Tawny laughed as the outtakes came to an end. The sight of her in that ridiculous alien costume and green facepaint reminded her how much fun it had all been. Louis's being a jerk had forced her and the others to quit, but the important thing was that Louis realized and admitted his mistake, as she knew he would. All the same, the fact that Louis made her part of something he was so serious about meant something to her. And there was something curiously admirable about Louis's determination to bring such an apparently futile cause to completion – almost like that one time he sat out the 48 hours in the bed for charity. In the end, the movie even had a message about being an outsider that spoke to her.
Louis gave Tawny a sideways glance as she laughed. There was something magical about Tawny, he thought to himself. She always saved the day by being there for him in the end when no one else was, like that night she came to see him while he was sitting out the 48 hours in the bed for charity. Tawny, of all people – such a thoughtful, intelligent, upright person – managed to find something redeemable in his ill-fated schemes. And she was the only one who managed to understand what he was trying to say in the movie. Tawny, of all people. Only someone with her intelligence, her sincerity, and her fondness for him could understand. It made him happy to think that he could speak to such a beautiful mind, to make her laugh, to have her just sitting there next to him.
It struck him that they were still sitting there in that empty theater, an hour after the event had ended, not having exchanged a word since the end of the movie.
"Thanks, Tawny," Louis finally said, breaking the silence. Tawny just smiled back.