Jameson Hawthorne

> You can play by the rules--or you can make them. You know which I prefer, Heiress.
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> Jameson Hawthorne to Avery Grambs, The Inheritance Games

## General Information

### Also known as

Jamie, Ticking Time Bomb, Hawthorne, Remington Thorne (Fake ID)

### Age

18 (in *The Inheritance Games*)19 (in "The Brothers Hawthorne")

## Relationships

### Parents

Skye Hawthorne (mother)
Ian Johnstone-Jameson (father)

### Siblings

Nash Hawthorne (half-brother)
Grayson Hawthorne (half-brother)
Alexander Hawthorne (half-brother)

### Family

Tobias Hawthorne † (grandfather)
Alice O'Day Hawthorne (grandmother)
Pearl O'Day (great-grandmother)
Zara Hawthorne-Calligaris (maternal aunt)
Tobias Blake (adoptive uncle)
Constantine Calligaris (uncle; via Zara)
Evelyn Shane (maternal adoptive cousin)
Simon Jhonstone-Jameson, Visconde Branford (paternal uncle)

### Affiliation(s)

Hawthorne Family
Heights Country Day School (formerly)

## Series Information

### Appearances

*The Inheritance Games*
 *The Hawthorne Legacy*
 *The Final Gambit*
*The Brothers Hawthorne*

**Jameson Winchester Hawthorne** is the third-oldest grandson of billionaire Tobias Hawthorne. He is the son of Skye Hawthorne and his half-brothers are Nash Westbrook Hawthorne, Grayson Davenport Hawthorne, and Xander Blackwood Hawthorne.

## Biography

### Early Life

Jameson grew up with his family at Hawthorne House. His mother was frequently gone and wasn't very interested in being a parent. As a result, he and his brothers were mostly raised by their grandfather Tobias Hawthorne (who liked puzzles, riddles, and games) and their aunt Zara Hawthorne-Calligaris. He was always curious and wanting to explore. As a child, he would disappear inside the House which has many secret passageways, sometimes for hours and occasionally for a day. Jameson is a senior at Heights Country Day.

### *The Inheritance Games*

Before going to speak with Skye, Avery Grambs asks Jameson if she's "just a means to an end, and only worth keeping around until he knows how she fits into the puzzle."

As Avery and Jameson continue to work towards solving Tobias's puzzle, Avery begins to think Jameson just sees her as a piece in the game, not a player. She believes he is just using her as a means to the end. They discover that a clue is left in the library, where they discover a piece of red acetate filter paper. The filter is used on Tobias's Red Will, which reveals the brothers's middle names are the next clue. This leads them to the bridge over the West Brook, where they discover the next clue, the number eight.

Simultaneously, Avery also learns about the cause of the friction between Jameson and Grayson. They both dated Emily Laughlin, Rebecca Laughlin's now deceased sister. Jameson tells Avery that Grayson "happened" to Emily, and also that he watched Emily die.

After the assassination attempt on Avery in the Black Wood, Jameson and Avery kiss while in Wayback Cottage. Jameson unintentionally reveals that he does view Avery as a piece of the puzzle and is more concerned with solving the puzzle than with her wellbeing after being shot at. Avery becomes angry and shoves him away. According to Thea Calligaris the next morning, Jameson is clearly miserable, to which Avery thinks he should be.

At the charity gala, Jameson tells Avery he doesn't care that Thea dressed Avery like Emily in order to hurt him and Grayson because he doesn't care about Emily. He explains that he broke up with Emily the night she died because he had gotten tired of her games. He told her he was done, and a few hours later she died. He pleads with Avery to come with him back to the Black Wood so he doesn't have to solve his grandfather's puzzle alone.

After solving the clues, which results in the discovery that Avery's birthday, October 18, is the same day that Emily died, Jameson suddenly drops all interest in Avery. He thinks that she wasn't chosen to be his grandfather's heir because she is "truly special," but because of her birthday.

### *The Hawthorne Legacy*

Jameson accompanies Grayson to go meet his father before joining Avery at the ski home (True North) to figure out Skye’s clue. Him and Avery kiss in the hot tub.

### *The Final Gambit*

> Having graduated from Heights Country Day School, Jameson has been using the standard Hawthorne gap year to travel. He is currently at the Hawthorne family's vacation home in Tuscany. He'll be heading to Santorini next. He comes back to celebrate Avery’s birthday with her entailing helicopters and beaches. Their relationship appears more serious in this book as they sleep in the same bed.
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## Appearance

Jameson is described as ridiculously handsome. His dark brown hair is darker than Grayson's but lighter than Xander's. His eyes are a dark, fathomless green. He has a lean torso and defined abs. A long, thin scar runs from his collarbone to his hip. His back is heavily muscled. Jameson is taller than Grayson, but not as broad as him through the shoulders. He moves with an "unspeakable energy, and an uncanny grace."

## Personality

Jameson craves mysteries and puzzles. He is also racked with guilt and regret that he avoids working through. Jameson is rebellious, reckless, and has self-destructive tendencies. He can also be insensitive at times. He is very good at solving riddles. He tells Avery that his grandfather used to say that Jameson has laser focus and isn't built to care about more than one thing at a time. He pushes until he hits a wall. He then does something reckless and dangerous that gets him out of his head to break through. Although he is very flirty, playful, and clearly emotionally unavailable, he becomes more vulnerable as his relationship with Avery deepens. Jameson doesn't know when to give up and treats almost everything like a game. Avery confronts him about this when she asks him whether she is a real person to him or just a tool or another puzzle to figure out. He excels at pretense. Jameson is a sensation seeker. Skye describes Jameson as "brilliant like Tobias was and like Toby was." She also describes him as hungry, saying he's been looking for something since the day he was born. Skye further claims that this is why Jameson was Tobias's favorite, because he was just like Toby.

