Author: AriellaGiselle
Pairing: Darien/Bobby (for this chapter!)
Rating: PG-13, for now.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. No I-Man, No RENT. They belong to SciFi and The Jonathan Larson Estate, respectively.
ENJOY!
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LIGHT MY CANDLE
DARIEN
What'd you forget?
(BOBBY enters, holding a badge and looking for a partner; he is lost.)
BOBBY
Need a job?
DARIEN
I know you? You're
You're shivering
BOBBY
It's nothing
They fired my partner
And I'm just a little
Pissed off right now.
Would you be my partner?
What are you staring at?
DARIEN
Nothing
Your eyes in the moonlight
You look familiar
(He takes the badge and sets it on the table. BOBBY starts to leave, but stumbles)
Can you make it?
BOBBY
Just haven't eaten much today
At least the room stopped spinning
Anyway, What?
DARIEN
Nothing
Your smile reminded me of
BOBBY
I always remind people of who is he?
DARIEN
He died, He was my brother.
(BOBBY discreetly knocks the badge on the floor.)
BOBBY
It's on the floor.
Sorry about your friend
Would you be my partner?
(DARIEN picks up the badge. They linger, awkwardly)
DARIEN
Well-
BOBBY
Yeah. Ow!
DARIEN
Oh, the floor it's --
BOBBY
Slippery! I like it -- all over --
DARIEN
The floor. I figured...
Oh, well. Goodnight
(BOBBY exits. DARIEN heads back toward his paper airplanes on the table. There is another knock, which he answers)
Whatcha lose this time?
BOBBY
Oh - I think that I dropped my meds
DARIEN
I know I've seen you out and about
When I used to go out
Your shirt's untucked.
BOBBY
I'm illin'
I had 'em when I walked in the door
Lithium
Is it on the floor?
DARIEN
The floor?
(BOBBY gets down on all fours and starts searching the floor for his meds. He looks back at DARIEN, who is staring at him again)
BOBBY
They say I have the best ass in the Agency.
Is it true?
DARIEN
What?
BOBBY
You're staring again
DARIEN
Oh no
I mean you do - have a nice-
I mean, You look familiar
BOBBY
Like your dead brother?
DARIEN
Only when you smile
But I'm sure I've seen you somewhere else
BOBBY
Do you go to the Agency?
That's where I work - I work - help me look
DARIEN
Yes!
They used to send you 'round-
BOBBY
It's a living
(BOBBY knocks the badge on the floor again)
DARIEN
I didn't recognize you
Without the handgun
BOBBY
You could be my partner
Oh won't you be my partner?
(DARIEN picks it up again.)
DARIEN
Why don't you forget that stuff
You look like you're twenty
BOBBY
I'm thirty but I'm old for my age
I'm just born to be fed
DARIEN
I once was born to be bad
I used to shiver like that
BOBBY
I am so mad - I told you
DARIEN
I used to sweat
BOBBY
I lost a friend
DARIEN
Uh huh
I'm the Invisible Man
BOBBY
But now and then I like to
DARIEN
Uh huh
BOBBY
Feel good
DARIEN
Here it - um
(DARIEN stoops and picks up a small object: BOBBY's meds)
BOBBY
What's that?
DARIEN
It's a counteragent needle
(DARIEN puts it behind his back and into his pocket)
BOBBY
We could be great partners.
Won't you be my partner?
DARIEN
That was my last fix
BOBBY
Our lives'll adjust, thank God for the Keep
DARIEN
Maybe it's not the Keep at all
I hear I-Man's shooting down the street
BOBBY
Bah humbug ... Bah humbug
(BOBBY places his hand under DARIEN's, pretending to do it by accident)
DARIEN
Cold hands
BOBBY
Yours too
Small. Like my ex-wife's
You wanna dance?
DARIEN
With you?
BOBBY
No -- with my ex-wife
DARIEN
I'm Darien.
BOBBY
They call me
They call me Bobby
(They come extremely close to a kiss. BOBBY reaches into his pocket, nabs
the meds, waves it in front of his face, and makes a sexy exit)