And I Just Fell in the Deep End
Who's Gonna Cover For You?
Jaime woke up four hours later hungry for lunch and looked down, Luna was still asleep, but curled up now. Tony was somewhere, probably peeing. Jaime glanced out the window. They were too high now to see the ground clearly from the plane but he watched anyway.
Tony returned a few minutes later. Jaime looked down and saw Luna was still sleeping so he decided to talk with Tony about his crush on him.
"Hey man" he said.
"Mm?" Tony said.
"So do you really like me?" He asked.
Tony got flustered and didn't know what to say.
"Dude, it's okay if you do… I don't care. I just wanted to tell you it's fine. And you don't have to worry about it being weird. It won't be unless you make it weird okay? But hey..." He reached over and put his hand on Tony's arm "it's seriously okay. You don't have to be embarrassed okay?" He smiled and Tony smiled back.
"Thank you Himes" he responded.
"Love you man" Jaime said
Tony just smiled in response, he didn't want to sound weird by saying it back after that conversation.
Luna started shifting around and mumbling things in her sleep. Their two names were the only words that were audible.
Jaime and Tony turned their attention to Luna to see if they could make out what she was saying.
"I love you." She mumbled, and then went silent, starting to snore a little bit.
Jaime held his hand to his heart and looked at Tony "awwww" Jaime said quietly.
"Oh my god my heart" Tony said.
A few minutes later Luna started to wake up and she stretched and groaned. She opened her eyes and squinted at Tony. "Hi."
"Hello love" Tony responded.
"I'm hungry." She sat up a little, rubbing her face.
"I know hun they should be doing lunch soon. It’s only 9 am local time but it’s supposed to be 12 back in San Diego so hopefully they'll come around soon" Tony said.
"I wish it wasn't so early, I could use some Jameson about now." She groaned.
Tony frowned down at her. He still disapproved of her drinking, even though he had no control over it because she's 21. He opened his mouth to say something but decided against it.
Luna looked over at Jaime, realizing she hadn't even said hello to him. "Hiii." She pressed her lips to his, lovingly.
"Hi baby sleep well?" He asked after they parted.
"Yep! I'm actually awake now and not just a zombie." She replied.
Jaime chuckled. "You're a cute sleeper, you know that?" He poked her nose.
"Oh? I bet you're cuter." Luna giggled.
"Do I talk in my sleep?" Jaime scrunched his nose at her.
"No... Do I??" She responded.
"Yup!" Jaime giggled and ran his fingers through her hair.
"Oh god. I didn't say anything embarrassing did I??" Luna looked to Tony to make sure they wouldn't lie to her.
Jaime thought for a moment "hmm who's Todd? You were moaning his name." Jaime pretended to look sad, looking out the window.
Luna's eyes widened and she gasped "What??"
Jaime laughed "I'm kidding baby you just said me and Tony's name and then 'I love you' before you went quiet again. It was adorable" he kissed her lips.
"That was mean." Luna pouted. "I was scared for a minute."
Tony looked over at Luna questioningly. "Why? Who IS Todd?" He asked his sister.
"I have no idea?? That's why I was freaked out." She replied.
The stewardess come up from the back and handed each person a sandwich, chips, and a soda of their choice. Tony and Jaime unwrapped theirs and began eating.
"We're just kidding LuLu" Tony said with his mouth full. "We know you love Hime more than anything"
"And don't forget you!" Luna smiled as she began eating.
"What that you love Hime more than I do? Well duh!" Tony laughed.
"Noo that I love you too!" She stuck her tongue out at him.
Tony smiled "I love you too LuLu.
"Now what?" Luna sighed after she was finished eating. "I'm not tired anymore so I can't sleep."
"Now we have 8 hours to kill. It gets boring. We can watch some movies or talk or play games I dunno" Jaime said, wrapping his arm around Lu.
Luna sighed and leaned on Jaime's shoulder. "You decide I don't care."
"Let's talk for a while" Jaime said, turning in his seat so he could see Tony and Luna.
"Well since we're sitting here for 8 hours I guess I could tell you about..." Luna started.
Jaime looked at Tony and then at Luna "go on..."
Luna told him everything that happened, keeping her voice low so any nosy people sitting near them couldn't hear.
Jaime’s jaw was clenched. He couldn't believe someone would do those things to her and make her feel so broken. "Wow Luna." He finally said. "I am so sorry those things happened to you. Hey-" he said, taking her by the chin gently to make her look at him. "You know I'd never dream of hurting you right?" He pulled her into his lap.
"I know." Luna smiled at him, leaning into his chest happily.
