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alexseanchai) wrote2010-05-17 11:30 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2010-05-17 11:30 pm
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And the Epic Supernatural Bechdel Fixit Project begins!
Title: Take Me For What I Am: Crash
Rating: PG
Summary: Jess is good at homework help. Missing scene from 1x01 "Pilot".
Pairings: Implied Jess/Sam.
Warnings: None.
Word Count: 450
Amy's phone rang. She glanced over: Jess N Sam. She flipped the phone open and hit speaker. "Hi, you have reached Amy Yamamoto, the game theory homework is killing me, so unless you can help, leave a message at the beep!"
The sound of Jess's laughter. "Never change, sweetheart."
Amy frowned at her textbook and shoved it aside. "So what's up?"
"I'm lonely. Talk to me."
"It's after midnight. Since when are you ever alone after midnight?"
Jess sighed. "Since last night, apparently. So. Game theory. What's the problem here?"
"We've got these two guys. Or girls. Gender-neutral names."
"I want cookies," Jess said.
"Wow, random," Amy said, then continued, "Pat wants to go to a movie and Alex wants to go to a concert and wherever they go they both want to go together. But they forgot to coordinate."
"And they don't have cell phones?" Jess asked. The sound of the refrigerator opening and closing.
"They don't have cell phones," Amy confirmed. "Or friends with phones, or email, or anything. Real-world examples my ass."
Jess laughed.
"And Pat going to the movie and Alex going to the concert is the wrong answer, according to the helpful answer key on Facebook, and I cannot figure out why."
"There's more to the question, though," Jess prompted.
"Best outcome for Pat is they're both at the movie." Over the phone, the sound of the microwave humming. "Second best is just Pat at the movie, third best is they're both at the concert. Best outcome for Alex is they're both at the concert, second best is they're both at the movie, third best is just Alex at the concert."
"So for Pat, movie beating concert is more important than together beating alone," Jess interpreted. "And for Alex, together beating alone is more important than concert beating movie."
Amy blinked. "Yeah, I guess." Then a thought: "You took this course already, didn't you."
"Nope. Never. Where'd I put the chocolate chips?"
"Please tell me you weren't using them for kinky sex games."
Jess made a gagging sound. "Food and sex do not belong in the same sentence."
"So Pat goes to the movie because she'd rather the movie alone than the concert with Alex, and Alex goes to the movie because she'd rather the movie with Pat than the concert alone?" Amy thought out loud.
"Sounds good to—" The sound of glass breaking. "Fuck!"
"What'd you break?" Amy asked.
"The olive oil. So now there are glass bits everywhere that I can't even sweep up because the floor's greasy. And I'm barefoot. Call you back, okay?"
"Sure," Amy said. "Thanks. Don't hurt yourself, okay?"
"I'll try." Jess hung up.
"We were on the phone, I guess it was right before the fire started," Amy told Sam at the funeral. "She was baking cookies. I guess the oven caught fire?"
Sam wouldn't look at her. "I guess."
Title: Take Me For What I Am: Crash
Rating: PG
Summary: Jess is good at homework help. Missing scene from 1x01 "Pilot".
Pairings: Implied Jess/Sam.
Warnings: None.
Word Count: 450
Amy's phone rang. She glanced over: Jess N Sam. She flipped the phone open and hit speaker. "Hi, you have reached Amy Yamamoto, the game theory homework is killing me, so unless you can help, leave a message at the beep!"
The sound of Jess's laughter. "Never change, sweetheart."
Amy frowned at her textbook and shoved it aside. "So what's up?"
"I'm lonely. Talk to me."
"It's after midnight. Since when are you ever alone after midnight?"
Jess sighed. "Since last night, apparently. So. Game theory. What's the problem here?"
"We've got these two guys. Or girls. Gender-neutral names."
"I want cookies," Jess said.
"Wow, random," Amy said, then continued, "Pat wants to go to a movie and Alex wants to go to a concert and wherever they go they both want to go together. But they forgot to coordinate."
"And they don't have cell phones?" Jess asked. The sound of the refrigerator opening and closing.
"They don't have cell phones," Amy confirmed. "Or friends with phones, or email, or anything. Real-world examples my ass."
Jess laughed.
"And Pat going to the movie and Alex going to the concert is the wrong answer, according to the helpful answer key on Facebook, and I cannot figure out why."
"There's more to the question, though," Jess prompted.
"Best outcome for Pat is they're both at the movie." Over the phone, the sound of the microwave humming. "Second best is just Pat at the movie, third best is they're both at the concert. Best outcome for Alex is they're both at the concert, second best is they're both at the movie, third best is just Alex at the concert."
"So for Pat, movie beating concert is more important than together beating alone," Jess interpreted. "And for Alex, together beating alone is more important than concert beating movie."
Amy blinked. "Yeah, I guess." Then a thought: "You took this course already, didn't you."
"Nope. Never. Where'd I put the chocolate chips?"
"Please tell me you weren't using them for kinky sex games."
Jess made a gagging sound. "Food and sex do not belong in the same sentence."
"So Pat goes to the movie because she'd rather the movie alone than the concert with Alex, and Alex goes to the movie because she'd rather the movie with Pat than the concert alone?" Amy thought out loud.
"Sounds good to—" The sound of glass breaking. "Fuck!"
"What'd you break?" Amy asked.
"The olive oil. So now there are glass bits everywhere that I can't even sweep up because the floor's greasy. And I'm barefoot. Call you back, okay?"
"Sure," Amy said. "Thanks. Don't hurt yourself, okay?"
"I'll try." Jess hung up.
"We were on the phone, I guess it was right before the fire started," Amy told Sam at the funeral. "She was baking cookies. I guess the oven caught fire?"
Sam wouldn't look at her. "I guess."
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I had extrapolated, from Sam saying in 1x19 that art history is a good place to meet girls, that that's where Sam met Jess, but we find out in 5x20 that another friend of Sam's introduced them. Which is just about the only hard fact about Jess that we don't learn in those three scenes in the pilot, the others being her full name's Jessica Lee Moore and her birthday's five years to the day after Dean's, which we see on her gravestone in 1x02, and that Sam meant to marry her, which we hear in 1x22.
She's a blank slate and her sole purpose was to be a driving factor of one of the character plots in the pilot and, by dying, to kickstart the mytharc. It's frustrating.