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Life feels right because these shorts are back in The Penthouse universe. No place more suitable for their comeback than the Reagan family beach trip.

Enjoy the Under The Gun update with chapter 46!

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Gday! Hope life's going well for you! I'm wondering if Noble would have any strong opinions on Jamie's current undercover look in BB season 14.

Yessss!!! Thank you so much for messaging me. I was thinking something like this (and it's in Noble's POV!):

It’s nearly three a.m. when I key into the apartment I share with Jamie. After working a closing shift at the bar, this is about my usual hour to arrive home. I’ve gotten used to it. Any job in hospitality will screw with your sleep schedule, but I’ve always been a night owl anyway. Thankfully my boyfriend’s job has that in common with mine and together, neither one of us has a healthy relationship with circadian rhythms. 

One warm lamp shines from back in our bedroom, but otherwise the living room, kitchen, and entry are all dark. After getting rid of my keys, my jacket and shoes just inside the door, I head toward the lamp in the living room but stop short when I hear rustling and movement down the hall.

“Jay?” I call out through the quiet, but all that answers is a click that, if I'm not mistaken, sounds like a magazine being snapped into a pistol. More soft rustling. A zipper being pulled.

My pulse flares hot against my will and I forego the living room light to peer into the open bedroom. 

Jamie stands facing the bed with his back turned to me and my chest deflates a little in relief. I mean, I think it’s him. I recognize his silhouette from behind easily, but the outline of the baseball hat he wears I’ve never seen before, and when he doesn’t answer my Hey from the doorway, I have to squint in confusion. When I see from behind that he is indeed chambering a bullet in his nine millimeter, I can’t help but angle a step back. 

He holsters the weapon at his waist, then reaches for a phone that I don’t recognize and when he does, I notice the black ink tattooed on his hands. The hell? 

But that is his ass in those jeans, I have no doubt, so I don’t know what to think.

I move into the room a few steps closer. “Yo–”

Finally, he turns, the AirPod in his ear proving he didn’t hear me the first time. Oh shit– I damn near attempt to tackle the dude looking back at me before I realize it’s Jamie with an actual beard that changes the look of his whole face.

But then that damn smirk surfaces along the dark fuzzy plane of his jaw and there’s no mistaking him. “Hey baby,” he casually greets me, as if he doesn’t look like a borderline psychopath.

“What the fuck?” I exhale and grab the open edge of his jacket to pull him closer to me. “I was about to knock you out thinking someone had broken in.”

Jamie pulls the earbud out and leaves it on the bed. “Sorry. I was listening to some notes on my case. They wanna pull me in tonight,” he tells me. “Knock me out, huh?” he chuckles, reaching up to take off his hat before he tosses it with the rest of his stuff. “Let’s see it.” Then with fists at the ready just below his clear green gaze, he weaves a little in front of me.

I fake a jab up high before I get one in lower, right at his hip, then grab him at his ribcage to haul him into me. “So this is the final product, huh?”

With the arch of an eyebrow, Jamie attempts to glance up at himself. His typically short, neat hair has enough length now to be combed back and styled and it’s honestly… strange how different it makes him look. He’d been preparing for this assignment for a while and the inbetween stage of growing his facial hair had been very amusing to me. For the last several weeks, he had still looked like himself, but more like he pulled an all-nighter in college writing a paper, not this hardass slimeball he’s morphed into once the full look was put together.

“I told you I could grow a real beard,” he boasts, a serious line pinching between his brows before he offers me a smug little smile.

“See?” I scratch my fingers there along his face. “You can accomplish a lot in three months–”

“One month,” he insists. “It took four weeks. And I even had to trim some here–” he gestures to his chin. “To even it out.”

“Mm,” I hum, narrowing my gaze to humor him. “You sure did–” My teasing is cut off by my own scoff when my eyes fall and I tug away the hood at his neck. “What is this tattoo?”

“There’s another.” Jamie turns his head to look the other way offering me a view of each side of his neck decorated with a slithering black ink trail of a hissing snake.

“Sick,” I breathe out a stunned laugh as my gaze follows the detail. “I definitely hate it.”

He chuckles. “You’re supposed to hate it, Noble. I’d be concerned if you were really into it.”

