#hetty baggett

[forasecondtherewedwon]

The Artful Dodger, tumblrfied: "Blessings of St. Coccyx" 3/?

#Second's TAD edit #The Artful Dodger #TAD s1e2 #The Artful Dodger spoilers #Norbert Fagin #Hetty Baggett #Dr. Jack Dawkins #Lady Fanny Fox

[eveningechoes]

shoutout to the artful dodger for not pitting the two female love interests against each other and instead let them learn from each other and grow into better people

#hetty loved jack so im counting her as a love interest and while there was a little jealousy and heartache they never despised each other #the artful dodger #jack dawkins #belle fox #hetty baggett

[almondcroissantsandink]

i just finished episode 5 of this funky little show and you know what?? It's very fun

#the artful dodger #the artful dodger fanart #jack dawkins #lady belle fox #fagin #fanny fox #hetty baggett #dr. sneed #thomas brodie sangster #david thewlis #maia mitchell #hulu #art #artists on tumblr #csp #clip studio paint #i'm watching it and also trying to get over my fear of surgery shows lol #and also they just kissed! #I was home alone and right before it happened I said “are they gonna kiss” out loud #digital art #illustration

[cowboybuckleys]

#hetty baggett #jack dawkins #the artful dodger #theartfuldodgeredit #* #q

[mithlomi]

There is one brain cell in Port Victory and it belongs to Hetty and Hetty alone.

#the artful dodger #hetty baggett

[dodgingfoof]

Jack Dawkins is the king of pillow talk. He must’ve told Hetty about the gambling debt and losing his hand while sleeping with her. Also, while I’m at it. Hetty should’ve had way more screen time than she did. I think we should get more Hetty/Jack fanfics that take place before the show.

Ignoring those. Jack is a talker when he’s tired/exhilarated, and I’d love to see it more. Him spilling secrets he shouldn’t. What if Hetty knew about some of the stuff from his past, or who Fagin is? Hetty knows Jack better than most people. It’s him and Fagin that know him best. I want more Hetty & Jack, and/or Hetty/Jack is what I’m still getting at.

#jack dawkins #fagin #norbert fagin #hetty baggett #hetty #the artful dodger #artful dodger #dr jack dawkins

[stillbreathing-aer]

"How is any of this fair?"

"Fair?

You've never really loved anyone, have you?

You peel the skin off your heart and it always hurts.

No matter what you do."

#HER CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT #IM SO GLAD #and now i'm sad because belle is NOT doing too hot. #ALRIGHT DODGER WORK YOUR MAGIC. #you better istg #woah aer talks? #the artful dodger #the artful dodger spoiler #jack dawkins #dodger #hetty baggett #lady belle fox #lady belle #upsetupsetupsetUNHAPPY

[muchcelebrated]

What are your thoughts on the Hetty/Jack/Belle situation? Tell me everything 😊

Ooh I love this question! Thank you!

So first and foremost I am obviously a huge dodgerfox shipper. However, I am also a huge stan of Nurse Hetty Baggett. And when I talk about the love triangle I tend to focus on Hetty because she’s the one that’s most aware of it in the show. Like Belle and Jack are just more passive about it.

I love the way that this triangle is handled because it’s not the typical two girls fighting over this guy and they hate each other because of it. I’m glad that they didn’t write in Hetty begging for Jack’s attention or affection and that they didn’t make her super jealous or make her try to come between them. The small amount of tension we do get is not because of the fact that Jack loves Belle, but because Belle gets special treatment as a professional due to her status. Him sending Hetty away from the surgery upsets her because it insults her skills as a professional not because she’s jealous Belle gets to spend time with Jack and I love that. And even after that, she still helps Belle with delivering the baby and supports her and reassures her like despite being upset over some of the preferential treatment Belle gets she also acknowledges that she does still have skill. She’s a mature adult and her actions reflect that. It speaks so much to her character, and I’m glad that the writers seemed to realize she’s a grown woman and it would be off putting to write her like a little girl fighting over a toy like so many other shows do. The love triangle is just handled with so much maturity.

I also like to think that her quiet moment and sigh to herself after the whole scene where she asks “you love her don’t you?” and Jack decides to do the surgery on Belle isn’t just her being sad or upset but also her accepting their love and deciding to move on. You get the vibe that even though it may hurt a bit now she knows she needs to move on because she deserves better. She doesn’t try to make Jack “choose” her instead of Belle because she knows she deserves more than to be someone’s second choice.

