A/N: I'm so sorry for not updating quickly, I've been having the worst year ever. Not a few days ago I found out my best friend has breast cancer and I've been swamped with studying for end of year exams. It's no excuse for not writing this sooner and posting it. Okay so I don't know the process of recording demos and the music industry as I said and I have no idea how they would go about everything in this chapter so I'm going off what I saw from the one 'Big Time Rush' episode my brother forced me to watch. So without further ado here is the next chapter.
Disclaimer in Chapter 1
Enjoy!
"I really don't know where he gets his cuteness from. His father was an ass." Emma says, taking a swig of her beer. Ruby sat down next to Emma after picking her beer back up and taking another swig, "He obviously gets it from me, have you seen how cute I am?" Ruby says. Emma laughs, "Yes Rubes you're totally cute. Of course Henry gets his cuteness from you." Emma says. "Don't get all sarcastic with me." Ruby laughs before leaning against the arm of the chair and placing her feet over Emma. "Really Rubes? Am I your footrest now?" Emma laughs. "Yes, since you are currently hogging the foot stool I have nothing else." Ruby says with a noncommittal shrug. Emma chuckles shaking her head and continues to drink her beer.
She stands outside the door that leads into Ruby and Belle's house, she takes a deep breath before opening it and going inside. "'Gina!" Henry shouts, having been walking out the kitchen with Belle following after him. Regina smiles, all her previous worries disappearing, she bends down just in time to catch the four year old as he jumps into her arms, "Hello Henry." the brunette says, smiling at the young boy. Henry laughs before jumping out of the older brunette's arms and running away. Regina just smiles as she watches him sprint into the lounge to probably continue with whatever he was doing before. "Hi Belle." Regina says smiling at the other brunette. "Regina." Belle returned the smile before walking through the door that led to the garage, Regina followed shortly after.
"No! He didn't!" Ruby shouted, her legs still draped over Emma and beer still in hand. "Yes, he did, and then when I tried to finish taking his order he said, "But I want you." and I was like "Are you going to order a drink or not?" and he just looked at me." Emma said, laughing as she told Ruby what happened earlier at Granny's when she saw the blonde dumping a chocolate milkshake all over a customer.
"And Granny just stood there?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah, she spoke to me after and said that she approved of what I did and that that guy was a total sleaze ball and she was gonna kick him out soon anyways." Emma replied.
"I'm surprised she didn't pull out the crossbow hidden under the counter." Ruby muttered. "The what?" Regina asked, stopping dead in the doorway when she heard Ruby say "crossbow". "Yeah, Granny keeps a crossbow under the counter. She never shoots it though, she just threatens people when they start making trouble." Emma explained. "Oh." Regina says, before walking fully into the garage.
"Hey babe." Emma said, tilting her head back as Regina came behind her and placed a soft kiss on pink lips. "Babe?" Regina asked in a soft whisper. Emma smiled before nodding. Regina returned the smile, brushing a stray hair from the blonde's face. "Miss Green visited me at work today." Regina says, tearing her eyes away from Emma's green ones to look at Belle and Ruby. "What did she want?" Ruby asks, swinging her legs off of Emma and placing them on the ground. "Apparently she couldn't reach any of you and decided to pop by just as I was going to leave. She says we need to go back to Neverland to finish recording the demo. I told her I'd ask you guys what would happen and she said okay and left." Regina says, leaving out the part where the talent scout told her that the head of Neverland Records wanted her to be the face of 'Once' instead of Ruby. "Sure, I'll ask Granny if we can have our day off tomorrow instead of next week." Ruby says. "I'll see if maybe Aurora could come in tomorrow and watch the library, if not it'll just be closed." Belle said, sitting on the arm rest next to Ruby. "Then it's settled, we'll finish our demo tomorrow." Emma said. "What are we gonna sing?" Belle asked, running her fingers through Ruby's hair. "I don't know. Let's look through the book and see." Ruby says, leaning into Belle's touch making Belle smile and kiss the top of the guitarist's head.
