JesseJane

JesseJane is the het ship between Jesse Pinkman and Jane Margolis from the Breaking Bad fandom.

Breaking Bad
BREAKAGE

Jesse looks for an apartment to live in after being kicked out of his house by his mother. He finds an ad in the newspaper for a small apartment being rented out by Jane on behalf of her father. She gives him a small tour of the apartment and its features before asking if he's interested in renting. He says that he is until she begins asking for the associated paperwork, including a recent W2 and information on the previous address and current employer. He explains that he can only pay in cash and pulls out a stack to pay her. She's disgusted and he tries to explain that he's just "in between situations," but she then says that she's not interested in renting to him. He begs her to reconsider and just help him out, and she sounds apologetic when she says that her father wouldn't allow for the transaction. She tells him to "run his game" elsewhere, but he tells her that he has no game and then tells her the story of him being kicked out because his parents view him as a disappointment, but he assures her that he's a good person and he won't ruin the opportunity if she gives it to him. She seems moved by the confession and tells him that the place is his, but his rent is increased by $100. He thanks her and she tells him that she also wants the money for two more months, non-refundable. She tells him that she lives next door and that he doesn't have squatter's rights if he does ruin the chance she's giving him. She says that she'll fill out the paperwork for him, she just needs his signature and name. He tells her that his name is Jesse Jackson.

NEGRO Y AZUL

Walter shows up to Jesse's new apartment to talk to him when Jesse hasn't been in contact with him. Walter's banging on the door and yelling makes Jane come out and ask what he needs. Walter tells Jane that he is Jesse's father and he needs to check on him and he wants her to open the door for him with her key. Jane tells him that she can offer her phone, but she won't let him in because she doesn't get involved in other people's family matters, and that if Jesse doesn't want Walter inside then she won't overrule that. Jesse finally opens the door for Walter and lets him in, thanking Jane. She asks if he's okay because he looks exhausted, and he weakly says that he is before closing the door.

A day or so later, Jesse leaves his apartment to see Jane outside, drawing on a sketchpad. She remarks that he finally "left his cave." He tells her that he's going to Costco to find a television and then asks what she's drawing. She shows him a design of a woman with angel wings and devil horns and he says that she's really good at it. He says that it would make a great tattoo design and she tells him that she works part-time at a local tattoo shop. Jesse compliments her again before telling her that he used to draw a little too. She asks what made him stop. He avoids the question and asks why she doesn't have any tattoos as a tattoo artist. She says that tattoos are too big of a commitment for her and Jesse laughs to himself. A man on a motorcycle drives by and recognizes Jesse, calling him "Pinkman." The man tells Jesse that everyone on the street is talking about him and he tries to laugh it off as Jane looks up at him. The man drives off and Jane says that she thought his name was Jackson. He doesn't answer and walks to his car.

Jesse is setting up his new flatscreen television when he sees the shadow of Jane coming back to her apartment through his front door. He listens through their shared wall to see where she's going in her apartment and ends up on their shared back porch area where Jane is sitting and smoking a cigarette. Jesse takes out his own cigarette and pretends to see her for the first time to say hi. He comes clean and tells her that his real name is Pinkman and that Walter wasn't his father. She hums in response and Jesse asks if Jane is going to kick him out. She says that it's not her business what he does, just that she doesn't want him doing it in the apartments. He then tells her about his flatscreen and asks if she wants to see it. She agrees and they sit on his lawn chairs inside waiting for the cable to connect. He's frustrated and says that he doesn't know why it's taking so long to connect. His hand has dropped off the side of the chair and Jane notices. She drops her own hand off her side, and reaches out to silently hold his hand.