Tony reached his hand over and rubbed her calf. It hurt him to hear the first time, and it hurt even more the second time, especially with more details than she had originally told him. Tony sighed deeply and quietly wiped a tear that had escaped while Jaime held Luna close.
"Tone, I'm okay I promise." Luna placed her hand on top of his reassuringly.
"I know, love. It just hurts that someone could do that to you and that I had no idea for so long… I feel like a bad brother..." Tony said, getting up and going to the bathroom, he didn't want to have her see him cry.
Luna sighed and bit her lip. "Should I go after him?"
"He'll be back" Jaime said, kissing her head. "He's got nowhere else to go." Jaime chuckled. "He just doesn't want you to see him cry babe."
Luna frowned. "But he's upset. I hate that. I'm gonna cuddle with him when he comes back, Kay?"
"Duh I'd question you if you didn't" Jaime said sassily.
"Rude." Luna giggled and kissed him gently. "Hey is that Vic sleeping in front of me?"
Tony came back a few minutes later and sat in his seat. His eyes were red from crying so much. He put his head down on his pillow on the tray in front of him with his head facing the aisle so Luna and Jaime wouldn't see how red his eyes were.
"I think so" Jaime whispered as Tony sat back down.
Luna leaned forward and took the snap back off his head, and put it on herself.
Vic woke up and spun around "Luna my hair!" He shrieked.
"I think I might keep this." Luna grinned tauntingly at him.
Tony looked up to see what was going on and giggled.
Vic glanced at tony. "Hey you okay man?" He asked when he noticed his eyes so red.
Tony nodded unconvincingly but Vic turned his attention to Luna "fine I have another one" he sighed reaching into his carry on.
Luna looked over at him. "...oh... Tony..." She said quietly, sliding off Jaime and scooting over to him.
Tony pulled her into his lap, burying his face into her neck.
Luna played with his Padawan braid, murmuring comforting words into his ear.
"Am I a terrible brother?" Tony asked after a while, pulling his face away from her neck and looking in her eyes.
"No!!! Of course not. I love you and you're always there for me. You were the one to notice I was depressed and helped me get help, even when you were on tour you'd call me twice a day just to make sure I was doing alright. You're the best brother ever." She explained to him.
Tony smiled and kissed her forehead. "I love you Luna Bug."
"I love you too." Luna smiled and closed her eyes, resting her head against his chest.
Jaime reached over and took Luna's hand, and laced his fingers with hers.
Some nosy passengers walked by and gave the weirdest looks at the three of them. Jaime just waved and said hey.
Luna yawned. "This is so boring. I hate airplanes."
"So what are we gonna do in Europe babe? I can assume you've never gone since you never flew? Any dreams you have of what you want to do over there?" Jaime asked.
Vic got interested and leaned his chair back as far as it could go so he could join the conversation. Michael was watching Harry potter of course and dead to the world. He was on movie 3 and still had 5 to go.
"Umm I'm not really sure. I definitely wanna climb the Eiffel Tower. What else is there?"
"What is there" Jaime scoffed. "What ISN'T there? Shopping in Paris… Paris at night... Ugh. They light up the tower at night and you can see it everywhere. The arc de triumph is gorgeous and it’s pretty ridiculous to watch people try to drive around it. Gondolas in Venice, the coliseum, ugh the Trevi fountain, oh god Luna you're going to have so much fun!" Jaime got more and more excited as he talked.
Luna smiled at her boyfriend’s excitement. "I'm also excited to see you guys play, it's been so long!"
Jaime kissed her lips "I know. Tony hasn't brought you around in forever"
"Are we putting the girl to work?" Vic asked from his seat, laughing.
"I'll run merch if you want!" Luna smiled. "Anything to lessen the burden I am on all of you."
"You're so cute Luna bear" Vic said.
"I'm serious! I'll do anything to help out." She replied.
"You should play with us some nights LuLu. The kids would love it" Jaime suggested.
"Are you sure??" Her eyes widened at the thought of playing in front of a crowd.
"Dude you're totally awesome there's no question you just should. Hell you could take my job and I’ll just sit on stage so the girls can freak out over my face" Tony laughed.
"Okay I guess..." She looked nervous.
"Only if you want to Lu" Jaime reassured her.
"I do! But I've never played in front of a crowd before." She said.
"We'll help you it'll be fine darlin" Vic said.
"Okay!!" Luna smiled.
***
"So we're here!" Vic said as their new tour bus pulled up to the venue. It was 4 am local time when they arrived in Paris so they had gone straight to the hotel to sleep. They arrived at the venue at 12 pm and had some time to kill so they decided to play ball in the back lot while crew loaded in.
