"Best Friends?"

Summary: Tommy Quincy hates Jamie Andrews with a passion. But why? Takes place after "Date With the Night."

Disclaimer: All chapter titles are songs by Fall Out Boy. Also I don't own anything related to "Instant Star" except for a couple of Jude-centric fantasies.

Author's Note: Well, I'm glad to see that the last chapter went over so well. (Especially since I rewrote it like a hundred times.) Things are only going to get worse for our brave heroes (Why? Because I like to see people suffering.) And after some thinking I've decided that there will be two deaths in the story, not the just the one I had planned. Anyway, enjoy!

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Jamie stood in stunned silence for a few minutes before finally saying, "What did you just say?"

"I'm pregnant."

Jamie dropped the bag of cocaine, all thoughts of it forgotten, and pulled her into a hug. "Whatever you want to do, I'm with you," he whispered.

Jude stared at him strangely. "Jamie..."

"What?"

"I...kinda need time..."

Jamie felt a little hurt, after all the baby was his too, but simply nodded; Jude was entitled to some time alone. He slowly exited the room and, without so much as a glance at anyone else in the Harrison house, he left.

After locking himself in his bedroom, far from the prying eyes and ears of Nana Andrews, Jamie found himself dialing Liam's cell. "Hello?" the Irishman answered on the third ring.

"Liam." Jamie paused to collect his thoughts. "I need a favor."

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'Why are these things always held in abandoned warehouses?' Jamie wondered to himself. 'Because there abandoned,' he answered himself. There was a loud screeching noise and Jamie turned around in time to see Liam opening the warehouse door.

"You know this sorta thing isn't really allowed, right?"

Jamie smiled. "Then why are you here?"

"He wouldn't take no for an answer," Liam sighed.

A hooded figure walked in and, once Liam had closed the door again, removed his hood. A blonde Tommy now stood before Jamie. "So, what's so important that you had to meet me?"

Jamie took a deep breath. "Jude's pregnant." There was a slight pause, during which Jamie could've sworn he smelled smoke, before his entire world went black.

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Jude stood shaking in the bathroom, tears falling freely. It wasn't the pregnancy; she knew that if she kept it that the baby couldn't have a better father than Jamie. It was the bag Jamie had found in her purse. The one little bag that could bring her whole world tumbling down.

Looking back, she was surprised that Jamie, or even Tommy, hadn't found out about it sooner; it had been going on that long. Like Tommy had said, the first tour is always a little crazy. But she didn't think that Tommy, whom Portia had once let slip had struggled with alcoholism, would have let a few innocent 'baking sessions', as Wally called them, spiral this far out of control. She herself couldn't even remember how. As she looked at the bag in her hand she suddenly recalled how angry Kyle, who was straight edge, had been when Patsy had brought the first bag of coke to the rehearsal space. He had stormed out and didn't return for almost a whole day.

Spiederman and Wally had turned Patsy's offer down but Jude, who had just lost Kat and wasn't speaking to Jamie, had taken her up on it. That had been in March; almost eight months ago. Since then she had grown to depend on the drug more and more, especially ever since the blackmail had started. More recently however she'd been trying to curb her addiction. She worried that Jamie would find out that the only reason she slept with him in the first place was that she was trying to replace drugs with sex. However, while sex with Jamie was great, it didn't fill the void. And that's why she'd practically had begged Patsy to get her some more.

But as much as Jude felt she needed the serenity that the drugs gave her, she also realized that she was pregnant, and very much in love with Jamie, and nothing would get in the way. "Nothing," she whispered.

Jude stood over the toilet and with a shaky hand she poured the cocaine into the bowl and flushed. Jude felt like collapsing at the sight of the powder going down the drain but she forced herself to stand. She wouldn't fall.

"Jude." The young pop star whirled around to see Sadie in the doorway. "What was that?"

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Author's Note 2: I know it was short but that felt like a good place for me to stop. Before I forget I'd like to say congratulations to tiff8 for being the 100th review. No prizes or anything just the satisfaction of having your name in my author's note. As you may have guessed Tommy is officially back in the story and with that announcement I'd like to give you these lovely parting words:

"If worst comes to worst...we're all screwed."