As The Story Continues Chapter 1: Back in Black Part One, an instant star fanfic

PLEASE READ THIS AUTHORS NOTE BEFORE YOU READ THE CHAPTER BELOW

Hello Reader. I'm Depps My Husband and this is my biggest accomplishment in the fan fiction world that you are about to read. (And you do want to read this if you're still trying to make up your mind.)

However, I must let you know that how this story starts is not how it goes throughout the length of the story. I originally wanted to do just season three, and originally wanted to write it as if you were watching an episode. So in the beginning there isn't as much detail and such. But as the popularity grew I changed course and made this into a four part story.

This picks off after Jude comes back from tour, like she's walking off the bus in the first scene, after Tommy had left her standing in the street at the end of the second season, and this story ends at the end of my idea of season six.

Below are more reasons why you should get hooked to this story. I've selected real reviews from real readers and pasted them below so you can see what you can look forward to.

I hope you give this story a chance, because I really enjoyed writing this. I really enjoyed the friends I made and reading the reviews of what everyone thought, so if you have an opinion please share it, because they really push us writers to do more.

Anyway, without further waiting, here's the reviews and video links. Thank you.

QTPie41184
I have loved this story since I first read it when it was still on Season 3. It is so incredible and I LOVE the directions you have taken it throughout the 4 seasons. It has been SO much better than the real Season 4 of "Instant Star" and I am confident that you will make a better ending than it as well. I cannot WAIT until I read how it end :D I have been waiting for so long and this story has always been one of my favorites on . Looking forward to the update :D Jen.

MarsLoVe4eVer
I can't believe how amazing this story is! You are a better writer than they have on the shows! Keep the rest coming please I would love to find out how it ends.

BonesFan21
aw, right now this is my favourite story so please update soon, this was a great chapter and sorry I couldn't review the last one, I went on holidays and only just got home so yeah the last chapter was awesome as well, they were both probably as good as the other, loved the Titanic thing, yeah, it's one of my favourite movies! PMASAP! Sorry for the long review! Luv the story! Jess x

Tanya2BeYour21
Oh man I want more of this story it is really great and I want to know what is going to happen next. Please post more soon. Tanya

MuSiKaL JeAnIoUs
You must update like.. now. I need the rest of this story.. like now! Its so great and I really love the way its written like the tv show! I am so adding you to my faves list right now!

Tommy4eva
Omg! I love this chapter! I was so on edge when I was reading it! I bit my nails to a stub. Lol.

Jena Rink
I love this story, I've been following it from the get go, and i can't WAIT for more! You really have a way of portraying the characters as they actually are, so that makes this all the more amazing to read! Post more soon! Keep up the amazing work- Jena

NuttyElla
I this story! I'm very disappointed in myself for not finding it earlier. Anyway, when I get some more free time I plan on going back and reviewing more chapters, but for now I just want to say...wow. This is wonderfully written! The ideas are creative and the format works really well. You've done a fantastic job and I can't wait to see what will happen next. xx

Hope you guys enjoy!

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Back In Black Part 1

Alexz Voice Over

So I guess you can't always rely on Joey Ramone lyrics for those unanswered questions. Even though with what I was put up to right before tour, it still was fun. It was bigger than the year before, but it was harder too. Last year I had those letters of support from Tommy and mom, but this year I got neither. But you can always pretty much expect what you're gonna run into on tour, but getting off is a different story.

Following behind Kyle, Jude carried her guitar case down the small aisle of the tour bus, anxious for that first breath of fresh air awaiting her once she stepped outside. Unlike the year before, Jude had gotten plenty of rest and sleep, and didn't look a bit tired as she made her way down the steps and off the bus. However, fresh air and home wasn't all that awaited for her. Walking toward the back to get her luggage, she ran into the last person she was expecting to see.

Eyes wide, she nearly shrieked, "Tommy!" not believing her eyes.

Tommy opened his arms and smiled at her as he gave her a big long hug. Jude set her guitar case down and hugged him back, wishing he'd never let her go. "How was tour?" he asked, breaking the embrace.

"Is that really the first thing you're going to say?" she asked, kind of afraid of the answer.

Tommy looked away, breaking eye contact, "Look, Jude, I know when I left, things were kinda weird between us, but I'm back. I'm not leaving this time. Can I make up for leaving that quickly like I did?" he told her as he looked back at her and rested his hand on her arm.

