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Prompt, Duke Universe. Trixie and Spud find out Jake is sleeping with a married Rose

Yeah, Trixie and Spud haven't been a huge part of this, have they? Well, time to change that!

I have some prompts in my inbox for longer pieces and I will get to those, they're just not as easy for me to get done during work as the smaller ones are! Keep them coming

Warnings for this one: infidelity mentions, alcohol mentions, written on my phone

Jake could tell something was up from the way that Spud and Trixie kept glancing at each other before starting at him and then returning to their breakfast. He cut bits from his waffle and ate slowly, wondering which one of them was going to crack first.

"So," Jake said, and that was when Trixie exploded.

"Are you back with Danika?" she demanded.

"Wait, what?"

"You've been, like, acting like 'Relationship Jake'," Spud said. He shook his head. "Please tell us it's not Danika."

"There's nothing wrong with Danika -"

"We like Danika, Jakey," Trixie said. "We just don't like you and Danika together. We talk about this every time you two try and make it work and realize you still want completely different things."

"And then you fight and then it spirals and then we have to pretend like we're not friends with both of you for a while. It's exhausting. Let's all learn our lessons, okay?"

Jake glared at Spud, who had never learnt a lesson in his life.

"I'm not seeing Danika."

"So it is someone new!" Trixie squealed. "Who is she? What's she like?"

"And when can we meet her?"

Jake hesitated. He trusted these two people with his life but he also knew them better than anyone. He knew how they were going to react and how they were going to judge him. And, yes, he knew he deserved to be judged, but he also knew the fact that he was doing something wrong wasn't going to stop him. It was her husband and it wasn't stopping Rose.

"What?" Spud asked. "What's wrong?"

"It's Rose."

Trixie's fork clattered against her plate. Jake had never seen her look so surprised and Jake had known her for a very long time.

"Did she leave her husband?" Trixie asked.

"Not … Yet."

"Jake!" Trixie and Spud exclaimed at once.

They had been the one to pull him away from watching Rose marry Duke Eloi. They had taken him to a bar and let him get drunker than he probably should have. They had been there the next morning and yelled at him despite his raging hangover, telling him that it was finally time to give up the ghost.

"Dude, you're a homewrecker," Spud said.

"I didn't make any decisions for Rose," Jake said. "She picked me."

"Nu-uh, she didn't," Trixie said. "Not if she's still married. Stay away. If it means anything, she'll get divorced and come find you."

"Yeah, like, if it's meant to be, let it go and be free, and it'll come back to you."

"I did," Jake said. "This is her coming back to me. It's not right but it is fate."

Jake could tell that Trixie and Spud wanted to say more but he wasn't going to listen to it. He had made his choice already and he was choosing Rose.

He was always going to choose Rose.