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(part of the eudaimonia series)
“My name’s Gale,” He says, right before the door shuts on their encounter. And his outlaw laughs, wild and delighted, and not for a second does Gale think he’s being laughed at. “Your name,” His outlaw says warmly, “is Buck.” -- Modern day Outlaw John Egan just won't stop robbing Gale's convenience store.
ok now i want the chapel boys to get a dog for protection - would they everrrr?
I don't think they will. Benny and Brady get Meatball as you saw in the sequel but they're not in a cramped car most of the time.
I think if they were however it would be John's idea. Finds some stray and tempts him into their car with a Burger and Gale is like John this dog is dirty and smells awful and Johns like that's my friend you're talking about also you could say the same about me and Gale frowns at him.
And this dog REFUSES to listen to Gale. he loves him of course but any word unless Gale has a treat goes in one ear and out the other but John teaches him every trick in the book, never needs to leash him he follows along perfectly and has a big scary bark that gale learns to appreciate even every time if he tells Jeter to sit he just looks at him with contempt
I am SOoooOOOOoooo excited for more of your delicious Brady/Benny. Would you be interested in sharing a snippet? *gently gnaws on your wrist*
Ive got like .2 things from their kfak fic which a bit of it I shared but
Benny checks his watch for the third time, which is the last time he’ll allow because any more than that might turn into something desperate. Benny DeMarco is not a desperate man, he’s hardly even ill-tempered. Calm at best and smugly confident at worst. He knew what he was good at and became good at what he wasn’t.
He dressed smartly, he minded his mother, he dropped bombs and didn’t question why.
He waited on train platforms for pilots and did a very good job at pretending he wasn’t. Like he was just another tired salaryman waiting to meet a buddy from out of town.
Drive him home.
Introduce him to his mother.
Take him to his bed and make him say Benny’s name instead of Christ’s
Benny shoves his hands in his pressed slacks, takes away the temptation of the wristwatch that he still wore turned inside. Rocks on his heels and whistles a faint tune.
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“You alright?” Benny whispers.
“Uh-huh,” Johnny whispers back.
It’s a quiet, intimate exchange, something childish and sweet to it despite what had just transpired. And Johnny was a man, strong and muscular and well-formed. But beneath it all Benny could picture something softer, sweeter.
He's got the bones of a boy who had been delicate.
some outlaws Brenny:
“That one’s tigers eye,” The cashier points out, “The other one is turquoise”
“Cool,” Benny answers, barely caring as he looks at the necklace dangling between his fingers. They’re wrong anyway, it’s the color of Johnny’s eyes is what it is.
--
“So that was a lot,” Margo says, crossing her leg over her knee.
Benny’s looking at him, serious mouth pulled into a frown. It makes the scar by the corner of his lip more deep, more stark. Johnny can spot it even with his beard. The other man’s hands are raised by his sides in a soothing gesture.
Johnny hugs himself and turns away.
Johnny hugs his knees to his chest, rests his sticky cheek on his knee and looks at the fish tank.
“Just go back in and finish the session, Jack,” Benny says softly, a hand on Johnny’s elbow and forehead pressed to his temple. His thumb is moving soothingly over Johnny’s wrist. “Fuck that,” Johnny spits, his voice shaky.
how do the chapel buckies celebrate halloween? and how much does john whine for a couple's costume?
They love to celebrate halloween!!! John likes it for all the partying and extravagance and Gale likes the decorations. They drive around a lot looking at all the lawns and John definitely convinced them to dress up and go trick or treating a year or two.
He doesn;t have to whine too hard! Gale WILL indulge him. They definitely do a Jurassic Park costume one year (yes Gale is Ellie)
I know you guys have probably already seen this before, but I love Austin’s look in this one so much🩵🩵🩵
i'm gonna kms
Callum Turner / The Capture
Hi I just wanted you to know that I drive a beat up red Corolla and I now permanently think of your chapel au every time I drive. Mine’s name is Rocket and I love it dearly. Did John name his?
I always love naming their stuff after their planes! So he probably called his ZigZag and then the one they get at the end of Jump The Gun Buck names Baby
It's raining so badly in the UK it's become a caricature of itself, but it made me think....how do the Chapel ooys handle bad weather in that car? Do they ever get into fights when they're frustrated, or more just bickering?
"I'm tired," Gale sighs, slumping further into his seat, drawing the oversized hoodie of John's down over his eyes to block out the constant patter of rain.
"Blanket's in the backseat," John reminds him, eyes flicking from the unfolded map on his lap to the street and back. He was driving one handed, cigarette pinched between two knuckles and leaking sweet smoke into the belly of the car. The window's cracked but it's ineffective at clearing out the worst of the haze, spitting in more damp rain and humid air than it is snatching away the smoke.
Gale bites back a quiet noise of frustration, "I'm sick of sittin' up here."
"So get in the back seat."