Hetty is a great character with so much potential for future seasons. I hope we get to see her have her own subplot and a true romance. Like I want to see her passion for nursing and learn where that comes from. I want to see her be someone’s first choice and maybe have a parallel moment where she asks for Jack’s advice. I want to see more of her and Jack being friends but also her and Belle being friends. I want to see her helping Belle learn more about woman’s health and I want to see Belle acknowledging how nurses are just as, if not, more important than surgeons. I want them to continue to develop her character because she’s just so well written and one of my favorite characters.

Here’s another post I made awhile back on my thoughts on Hetty and the whole situation with Jack and Belle!

But anyways, at the end of the day a lot of this situation is in subtext, and people are completely welcome to interpreting things differently! This is just my opinion and my take on everything!

#asked and answered #dodgerfox #commentary #my post #the artful dodger #the artful dodger hulu #the artful dodger disney plus #nurse hetty #hetty baggett #nurse baggett

[phantomoftheorpheum]

concerning Hetty

I know Hetty isn't really an aspect of the show I have addressed before, largely because I've been focused on Jack & Belle and Jack & Fagin, but I did want to share a thought. Obviously it is heavily implied that Hetty is in love with Jack (which he does not seem to even notice, much less reciprocate), and as sad as that is for her character (she's just like a genuinely good person who has done nothing wrong, just not been the right person at the right time), I think there is one particular phrasing in all of this that has kept me from feeling too crushed for her.

When she talks to Jack about love, she tells him, "You've never really loved anyone, have you? You peel the skin off your heart and it always hurts, no matter what you do," and the implication of this is very much, imo, that Hetty has loved (romantically) before Jack, and not only does she have the capacity to love again after him, she already knows this about herself, too. Jack being someone Hetty falls in love with, but not her first love, and very easily not her last, is a comfort, imo. She obviously isn't at peace with her feelings for Jack yet, but she absolutely feels like a character that can and will get over him, and that makes me feel happy for her, because not everyone is like that.

Some people really never do get over their first love, but I believe Hetty already has long before she met Jack, and I believe she absolutely will do so again with him as well, that one day she will look back at her love for Jack as a distant memory of her youth, nothing less, nothing more. That's how I choose to interpret her words, and since we're unlikely to ever get any concrete confirmation on this particular topic, that's how I'm going to continue to look at her character- someone strong enough and kind enough to have several beautiful loves pass through her life and still be open to loving again.

#hetty baggett #the artful dodger #the artful dodger spoilers #hetty x jack #kind of- just discussions of #i have a lot of empathy for hetty because i feel like i've been her #been not the right person at the right time for someone who i thought was the right person for me #and it does suck #but she just strikes me very much as someone who won't get caught up in the gravity of a broken heart #idk who will read this or if anyone else has been thinking about this #also i took my sleep meds before I started writing and something I wake up thinking 'wtf did i do' but i don't think this will be like that #mine #td

[thedepthsoffandomminds]

Episode six - Bully in the Alley

Masterlist

Jack Dawkins x fem reader

This is a long one

"Do you think he'll like it? I should have packed more macaroons. Rainsford loves macaroons." Fanny chatted away as the three of you walked towards the stairs. You stop when you see the head nurse.

" Nurse Baggett, is Dr. Dawkins here?" You ask.

" On a Friday night? He's paying a house call on the Cat and Bagpipes." She laughs. Disappointed you turn back to your sisters who were already making their way up the stairs.

"Should I give Sneed a peek? What would you say to that?" Fanny said.

"Nothing really. Sneed isn't suited for you. His interest in us is purely political. He just wants to marry a governor's daughter and secure Head Surgeon. And he's already proposed to me." Belle rambled.

"Oh." Fanny stops walking.

"Fanny, he would've married any member of the family, including Father or the dog." Belle says.

"Belle, there is no need to be turt. Fanny, Sneed is not for you. He would not be attentive enough for you." You try to comfort her.

" So, when is your happy day?" She spits her words at Belle.

"The happy day was when I declined him." She replied.

"I should just fill my pocket with stones and walk into the sea." Fanny said.

"Sea's that way." Belle pointed.

"Belle, will you both stop this, now." You demand.

"So, just to clarify. Sneed's still available, then?" Fanny asks finally.

"For now." Belle agrees. The three of you walk into his private room. Fanny quickly delves into unpacking her basket of goodies.

"We've also got coconut macaroons, fruitcake, jam drops. Ooh, and this is pepper jelly. I made it myself to help with your recovery."

