#I need to stop tag rambling and figure out how i'm ending this fucker before he gets any longer fkdjsalkfdjsa

[izzy-b-hands]

This was supposed to be a short, cheap, easy fill for 'nightclub', in which Jack is established as 'that friend' who always has a wild new business idea and relies on friends who love him to help provide seed money for each venture (and to keep him aloft in the in between when unfortunately for him it all inevitably falls apart. Bc he's a good ideas guy, but not always a good executioner or maintainer of his ideas guy)

Now it's almost 3k words and includes: (spoilers for today's au-gust fill below the cut)

-Jack stealing Izzy's classic car (I only kind of mention what kind, but in my head it's for sure a late 60s or early 70s model Alfa Romeo Spider or Spider Veloce) and it being established that this isn't the first time Jack has stolen Izzy's car for funds for a new idea (because Izzy might find him frustrating, but Jack is a friend of Ed's and so Izzy does his best to try and help Jack too)

-the fact that Izzy isn't rich enough to be able to afford this hobby easily; he's been grinding and working and saving up for it (an even bigger expense bc the implication is for this story everyone is currently living in the States, so he had to win an auction and then pay to import it over from Europe AND then pay for the repairs and restoration, whether done by himself and Roach or hired mechanics)

-the property Jack wants to use for the nightclub being in fucking Medora, ND, because I've been thinking about ND again and couldn't think of a worse place to try and set up a nightclub.

-it's also implied to be nearly winterish weather for the East Coast where Ed, Stede, Roach, Izzy (and usually Jack lmao) are, and definitely bad winter weather for the Midwest/ND (bc in the years prior to my moving to CT, I remember talking abt and showing blizzard pics the same months that folks out this way were cold for sure and maybe starting to get frosty, but not always to the degree of what ND would be getting hit with lmao.)

-Jack is driving the stolen car there. An Alfa Romeo Spider. In the winter. It would be funny if it wasn't just plain dangerous, but that's where his buyer is, you see.

-they've finally made contact with him only for Jack to immediately be manipulative about coming back/the police being involved, and him refusing to turn around. But he acknowledges the good hard work and money Izzy and Roach have put into the car, and promises that they'll get half the payment for the car back from him.

-The rest of it is his seed money to start the club. Cuz he'll already be out in ND at that point, so he can keep going on with his plan easily enough. Two birds one stone, all that jazz

#text post #long post #the nice thing is that writing this is distracting form the hellish stomach cramping #but also where the fuck am I gonna go from here and this feels too wordy #but I'm also having fun using the scenes to establish little domestic features of the relationships #in showing how Ed and Stede are together just doing the dishes after dinner talking about Jack (prior to the car theft thing happening) #and in how Roach works with Ed to talk to Jack and try to figure out some sort of compromise #while Stede comforts Izzy and validates the idea that yes they can all be Jack's friend and love him and want to support him #but they can do that while also being v upset with his current actions and that izzy is allowed to feel hurt by all of this #and that he didn't deserve it either which i have izzy lowkey imply #taking that from my grandad as a car guy who finally saved up enough to get close to a dream classic car for himself #but who has to be mindful of what he spends on upkeep and how he runs it and when #bc he's not a traditional Rich Car Guy ya know? he just never has had that sort of money #and he talks sometimes how he feels anything bad that happens to the car is punishment for him wanting it all #and that seems like something Izzy would also feel about like. so much including his hobby car #I need to stop tag rambling and figure out how i'm ending this fucker before he gets any longer fkdjsalkfdjsa