Birthday Surprises
A/N: Ok, so I posted this a while ago as part of the 30 Days 30 Songs challenge, but I got HORRIBLE flames because it's a song fic. I decided to remove it until I felt I could re-post it as a single fic inspired by a song and here it is.
Inspired partly by the song Hot Stuff, partly by the film The Full Monty and partly by an old scene in Eastenders that has stayed with me since the first time I saw it. Virtual cookies to whoever can guess the scene I'm talking about.
Disclaimer: Don't own them; just playing with them, Ewan belongs to Helen. Don't own the song or the bit with Robbie, that belongs to whoever wrote that scene for Eastenders. Beta read by I think ur Superman.
It was Jackie's birthday and she just wanted a quiet night in with a bottle of wine and a good book. She was right into the Kathy Reichs stories with Temperance Brennan and Robbie had given her the new one that day as a present.
Just as she finished the first chapter, she heard voices outside her door before the doorbell went. Reluctantly leaving her book on the coffee table, Jackie went to answer the door.
"Happy birthday," Stuart and Ewan said as they held up bottles of wine, take out and a cake box.
"I told you we'd be over," Stuart said as Jackie let them in. "No one should spend their birthday on their own."
"I guess it will just be the three of us?" Jackie said hopefully.
"Nope," Ewan grinned. "Robbie will be over soon. He just had to pick up something for you before he got here."
Jackie just shook her head and collapsed onto the sofa between her two gay best friends, she could just tell that the night was going to end in some alcohol fuelled fun that may be regretted in the morning.
Half an hour later, Jackie's doorbell rang again and she went to answer it while laughing at some story Ewan had just told, being careful not to spill her wine. Upon opening the door, however, that task became impossible.
On the other side of the door, was Robbie Ross, standing naked except for a rotating bowtie with flashing lights that played happy birthday and a party hat. His arms were stretched wide and a brown Mack was pooled at his feet.
"Happy birthday, Jacks," Robbie smirked. Only to have Jackie faint at his feet in shock and surprise.