"How lovely. Lady Belle, are you well?" Sneed asks her, attempting to ignore Fanny.

"But it's quite peppery." Fanny continues.

"Better than someone who fought a pointless duel." They continued the back and fourth between the three of them. Your attention was held by the window you could hardly see through.

"Quickly. This way. Come on, quickly." You hear Hetty shouting. A Bell rings below. Running out of the room you see people clamouring all around.

"Cold compress on her. Splint that. Some doctors would be nice!" You see Hetty shouting. Jack stumbles in with a man's arm around his shoulders.

" Dr. Dawkins." You rush up to him.

" Lady y/n. Can you take him to the ward?" He hands the man over to you draping his arm over your shoulder.

"Are you even sober?" You ask.

"Three sheets to the wind. One sheet better than Prof usually is." He waves his arms. "Get your sister. I need her in the ward. Aputi, bring him in here." Jack walks away from you.

In the swirl of the chaos you do your best to help the nurses with bandaging and comforting the wounded people of Port Victory. Morning rose up without anyone really noticing. Seeing Jack standing beside the bed of one man you walked up to him.

"There's nothing more we could have done. Not with bleeding like that." He lets out a shaky breath, "Hetty, have you eaten anything at all?" He asks the nurse that looks set to fall down.

" No time." She replies.

Heavy footsteps stomp through the halls and you see your sister rushing up to Gaines.

" Captain Gaines, I will be speaking to my father!" She growls.

" Have you come to finish them off? Blinded in one eye, a fractured skull, and a ruptured femoral artery!" Jack's grits his teeth.

"All the results of resisting lawful execution of a warrant. And that's young Alfie Wilderkins if I'm not mistaken. This is a very good day indeed." Gaines grins and it churns your stomach.

" I want the men responsible court-martialled." You say.

"Well, that would be me. You'll need to tell the Governor his right hand is a criminal."

"Yes. That is a very good idea." You narrow your eyes at him.

" Arrest them. They're accomplices. All right. You, come with me." Gaines shouts and grabs one of the patients.

"They need medical care. I can't let you take these patients." You say putting your hands up across the ward door.

" They were never patients, Lady y/n. They're my prisoners. Stand aside." He moves close enough to you that you can smell the stink of his aftershave, "Your father indulges you. If you were my daughter..."

"I'd run away. Like your wife." You sneer at him. Gaines steps forward raising his hand ready to slap you but Jack catches him, wrenching him backward.

" Oi! Doc, you're needed over here." Fagin calls from the other side of the room. He drops Gaines' hand.

" Pity you didn't strike me, Dawkins." He growls at Jack before marching away.

"father can stop this!" You call to Belle.

"Where do you think I'm going?" She shouts back almost running from the hospital. You turn back to Jack.

"Are you alright?" He asks, you nod your head allowing him to take your hand.

"What do we do?" You ask.

"you've been here all night, go home and get some rest. Hetty you too. Neither of you are any good if you get sick as well." Hetty tries to protest but he shakes his head to her, "Go on, we'll be okay, come back later."

*_*_*_*

"Hold fire!" The Governor shouts as Belle wakes him by dropping. Heavy book onto the desk.

"Gaines has gone mad. People have lost their lives." Your sister tells him.

" No, surely not. I counselled moderation." He rebutes.

"Have you seen what's going on out there?" She asks.

"No, but... Oh, my word, that's lovely." He says taking a sip of congac.

" The hospital is overrun. Beaten by Gaines' men." She interrupts him.

"And I'm sorry you had to see that. The hospital really is no place for a lady. But I bear good news, Excellency." Gaines brushes past Belle. "Your operation has flushed out the notorious Kit Wilderkins."

" Oh, Gaines, that is wonderful news."your father chuckles.

" You ordered this, Father?" You ask storming into the room"

"Gaines is firm, darling, but there's a reason he kept our men alive in Africa."

"No, but he's maiming people. He's killing them." You protest.

" All regrettable incidents. Some were resisting arrest and attacking your men, Governor. I shall pray for their souls. Tell me, does your friend, Dr. Dawkins, ever cause a patient pain?" Gaines turns to you.

" Of course, in trying to help to... " You reply.

"Cure. Yes. And does Dr. Dawkins ever accidentally kill any of these patients?"

" Rarely." Belle interjects.

"And I'm sure he mourns it, as I do. You see, a colony is very much like a body..."

" Yes, I've read Hobbes." You cut him off.

"Then you will know that sometimes we must hurt in order to heal."

