literature

Warnings.

Deviation Actions

Published: Aug 30, 2011

226 Views

Literature Text

_{Following the meeting with the Overlord, Maelstrom had been offline for a short period of time.

The movie had let out a few minutes after the meeting, and Becky had located him quickly and with a frown. He'd smiled nervously. She wasn't having it. He opened his mouth, but she cut him off before any sound could come out of it.

"You're fucking ditching me for the rest of the night and you want a ride home, right?"

His jaw snapped shut, and he nodded sheepishly. His girlfriend gave a heavy sigh and leaned into him, and he wrapped an arm around her, pressing a light kiss to her dreads. "I'm sorry, querida." She snorted at the nickname, as she always did; he'd been calling her that since they spent a weekend in high school watching Addams Family reruns.

They'd spent most of the car ride in silence, Jules on his Blackberry. He BBM'd Zack that he was feeling really sick all of a sudden and that he wouldn't be at work tomorrow. The reply was almost immediate:

>>> Ure full of fucking shit.

The blond smiled fondly, and his friend rolled her eyes and punched him in the shoulder after pulling over in front of the place he shared with Cal Squared. "You know I expect an explanation."

Jules bit his lip, and leaned over to kiss her cheek. "After."

Her lips pursed. He sighed, but said nothing, just averting his eyes. Finally, she spoke again. "I'll come over tomorrow."

"I'll be busy." The answer was immediate.

"I'll come over and make you food."

"I--" He stopped. He couldn't argue with that.

"And then you'll explain to me, or at least let me nag you, or watch whatever the fuck it is you're blowing me off for."

"The one that doesn't require either of us talking. Here, uh, gimme a sec." He disappeared from the car and jogged to the front door, unlocking it, before he jogged back. Leaning in through the open door, he smiled and held out his key. She took it suspiciously, eyeing him as she set it in the cigarette tray on top of a couple of coins and a bobby pin. "Come in whenever you need to. I'll get you out of work so you can make lunch, because Cal and I would really appreciate it--uh, shit, here." His wallet appeared from his back pocket, and he flipped it open and pulled out a couple of bills. Handing them over, he continued in a hurry. "We have no food in the house. Get whatever, plus some junk. Keep the change. I love you, I'll see you tomorrow. Gotta go."

Becky opened her mouth to speak, but Jules had already bolted for the front door. She huffed, but folded the bills without bothering to check when he'd given her and stuck them in the tray with the key, before leaving to go home.

Jules, on the other hand, had slipped inside and immediately set up base in his room. His laptop was returned to his desk, he raided the kitchen for crap to keep him through the night, and he'd made sure that all of his power cables actually worked so that nothing died on him. Cal was holed up in his own room already, which he'd kind of expected, and Caleb was out or something, which was probably for the best. Returning to the kitchen, he poured himself a cup of cold coffee and set the mug in the microwave. Pulling his phone out again, he found more messages waiting from his brother.

>>> B back by mon.
>>> U better have ur shit done.

Absently, he added that Becky wouldn't be in to work either. The microwave beeped that its short trip was over, and he retrieved his mug, taking a sip when he was dinged with a new reply.

>>> Dont get NE1 pregnant.

Coffee sprayed the microwave, and Virus had to wait another few minutes for Maelstrom to return.}