Dancing Under the Electric Stars

Pairing: Ram and Trudy

Plot: Ram (who decides not to grease his hair weirdly for the night) and Trudy meet at the victory celebration of Mega's defeat, and share a dance.

Line to use: "Why don't you take a break from the gizmos and microchips and take on the real thing for once?"

Words: Kiss, beautiful

Disclaimer: Don't own anything

Rating: Up to PG 13 but doubt it big time

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(End of series 5)

The party was full swing and seemly everyone was having a good time- with the exception of two.

Lex and Ruby were dancing, Slade and Ebony, Salene and May, Sammy and Gel, Darryl was entertaining Lottie (who looked kinda bored), with Jay and Amber slow danced. Leaving Trudy to watch them sullenly and Ram who was sitting there playing his computer.

He would switch between looking at his screen and then playing around with some computer chips and various objects. Trudy noticed out of the corner of her eyes. Nothing unusual except for he wasn't in his techno uniform, his hair was normal, and no tribal make-up to be found.

Trudy took a deep breath- she was tired of being second place- and always alone. Now was the time to act, and Ram would be the one to do with it. She then walked over to him.

"Why don't you take a break from the gizmos and microchips and take on the real thing for once?" She said looking at him.

Ram looked up, "Huh?" he said to Trudy not understanding what exactly she meant.

"How about we dance?" she asked him.

"I can't dance," he said in reply before trying to go back to what he was doing.

"I can teach you," Trudy offered.

"If I wanted to dance, I could in reality space or in my dreams not in front of a room full of people where I would be getting stares and sneers," Ram retorted.

"Oh come on it's not that bad," she said.

"Yes, it is besides why would you want to dance with me?" Ram demanded until he noticed out of the corner of his eye Jay and Amber sharing a kiss.

Trudy had a pained expression written on her face.

"On second thought- let's go," Ram said finally.

"Really?" she said hopefully.

"Yea, really," he said somewhat dejected- this was a bad idea but as the one who had suffered time, and time again himself over Java, Ebony, and Siva- he more than understood it.

They walked out onto the dance floor- Ram inwardly cringing, Trudy with a small smile, "The mall looks so good tonight," she said showing Ram where to put his hands.

"Yea," he muttered barely paying attention as he was trying to watch his feet and hers as they moved slowly.

Trudy laughed, "You're not supposed to look down".

"I have to or else I might fall," he retorted.

"Okay… well you look good anyway," she said trying to be helpful.

"Uh right, you look beautiful- I mean good too," he said quickly retracting his words.

"Thanks- I'm sorry about Java"

"Sorry about Jay"

Trudy nodded slowly, "They belonged together anyway".

Ram rolled his eyes, "Fate is a joke".

"Only a techno would think that," was her reply.

"Probably"

Both stayed silent as the song finished and they looked at each other.

"So thanks for the dance," Trudy said letting him drop his arms and go back to his computer.

"Yea, well you too. Have a nice night"

"Same," she said expressionless.

Both were back to being the same mess again, loveless but at least for that one moment- they had each other.

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The end

Total words: 668 (text only)

A.N: short, to the point, but kinda different!