"A young man bled to death in the hospital overnight. What of his family?" You say.

"Ah, yes. Very sad. Alfie Wilderkins, only eighteen. Kit Wilderkins was his father. Together they held up the Murchings Bank stage coach last month, and killed three people. Corporal Hartmouth was begging for mercy when they shot him. Hartmouth had two dear little children, Rosie and William." Gaines pretended to feel remorse as he sat in a chair.

"Yes. Look, it's one thing to lose a man in battle, but to crime? It's hard to explain to the widow." The governor says.

"You see, my ladies, sometimes we need to cut a rotten part of the body politic in order to cure the whole." He speaks to you both.

"I know what part of the body politic I'd be removing." Belle bites back.

" Okay, thank you, Captain Gaines." The Governor dismisses his Captain before taking your and Belle's hands in his.

"Darlings... Darlings, I know you disapprove of Gaines and his methods. But I've been asked to turn a penal colony into a society. And I need men like him to make a prison into something better. Now, I'm not asking you to accept everything I do, but I am asking you both to support me and this family." He says.

"we will go back to the hospital and help." Belle says.

"No, we need to rest. Father, you should, perhaps put down your congac and take a good she's look at the people you surround yourself with. Come sister." You take her hand and lead her to the stairs.

"You're giving up?" She asks.

"No, Belle, Jack said we needed to sleep to rest, he sent Hetty away as well. He wants us at our best to help." You explain.

"And what will you do? Hold a few hands and get in the way?" She spat out the words.

You hold onto the emotions that threaten to spill out of your eyes.

*_*_*_*

"Belle, I may not be as smart as you are when it comes to medicine, but I am doing my best."

"You could be doing so much more, instead of wasting all your energy on a boy."

You push past her and storm up to your bedroom.

Three hours later you found yourself unable to sleep so you redressed in a simple cotton outfit, forgoing the hooped crinoline and opting for a smaller petticoat. You sneak back down stairs to the carriage that waited for you at the back of the house. Belle was already sat inside.

"took your time." She smiled. You say nothing, knocking on the carriage to signal the driver. Much to Belle's dismay you give her the cold shoulder all the way to the hospital. Choosing to keep your eyes on the trees going past.

She chased after you into the building when you arrived at the hospital.

"y/n please, I'm sorry." She calls after you. You ignore her finding Jack.

"What'd your father say? When's he going to stop this?" He asks you.

" Yes, I have spoken to my father. There are two sides to this. It's not as clear as..." you say walking through the corridors.

"He's dead. How much clearer could it be?" He almost shouts at you.

You stop and look at him for a moment, "Right, if you're to be like that, Jack..."

"I cannot believe you would give that man's story credence." He said. You turned once more marching god knows where as you spoke.

"I don't give a fig about Gaines, but I do trust my father's word on this."

"You can't agree with their methods?" He asked.

"Obviously not." You answered

" That boy bled to death in front of us."

"I know but, he was a bushranger, who killed one of Father's men."

"So they say."

" He's my father. He's many things, but he's not a liar. He's trying to bring peace to a colony you have to admit is out of control." You stomped through a closed door.

"Did you mean to walk into a cupboard?" Jack almost laughs.

" Obviously not!" You bit your lower lip to keep your emotions from bubbling over. "Gosh. You are incredibly irritating."

"So are you."

"'Cause you won't listen to anyone else's point of view. All I'm saying is it is not clear-cut."

"Look, you either want to be a help here, someone who cares for everybody, no matter how spotty their soul may be, or you are "milady," who gives six of the best to the peasants when we get uppity." He jibs you.

" Uppity? I know you had your past indiscretions, but these were bushrangers who killed three men, one a father." You reply.

" Some people need to thieve in order to eat." Jack sighs.

"And that can lead to death, too." It was getting harder to hold back your tears.

"Have you ever seen anybody dead on the streets from hunger?"

"No!" You agree.

"Have you ever paid for anything you've eaten? Or worn, or lived in?"

"That's a false syllogism." You say turning back toward the cupboard door. Jack runs up behind you.

"Whatever that is, it is not. If you can't see what is happening here, y/n, then you and I have big problems. This puts a wall between us." His arm is across You holding the door shut.

" You climbed it fine when you kissed me in the surgery." You say, a tear escaping down your face. Jack sighs, he knows he has pushed you too far. His tongue darts out to wet his lips.

"let me go, I should, I wish to leave." You whisper.

"Y/n-"

"I wish to leave."