"Yay! I'll ref for you guys because playing football with a bunch of large men is scary." She laughed.
They all started running some plays. After about a half hour Mike threw the ball hard, and just out of reach of Tony's grasp. Tony went left to try to catch it but missed and stumbled backwards. Tony landed directly on his left hand and heard small pop. His eyes went wide. 'No no no not my hand' he thought. Suddenly the pain hit. "FUCK" he screamed.
"Shit Tony. Are you okay?" Luna ran over to him. "Let me see."
Tony grimaced and picked his arm up to let Luna see. He tried to move his fingers but a sharp pain shot through his hand "FUCK OW" he screamed again.
Vic, Mike, and Jaime ran over to Tony too "dude shit you can't move it?” Mike asked.
Tony shook his head.
"Fuck what are we going to do?" Vic said.
"Easy easy don't force it." Luna helped him stand up. "Let's get you some ice and have the medics take a look."
"I don't know" Tony answered Vic. He was pissed for letting this happen to his playing hand. He followed Luna inside to get ice.
The medics gave him ice and wrapped it up. "It's just a sprain, but take it easy for 4 or 5 days."
"Shit Tone, who's gonna cover for you??" Luna asked.
Tony sighed. "You're going to have to Luna bug. You know all the songs… You play better than I do... There's no one else..."
"Me?!" Luna sat down. "In front of all those people??"
"Yeah, honey." He rubbed her shoulder "but you're going to love it... And I'm going to be on stage with you the whole time, and I’ll make sure they're nice to you" He smiled to reassure her.
"Oh god. Oh my god." She put her head in her hands.
"Hey shhh" he wrapped her in a hug "you'll do fine. Hey! Listen. We have a meet and greet today. How bout we let you play for them first since it'll only be like 50 instead of all of them? What do you say?" He suggested.
"Okay... I guess so..." Luna said, still unsure. "When's sound check?"
"3. It's 1:30 now so you should go practice. I know you haven't played in a bit" Tony said.
"Okay, come with me?" Luna replied.
"Yeah go grab my guitar from inside and then go to the bus I have to talk to the guys and Ashley hopefully she won't rip my face off" he laughed and pushed her towards where the techs were setting up.
Luna walked over and reached for the guitar Tony used first during the night, quickly explaining the situation to his guitar tech when he tried to stop her. He nodded understandingly and she went out to the bus.
Tony returned a few minutes later. Jaime looked down and saw Luna was still sleeping so he decided to talk with Tony about his crush on him.
"Hey man" he said.
"Mm?" Tony said.
"So do you really like me?" He asked.
Tony got flustered and didn't know what to say.
"Dude, it's okay if you do… I don't care. I just wanted to tell you it's fine. And you don't have to worry about it being weird. It won't be unless you make it weird okay? But hey..." He reached over and put his hand on Tony's arm "it's seriously okay. You don't have to be embarrassed okay?" He smiled and Tony smiled back.
"Thank you Himes" he responded.
"Love you man" Jaime said
Tony just smiled in response, he didn't want to sound weird by saying it back after that conversation.
Luna started shifting around and mumbling things in her sleep. Their two names were the only words that were audible.
Jaime and Tony turned their attention to Luna to see if they could make out what she was saying.
"I love you." She mumbled, and then went silent, starting to snore a little bit.
Jaime held his hand to his heart and looked at Tony "awwww" Jaime said quietly.
"Oh my god my heart" Tony said.
A few minutes later Luna started to wake up and she stretched and groaned. She opened her eyes and squinted at Tony. "Hi."
"Hello love" Tony responded.
"I'm hungry." She sat up a little, rubbing her face.
"I know hun they should be doing lunch soon. It’s only 9 am local time but it’s supposed to be 12 back in San Diego so hopefully they'll come around soon" Tony said.
"I wish it wasn't so early, I could use some Jameson about now." She groaned.
Tony frowned down at her. He still disapproved of her drinking, even though he had no control over it because she's 21. He opened his mouth to say something but decided against it.
Luna looked over at Jaime, realizing she hadn't even said hello to him. "Hiii." She pressed her lips to his, lovingly.
"Hi baby sleep well?" He asked after they parted.
"Yep! I'm actually awake now and not just a zombie." She replied.
Jaime chuckled. "You're a cute sleeper, you know that?" He poked her nose.
"Oh? I bet you're cuter." Luna giggled.
"Do I talk in my sleep?" Jaime scrunched his nose at her.
"No... Do I??" She responded.