BETTER CALL SAUL

Jesse and Jane are laying on Jesse's floor with blankets and pillows after sleeping together. Jesse remarks that he needs furniture and Jane says that he can start with a bed. He says that he wishes they could smoke inside and she reminds him that they can't. She tells him that she can smell the weed he does smoke inside and that she hopes it airs out enough, because her father will take Jesse's security deposit if he finds out. Jesse asks if Jane knows that he'll find out from experience, to which she says that her father caught her many times in the past. He suggests that since it seems he's already lost his deposit, the two should smoke weed together. Jane hesitates before refusing, getting out of the makeshift bed and getting dressed. Jesse asks if it's okay for him to smoke by himself, that it might change her mind. She tells him that he can do whatever he wants, and Jesse asks if he said something wrong to make her get up and get ready to leave. She said he didn't say anything and that she just needs to go. As she's about to leave the bedroom, she flicks Jesse her sobriety coin that she keeps in her jeans. It reads "18 months." Jesse is shocked that she's in recovery for addiction, but tells her that it's cool that she's doing that. He then changes to say that he doesn't even smoke weed much anymore, and that when he does he won't do it inside anymore. He offers to pick up dinner for them, but she says she still has to go. He asks if they're alright, and she tells him that his satellite is finally connected to the flatscreen, and that the specs of the screen look cool before leaving.

Jesse comes into his apartment the next day to see that a mattress was delivered and propped up inside against the wall. Jane knocks on the door and comes in to tell him that she told the delivery guys to bring it inside for him. The two look at the bed together before Jesse pushes it down and the two kiss and fall down onto it.

4 DAYS OUT

Jesse and Jane are in bed together again, this time a bed with yellow sheets and covers. Jane suggests that they go to a Georgia O'Keefe museum and Jesse reveals that he doesn't know who that is. She suggests going up to Santa Fe to visit and make it a full day trip for them and she gets up. He asks why they can't do something closer by like go to the movies or mini-golfing, and she says that he needs culture. She says that he'll probably like O'Keefe's works because her paintings of flowers look like vaginas. That intrigues him and she gets up to make herself cereal. In the kitchen, Jesse's phone rings and goes to voicemail, where Walter asks him to pick up the phone. Jesse runs into the room and grabs up the phone while Jane is still making herself cereal. Walter calls telling Jesse that they need to cook and Jesse argues that he already has plans to go to the O'Keefe museum. Walter manipulates Jesse into cancelling his plans with Jane to cook out in the desert for four days straight.

OVER

Jesse and Jane are smoking inside Jesse's apartment with a rotating fan, where Jesse is showing Jane his old drawings from high school. They are a series of superheroes with ridiculous abilities, like HoverMan, KangaMan, and Reverso. Jane remarks that they all look like Jesse and jokes about what a therapist would say if they saw the drawings. They hear a distant knocking and Jane asks if it's coming from her door or Jesse's. He says he doesn't know and Jane says that it sounds like hers. She sees through Jesse's door and runs to put her clothes on and enter her apartment through the shared patio. She says that she has to go but doesn't tell Jesse where when he asks. Jane's father is at the door to ask if she wanted to get lunch with him while he was in the neighborhood, and Jesse comes out to say hello. Jane seems uncomfortable when Jesse hangs around after introducing himself and invites her father inside, acting as if her and Jesse hardly know each other.

After her father leaves, Jane returns to Jesse's apartment as if everything is normal and asks if he wants to see a movie with her, but Jesse is upset that Jane didn't tell her father about them. She says that she was saving Jesse because her father is hard on her, and Jesse says that he didn't seem that way when they met. She tells him that she was protecting him, considering the fact that she let him smoke inside, and Jesse complains that she acted like she didn't know him at all. She doesn't understand the issue and says that she just sees Jesse as the guy she's sleeping with. She asks why this is such a big deal to Jesse and he explains that he thought they were something, but Jane doesn't seem to agree and is confused by the questions. Jesse leaves in frustration.

Jesse is smoking meth inside the apartment. As he sits, curled up in one of the chairs in his living room, a paper is slipped under his front door. Jesse picks it up and looks at it: a drawing of Jane as "Apology Girl." Jesse smiles at it.

