And Keira didn't. It was exactly a week later since Kate got fired making it November ninth. When she wasn't filming scenes, or going to rehearsals, or going over lines, she was searching for someone else who knew what was keep Orlando silenced. She was so determine to figure it out that she had asked almost every extra and lead on the cast's list, all except for the ones she was sure knew something. She saved the best ones for last, the best being Lisa, Caleb, Johnny, and Jerry.
"Come one Johnny!" Keira said as she was in Johnny's dressing room blocking his door. "You are not leaving until you tell me what you know-"
"This is harassment and I can get a restraining order-" said Johnny as he took a few steps backwards away from her.
"Johnny!" Keira said warningly.
"I was just putting that out there" he said as he gave her a shy smile. He knew that he couldn't tell her anything although he really wanted to just to end all the madness that had been going on for over two months.
"Johnny I am begging you" said Keira as she gave him a desperate look. "It is November ninth. Filming ends exactly on February twenty-eighth. I have about three months to fix my relationship with Orlando before the six month break to get everything ready for the third film."
"Actually it's only a five month break now since we were suppose to end in January but got held back-" Johnny stopped talking as he realized that Keira was about to lose it and that she really didn't care how long the break was. He saw that she was on the verge of tears and the last thing he needed was to see her cry again. He knew very well that she and Orlando had shed enough tears throughout these few months. "Listen, if I could you'd know I'd tell you-"
"No" Keira said as she closed her eyes and put her hands up to stop him. "Johnny please do not tell me no. I have three months left here and I don't want to waste them talking to people who know nothing about it" she pleaded. "It feels like I am accomplishing nothing so please I promise you I won't tell it was you, just help me please."
Johnny sighed as he looked away. He was never good with people once they got so sentimental. Still, he tried to be of some sort of comfort. He walked up to her quietly and put a hand on her shoulder. "I'm sorry-"
Keira closed her eyes tightly after another disappointment before Johnny even finished speaking. She had gone through so many people and really thought Johnny would help her. If he couldn't tell her either, that meant that the consequences of her knowing must have be brutal and that made her grow worried for herself, her friends, and for the love of her life.
Her sadness and nerves were interrupted by Johnny's voice once again though. "-but you've gotten so far" he said. "You already found out that Edward Russo has something to do with it-"
"That's only because I noticed how carefully he watched you all-"
"Then keep noticing things! Keira listen to me. If there is anything you do keep your eyes opened. Keep them clear and really notice things even the smallest things. They may give away big answers" Johnny said trying to give Keira advice. "Whatever you do though, don't give up because they moment you say you give up is-"
"The moment it all ends" Keira said finishing for Johnny having heard that line once before.
Keira listened to Johnny and as she asked Lisa and her brother who came to visit again she looked around for anyone making suspicious movements.
"Keira" Lisa started. "We can't tell you." For the past week she had seen her best friend desperately searching for answers and for someone to help her, which made her feel terrible since she knew she couldn't.
Keira, a little annoyed and frustrated with that response having heard about a million times now looked towards Caleb. "Caleb for Christ's sake you're my brother-" she thought that surely Caleb would help her. He always did, he always looked after her since the day she was born. "Please" she said looking him in the eyes.
Caleb looked at his baby sister's eyes. Those big pools of light honey brown almost convinced him to tell her but that instantly his brother instincts kicked in. "I know I'm your brother and I know it's my job as your big brother to look out for you. Believe me when I tell you that's what I'm doing."
Keira was about to scold them both when finally she noticed something. Something small that could give away big answers.
"I'll be right back" she told them as she walked towards the two people she saw heading to the attic room. She saw Edward Russo hand Rupert a note in his hand when no one was looking.
"What could that be about?" she asked herself. Being curious she followed but made sure she was quiet enough and hidden enough so that she wouldn't be seen.
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How is she doing? Does she suspect anything yet?" Edward asked Rupert in the dark room.
"She?" thought Keira. She knew that the "she" they were talking about had to be her.
"No, I don't think so" Rupert replied. "However, I don't trust her brother being around here. I'm sure sooner or later he won't be able to control himself from telling everything to his sister."
"You're right about that" Edward replied. "He already destroyed my thousand dollar set once; I don't need him ruining anything else around here."
