BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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He’s back again. Roy stops what he’s doing — pruning thorns from roses is a dangerous business if you don’t give it your full attention — and makes an attempt at discretion as he watches the young man ignore the finished arrangements at the front of the shop and make his way down to the wall of loose flowers.
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #1: Tattoo/Florist
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- Part 1 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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Shitting hell, this is a load of bollocks. There’s a reason our morality clauses are so fucking detailed. I’m not about to let someone like Ronaldo into Richmond. That’s Rebecca’s voice, sounding clearly inside his head.
It’s the first time he’s been in a room with her since the first day of pre-season — she’d come down to welcome everybody back, and had given him a firm nod as she made her way into Coach Lasso’s office afterwards — and he turns to look at where she’s sat on the other side of the auditorium.
Rebecca?! he thinks in her direction. He’s not sure if it’ll work, but her head snaps up immediately to stare at him.
Sam?! he hears inside his head. “Shit,” he hears her say out loud. Then she gets up and hurries out of the room.
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #2: Soulmates
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- Part 2 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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Jamie’s never really cared about football. He’s been dating Keeley Jones, star striker for the Lionesses and captain of the AFC Richmond women’s team for about six months, and while he goes along to most of her matches like the dutiful boyfriend he is and is able to follow the rules well enough, he still struggles to understand why people get so worked up over it. It is literally just a game.
Generally, he would rather spend a Sunday afternoon at a play, or a film. But still, it has some perks. For starters, he loves to watch Keeley enjoy herself — she’s beautiful at the best of times, but watching her out on the pitch, she’s fucking fire. Two seats down from him in the VIP box, Roy Kent — who’s here again with that little blonde girl and looking fit as fuck in a black leather jacket that Jamie recognises as last season’s Saint Laurent and happens to know costs more two business flight airfares to New York, probably with hotel thrown in too — clearly thinks the same, as he roars at the action on the pitch.
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #3: Role Reversal
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- Part 3 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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The man huffs out a laugh, and then moves back against Roy, wriggling.
“Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?” he asks, and it’s so fucking stupid, but Roy only just manages to stop himself from snorting out a laugh.
“This is England, you twat, we don't carry fucking guns.”
“Oh, so it’s the second option then? Nice.”
Roy doesn’t reply. He just snaps the cuffs over his wrists — ignoring the cheerful “You can make them tighter, I like it,” — and reaches into his pocket for the wallet he can see outlined in the other man’s jeans.
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #4: Crime and Punishment
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- Part 4 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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After a twenty year career — between his peak at Chelsea and England, his frequent mentions in the gossip rags back when he couldn’t stop sleeping with the wrong people, his stint as a Sky commentator, and the way that the Mannion divorce, not to mention all things Ted Lasso, had seen news about Richmond constantly escape containment of the sports pages and make major headlines in recent years — it’s actually quite rare for people to not recognise Roy. Especially in London.
It’s why he’s so amused when the — Aussie? Kiwi? Somewhere down there, anyway — woman waves him down and demands he brings her a drink. The fact that she’s apparently there with Tom Kapoor, the star of some of Jamie’s favourite trashy action films, that Roy and Keeley both get a kick out of watching Jamie watch — he’s so reactionary — who clearly has recognised Roy, just makes it even better.
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #5: Crossover
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- Part 5 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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There had been a fair few soldiers hanging around the station, some officers too, and a recruiting sergeant, by the looks of it, but Jamie had ignored them all. He’s used to them by now — most of London is. When the war had started, a few of Jamie’s friends at the post office had tried to enlist right from the get go. It’d be over by Christmas, that’s what everyone kept saying, and they didn’t want to miss out on the action. At sixteen and seventeen, most of them had been too young, really, and some had been turned away, but a few had managed it. A couple of them had tried to get him to come along too, but he knew his mum would kill him if he did — never mind the Germans — so he’d laughed and waved them off.
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #6: Historical
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- Part 6 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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Sometimes, other Starfleet captains will ask Rebecca why she still lets a liability like Tartt out on missions. The fact is, more often than not, she tries to stop it, but Jamie out-logics her every time, pointing out that as Communications Officer he’s best placed for making first contact and navigating any rituals and customs of the locals.