"Yup!" Jaime giggled and ran his fingers through her hair.
"Oh god. I didn't say anything embarrassing did I??" Luna looked to Tony to make sure they wouldn't lie to her.
Jaime thought for a moment "hmm who's Todd? You were moaning his name." Jaime pretended to look sad, looking out the window.
Luna's eyes widened and she gasped "What??"
Jaime laughed "I'm kidding baby you just said me and Tony's name and then 'I love you' before you went quiet again. It was adorable" he kissed her lips.
"That was mean." Luna pouted. "I was scared for a minute."
Tony looked over at Luna questioningly. "Why? Who IS Todd?" He asked his sister.
"I have no idea?? That's why I was freaked out." She replied.
The stewardess come up from the back and handed each person a sandwich, chips, and a soda of their choice. Tony and Jaime unwrapped theirs and began eating.
"We're just kidding LuLu" Tony said with his mouth full. "We know you love Hime more than anything"
"And don't forget you!" Luna smiled as she began eating.
"What that you love Hime more than I do? Well duh!" Tony laughed.
"Noo that I love you too!" She stuck her tongue out at him.
Tony smiled "I love you too LuLu.
"Now what?" Luna sighed after she was finished eating. "I'm not tired anymore so I can't sleep."
"Now we have 8 hours to kill. It gets boring. We can watch some movies or talk or play games I dunno" Jaime said, wrapping his arm around Lu.
Luna sighed and leaned on Jaime's shoulder. "You decide I don't care."
"Let's talk for a while" Jaime said, turning in his seat so he could see Tony and Luna.
"Well since we're sitting here for 8 hours I guess I could tell you about..." Luna started.
Jaime looked at Tony and then at Luna "go on..."
Luna told him everything that happened, keeping her voice low so any nosy people sitting near them couldn't hear.
Jaime’s jaw was clenched. He couldn't believe someone would do those things to her and make her feel so broken. "Wow Luna." He finally said. "I am so sorry those things happened to you. Hey-" he said, taking her by the chin gently to make her look at him. "You know I'd never dream of hurting you right?" He pulled her into his lap.
"I know." Luna smiled at him, leaning into his chest happily.
Tony reached his hand over and rubbed her calf. It hurt him to hear the first time, and it hurt even more the second time, especially with more details than she had originally told him. Tony sighed deeply and quietly wiped a tear that had escaped while Jaime held Luna close.
"Tone, I'm okay I promise." Luna placed her hand on top of his reassuringly.
"I know, love. It just hurts that someone could do that to you and that I had no idea for so long… I feel like a bad brother..." Tony said, getting up and going to the bathroom, he didn't want to have her see him cry.
Luna sighed and bit her lip. "Should I go after him?"
"He'll be back" Jaime said, kissing her head. "He's got nowhere else to go." Jaime chuckled. "He just doesn't want you to see him cry babe."
Luna frowned. "But he's upset. I hate that. I'm gonna cuddle with him when he comes back, Kay?"
"Duh I'd question you if you didn't" Jaime said sassily.
"Rude." Luna giggled and kissed him gently. "Hey is that Vic sleeping in front of me?"
Tony came back a few minutes later and sat in his seat. His eyes were red from crying so much. He put his head down on his pillow on the tray in front of him with his head facing the aisle so Luna and Jaime wouldn't see how red his eyes were.
"I think so" Jaime whispered as Tony sat back down.
Luna leaned forward and took the snap back off his head, and put it on herself.
Vic woke up and spun around "Luna my hair!" He shrieked.
"I think I might keep this." Luna grinned tauntingly at him.
Tony looked up to see what was going on and giggled.
Vic glanced at tony. "Hey you okay man?" He asked when he noticed his eyes so red.
Tony nodded unconvincingly but Vic turned his attention to Luna "fine I have another one" he sighed reaching into his carry on.
Luna looked over at him. "...oh... Tony..." She said quietly, sliding off Jaime and scooting over to him.
Tony pulled her into his lap, burying his face into her neck.
Luna played with his Padawan braid, murmuring comforting words into his ear.
"Am I a terrible brother?" Tony asked after a while, pulling his face away from her neck and looking in her eyes.
"No!!! Of course not. I love you and you're always there for me. You were the one to notice I was depressed and helped me get help, even when you were on tour you'd call me twice a day just to make sure I was doing alright. You're the best brother ever." She explained to him.
Tony smiled and kissed her forehead. "I love you Luna Bug."
"I love you too." Luna smiled and closed her eyes, resting her head against his chest.
Jaime reached over and took Luna's hand, and laced his fingers with hers.
