Author : whoknows
Summary: This segment has been going on long enough that Louis knows what's coming before James starts in on it, trying to sell him on something he knows that Louis wouldn't normally be buying. But there's four cameras surrounding him, and an audience watching him expectantly, so if Louis wants to continue convincing people that he's doing just fine, he's going to have to go along with it.
"We have a whole host of single men backstage waiting to meet you, Louis," James tells him. "We want to help you find love tonight, on Late Late Live Tinder. Is this okay? Do you want to play?"
It actually kind of makes sense that his first date after the break-up is going to be just as public as said break-up. Something like coming full circle.
"Alright, James," Louis agrees, hopping down off his stool.
"Okay, come down to the stage," James says. Louis can't even tell whether the excitement in his voice is genuine or not. "Right now, come on down!"
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It isn’t exactly inconspicuous, all the cameras and the crew coming towards him. Even if not for that, it isn’t like Louis has had his head buried in the sand lately. He’s well aware that James has been seeking victims for this particular segment, putting feelers out for which of his staff wouldn’t be opposed to taking part in it. So when Louis sees the chaos of the crew coming towards him, he pastes a camera-ready expression onto his face and tips the rest of his drink back before anyone can tell him not to.
“Louis!” James crows, his voice coming from a different camera than the one that’s currently aimed directly at Louis’ face. “Louis, darling, how are you today?”
“I’m well, James, thank you,” Louis answers. Politely enough, he thinks, despite the fact that he saw James two hours ago when they were going over the final script for his monologue and that polite isn’t really his default setting.
It must be the two beers sitting in his stomach. Alcohol has always made him more agreeable, and while two beers isn’t enough to get him tipsy, he hasn’t eaten anything in the past few hours, so he does feel the slightest edge of it.
This segment has been going on long enough that Louis knows what’s coming before James starts in on it, trying to sell him on something he knows that Louis wouldn’t normally be buying. But there’s four cameras surrounding him, and an audience watching him expectantly, so if Louis wants to continue convincing people that he’s doing just fine, he’s going to have to go along with it.
“We have a whole host of single men backstage waiting to meet you, Louis,” James tells him. “We want to help you find love tonight, on Late Late Live Tinder. Is this okay? Do you want to play?”
It actually kind of makes sense that his first date after the break-up is going to be just as public as said break-up. Something like coming full circle.
“Alright, James,” Louis agrees, hopping down off his stool.
“Okay, come down to the stage,” James says. Louis can’t even tell whether the excitement in his voice is genuine or not. “Right now, come on down!”
You’re the next contestant on the Price Is Right! a voice inside Louis’ head finishes. He sets off towards the stage at a light jog, thinking that maybe James is right and he really does need a vacation.
Thinking in voiceover is never a good sign for his mental health.It’s something to wonder about later, though, after he’s no longer on camera. Or, he realizes as he bursts onto the set a little too fast, standing in front of an audience of a hundred people. The crowd has always been something he’d taken for granted in the writer’s room, and it turns out that being faced with it is very different than knowing about it in the abstract.
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