MANDALA

Jesse begins spiraling after Combo is killed in a turf battle. Jane notices Jesse's lack of energy as they sit together in his apartment and watch TV and reaches out to hold his hand. He turns the TV off and asks her to leave, telling her that there's things about him that she doesn't know and she says that he's a drug dealer. She says that she figured it out based on his behavior and he tells her about Combo's murder, saying that he thinks it's his fault for putting him in that territory. He says that he's going to smoke meth and wants her to leave so that he doesn't affect her recovery. She proposes that he come with her sometime to a meeting and he says no. She asks if he wants to just leave the apartment for a bit, and he doesn't answer. She tells him that drugs won't help with what he's feeling but he disagrees, saying that he doesn't need her telling him that it won't. He asks her again to leave and walks out of the living room. She sits for a moment before going to the front door to leave. She hesitates with her hand on the doorknob, and then follows Jesse's path to his room to join him.

Jesse comes back to his apartment after meeting with Walter at Los Pollos Hermanos to see the results of the night before; a trashed room full of empty alcohol bottles and food. He goes to his room to wake up Jane and he asks her if she wants to go do something, like finally go to the Georgia O'Keefe museum in Santa Fe. She agrees but grabs Jesse's meth pipe to smoke a bit more before they go, and Jesse seems uncomfortable about Jane relapsing because of him.

Jesse smokes a cigarette in the apartment and listens to a voicemail from Skinny Pete telling him about Combo's funeral that Jesse missed. As the voicemail ends, Jane comes into the apartment and shows Jesse a brown paper bag from her coat and has him follow her to his room. The contents of the bag are all the necessary ingredients to make and shoot heroin, the substance that Jane was addicted to before her sobriety. Jesse watches the process until she is ready and gets ready to inject Jesse first. He asks what it's like and she tells him, telling him not to freak out too much. She injects him and then herself, and the two trip together.

PHOENIX

Jane wakes up from her trip with Jesse to several missed calls from her father about being late to one of her sobriety meetings. She tells a half-asleep Jesse that she has to go, but he pulls her closer and tries to get her to stay. She looks at the door bashed in by Walter the night before and tells Jesse casually that someone broke in before leaving the room. At the sobriety meeting, Jane is reminded that she relapsed days before and is using again. At lunch afterwards, her father asks if she's seeing anyone, specifically Jesse. Jane says that she wouldn't date him because he's their tenant, but her father doesn't seem sure she's telling the truth based on the way Jesse seemed to want Jane to introduce them when they met for the first time.

As they shoot up heroin again, Jesse complains to Jane about Walter not giving him his cut of the money after the first deal with Gus Fring, and Jane says she doesn't understand why he needs Walter in the first place. Jane asks how much Walter owes Jesse for the deal anyway, and he tells her the number as he begins to trip: $480,000. She's shocked by the number and tries to ask him more about it, but he's too gone. She tells him to sleep on his side in case he vomits. The next day, Jane's father is at another meeting, this time without Jane. She wakes up again to a call from him that he's already there and she says that she'll be there as soon as possible. She gets dressed and leaves Jesse's apartment when she sees her father waiting outside of the apartments. He angrily bursts into Jesse's apartment and finds the heroin and Jesse asleep in bed while Jane begs him to listen to her first. Her father grabs Jesse out of bed and throws him around, pushing him out into the living room. Jesse threatens Jane's father with a bat as her father tells him to get out. She tries yelling for them to calm down but her father lunges at Jesse. Jane's father finally backs off but tells her that he's taking her back to rehab that day, and Jane lies and tells him that her and Jesse were just talking about rehab together. Her father calls Jesse a scumbag but she defends him and says that they talk about rehab every night and that Jesse came up with the idea for rehab himself. Jane's father doesn't buy it and calls 911, in the process of reporting Jane and Jesse to the police before Jane manipulates him into stopping, convincing him that she'll go to rehab the next day and he leaves. Jesse asks Jane if she really meant what she said, and she says that she doesn't know. She then comes up with the idea of blackmailing Walter into giving Jesse his cut of the Fring deal.

