MOON KNIGHT IMAGINES & ONESHOTS

1. MORE HEARTS THAN MINE (STEVEN + MARC + JAKE)

originally published may 18, 2022

pairing: steven grant x fem!reader; marc spector x fem!reader (eventual); jake lockley x fem!reader

summary: marc and jake have made it clear that they don't like you. but your heart is not the only one being broken by their actions and the consequences that follow.

word count: 6,945

warnings?: angst city™, probably ooc but i don't really care, break up, eventual make up, anxiety attack, pet names (love [steven]/baby [marc]/princess [jake, sometimes derogatory but eventually affectionate]), not proofread

You were almost certain that Marc and Jake didn't like you. They had never said it, of course, which was surprising since neither man was never the kind of person that would keep their opinions to themselves. But you could tell. You may have been more of the "book smart" type and only slightly less awkward as Steven, but you weren't a complete idiot when it came to social cues. You could see the way Marc would tense when he would front while Steve was on a date with you, getting up and leaving you all alone without even so much as a "goodbye". You saw how, when Jake was fronting, he'd go out of his way to avoid contacting you in anyway and it'd be days, sometimes weeks, before Steven would front again and you'd be left alone to wonder if he was even still alive. Hell, once, before either you or Steven knew of Jake or Marc, Jake had gone so far as to set Steven up on a date with another woman when he fully knew that Steven was working up the courage to finally ask you to officially be his girlfriend after months of going on dates.

Life had been so much easier when all you had to wonder about was how your boyfriend would end up on the other side of the planet while he was sleeping. Oh, what you would give to go back to those times. You'd thought they were rough back then, but that was nothing compared to your life now.

That was not to say, of course, that you hated Marc or Jake. It had taken some getting used to, in the beginning. Not knowing which man you were going to get on a given day. Some days, you'd wake up with a sweet text from Steven, wishing you a good morning. Other days, radio silence. Some days, you got to swing by Steven's flat and have dinner with him. Other days, you'd come by with food and Marc would tell you he hated whatever you'd pick out. Some days, Steve would front the entire day and the two of you would have the time of your lives. Other days, you'd be having a sweet moment with Steven end abruptly when Marc or Jake would decide to front.

You tried your best to make things work. It never really did. Steven learned a lot about the other two in the months after learning of their existence. He told you things they liked, things they didn't, in hopes that maybe if you tried including them that they would warm up to you. It only ever got colder. You tried to not let it hurt too much. You didn't want Steven to feel like he was at fault because, even if you both knew he wasn't, he would still feel bad about it. So you just learned to grit your teeth and bear through it, knowing that eventually you would get time with Steven again.