Thursday: A Night On the Town

[aurilly]

Where did the week go? To gear up for the rapidly approaching weekend, today's theme is A Night On the Town. So, send your favorite characters or actors out to have a good time. They could do anything---attend the ballet, meet a sexy stranger at a bar, dance on tables, have a first date, schtup a bridesmaid at a wedding. Just make it something one

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[iniq]

Jared set down the cutlery and took a sip of wine, watching Jensen's face for clues.

A moment later, Jensen squeezed the phone between his shoulder and his ear and took out a little notepad and a pen. "Millbrook Building," he repeated."How do I spell that? Wee-qua-hik?"

As Jensen was writing that down, Jared sat up straighter. He knew those names, both of them. He gestured for the waiter and asked him to bring the check. They had to go - both of them, this time.

"Yeah, I can be there in… I dunno. Thirty?" he looked up then and frowned when he saw Jared moving. He hung up with a short "later" and put everything away again.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

Jared rubbed his jaw. "You tell me, but I know both those names. I was there today, talking to Mr Millbrook, my huge new case, on the golf course of Weequahik park."

Jensen looked surprised. "Huh," he said then.

"Mind telling me what's going on?" Jared asked.

"Not at all, but let's talk in the car. We should get going."

"We?" While Jared had hoped that Jensen would take him with, but he hadn't expected this to go smoothly and without begging.

"Yeah. I'm taking you with me," Jensen said. "I know, I know, lawyer-client confidentiality, so you can't actually tell me anything, but it's your big case, right? You might be able to fill us in on the general idea."

Jared nodded.

Jensen pushed his chair back. "Well, then you should probably know what's going on, too, as the future junior partner." He dragged the last three words out, emphasizing again how proud he was of Jared.

The waiter came back then with his credit card and Jared signed off on the slip of paper he was handed. He looked back at Jensen and the way he held himself, before he rolled his eyes.

"You have no idea how to get there, do you?" Jared asked as he was putting the card back in his wallet.

Jensen thinned his lips, pulling the corners downward. A smile escaped. "Nope."

"You know you have a satnav in your car, right?"

Jensen sighed. "But I haven't had the time yet to learn how to work it," he explained. "It's a new car, a new satnav and it's all modern and has a touch screen."

It wasn't exactly new - seeing Jensen completely defeated by technology. He had barely learned how to work the coffee machine, and then only because it was a necessary tool of survival. Jensen had barely given Jared's state-of-the-art entertainment center a glance before he admitted defeat.

Jared got up and pushed the chair in. "I'll drive you. On one condition," he said, raising his index finger.

"Yeah?" Jensen asked, a little wary. He got up and put on his jacket.

"We don't let this case come between us. I mean, if I can help, I will, I'll cooperate right up until we're breaching confidentiality, no problem. But this is my career, and I could lose my license if I say too much."

Jensen nodded. "That's fair." He grabbed Jared's tie as he went past the chair and handed Jared the keys. "Now I'm sorry," he said.

Jared shrugged. "We're even now," he said and dangled the keys from his finger. "I'll remind you of that, next time I'm late.

"I'll make sure I'm not on call next time." He followed that with a quiet "I promise". He had wanted their date to be great, but apparently that wasn't in the cards.

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[earthquakedream]

Aww, poor boys!

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[iniq]

Ah, they can take it. It'll be a huge case. They'll both get involved. Maybe Jared will be questioned, even though they both know he knows nothing. Jensen will feel bad. They might even have a little fight! (It'll involve thoughts on the shared custody of a house plant and be very short and maybe even a little cute.) Then they'll get their act together, and eventually it will be discovered that someone tried to hide something because of a somethingsomething planning commission and there might even be a politician involved - and maybe even one of the senior partner's of Jared's law firm. They'll get out unscathed but a little less innocent. They'll have learned lessons for their relationship, Jared will have learned that senior partners can be crooked and Jensen will learn that the law is not always that clear cut. The moral of the story will be that it's impossible to force a professional gardener to divide a house plant in two parts because it would die. They'll live happily ever after until Jensen gets shot one day on a case and Jared has a crisis - he'll ask Jensen for forever and Jensen will give it to him in the form of a professional contract which will give Jared full custody of the houseplant, which will be a cute but ultimately cliché and trite writing tool. And some day down the road, in a 10 years into the future timestamp, they'll move into a house together and get plants for their garden and they'll feel absolutely ridiculous that they once fought over one plant. And then they'll get a dog and roll their eyes dramatically and make a bad joke about shared custody and that the next step, after houseplants, house, and dog, is an adopted African baby.
There will be a climax and jeopardy and sacrfice and all the tools that go into a good story. And a happy ending of course.

Yeah. So, it'll all be alright. :D

And Jared will make junior partner and get a BMW coupé, in which he'll take Jensen off to one of the little expensive vacation islands off the shores of New Jersey... and they'll have a weekend filled with sex and champagne.

:D

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[earthquakedream]

Hahaha nice.