She couldn't help but smile. Having Tommy be there was the one thing she had wanted since he left. "Well for starters. I'll take ya up on that dinner date you stood me up for."

Tommy smiled as Speiderman came around the corner, "Oh look who's back. If it isn't the prank king!" Speed said as he threw his hand up to high five Tommy. Tommy took his hand off Jude's arm to hit his hand, but Speed pulled his hand away at the last second, laughed, and helped Kyle load his drums back into the back of the truck.

"I see Stupid still hasn't grown up." She shook her head at his comment, leaving him time to say, "Tonight Jude?"

Jude smiled and shook her head, "Tonight."

OPENING CREDITS

Speed, Wally, Kyle and Jude walked into G-Major all awaiting a very happy Darius. Or so they assumed by the size of the smile on his face. "Ah, my Instant Stars." Darius said as Jude noticed Mason sitting on the couch strumming his guitar. "I got great reports and instead of what I did last year, I'm going to give you the rest of the weekend off."

"Are you serious dude?" Speed asked, in shock of Darius' offer.

"Serious, dude." Darius replied, mocking Speed.

"Well then," Jude began, with a big smile on her face, "Better take advantage of the rest of the weekend."

"Slow down dude, Tommy ain't goin' anywhere." He teased her.

Jude shot a look back at Speed, but she couldn't help but smile as she picked up her guitar case.

"Tommy's home?" Darius asked.

Jude looked back to Darius, "Yeah. Yeah, he's back. You didn't know?"

"Well, I knew he left, but I haven't heard from him since last summer. Porchia has. She's keeping me in touch."

"Porchia? Porchia's been talking to Tommy?"

"He's been keeping in contact with her over the summer. I've been expecting him anytime this week." he told her as Liam came up to him with some papers to look over.

Porchia? Jude wondered. Why would Tommy had been keeping in touch with Porchia and not her? But Jude didn't have much time to ponder over the news as Mason caught her alone to speak to her.

"Jude." Mason said as he got off from the couch, setting his guitar to the side, "Jude, I gotta show you something." He told her while grabbing hold of her arm and taking her into a nearby room, locking the door behind him.

"Hey, what's going on?"

Mason had the most ashamed look on his face as he pulled on a yellow envelope with her name on it. "This is for you. It showed up here. Jude, I swear I only looked in it because it was already almost open, and I just had a bad feeling about it."

Jude took the envelope from Mason, "Mason don't beat yourself up over it," she told him while opening the letter, "It's just fan mail..." she said as words slowly left her. Inside the envelope revealed Jude's last drunken night. The night Tommy left. The night she wanted nothing more than to crawl up in Mason's guitar case and runaway. "These are from that guy."

"Yeah, the cute one from the hotel."

Jude looked through the rest of the envelope and pulled out a letter, "Send $50,000 or these go to the press!" she read out loud as she looked up at Mason, "What am I going to do!"

Mason shook his head unsure of what really to tell her. "Well, maybe Darius could help, I mean, you know Darius would be so mad if those got out."

"Do ya think he's not going to be mad when he sees this? God, the first day I get back and I'm already going to get Darius mad at me."

"Well maybe Tommy could help ya. I mean, if I were him, I'd say I'd owe ya one."

"Ya think?"

"I'd try and help out best I could."

"Yeah I guess, but I'm not asking him for fifty thousand dollars, that's insane."

"He could talk to Darius for you maybe. Ya know, they go pretty far back. Or even Porchia could help you out."

"I don't know. I have dinner plans with Tommy tonight, so I'll see what he says about it."

"Okay." Mason told her. Jude looked like she was going to fall apart, "Are you okay?"

Jude took a deep breath and looked at Mason. "I will be. I'm gonna be strong."

Mason smiled at her and gave her a hug, "You'll be strong."

Arriving to her home for the first time in months, Jude walked into her house, and for the first time in a while, it felt like home. "Hey," she called out as she set her bags down.

"In here Jude." her dad called from the living room.

Jude made her way through the house, but instead of finding just her father, she found what seemed to be her father's mistress. Yvette. "Hey…"

"Jude," Stuart said as he stood up, "I don't think you've ever met Yvette."