"Who else is going to do it, boss?" he'd say every time. "Colin?" And the annoying thing is, he’s right.
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #7: Science Fiction
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- Part 7 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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“This is your fucking fault,” Isaac hisses at Colin from their place on the front pew. Colin’s not paying him any attention though, too busy wiping away his tears as he watches his dad marry Isaac’s mum.
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #8: Adoptive Family
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- Part 8 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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“Mr Tartt? Wake up, sir. We're here."
Jamie’s startled awake by a polite voice and he sits up, rubbing at his eyes blearily as he looks around to get his bearings.
'Here' turns out to be the players' car park at Nelson Road. Jamie's in the back seat of a car — not his car, it looks like an Addison Lee or something — and the voice speaking is the driver, looking back over his shoulder from the front seat.
“I don’t… I don’t understand,” Jamie says. “What am I doing here?”
The last thing he remembers is inviting the pub lads — Baz, Paul and Jeremy — back to his hotel room for more drinks from his minibar. And then Jeremy had pulled a bag of magic mushrooms from his pocket. Usually Jamie wouldn't, not during the season, but those things are barely detectable anyway, and seeing as how he wasn’t going to have to deal with team medics any time in the foreseeable future, he’d accepted one.
“I don’t really understand it myself, to be honest,” the driver says, but he looks a lot less confused than Jamie feels. “I was sad to hear that they were loaning you out for a bit."
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #9: Reboot/Fresh Start
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- Part 9 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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“Oh I know who you are.” Keeley scoops up a glass of champagne as a waiter walks past. “Look, I’m going to jump straight to it. Your husband is a twat. He tried to get me to shag him in the toilets earlier, and I’m sure he’s trying it on with someone else right now too. I might not know you, but I’m sure you deserve better than that.”
Rebecca’s face falls, and she grabs the champagne from Keeley’s hand, downing the remaining liquid in one gulp. “I know,” she says. “Both that he’s a twat, and that he’s cheating on me. I’ve known for a while, but I can’t find any proof and without that, his lawyers would destroy mine in court.”
Well, Keeley thinks. If it’s proof Rebecca wants, she’s certain she can help there. She’s willing to engage in a bit of espionage to help out another woman in need.
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #10: Espionage
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- Part 10 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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“Back here. That’s right. This is called a ward. You’ve seen wards,” Roy says, loudly and sarcastically. “I know they’ve got wards in Endo. Now check your sheet, get in there, and do your job.”
“But there’s nothing… Oh. What? Seriously?” The new voice, Tartt, sounds young, male and surprised. “Don’t you make a registrar do this bit? Don’t tell me the great Roy Kent is in it for the face time. Thought one of the perks of surgery is that you only have to handle them when they’re unconscious.”
At that, Keeley gets why Roy sounds so angry.
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #11: Health & Medical
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- Part 11 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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“I’ve got a proposition for you.” Jamie looks up at Lord Roy’s words, swallowing his mouthful of mead and raising an eyebrow in question. “A bargain if you will.”
Jamie should probably say no. Last time he’d accepted a bargain from someone, he’d ended up getting a bit carried away, beheading them, watching them pick up their head and walk out of Camelot, and agreeing to suffer the same fate one year hence. But, well, common sense has never been his strongest point, so.
“Go on then,” he says with a grin. “Let’s hear it.”
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #12: Mythology
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- Part 12 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
- Part 1 of sir jamie and the green knight
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After what was, all things considered, one of the longer and trickier days of Ted’s life, it only takes five minutes of decompression time in his new comfy desk chair before he’s out like a light.
And well, he’d thought he hadn’t gotten any REM on the plane at all. More of a fugue state or what have you. But he must have nodded off for a second, because when he jerks awake to the always-discombobulating feeling of having fallen asleep sitting upright, he's no longer in his new office. He’s back on Dubai Air Flight 101, business class, O’Hare to Heathrow, and the flight attendants are handing out warm chocolate chip cookies in advance of their descent into London.
Well heck. Of all the days to go and get himself groundhogged.
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #13: Infinite Loop
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- Part 13 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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They’re practising Dr. Fieldstone’s going-away dance one final time, and Sam feels confident that they have got it. They’re almost done, but in the last few beats of the song, they go to strike their final pose and then, Sam does not see exactly how it happens, but somehow, Colin manages to trip over himself and crashes hard into Isaac, who goes flying in turn.