Keira's eyes grew wide in shock as she heard all this. "It was Caleb who destroyed the set? Everyone told me that part of the machine to hold the stunt people had collapsed and destroyed it."
"If I were you I would also keep an eye on Johnny, Jerry, Gore and Lisa, and Orlando, especially Orlando-"
"Don't worry too much about him. If anything we can threaten both he and Caleb with suing them for the fight you all got into. Now Johnny and Lisa, I'll see what I can do about it. Lisa will be easy to get rid of, but Johnny and Jerry, that's going to force me to break a sweat. Gore, please, Gore does what I tell him to do. In the mean while you keep doing what you're doing. We're heading down the right road so far-"
Edward suddenly stopped talking as he and Rupert heard something get knocked down. "Who the hell is in here?" Edward screamed as he walked closer towards Keira.
Keira cursed herself for being clumsy before running out quickly so she wouldn't be seen. Although she was completely out of breath and terrified beyond belied everything had been worth it. Finally, she knew that the man she once defended was part of this game as well.
"What the hell is going on, on this movie set?" she asked herself out loud as she recalled everything she just heard.
"Ah Orlando haven't spoke to you in a while" said Gore as he approached an Orlando in full pirate costume.
Orlando only nodded at him before starting to walk away. Luckily, Gore stopped him before he got far.
"Can you just wait and talk to me for a moment?" he asked a little hurt. "How long are you going to keep ignoring me?"
Orlando turned back a gave him a small glare. "Gore, understand that it's not easy for me to be friendly towards you after what you and Edward Russo decided to make me do."
"Believe me that it wasn't an easy decision but I had to do what was best for everyone."
"Best for everyone or best for the film that has your name on it?" Orlando asked before starting to walk away again. Gore however stopped him once again with a question of his own.
"What if I told you there was something I could do to help?" he said which made Orlando stop in his tracks and turn to face me.
"I'd ask what you had in mind."
"And cut!" Gore said after he had finished his chat with Orlando and after Jonathan Pryce and Jack Davenport finished a scene together. "Everyone take five before we do that scene again."
Keira had waited nearby on her chair to talk to Gore once the scene ended but decided it was best to see what information she had forced and see if she could come up with something. "Okay, I now know that the set was destroyed by Caleb, that Rupert is part of this secret, that he, my brother, and Orlando got into a fight, and that somehow Lisa, Gore, and Jerry are involved."
Keira sighed thinking about all the facts over and over again until she realized something. "Hold on. Rupert is part of this secret and so is everybody else. He got in a fight with Orlando and Caleb that was about something. Then the set gets destroyed. No one in the group likes Rupert at all, so obviously Orlando and Caleb got into a fight with him, which means that if the fight was brutal enough it could have destroyed the whole set which also means that it wasn't Caleb by himself…. What could the fight have been about? It had to be something that would completely tick my brother and Orlando off enough that they would end up bringing the set down to ruins. And how does Edward Russo and Kate fit into this?"
As Keira kept thinking to herself in her head she realized that she was only confusing herself more. That's when she decided to go and talk to Gore who was literally five chairs away from her.
"Gore, tell me something" she said as she sat next to him in her Elizabeth swan costume trying to be somewhat persuasive.
Gore looked at her from above his glasses as he read his script. "Depends" he said as he took them off "What do you want me to tell you?"
Keira gave him a small smirk. "Tell me something about this Edward Russo guy."
Gore gave her a curious look. "Excuse me-"
"It's just that I always see him around and I don't really know anything about him" she said convincingly enough that Gore believed him.
"Well, there really isn't much to say about him" Gore started. "He owns everything that is Pirates of the Caribbean, he become a billionaire at a very very very young age which is why he owns a lot of films-"
"Was that always his profession?"
"Actually, no. Before that I believe he was a director but he got fired of some show."
"Bingo" thought Keira in her head knowing that that was an important part of her "investigation." "By any chance do you know what show?" she asked hoping Gore would tell her a specific name to make her work easier.
"I'm not sure exactly which one he's been fired off of but he's worked on things like Good Day New York, Good Morning America-"
"Isn't that the show that interviewed Orlando and I?" Keira asked curiously.
"Yes it was and I actually believe that that was the one he got fired off of. Numerous people who worked there disliked him and some of the interviewers even filed some complaints against him-"
"Are we ready Gore?" asked Jonathan Pryce as he and Bill Nighy walked onto the set interrupting Gore and Keira's conversation.