Jane calls Walter while he's at home and tells him to give Jesse his money. Walter tells her that he's holding Jesse's money for his safety and that he will give Jesse the money when he deems it necessary and that he won't be giving him the money until both of them are sober. Jane threatens to tell the press about Walter's drug activity unless he gives them the money. Walter is convinced by the threat and Jane and Jesse speak about the call afterwards as they smoke on the patio. Jane says that she wouldn't actually go to the cops because she knows that Walter will give them the money. She assures Jesse that the money is rightfully his and that Walter won't keep it from him. She asks why Jesse is so uncertain about the blackmail and he tells her that Walter is his partner. She puts out her cigarette and tells Jesse that she's his partner, and walks back inside.

Walter does show up and give them the money, which Jane tries to take from him at the door. He doesn't let her and tells her that he wants Jesse to take it. Jesse reaches out to take it and makes a jab at Jesse's masculinity as he lets him take the bag. He asks how he knows that Jane will keep quiet, to which she says that he doesn't. Jesse assures that Walter won't hear from either of them again, and Walter tries to tell Jesse that he's making a mistake as Jane shuts the door on him. Jesse and Jane look at the money and excitedly talk about using the money to move to New Zealand together. They hug and Jane tells them that they do really need to get sober, but just for them and Jesse agrees. They both agree that they shouldn't use the money just to buy more heroin and that they should flush the rest of the heroin they have and start their sobriety that night. As they walk into the bedroom, they look at the heroin on the table and try to convince themselves that they won't use it.

Walter coincidentally meets Jane's father at a bar and they talk about the discovery of water on Mars. Without knowing it, they talk to each other about Jane and Jesse and the fact that both men are having trouble keeping them under control. Jane's father mentions that they can't give up on family, and the conversation causes Walter to drive over to the apartments again to try to talk to Jesse. No one answers the front door, so he goes to the back patio door and breaks in again, to see that Jesse and Jane have, indeed, shot up again and are asleep in Jesse's bed. Walter watches them sleep for a moment before trying to shake Jesse awake, moving Jane to lay on her back in the process. He's unable to wake Jesse up because of the heroin, and Walter sits at the edge of the bed. Suddenly, Jane begins to aspirate on her own vomit, and she is unable to breathe through it because she fell onto her back. Walter stands up in fear and watches, unsure of whether or not to intervene and help. He decides against it and watches as Jane slowly dies without oxygen. He cries at the sight and leaves the apartment quickly.

ABQ

Jesse wakes up to Jane dead beside him and tries to administer CPR, which is unsuccessful. As the realization that she is dead sets in, Jesse rocks himself and cries. He calls Walter for help and Walter pretends that he didn't know of Jane's death, telling Jesse that he knows what to do. Walter calls Saul, who sends Mike to clean up the crime scene. Jesse is still distraught, and Mike tells him, after he's cleaned the apartment of all drugs and money, to tell the police that he just found Jane dead and that's all he knows.

Jesse leaves the apartment and Walter finds him living in an abandoned building with other homeless drug addicts. Jesse holds onto Walter as he cries and tells him that he loved Jane more than anything, and that he thinks he killed her. Walter tells him that he didn't kill Jane.

El Camino
In a flashback scene to the missing scenes of Breaking Bad of Jesse and Walter on their way to their four-day cookout, Jesse is on the phone with Jane asking if she misses him, and they flirt on the phone. In the present, as Jesse drives down the road in Alaska to his new home, he sees Jane beside him in the passenger seat, as another flashback scene starts, to the missing scene in Breaking Bad where the two finally drive over to Santa Fe for the Georgia O'Keefe museum. They stop on the side of the road and talk about the meaning of the universe, where Jane once told Jesse to go where the universe takes him. He says that it's a nice philosophy, but she says that it's terrible. She explains that she's gone where the universe took her her entire life, and that it's better to make personal decisions than think you have no autonomy.

Fanon
Due to its canonicity and the way Jane died, fans gravitated towards this ship. The two are seen as tragic, star-crossed lovers. JesseJane is the second most popular Breaking Bad ship on AO3, and is the most popular for Jane Margolis and the second most popular for Jesse Pinkman on AO3 as well. There are currently 130+ works under the tag.

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