date posted [2.7.21]
"AND...ACTION!"
Sabrina and Skandar take off down the beach, the redhead's hair flying in the wind behind her as she laughs and shouts after the boy in front of her. Sand flies up from beneath their bare feet.
"Edmund!"
Grinning widely, Skandar glances over his shoulder when he hits his mark and immediately trips over his feet, crashing to the ground and rolling through the sand. Sabrina hardly has to force her laughter at the comical sight. She stumbles to a stop next to him, catching her breath between laughing while Skandar, absolutely covered in white sand, makes pained noises and drapes his arm over his eyes, trying not to laugh with her.
Sabrina looks up suddenly towards the marker further along the beach when Anna calls out her line. "Are you two alright!?"
Skandar rolls over and lifts his head to shout in response. "We're f –!" A violent coughing fit interrupts him mid-sentence, a strong gust of wind throwing sand right into his face and prompting Sabrina to swallow her hysterical laughter and shield her eyes. Somewhere offset, Andrew can be heard howling while the two teenagers endure the miniature sandstorm, one of them coughing and the other holding in her laughter to keep from inhaling sand.
"Cut!" He manages, the wind dying down at last. "Let's try it again, guys!"
Still laying on his back on the beach, Skandar groans loudly. "I have to fall again!? "
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"Will!" Anna shrieks, throwing her hands up to shield her face from the flying water droplets. He stops messing around with the oars in the water and shoots her an apologetic expression.
"Sorry," he says, trying not to laugh.
Anna shakes her head at him and tries to smooth down her frizzy hair. "You better not have ruined my makeup or Anita's going to be cross with you."
Will waves her off. "She won't; it looks fine."
Georgie looks up from fussing with her dress and giggles. "Skandar, you have a leaf in your hair."
"What?" He reaches up and runs his fingers through his hair in search of said leaf. "And nobody told me?" He accuses, absolutely ruining his carefully-styled hair in the process.
Anna sighs. "Well, you got it," she says. "But now you look like a bushperson."
Will glances between the two of them and shakes his head. "Don't look at me," he chuckles, holding his hands up. "I'm not styling it."
Sabrina sighs and pulls herself half out of the water to help. "Here, turn around."
The dark-haired boy shoots the occupants of the boat accusatory, fake glares. "Oh, see?" he drawls. "Sabrina's willing to help me."
The french girl laughs and flicks water from her hand to dry it. "Anita is going to lose her mind when she sees this." Skandar smiles sheepishly and bends down for her to reach him from her place floating in the river behind the boat.
The walkie-talkie onboard the little boat beeps and Andrew's voice pours from it. "You guys ready over there?"
Peter, sitting at the front of the boat and watching the teens' antics, picks up the device to reply. "We're experiencing a bit of a hair crisis," he says, earning some laughter from Georgie, who was running through her lines.
"It is under control! I have taken hairdressing courses before." The redhead insists, wetting her fingers in the water to help style Skandar's hair a little nicer. "See?" She leans back to examine her work with a satisfied grin. "You cannot even tell!"
Peter laughs and relays her message through the walkie-talkie. "Sabrina's handling it."
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Anna watches the ashes from the fire drift through the air before turning toward the girl sitting a few feet to the left of her. "I'm glad you're here with us, Arryn." She pauses to let a grin take over her face. "And so is Edmund."
Sabrina smiles shyly and opens her mouth to respond when light snoring comes from Skandar lying in the grass beside her. The two girls laugh quietly but manage not to break character.
Sabrina continues with her lines, hoping to successfully make it through the scene this time. "I'm glad too, your majesty," she says, keeping her voice low. "Although I wish I could do more to help."
Anna smiles. "You are. Really. You didn't have –"
A second, particularly loud bout of snoring from Skandar interrupts her line.
"Oh my god," Will exclaims, giving up pretending to sleep. Georgie sits up as well and bursts into a fit of giggles.
"Cut!"
Anna flops tiredly onto her back while Sabrina stares incredulously at the dark-haired boy. "I cannot believe he actually is asleep."
"Let's take five, everyone!"
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Skandar holds a handful of vibrant blueberries in his palm as they walk through the set of the Lost Rocks. He picks one up and Sabrina quickly slaps it from his hand.
"Those are eurichberries!" She hisses. "They're poisonous, imbecile!"
Skandar grins at her state of alarm. "I know," he replies. "Watch."
While the girl stares at him in blatant confusion, he begins throwing them at the back of Will's head. After a few tries, he still hasn't managed to actually hit his target as he's supposed to and Sabrina is starting to look genuinely baffled.
