Love and Music by sasukelover154

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I was busy moving out of my dorm for summer and then I've been working pretty much all day every day since then so I haven't had a lot of time, but I am trying, I swear!

Let me know how you like this, I know it's just starting out, so it's a little slow but I am hoping that it will still get views so let me know what you think about it!

I am always accepting fanart for this and my other stories so if you want to do something for me just let me know! :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Big Time Rush, James, or Logan though if I could I would.

Warning: as always with me you can expect swearing.

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"So how the hell do we do this?" Logan questioned James while they sat on the couch.

"Why don't we just start by playing a song we both know?" James suggested with a small laugh. Logan always has to know what's going on, he always has to be in control. I swear that if I were to try and keep a secret from him that he would explode. "That way we can see if we can even play well together, after that we can see if we have any ideas."

"Alright, seems easy enough." Logan nodded. "What song?"

James remained silent for a moment, lost in his thoughts. After running several songs through his mind, and throwing them out for not being quite good enough, one song remained at the surface.

"You know that song that was playing in the car on our way home from school? The first one?" A small smile crept on to his face as he thought about it and how perfect it was.

"Yeah, I know it." Logan responded with a smile of his own.

"Let's try that." James could already feel that this was going to work out well; he was very excited to get started for real.

They both agreed with laughing smiles on their faces and set to work. James grabbed his guitar from his side of the couch and began to move to a new spot. He walked back to his backpack and picked his laptop up out of the first pocket. The laptop was a little old, a little beaten up from so much use, but it still worked perfectly fine, so he saw no use in saving up for a new one.

James took his laptop and guitar over to a far corner of the room and went over to fetch the extra armchair by the real piano. He adjusted the chair in the corner and sat down with his laptop in his lap. After turning it on, he did a quick search for the guitar chords of the song. Once finding one that looked promising, he grabbed the end table from the other side of the couch and placed it in front of his chair. James picked up his guitar, giving it a loving pat on the body.

With a soft smile on his face, James began to strum the chords. The feeling of the guitar in his hands was familiar; there was something warm about the worn wood and the feeling of the pick between his fingers. Getting the tempo from his head was easy, and soon enough James was playing through the song easily, singing under his breath. It was easy for James to lose himself in the music; the sound of the chords lilting through his ears, the meaning of the words behind the lyrics, the feeling of singing like an emotional release. The whole experience was a healing process.

James had almost completely forgotten about Logan. After running through the song for what felt like the hundredth time, he looked over to the other side of the room. Logan sat in his chair at his electric keyboard, pencil in his hand marking the sheet of music on top of the music stand. James could only see Logan's back, but he knew that Logan would either be sticking his tongue out slightly, or biting his lip, both things he did when he was concentrating hard. Logan seemed oblivious to everything around him; much like James had been not too long ago.

James approached Logan from behind, pushing his chair with his guitar in the seat in front of him. He left his laptop back on the table because at this point he had the chords memorized. Logan jumped slightly when James entered his peripheral vision but after regaining his composure, he sent his best friend a crooked smile. Logan still had the pencil behind his ear; the pages in front of him covered with neat notes. His hair remained slightly ruffled, from where he had run his hands through it in concentration.

"You actually printed out the sheet music?" James teased him as he picked up his guitar and took his seat in the chair next to Logan.

"I did, it wouldn't exactly be convenient to put my laptop on top of my piano, would it?" Logan turned to face him and raised an eyebrow, as if daring him to question his methods.

James knew better than to question Logan about something like this. "Are you good to start? Or do you need some time with the words or anything?" James asked as he drummed a random beat on the neck of his guitar as he held it in his hands.

"I think I'm good, I've only heard the damn song in the car every day for the past week or two." Logan rolled his eyes at James as he chuckled.

"Alright, let's just play through it a couple times, and worry about words and everything after, just make sure the music is there first." James suggested with a gesture to their instruments.

Logan nodded and turned back to his keyboard and rolled his neck around on his shoulders a few times to loosen up. "I'm ready when you are."

"I'll count us in." James gripped the pick in his fingers, tensing his hand on the neck of his guitar to make sure he was not holding it too tight. James began tapping the beat on his guitar, mentally counting down. "Three…Two…" each word was punctured with a light smack to the body. "One."

They both began playing at the same time and from that moment…they were perfect. It took no more than a split second for them to get on the same beat, immediately it was as if they had been playing it together for years. They kept rhythm with each other perfectly. The beautiful notes hung in the air and created sweet tension where it should, and in other places, it felt almost as if his heart would break from the strain. The mix of the two instruments worked beautifully. James strummed the guitar chords while Logan used individual notes to bring out the harmony. The result was a complex but a gorgeous resonance.