Emma gets up and gets the book from where it lay on top of a speaker. "Okay let's see we have, no we've done that one. Okay here," Emma says flipping through the book and stopping on a page, "I'll list them and we can choose which ones we wanna sing. Okay we have: 'Radioactive', 'Anything', 'King of the World', 'Counting Stars', 'Funhouse', 'Mermaid', 'Rockstar', 'Home', 'Last Thing You'll Do', 'Outlaws of Love', oh this one sounds good, 'A Sky Full of Stars', but it's not finished." Emma said, her eyebrows coming together in a frown, "Who started writing it?" she asked. "Me." Regina said quietly. "Really? Was this what you were working on?" Emma asked, looking at Regina, so did Ruby and Belle. "Yes." Regina answered.
"Could you finish it?" Ruby asked.
Regina's head snapped up, "I can." she said. Ruby, Belle and Emma smiled, "Awesome!" the guitarist said. Emma handed the book to Regina and a pen she just found. Regina took the book and pen and walked around to sit on the couch. Ruby, Belle and Emma sat and stood and watched her. "I can't do it with you watching me." Regina said with a laugh. "Oh right." Ruby said before grabbing Belle's hand and reaching over to grab Emma, she practically dragged them out with her out the garage. Regina watched them go with a small smile before she began to finish writing the song.
The next day found the band in the recording booth with their instruments, busy tuning them and getting ready whilst they waited for Astrid to show up. "Sorry I'm late." Astrid said over the intercom. "Okay ladies, let's get started." Leroy said over the intercom shortly after Astrid. The band nodded and took up their places behind their respective instruments. They had spoken yesterday and had agreed which songs they would sing and in which order. Emma started by playing a quick intro before Ruby joined in with the guitar as Emma repeated the beat. Belle joined the same time as Ruby whilst Regina stood behind the keyboard waiting to start singing as they tried it with everyone singing the song fully and Ruby decided, despite Regina's protests that she would rather not sing it, that Regina sing the song. Ruby stops playing just as Regina starts to sing.
"I dance around this empty house
Tear us down
Throw you out
Screaming down the halls
Spinning all around and now we fall
Pictures framing up the past
Your taunting smirk behind the glass
This museum full of ash
Once a tickle
Now a rash"
Ruby begins to play as the chorus begins. Belle smiles as she sees Ruby and Emma enjoying themselves but Regina looks uneasy, the brunette shrugs it off as nerves.
"This used to be a funhouse
But now it's full of evil clowns
It's time to start the countdown
I'm gonna burn it down down down
I'm gonna burn it down
9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,"
Emma makes a popping sound with her mouth as Regina whispers,
"fun
Echoes knocking on locked doors
All the laughter from before"
Ruby emits a short evil sounding laugh before stifling another laugh.
"I'd rather live out on the street
Than in this haunted memory
I've called the movers
Called the maids
We'll try to exorcise this place
Drag my mattress to the yard
Crumble tumble house of cards
This used to be a funhouse
But now it's full of evil clowns
It's time to start the countdown
I'm gonna burn it down down down
This used to be a funhouse
But now it's full of evil clowns
It's time to start the countdown
I'm gonna burn it down down down
I'm gonna burn it down
9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, fun"
Ruby and Emma play together as Belle stops playing, the three best friends smiling as Regina can't help but make hand gestures during this part of the song.
"Oh, I'm crawling through the doggy door
My key don't fit my lock no more
I'll change the drapes
I'll break the plates
I'll find a new place
Burn this fucker down"
Regina looked up at the people behind the glass of the recording booth as she said these words, giving them a look that said "Don't fuck with my friends." it was mainly directed at Tinkerbell Green. Regina turned around as she continued to sing. Belle counted down in the background.