"Are you missing on purpose?" She asks.
His sheepish chuckle quickly turns into a dramatic, frustrated noise. "Would you quit moving so much!?" Skandar demands.
Will laughs and turns around. "I'm walking!" He protests. Skandar hurls a blueberry at his face and Will quickly leaps forward to catch it gracefully in his mouth, throwing his hands up in victory at the perfect catch. The five teenagers on set simultaneously erupt into excited cries of disbelief.
"OOHHHHH!"
"YES WILL!"
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At the top of the gorge, the five teenagers and Peter prepare to act out the scene where Lucy spots Aslan. Georgie is getting her makeup touched up in anticipation for her close-ups while Sabrina reviews her lines with Skandar and one of the hairstylists fixes Will's windblown hair.
Anita and her crew finish up their work quickly and hurry out of the shot, the actors finding their marks and settling into character.
"Okay," Andrew announces through his megaphone. "Ready, and…action!"
"Aslan?" Georgie gasps. "It's Aslan! It's Aslan over there! Don't you see? He's…" The little brunette trails off as a large, yellow butterfly flutters in front of her face and ruins the close-up. But the girl is far from upset about it. She grins widely and holds her breath as the butterfly lands on the sleeve of her bright red dress, likely mistaking her for a flower.
With her mouth hung open in awe, Georgie looks between her costars with her arms spread wide and dramatically delcares, "I am the chosen one."
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Laying across from one another in the grass, Sabrina's pale hand rests delicately in Skandar's grasp. The fire next to them crackles quietly while he runs his fingers over the girl's freckled skin, looking terribly awkward and forced with his movements.
Andrew lifts the microphone from his lap and turns it on. "Can you try to make it look a little more intimate?" He deadpans. "You guys are friends, you both think the other is hot, you're really connecting — having a really touching moment."
Sabrina rolls over in uncontrolled laughter, her hand still in Skandar's.
"She's not a case of the plague," Andrew continues teasingly. "Don't be shy, Skandy."
Skandar's shoulders shake with laughter. "My hands are sweating so much," he admits. "I think I've wreaked the scar makeup."
This makes the redhead laugh harder, tears forming in the corners of her eyes while she struggles to catch her breath.
He chuckles at her hysterics. "I am never going to live this down, am I?"
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Sabrina races through the trees, following the unmarked path burned into her memory from running it so many times. Behind her, Anna, Skandar and Peter follow in a line.
From behind her, she hears Anna calling Will's character, Peter, a 'daft twit.' This never fails to make the redhead smile, and she looks down to dodge anything that might be hiding in the tall grass when she sees movement.
Screaming at the top of her lungs, she dances away from it, crying, "Snake! Snake! Snake!" and causing Anna to react in the same manner. The two of them sprint seemingly for their lives in the opposite direction.
"Cut!" Andrew announces through his megaphone. "Let's get a snake wrangler in there, please!"
Skandar, looking both amused and mildly panicked, follows the girls, who are now holding onto each other with barely-contained laughter.
"I'll make sure that makes it in the bloopers reel, Sabrina."
She looks over at Andrew with a teasing grin. "Mercí."
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Anna shakes her head as she watches Ben and Will fool around with their swords in between takes.
"One of them is going to get hurt," she mutters.
Sabrina snorts and takes a sip of her water. "You should see them during training."
"Oh, I can only imagine."
It's been a long day of watching the crew struggle with capturing this scene. The small hill the boys are on and lack of good lighting has made filming an absolute nightmare.
"Action!" Andrew calls. And the fight in the woods ensues again.
Sabrina and Anna watch silently until the brunette whispers, "Are they making lightsaber sound effects?"
Sabrina can't believe it as she witnesses the two idiots with swords begin to reenact a duel from Star Wars as they've done countless times before in training.
"Oh my god."
Will trips dramatically, falling to one knee as Ben stands over him. "Join me in the Dark side," he declares menacingly.
Andrew looks toward the two girls with the most confused expression they've ever seen him wear. "Have they been rehearsing this?"
The french girl sighs. "Unfortunately, yes."
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"Are you ready, Sabrina?"
The redhead bounces on her feet, psyching herself up and getting slightly out of breath for the scene. She grins and shoots Andrew a thumbs up.
"Ready in the war room?"
"Yeah!" Will shouts.
"Okay…Action!"
Sabrina races into the war room where Anna, Will, Skandar, and Georgie sit on the floor murmuring something about Telmarines. The four of them abruptly stop and turn around to look at Sabrina, confused.
