[Tenna shudders at all of the auditory chaos before him. The sound of shuffling (Spamton falling to his knees). The pained cry, which ultimately causes him to flinch away from the phone.]
A-Ah- I-
[And then he completely freezes at his last cry... The adlib "[LOST YOUR BELONGINGS?]", being the clearest thing he hears, hitting him like a fiery jolt. His screen is just a black void now.]
O-Oh no....
Oh no...
[Sure, maybe Spamton would have come to this realization on his own... But to be the one that accelerated it... Doesn't make him feel the best...]
... [Sniffle. It takes a second to hit him. This isn't even his pipis. But Gods, if anything ever happened to her... He never teared up so fast, the pitch in his voice wavering.] S-She's gone... I-I can't... believe...
[Sadness. Fear... Frustration.]
You...
S-So what... you just LEFT HER THERE?!
[He bears his fangs, screaming to the other line and audible enough even as the phone lays flat.]
-- @mrphosphors
(Ooc: TW for mild sh)
He fully flinches as the screaming. Backing away from the phone initially, his breath coming out in short gasps. He can’t understand what Tenna is saying through all the static, but he can hear the anger, the accusation.*
*He remembers it all vividly.*
*Tenna picked her up when he sprayed Spamton with foam.*
*He probably still had her during the fight, or maybe had put her in a safer location.*
*He had immediately gone to Tenna’s body when discarded by Kris, only to be dragged away by Ralsei. Would he even have had time?*
*No, no- he should have at least realized. That wasn’t an excuse! He could have tried at least! It didn’t matter if he would’ve been able to or not! How could he forget her?!*
*It wasn’t even a matter of letting himself cry, there was no way he could have stopped it even if he wanted to. The shock would fully settle in later, but at the moment his mind hadn’t had the time to react and soften the blow, so everything was just… pain.*
*It didn’t help as he dug his fingers into his lower jaw, leaving grooves in the plastic and nearly detaching the damn thing.*
*He’s shaky, unsteady on his feet, quick to back up to the wall and slide down it until he’s curled into a tight ball. He covers his ears, but it does nothing to quiet the static. It sounds like Tenna’s screen when he was still barely alive right after being cleaved. He can’t hear his own glitchy sobbing through the sound. The handset to the phone has been abandoned on the floor.*
"good! I want to know all about you! Where do you come from? What's your story? I have all the time in the world!"
*He supposed that was fine. He’s probably leave out some… still painful details, maybe string a few lies to make him sound less pathetic than he was, but what was the harm in a few white lies? They wanted to hear a story, and they’d still get a story.*
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*Most of it was just him ranting on about his big shot era, being promised things by a false god over the phone; a false god he seemed to both resent and fear by how he spoke about it.*
BUT I N3ED#D [[exposure]] O;F C0RSE!! TH4T(S WHEN I [[strike gold]] W1T-
*He abruptly cut off right before he got to talking about Tenna. Maybe it was best if he didn’t mention him. Of course, that was his cop out excuse for being too upset about what happened to talk about the forsaken CRT.*
4NY#OW, MY [[god, can you hear me?]] [[daring betrayal]]D M3. LEFT ME TO [[rot in hell a$$#013!!!]]. [[Clipped my wings]] AND [[tied on strings]].
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*He was breathing heavily, the sound over laced with static until he finally began to calm down again.*
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"Oh! Don't worry I understand, I have tics too! Mine are more psychical though, but I get it, they suck- haha." She reassures him before getting back on topic
"yeah.. i do remember traveling to a world that was a bubble and all around it was just, space. There were so many stars, I wish I could've counted them all- hah. It was calming."
Mo0no stays silent for a moment, trying to recall any other memories that weren't bad ones. Often when she tries to remember something, it ends in rumination and panic. But perhaps this will be different? It's ignorant to think so, but oh well.
I H4VEN; T S3EN STARS. [[The king of only!]] IN [sweet dreams].
*He admits.*
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*He remembers dreaming of the sky after that first call from… well, his god. It was baffling. It was the exact moment he realized he could never go back to the way things were before.*
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“Excuse me,” when you had hung up a nurse on your left who flashed you a smile in return for yours, “We were thinking you might want to wait in our more private waiting room?”
