help each time. Oh, he's grateful to Alice for sure, and he'll answer her calls without delay just in case it's another premonition, but maybe it would be safer for him to keep his distance. Just in case.

The fact that the nightmares stop when Nick starts distancing himself from Alice just makes him more convinced that he's on the right track.

Shaun takes the premonitions seriously. His own nightmares just make him all the more convinced that they're real. He researches everything he can about visions and dreams warning about death, what might cause them, and why death keeps coming after him, Ian, and Nick in particular.

When Nick starts distancing himself from Alice, Shaun gets closer to him. The three men have bonded from the shared experiences by this point, and all three of them want to know what's happening to them. Why is death hunting them in particular?

Nick hesitates to hang out with Shaun or Ian, but he can't distance himself from the two or Alice completely. His life depends on those premonitions of hers. Perhaps doing research with Shaun might help them get to the bottom of things and allow them to take back control of their lives.

So Nick and Shaun start to bond. Perhaps some sparks can fly between them in the process. Near death experiences can create heightened emotions after all~

Near death experiences also can lead to mental degradation. Ian isn't doing well from so many close calls. He knows that Alice forgave him for all the ways he wronged her. She told him countless times that he is forgiven and he has nothing to fear about from hell or whatever might come after...

But death constantly coming for Ian leaves him turning back to religion for answers. Perhaps it's not death but the devil that is trying to claim his soul.

Perhaps their salvation can be found somewhere in the church. There's no shortage of prophets in the Bible after all.

Ian always thought Alice was special. She's the best person he's ever known. It wouldn't surprise him if she was truly a prophet. Surely only God could be showing her these visions so that she can save them. She's always been like his guardian angel. It makes so much sense that she of all people would be given this role.

Perhaps a priest could have some answers for them, or at least help her understand her new divine powers better.

Everyone would be wanting to get to the bottom of this mystery. Why is this happening? Why is death after Shaun, Nick, and Ian? Why is Alice having these visions?

Is there a way to put an end to all these premonitions of death without death claiming the lives of these three innocent men?

Perhaps this has something to do with Jack, his supernatural abilities, and the connection he has with Alice.

Alice won't think for a moment that Jack has anything to do with it. He might be supernatural, but he's always been kind and considerate. He loves her. He certainly never wanted his poor sunshine to suffer like this.

Perhaps his insecurities mingled with those dark whispers at the back of his mind that warn him that the three are a threat. Perhaps his own unexpected and traumatic death plays a part in all the sudden and horrific deaths that keep trying to come for these three men who threaten him now.

Death claimed Jack once before. It came without warning and dealt a brutal, bloody end to him. It left behind deep scars that he still hides from even today. He buried the man that died that day and became someone new, someone better.

For 40 years, Jack wished for someone to save him. If only his death could've been foreseen and stopped.

Jack wants to be better. He doesn't want to be someone who hurts or kills others because he feels angry or threatened.

But hell is a terrifying place... and what LambsWork did to him upon his death changed him into something else... something that not even he fully understands now.

Something he might not completely control.

Perhaps death follows Jack even now, trying to eliminate anyone he subconsciously deems as a threat.

Perhaps the premonitions were born from the guilt Jack feels for having such dark thoughts and not wanting to be such a terrible person ever again. He wants so badly to be someone good, someone clean.

Alice is someone good, someone clean. She is so pure and perfect in Jack's eyes. He wants so badly to be someone worthy of her. He convinces himself that he is because he must be. He needs her to need him just as badly as he needs her.

If Jack ever suspected that perhaps he had some control over this, it would break something in him. There's something wrong with him.

He can't have that. He needs to be clean. He must be clean now.

He can be whatever wants to be. He has to believe that. He needs to.

Or perhaps it's another force entirely. Perhaps death has always followed behind Alice, and she simply never realized it. It came for the one she loved the most in their previous lives. Perhaps she only had visions now because it wants those she's closest to in this life.

If Mary had such a premonition, she would want Joseph to say home from the studio. She'd be terrified of it coming true.

At the same time... they can't. LambsWork has a stranglehold on them both, working them to the bone. The studio heads won't let them do as they please.

There was an important shoot that day. It was the culmination of years of planning...

Joseph's death would be a scar on Mary's soul. If only she paid more attention to that nightmare she had. If only she took it seriously. If only she wasn't so weak as to let the fears of the mortal world make her blind herself to the dangers that lurked beyond it...

If she ever got another premonition, she would never hesitate again. She would stop at nothing to save the people she loves from death's clutches. Even if she had to do it countless times over, she would do whatever was necessary to save them.

Even if she might break in the process.

Of course, Jack isn't going to allow that to happen. He'll do everything in his power to take care of Alice, even if that means that he has to defeat death itself.

Jack already beat death once thanks to his sunshine. Alice is the reason he's alive again now. Together they can defeat death again. They've done a good job keeping the three out of its clutches so far after all.

No matter what, Jack will make sure that Alice won't lose her warm and brilliant light that he loves so dearly. No matter what, he's going to make her happy, and he'll make sure nothing will ever separate them ever again.

Not even death.

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