"Caspian's calling a council at the Stone Table," she tells them, bracing one hand against the stone doorway.
Silence ensues for far longer than it should as Will misses his line. Simultaneously, the blond teen and Anna shoot each other accusatory looks.
"Will, it's your line," she says.
"No it's not," he protests. "You're first, then it's me."
She laughs. "No I'm not!"
Skandar goes to rub his face but Georgie quickly reminds him of his makeup, eliciting an irritated groan from him. Sabrina snickers into her hand at the whole situation.
Baffled, Will turns to the director. "Is it my line?"
"Yeah, you're first then it's Anna and Sabrina."
Will snorts. "Oops…What's my line again?"
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"Action!"
Heavily armoured in an over-large suit, the barely recognizable Sabrina sidesteps and lifts her sword to strike the 'flying arrow' out of the air. Quickly, she reaches up and grasps the helmet on her head. As she yanks it off to dramatically reveal her long red hair and freckled face, the leather chin strap that was done up too tight doesn't fall open and instead causes her head to jerk back as she pulls.
"Ow!" Sabrina reflexively drops both the sword and the helmet from her hand in shock. One clatters to the stone ground while the other lands jarringly against her skull. Anna, Will, and Ben's laughter carries across the courtyard while the french girl rubs her sore neck.
"Cut! You okay, Sabrina?"
She smiles at the stupid mistake. "All good!"
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"Ryn! Hang on!"
Sabrina stops on the second step and turns around to watch Skandar chase after her. He looks desperate and terrified and it makes her heart wrench. This particular sequence of scenes has been giving the two teenagers hell all day; from capturing the complicated high-emotions of their character, to the impending reality of filming the kiss. Needless to say, the number of takes required to get their scenes right has become a little ridiculous.
But Skandar's expression is absolutely devastating and Sabrina can barely contain herself when she sees him like that.
From the director's chair, Andrew watches the scene he's envisioned finally play out perfectly, relieved that the crew can move on with–
Sabrina's foot catches on the top step, sending her careening to the floor with a sharp scream.
The entire film crew collectively cringes at the sight, while Skandar collapses in a fit of uproarious laughter.
Andrew sighs, rubbing his face tiredly. "I need another coffee."
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Sabrina can hear her costar's heart beating a mile a minute in her ear and all it does is make her infinitely more nervous. Which is exactly what she doesn't need in the middle of quite possibly the most complicated scene she's ever done.
They've already done over a dozen takes from Skandar's face being far too red and both of them being overwhelmed with laughter and constantly forgetting their lines from nerves. All in all, today has been a trainwreck. Poor Andrew is on his fourth cup of coffee.
But Sabrina is determined to make it through this. So, ignoring Skandar's racing heart, she summons tears to her eyes and chokes out her line in a heartbreaking voice.
"I have to go."
Skandar tightens the embrace, squishing the redhead against his solid chainmail armour. It definitely isn't the most comfortable hug but they both have other things on their minds.
They pull apart from each other, just enough for Skandar to cup the girl's face in his hands, brushing away her tears tenderly. Sabrina almost can't believe they've made it this far without messing it up and actually believes he's found the nerve to finally kiss her when she sees the mischief sparkling in his eyes.
Skandar leans down and instead of kissing the french girl, licks the tip of her nose and makes her gasp in shock.
He laughs evilly at her expression when his costar retaliates, licking all the way up his cheek.
A series of wolf whistles arise from Ben and Will, watching the scene unfold alongside Andrew who holds his head in his hands as he laughs in disbelief, wondering who decided to hire these kids.
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author's note
[2.7.21]: hey guys! here's a quick bonus chapter to tie y'all over until I can get the next *real* chapter out! I'm having a lot of fun with these and definitely plan on writing some more once i have my life back lmao school is a bitch i cannot wait for summer. literally. i am so sick of winter.
idk how cold it is for everyone else right now but here, it is literally -49ºC (-56F). school buses are not running tomorrow. i can't remember the last time they ever canceled their routes. i am so glad school is online and i dont have to leave the house lol i miss doing homework in the sun.
anyways, i'm probably going to unpublish this chapter once the next real chapter is posted, just to make everything easier. then i'll post it later with the rest of the extras at the end of the book. unless you guys want me to leave it? idk haha let me know!
EDIT [6.4.21]: alright, obviously I've decided to leave this bonus chapter up lol. here are 5 new scenes for you guys! i honestly love writing these lmao. chapter 32 is still scheduled for release on tuesday and it's going to be super fun!