You do not let any tears fall from your eyes until you reached your bedroom. Where you fling yourself upon your bed and cry until exhausted you fall asleep

*_*_*_*

The sound of Fagin's voice wakes you some time later and you tiptoe along behind him. With your arms crossed you wait at the door as he comes shuffling out of your father's office with a large Hessian bag.

"Stealing like a common thief again?" You say when he spots you.

"Yes, well only what was stolen from us in the first place." He raises his hands towards you in submission.

"Fine, take the lot. I no longer care."

"actually we could do with your help you know. Doc is getting your sister for an operation but you, you might be exactly what we need." His smile unnerved and intrigued you.

"Okay, take me there." You agree.

Belle and Dawkins come down the stairs discussing the procedure they are about to do. You pay them no mind as you step into the carriage.

"you're coming?" Jack asks hopeful.

"To help the people, not you." You say turning yourself away from them.

"Sorry about the pissing, Fagin, I just couldn't... Whoa! Hello, Your Majesty." Flashbang spoke when he saw you and Belle.

"Hello." You reply.

"Is this a criminal conspiracy?" Belle asks

"In a manner of speakin', yes."

"If you're going to the hospital, Belle, I'm coming to see Sneedy." Fanny pushes past Flashbang to get in beside Belle, forcing Jack to sit beside you. Fagin plonks himself on the luggage tray at the back and Flashbang hangs onto the side.

Jack glances at you occasionally, you are sure he wants to talk to you but you keep your eyes turned away only replying to Fanny.

At the hospital you follow them all inside. It's agreed that you'll go to the prof and distract him whilst the others got Red's baby out safely. When you were satisfied that he was deep enough into the second bottle you went up to Red's room. Fagin taking your place. Jack stands at the door.

"How is it going?" You ask keeping a distance from the doctor.

"Well I think, I'm not allowed in." He replies.

"Belle is operating alone?"

"she is more than capable."

"Of course she is, Belle would run rings around any trained man." You sit down beside Tim. "Red is strong, she'll be alright." You comfort him.

Jack watches you talk with the man, how he seems instantly at ease with you. All the people in Port Victory did. You held an air of kindness that spread out to those you spoke to. He had to admit to himself that having you here, speaking with the patients and holding their hands eased them. It made the wards feel lighter, as if death was not hanging over their heads. Taking in a long breath Jack turned back to his work opening the door just enough to call in.

" Nearly... I have it now." Belle says from.inside.

"How is it in there? Do you have the head yet?" He called.

"Now, pull up and out." Jack guides her.

" Just one more cut.* Hetty says as they clamp the umbilical chord, " She's out. Come on, Belle."

" Please breathe." Belle encourages the baby with a rub to its chest. The new born cries and everyone sighs with relief.

" Now stitch her, fascia first." Jack reminds her. "Is Red all right?" Tim pushing his way into the room.

"She's breathing steady, Tim." Belle reassures him, handing the now swaddled infant. With them all in the room you chose to stay out, waiting for Gaines to appear.

They managed to sneak the woman and the baby out of the room and secret her away in Jack's room.

Belle is cleaning away her equipment when Jack walks back in.

"We did it. Hetty and I, we kept them both alive." She smiles.

" In time for your father to hang her." Jack snaps back. Belle is about to argue when the door opens and Aputi and Flash bring a large basket into the room. You follow them in as they place the covered body on the bed.

"Well done."

"No! You're body snatching!" Belle rrmarks.

"Pretty standard in our line of work." Jack comments.

" You can't be serious."

"Belle,This is the only way to save her." You say.

" Clearly pregnant. Very good." Jack says before pulling the sheet back, "Clearly not pregnant. This a man." He chastises them.

" Big Kit's all we had in the deadhouse, Dr. Jack." Aputi explained as they left the room.

"This is madness! It can't work! And it's a capital offence!" Belle snapped

" So is killing a mother before she's even put her own child to her breast." You snap back.

"So, what's more important, milady?"

You are the first to hear Gaines approaching and slip out of the room. Jack follows you closing the door behind him.

"Captain," you pretend to feel sadness. "I fear the mother and baby died on the table. How does one bear this sort of loss, Captain?" You put a hand on his chest, keeping him from moving further. "I have never seen it, but perhaps you were right, darkness cannot birth light I suppose." You say. He nods.

"Yes, lady y/n, it is awful when the innocent are tard by the guilty." He pushes your hand away and attempts to step past you.

