Jandreon scraps

== Under ==
Date/Timing: 2016 Winter semester, after Jason and Lachlan are put on the Ranger track
Setting: Lachlan and Jason's room, Jaeger Academy dorm; Kodiak, AK, United States
Inspiration: an OTPprompt
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"If I have to memorize /one /more fuckin' circuit diagram ...," mutters Lachlan. "I'm gonna be /punching Kaiju, not upgrading their wiring." Swipes to the next page of his textbook.
The door creaks open on its hinges.
Jason shlumps in.
Lachlan doesn't look up. "Finished taking your lumps?"
Jason whines, heaves himself onto Lachlan's bunk.
Lachlan raises his arm at the shoulder.
Jason worms his way up and under.
"You smell like chlorine."
"Two hunnerd laps, m'therfucker," grunts Jason.
Lachlan swipes.
Jason sighs.
Swipe.
Snore.
Lachlan rolls his eyes, sighs fondly.
== Jedi ==
The door slams open and Jackson's no longer in command of a starship.
The light comes on and he's in /pain.
He blinks rapidly, then scrubs at his eyes. 
The dark blurs across the room resolve into Riley and Egan, heads held at /completely unnatural angles.
Oh.
Logan's got 'em by the ears.
"Th' fuck's goin' on?" grumbles Jackson.
Logan twists—
"Owowowow!"
Egan squeals.
"These /idiots—"
"We're not—"
"I resem—"
—shoves them forward. 
Riley lands across Jackson's legs.
Egan hits the floor.
"—think they killed Ray."
Jackson kicks Riley off the bed, sits up. "Th' fuck?"
"She's gone!" wails Egan.
"We think we suffocated her in our sleep," adds Riley.
Jackson ... is not processing this well.
Logan rolls his eyes, grabs Jackson's mobile off the dresser, pokes at it. "Ask 'em why they're bothering us rather than calling Authority."
Jackson grunts, "What he said."
"There's nothing but her jumper left!"
"Wha ...?"
"There's no body! Just her jumper!"
"An empty jumper means she's dead becaaaaause ...?"
"She's a Jedi," scoffs Egan. "/Obviously."
"She's ...." Jackson drags a hand down his face.
"She's in Tam's room because Egan was talking in his sleep, 'parently."
Everyone looks to Logan.
He waggles Jackson's mobile. "Texted her."
"Oh," says Riley.
"Oh," says Egan.
"'Oh'?!" Jackson throws himself out of bed, grabs Egan and Riley by their ears—
"Oi! Ow!"
"Ouchie ouchie ouchie!"
—hauls them across the room, tosses them into the hall, slams the door. He takes a deep breath, rounds on Logan. "Why'd you drag them in /here?!"
Logan shrugs. "Thought you'd get a kick out of the story."
Jackson glares, points to the door, growls, "/Out."
"Aye, aye, Cap'n!" he laughs and lets himself out, closing the door behind.
Jackson locks the door, flips off the light, heaves himself back into bed, and stuffs his head under his pillow.
==Attend==
Jason puts on a condom, shuffles a bit on his knees, puts his hands on Lachlan's hips--
"Egan, I swear to god, if you bring that thing anywhere near me I will smack you." 
Jason deflates. "Sorry, buddy." Shuffles back to his side of the bunk and lies down.
Lachlan glances between the lecture slides (tablet propped against his pillow) and his textbook (propped against /Jason's pillow), scrawls a thought in his notebook (in hand).
Idea!
Jason seeks out a vibrator--
Lachlan looks for patience, puts the tablet and his notebook under the bed, gets Jason in a gentle arm lock, pushes him face first into the pillow, and holds him there. 
"All this Fightmaster training has never been this much of a turn-on," Jason chirps. 
Lachlan fumbles on a condom and shoves deep into Jason with perhaps a bit more force than strictly necessary, lies back down, and returns to studying. 
"Lachlaaaaaan," Jason whines. "Pay attention to meeeeee!" 
Lachlan hides a smile in Jason's hair. 
Jason squirms. 
Lachlan huffs, tucks his chin over Jason's shoulder. "I have six more questions and then I'm yours for the night, okay?" 
"Okay!" 
Lachlan kisses his cheek. 
== Summoned ==
Inspired by an OTPprompt
=== Whoa ===
"I don't like this," murmurs Andrea.
"Relax, Ray," says Juliet. "This is just good, clean Halloween fun."
"Well, I guess summoning demons isn't really 'clean', but all the ceremony's pretty cool," point out Lachlan.