Richard asked, “The cameras, right?” She nodded and he helped you up and kept his arm around you for the walk to the more private lounge cluing the cameras to back away from the door.
“You can sleep you know, I’ll wake you up when they come back.”
“I’m ok,” you said in the third time you lifted your head from its try to droop again only luring a sigh in his shift to cuddle closer to you in the loveseat in uncomfortable proportions that even in its painful state his warmth had your head on his chest letting you drift off again. Warm presses of his lips to your forehead came in distracting intervals between swaps of each magazine at your shift to curl more against his side, lap and chest contenting him at least that you were resting. It was his day off so at least he could help you to keep Lee company until he took you home for dinner surely to come back again and fetch him tomorrow morning after they had kept watch of him a night. Nowhere in this was there a silver lining on finding your best friend on the ground in pain unable to catch their breath after being woken to their banging on the wall between you as hard as they could manage through that. Just that this invasive surgery was one of the least major in terms of simple procedure when caught early, which it was, and the uselessness of the organ in that once removed the person lives a perfectly normal life after this physical tantrum of sorts is resolved. This had to be his first surgery alone and had you not been there Richard might have frozen in panic or had you not taken the role there would have been no key to let you both in to get to Lee within time. At least for now he could let you sleep while the shock of it all had his body unable to relax enough to dare to drift off.
One hour ticked by and just a hair shy of the halfway mark to another the knock at the door had your head lifting in a deep breath, an action shared by the relatives of a teenager come for a procedure of their own. To the doctor from earlier entering the doorway you looked easing your legs down as she asked, “Pace family?”
You nodded as the other family slumped back and he came closer saying, “Lee came through in flying colors, no complications or anything serious was found in the procedure. It looks like you got him here early enough he should be just fine in a couple days. Sorry it took so long there was a technical glitch with our monitors when we were trying to scan after the surgery, but the stitches should heal up nicely and he really should be just fine after a few days in bed. The scan should be over now and I can take you back if you like?”
You nodded and stood with Richard dropping the magazine on the table beside his seat walking at your side opposite the doctor who led you through the doorway he closed again to guide you back to the empty private room Lee’s name was written on the board by the door. “Now, we will be keeping him overnight to ensure there aren’t any complications, but like I said there really shouldn’t be. I’m gonna go check on those scans but they should be wheeling him back any minute now if you want to wait inside and he should wake up not long after that he’d be glad to see you when he wakes up.” He looked you over asking, “What you told him before, the steps, Lee mentioned you were almost a doctor.”
“Um, not like a surgeon I’m nine credits shy of four doctorates in Science fields and Engineering. But I’ve researched the procedure for relatives when they’ve had it before.”
“Impressive, well if you ever need an internship we’ve always got some open slots here in our labs.”
“Thank you,” he nodded and moved past you.
“I’ll keep you posted,” he caught Richard’s eye, “Your Brother is just fine get him comfortable and you can head home and get some more sleep.”
To that Richard nodded thanking the doctor and led you inside where he chuckled to himself and led you to the window cushioned bench saying, “I take it Lee was rambling to keep calm before the surgery.”
Weakly you chuckled, “Did the same thing when he broke his foot back in New York. I still get letters from St Helen’s where he did his physical therapy after. Apparently he’s a bit fuzzy on my degrees.”
Richard, “At least your dad will be pleased, you have plenty of options.” That had you giggle weakly and smooth your hand through your bangs to brush them away from your face only to have them fall back again.
“This is a big room,” you said looking around the private suite, “I had to share when I got my tonsils, behind one of the curtains a woman was in labor,” luring Richard’s eyes to you, “Or passing a kidney stone, think this is from the cameras?”
“Oh I think it is most definitely from the cameras.” He said peering out the window catching a passing news truck drive by his focus on the window turned your head and he said, “I think that was a news truck.”
“Oh fuck,” you mumbled, “Let’s just throw gasoline on this fire.”
Clatter through the door however turned your head to see Lee’s giant sedated self being rolled in by two bulky guys who looked the pair of you over. The one on the back freezing just long enough to hiss at his hand being rammed into the doorframe off the bed rail he was holding shifting his attention back to the task at hand. To the bare spot they rolled and parked the bed and got to hooking up the monitors then both paused to look the both of you over.