"Yea, sorry Keira" he said before he got up and walked closer to the set. "Everybody places!"
Keira sat there thinking about what Gore had just told her before one of the workers walked up to her and told her that Jerry wanted to see all the leads in twenty minutes. Keira thanked her but decided to get there a little earlier to see if Jerry would let her pick his brain. She practically ran there eagerly knowing that with every new fact she found out that she was closer to the truth, the truth that could bring her back to Orlando.
As she walked to his door she knocked first remembering her manners actually for once. Once she heard him say to come in, she ran in and locked the door behind her.
"Keira hey, you know the meeting doesn't start yet right?" Jerry asked as he gestured her to a seat next to him.
Keira nodded as she sat down. "I know but I came here for a favor-"
Jerry sighed already knowing or at least he thought he knew what she was going to ask. "You already know I can tell you nothing-"
"I'm not asking you to tell me the secret. I asking you to help me figure out what it is" she started as leaned in closer to the table with excitement and eagerness. "I already know more than you think I do."
Jerry sighed as he looked at her young face. She was so young, still only twenty and she has already gone through so much. The least he could do was help her out, at least a little bit.
"What is it exactly that you want me to do?"
"I cannot believe that you actually convinced me to do this" Jerry whispered to Keira as they both snuck on back to the set at nine o'clock at night when everyone had already left. "Me letting you go into Edward Russo's office is me and you breaking and entering!"
"Well, we're already here" Keira whispered back as she put her hair back in a pony tail. It was the middle of November but since they were in the Grand Bahamas Island it was burning. That's one of the reasons as to why Keira decided to wear jean capris, green flip flops, a green spaghetti strapped blouse with her skull ring as an accessory and a white gold tiffany bracelet Orlando had given to her as a late twentieth birthday gift.
Jerry rolled his eyes as he opened the door and they both walked in. "Make it quick!" Jerry whispered to her as he waited outside to stand a guard.
Keira nodded and she quickly began looking through the dark room that had black walls.
"What person in their right mind paints a room black?' she asked out loud. Fortunately she was able to find a lamp that lit up the room enough for her to see. She first started to look through his desk thanking God that it was left open. All she found were bills of the set, a list of how much each actor was earning, bills for the costume, and just all Pirates related stuff. Disappointed she turned around to the ginormous library shelf behind her and started to read the names the binders were labeled. When she found nothing she turned back to the desk but she tripped a bit on his chair which made her crash into the book shelf when she fell a bit. Only a few binders fell so it wasn't that bad. As she picked them up and put them back in their place she realized that there had been a smaller thinner binder shoved all the way in the back behind the others. She quickly pulled it out and smiled when she saw the name it was labeled "Good Morning America."
She sat at his desk as she began looking through all the papers. She couldn't believe all the information that was inside, it had so much, too much information which kind of threw Keira off her game. "No, come on now focus" she told herself. "Just look for complaints and why he was fired." As soon as she told herself that she found what she was looking for. She found a list of fifteen people out of forty who had complained about Edward Russo. She scanned through the list to read the names and suddenly her eye read the name of the person whose complaint got Edward fired. "Patrick Wilkinson" she muttered under her breath. She instantly remembered that name to be the name of the interviewer who interviewed her and Orlando. "Isn't that interesting" she said. She continued to look through the papers to see if she found exactly what Patrick Wilkinson had said but unfortunately she found nothing related to that but she found something else.
"Divorce papers?" she asked herself as she read them. "Signed Patrick Wilkinson and Christina Millar" Why would Edward Russo have a copy of Patrick's divorce papers? She kept looking through the files until she found yet another copy of divorce papers, this time though with Edward's own signature…..
"Keira are you done?" Jerry asked as he peeked inside. Keira instantly closed the binder and book it back in his place. She ran towards the door then not realizing that she had dropped something, something that if anyone found they would immediately know that she was in there.
"You found a copy of the man's divorce papers?" Jerry asked Keira the next day in the conference room where they had been yesterday.
"And a copy of the interviewer's divorce papers, Patrick Wilkinson, the one who interviewed Orlando and I on Good Morning America" she said. "Where is everyone by the way-?"