Andrea whines.
"Where's your other third?"
"Jason said he needed to do something for his commander," Andrea mumbles.
Juliet rolls her eyes. "Such a little Boy Scout."
"We chant on 'three'," declares Lachlan.
They do.
A tearing noise, ozone, a flash.
Jason blinks at them from the center of the circle.
"Whoa," says Juliet.
Andrea stops breathing.
"What the /fuck, Egan?" snaps Lachlan.
"Uh, hi?" Jason rubs the back of his neck. "You tried a 'summon a local infernal being' ritual, ay?"
Three heads bob.
Jason sighs, snaps his fingers.
A wet /pop.
Jason's wearing raggedy vulture's wings and his presence is suddenly /huge and pure threat. "It worked?"
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=== In Trouble ===
Lachlan and Andrea slink into the conference room and bow deeply to Marshal Nguyen—
He inclines his head.
—and Commander Orenstein.
He returns the gesture.
"Sit, please, Ranger, Officer," says Nguyen.
They do, guards raised.
Nguyen and Orenstein take seats across from them.
Orenstein says, "We know you two've found out Egan's little 'secret'."
"It was—"
Nguyen holds up a hand. "We already trust you not to spread it around."
Lachlan exhales tension; Andrea, not so much.
"So ... we know you know about Egan, and that's just fine, but you /really need to stop summoning him away from his desk." Orenstein cracks a crooked smile. "Hard as it is to believe, Jason's actually really good at his job and it's kind of important he's in LOCCENT for his entire shift."
Andrea and Lachlan nod.
"Very good," says the Marshal. "I'll expect you to limit your practice of the dark arts to the times Officer St—" Turns very bright red—
Lachlan snickers; Andrea looks away.
—clears his throat. "To when Officer Egan is not on duty from now on."
"Yes, sir," they say together.
"Now that you're on board, you can go. Dismissed, Ranger, Officer."
Andrea and Lachlan stand, bow, and flee.
Around the first corner, Andrea punches Lachlan's arm.
"Ow! Ray, that /hurt!" he whines, rubbing the spot.
"I /told you we should only do that in an emergency!" hisses Andrea.
"But that /was an emergency!"
"No it was—"
Lachlan smirks, "You certainly seemed to enjoy it at the time."
Andrea blushes to the tips of her ears.
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=== Decor ===
Lachlan drags himself back into the suite, muscles and head grumbling from the double-shift he'd pulled at the gym, promptly stubs his toe on a still-smoldering iron brazier—"Minion/fucking—!"—and crashes down on top of Jason.
"Hi, honey," wheezes Jason, "you're home~!"
Lachlan rolls off him, just /knows he's getting covered in chalk dust, pushes up on his elbows. 
"Nice to see you, too," Jason grumbles, sitting up, his sulphur-scented wings /shushing.
Lachlan shoves his head, says to Andrea, "Ray-ray, I know it's cool to cut a few minutes off his commute, but this stuff is kinda messing with the decor." Looks at his rapidly blackening toenail. "And my health."
"Sorry," replies Andrea.
Jason oozes against his side. "I /may have just the spell for—"
"No. Magic."
"You're no fun." Jason crosses his arms and pouts.
==OT3 Goodness==
* Person A always sleeps in the middle because they are the smallest but that also means that sometimes they end up like a whole half of the way down the bed by morning and more than once now we’ve both been terrified we accidentally suffocated them in the night
** The one time Amdrea wiggled out of bed (and her sweater) and Jachlan freaked out because a) she's a Jedi and b) she's dead
*** And they freaked out so badly they woke up Jackson and Logan and the Rangers were very Not. Amused.
* I SWEAR I HAVEN’T WORN A PAIR OF MY OWN UNDERWEAR IN OVER A YEAR THERE IS JUST SO MUCH FUCKING UNDERWEAR IN THIS HOUSEHOLD GODDAMN
** "Aye, Aye, AGNIS"
*You two are such trouble-makers and I am literally cleaning up after you 24/7 please be adults for like one second trying to study for my exam--LEAVE ME ALONE--and no both of you simultaneously smothering me in neck kisses isn’t going to make me less mad…but carry on anyways
==Mockery==
===Vandal Savage!AU===
Was thinking ... in an ANSK-esque universe where the Joneses don't make it through the Academy like "Broke", someone else has to take /Vulcan's Conn-pod. Which likely means Riley and Egan. Which raises some fun questions. 