“Thank you,” you both said and the larger got to patting his pockets.
“Would it be poor taste to ask for an autograph? My family loved your film.”
“Oh, sure,” you both said as the second guy with his throbbing hand got to finding his own note pad and pen for you to take turns signing the sheets for the duo who seemed on the edge of bashfully curtsying their way out of the room they shut the door to behind them.
Softly Richard said at the shift of Lee’s foot under the cover beside his bag of clothes they changed him out of, “Go sit by him. He’ll need some cuddles when he wakes up.”
“You ok here?”
“I’m good, go get on the bed.” Pressing another kiss to your forehead and his hand nudged you off the bench.
Up onto your feet you stood and sighed making your way around the bed to shift the remote they had laid there to ease up on his tube free side to not get snagged in his IV or heart monitor chords. Right against his side you settled catching his sighing self inching more closer to your warmer self for the start of a few minutes of that through your fingers smoothing his hair right again. To his grumble at the sound of a shouting patient on a bed rolling past your room his brows furrowed and you said, “Morning caterpillar.”
That split one of his eyes open and his body shifted more against your chest until his heart monitor beeped again and it seemed to click where he was. “I’m here,”
Richard smirked saying while your arm eased behind his raised head to loop your arms across his chest to keep him in bed lying down. “Came out with flying colors. Hour and a half. We called your parents and Jaqi said we’d have you call them later.”
Lee looked to you asking, “It went ok? The pain, I’m still a bit numb.”
“Then you should stay lying down, stop working your abs lay back. You have to stay in bed.”
“Why?”
“Because you had an organ removed, they’re gonna keep you overnight and the doctor said you should recover easily if you take care of yourself.”
Richard, “When we get back home we’re moving your bed into ours you’re not sleeping alone for a few days at least, our rules not the doctor’s.”
Lee wet his lips asking you, “What’d it look like?”
“Well,” you sighed out, “It was about three pounds and had these feet,” he shook his head and bumped his arm into your side making you giggle and say, “They didn’t bring it out for a walk. Maybe if you ask nicely they might still have it somewhere in a bag you can look at.”
“I don’t want to look at it!”
“Then why ask me what it looked like?” You giggled out.
“I don’t know! I’ve never lost an organ before!” That had you cuddling closer to him and he sighed, pausing for a minute before saying, “Fuck, Jaqi your premier! And my premier! I just lost an organ!”
Richard, “You’ll be fine in time for that. Just need to rest a few days.”
Lee’s mouth dropped seeing the second news truck driving past the window, “News truck! Tell me there was a bank robbery or a train crash!”
“Lee, you need to calm down, the doctor will be back in a bit once he checks the scans they took of you,”
“Scans, why’d they take scans? You said I was-,”
Over his mouth your hand clapped and he sighed with brows furrowing, “Lee, they took something out of you they’re going to take pictures for your file. Now breathe because the doctor said you will recover just fine, you just need to rest and relax. I’m going to move my hand, inside voice.”
Down your hand moved and he said, “Why is the news outside?”
Richard, “Probably because they saw me carrying a body out of our building and she drove us here.”
“Great,” Lee replied sarcastically, “Now my appendix has us in the center of a murder inquiry!”
“Oh now stop it you big grump, one day in bed won’t kill you I’ll call the show team in the morning,”
“Oh the show,” he said moving a hand to cover his eyes, “I’m gonna have to call my agent. Damnit why am I still so tired.”
Richard, “Lee, in the morning. And sedation doesn’t leave you well rested in some cases. Meaning you need to rest and we will handle the calling and messages.”
“You haven’t slept either, they’re gonna want you to set,”
“Lee, don’t make me flick your nose. No negative Nancy here,” the door to the room was knocked on and you turned your heads to the door and you smiled saying, “Hey Doctor.”
He smiled saying, “Look who’s up, good. I can see you don’t seem to be in any pain. Scans look excellent, like I told your family here just a night in here for observation and then you can go home bright and early tomorrow morning. Few days rest and relaxation keeping up on your food and drink intake should see you right as rain and in a few weeks those stitches should be ready to be taken out.”
