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AN: Yo, What's up guys and girls. I've only seen Across the Universe 2 times and am waching it right now. Its on Starz ondemand. Which is awsome. Cuz Right now will be my third song. And before this movie I didn't really like the beetles that much. I didn't even recognize the fact that I'd heard them. But Whatever. I'm Amber and this is my second attempt at fic wrting in the past two days and the first Time I've written for ATU. Here it goes


Summery: Maybe Max had a reason for thinking that Prudence had a thing for him. " I don't sleep with him anymore though". And maybe there was a reason that she only looked up when Jude sang. Centered around Jude, Max,JoJo and Prudence

Chapter 1: The girl from the bathroom window


"Ow" A voice squeeked as a figure came in through the window. She stumbled a bit as she came into the light startled to see Jude sitting there with JoJo. His feet in the old wooden chair looking like he was comphee just talking to JoJo and having a drink.

"Hello,Hello. What's your name?" Jude asked looking from the girl to JoJo who sat in the other chair his guitar in hand.Max was in the other room talking to some of Sadie's friends.Particularly a young black woman who's hair Max's face was currently buried in as he told a joke.

" Prudence" She said finally taking her hand off of her head after gathering her bearings.She looked at the two. One had a guitar and the other an obviously British accent. She wasn't expecting to see so many people in the apartment when she came over.

" Where are you from Prudence?" JoJo asked looking at her from over his guitar. He noticed Jude leaning forward seemingly interested in what her answer would be.

" Nowhere" She said rocking from foot to foot as her rain drenched hair stuck to her face effectively covering the bruise that the guy she'd been living with had given her. She looked at the two men. The musician had a deep voice that seamed to calm her but she wasn't so sure about the other man that sat with him a glass of wine in hand.

Jude shared a glance with JoJo and smiled before he decided to press on wanting to know the truth about their mysterious visitor." And before nowhere?" Jude asked a sly smile on his face as he looked at the startled, soaking girl that had stumbled in through the apartment window.

" Ohio" She said,fixing her clothes and pushing her soaking wet sleaves up a bit. "And I was living with this guy across the street".She watched as Jude got up and came a little bit closer JoJo's eyes following him.Her hair had dried just enough that it didn't stick to her face anymore and moved freely back into its previous position but still confined by the hat that she had used to protect herself from the rain.

JoJo fought the urge to gasp as his eyes landed on Prudence about the same time Jude's did. They both looked at her wondering what had happned. Jude didn't speak up and he didn't show his concern. He didn't have time to.

"Is he the one that did that to you?" JoJo asked looking at the brown bruise that marred her cheek and the black eye that was connected to it.

"He was a mistake" Prudence said her lips in a tight smile of absolution. He had been nice to her at first but things didn't stay that way. She wasn't as 'compliant' as her former roommate 'Rob' would have liked her to be. And he obviously didn't have a problem showing her his complaints. She'd gotten out as soon as the opportunity was presented . If there was one thing she'd learned growing up in Ohio with her family it was to get out before things got any worse, no matter who it would hurt.

Sadie came in from the other room and looked at Prudence with confusion in her eyes. "Where'd she come from?" She asked looking at Jude and JoJo who seamed to be the only ones that knew what was going on aside from the girl in question.

" She came in through the bathroom window" Jude said after grabbing Prudence one of the towels from the bathroom that him and Max shared. " Thanks" she muttered taking the towel and starting to dry off. Just as Max walked in from the hall and passed the four of them blocking the bathroom door.

" Who's this?"Max asked looking at the girl that had left a trail of water from the bathroom window.

" This is Prudence,she's going to be staying with us for a while" Jude said with motioning with his hands to the girl and his room mate respectively "Prudence this is Max" He said watching as Max looked the dripping girl up and down before finaly lending a hand out for her to shake. And he watched as for the first time since he'd met her Prudence smiled.

AN: Hey guys I know this chapter is short but don't worry. Cuz right now I'm writing Chapter two. This chapter was originally witten with Jude saying most of JoJo's parts and Max instead of JoJo because for some reason I thought that, that was how the scene went. I fianly caught up in the movie to where I was writing and I found out that it was JoJo. So I re wrote the whole thing. Just adding little details while the movie was paused. But it will be longer. If I can stay up.

AN 2: Just warning you now The Jude/Lucy stuff won't be like it is in the movie. Cuz I'm not the biggest fan of Lucy. But the "revolution" part just might be in there. I don't know yet. It all depends on if you guys like this.