"I want to stop somewhere, Bucky."
"In this?" John asks incredulously, glancing up and over at Gale, "Every Inn from here to Wichita is going to be fully booked."
"In Kansas?" Gale snaps.
I think about John's tattoo of Gale's freckles everyday. Like, how did you even think of that??? It's so sweet and hot and devoted #chapel au #forever
Goddd I forget who i was even talking to about it but it was something that popped into my head in the DM's and floored me. Just the idea of John knowing gales face SO well he can get the freckles tattooed not only from memory but scaled down accurately. True love man idk
feeling sappy - when did the Chapel boys realise they were in love? 🥰 do they ever get married? ❤️🤍
I think gale realized the moment John got shot. He realized like haha this isn't some guy I'm just traveling with and fucking and objectively Like but the idea of life without him is unbearable.
John's known for months. He realized giving Gale the snowglobe, he realized wanting to do all those little things like making Gale smile and cutting his hair and washing it and looking after him. He just was scared of scaring away Gale
Does Chapel!Gale like to cook for Chapel!John? I sense he'd have a domesticity kink after all their nomadic lifestyle and playing wifey...#outlaw au
me just finishing 5 hours of making homemade chicken stock lmao
Honestly, John's the one who starts having fun in the kitchen. He has an adventurous palate which is.....hit or miss with Gale a lot of the time lol. However he's always willing to try whatever John offers him on the wooden spoon. With varying degrees of suspicion of course.
I think John buys fuckin Julia Childs big old cookbooks and starts a one-sided affair with her a la this guy I like to watch:
Gale does like to sit in the kitchen and watch him cook. He likes to try to sneak in so John doesn't notice him. Likes just watching him move around and talk to himself and sing along to the radio and especially likes when John finally notices him and Beams.
I've never gotten over anything in my whole life, first of all, BUT THIS MF-
LIKE !!!!!!!!!
Would you be happy to share a little bit of John's head space when he was arrested, unable to reach Gale (not even knowing if he was safe) and then when Curt told him he'd got in touch? LOVEEEEEED this part. Prison tropes are yummy #chapel au
(p.s. I hope he was loyal in jail too!)
ask and ye shall receive (sometimes)
The cops chip his tooth clean off throwing him over the corpse of the Corolla. He watches the white bone bounce away as pain blooms vivid and sharp across his face. Cursing before the sensation truly registers, still processing the sharp crack he cusses out the hands roving over his body, dragging his arms roughly behind his back, cold metal clinching tight around his wrists.
“It was a con. It was my fuckin hand in my pocket! There’s no goddamn weapon if you’d listen to me for just a second you stupid fuckin’ pigs.”
There’s a gun pointed at him. He’s not used to the reversal. His side throbs in phantom memory.
Folded into the back of a cruiser like dirty laundry he leans back uncomfortably on his cuffed hands and runs his tongue over the jagged edge of his tooth again and again, shuddering at the pain of it.
He pictures Gale on a bus to California, staring out the window and playing with his braid until the flyaways outmatched the hair tie. Usually, he was frowning slightly, unless he had a gun in his hand or he was looking at John, and John imagines himself pressing a thumb to the imaginary furrow of Gale’s imaginary brow.
It’s soothing enough as he breathes and watches the cops rip apart the car, scattering his and Gale’s entire life across the roadside.
He shouts, knowing they won’t hear him, “There’s no fucking gun!”
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They don't quite rough ride him but a few of the red lights have his chest hitting the front seat for how he can’t catch himself with anything but his already sore face. He cusses them out for it every time.
hiii I was wondering if you would ever consider writing more about Johnny/Benny in the outlaw au. Their relationship and characterization is so amazing and I would love to read more about them
i would absolutely consider it if enough people wanted it!! I do have a little set in the 2000's wip for them that delves into why Johnny ran away! I don't much like writing teenagers so i'd more likely write them settling down from t/rain h/opping and explain backstory in flashbacks but I do love them and have a lot plotted out!
"Gale thinks of Johnny’s arm around his waist in sleep and the glint of Rosie’s eyes over a campfire and the hum of a car engine outside of Sacramento."
That last part just killed me, was really hoping I read too much into that "gass station bathroom"-scene. Or maybe I did and am still just projecting. But it got me thinking, did something more happen with Rosie or Johnny/Benny than what was on the page?
Yeahhh i was curious how many people would pick up on that.
The first installment was the fantasy and this one I wanted to kinda peek behind the curtain a bit because the life they're living IS dangerous in so many different ways.
In terms of Rosie and Johnny/Benny I will leave them both up to the reader! I threw around the idea of the cuddle scene becoming a little more than just cuddles but ultimately decided to leave it open for interpretation.
Regardless of whether Gale slept with Benny and Brady or Rosie or anyone else he's honest in his answer to John. There wasn't anyone else that mattered, he's Johns man no matter what