Lee wet his lips, “How long until I can fly?”
The doctor inhaled and said, “Roughly a week should do it, how soon do you need to be flying?”
“Week after next to New York then few days after to LA and back again a few days later.”
Doctor, “Oh that should be fine then, as long as your work isn’t too strenuous, no heavy lifting over ten pounds for a week though try for two if you can and try to avoid stairs to keep those abdominal muscles rested. Keep up on the food and drink plenty of fluids and you should be fine as I said.”
Lee nodded and said, “If I wasn’t able to fly we could always take the bus.”
Doctor, “How long is the bus ride to New York?”
“About eight hours,”
Doctor, “Fly, if something were to go wrong worst case then they could get you seen to faster than on a bus.”
“I’ll make sure he behaves,” you said making him chuckle.
Doctor, “You don’t have anything to worry about as long as you listen to her then. Few days off your feet and then ease back into work, a drop by in a week here for a follow up scan for good measure and you should be ready for your plane. Now, I think by those circles under your eyes we should let you try to rest up till breakfast. Be back to check on you then see how you take to the food and if you’re having any discomfort at all.”
Lee said when the door closed again, “We still should call work.”
“Fine, I will go call them from the lounge.”
“Thank you,” he said as you slid off the bed and made your way into the hall from where you came finding another empty lounge you lifted the cell phone in your hand to your ear having found the right number to dial.
Three rings and you heard the voice on the other line answer abruptly with a tone eager for explanation, “Jaqi?”
“Hey, ya, I just wanted to call to let you know we had to take Lee to the hospital a couple hours back,” a shifting of a book or something had your eyes narrowing as you realized you were on speaker.
The speaker device allowing another to ask, “Is he alright?” Clearly anticipating the worst.
“He’s much better now he had to get his appendix out,” sighs and exhales of relief went through what you didn’t know to be a disheveled war room of sorts wondering what person the female lead had drug off to the hospital in the middle of the night for who knows what reason. “The doctor says he has to stay overnight for observation but a couple days off his feet being fed and kept on his fluid intake and he should be himself again. Though he can’t lift over ten pounds for about a week to two or climb stairs. But he got through with flying colors and just wanted me to call and make sure you guys knew.”
“Ok,” a third voice stated you knew to be the director, “We can switch focus to scenes the pair of you aren’t in for the next couple days so you can take good care of our boy and keep him following the rules. He should be able to run some lines by Thursday, right?”
“He should, I know my cousins were raring to go after two days in bed when they had theirs out. He should be fine with the talking scenes just light work.”
The first asked, “What about his premier I know he was excited about that?”
“Doc says he can fly in a week so by the time my premier and his roll around he should be back to himself. Everything ok there? I know we saw some cameras outside,”
“You just leave that to us we’ll send somebody over to give them a statement to let you guys head out in peace and calm them down. Somehow they got the notion you had Jennifer Garner carried into the hospital instead.”
“I’m sure Lee would be flattered to hear that,” stirring a few chuckles in the room.
“We’ll let you go get some rest Jaqi thank you for the call.”
The call ended and with an update for his family and a warning text to Jen along with an apology back you went, once that door was shut again you said, “They think you’re Jennifer Garner,”
Lee said as Richard chuckled, “I look like Jen? I don’t know if that’s a compliment for me or an insult for her.”
Richard smirked saying, “Not mad then,”
To which you answered, “They want us back on Thursday, till then I am to keep you following Doc’s rules. They’re glad you’re ok. And they’re gonna send someone to talk the cameras away.” At his side Lee’s hand patted and you crossed the room saying, “Now, off my spot caterpillar.” A smirk tugged across his lips as you settled back into your spot returning your arm behind his head letting him rest against your chest. Resting his hands on your arm laid across his drawing it more around him to cling to like a teddy bear of sorts. To the tilt of your head into the side of his you murmured, “Just get some sleep, we’ll have you back to your bed soon enough.”
