A/N: I had written two different endings I didn't like. This is my third attempt and I like it a lot better even though it's shorter.
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More than eleven months later. The producer went to the set to talk to the director.
"I'm getting pressure from the studio. They say we have to start filming before the end of the month. You want to tell Jane or should I?" The producer asked the director.
"We'll both do it."
They walked to the back lot, and to the hill where they knew Jane was being trained by Mike Wheeler.
"Does it look like they are doing some kind of weird Kung Fu up there?"
They saw what looked like Jane trying to punch Mike Wheeler in the face, and vice versa. Their hands were moving so fast in a fluid motion it was hard to tell.
And they were both blindfolded.
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"This would be my director." El said to Mike.
"And your producer." Mike said back.
"How could you guys possibly know?"
"Footsteps," Both El and Mike said at the same time.
"Jane? Do you feel like you are ready? The studio wants us to start filming soon."
"We hired Mi-Mr. Wheeler to teach me a martial arts discipline, and I think I know enough for filming."
"Actually we hired Mr. Wheeler to teach you three things.?"
"Three?"
"Yes, can you guess what they are?"
El thought for a few seconds and then smiled. "Well, a martial arts obviously, and how to fight and survive as a blind person when you are a sighted… and he taught me humility.
"Yes." The producer and director said together.
"You guys are smiling. So I guess you are happy with the results."
"Ok, that's incredible, how did you know we were smiling?"
"Mike is a very good teacher, yes sounds different when you are smiling. He also taught me something else. Entirely unexpected."
"Oh?" The director said.
"Mike taught me how to love. He took a stuck up, difficult child celebrity with a superiority complex and in a few months gave her the gift of humility and love."
The producer and the director were silent.
"I'm sorry I was hard to work with guys, I know this is my project but I shouldn't have acted the way I did. I'm amazed you even hung around and didn't throw up your hands and quit."
"We believed in your project." The producer said.
"Can Mike stay on as a consultant for the choreographer?"
"Uh, yeah, the choreographer quit when he found out you were being trained by Mr. Wheeler."
"Mr. Wheeler do you think you can choreograph those scenes?"
"I will consult, El, uh, Jane is good enough to choreograph those herself."
"Does that work for you Jane?"
El had a big smile on her face. "Ok, I think that will be fun to do."
"First scene is blocked and lit, if you want to try it today?"
"I'm anxious to get going." El said, her project was finally a reality.
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With the flow of their movements still fast and fluid, El said, "Tell me the truth Mike, are you trying very hard to touch me?"
"Yes, and you are really good El. It's why we are blindfolded, moving faster, and using more force. I thought I could find a weak area in your training. I can't. I think you are at least as good as I am."
El smiled.
"Hmmm, I think I'll let you touch me." She didn't slow her movements.
"But later tonight, in my trailer."