In My Dreams

Dom settled back into the leather seat to wait for Billy to answer. He flipped on the CD player figuring he had time for a little Coldplay when Billy answered. “Hello, Dommie nice to hear from ya.” That was unexpected.
“Bills?”
“Who were you expecting to answer my cell? Perhaps Pippin?” He laughed. Wait a minute. . laughed? Shouldn’t he be pissed?
“William Boyd?” Try again.
“Dominic Monaghan? I think we’ve been through this. Watchya need?” Okay maybe he just hasn’t gone to bed yet. Could happen.
“Sorry to call at this time. I know how you need your beauty sleep and all. Just glad I didn’t seem to wake you up.”
“Nope wide awake in fact. Wait, you were going to call and wake me up? We've been through this before my dear dear Dommie and if i recall it wasn’t pleasant for you last time remember.” Dom could tell he was joking. Probably anyway.
“Yeah sorry, so if your not asleep what are you doing its gotta be pretty late there Bills.” Act casual and quickly find a good reason for calling. If he had been half-asleep any old excuse would have done. All that he would have remembered the next day was that he was woken up. And caller id would have filled him in on the poor sap who had done so.
“That might be an issue if I were in Scotland. But since I’m in New York I’m only two hours behind you Dommie.”
“What, why are you in NY and why didn’t I know about it I could have taken some time and visited. Paint the town red and all that jazz”
“It was going to be a surprise but since you’ve already ruined it I’ll tell you. Promise you won’t tell Elijah?”
“Okay, not a word to Frodo. What exactly am I not telling him Bills?” He was starting to get uneasy thinking about Emily’s words “he’s not in Scotland.”
He waited he heard Billy talking to someone in the background, “He won’t tell him. If he does I’ll help you get revenge, Hobbit style.” That last part made Dom a little uneasy to say the least.
“Hobbit style Bill?”
“You know, lotta kicking, biting, food and alcohol deprivation, Hobbit torture.”
“Cute Billy.”
“I always am Dommie.” He sounded smug. Bet he looked that way too. He knew the look well. It was typical Billy.
“Look Billy what’s going on and who were you talking to just now?” He remembered, “They” This was getting weird all right.
Ok Ok, Jai called me the other day. They finished filming the season a week sooner than they thought and he was going to come home early. He has some sort of surprise for ‘Lij. He asked if I was doing anything this week and since I don’t start my new play for a few weeks I told him I would meet him in New York and we would fly to LA together. That’s where we are now, waiting for our flight to board. Happy now Dom. Not a word to ‘Lij. We will be there in a few hours, seeing as you know now I’ll cancel the rental car and you can pick us up.” Dom was seriously freaked out by this time.
“Billy this is going to sound dumb. But can you do me a favor?”
“Anything Merry mine. All you have to do is ask.”
“Don’t get on that plane either of you. Please” That was easier than he thought it would be.
“Except that. Jai would kill me. He’s been nervous as hell since I got here. All jittery and anxious. Whatever this surprise is I hope it goes well he’s kind of creeping me out.” Dom knew he had to get them to agree. Then he was going to go back in the café and drag some answers out of Emily.
“Bills do it for me please. You know I wouldn’t ask you to do something without a good reason.”
“Ok what’s this good reason?” Perfectly logical question.
“I have no idea.” Perfectly illogical answer.
“I have to go they are boarding now, I'll see you when we get there.” He hung up. Dom immediately dialed back.
“Dommie I cant do that.”
Dom thought he would borrow a line from Emily, “Bills do you love me, do you trust me?”
“Of course Dom, but this is silly.”
“Please, I’ll make you a deal. You take a later flight, both of you, and the bar tab for the whole week is on me.” That should do it. Free booze and a Scotsman go well together.
“You’re serious aren’t you? Fine but I’m having lots of expensive fru-fru drinks. You know the ones where they put an umbrella in them so they can charge you double. You better come up with a good reason by then too.” Dom sighed with relief but still wasn’t sure exactly why yet.
“What are you going to tell Jai?”
“I’ll just have to tell him that they overbooked and we got bumped. And even my suave actor self couldn’t charm the lady.”
“He’ll believe it.”
“Hey, that was sarcasm.”
“Whatever Billy see you later call me before you get here. Your carriage will be waiting.”
“Sure thing Prince Charming. Bye” Dom hung up the phone and just sat there for a few minutes. He slowly headed back into the café not sure if he wanted to hear this after all. When he got back, she was gone. There was a note on the table.
Dom,
Tell him I’m really sorry if I ruined his surprise. I paid the bill. Thank You for trusting me. Emily

He ran outside to see if he could catch her but she was gone. He realized that he forgot to tip the waitress and went back inside. He put a twenty dollar bill on the table and scribbled a note on another napkin,
Karen,
Keep up the good work. Gotta keep out the Riff-Raff you know.
Love, Dom Monaghan
Then he headed back out into the sunshine.