Right off his eyes shut and Richard smiled signaling you to sleep as well in his shift to take up the window bench for himself in the wait. True to their word the show did send someone who gave the press statement clearing the cameras away as the mystery was gone along with any darker possible rumors circulating as to who and why you had brought here. Hours past sunset on their third check of the vitals on the sleeping patient this new nurse smiled to herself at the pair of you nestled in the bed while Richard on his back with legs propped up against the wall filling the bench snoring softly.
A muffled ring from your pocket was the start of the avalanche of shifting bodies around the woman formerly trying to listen to Lee’s pulse with a stethoscope to not wake him now halted as you squinted at the number on the screen of Lee’s phone. Deeply inhaling his head turned to the Nurse for his own squinting moment at your numb arm being eased out to slide off the bed answering the call. “Hey,” out of the room you slipped while Richard grumbled closing his eyes again for a few more minutes sleep.
Though through the line Lee’s Agent clearly not expecting your voice asked, “I must have dialed the wrong number.”
“No,” you said avoiding a passing few people to get back to the lounge saying, “You’re Lee’s Agent, I have his phone the Nurse is with him now. Um, if you haven’t heard yet he had his appendix removed last night.”
“Yes, I saw that on the news this morning. How is he doing? I assume this is Jaqi I’m speaking to.”
“Yes, he’s doing well, got through the surgery with flying colors, just over an hour since we got him in early enough. They do keep patients overnight after this surgery but a couple days off his feet and about a week light work and no lifting over ten pounds and he’ll be back to normal in no time. My cousins have had his surgery before and two days later they were eager to get out of bed.”
An exhale was heard through what you imagined to be a plan forming pause and he asked, “Rough estimate, two weeks out how would he be?”
“Oh, he’s cleared to fly after a week. So there’s no reason for him to miss his premier at all, called the show heads last night and they’re expecting us back on Thursday and they’re going to keep it light for the couple weeks till we travel. I’m gonna make sure he takes it easy to not hurt himself.”
“That’s so good to hear after waking up to that news, and explains why the producers didn’t call me themselves.”
“No, ya, it was in the dead of the night and I did promise Lee to call you first thing and if it was more serious where he would need months to recover I would have called right off. I am sorry to have worried you that wasn’t the intention.”
“Thank you for that, Lee has always boasted about how much care you take of him and having him so far from his family having a force like that watching over him. Often the younger actors I’ve dealt with are left to their own, and usually in my experience trips to the hospital aren’t as simple as an appendix surgery.”
“Yes, the show had the same impression as well.”
“I have a phone call I have to make, however right after I have a scheduled call to the team for Soldier’s Girl and I will let them know that everything is still on schedule for the premier and press afterwards. I’ll give him a few days to lay back and then I will call with the scheduling, you said he will just be in overnight?”
“Yes, should be out around breakfast tomorrow morning. I can have him call you then if you like.”
“Oh no, but I will make note of that in case they do have questions for me to pass on to Lee. Hope you have a nice day and thank you again.”
“Not a problem, and you as well.” The call ended and you sighed smoothing a hand over your face in pocketing the phone to bring out your phone to start answering the text messages backed up in your phone from friends you calmed their worries.
“Jaqi,” the knock on the door to the lounge opened behind you had you turn to grin at Jennifer Garner in the doorway with a teddy bear in hand.
“Hey,”
“How’s Lee?” Lifting the bear, “Brought him a bear.”
“Thanks, ya, he’s in bed just answering a call from his Agent. Sorry about the news pulling up your name.”
That made her smirk and say, “To be honest I’ve been getting a lot of love from the mistaken identity. Helped a bit to brighten things in my slump. Best calls I’ve gotten since the break up news hit.”
“Well I’m glad me hauling a body out of my building in the dead of night helped you out, I really am.”
“You think Lee’s up for a visit?”
“Oh ya, I’ll go poke him for you,” a smirk eased across her lips turning to open the door again and follow you out to the private room.
Jokes started up upon your return as Lee accepted the bear and hug listening to how the night went for you guys until his breakfast arrived and Lee nudged you to the door saying, “You head home and eat,” kissing you on the cheek, “I got my remote and my bear, try and make something of your day off. Go on,”
“Fine,” you said trying to hand over his phone that he shook his head at.
