HarrietFK

HarrietFK is the het ship between Harriet Tubman and JFK from the Clone High fandom.

Season 2
SOME TALKING BUT MOSTLY SONGS

Harriet's favorite show, Tropical Hospital, sends out a talent scout to Exclamation to look for promising young people that want to break into the entertainment industry. Harriet wants to be noticed, so she comes up with the idea of Twister: The Musical, a musical that she will completely orchestrate in time for the talent scout to see. She asks the main group of clones to be involved, specifically Joan and JFK, who she wants to play the romantically-involved leads, Right Hand on Red and Left Hand on Blue. JFK is excited to be in the musical, and Joan goes along with the idea only because her boyfriend and best friend are so invested. However, the musical quickly approaches issues when Joan, a fellow creative as a filmmaker and the lead actress, begins trying to introduce her own ideas for the play, like kissing JFK with their eyes open and wardrobe changes to reflect her character's inner struggles. Harriet tries to go along with the changes at first because she feels bad about the idea of shutting Joan down, but Joan soon tries to overtake the entire production with her ideas. This causes Harriet to snap, and she yells at Joan about wanting to keep her ideas the way they are. The two then fight over JFK, since Harriet wants to keep him because he's the only good actor in the play, while Joan wants to take him because she's quitting and wants to take him with her as his girlfriend. Their fight grows out of control, to the point where Scudworth comes in to tell them that the play is canceled and is not allowed on the school premises, since he's tired of the fighting.

Joan, after talking with JFK at the Grassy Knoll, comes up with the idea of bringing back the musical by performing it on the roof of the Grassy Knoll, and luring Harriet back with the idea that she will be part of the "Teen Models Giving Monologues Contest." When Harriet arrives for the contest, Joan reveals that there is no contest, and that she brought Harriet there on the night of the musical to offer a public apology for the way she had been acting. She relinquishes her role as the lead to offer Harriet to take it instead. Harriet and JFK are both concerned, since that means that they will have to do the big kiss for the musical that was made for Joan and JFK. Joan assures them that it'll be fine, because it isn't cheating if it's acting. She also adds that she wouldn't want anyone else to kiss her boyfriend besides her best friend. Harriet agrees and thanks Joan. The musical starts, and goes well as Harriet and JFK's duet part comes up. Harriet reveals that she did change the musical slightly to honor some of Joan's earlier ideas that she offered that made them argue in the first place. Joan watches from the side of the makeshift stage as the kiss comes up. She gives Harriet the thumbs up before JFK and Harriet kiss. As their lips meet, it seems that the two fall in love. They kiss with their eyes open, something Harriet was starkly against when Joan and JFK did it in rehearsal, and a detail that Joan notes curiously to herself once the number is over. The rest of the musical goes well, but afterward the talent scout reveals that he already picked someone and he leaves. As he leaves in a helicopter, he knocks over a light that causes the Grassy Knoll to start to burn down. The group, however, don't notice and come together to celebrate the success of the musical. As they are celebrating, Harriet's and JFK's hearts speak to each other, talking about the idea that the two could be in love, and what that could mean for their relationships with Joan, who has no idea.

SAVED BY THE KNOLL

The previous episode ended with the Grassy Knoll burning down after an accident after the musical. This incident triggers a mostly-dormant secret condition that Joan had been hiding from everyone called Psylly Legs. The condition is characterized by loss of motor function in the legs due to an overwhelming urge of nostalgia. The flare-up lands Joan in the hospital, and Abe is there to help her. She explains to Abe that she's known about her condition for years, but tried to keep it hidden from her friends out of fear of being ostracized. The doctor tells them that there is a temporary fix to Joan's condition, which would be to rebuild the Grassy Knoll to keep her nostalgia levels at bay. Abe agrees to help do that, offering to tell the rest of their friends about Joan's condition so that they can help him with the construction. Joan, however, begs him not to tell anyone else, as she's still worried about being othered by their friends. He agrees to keep the secret between them, but asks that they not keep secrets from each other anymore. Joan agrees and they commit to the promise with a blood pact.

Meanwhile, JFK and Harriet are on edge around each other about their kiss at the musical. They agree to meet in an empty classroom to just kiss to see if their supposed chemistry is just a one-off thing, or if they're really interested in each other. Once in the classroom, they do kiss, to test if they're still compatible. As they do this, Abe walks in to tell them about the plan to rebuild the Grassy Knoll without revealing Joan's condition. He freaks out, remembering his blood pact with Joan to not keep secrets from each other, while also not wanting to make her Psylly Legs worse with the news that her boyfriend could be cheating on her with her best friend. He runs out in horror and Harriet and JFK stop kissing right as he leaves. They realize that they didn't have the spark they thought they did after the musical kiss, then are mutually disgusted at their actions. They discuss the idea of telling Joan about what happened between them, and decide against telling her because they don't think they've done anything wrong by just exploring a potential connection behind her back that didn't end up working out.

At the remains of the Grassy Knoll, the group work on rebuilding it out of trash. Joan is happy that she'll stop having a Psylly Legs attack, as JFK and Harriet come up to her acting strangely about their connections to her. Joan goes up to Abe privately and comments on them acting weird, thinking that their behavior is the result of them knowing about her condition. Abe hasn't told Joan about the kiss he saw and tries to play it off like he doesn't know why they're acting strangely, making him look strange. Joan's Psylly Legs starts acting up when she sees that Abe is acting like the others are. He keeps trying to get himself out of the situation, only alerting Joan more to his weird behavior. This causes her to have another massive attack, and she ends up in the hospital again, this time with everyone around her.

The rebuilt Grassy Knoll ends up being bulldozed, but Joan doesn't seem to have nostalgia for the restaurant anymore, as her Psylly Legs aren't acting up. Harriet and JFK decide to come clean about their kiss now that she seems cured. They come up to her together and Harriet blurts out that the two kissed. JFK and Harriet desperately try to explain the situation as Joan's legs start twitching. When they're done, she goes rapidly through the stages of grief, and Harriet tells JFK to just let her go through it and then try to work things out after. She finally finishes grieving, and thanks the two of them for being honest with her. Abe then chimes in, saying that he's glad that they told her because it had been unbearable keeping that secret from her. Joan then gets upset, realizing that Abe broke their blood pact by keeping the kiss a secret from her. Her Psylly Legs start up again as they argue. Joan accuses him of changing, stating that the old Abe wouldn't have betrayed her trust. She then decides that it's best for her to give up her friendship with Abe, which causes her Psylly Legs to stop.

Fanon
The ship is technically canon in the work, as the pair kiss and appear to have feelings for each other, but the fanbase mostly hated this pairing. This was simply because JoanFK was so popular, and the new romance seemed to be too sudden and unnatural, considering the arcs the characters were previously following. Harriet and JFK had hardly, if ever, directly interacted prior to "Some Talking But Mostly Songs," only connected to each other by the mutual tie of Joan as Harriet's best friend and JFK's girlfriend. Many fans viewed this inclusion as entirely unnecessary, as the fleeting romance is never mentioned again outside of the inciting episodes "Some Talking But Mostly Songs" and "Saved By The Knoll." While this small plotline seems to be somewhat realistic to a piece of drama from real high schoolers, the execution in the writing and the reception from the fans was negative and lackluster overall. HarrietFK is perhaps the only Clone High ship that is entirely ignored and shunned by the fanbase. Because of this, there are seemingly no fan fictions or fan art of the pairing online.

Fandom
WIKIS


 * Clone High Wiki page about the episode

REDDIT


 * Reddit thread discussing the episode