## Relationships

### Avery Grambs

Avery meets Jameson when she is brought to Hawthorne House for the reading of Tobias Hawthorne's will. Jameson is immediately fascinated with her, and Avery is immediately attracted to him even though she knows he is a bad idea. They start a strange kind of friendship. They work together to find clues to solve Tobias's puzzle he left his grandsons. He has the tendency to constantly give Avery nicknames. He first calls her Mystery Girl, then M.G., and finally Heiress. On one occasion he calls her Cinderella. Avery comes to believe that Jameson just sees her a piece in the game, something "laid out in the beginning to be useful by the end." After Avery realizes that Jameson was only interested in her because he believed she was chosen by his grandfather because she was "truly special," she puts distance between them. As time goes by, and especially after one of the attacks on Avery puts her in a coma, Jameson develops real feelings for Avery. Jameson and Avery consistently banter and flirt with each other. By the time Avery's required year living in Hawthorne House is over, Avery and Jameson are in a relationship. Jameson becomes increasingly protective of Avery, which she gets angry about. He even traps her in an escape room to protect her. But they are able to work through things and remain together happily.

### Emily Laughlin

Jameson and Emily used to date, but their relationship was complicated because the fact that Emily was also dating Grayson. Jameson tells Avery that there was nothing that he and Emily didn't do. They were the same, at least he thought they were. Avery gets the sense that Jameson wouldn't expect Emily to be a passive participant, and that he wouldn't treat her as just another part of a game. Jameson watched Emily die but did not do anything about it because he thought she was faking it and was trying to get him back. Jameson broke up with Emily the night she died because she was manipulative and didn't want to choose between Jameson and Grayson.

### Grayson Hawthorne

Jameson and Grayson have had a serious falling out. The tension between them is palpable and explosive. The reason for their fractured relationship is Emily Laughlin. The break down in their relationship is so severe, that their grandfather uses his will to enact a final puzzle and game designed to bring Grayson and Jameson back together. Grayson calls Jameson reckless, then Jameson risks himself further to prove the point. Xander describes Jameson and Grayson's relationship by recounting how during their grandfather's Saturday challenges, Jameson and Grayson used to team up to beat Nash, then double-cross each other at the end of the game.

## Quotes

> Jameson Winchester Hawthorne was a very bad idea.
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> Avery Grambs, *The Inheritance Games*

> Getting involved with Jameson would be throwing gasoline on the fire.
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> And what a lovely fire it would be.
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> Avery Grambs and Max Liu, *The Inheritance Games*

> Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius.
> She is one of us. We protect her.
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> **Jameson Hawthorne** and Grayson Hawthorne, *The Hawthorne Legacy*

> I moved on from Emily,” he said. “Gray didn’t. And I know in my soul that if he had, he could have loved you. He would have.”
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> Avery Grambs and **Jameson Hawthorne**, *The Final Gambit*

> Everything's a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.
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> Jameson Hawthorne to Avery Grambs, *The Inheritance Games*

> But this... us..." He swallowed. "It can't happen, Avery. I've seen the way Jameson looks at you.”
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> Grayson Hawthorne to Avery Grambs, *The Inheritance Games*

> You don’t have to kiss me. You don’t even have to like me, Heiress, but please don’t make me do this alone.
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> Jameson Hawthorne to Avery Grambs, *The Inheritance Games*

> Where are you going?
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> To hell, eventually. Probably to the wine cellar, for now.
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> Avery Grambs and Jameson Hawthorne, *The Inheritance Games*

> Tell me that this isn't a riddle." Jameson reached for the candelabra and as the fireplace passage opened once more, he offered a targeted, parting shot. "He left you the fortune Avery but all he left us was you."
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> **Jameson Hawthorne** to Avery Grambs, *The Inheritance Games*

> The answer to your first riddle,” I told him. “If yes is no and once is never,
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> then the number of sides a triangle has… is… two.” I drew out my reply, not
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> bothering to explain how I’d arrived at my answer”
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> Avery Grambs to Jameson Hawthorne, *The Inheritance Games*

> You’re not a mystery to me Avery, because deep down we’re the same.
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> Jameson Hawthorne to Avery Grambs, *The Hawthorne Legacy*

> "I'm always thinking Heiress."
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> Jameson's green eyes stayed fixed on the sky
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> "That's what you love about me"
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> **Jameson Hawthorne** to Avery Grambs, *The Inheritance Games*

> Picture yourself standing on a cliff overlooking the ocean. The wind is whipping your hair. The sun is setting. You long, body and soul, for one thing. One person. You hear footsteps behind you. You turn. Who’s there? Jameson Winchester Hawthorne.
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> Avery Grambs, *The Hawthorne Legacy*

> I half away convinced myself that as long as Avery was just a riddle or a puzzle, as long as I was just playing, I’d be fine. Well, joke’s on me, because somewhere along the way, I stopped playing.
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> Jameson Hawthorne to Grayson Hawthorne, *The Hawthorne Legacy*

> You're going to fall," I told him.
> He smirked. "An interesting proposition.”
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> Avery Grambs to Jameson Hawthorne, *The Inheritance Games*

> Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way... it means something.
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> **Jameson Hawthorne** to Avery Grambs, *The Hawthorne Legacy*

## References

1. ↑ *The Inheritance Games*: page 158
2. ↑ *The Inheritance Games*: page 197
3. ↑ *The Inheritance Games*: page 161
4. ↑ *The Inheritance Games*: page 195