Jaylor One Shots

We Paint the Town Blue

Joe and Taylor have spent their evening with the TV on, watching the election as results were slowly filtering in. Joe had been feeling some of the stress of this election, considering he's living in America at the moment, plus his girlfriend and her family do live here and are voting citizens. But his stress was nothing compared to what Taylor has been feeling recently. All he can do is hold her close and try to lower her stress levels, the last thing he wants is for her to work herself up too much. Joe knows she puts so much pressure on herself to do the right thing in this election and spread helpful information to the world. He knows how much she cares about her country and because of her position in the world, it makes it very easy for her to stress and put pressure on herself. 

After hours of cuddling on the couch, it's 2am and Taylor is lying against Joe, he presses a kiss into her hair and sits up carefully. 

"Love, I think we need to go to bed. We can get up and watch this again in the morning, it looks like it won't be called for a while. Taylor looks into her eyes and all he can see is stress and fear, she just looks so helpless and his heart breaks for her

"I can't" Joe stops moving and pulls her to him, he knows how important this is to her, he knows how much pressure she's put on herself to help this election so he presses a gentle kiss to her forehead before moving out from underneath her and heading upstairs to grab blankets and pillows before going back downstairs to Taylor. She looks up at him when he returns and smiles when she sees what he's holding. Joe positions the pillows before sitting back down behind her and draping the thick blankets over the both of them, getting them both comfortable. Taylor snuggles into Joe's chest. Joe holds her close, her eyes still trained on the screen. 

"Thank you" She whispers, burying her face into his neck for a moment. 

"It's going to be okay." Joe murmurs, rubbing her arm with his eyes shut. 

"Try get some sleep at some point." He says, kissing her gently. He sees her nod slightly before she looks back at the TV, assumedly stressing a huge amount still. Joe knows there's not much either of them can do for her until this election is over so her settles for holding her body close to his in a comforting manner as he drifts off to sleep. 

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When he wakes up, Taylor's sitting up, her eyes still trained on the screen 

"Morning babe." He says, sleepiness still evident in his voice. Taylor looks over at him and smiles slightly. He rubs her shoulder as he sits up

"How much sleep did you get?"  He asks Taylor, genuinely concerned for her wellbeing. He knows neither of them are doing much at the moment so she'll be able to catch up once this is all over, but still. 

 "Maybe two or three hours" She murmurs, Joe feels his eyes widen but just as he's about to say something, Taylor speaks first.

"Every time I fell asleep, I was jolted back awake out of fear. So I kind of gave up after a while." Taylor looks down at her hands in her lap. Joe's heart melts for the girl in front of him, the last thing he wants is for any of this to be affecting her but it is.  He pulls her onto his lap in an attempt to calm her down, gently rubbing her back. He presses a kiss into her hair, holding her close. 

"So...how are things looking then?" He murmurs. Taylor sighs and shrugs,

"Not sure yet...it looks like Trump is in the lead at the moment. But they haven't started counting the postal votes just yet so things will probably change a lot then. It might be a few days before anything gets called." Joe feels her weight sinking further into him, clearly she's exhausted.

"Why don't you take a nap love? I'll wake you up if anything drastic happens." He feels Taylor nuzzle her head into his chest.

"You sure?" She mumbles, clearly half asleep already.

"Of course, sleep. I'm right here." Joe lays back down, pulling Taylor with him. After a few minutes, she's drifted off in his arms. Probably comforted by the fact that he's up, keeping an eye on the TV. She's right, there's a whole lot of red on that map. But anything could change, he's really hoping it does.

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A few days later, Joe's in the kitchen, making lunch for the two of them. The TV has been on for the entirety of this election, but things were looking up. Suddenly, Joe hears Taylor yell so he drops everything and runs into the living room. Taylor turns to him with the biggest grin and he already knows it's good news.

"He won!" She jumps up and throws herself into his arms, flinging her arms around his neck. Joe holds onto her tight, rocking them back and forth. He loves it when she gets excited, it's one of the reasons she's such a good person to tell good news to. Get genuinely expresses her excitement with every part of her. 

"I'm so glad!" He says into her hair, pressing a kiss to her head before resting his head on hers. 

"God me too, now I can finally relax." She whispers and Joe tightens his arms around her, running his fingers gently through her hair. 

"How about lunch first love? Then we can go upstairs and take a nap in our bed for the first time in days?" Joe hears Taylor giggle, something that had been sorely lacking in the past few days.

"Sounds good to me babe" She says before leaning back and kissing him gently on the lips. 

"I love you, thanks for being so accommodating the last few days. I know I've been a little...stressed." She smiles sheepishly at him and Joe grins, pressing a kiss to her lips. 

"I love you too babe, don't worry about it. We've all been there, I'm glad Biden won and now we can get on with our lives." She smiles at him and he grabs her hand, leading her to the kitchen. Already he's noticed a difference in her, she's been so worked up the past few weeks leading up to this election. All he wants is for her to be happy, and now she will be much happier knowing Trump is out. He looks over to her happily eating her sandwich and smiles, god he loves this woman so much.