“Well hang on a sec.” I urge him closer to me and drag my thumb at the edge of his shirt collar, peeling it down enough in search of more. There at his collarbone is the tattooed hilt of a sword, pointed down as if the blade pierces into his skin. “How carried away did they get with you?” I wonder.

Jamie looks down between us and pushes the hem of his shirt up his chest enough to show another – this one a knotted, Celtic looking brand right on his smooth pec.

“Oh-ho ho,” I utter a low, dark laugh and can’t help but touch it. “You’re a bad boy.”

“You like it a little,” he whispers. “Just say it.” His lips twitch playfully just before they capture mine. 

He lets go of his shirt to steady my head, but my hand’s still on him and I squeeze the firm muscle of his chest. The soft bristle of his hair tickles my lip. I swallow the slight moan of his, kissing him harder with an urgency I didn't realize I was harboring.

I knew any day now he'd be going deep undercover on an assignment he's been prepping for. Deep and risky to the point where I'd probably go days, maybe weeks, at a time without seeing him. 

We've been trying to find extra time together leading up to the case. Recently, we took off on a long weekend getaway to Miami where I knew Jamie could let himself fully relax. Miami has always managed to bring out a side of Jamie that's uninhibited and sexy as hell and we spent the weekend in a gorgeous hotel room near the beach, all over each other and only managing to put clothes on when public decency was necessary.

A needy groan rattles in my throat as my kiss starts to slip away. I hold him to me, keeping my eyes closed as my touch traces his heart.

“You leave tonight?” I check.

Jamie nods against my temple, his scruff prickling my skin. “I have a briefing with my Lieutenant and then my unit’ll have me moving into location after that.”

I drag in a deep inhale through my nose and ease back to look at him. I can't help but exhale a soft laugh through my nose at his drastic appearance. But of course it's still him when his gaze softens on me and he takes a moment to trail fingertips across my hair.

I swallow, sliding my hand down his side beneath his shirt. “Well I know how you get when you're undercover, so be careful alright?”

A gradual smile pulls at Jamie's cheek. “Yeah? How do I get?”

With an innocent glance aside, I clear my throat. “I mean, last time you had one simple assignment–”

“Uh-huh…”

“And you wound up falling in love with me, and saving my life and all this kinda shit when I was just innocently minding my business.”

“Damn,” Jamie whispers. “Rookie mistake, I guess.”

I shrug. “Well I was very distracting. Who could blame you?”

“You were very persistent.”

My eyebrows jump and with my free hand, I reach up and scratch his jawline once more. “For you? Yes I was, and always will be.”

#joble fanfiction #joble drabble #idiots for life #I would like to know more about this miami getaway

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#joble aesthetic

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Even at the beach, you can't escape those Reagan family dinners. Noble learns a thing or two about his boyfriend at this one but really... who's surprised?

I don't think I've updated this fic since summer??? Oh gosh, I apologize.

Chapter 45 of Under The Gun is up!

#utg updates #joble fanfiction

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Here we are, back for season 112 of this feel-good programming! And Jamie looks like this! And it gives me feelings. 👀👀

#jamie reagan

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#joble aesthetic #noble sanfino thirst traps to his man??

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This Charming Man has been updated again! Queue the Roxette song because we've got a lot going on here as these boys wrap up their little business arrangement. 🥺

Read chapter 15 here.

#joble fanfiction #this charming man updates

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The Guy With A Secret Miami chapters have been my comfort reading lately. Jamie and Noble not sure how to be with each other, how drunk they get, all of their various experimenting... I could read it over and over. 💜

Aw, I love their dumb asses in Miami! This is so cute. Those chapters are favorites of mine too. I'm so glad you go back to them!

Jamie really lives his best life in Miami. They should make sure to take annual vacations there. 😏

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If you forgot it existed, there's a Pretty Woman-inspired Joble fic I write sometimes! And now there's an update! Same dummies, different universe.

Chapter 14 of This Charming Man is on ao3. ❤🌶

#this charming man #joble fanfiction #kissings off limits until its notttt

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Pretty Woman

#this charming man

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#this charming man #joble aesthetic #might Jamie actually sleep in the bed??