"Uh, no." Her words were quiet, but courage quickly embraced her as she stood before the woman who tore her parents marriage apart and remarked, "I've heard all about her from Sadie though."

The words didn't phase Yvette at all. In fact, she placed a beautiful smile on her face and said, "It's great to finally meet you Jude."

"Same here." Jude said while turning her way out of the room.

"Hey, wait," Stuart called, stopping her in her tracks. "Leaving so soon?"

Guilt quickly overpowered her as she turned to her father and said, "I know I just got back, but there's a lot of stuff I have to be doing, so…"

He nodded his head. Half believing it, and the other half knowing she was not okay with Yvette. "Okay, you'll be home for dinner tonight right? Sadie's coming home for the weekend."

"Yeah. What," she picked up her keys, "about six-ish?"

"Six is fine." Stuart told her as she walked out the door.

Jude ran her fingers through her hair as she made her way to her car. Just as she was getting in Sadie pulled up, "Hey!" Jude said as she stood in her doorway.

Sadie got out of her bug, "Back so soon?"

"Ya know, this town just ain't the same without me."

"I know." she told her.

"Since when have you moved out? You didn't say anything about that in any of your letters."

"Well it's only been three weeks."

"Wow, I can't believe you have your own place."

Sadie looked away smiling, "Not exactly my own place."

Jude's face lightened up, "A guy!"

Sadie giggled, "Kwest."

"Oh my god! I'm so happy for you."

"Yeah, ya know I thought getting over Tommy would be so hard, but Kwest made it easy. It's like he knew me in some other lifetime ya know. Like it was destined."

"Sadie I'm so happy for you."

"Thanks."

"Okay, I want to talk, but I gotta run. So I'll see ya tonight alright?"

"Alright." Sadie told her as she grabbed her bags, and Jude got in her car and pulled away.

FIRST COMMERCIAL

Jude pulled up to their practice place and checked her watch. It was only 4:30, and Tommy still hadn't called, but she was expecting his call anytime soon. The inside of their practice room was completely quiet as she opened the door and walked in. It looked like Speed and the guys had already been there since Kyle's drum equipment and both Wally and Speeds guitar's were there. Jude walked over to the couch and fell down onto it.

"Jude?" said a voice from the upper part of their place.

Jude looked up and found Wally at the top of the stairs looking down at her, "Wally?" she said as she sat up and faced him, "What are you doing here?"

"Nothing really." he said as he walked to the steps and sat down on the top one, "Parents weren't home, so figured I'd hang out here. Speed and Kyle are catching up with their families more than likely, so."

"Oh. Yeah, I went home, but dad had a girlfriend there."

"I know how that feels."

At that moment Jude realized how much she actually knew about Wally which wasn't that much. Out of all the shows, and tours, she didn't know the real him. She opened her mouth, still unsure of what she was going to say, but was stopped as her cell rang. Tommy. "Shoot Wally, I gotta take this call. It's my dad," she lied, feeling bad for leaving him.

"It's cool. I'm just gonna chill around here, make up some cool base lines."

"Okay," she said while opening her phone. She nodded good-bye to Wally as she stood up and walked out the door, "Tommy?"

"Hey Jude," he said with what sounded like wind ripping in the background, "Where are you?"

"I'm just leaving the practice place, where are you?"

"I'm just leaving a friends house."

"Oh, well Tommy I kinda really need to talk to you."

"Yeah, I need to talk to you too. How about I meet you at G-Major in about twenty minutes."

"Okay. Okay, I'll see ya there then."

"Alright, but I can barely hear you through this wind, so I'll talk to you there."

"Bye."

Jude pulled into G-Major and saw that Tommy was just pulling up. She got out of her car and walked over to his smiling, "Hey." Tommy rolled down the window to his viper and motioned for Jude to climb in, which she did. "Wow, haven't been in this car for a long time."

"Yeah, figured I'd bring thee ol' viper out for a spin." he said as the two fell quiet. After only just a few seconds did they both start talking again, at the same time, asking the same thing.

"So what did you want to talk about?" they asked, as they then shared a laugh, and Jude began, "What'd you want to talk about?"

"You first." he said as they stopped at a stop light. "I think we should start with the smaller things first."

"Trust me, this isn't small."