And hits the ground, hard.
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #14: Where It All Went Wrong
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- Part 14 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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Nobody in Shipbourne was quite sure what to make of it when Rebecca Mannion, now Welton, had sent Rupert packing and installed herself at Fairlawne full time. And there had been as close as a sleepy Kent village gets to an uproar when word got around that Rebecca had plans to completely make over Fairlawne’s working farmland with new and experimental agricultural practices.
Several years down the line, most people had to admit that the updates weren’t as bad as they feared. Yes, the hydroponic tents were a bit of an eyesore, but careful positioning and a new grove of fast-growing poplar trees meant that people would really have to go out of their way to be offended by the sight of them. And the rest of Rebecca’s changes aren’t disruptive at all. In fact, they’re rather brilliant, as far as Keeley understands it.
More interestingly, to Keeley, is the fact that since Rebecca’s been running the show, the people who have shown up in Shipbourne to work on the estate make village life a lot more exciting than it otherwise might have been.
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #15: Countryside
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- Part 15 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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Roy knew he was right to be suspicious of how low the rent was on this house.
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #16: Supernatural
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- Part 16 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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“For the record,” Beard cuts in, his feet on the desk and hat pulled over his eyes. “I still think this is a terrible idea.”
If Beard is going against Ted on something, Roy’s really fucking worried now.
“What is it?” he asks in trepidation, and Ted taps at the hockey poster he’s got pinned up on the wall.
“Well now, back home, our friends in the NHL have this little tradition that I think might just be the solution to our problems. Sometimes, when a rookie is signed to a team, especially a younger player, someone who maybe needs a guiding hand, a bit of looking out for, they’ll move in with the captain, right into his home, when they first start out. Obviously Jamie isn’t new new, but he definitely needs a guiding hand. So how about it?”
Roy stares in disbelief. “Fuck off. This is a joke, right?”
Ted just stares back at him without saying a word.
“He is,” Beard adds, sounding very tired, “not joking.”
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #17: Flatmates/Neighbours
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- Part 17 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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“Well, I’m here now, so just tell me what’s happened and what I can do.”
“I’ll show you. But just… Jamie. It’s going to be the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen in your life. I mean, fucking mad, alright? Or maybe I’ve gone mad, and you’ll be able to confirm that I’ve snapped or something. Okay.”
Keeley turns abruptly and heads off into the house. Jamie follows her over to her living room area and stops.
“Who’s the kid?”
Because sat on one of the sofas, looking up at them both with a serious expression on his tiny little face and a hand curled in one of Keeley’s blankets, is a small boy. Jamie’s not great with ages, but he thinks the kid is between five and seven years old. He’s got dark curly hair, dark eyebrows, and is wearing a dark grey t-shirt that is definitely meant for an adult man, given how much it swamps him.
“Jamie?” the boy says. “Why are you here?”
“Uh, yeah,” he replies, turning to Keeley in what he knows is probably comedic slow motion. “Not sure yet.”
“That’s Roy,” Keeley hisses, her eyes wild.
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #18: Childhood
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- Part 18 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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“Well? Aren’t you going to run?”
Jan Maas crosses his arms, remains where he is, and looks at the shadowy hooded figure holding the knife.
“No,” he says. “That would be a stupid thing to do. These woods are very dark. I would only trip and fall.”
The knife man comes closer. He looks put out by Jan’s response.
“Well. Yes? That’s the point?”
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #19: Horror Movie
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- Part 19 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills
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“Alright?” the twink says, one foot propped up to rest on the top of Roy’s passenger side front tire. “You wouldn’t by any chance be heading back across the Channel today, mate?”
It takes Roy a second to figure out what the guy is asking, but he gets there eventually. “You’re hitchhiking home? It’s 2017! Who fucking hitchhikes?”
The guy just grins. “Saw it in a film, figured it was worth a shot. So is that a yes?” His eyes trail the length of Roy slowly, stopping and lingering on the front of his joggers. Then he looks back up at him and winks. “I’d make it worth your while.”
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Ted Lasso AU-gust Challenge Prompt #20: Roadtrip
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- Part 20 of BelmotteTower’s AU-gust Fills