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#still applies #joble aesthetic

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#😭 #joble aesthetic #how i miss you

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9 & 14 (I'm thinking non-romantic relationships but however you want to interpret it. Your extra characters plus BB are so well done.) #thepenthouseseries

9. What is your favourite line/interaction in your fic?

Okay line, specifically, I don't think there's any way I could pin that down with how long this damn thing has become. For interaction, I think an all-time favorite is Jamie's first trip to Miami, he takes a nap in Noble's guest room, and then comes into the kitchen while Noble's making pesto and it's very tease-y because Noble had told Jamie to put the brakes on and that they were just friends. But we know how that turned out. All of that was a really fun moment in time.

14. What is your favourite relationship featured in your fic aside from the main couple(if you have one)?

This is hard! I'd probably go with Jamie and Vinny because of all the canon reasons. Plus it started with them, and Vinny was the first person Jamie came out to on his own. Second would be Noble and Irene, Jamie's neighbor from down the hall.

#fic asks #thank you!

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6. What's a subtle quirk your protag has? How do you convey it in your writing?

Jamie's would be his perpetual self-control that slowly unwinds in Noble's presence. Initially, it's Jamie always sort of checking himself against the way Noble affects him.

Those aren't really quirks though. Jamie's quirks really come out when he's interacting with Erin or Danny, I find. Both of them can get him worked up, so he's quick to get defensive with them and escalate whatever he's saying.

Even though Jamie's the narrator, Noble has far more descriptive moments as he's seen through Jamie's eyes. So Noble's quirks are his little chuckles and his effortless handsy moments. And he's the one with the map, right, so it's not that he's always dominant, but he tends to drive the moment. He's also the first to joke/make light of things if he's getting too serious. I hope I answered that decently.

8. Are the locations in your fic based on the real world? How accurate are they? Have you added your own locations? (e.g. town, street, building, etc)

I'll admit I'm more knowledgeable about New York than I am Miami. So anything referenced in Miami (Noble's proximity to the beach, the strip club, the airport) was pretty glossed over and fictional.

The Greenwich Hotel and The Bowery Hotel are real. Jamie's neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights is described accurately. The chapter with Noble's attempted robbery- that location was real. Takahachi is a real sushi restaurant in Tribeca. And Lucali is legit Brooklyn pizza!

#fic asks

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@gimme-that-fluff

2. Do you have any easter eggs in your fic?

I feel like this has many interpretations! There's a moment in chapter 19 of Under The Gun where Jamie and Noble have finally reconciled after their break-up where Noble tells Jamie, "You get your ass to my bed, now" and when I imagined it, it's exactly Noble's same tone in the boiler room episode where he says to Jamie "You get back to work" in front of Johnny Tesla. 😂 That was intentional so I hope others hear it that way.

11. Is there anything important in your fic you think readers have missed/overlooked?

Why is this one harder than I thought it'd be? I don't actually know what people have missed/overlooked! Maybe that the Joble hotel meet-up in the middle of the night after Vinny was shot was supposed to be a dumbass hot mess where nobody's reasons for things were good, but honestly I think that conveyed. 😂

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#writing asks #@gimme-that-fluff

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Writer Asks

1. What is a piece of symbolism in your fic?

2. Do you have any easter eggs in your fic?

3. What's something you've researched for your fic?

4. What's something you've researched but haven't incorporated into your fic?

5. What's a piece of lore you haven't shown in your fic or don't think you'll be able to add in?

6. What's a subtle quirk your protag has? How do you convey it in your writing?

7. What character do you enjoy writing most? Why?

8. Are the locations in your fic based on the real world? How accurate are they? Have you added your own locations? (e.g. town, street, building, etc)

9. What is your favourite line/interaction in your fic?

10. What is your favourite au? Have you written anything for it?

11. Is there anything important in your fic you think readers have missed/overlooked?

12. What character has the most lines in your fic? Which character has the least lines?

13. Is there a transition in your fic you're proud of?

14. What is your favourite relationship featured in your fic aside from the main couple(if you have one)?

15. Tell us a fun fact about your fic/wip!

#writing asks #🙃