Tinkerbelle and the Pirates Chapter 4: Concert Time
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The first concert of the tour and Veronica was sitting inside Snow's dressing room watching the make-up artist put the final touches of Snow's makeup on. They were kicking off the tour in LA and would be on the road early tomorrow morning. Veronica is wearing black jeans, a black sparkly top with a yellow high-visibility vest over the top. She is playing with her bracelets and going through all the emergency exits in her head.
She had met with the head security officer and was to be standing off stage ready to get the band to safety should the need arise. Veronica goes through the number of security personnel currently situated throughout the stadium and relaxes at the thought that the band are safe if anything goes wrong, which it wont.
Snow is shaking with nerves and Veronica can tell. The usually calm and patient young woman is biting her perfectly manicured nails.
"Snow, it is going to be fine." Veronica says, walking over to the shorthaired brunette, as the make-up artist finishes up. "You guys are ready for this." She says encouragingly, placing her hands on Snow's shoulders. Snow looks at Veronica in the mirror and smiles weakly.
"You are right, as always." She says, standing up and hugging Veronica who freezes slightly then hugs her back. Ruby bursts into the room and tells them that Logan wants to talk to them in the guy's dressing room. Ruby, knowing how nervous Snow gets before performing, takes her hand and leads her to the door. Snow grabs Veronica's hand and the three of them make their way to the other dressing room.
Ruby knocks on the door and Logan calls them inside. Jeff, Victor, Sean and Killian look up as they walk in. Ella gets up and leads Snow to the sofa on one side of the room and gives her a bottle of water. Ruby goes and sits down on Victor's lap, brushing his hair off his face and talking to him soothingly, he too was very nervous. This is the band's very first big concert. Fifth-teen thousand people where a lot of people. Veronica looks around at the nervous band and decides to pump them up.
"Okay guys." Veronica says, rubbing her palms together. "You all look a bit dead, so, Logan if you don't mind I'm gonna talk peppy."
"You were in pep squad, so take it away Ronnie." Logan says, looking up from his clipboard that he has clutched to his chest.
"You were in pep squad?" Jefferson asked, holding back laughter.
"What's pep squad?" Killian asked, confused.
"Yes, and it's like cheerleading, sort of." Veronica replies, glad that they were starting to liven up, even Snow who giggled at the mention of Veronica being in pep squad. Veronica looks at the coffee table in front of her and finds a packet of balloons; she picks it up and smiles evilly, a plan popping into her head.
"Lets play a game. Logan, do we have enough time?" Veronica says, blowing up a balloon.
"We have another hour until we have to go on." Sean answers from his spot on the sofa next to Snow. Veronica nods and grins at everyone in the room.
"Here's the game, keep the balloons off the floor." She says, throwing one into the air. She gives Logan the packet of balloons and tells him to throw another one into the air every so often.
Soon everyone can't breath from laughing so much. They are all relaxing around the room after the intense game of keep the balloon off the floor. Ruby is hitting a balloon back and forth between herself and Victor, giggling as he headers the balloon. Jefferson and Veronica are watching an episode of 'How I Met Your Mother ' on Snow's iPad, Logan is rereading his schedule on his clipboard, Snow has relaxed and is playing on the PlayStation with Sean and Killian, and Ella is going around the room and taking photos of everyone, having borrowed Veronica's camera.
"Listen up everyone, we have twenty minutes before the show starts. Do you want to warm up and go through the set list quickly?" Logan says, looking up from his watch and looking at everyone in the band.
"Yep. Come on lads, nd' lass, lets warm up." Killian says, pausing the game and getting to his feet. "We gotta blow them out of the ocean."
"Aye aye Captain." Victor says, also getting up.
"Here we go." Jefferson stands, pulling out his drumsticks and tapping Sean on the head with them.
"I'm coming." He says standing up and swatting at Jefferson playfully while chuckling.