“Rather you keep it. For my luck someone would run off with it when I try to nap again. I will see you tomorrow morning.” His eyes shifted to Jen in her glance at her phone she pulled from her purse now buzzing and he lowly asked, “Could you bring me some clothes?”
“Sure, wouldn’t just leave you in your undies.” His moment of pained brows had you asking, “You weren’t wearing underwear?”
“I was going to do laundry on our days off.”
Chuckling to himself Richard leaned in to hug Lee rumbling lowly, “We’ll do your laundry and bring you something comfy to come back in. Rest up, and call if you need us.”
Lee patted his arm in its time across his chest with a creeping grin, “Thank you, and so-,”
Richard, “No apologies.” Crossing the room to join you now at Jen’s side to head out as a group to go back to your place so she could keep you company as you ate until she was off to meet another friend that was in town for a few days letting you and Richard go fetch Lee’s clothes to wash, dry and take back to his place with a choice to bring him the following day. After lunch while Richard made a stop to another meeting for work you popped by the hospital again sneaking in the underwear for Lee he gladly accepted help in easing on under his gown to relax at least that he was covered if they came in to check his stitches later on after you’d left again.
.
Outside your doorway Tracy stood at your door turning to the sound of the lift opening with mouth open eyeing the takeout bag in your hand you picked up on the way back, “Tracy, sorry, were you here long?”
“No, how are you doing?” She asked seeing the tired written all over your face coming over to give you a hug, “Were you at the hospital all this time?”
“No, got back after breakfast but Lee needed underwear,”
She gasped stepping with you to the door taking your bag to let you get your keys out, “He did not go without any!”
“Apparently his appendix couldn’t wait till he did his laundry. But I’ll bring him some fresh things to go over his undies when we go to pick him up.” You said letting her inside switching on the lights and locking the door again. “How’s your day off been?”
Fetching a drink from your fridge to take deeper into the apartment you answered. “Good, heard about a couple roles today been reading through some scripts but I wanted to come check on you. How are you doing with all this? I know you and Lee have your past, and you sort of keep an eye out since his family is away with his Grandma.”
“I’m ok on that front,” you said. Settling the food out on the coffee table with the drink to settle down on the floor leaning against the couch you oddly didn’t want to sit on but against right now while she sat on the chair to your left leaving her bag on the table with eyes fixed on you in the brush of your hair from your face. “I don’t really remember my mom, I just get this dream of the hospital she died in when someone I know is in one. Lee’s fine, he’ll be back in the morning to crash here for a couple days,” you sighed and shrugged, “Just some weird sub-conscious shadowy thing that just swoops over me for a day or so.”
“Well that’s, not good, but,”
You giggled softly, “It is good. Besides have to admit it was fun to hear from the show team that they thought I’d drug Jennifer Garner off to the hospital at the crack of midnight. Which Lee loved to hear.”
“Oh I’ll bet,” she said in your lean forward to open your bag to pull out the boxes for the full spread narrowing her eyes, “All that for you?”
“Richard should be back soon,” she nodded and you said, “You don’t have to leave, he’ll probably be needing a distraction messaged something about some odd photo shoot he had to do in some weird leather getup.” Making her smirk, “He always has a fun time on his shoots.”
“When is your next shoot? I saw your spread for that college edition, just barely got a copy of my own with two guys trying to snatch it away from me thanks to that cover of you. And that one you did for the Tony’s, stunning, do they have one for this show?”
“They do, out in spring but I think it’s more of a casual behind the scenes thing. And I do have some planned shoots when I’m back in England and Richard’s Agent said I have had some offers for a commercial out there for a few brands.”
“Like clothes, or food or like electronics, stuff?”
“I don’t know,” you giggled out, “Just hope it’s not perfume, or I might die,” making her giggle with you while you opened the first box easing out one of the forks from the napkin you brought from the kitchen. “So what green pastures do you get to wander off to after this show?”
The question luring her smile out again, “One of them actually is a musical.”
“Ooh,”
“I know, it’s so good and I can’t wait for it, won’t be starting till next year for filming but hope I could get there already.” She looked you over, “Maybe if you need a distraction while Richard is away I could bring some scripts over.”
