Part
II: Perfect
Chapter 1: Talk About My Girl
"Hey." His voice is cheerful as he shuts the door and drops his keys on the coffee table. "Watcha watchin?"
"Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, it's called."
"Oh, good show. I've been following it for some time. What episode?"
"Um… I guess the ADA is being stalked by drug dealers—oh shit! The car blew up! What the hell?!"
Tommy's sitting there laughing at me because the explosion on the TV scared the bejesus out of me.
I glare at him. "Anyways, I just turned it on. Your dinner is in the microwave"
"Aww, you didn't have to do that."
"Well hell!" I fume at him. "I can't pay you rent, I'm not allowed to leave… there's no way to repay everything you've done! The least I can do is feed you!! You had nothing in the fridge and—"
"You don't have to pay me back. You're—hey, now. hey, don't get upset." he pouts the most adorable pout. "Please? Your presence here is payback enough. I'm glad you're here."
He's using the full force of his baby blues and I soon have to settle for a pathetic pout. "I'm not mad," I grumble at him.
"Good." He brightens. "Thank you for the food. I was really hungry and I gave you all my cash…"
"Oh Tommy—"
"Shh. Let's eat, okay?"
I sigh. "I can take care of myself, you know. I did for a while."
"Well you deserve for someone else to take care of you. Please? Let's get that bandage cleaned up and then we can eat, okay?'
"Yeah, yeah fine," I grumbled again.
He chuckled. "That's my girl."
J|T
"So when are you gonna tell me what the holdup was? It's been three weeks. And you come in later now. what's going on, man?"
"It isn't that big a deal or I would have told you."
"Is it that girl? She's the only thing that's kept you out of work in a while."
"You're getting warm," I tell him neutrally.
"What is it? Did something happen?"
"Well--"
"Tommy, there's a girl here who says she's your roommate," interrupted the receptionist.
Kwest cocks an eyebrow. "Roommate?"
"Yes. Roommate. Now stay here so you don't scare her off with your oddness." I get up and follow the receptionist to the front desk, where Jude is pacing anxiously. "Hey. What's up?"
"She looks up, still anxious, back-facing the studios. Her shoulders are hunched from her miserable anxiety. I don't like it.
She hangs her head. "Hi," she mumbles.
"Hey, what's wrong? You okay?"
"Well… I just wanted… I, uh, I just… brought lunch. I actually wanted…" and I don't hear anything after that.
She's really flustered, I muse to myself. "Sorry, I didn't understand what you said…"
"I wanted to see you," she finally mumbles, her eyes following her feet as they shuffle. "But I have this interview at one, so… yeah."
"You got called back?! That's great!" she'd applied to work in several places and I'm pleasantly surprised that she got interviews so soon. "We should celebrate."
"When I get the job, I'll celebrate."
"Fair enough." I catch her chin and make her look at me. "Hey."
Her eyes are fiery and bright as she looks up at me. "Smile, okay? Chin up. You can do this. Hey." I force her to look up at me again with my finger under her chin. "You can do this. You're going to be great, I promise."
"I hope you're right." She releases a shaky breath and her shoulders hunch again. In an effort to cheer her up, I pop my collar in an exaggerated Boyz Attack! move. "I'm the Tommy Q. I know I'm right. I'm always right."
She laughs and the sound is like music in my ears. "My, aren't we stuck on ourselves," he smiles, touching my arm with her delicate hand. "Thank you, Tommy."
I smile at her, glad to see she's not so frazzled anymore. "Go get 'em, Girl."
She stiffens, but then she gives a slightly forced smile and heads for the door. I walk her to the curb. "Where are you headed?"
"Um, there." She points to the café diagonal from G-Major.
"Oh, cool! I could visit you every day."
She looks confused.
"I go there every day."
"You do?" she brightens.
"Yup. Dopio espresso."
She giggles. "I'll remember that."
I pull her close. "You'll do great, Girl."
She tenses up again. "Thanks," she says stiffly. "See you later."
A/N: that episode of SVU is season five episode four, called Loss. Stephanie March(Alex Cabot in the show, she's the kickass blonde ADA who is freakin awesome) leaves the show then (if anyone follows that show, they put her in witness protection. She comes back once in season six and joins the cast again in season ten) so in other words, I didn't make that up. I don't own it, it's not mine. If it were, that kickass blonde lawyer would have stayed on the show the whole time (As much as I loved Diane Neal, who played the new ADA named Casey Novak, I totally loved Cabot more). So there. That's my SVU disclaimer. You all already know I don't own instant star, or else it would still be on.