"We should go through 'Swanning Around' seeing as it is one of the harder songs." Snow says, walking to the door. Veronica stands and walks out of the room, leading the group to another, slightly bigger room. As they walk into this room the sound of the crowd outside drops. The practice room is sound proof so that they can warm up in peace, just like so many other stadiums or arenas that bands preformed at.
Jefferson settles himself behind his drum set, grinning manically as he grips his drumsticks. Victor picks up his bass and closes his eyes, prepping himself for the work at hand. Sean sets his guitar strap comfortably on his shoulder and plucks at his strings to tune them. Snow stands with her legs shoulder width apart; she glides her hands softly over the keys of her keyboard. Killian steps up to the microphone, guitar already in place, to exercise his vocal cords quietly. Logan steps inside the room and closes the door. He walks across the room to stand next to Veronica; while Ruby and Ella take a seat on the couch.
"We'll do 'Swanning Around' first then just go over the other songs quickly. That alright with you lads?" Killian asks, turning to looking at everyone in the band for confirmation. They all nod and Snow, Jefferson and Sean lead them into the song with a solo each. Veronica leans against the wall behind her and grins at her friends. They are very good. Each time they played in front of her, Veronica was shocked of how good they truly were. Killian comes in with the lyrics and the bass starts up as Victor plucks with his lucky red pick. Logan taps his foot along with the beat, absent mindedly, going through all his bits of paper.
Twenty minutes later and Veronica is standing at the side of the stage as the Pirates file on stage to the encouraging roar of the audience. They take their places and Killian introduces everyone and thanks the crowd for being here tonight. The stadium goes silent then the first song starts and they sing-a-long to it. The crowd is alive and Veronica can feel the their energy. Glow sticks and flashes of light could be seen in the audience. Veronica smiles from her vantage point and watches as the band goes through song after song, each one different from the last. The crowd was taken on a journey straight on until morning.
The concert finished at two in the morning and the crowd went hysterical when they finished. The Pirates paraded off the stage, waving to their fans until they could no longer be seen. Victor, Killian and Sean hand their guitars to the stagehands that are waiting in the wings of the stage. The band follows Veronica back to the guy's dressing room and they all collapsed into random chairs about the room. Veronica sat down with a sigh, sore from standing up for so long and exhausted from just watching them.
Logan came waltzing in followed by Ella and Ruby.
"Great job everyone! That was amazing! Now, I think we all need to go home and sleep. I'll see everyone at eight o'clock at the studio, with all their bags. That is where the bus will be picking us up so don't be late!" Logan says, smiling at everyone in the room. They all groan in response.
"I hate you so much right now." Victor says to Logan, getting up and walking over to Ruby. "Bye guys see you tomorrow. Wait no, in six hours." He says, letting Ruby steer him out the door.
"Hmmm. Ella, can I have a lift?" Snow asks, resting her head on Sean's shoulder.
"Yeah, sure. Come on Sean. Bye everyone." Ella says, much too perkily.
"Bye guys" Snow says, dragging herself up and walking out the door with Sean and Ella.
"Killian, Jefferson you are so staying at my place tonight or else you wont get up in the morning. You did drop your bags at mine this afternoon right?" Logan says tiredly.
"Aye." Killian says, not moving from his spot on the sofa.
"Mine too." Jefferson replies, yawning. Veronica stands up and walks towards the door.
"Logan, can you give me a lift in the morning?" Veronica asks, leaning against the doorframe.
"Yeah, sure." He replies with a tried smile. "Go get some rest Mars."
"You too Echolls. See ya Killian, Jeff." She says, waving to the others, who grunt groggily in response. "Steve will get you guys home nice and safe." Veronica adds, referring to one of the other security guards.
"Freddie went with Snow, Seana and Ella. Jack went with Victor and Ruby. Don't worry Veronica, your working day is over now and you can go home a sleep." Logan says, waving her out the door.
"Okay. Bye guys." She says, leave the room and heading to her car.