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Summary: "So why Tokyo?" She knew the answer but she wanted to know it from him. "No extradition." "So you're a regular cowboy? Bet your mama's proud." She replied as a joke and saw him smile as she swept her bangs from her face. "She is." Han had a thing for motorcycles, leather and pretty girls a long time before Giselle came around. Based on the song "You and I" By Lady Gaga, named after "Mama's Don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys" By Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. Spoilers for everything from Better Luck Tomorrow (where Han Lue is introduced to the criminal world) to all five Fast and Furious movies. So if I ruin it for anyone…sorry!
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Playlist:
Eyes Wide Open – Gotye
Comedown – Bush
Chapter Eleven – In which there is an uncanny resemblance
Some people offered offences
We made out like we heard
They were only words
They didn't add up
To a change in the way we were living
And the saddest thing
Is all of it could have been avoided
-Gotye
Jules didn't know how she ended up waking up on an airplane somewhere over the ocean.
"What the-" she jumped up and swung her head around, stopping dead still when she saw Han staring at her from beside her. "What's going on?" She asked, her brow furrowing as she tried to remember what had happened.
"I'm taking you back to Australia." He said and Jules eyes widened.
"But I've still-"
"It expired a week ago, Jules." He said shortly and Jules fell back in her seat and stared at the seat in front of her.
"How did you get me on here?" She asked, looking down and cringed at the grey sweats and black hoodie she was wearing, a pair of ballet flats on her feet. "God my head hurts." She groaned.
"You were pretty out of it. It was pretty easy really." He said and waved to a stewardess who handed him a bottle of water which he unscrewed the lid off and handed it to her. "There's a connecting flight from Sydney as soon as we land." She drank the whole bottle not realising how thirsty she was.
"Have you ever been to Australia?" she asked and he shook his head. "Sorry it's not under better circumstances." She said and Han shrugged.
"I'm not coming to Queensland with you Jules." He said and she looked over at him confused, "There's also a rehab in Sydney that can help you out. I'll take you there, or you can go to Queensland by yourself. " He said and Jules bit her lip.
"You're serious?"
"Can you remember how you got here?" He asked and that's when it hit home. He was right, she didn't remember it. She didn't remember the better part of the last month. "I'm sorry." She muttered and Han nodded.
The flight out of Sydney was tempting as they walked through baggage claim. And she probably would have caught it if it wasn't for the hand that gripped her own tightly and led her towards the taxi rank.
As they weaved through the city Jules used the opportunity to point out the landmarks to Han in the dark. The harbour bridge and the opera house that looked surreal in the darkness with their bright lights and fancy designs. And in return her held her hand tightly the entire walk up the stairs at the front of the brick building and introduced her to the lady who greeted them with an American accent and at some point Jules was thankful for Hans many contacts.
The bedroom was hardly spectacular, but it had a single bed and draws and a couch and Jules swallowed hard as she walked in and turned around to face Han standing in the doorway.
"I'm sorry." She said as he pulled her into a hug and she gripped his jacket tightly in her fists. She sobbed and Han nodded into her neck.
"I have to go and do something, I'll come back before I leave." He said and felt her nod into his shoulder and sniffle.
"Okay." She mumbled and he pulled away to kiss her forehead before nodding to the nurse and heading out the door back to the airport. The flight from the coast was just landing when Han reached the baggage collection. He waited patiently, hoping that he'd recognise them when they turned up. And he did.
She stepped away from the baggage claim and walked in his direction, a tall blonde guy walking beside her, carrying a duffle bag over his shoulder. She was wearing a pair of short denim shorts and a white t-shirt with a pair of flip flops. She was attractive, but the real kicker was that she was almost identical to Jules, the same length hair, the freckles, a similar smile. The only things that were lacking were that she was a good few inches shorter than Jules and was petite, not curvy and her eyes were blue. It was like looking at a carbon copy, but not.