"You can't go in. Her body's undressed. For shame. And you, a Godly man. Have you no decency?" You pour every bit of heartache you had into the words.

"I need to see the body." He tells you.

" What are you going to do, Captain? Hang her corpse?" You ask.

" Have the Professor bring me the death certificate." The Captain hisses.

"Dr. Dawkins can sign it."

"No! I would find it much more reliable if the Professor signs it." He walks away. Turning yourself round to Jack you look up at him.

"Thank you." He says.

"I didn't do it for you." You drop your eyes to the ground.

"y/n, I-" you shake your head, "I'll see to the patient." He lets you walk away from him, wishing he hadn't.

Knocking on the door you step into the room, Red sat on the small bed by the window.

"How are you?" You ask.

"Better now. You know you are nothing like the rest of your family. There's a little crime in you." Red said with a chuckle, "would you like to hold her?"

You nod and come forward, sitting on the end of the bed. You take the bundle into your arms and rock her.

"She's beautiful." You say a wide smile on your face.

"it's suits you." Tim states.

"What is it, why didn't you follow society? Why ain't you married?" Red asked.

"oh, I.... I'm not well. I wouldn't make a man a widower or a child and orphan." You reply, keeping your eyes on the sleeping baby.

"Sorry." Red whispered. Not long after Fagin arrived and then Jack. At first you wanted to leave but you stayed at Tim's request. Jack poured you all a small glass of Fagin's stolen liqueur.

When at last Belle was done with her cleaning she came up to find you. Not wanting to speak to her you simply walked alongside to the carriage.

At home again you sat in your bed the blankets over knees when Belle and Fanny came giggling into her room. Belle climbed into the bed beside you and Fanny dropped her head to your lap.

"I shared my first kiss." She said looking UK at you.

"With Sneed?" You asked.

" And did you enjoy it?" Belle cuddled closer. "Mixed. At first, it was lovely. But then I think I hurt him rather badly. He was quite angry, actually." She screwed up her face.

"Someone'll sweep you off your feet when you least expect it in the most inconvenient of moments." You say brushing back her hair and stroking her face with the back of your hand.

" I had a thought." She said, flipping herself onto her stomach, "Considering your health, perhaps you and Dr. Dawkins could have a long, happily unconsummated love affair until he walks off, desolate, into the windswept moors..." she all but sings her fantasy, you feel a pang of gult.

"We don't have moors here." Belle reminded her.

"But yes, that is a nice thought." You agree. Your sisters cuddle into you and you all giggle over the day until your mother commands you all to bed.

*_*_*_*_*

Fagin and Dawkins sat at a table in the tavern, Rotty poured them both a drink I to the metal tankards.

"So, our old Cheekybones did well." Fagin grins. "Yeah. She did, didn't she?"

"And her sister, the older one, she is a boone, still, it's not really their world, is it? And you've got to remember, Dodge, theirs isn't yours." He reminded the younger man. Jack played with his cup and turned to the window. His heart leaps in his chest when he sees the nicest sight he had seen in days. Without saying a word to his companion, Jack walked outside.

"Milady. I must warn you I am a little bit drunk. In fact, I am approaching strutting pigeon."

You smile from below your cape, dropping the hood down. Reaching out you take the cup from his hand and swallow down the liquid.

" So am I, now." You smile, "The crime, it's not just for survival. You actually love it." You say.

"The worst parts of me do." Jack admits.

"well, I cannot say I did not enjoy getting one over on Gaines." You admit. Jack laughs.

" It's hopeless, isn't it?" You take a step toward him.

"Oh, yes. We are completely unsuited." He agrees matching your movement.

"We should really never see each other socially." You offer up words you don't believe.

"No, that wouldn't be right." He said moving close enough to slide his hand around your waist. Crashing his lips to yours. Your heart fluttered in your chest. You spin him round so his back hits the wall.

" Holy hell, we're in trouble." You whisper.

"So much trouble." Jack he replies placing his lips to yours and you feel all your resolve disappearing.

"I'm sorry I hurt you." Jack speaks between kisses.

Everything had changed in that few seconds. Your life would never be the same.