After they finished, both boys sat there in silence. Logan had his hands in his lap, his eyes wide, and biting his lower lips nervously. James absentmindedly traced a pattern across the body of his guitar, his mouth hanging open slightly.

I think that was the most beautiful thing that I have ever heard in my life. I never thought that we would be able to do something like that. James thought to himself, running a hand through his hair.

"Why didn't we do this sooner?" Logan said, a smile breaking out on his pink lips.

"I really don't know." James said, unable to deny him a smile. "But I think we definitely have something here."

"I think so too." Logan replied. "Do you want to run it again? Or do you want to try it with the actual words?"

"I think that we're ready to try with the words. I mean we can't possibly get any better at the actual music." James snatched the music the music from the stand on the piano. He turned his guitar over and set the papers on top of it, creating a makeshift table. With a smirk at Logan's confused look, he seized the pencil that still remained behind Logan's ear and set to work.

He thought for a few moments, tapping on his guitar with the pencil as he did so. Biting his lower lip in concentration, James began to label the lyrics on the sheet in front of him.

"Okay, I think that works well." James said when he was finished. He set the sheets back up on the stand in the proper order. "Look them over and see if it's okay. We can always change it if we need to."

He watched as Logan looked over the sheets with a small smile playing on the edge of his lips. After a moment he looked over at James, a full on grin gracing his features. "I think this will be perfect, let's give it a shot."

James returned the smile and held his guitar in his hands. Logan turned back to face his keyboard, readying his fingers on the keys. They took a moment to mentally prepare themselves and when James began counting, he could not help but think I have a feeling this is going to be great.

"Three…Two…One." James began to strum just as Logan began to finger the keys.

There was a brief introduction before James began to sing the first line. He licked his lips, a nervous habit when he sang, and readied himself. This is the first time we have ever done something like this together…It's really nice, different than what we normally would…I like this…I like playing with him. He's a great pianist, and I think we work well together. I'm nervous about singing in front of him though, we've never done anything like this before, all I can hope is that our voices mesh well.

"When I was your age I'd give anything," James started out softly, simply getting into the rhythm of the song before continuing stronger. "To fall in love truly was all I could think." Logan shot him a quick smile and continued plunking at the keys, his fingers making the task look effortless.

They were able to make it through the whole song, never making any noticeable mistakes. Their rhythm was beautiful, their instruments lovely, and their voices to die for. I don't think that could have possibly gone better. I think I like us singing it better than I do the original…I knew this was a good decision.

As James struck the last chord, he smirked over at Logan who looked back at him sheepishly.

"I guess you were right, we can do this…and it sounds great." Logan rubbed the back of his head out of embarrassment. It's obviously killing him that I was right about something. James touched Logan's shoulder, a smile replacing the previous smirk.

"I know I was right, and because of that I get to say I told you so." James laughed while Logan rolled his eyes at his best friend. "So, I told you so. Ha." James ruffled the top of Logan's hair and sat back in his chair, slouching for the first time in what felt like hours.If there was ever a time when James had near perfect posture, it was when he was playing guitar.

Logan fixed his hair and turned back to his instrument, ignoring the laughing James and starting the song by himself, James picking up at the next start.

They played through the song several times; trying out different note variations and sometimes switching up the tempo. No matter what they did, it sounded beautiful, like the song was just for them to sing. They had tried mixing up the singing parts, but in the end, they both felt it sounded better, more natural, the first way they had tried.

"So what do we do now?" Logan asked, fixing his hair from James' previous musing.

"Food? Please? I'm starving!" James put a hand to his stomach and laughed loudly.

Logan looked down at the watch on his wrist and his eyebrows rose. "Oh shit, it's past six; we must have been really into that." Logan laughed and stood up from his chair, pushing it back slightly so that he could walk around it. "I'm sure that there is something for dinner by now, if not then I'm sorry you'll just have to starve." Logan smirked at James before making his way to the stairs.

"Oh your ass will make me some food!" James half shouted as he bounded after his best friend up the stairs.

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Logan followed James back down the stairs. They had eaten dinner with Logan's family and told them not to bother them for the rest of the night; they would be busy working on something important. I hate to admit that James is right, but he was. I really think this is something we can do together; Logan smiled to himself as he sat back down in the chair in front of the keyboard. With a large grin exposing his white teeth, James sat down in his chair, his guitar held in his lap.

"So how do you want to do this, Logan?" James asked with a raised eyebrow at his best friend. "Words first? Music first? Both simultaneously?"

Logan thought to himself for a moment. I've never actually written a song before, I mean I have played songs all of my life but I never thought to try and write something myself. It's not that I have never written anything before, because I do enjoy writing sometimes in my spare time, but I have never done anything like this…

"I'm not sure, what do you think? Have you ever written a song before?" Logan turned to James so that he could see him better while they discussed their problem.

