Babysitting Tom (a Tom Hiddleston story)

Does Tom need a babysitter ?

"Why do I need a nanny ? You know I am a grown man right ?" Tom was sitting in the passenger's seat pouting, Luke had just picked him up at the airport.

Luke sighed, when he sat with his bottom lip pushed out like that, he actually looked like a disgruntled kid. "Not a nanny Tom, an assistant".

"Shouldn't that be my choice ? You treat me like I am some kind of unreliable teenager". He crossed his arms looking out the window.

Luke huffed, he was pretty sure this was pretty much how it was to deal with a teenager. "That might be because you quite often act like one Tom".

"To be honest, I am not crazy about the idea of someone I don't know living with me". He put his knees up on the dashboard, the rental car wasn't spacey and he had a bit of trouble fitting in his long legs comfortably.

Luke turned down the road, almost at the house now. "Listen Tom.. Why don't we try this ? Wouldn't it be nice to have someone to help you remember your appointments and such ?"

"I kind of thought that was your job Luke ?" He says, smirking at his publicist and long time friend.

Luke rolls his eyes. Tom can really be annoying at times. "Of course, but I can't be here all the time. I have other clients as well and I need to go back to London a couple of times to.

"Okay I'll try, but only because I don't wanna deal with your hassling me, so let me know, what have you come up with ?" He was imagining some big emotionless man.

Luke glanced at him while answering. "We had someone applying to a job at the office Ava, Eric thought she was perfect for the job".

"So it is a woman ? Okay tell me, big bodybuilding russian type with a moustache right ?" Tom looked at him.

Luke turned of the car in the driveway and looked at him. "No Tom ! If you ask me she is a little too pretty for this, but she seems to be able to handle herself, and I think she can handle you".

"Well let me see about that. I am not sure you and me have the same idea about what is pretty". He got out the car.

Tom heard something splashing in the garden, there was someone in the pool, it had to be her, so he tiptoed up to the fence, glancing over it.

First thing he saw when she emerged from the water was dark hair slicked back, a very pretty face with plump soft looking lips and then an very well-turned body in an orange bikini bringing out her sun kissed skin.

He turned and looked at Luke with wide eyes. "Seriously ? You gotta be shitting me right ? Is that my assistant ?"

Luke glanced over over the fence and kind of regretted following Eric recommendation, but at least she would have his attention. "Yes it is Tom, that is Ava".

"So that body.. Uh I mean woman is going to live here with me ? This might work out after all". Tom said with a big grin.

Luke got his bag out of the car. "No Tom, forget it, she has signed a contract forbidding her to touch you, so don't even think about it".

"Fuck, you are such a buzzkill sometimes Luke, but can I go say hallo right ? Am I allowed to hug her ? Or is the limit a handshake ?" Tom walked towards the garden gate.

There it was again, the obstinate teenager and the reason why they had hired someone to keep an eye on him. "Just be yourself, no scratch that, just act normal right ?"