Episode seven

@fandomfan-102

[forasecondtherewedwon]

My Artful Dodger Masterlist

Rated T

And Spit at the Stars (And Scream in the Dark) Belle dies on the table. Jack x Belle | 962

Fair Days Jack's troubled by questions of love and fairness. Hetty knows something of both. Hetty x Jack | 2k

Lettuce-In-Law The first marriage proposal of the evening might be ill-conceived, but the second is quite sensible. Belle x Jack | 2.1k

Take What is Given Following Red's caesarean, Hetty reassesses what Belle means to the Port Victory Royal Hospital—and to her. Hetty x Belle | 912

Rated M

Long Leaving For Belle, studying the human body usually comes before intoxication, so this is new. Belle x Jack | 1.6k

Rated E

Amputated Nights Scissors, scalpel, needle, saw—Hetty is always passing Jack his instruments in surgery, and then they pass the night together. Hetty x Jack | 776

Bodies in the Theatre Jack and Belle make a new memory on the operating table where she almost died. Jack x Belle | 1k

Experimental Treatments Belle was the one who'd poured acid all over her thigh. How could Jack not help her? How could he not, afterwards, recall the sensation of rubbing salve into her skin? Jack x Belle | 1k

Private Practicing Belle's waiting until she's married to do all the things she seems to want when she kisses him. Jack's waiting for her to admit she's not that patient. Jack x Belle | 2.5k

remember it once “I’ve never wanted this before.” “What?” “To devote my life to another person. To live instead of just keeping myself alive. I don’t know… I don’t know how to say it…” “You said it very well.” Jack x Belle | 25k

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No one is doing unrequited love like my girl Hetty.

Which is with dignity for her own self worth and without making herself look like a fool.

She really said: I will not beg for a man’s affection and I deserve to be someone’s first choice.

#heavy on the she deserves to be someone’s first choice #once again if we get a season 2 give her a proper sub plot and love interest separate from Jack and Belle #our low drama Queen #the artful dodger #nurse hetty #hetty #hetty baggett #nurse baggett #commentary #my post #the artful dodger disney plus #artful dodger #the artful dodger hulu

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If we get a second season I so desperately want to see more of Belle interacting and becoming friends with Jack’s gang. Like seeing her gain perspective and grow as she learns she has more in common with these people than she thought. And vice versa getting to see them be surprised by her earnestness and learn that while she is privileged she’s not close minded.

Getting to see her loosen up, her learning to play cards with everyone, her learning about prosthetics from Tim, and more about women’s health from Hetty and getting to have girl talk with her, laughing with fagin about stories from Jack’s London days, just her expanding her view of the world.

And getting to see Jack fall for her even harder and be happy and relieved because she’s not shying away from this part of him and their two worlds aren’t as separate as he thought.

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Some thoughts on Hetty (spoiler: I love her)

This is me way over analyzing and reading into things based on vibes, but truly I love Hetty and her talk with Jack in episode 8. I think this is the moment she sort of fully lets go of him and begins to move on and I just love the way the show handled this. Like love triangle drama takes me out of a romance so fast and this show did not do that when it easily could have.

Hetty doesn’t expect anything from Jack. She seems smart and pragmatic and I don’t think she ever seriously believed that her feelings would be returned. And what I love is that because of that she doesn’t try to come between them at all and she’s not jealous or vindictive towards Belle or Jack. The show doesn’t make her unlikable or relegate her role to an obstacle for the main romance.

They kept her feelings a subtle more internal struggle and she handles the situation with so much maturity and grace and it’s bittersweet because she knows it’s unrequited and she knows that she can’t change that. But, I think she also knows she deserves to be someone’s first choice and despite her feelings Jack is still her friend who she wants to be happy so she tells him to go after her. They made her such a genuinely good person and friend and I love her so much for it.

I’ve said it before but if we get a second season I really really hope they spend more time developing her character and that they give her a proper love interest for herself. And that we get to see her and Belle bond and have a mutual respect for each other and have each other’s backs. I want to see her happy and supported she deserves it.

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Another thing I want to see if we get a season 2 is more friendship between Hetty and Belle. As Belle grows as a character and gains more perspective I just know those two would become great friends and have so much fun outnumbering Jack. Their short conversation about the women’s clinic in episode 7 is all the confirmation I needed.

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Three!!

Thank you, Kaye!!!

Shuffle #3: “Bitter Taste” - Billy Idol

There's nothing I can do to change it now / But if I cut myself open, baby / You can read all my scars

And Spit at the Stars (And Scream in the Dark)

Rating: T Word Count: 962 music shuffle fic game

Summary: Belle dies on the table.

He puts his hands inside people for a living, for as little of a living as it is. When Jack strides down the street, the hard-packed dirt reminds him of the roof of a man’s mouth—the mouth of the very man he’s passing. He’s retrieved small objects (marbles, stones) from the noses of half the children who rush to tug off hanged men’s boots. He’s delivered them from their mothers, hand inside the birth canal as he eased slippery shoulders free. He knows what their fathers’ shattered elbows looked like before he doctored their wonky mending. He could identify a dozen men’s patellas by touch. Blindfolded.