James' cheeks tinted slightly pink and he ran a hand through his hair sheepishly. "I have a couple, but I don't think they're very good." He laughed nervously and refused to make eye contact with Logan.

"The Great James doesn't think something he did is very good? You're so full of shit, I'm sure it's great." Logan chuckled and punched James playfully on the shoulder. "Let's hear one! Come on!"

"No, I can't, I don't have any of my sheet music with me, and I didn't bother to memorize anything." James cast his eyes down and absentmindedly traced the pattern of wood on his guitar body. "Let's just focus on a song we can write, together."

"Fine, fine, whatever you say." Logan pouted pathetically, trying to make the other feel some sort of sympathy. I was really hoping that he would play something for me; it would be cool to hear something that James wrote. "So then where do we start?"

"Well what kind of song do we want to write? What have you been feeling lately? You can't just sit down and write a song, you have to use your emotions to put the words down." James seemed to transform into a different person when he spoke about music. He changed into someone who was passionate, and even though he was looking straight into Logan's eyes, it felt as if he was looking directly through them and into his soul. It was a moment that was both beautiful and exposing, something that had never happened with James before.

"Let's just get some ideas rolling, shoot some ideas around and see what sticks for us." Logan turned his sheet music over and began to scribble down the first words that began to pop into his head when he thought about what was most important to him. After he had listed a handful, he called over to James in the chair, "Give me some words to write down, let's see if we have something here."

James bit down on his lip for a moment, lost in his own thoughts. "Well I don't want to write about any cookie cutter high school drama bull shit; I want this to be about something real, not about what everyone else does. What about our perfect girl? You know not just the normal things, but what would really make her tick?" James raised his shoulders; as if that was the only thing he could come up with at the moment.

Logan thought to himself, That wouldn't be such a bad idea, we could start the song out with things that typical teenagers would say, but as we go deeper into it we could get deeper with the things we would want. He relayed his play off James' idea and they decided to go on from there.

"Well she would need to be cute, obviously." James started out the list as Logan took out a notebook from his backpack and flipped open to an empty page. "Preferably a girl with long hair and cute dimples." They discussed the best attributes for a girl and decided on which ones would be worthiest for the song.

"I would like a girl that I can be friends with, you know, someone who can hold up a nice conversation with me." Logan let a dreamy smile lift the corners of his mouth as he began writing the perfect line.

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The song did not take them very long to write, it was actually easy for them as a team. As the clock began to change to the early morning, they began to work on the musical score for the song.

James sat in the chair, just strumming about randomly, that is until he heard the perfect sound. When that happened, he nearly screamed in excitement. "Logan! I figured it out! Listen!" he played through about thirty seconds of chords and waited for Logan's reaction.

"That's bloody perfect, James!" Logan exclaimed with a loud laugh. "Just give me a minute to figure out a complimentary piano part." There was a about a half an hour where Logan was plunking out keys, until he came upon something. He played off some beautiful measures while thinking of what James played through his head. When he thought he had it good enough he called for James to play his guitar part.

When the parts came together, it was like magic. Both instruments flowed with the fluidity of a soft moving river. The parts were different enough to stand out but they collided in a way that could set sparks. They worked out a few of the spots that kinked, and by the time they were done, they had something more beautiful than they had ever heard before.

The sun was rising as they began to work in the words to what was now becoming their first song to form. Both best friends were extremely exhausted, but they were unable to sleep until they found out just how this was going to turn out.

"I think this is perfect." James said to Logan as he let out a huge yawn. This seems like it's all a dream, like none of this is real. I can't believe that my best friend and I just wrote a song together. I can't wait to perform this in front of someone, so that someone else can see how great we are together. I've never heard something like what we just wrote, it's completely unlike anything anyone else has made.

"And I think that it's time for us to get some shut eye." Logan responded with a sleepy smile.

"I agree!" James replied as he stood up and leaned his guitar against the wall.

They walked over to the couch and tossed the cushions into the corner of the room, revealing the pullout bed that lay underneath. They pulled out the bed and went about making it, Logan getting the blankets and pillows from the closet on one side of the room. When the bed was made both boys went upstairs and changed into their pajamas before they headed back down to their bed and got on their respective sides of the bed.

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Author's Note:

What do you guys think? Any good so far? If you want to see how the first song would have been sung by James and Logan I can post the lyrics. The song is Terrible things by Mayday Parade, it's one of my favorite songs in the whole world and I hope you guys will take a listen to it.

Send me a review and let me know your thoughts, I am hoping to get this moving soon and update as soon as possible. In the meantime you can check out my other stories and send me fanart!

Thank you guys for staying with me and not hating me even though I sometimes take forever to post! I love you all!