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Pairing: Jim/Reader
“We’ll make this work out.”
You wiped your red, tears eyes and stared very skeptically at the tux clad man beside you who’d just said these words.
“How?” You rasped. “We’ve both admitted we were in love with other people. Not a good sign for a marriage, especially this kind.”
“Two people who didn’t even try to fight for us,” Jim answered, a touch of bitter pain in his voice that mirrored what you were feeling.
Coming from two close and powerful families, your marriage to Jim had been decided for you long ago. You’d tried your hardest to get out of it, being very much in love with someone else, but the controlling forces (the mothers) were too powerful to fight and now here you were, in a limo with Jim, heading for some fancy hotel for a sham of a “honeymoon.”
“Yeah. I really thought Todd loved me enough to defy them,” you said in a small voice. That was the deepest hurt you faced right then: heartbreak that he hadn’t fought for you.
Jim reached over and squeezed your hand sympathetically.
“I’m sorry, Y/N. This isn’t how we envisioned things ending up at all. You deserved better.”
“Thanks, Jim,” you sniffed. He may have been an insufferable brat growing up, but no one could accuse him of not having a good heart.
There was silence for awhile as the two of you stared out the window, Lost in your thoughts and sadness.
Finally, you sighed and looked back at Jim, determination crossing your features.
“You know, maybe you’re right. Maybe we CAN make this work: if we try. The way I see it, we can end up two ways: stewing in misery and ignoring each other for the rest of our lives, or we can be fabulous and make Leonard and Todd bitterly regret their life choices.”
Jim turned his face back to you, a tiny hint of smile on his lips.
“Fabulous, you say? I like the sound of that. You won’t have to try hard for that; you’re pretty fabulous already, Y/N.”
He gave an admiring look at your elaborate wedding dress, which had been a constant annoyance to you, but had looked incredible.
“Thanks, Jim,” you responded with a sly grin, “but you ain’t seen nothing yet. I’ve got levels of fabulous Beyond your wildest dreams.”
“Can’t wait to see you unleash it,” he said with a grin, blue eyes getting some of their sparkle back.