Jade was one of my favourite characters in the movie. And honestly, I had hoped she would get back together with Stu. ; _ ;
So here's a fanfic for her.
Like what she said, this whole thing was stupid.
Jade understood that old line. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. The people that came here drifted through with only sex, booze and drugs on their mind – and whoever who got caught up in their slipstream was discarded swiftly the minute their minds were their own again.
When she had left the club last night, Serendipity had said to her while she was in the back pulling on her jacket. "Watch out."
Jade had laughed. "They look fine, Ser! I'll be okay."
"Girl, I heard 'bout someone who got into a limo with four guys. Did some bad shit to her. Just be careful out there, you hear me?"
And Jade had laughed again. "Look at them, Ser. They're …" She pulled back the curtain, waved to the man in spectacles. He looked up and waved with his free hand, the other preoccupied with a bloodied towel held tight to his mouth.
She smiled.
"They're fine."
And she was right. They were okay. They weren't rapists. They didn't ask her to do weird shit.
Well, maybe they did – what with that casino thing. But the way she sees it, they were trying to get the little man – Doug, was it? – back from one of the gangsters that haunted Las Vegas. It was a good deed, and her estimation of them? Truth to be told – it had risen that night.
They dropped her off at the hotel after they were done, telling her that they would be back in a bit with Doug. Stu had hesitated for a moment before driving off, hovering a few paces away from her – almost as if he were going to say something.
"Go on!" Jade had smiled at him. She watched his eyes dart down to the little ring on her finger. "Go on, you guys have to be at the Mojave Desert in a couple of hours, right?"
"Yeah. Yeah."
She sat on the benches, twisting the ring back and forth. Waiting for them to come back.
When Stu finally talked to her, she was prepared for it. The ring had came off easily. She waved goodbye to them, watching the car pull out and drive off away.
Jade blinked a little, turning her head up to the hot sun. Her nose was clogged, something seemed to be rising at the back of her throat.
Just a little Las Vegas dust, is all.
That night, in the club – she told Serendipity during their one break. "I got married to a doctor!"
"Oh my," the woman had blinked. "Seriously?"
"Yeah. And –"
The other woman's face had softened. "The marriage was annulled today, right?"
"Yeah."
There was nothing much to say after that.
She returned to her job - whipping off her clothes with practised ease, whirling across the slick metal floor in her six inch high heels.
But for a while, she would remember – that for a day, she had married a doctor.
end.