"You must be Han?" She said as she reached him and the blonde guy took her hand.
"Nice to meet you Katie." He nodded and she shrugged.
"Nothing like getting hooked on coke to bring a family together huh?" She asked, humour in her voice.
"Yeah..."
"Like I said, family is family. This is my boyfriend Blake." She said gesturing to the man beside her and Han nodded to him as well. "Well lets get this show on the road. Where's my sister?" Han led them out to the taxi rank and they all climbed in before the taxi sped off into the dark. "Thanks for bringing her home." Katie said after a few minutes and Han looked at the girl.
"It was me that got her in this mess."
"If there's anything about my sister it's that she makes her own decisions. And I'm glad she has you to help her because I know having Blake around helped me." She said, reaching over to her quiet boyfriends hand and squeezing hard and Han could see how much he adored the girl beside him. "Jules makes out like she's had this perfect life." Han nodded, from what he gathered from all his questions was Jules was pretty happy. "If supporting your baby sister through a drug addiction and putting up with her mothers alcoholism as well as having a miscarriage to the asshole who cheated on her as soon as he found out she was pregnant was perfect then yeah…so take it from me, you did not cause this." She said softly, sensing Hans shock at what the tiny girl had just said to him.
"She never said anything."
"She wouldn't, that's her thing- don't look back." Katie said and Han nodded, that he'd heard. They pulled up at the rehab not long after and Han led the way in. Jules was still in her room sitting on the bed when they appeared.
"Katie?" She said at the sight of her sister and jumped off the bed and rushed into her arms. "What're you doing here?" She asked and Katie hugged her back.
"You're not in this alone, spaz face." The smaller girl replied and Jules hugged her tighter, looking up at Han standing behind them.
"Thank you." She mouthed to him and he nodded before she pulled away and looked over at Blake standing beside Han. He didn't say anything just walked over and pulled her into her chest and Jules hugged the guy she'd always thought of as a brother tightly.
"My flight leaves in an hour." Han said after a few minutes and the other two looked at each other before leaving Jules and Han alone.
"I'm sorry." She said as he pulled her in for a hug and she clung to him tightly, trying to imprint the sound of his voice and his smell into her mind forever.
"Just get better Jules." He replied and pulled away before pulling a piece of paper out of his pocket. She unfolded the letter that had been on her fridge. "That's for when you have to renew your visa. If you still want to." Then he pressed a kiss to her forehead and left.
Katie went out of her way for a month to look after Jules. She lied to both their parents, insisting that she was staying at Blakes parents for Christmas and that Jules had been asked to go to London over the Christmas for work. And a week after she was discharged they went back to Queensland and took a whole two days before Katie came home with the visa forms in her hand.
"I don't know if I can go back." Jules confessed to her baby sister as they sat on the bed and stared at the forms.
"You have a job waiting there for you-" Katie smiled at the surprised look on her sisters face, "I took the liberty of hacking your email. I'm sorry but I think you're a little old to be using our dead dogs name as your password. And I told Joanna that there was a family emergency. She said that Gia- whoever she is – had told her. All is well." Jules gave Katie a grateful look but still hesitated. "He flew to Australia for you, babe, he paid for rehab. He cares about you. He wants you to come back." She said referring to Han.
"How did he find you anyway?" Jules asked before putting pen to paper.
"He said he searched your phone." She said. Jules cringed, he'd seen all the messages between her and the others about Han, about work, about everything. "You should at least go back and thank him. Its no mean feat going through rehab you know- hello been there done that. You got out lucky if all you had was memory loss and a bloody nose." Jules cringed at the memory of her drug addled baby sister. The panic in Blakes voice when he'd called her from a highschool party years ago when the two of them had just been neighbours and she'd nearly died.
"Thank you Katie."