That had you shaking your head, “Oh I will be fine. I do enjoy my time to myself every now and then.”
“I get that,” she said with a nod relaxing more into her seat, “With my ex, between school and work you just need time to breathe.”
“Which, I love him, I guess it’s just after having been alone so long through school just having evenings to myself to do what I want, especially like in New York where I can walk to the park, the zoo or the movies. Which I guess flips when we do get together and we share as much time as we can get together, especially since he’s been getting crazy auditions lately since the first time being seen with me for publicity.”
“How does that work? Are they films?”
“Mainly tv work,” gaining a nod from her as you blew on your first bite of still scalding food. “For now helps us because my projects have been huge, months of filming and being away so between his plays and tv slots he can fly out and that even got him some extra slots on the Lord of the Rings trilogy too. But I think he likes shows and indy slots better along with plays where I like musicals and bigger films, so it kind of meshes.”
She smiled as you took a bite, “It does work, and I’m so glad it works out for you both, I do know if anyone can make this planet bouncing act work you can.”
After a huff while you chewed Richard’s voice sounded out to the open and close of the door he locked behind him, “They folded me in half inside this giant wooden thing, then had me in this tub and threw a bucket of water at me.” Entering the living room he dropped his coat on the couch with hair still a bit tussled proof of his ruffling it dry before having rushed back. “Tracy, bet you’ve never had that at one of your shoots.”
Tracy chuckled, “No, they tend not to dump water on women with hair like mine and Jaqi’s. Too hard to get dry again. I still don’t know how you got yours dyed.”
“Took a group of Drag Queens to do it.” She chuckled at Richard’s plop to settle beside you stealing a kiss on your cheek in his reach for your drink.
Tracy smiled and continued to through the meal and lounging bout after relaxing until she was ready to head to her place to start on the dinner she’d planned for herself allowing you and Richard to relax through your own supper once you’d moved Lee’s inflatable bed into your spare room while that cooked along with his toothbrush and soaps he might need. Though cuddled in bed the deflating tender pecks stolen before sleep crept in aided in the deflating drift of all the stress that had built up through the day and night prior. Sweet murmurs however helped to welcome this morning for an eventful day. Tenderly Richard helped you to wake and get dressed to head over to fetch Lee before his having to head off to work leaving the pair of you lounging about at the apartment.
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True to your word after two days of helping to keep Lee off his feet and relaxed between nights in your spare room Thursday morning everyone on set was glad to see Lee at your side raring to get into the first outfit for his first scene. To keep his abdominal strain down they let him keep his boots and jeans and just swapped his shirt flashing a glimpse of the bandage over his hip bone for the scar easily missed should it heal properly pending his behaving to the rules you set and adorably enforced to the rest of the cast and crew jumping in to help when you were apart to grant you a break.
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Just under two weeks of building up strength again found Lee smiling at your side eager to see this new film of yours on the cusp of his big debut. Press didn’t die down and even in Jen’s trip home again to ready for the Daredevil premier coming up and her new season of Alias the cameras lingered for more amusing taglines and Richard’s favored nickname of ‘Boy Toy’ still lingering around. Flip flopping back and forth, it seemed no one had a clue just which of the guys you were liking, up to even adding an amusing story that you might actually be in a secret relationship with Tracy instead filling the sets with laughter at one of the crew showing the story off to everyone.
Photographs to the squirm inducing role post reunion with the small group of actors in this film. Again in the background you floated in and out of the screen with hand intertwined with Lee’s all the way to the credits and parties afterwards. Sleep wasn’t to come soon as post party and interviews from New York to LA you went to drop down in the hotel room Lee’s pleased Agent had booked for the pair of you.
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Early in the morning Ian’s arrival came right in the middle of your shower for the Soldier’s Girl premier. “I am glad you are feeling yourself again, Lee.”
“Yes, Jaqi finally let me carry my own bags for the flights since the Doc gave me the green light. Just have to get my stitches out when I get back and I’m back to work full force again. Just hope they didn’t have any sort of dance thing planned for the after party.”
Ian chuckled saying, “I doubt they would force you to with stitches in or at the very least without rehearsals.”