"Umm don't you remember that we had to reschedule the meeting from yesterday to day since you wouldn't let anyone in till I promised to help you?"
Keira gave him an apologetic smile before continuing. "Sorry anyway back to what I was saying. Don't you find it a bit odd that he had a copy of someone else's divorce papers?"
Jerry nodded to please her even though he didn't know how all this had to do with the secret she was trying to find out. "Yeah but Keira if you want me to be honest, none of this has anything to do with what you trying to figure out."
"I don't believe that" Keira said "I mean couldn't there be a possibility that whatever Edward did to this man is what he could be doing to Orlando to keep him silent?"
"I doubt it but I'll tell you what. If you really believe this has something to do with you and Orlando I'll call the Good Morning America studio and ask for his file to be faxed over."
"Whose getting what faxed over to where?" Johnny asked as he walked in dressed in jeans, black shoes, a green button down and a hat. Keira almost matched him in the casual look since she was once again wearing dark jean capris, flip flops, and a teal sweet heart neck line top that was flowy at the torso that hid her feminine figure.
"Just something that is getting me closer to the truth which you all refuse to tell me" she said with a grin that she knew would cause annoyance to Johnny. Johnny rolled her eyes as Orlando, Jack Davenport, Jonathan Pryce, and Bill Nighy walked into the room.
"Guilt trick huh? Let me tell you it won't work" Johnny told her as he walked over to his seat that was unfortunately right across from her.
"Everyone please take a seat" Jerry said as he grinned in amusement. He started talking again when he saw everyone was seated. "Now as you all know the end of this movie is near and that soon we'll be talking Pirates 3-"
"and that miserable Geoffrey Rush comes back" Johnny said as he recalled at the insults, and pranks, and screams, and complaints, and shouts.
Everyone laughed knowing that Johnny really meant none of those things. "You know you miss him" Orlando said as he elbowed him playfully. Johnny rolled his eyes as he thought about his old friend, who he did in fact miss.
"Now as I was saying, since Pirates 2 is coming to an end and because the first was such a great success, I thought to celebrate."
"What did you have in mind?" Orlando asked curiously. For once his mind had decided to focus on something else rather than torture him with the same thoughts over and over again.
"Well, I thought it would be fun if we went to the tenth anniversary of the movie Titanic which we have been invited too. Apparently, many famous actors and actresses will be attending because of the great impact it had, the entire original cast of the film is even going to be there."
"That sounds like fun" Keira said out loud having loved everything from the film: the plot, the music, and the meaning behind it. The meaning being that true love never dies not matter what happens along the way.
"When is it?" Bill asked interrupting Keira's thoughts completely.
"Let's see" Jerry started as he looked at one of the invitations. "So today is Friday the tenth of November and this is Sunday the twelfth. It's this weekend."
"Sound perfect to me" Jack Davenport commented which everyone agreed to.
"Great, make sure you all are in proper attire, which means gentlemen suits and Keira a nice gown-"
"Can we bring someone along?" Jonathan asked remembering how much his wife loved the film.
This made Orlando and Keira instantly think of each other knowing that usually they would attend these types of things as a pair.
"Um sure I don't see why not" Jerry said noticing the youngest actors grow uncomfortable. He decided to wrap up the meeting quickly to free them of that state. "Any more questions? No? Good everyone get back to work."
"Wait I have a question!" Johnny said.
"Johnny you can ask me later" Jerry said walking right out the door.
"Wow, I wonder what's got him in a rush" Johnny thought in his head as he was also followed out by Jonathan, Bill, then Jack.
"Orlando!" Keira called as she saw he was about to exit. They hadn't spoken since last week when Keira told him flat out she wouldn't give up on him. She didn't know exactly where this put their relationship and was eager to find out.
He turned and flashed her a small smile having missed her as well. Every night since the day he was forced to break her heart, he had thought about her. Having her in his arms, having his lips on hers, and just feeling her near him…..
"I haven't spoken to you in a few days" Keira said trying to start a conversation. "How have you been?"
"The same as always" he said. "How about you? Are you okay?"
Keira nodded quickly."Yea, I'm, I'm fine" she said. "I mean I could be better."