What happens to Andrea in such a world? Is she still a Spare? Is she /Vulcan's Spare? What happens if she and Jason Drift?
If Lachlan hurts himself, Andrea's friends talk her into Drift testing because she and Jason are so obviously attracted to each other. So she does, and lo! Super Compatible with just about everyone!
If Andrea and Jason Drift, they get married and have to go on three kinds of birth control because they're so crazy for each the brass is legit worried a pregnancy will happen. Not even 'could'--Jandrea can't keep their hands off each other. 
Also, given that Jason and Lachlan are pretty much glued at the hip and Jason and Andrea live so much in each other's pockets (vice versa?) no one would be terribly surprised if Andrea got pregnant and the baby looked like Lachlan.
===ANSK===
Jason and Andrea and Lachlan all exist, all are in Sydney. Jason and Lachlan aren't Rangers, sure, but they're still great friends and, lord knows, she needs /someone to turn to for comfort after dealing with Jackson and Logan at their worst.
Also, it just dawned on me that, in Andrea, one of our mousiest, least stereotypically attractive female characters repeatedly ends up with not one, but /two hot (or at least cute) guys in multiple scenarios.
Lachlan is taking his loss of Rangership rather hard. Would he have anything to do with a Ranger, even if she was but a Spare? 
Lachlan has no problems with the Spares, especially not Andrea, who he knows was sort of conscripted into it. He saves most of his upset for the high command that cut the funding for 'his' Jaeger, Pietr (until he's removed), and Chuckles, who get 'his' last chance for a Jaeger at all.
Since Lachlan and Jason Drifted but aren't (tho maybe they've signed up to be warm bodies in simulator tests?), would they still be interested in sleeping with each other, or would this be Andrea/Lachland and Andrea/Jason instead of Lachlan/Andrea/Jason? 
I think Lachlan, like Jason, is up (or down) for anything when it comes to new experiences. If Jason and Andrea invite him, he'll /definitely give a threesome with them a try and enjoy the hell out of it. A little bird also whispers to me that sex between Lachlan and Jason has been an now-and-again thing since the Academy, even without continued Drifting.
===Timeline===
And, wow, the timing could work out quite well, in fact, the timing works out... damn near perfectly, if not perfect. 
2023 ~August: Nguyen resigns; the Jones brothers are especially surly about losing an ally and brass's suggestion Jackson retire -- Logan quickly goes out and does something very, very stupid (lets Raleigh kick his ass to get out of neural test with Mako) -- Which means more Drifting with a a stressed, depressed, and increasingly traumatized Jackson without a Chantell to talk to, so Andrea spends /even more time with Jason and Lachlan (who's long over any potential Ranger issues 4 years after the last Jaeger rolled off the assembly line) --
2023 ~late September/October: Logan's especially sour when they put him back into rotation 
We were also considering that since Josephs is of the 'Jackson should retire' camp, he altered the Connpod rotation such that Jackson ends up jockeying less and less and Andrea winds up Drifting with Logan more and more, eventually becoming so 'against' Logan's behaviour and paranoid of her own that she can't take it anymore. 
Right, so as soon as Logan's back in shape to jockey, that shift to Logan-and-Andrea starts happening, speeding up her exit for the reasons you list. -- 
2024 ~October/November: Andrea's finally had it and cocoons up with her boys looking for comfort and distraction 
So you think she has her breakdown, 
So she has her breakdown, institutionalizes herself so she doesn't wind up 'pulling a Logan' (as she calls it), and then Juliet, Lachlan, Jason, and Jamie coax her out, she sulks for a little bit (Jamie has to get back to work) but it's hard to stay upset when her three best friends are being silly (Juliet is quite annoyed when she's put on call and has to leave) which leaves two cute guys doing their best to cheer her up so she spends a couple days lounging around with Lachlan and/or Jason (whomever happens to be around), and then a few weeks later discovers they've made a mockery of modern medicine
-- 
2024 November/December: they discover the joyous outcome -- 
What's her tipoff she might be in a family way?
She'll have no idea until the markers show up in a routine bloodtest. (People with uteruses are on progesterone blockers that prevent uterine linings from forming, and people with external reproductive organs are on a kind of birth control that I will find presently.)
Andrea'll suffer from morning sickness, and she'll want to be miserable with someone.
2024 July/August: Babies arrive just in time for the scene with Jackson, Logan, and Juliet to happen (as visualized) at the Shatterdome before Rachnid; Headcanon: Juliet won upwards of a few thousand dollars thanks to Andrea's overproductive ovaries. Besides dinner (and new workboots), she spends most of her winnings on pressies for the lot of them.