Blood; blood always feels the same, but the veins that spill it, the flesh from which it seeps, are unique under his fingers. So he’ll remember this, and run back through it: Did he open cleanly? Did he disturb her vital workings when he reached all the way into her, to the back of her, positioning the noose and pulling the thread taut? Did he tie it too snugly? Before all of it, did he hold the mask to her face too long, drowning her in ether?

When he feels—

When he feels Belle’s heart stop—

It doesn’t even mean blood to him. Jack’s palm is on her non-rising chest, everything he never felt from the inside flashing through his mind behind his unfocused eyes. Bone, lungs, the chambers of her heart. He would occupy those chambers, live inside her, join her there. His red hands scrabble up her neck. Nothing in her throat jumps against his fingers.

Hetty takes him by the shoulders, and he twists, twists like the babies who wriggled their way into this horrible, hurting world with the help of Jack’s hands. But Hetty is determined and strong; she will brace herself beneath the arm of an amputee to raise him onto his remaining leg. She clutches Jack’s shoulders, and he jerks, eyes fixed on Belle’s face, no longer flushed with agony. Or life.

“She wasn’t in pain, Jack,” Hetty is saying. “You did that for her. She wasn’t in pain.”

Her voice is thick like the tears pushing their way out of his eyes to splash down his cheeks. He can hear Belle’s mother crying now, a lonely wail that calls Jack back to storms at sea, the wind and the slanting rain.

When he shakes out of Hetty’s hold, it’s because she lets him go, dropping her hands. He looks at her wildly, finally. A tremor touches each of her features in turn—her brow, her nostrils, her chin—but she stares back at him, hiding nothing. How do they take care of this? How can they possibly be the people in charge? Who will nurse them, hold a mask over their nose and mouth to shelter themfrom their pain? Of all the times in his life Jack’s needed someone to step in and save him—

Sneed is drawing a sheet over Belle’s body. Jack takes snatching hold of his arm, but Sneed turns his head and meets Jack’s eye with such sympathy. Chest heaving, Jack senses that he doesn’t so much look at Sneed as watch the man watch him; he feels like a picture on a wall. Rather than wrest Sneed away from her, Jack only squeezes and releases his grip.

“Enough!” Gaines rings out, tolling Jack’s hour like the bell in a clock tower.

His guillotine hand comes down on the back of Jack’s neck. Jack shrugs him off violently, and before Gaines can make another grab for him, Sneed steps between them. The sheet ripples down over Belle.

“He isn’t going anywhere,” Sneed grits out with a hard edge.

At first, Jack thinks Sneed is insisting on preventing his arrest altogether, but then Sneed adds, “Look at him,” and Jack understands Sneed isn’t taking a legal stand, just telling the predator in Gaines that his quarry is too weak to run.

“It will be you under arrest if you’re wrong,” Gaines assures Sneed, striking Sneed’s shirtfront with the barrel of his pistol.

At the casual hostility of this contact, Jack’s hand darts out, fingers flexed like a claw; he’s prepared to choke the life out of Gaines with his tie. Sneed’s reflexes are just as quick—something for which Jack rarely gives him credit—and he knocks Jack’s hand aside before he can assault the Captain. Hetty, too, is stirred to action, taking both doctors by the elbow and giving a backwards yank, away from the danger of Gaines’s gun and their own impulsive stupidity. For a moment, they are, the three of them, connected, and loss is the current running through them.

“Gentlemen, some self-control. For her parents.” This can only, and does, come from Hetty.

The next thing Jack knows, he’s taking hold of the brass railing and hauling himself up into the wooden stands. He mounts the stairs, fighting shock, catching the toe of his boots on the steps until his climb becomes a stagger, a flail, until his palms press the theatre’s back wall and he turns and slumps down it. His head lolls as he takes in the view. Why do the spectators come? Why the children to the gallows and the grown men to the surgery? Is the attraction that the person on the table has a fighting chance, or is there always a cruel presumption that life can’t win? Once the surgeon’s fingers have plumbed your insides, you’re doomed? The lesson from up here is: never let life crack you open.

Jack could strangle the fool who keeps asking if Belle’s breathing. He could kill them with his bare hands. He looks down at the shape in the sheet, the body he knew from the inside.

Fully.

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