"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: Here's the new chapter, sorry about the wait, blah, blah, blah.

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Tommy opened the door to the hotel room and took in the surroundings. "Nice," he muttered to himself.

"Care to move, Quincy?" Jamie asked from behind him.

Tommy moved aside allowing Jamie to limp inside the room. The young man threw his cane onto the one and only bed and said, "Dibs."

"You can't do that," Tommy protested.

Jamie arched his eyebrow. "You would deny a cripple the bed?"

"You're not crippled," Tommy reminded him.

"Yeah but until I'm fully healed I'm semi-crippled."

Tommy sighed. "Whatever. Help yourself."

As Jamie made himself comfortable on the bed, Tommy pulled out his cellphone. "Hey," he said.

"What?"

"There's a message from Jude." Jamie was by Tommy's side as fast as he could hobble. "Why didn't you check before?" he asked accusingly.

"I did," Tommy defended. "There wasn't a message."

Tommy turned up the volume on his phone and played the message. "Hello, Tommy," Liam's voice came. "And, I assume, Jamie." The two men shared a look. "I heard a most distressing rumor that you two went to Miami. How unfortunate for you gentlemen because Jude's not there. But Jacob is." Tommy could almost picture Liam's smile. "Bye, bye." The message ended.

Jamie turned to face Tommy and ask him a question when something large came crashing through the window. "What the hell?" he yelled, as Tommy pulled him to the ground. Alarms started going off in Tommy's head and he turned to see that the thing that had gone through their window was what looked like a ticking bomb.

Tommy barely registered the bomb before Jamie had grabbed his cane and said, "Let's get the hell out of here."

Tommy was on his feet before his handicapped companion had even gotten to his knees. Wasting no time, Tommy grabbed Jamie's arm and dragged him outside onto the pool deck. The second they entered the pool area, the air was filled with popping sounds. "Shit!" Tommy cursed. "They're shooting!"

In the next second, the bomb blew, and all hell broke lose. Taking advantage of the screaming and panicking of the people around them, Tommy and Jamie jumped into the pool and swam to the deep end, hoping that the shooters wouldn't have noticed. Tommy looked back and saw a trail of blood in the water and realized that Jamie must have popped his stitches again.

"Are you alright?" Tommy asked.

An out of breath Jamie nodded. "Yeah, I'm good. Nothing I can't handle." But the look of pain and terror on his face told Tommy otherwise. Finally, after what seemed an eternity, the sounds of sirens filled the air.

"C'mon," Tommy said, putting Jamie's arm around his neck, "we're getting outta here."

Jamie gave no argument as Tommy helped him swim to the other end. After handing Jamie over to some paramedics Tommy retrieved the younger man's cane and sat down on a nearby bench. Jamie eventually found him and took his cane back. "Now what?" he asked, his voice sounding as tired as he looked.

"This was obviously a trap," Tommy said.

"You think?"

Tommy let Jamie's sarcastic remark go, knowing that they were both stressed more than they had ever been. "We need to go back home. Let the F.B.I. do their thing."

Jamie closed his eyes and threw his head back. "Jude could already be dead."

Tommy shook his head. "Don't think like that. We don't know anything."

"I know we're in a shitload of trouble," Jamie said, his voice tinged with panic.

Tommy looked in the direction that Jamie was looking and in and paled. "Aw, fuck!" Two of Liam's 'agents' were walking towards them.

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Author's Note 2: Folks, I know a lot of you have been worried about the whole 'Jommy or Jumie' thing, so I thought I'd just take some time right here to address it. I myself, as you may have guessed, am a Jumie fan (mostly because me and Jamie are eerily similar) but I also appreciate Jommy very much. I'm not going to tell you who she picks, as that would spoil the surprise, but I can tell you that there is a new Fall Out Boy song whose title perfectly fits the ending. So if you wanna know who she picks, go and find it. I'll tell you if you're right.