Okay, some people are gonna hate me for this one but this is an AU and the characters are actors so... I shouldn't be in too much crap for it.
Thank you so much for the response to chapter 1 and YES, the characters of the show and the actors share their first names. Also, surnames are not the same and most actors have already built up a career for themselves before taking the role so... character and actor are not seen as the same person. Thanks for understanding!
"No way, nuh uh, I am NOT doing that!" Serena flicked through the script of the final XY episode one last time before slamming it on the desk in front of her. "There is no way I am kissing my brother!"
Despite the fanbase's assumption that the real life Ash and Serena were actually dating, the two actors were biologically related on their mother's side. Serena's father had died shortly after she was born in a car accident leaving her mother Diane to raise her child alone. For some reason, Diane had met Giovanni months later, the two had fallen in love and, by the time she was one and a half, Serena had a stepfather and a baby half brother.
Already being Kalos Queen helped her get the role of main girl for the Kalos Saga - her mother was a five time winner and thus had the title of Kalos Empress - since she was basically reliving her journey to the top with a slightly different path. And by slightly different, it meant she just hadn't been standing around as eye candy for any older males watching the show for children until 50 EPISODES IN!
If that wasn't bad enough, her character had a crush on the main, meaning she had to fake a crush on her baby brother - Serena loved to tease him with that - which she found revolting. It only became worse when she realised the show's fans had begun to ship the two characters together... and their real life counterparts. It made her shiver just thinking about it.
And now, after over 100 episodes of the constant urge to vomit thanks to the writers, she was being told she had to KISS her brother because the script said so. When she had first found out about the scene, she had rushed to find Ash - who was screaming into the void by the looks of it when she found him - to get his reaction. Their father wasn't happy either, he was furious in fact. He had threatened pulling the family from the show. Considering that trailers for the Alola saga had already began circulating - all of them showing Ash in them - it would be a living nightmare to find someone who looked exactly like him to replace him at such a short notice.
"Look, the staff know about this and the camera crew have agreed to just film your feet," The assistant director replied, sweating buckets after being lectured by both Serena and her father previously about the scenario. "With acting, we can just make it look like you might have kissed, I dunno. But just... do what you want but don't mess up the foot shot."
In the end, Serena ruffled her brother's hair through the cap. Even the camera crew agreed the foot slide from the pressure of her hand on his head made it more convincing. She was just glad that Clemont, Bonnie and Pikachu were such great co-workers. There was no way she was ever kissing her brother, but getting the time to annoy him?
Serena loved doing that more than anything, it was her job to do so, after all.