2024 late September: Rachnid finally forces the brothers out of Rangerdom which is shortly before the first part of the happy family flies out to the States to live with Andrea's parents in one of the so-called safe zones in 2025 where the elder Hills moved to probably in 2020.
Even if Andrea hadn't quit, there was no possibility of a job, and then Jason whenever the Shed's closed and dismantled for good.
Lachaln sorta holds his Fightmaster job from his qualification in 2019 until The Shed closes and uses his nationally mandated child-rearing leave (a minimum of 5 weeks of which are available to him) to fly to the States with Andrea. Once those five weeks are up, however, with budget cuts and the massive reduction in staff, Lachlan wouldn't really have much of a job--attacks come so quickly in 2024, too, that no one has time for training anymore, so he resigns/is let go. Andrea certainly wouldn't have a job and I can see having to stay in the 'Dome chafing at her nerves but here's not really anywhere else for them to go. 
Jason stays to fully decommission the Shed, which sadly means he's separated from the rest of the family for the second Battle of Sydney, but not those the Battles of Victoria Harbour and the Breach. He has the benefit of knowing they were as safe as possible and not on the front line, though, and if decommissioning Striker was so far underway tha pieces were falling off, it could be there was much left of the Shed to close up. Another possibility is after Mutavore, the rest of LOCCENT stage a 'mutiny' and send Jason to the States while they finish up.
Because of The Shed is down to a skeleton crew on the day of Mutavore's attack, Jason (as the highest-ranking LOCCENT officer present) winds up Acting Incident Commander for /Striker's defense of Sydney. He's only there to help pack up and disconnect LOCCENT for the shutdown, but, hey, he's game. XD 
===Living Situation===
I've been trying to work out Andrea's post-PPDC living situation and ANSK!Lachlan's been pretty uncomfortable moving in with Jason and Andrea and babies. He's very involved and often over, but he really seems to want to have his own space to which he can retreat sometimes, like next door or down the block. How's he been acting for you?
Her default post-PPDC living situation is voluntarily in a hospital, and it still seems to hold somewhat true even though it's from way back. What I found today is that Mrs Hill seems keen on flying them to the US, no ifs, ands, or buts, and takes a /very active role in raising the beans until Andrea asks for just a few minutes of space, please. Lachlan spends a couple nights with them and a couple nights in his own room across the hall.
==Sunny Skies==
Juliet tracks the brothers Jones down in the canteen, plunks into the seat across from Jackson.
He mumbles a greeting. Or something like one.
Logan keeps squinting at his mobile.
"I bring you pictures of Andrea's twins," announces Juliet, sliding /her mobile into Jackson's field of view.
He grunts, tries—fails—not to glance at it.
Juliet inclines her head, waits.
Jackson heaves an exaggerated sigh, takes the mobile, swipes.
Juliet chin-hands.
Jackson keeps swiping, expression softening with each new image.
Juliet snickers.
Logan frowns.
"Don't they look like their dads?"
Logan blinks, leans over—
Jackson offers a better view.
—blinks rapidly. Shudders.
Juliet snorts.
Logan scowls.
"You know, Jackson, if you and Chuck—"
"Don't—" warns Jackson.
"—were to ever have kids, betcha they'd look like Sunny."
"Which one's that?" grumbles Jackson.
'Really?'
Jackson huffs, passes back the mobile.
==Mutiny==
The day /Striker leaves for Hong Kong
Jason whistles as he strolls down the corridor to LOCCENT--
Darkness.
His upper half's wrapped with fabric. A coat, maybe.
And now his feet are off the ground.
Snickering as his bearers bear him back the way he came.
"Uh, folks?"
""Yea, Egan.""
"What's going on?"
""You did such a great job incident commanding Mutavore that we've elected to escort your quick-thinking ass off the premises.""
"Awesome. Shouldn't Security be kicking me out?"
""Nah, we're throwing you to the airport. Archdall's--""
""Hey, Jason.""
"Hey."
""--packed your bag.""
"Thanks?"
""You're welcome!""
An elevator jerks to life beneath them, descends.
"Why'm I going to the airport?"
""Because you've got to catch a flight to the States to be with your [girlfriend, your boyfriend, and your twins."" Pause. ""Been wanting to say that.""
"But I--"
""Nope. It's a non-refundable, one-way ticket, so you're going.""
"Oookay."
""Don't worry. We can /totally take this place apart without you.""
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