DISCLAIMER: I own nothing but if I did then Jen and Roy would be together.
SUMMARY: A series of one shots looking at what should have happened in some of those much loved Roy/Jen moments in the IT Crowd.
A/N: Italics are flashbacks. Sorry for the delay in the story, hopefully I will be getting the next chapters up sooner.
Title: He Said, She Said
Chapter 3 – Fifty Fifty
He said: "You like him".
He knew as soon as the words had left his mouth that the tone had been far too accusatory and when she had admitted that yes, in fact she did like him, he had been confused as to what the hell the kick in the stomach he felt had been for.
Looking back he hated to admit that he had been pleased when the date had been screwed up. In fact he had been more than pleased when Daniel had snapped and Jen had seen him for what he really was because that had proven to Roy that Jen wasn't like 'all women', she wasn't interested in bastards.
I hadn't needed to think twice about stepping in and abandoning his date to help out Jen, it was Jen and that was all the justification he needed. When he had ushered her into the taxi he had so badly wanted to get in with her and follow her home but he knew that he couldn't. That was one line that he couldn't cross and that was possibly what hurt the most so instead he went home, cleaned himself up and climbed into bed on his own. A lonely loner indeed.
When he had said "you like him", he had meant it but it didn't mean that he liked it and what he had wanted to say is "you could do so much better".
She said: "Why would you want to go out with Patricia anyway?"
She hated Patricia, whenever she liked someone Patricia always got there first with her stupid tiny waist and ridiculous sparkly eyes. She'd secretly been pleased when Patricia had told her that Roy had screwed up.
She didn't know when it had happened but somewhere along the line she had fallen for the Irish layabout and although she hated to admit it, she was jealous when Roy got a reply to his add. Maybe most women liked bastards but she just liked Roy, kind, sweet, somewhat pathetic Roy.
She hadn't really cared when Daniel had asked her out but she'd heard the accusation in Roy's voice so she'd agreed to go out with him in a bid to make him jealous. She hadn't cared when she'd screwed up and got the question wrong, she didn't even mind that Moss sent her to the worst restaurant in the world because when Daniel turned on her, Roy had stepped in to help.
Sure she wishes things had ended differently, when he had hailed that taxi down for her she had tried so hard to invite him home with her but the words had got stuck and before she had the chance to say them, he had closed the door and walked away.
As she climbed into bed that night she realised something, when she had said "why do you want to go out with Patricia" she had meant "why don't you want to go out with me".
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