Orlando just nodded completely understanding what Keira meant. At this point they both had no clue what to say to each other so they stayed in awkward silence. When Keira was about to tell Orlando just how she felt about everything Jerry walked in to get her so that she could be there as soon as Edward Russo's files arrived.
"Keira are you-oh am I interrupting something?" Jerry said surprised and happy to see the pair talking alone once again. If only he knew that no much talking had been going on.
"No you weren't" Keira said deciding she would talk to Orlando another time. She gave him a small smile before heading towards the door.
"Good bye" she told him as she held the door to exit. Orlando repeated those two words thinking she would leave right after but to his surprise she didn't quite yet. She walked back quickly to him and pulled him for a tight embrace just needing to feel him close for a little while.
"I haven't given up yet" she whispered to him. "I haven't and I won't" she said before pulling away and walking out the door leaving Orlando with empty arms and a hopeful heart.
"I really hope you won't" he said looking at the door right after she had walked through it.
"Did you call the studio?" Keira asked Jerry as the two walked fats through the dark halls with the walls painted black to make it look "professional."
"I did and they said they are sending it to me in my office right now this very second" Jerry said.
They both kept walking until they were stopped by two people. "Why are you two in such a rush?" Edward asked them both with Rupert right at his side.
Jerry and Keira exchanged nervous looks before Jerry came up with an excuse. "Keira and I are rushing to my office to see what changed to the script to the script the writers are sending over."
"Is that so?" Edward asked raising an eyebrow knowing they were lying to him. "We'll come with you-"
"No, that's really not necessary" said Keira hoping they would listen to her. Just hoping for it to happen was not enough in this case.
"It's fine" Rupert said with a smirk towards her "We insist."
The four walked down the halls with Jerry and Keira in the front being followed by Edward and Rupert. When they got to his office Jerry put the key in and slowly opened the door. All four of them walked in and at that moment exactly the fax started to print out papers.
"Looks like it's here" said Edward as he walked over to the fax standing right next to it waiting for every single page to be printed out.
Keira closed her eyes in disappointment and Jerry scratched his head in worry both thinking that they were just about to get caught.
"Well lookie here" Edward said with a smirk as he looked through the pages "Looks like your kiss with Depp wasn't cut out."
Keira's eyes grew wide in shock and Jerry's jaw dropped in awe at the fact that they actually didn't get caught.
"Would you have liked it to be cut out?" Edward asked noticing their shocked looks.
"What no no I mean whatever is best for the film" Keira said stumbling a bit.
Edward and Rupert gave them one last suspicious look before they both walked out leaving Jerry and Keira alone. At that exact moment once again the fax started to print out papers.
"I can't believe we got away with it" Keira said smiling as she watched every page print out. She was so eager and so excited, she actually thought that she was about to find out the truth.
Jerry watched her face with excitement at first as she read through the pages but that excitement soon left. As she kept reading through the pages and re-reading pages he realized that the answer wasn't there.
"It says here that in 02, Edward Russo paid Patrick Wilkinson a certain large amount of money as long as he would keep the details of the complaint he filed hidden. When asked why he chose the money over exposing Russo, Wilkinson claimed that Russo made a simple mistake that unfortunately cost him his job as director and that he had proven himself to be genuinely sorry. This is nothing but fluff! It doesn't tell me anything accept that Russo gave this man hush money!" Keira said as she slammed the page onto Jerry's desk.
Jerry gave have a sympathetic look as she put her face in her hands trying to calm herself down. He touched her shoulder gently before walking over and picking up the file deciding to look through it himself. "Wait, it says here that right after Edward Russo was fired, Patrick Wilkinson and his wife Christina Millar moved into a 2.5 million dollar home in Los Angeles and a month later they had their first child, a girl."
Keira walked towards Jerry and the file as she read it for herself. "That's impossible though I saw the divorce papers myself."
"You saw divorce papers Keira" said Jerry trying to help Keira out. "Are you sure those papers were real?" Jerry had already figured out everything that Edward Russo did to this poor man by comparing it with what he was doing to Keira and Orlando now.
Keira took in everything that she had just learned. "If they weren't real, then who signed them?"
Jerry shrugged his shoulders at her as his cell phone rang. He had received a list of all the interviewers who would be there Sunday to interview the celebrities. "Guess you're going to have to ask Patrick Wilkinson himself on Sunday when he covers the Titanic anniversary.