Hello! I binged watched this show all in one night and now I'm crazy desperate for fan fiction about it, and I don't see anyone writing about Trevor/Bobby's reaction to the performance yet, so I'm taking it into my own hands! Enjoy!


Trevor comes back inside after a good run, and is quite exhausted from the workout. As he enters the house all sweaty and ready to go take a shower, he hears some music playing from his daughter's computer. He walks over to Carrie and sees that Julie's on the screen playing the piano. It makes him happy that she's gotten back into music. It was so sad when her mom died and she stopped playing.

The music picks up and all of a sudden his excitement of seeing Julie play fades to shock and disbelief as he sees the faces of his long-dead bandmates playing along with her! Carrie throws out a comment about them being holograms, but how would she have created holograms out of the dead members of a 90s rock band?

Trevor's mind races, a million thoughts running through his head all at once. He has no idea what's going on. Then Carrie mentions how Julie will be playing the Oprpheum tonight, and he knows he has to be there to see whatever this is in person.


Trevor and Carrie arrive at the Orpheum about a half hour before the performance is set to start. He can't contain the adrenaline coursing through his veins as he takes a seat and thinks about the possibilities of what that video could entail.

Thirty minutes have never felt longer as he sits there waiting for Julie to come on stage. When she walks to the piano, his heart speeds up even faster and he takes a deep breath to try to calm down. He loves what she says about her mom. He thinks it's so sweet that she believes her mom is still there, watching over here.

Then Julie mentions 'three special friends' and talks about how it was their dream to play in that space and he leans forward, wondering if she's really talking about them. Carrie scoffs and mutters a mean comment under her breath and Trevor spares a moment to make a mental note to talk to her about her snarkiness later, but all other thoughts are pushed out of his mind when Julie begins to play.

He prepares himself for the possibility of what he's about to see. As he listens to the beginning of the song, he notices the killer melody. It's a very well-written song, one that he's enjoying quite a lot. The song continues and he begins to wonder if the holograms - or 'phantoms' she's calling them - will even show up.

Just as he thinks this, reality comes crashing down around him as Alex appears along with a drum set right in front of his eyes. He can't believe it! Alex is right there! How is this even possible?

A few moments later, Reggie appears as well with his bass, strumming along to the music. Julie starts to sing the second verse and he can't be quite certain, but Trevor thinks that he sees a small look of relief on her face as she sings.

His brain is still trying to process that they're really there as a figure begins to flicker on the right side of the stage. How is this POSSIBLE?! When they died, they didn't have the technology when they died to record a hologram like that and even if they did, why would they do it without telling him? That and he'd never heard this song before and Luke used to be so excited about every song they wrote that he would share it with them immediately. Trevor had many, many questions about how this is actually happening.

The flicker keeps happening and he has a brief thought that there could be an issue with the projector or whatever is making the holograms when all of a sudden, there he is: Luke, looking exactly the same as he did the day he died. All of them do. It's unreal to hear that voice again after all those years. He repeats that same phrase again in his mind: How the HELL is this possible?!

Julie and Reggie turn to each other. They sing towards each other and look like they're really connecting, but how could that be the case if he's not really there? Trevor doesn't understand it. A little voice in his mind whispers 'what if they're not holograms? What if they're actually on stage?' but he pushes it away.

Julie walks over to Luke and they both share the same microphone while walking down to the front of the stage. Luke's voice even fades out when he gets too far from the mic, like he's really singing through it. And the way they look at each other, it's like they really know each other.

Suddenly, a memory of a few weeks ago comes back, when he was meditating and all that weird stuff happened like with the stereo, the shower, and getting locked in the bathroom. His old name had even been written on the mirror in steam. His therapist had said it was just anxiety and his brain imagining it, but now he's not sure. Could that have been...

The song ends and Bobby - Trevor - is pulled back into the present. They're right there, standing at the edge of the stage. Could it really be them?

All four of them take a bow and Reggie, Alex, and Luke's holograms or whatever they are (he won't even think of the other word coming to his mind) all disappear, leaving Julie alone on the stage once more. She looks shocked once she realizes they're gone, he notices, but she quickly recovers and gives everyone a big smile and a wave before she exits the stage.

He's so distracted that he barely even notices when Panic! begins to perform. He's absorbed in his thoughts thinking about what he had just witnessed. He still doesn't know quite what he's seen, but he knows one thing: he needs to talk to Julie.

TBC