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Christmas Day in the Hospital

Summary:

Jackie may talk a big game when it comes to flirting with people, but Crutchie still didn't believe he really got some girl's number the night before.

Notes:

An unnecessary follow up to these chapters from, geez three years ago? that can't be right....

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Unknown Number

(11:25 am) is this katherine?

Katherine: (11:29 am) . . .

Katherine: (11:29 am) Yes? Jack?

(11:30 am) nah his friend

Katherine: (11:31 am) How did you get my number?

(11:32 am) off his cast

(11:32 am) i was curious

(11:33 am) like. if u were real or not.

Katherine: (11:36 am) Okay, I’m still confused.

Katherine: (11:37 am) Who are you?

(11:38 am) crutchie, jack’s friend

Katherine: (11:39 am) Ohhhh, are you the one in the hospital?

Katherine: (11:39 am) I thought it was Charlie? 

(11:39 am) if u like

(11:39 am) almost everyone calls me crutchie tho

Crutchie + Katherine

Katherine: (11:41 am) Do you feel any better? Jack said you had pneumonia.

Katherine: (11: 42 am) You know there’s a vaccine for that. Should probably check that out.

Crutchie: (11:44 am) better, off iv yesterday, real food 2day :D

Crutchie: (11:45 am) woulda been good 2 kno b4 i ended up in the hospital

Katherine: (11:46 am) But exchanging no food for hospital food? I’d almost rather have no food.

Katherine: (11:46 am) Yeah. Sorry. Now you know?

Crutchie: (11:47 am) jackie brought jacobi’s hospital food is shit

Katherine: (11:48 am) Jacobi’s? Any good?

Crutchie: (11:48 am) little deli in queens. best matzo ball soup&b&w cookies

Crutchie: (11:49 am) a friend introduced us to it

Katherine: (11:50 am) Sounds like a good place, I’ll have to check it out.

Crutchie: (11:50 am) yeah u should

Crutchie: (11:51 am) ok enough small tlk

Crutchie: (11:51) u real or not?

Katherine: (11:51 am) What, do you want proof?

Crutchie: (11:51 am) yea bc either u or jackies lyin nd i need to know who is

*Katherine has sent a photo*

Katherine: (11:52 am) Does this suffice?

Crutchie: (11:53 am) dont give me that look u know i had to check

Crutchie: (11:53 am) also wht happened to ur head

Katherine: (11:54 am) Slipped on some ice, sprained my wrist and cut my head.

Crutchie: (11:54 am) ouch

Crutchie: (11:55 am) y does jack have ur number?

Katherine: (11:55 am) You're very confusing. 

Katherine: (11:55 am) Because I gave it to him?

Crutchie: (11:55 am) yeah but y?

 

Katherine: (11:56 am) Because I liked talking to him.

Katherine: (11:56 am) He was funny.

Katherine: (11:56 am) Kinda cute, too.

Katherine: (11:56 am) That enough?

Crutchie: (11:57 am) eh guess hes alright

Crutchie: (11:57 am) and i love him n everything but really?

Crutchie (11:57 am) cant u do better than jackie?

Katherine: (11:58 am) Why, is he actually awful?

Katherine: (11:58 am) Painkillers make him seem like a nice guy?

Crutchie: (11:59 am) oh no jacks great

Crutchie: (12:00 pm) besides the stubbornness

Crutchie: (12:00 pm) holing up n the studio all night

Crutchie: (12:01 pm) drinkin black coffee who does that?

Crutchie: (12:01 pm) coffee should be good not rot ur gut

Katherine: (12:02 pm) I do, actually

Katherine: (12:02 pm) The stronger, the better.

Katherine: (12:03 pm) And I’ve been called stubborn before.

Katherine: (12:03 pm) Too stubborn for my own good, according to some

Crutchie? (12:05 pm) oh my god u 2 are perfect 4 each other

Katherine: (12:06 pm) Well, I’ve barely known him twelve hours so that might be premature…

Crutchie?: (12:06 pm) nope callin it now

Crutchie: (12:07 pm) let it be noted on December 25 at noon, charlie morris was the first to say jack&katherine r pefjasdkfhdsjfuihsdjkfhirsufrjkfhsdkjf

Katherine: (12:08 pm) . . .

Katherine: (12:08 pm) Crutchie? Everything okay?

Crutchie: (12:18 pm) jack took my phone

Crutchie: (12:19 pm) still stand by everything I said

Crutchie: (12:19 pm) I hope everything works out 4 u crazy kids

Katherine: (12:20 pm) Thanks, I think?

 

Unknown Number

(12:23 pm) im sorry i fell asleep for an hour and crutchie thought that meant he should text u I didnt put him up to it

Katherine: (12:24 pm) Okay, is it Jack this time?

 (12:25 pm) yeah srry he likes bein a shit and was tryin to be funny

 

Jack + Katherine

Katherine: (12:27 pm) No, he’s great!

Katherine: (12:28 pm) I think I gave the wrong guy in the hospital my number ;)

 

Crutchie + Katherine 

Crutchie: (12:29 pm) b honest, how did jack really break his arm?

Katherine: (12:30 pm) He told me he fell out of tree.

Katherine: (12:30 pm) That’s in no way cool, so I assume he was telling the truth.

Crutchie: (12:31 pm) I KNEW IT

 

Jack + Katherine

Jack: (12:32 pm) im gonna regret this arent i?

Notes:

I'm not saying it gets around that Jack scored some girl's number for real and Katherine suddenly gets flooded with unknown numbers from his friends.................. but I'm also not not saying that XD Jack, of course, does not regret this, because, if you've been around the last couple years, this was the start of the Kelly Kids 'verse!

Some comments I'll never forget and one of them is Claire's on the first Christmas Eve in the Hospital chapter when she was like "Crutchie needs to get the pneumonia vaccine" and I straight up had to look up the pneumonia vaccine because I'd literally never heard of it before lajdfkdfksdfskd

xx

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