"Fill out the damn form already!" Her sister replied as she picked up the stack of magazines beside her sisters bed and flicked through them. "I can't believe you keep all these old magazines." her sister said holding up a Vogue Australia from six years before and pointing to the date on in. "I'm so glad we're beyond the nineties." She muttered and Jules looked up at the cover of the magazine her sister was flicking through. "I mean, these girls are ridiculous. And so daggy."
"Hey!" Jules said looking intently at the cover with the picture of the Brazilian girl on the front in a bathing suit standing next to a designer she recognised instantly as Karl Lagerfeld. "I know that girl." She said and Katie closed the magazine and looked at the cover.
"You mean you wish you knew that girl. Even I know that that chick is probably modelling in Paris or something now that she's on the cover with Karl Lagerfeld." Katie laughed and Jules shook her head.
"Or in Tokyo with Han." She replied and Katie looked back down at the girl.
"No way." Flipping through the pages her sister started reading through the article for the models name and burst out laughing.
"What is it?"
"Please don't tell me you were jealous of her." Katie said and Jules narrowed her eyes at her.
"The chick is hot, of course I was."
"Well let it be known that Gia however-you-pronounce-that is leading the campaign for gay rights my dear sister." Jules gaped.
"You're kidding?"
"Not even. Wow she is hot though. I would have been jealous too." Katie said appraising the cover again. "Hows the visa going now?"
"Better." Jules replied as she scrawled her name in all the boxes, a small glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
"I like Han." Jules looked up from the form at her sisters words. "He's nice." She added and Jules laughed. That's what she'd thought too when she first met him. She hadn't realised that he wasn't like that with all people at that point.
"He's not always like that- he must have liked you too." She replied, tucking her hair behind her ear and looking up at her little sister.
"He told me it was because we looked so alike." Katie replied, still flicking through the magazine on her lap. "Personally I don't see it."
"Me neither." Jules muttered and looked back down at the form.
"Well come on, that was your prompt to talk about him." Katie encouraged and laughed at the horrified look on her face.
"I don't want to talk about him, he led me on and that's that."
"I don't expect you to talk about that, I mean, tell me about the first time you met him. Were there sparks? Please tell me there were sparks." Katie bounced up and down on the bed and Jules sighed and put the form down.
"Fine, but only because I haven't talked to anyone else about it."
"Yay!" Katie clapped her hands like a little child before sitting up straight and waiting for her sister to continue.
"So it was like six months after…well you know. Neela dragged me out to this party as Hans place and I was standing on his balcony –" Katie waved her hand briefly to pause the conversation.
"First up- what was Neela doing at a party? Isn't she like twelve. And second of all- what were you doing on a balcony?" Jules laughed and gave her sister a look.
"Neela's seventeen and I was right back from the actual edge." She explained and Katie nodded, accepting the explanation.
"Go on."
"So he just started talking to me. And usually, Han doesn't speak to anyone, then he took me out for noodle and I don't know, we've been friends ever since. He took me to Disneyland." She smiled fondly at the memory.
"And you kissed?
"Oh yeah that…like a couple of months after we started hanging out we went out to dinner one night and we kissed on my couch."
"Where there sparks?" Jules didn't need to recall the memory to know her answer.
"Hell yeah."
"I don't understand how a guy you assume doesn't like you would fly all the way over to Australia to help you?" Katie asked seconds later and watched her sisters face contort with concentration.
"Me neither."
"So you acknowledge he likes you." Jules shrugged. He might have liked her, at some point before the drugs and the partying and the swearing. Briefly.
"I don't know." She admitted.
"Well lucky you have your visa and your next ticket out of here so you can go and find out." Katie said picking up the form from the bed and checking all the boxes were filled.
"I think I'll just give it time, try to remember what it was like in Tokyo P.H." Katie grinned madly at her older sister.
"Pre-Han I like it. Don't leave it too long, boys like that are stupid enough to forget about girls like us." Her words caused Jules to laugh and nod in agreement.
"Okay BJ lover."
"I know you're not referring to Blake when you say that."
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