Lee wet his lips and asked, “Anything like this happen to you before?”
Ian smiled saying, “Not surgery, however, I have had plenty of opening nights where I was less than glimmering in my beginnings. You are not the first actor to have a physical drawback, though be pleased at least you are handling it in stride compared to others. I do know Orlando from our trilogy broke a rib and we still haven’t heard the end of it. All while Jaqi had an imprint of her ax in her ribcage and ran for miles afterwards, dislocated her knee, ran till her fleet bruised over entirely upon scores more injuries and nights soaking away the irritations of the glues they used on us without a word.” He paused a moment and said trailing a sharp inhale, “I do however have one tip,”
Lee nodded sitting up and flinching his fingers over the buttons of his black shirt, “Anything, I’ll take any advice.”
“You are quite young, and my advice is to keep close to Jaqi. Very rarely do you meet someone with a heart like hers, there will be people who will try to separate you, get you alone.” The warning stirring up hints of memories back when he was entangled with Jordan in school, “When you are young you can be quite naïve and gullible, and there will always be those wolves in sheep’s clothing who try to ensnare you off the path. While some might take Jaqi’s position along the side at her after parties as far too quiet there is a mastery in that stance, building up mystery and allowing the press to be intrigued and approach to their whims. It is a fine line where one can command attention while not doing anything obvious to lure focus to themselves, something magnetic, and you have that I can see it. Others hurl themselves into the crowds and force interactions and their presence upon the crowd, tonight is your night, bask in it, and this is nothing to say you are doing anything wrong.”
“No, I understand. My exes were like that since Jaqi, under lights and cameras they seemed to be so loving while they were soul sucking leeches. Both demanding I break with Jaqi. Thank you, it is so hard trying to find balance in staying true to my sort of wallflower self and still show to the press why I won the part.”
Ian said, “Sometimes you just have to let the work speak for itself. I can say when we tripped Jaqi that first time we met her tiny self we didn’t see ballerina, then we watched the show and it was beyond stunning, and again with Chicago, sometimes the face in person and the character don’t match but there are those that vanish in their roles and are chameleons. I am certain by what Jaqi has shared with us you did amazing in the film and we will love it. Roles like this take such bravery especially as this is your debut, so young to play a transsexual, this could be a groundbreaking role for you, I hope it is.”
Comfy in a sleeveless silver dress you exited the bath and smiled to the pair ruffling your hair out readying to this nerve wracking outing. This was a day premier and much like Lee had shared before his own nerves watching each debut of yours tangling his tongue in knots. Years ago this had been filmed yet the excitement was still there in this reunion and right beside Ian you got to watch Lee soaking up brushing up on each of his friendships from the set with each of them raring to finally see what all their efforts resulted to.
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Explosive wasn’t close to how Lee came across and praise came flooding in for the performance and film with ample press to follow. One shoot for you on the beach in a freezing open house the spread you had been scheduled for helped to distract you through Lee’s busy days ending with another nap filled flight back to Canada with your beaming friend armed with reviews and articles on him and the film to show off and save for himself.
One more week you had to soak up time with Richard before he turned in his rental car and flew off to Europe to finish Frozen. Comments on time alone again didn’t prove to be what you needed at all when you came back from set alone to the empty apartment. On the verge of tears to the bedroom you went to change out of your cold clothes and inside the closet was when the dam broke seeing his clothes gone including the empty cubby he had been so careful to keep his secret possible gift to you hidden inside. Demanding gifts wasn’t your style but left alone with just a sweater he had folded under a note on the foot of the bed something special to have to keep close or at the lease show off while he was gone. Tucked in half while the tears came out freely against the wall you wished he’d have left you a chance to actually take up the role of boasting girlfriend like Hugh and others had teased you about before. If you couldn’t have him here beyond pictures, notes or phone calls selfishly you ached to have more than the sweater you eventually would end up nuzzling up to once changed, fed and tucked into bed.
So you know those really important phone calls? Worst thing is having one and instead of saying something like good bye or thank you, have a good day you say I love you...
Had that happen once and there was an awkward silence. guy on the other end just quietly whispered, “I love you too...” before hanging up...fucking not sure how to feel.
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