"Bet my talk beats yours." he told her as he hit the gas and gave his famous smile.

"I see your bet. Loser buys dinner."

"You're on." He said with a cocky grin, knowing damn well that he was going to win.

Jude didn't even hesitate to tell Tommy, "I need fifty thousand dollars," she started to realize how big exactly her problem was again. She finished, not talking so confident as before, "...or pictures of my last drunken night will be sent to the press.."

Tommy looked at her as he pulled into the restaurant and parked the car. "Wow."

"Told ya it was big.."

"Yeah, but your problem can go away." he told her as he unbuckled his seatbelt and opened his door to get out.

"Did you not hear me say how much money that was?" she asked while getting out of the car and walking with him toward the restaurant.

Tommy held the door open for her, "Well, okay, how bad exactly are these pictures?"

Jude walked in, "Bad enough for them to hook me up with the AA. Twice in one year, it's not like this hasn't happened before."

"Two please." Tommy told the waiter as they walked to their table. "Ya see, the thing with blackmailers, especially when it's something like pictures, ya can't trust 'em."

They sat down. "I'm aware of that professor."

"What I'm saying is, who says this creeps gonna still not put these pictures up even after he gets his money. By now, you have no idea how many copies he has."

"Never thought of it like that."

"I'm sure we can get you the money. Yeah, fifty's a lot, but I'm sure D will think of something."

"So you'll talk to him for me?"

"Yeah. I'll talk to him with Porchia there. He'll give her a better listen than me."

"Yeah, I've been meaning to ask; how come you and Porchia are so close these days?"

"Who said we were?"

"Never mind, it's not important."

The waiter came back to the table with their drinks, and Jude and Tommy ordered their meals, then got back to talking. "Okay. I think we need to talk about us."

Jude got all tingly at the sound of that word coming out of his mouth, us. She stuttered, "Wha–what about, us?"

"First, I'm sorry how I left that night. Ya know, no explanation, not a good-bye," he told her as he reached out and set his hand on top of Jude's. Jude eyed his hand, as she turned hers over and held his back. Tommy smiled that Jude held his hand, and opened his mouth to continue, but no words came out.

"Tommy," she began, "that night, at G-Major, when we recorded White Lines.." she stopped and took a breath, "what was that?"

Tommy broke eye contact, "That was something I've wanted to do since you got back from tour a year ago."

Jude smiled as her and Tommy's eyes met again. She wanted to cry, because she's wanted to hear those words from him for so long, "Then why'd you leave?"

The eye contact broke again. For several seconds Tommy was searching for the words that Jude wanted to hear three months ago. The words she needed to hear. He looked up at her. Those puppy dog eyes that made Jude weak at the knees staring right into hers, "I have a daughter."

Jude leaned back in her seat as her hand slipped out of Tommy's gentle grip, "Excuse me?

"It's really complicated. She's only three years old, almost four and–."

"Wait, you're serious? You have a daughter–you're... you're a, dad?"

"Jude, listen I would have told you, but she didn't even know."

"Who?"

"Julie. My daughter."

"And who's the mother?"

Tommy looked so uncomfortable as he hesitated to answer, but he finally spit it out, "Porchia." Jude finally took a breath, but remained quiet. "It was about a year and half before I even met you."

After several moments of silence and inner debating with herself, Jude finally formed a response. "Can I see her?"

Tommy showed a small smile, which Jude did not return, and he nodded his head, yes.

Second commercial

There's Us plays in the background. Stuart and Sadie sat around the dinner table and looked up at the clock which showed a quarter past seven. The scene immediately switches to Tommy and Jude getting out of his black car in front of an apartment house. Clips of Jude and Tommy from early season one show. Tommy knocks, and a few seconds later the door opened. A girl in about her late twenty's opens the door and lets Tommy and Jude in. More clips later in season one show. Tommy and Jude make their way into a bedroom where a little girl is sleeping on a couch covered with a blanket covered in hearts. Clips of Jude and Tommy from early season two show. Tommy gets down on one knee by the little girl and gently wakes her up. The little girl sits up and stares up at Jude. More clips of late season two show. Jude gets down on one knee by Tommy and his daughter and smiles at her, then at Tommy. There's Us finishes playing and to be continued rolls across the bottom of the screen.

End Credits