Title: Impossible

Fandom: Center Stage

Pairing/Characters: Jody Sawyer, Cooper Nielson

Rating: FR13

Disclaimer: Center Stage belongs to Columbia Pictures and company.

Prompts: Written for over_look for prompt #10 (impossible) for Theme Set II.

Notes: Set post-movie.

Summary: Jody finds that Cooper can be rather impossible.

Word Count: 358

She loves dancing with Cooper and his company. It's exciting in ways that she knows that dancing with the American Ballet Company never could have been. It's not about the fact that she's a principal with Cooper; instead it's the fact that they're breaking new ground every time they have a new production. Every ballet that they perform is something new and not just a tired reinterpretation of a ballet that other companies before theirs have done over and over again.

However, Jody quickly learns that when he is in the middle of choreographing a ballet, Cooper becomes next to impossible. Everything is about the ballet that he is working on and he doesn't have time for anything else. It forces her to take on a more administrative role within CNDC to ensure that the Company doesn't crash and burn because of Cooper's distraction.

The end result of his impossible ways is always an amazing ballet but there are times when Jody wonders if she should have listened to what Jonathan had to say the night of the workshop. Perhaps she would have been offered a spot with the American Ballet Company and she might not have been a principal but at the same time she would be focused only on her dancing.

The journey to the end result is always filled with frustration, exhaustion and anger. There are times when she finds herself falling on her bed sometime after midnight, fully clothed and exhausted beyond belief. She'll close her eyes for a moment and the next thing she knows is her alarm clock is blaring in the early morning hours. And she'll start the cycle all over again, despite the complaints that she's made to Eva, Erik and Charlie and the almost promises that she's made them about how she'll talk to Cooper.

Yet she never does talk to him despite the complaints, the almost-promises, the frustration, the exhaustion or even the anger. At the end of the day, when she's on the stage dancing one of Cooper's ballets in front of an audience that's holding its collective breath, Jody learns that the impossible is worth handling.

**END**

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