Some nosy passengers walked by and gave the weirdest looks at the three of them. Jaime just waved and said hey.
Luna yawned. "This is so boring. I hate airplanes."
"So what are we gonna do in Europe babe? I can assume you've never gone since you never flew? Any dreams you have of what you want to do over there?" Jaime asked.
Vic got interested and leaned his chair back as far as it could go so he could join the conversation. Michael was watching Harry potter of course and dead to the world. He was on movie 3 and still had 5 to go.
"Umm I'm not really sure. I definitely wanna climb the Eiffel Tower. What else is there?"
"What is there" Jaime scoffed. "What ISN'T there? Shopping in Paris… Paris at night... Ugh. They light up the tower at night and you can see it everywhere. The arc de triumph is gorgeous and it’s pretty ridiculous to watch people try to drive around it. Gondolas in Venice, the coliseum, ugh the Trevi fountain, oh god Luna you're going to have so much fun!" Jaime got more and more excited as he talked.
Luna smiled at her boyfriend’s excitement. "I'm also excited to see you guys play, it's been so long!"
Jaime kissed her lips "I know. Tony hasn't brought you around in forever"
"Are we putting the girl to work?" Vic asked from his seat, laughing.
"I'll run merch if you want!" Luna smiled. "Anything to lessen the burden I am on all of you."
"You're so cute Luna bear" Vic said.
"I'm serious! I'll do anything to help out." She replied.
"You should play with us some nights LuLu. The kids would love it" Jaime suggested.
"Are you sure??" Her eyes widened at the thought of playing in front of a crowd.
"Dude you're totally awesome there's no question you just should. Hell you could take my job and I’ll just sit on stage so the girls can freak out over my face" Tony laughed.
"Okay I guess..." She looked nervous.
"Only if you want to Lu" Jaime reassured her.
"I do! But I've never played in front of a crowd before." She said.
"We'll help you it'll be fine darlin" Vic said.
"Okay!!" Luna smiled.
***
"So we're here!" Vic said as their new tour bus pulled up to the venue. It was 4 am local time when they arrived in Paris so they had gone straight to the hotel to sleep. They arrived at the venue at 12 pm and had some time to kill so they decided to play ball in the back lot while crew loaded in.
"Yay! I'll ref for you guys because playing football with a bunch of large men is scary." She laughed.
They all started running some plays. After about a half hour Mike threw the ball hard, and just out of reach of Tony's grasp. Tony went left to try to catch it but missed and stumbled backwards. Tony landed directly on his left hand and heard small pop. His eyes went wide. 'No no no not my hand' he thought. Suddenly the pain hit. "FUCK" he screamed.
"Shit Tony. Are you okay?" Luna ran over to him. "Let me see."
Tony grimaced and picked his arm up to let Luna see. He tried to move his fingers but a sharp pain shot through his hand "FUCK OW" he screamed again.
Vic, Mike, and Jaime ran over to Tony too "dude shit you can't move it?” Mike asked.
Tony shook his head.
"Fuck what are we going to do?" Vic said.
"Easy easy don't force it." Luna helped him stand up. "Let's get you some ice and have the medics take a look."
"I don't know" Tony answered Vic. He was pissed for letting this happen to his playing hand. He followed Luna inside to get ice.
The medics gave him ice and wrapped it up. "It's just a sprain, but take it easy for 4 or 5 days."
"Shit Tone, who's gonna cover for you??" Luna asked.
Tony sighed. "You're going to have to Luna bug. You know all the songs… You play better than I do... There's no one else..."
"Me?!" Luna sat down. "In front of all those people??"
"Yeah, honey." He rubbed her shoulder "but you're going to love it... And I'm going to be on stage with you the whole time, and I’ll make sure they're nice to you" He smiled to reassure her.
"Oh god. Oh my god." She put her head in her hands.
"Hey shhh" he wrapped her in a hug "you'll do fine. Hey! Listen. We have a meet and greet today. How bout we let you play for them first since it'll only be like 50 instead of all of them? What do you say?" He suggested.
"Okay... I guess so..." Luna said, still unsure. "When's sound check?"
"3. It's 1:30 now so you should go practice. I know you haven't played in a bit" Tony said.
"Okay, come with me?" Luna replied.
"Yeah go grab my guitar from inside and then go to the bus I have to talk to the guys and Ashley hopefully she won't rip my face off" he laughed and pushed her towards where the techs were setting up.
Luna walked over and reached for the guitar Tony used first during the night, quickly explaining the situation to his guitar tech when he tried to stop her. He nodded understandingly and she went out to the bus.
10/29/13