This was written for a kink meme prompt about music inspired mini-fills. The song that inspired this one is Billy Joel's Piano Man. :D
The music is in Tommy's soul.
He'd always been fascinated with the music of the old world, even when his peers' main focus had been hunting and rutting. Benny had understood, which is why he gifted Tommy with the Aces. But walking the Mojave has its own music, the beat one that Tommy misses from time to time. But he'd never tell Benny, not after what happened to the lounge singer who had called himself Frank. The story was that he overdosed on psycho ,but Tommy didn't believe that for a minute.
But every once in a while, Tommy will sit outside and close his eyes, humming to the music that the Mojave makes. It is the music of the soul, and that courier described it best. The merging melodies of old world blues, and new world hope. The music was in the courier's soul too, sure as lack of rain.
He glances longingly to the old piano that rests backstage, and the curtains hiding it from view act as a funeral shroud. The Tops' patrons weren't as fond of the sound as Tommy, so the poor object was almost never put to use.
He sits down in front of it, his fingers dancing over the keys like a lover's caress, and plays himself a memory.