"Do do do do dodo do
Do do do do dodo do
Do do do do dodo do
Do do do do dadadada
Do do do do dodo do (9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1)
Do do do do dodo do
Do do do do dodo do
Do do do do dodo doo
This used to be a funhouse
But now it's full of evil clowns
It's time to start the countdown
I'm gonna burn it down down down
This used to be a funhouse
But now it's full of evil clowns
It's time to start the countdown
I'm gonna burn it down down down
I'm gonna burn it down"
They all stopped playing the moment Regina stopped singing. Regina smiled before looking up at Tinkerbell and narrowing her eyes at the blonde and taking up her place behind the keyboard. Ruby nodded her head at the people outside the booth, signifying that they were going to begin their next song. Leroy gave her a thumbs up to say that they could start. Ruby began by strumming slowly on the guitar as Emma played a quiet beat on the drums. Belle looked to Ruby and waited for her to nod before she started to sing.
"Oh, nowhere left to go
Are we getting closer? Closer?
No, all we know is "No"
Nights are getting colder, colder"
Emma changed the beat she was playing and played a little bit louder.
"Hey, tears all fall the same
We all feel the rain
We can't change..."
Regina ran her hand across small chimes making them ring softly.
"Everywhere we go we're looking for the sun
Nowhere to grow old, we're always on the run
They say we'll rot in Hell, but I don't think we will
They've branded us enough, "Outlaws of Love"."
Emma played louder now on the drums. Regina and Ruby joined together to sing with Belle at certain parts.
"Scars make us who we are
Hearts and homes are broken, broken
Far, we could go so far
With our minds wide open, open
Hey, tears all fall the same
We all feel the rain
We can't change..."
Regina and Ruby sang with Belle throughout the chorus.
"Everywhere we go we're looking for the sun
Nowhere to grow old, we're always on the run
They say we'll rot in Hell, but I don't think we will
They've branded us enough, "Outlaws of Love".
Yeah yeeeahh mmmmmm
Ooooooooooooo..."
Emma stopped playing and left Ruby to play alone for a while before continuing her playing.
"Everywhere we go we're looking for the sun
Nowhere to grow old, we're always on the run
They say we'll rot in Hell, but I don't think we will
They've branded us enough, "Outlaws of Love".
Outlaws of Love
Outlaws of Love
Outlaws of Love
Outlaws of Love"
"That was great. Take a break and then after we'll record the last two songs and then Jefferson and Astrid will take you guys to sort out what you will be wearing for the cover of the demo." Tinkerbell said over the intercom. Emma walked over to where Regina was standing, the brunette looked nervous. "Hey, what's wrong?" the blonde asked, wrapping her arms around the brunette from behind. "Nothing, just nervous about what is going to happen when the demo goes to Mr Pan." Regina says. "Nothing bad will happen, trust me." Emma said, turning Regina around to face her before looking into her eyes. Regina got lost in green pools as she saw happiness and... something else she couldn't name in the blonde's eyes. "Okay, I trust you." Regina said. Emma smiled and Regina returned it before gently cupping the blonde's face in one hand and placing a soft kiss on thin, pink lips. Emma smiled as Regina pulled away and Regina smiled too, she felt happy and content with this moment, all her fears disappeared when she saw the way Emma was looking at her. Emma pulled Regina into a long hug that conveyed everything the blonde was too afraid to say aloud.
"Okay, break's over." Leroy said gruffly, breaking the moment between the two women. The band quickly got what they needed for the next song and returned to their places but not before Emma kissed Regina softly and whispered, "Everything is going to be fine."
Regina stood by the sound keyboard she had quickly put next to her own keyboard before she started to play on that, prompting Emma and Belle to clap a few times. Ruby laughed for a short while before Regina began to play on the keyboard now and Belle, who now held a guitar, began to play with Ruby. Emma beat out a steady beat on the drums just as Ruby began to sing.
"Everybody said, you better stay in school,
Get a real job, boy, don't be a fool,
Burn that guitar, you can never be a star,
I can, I can, I can, so"
Emma played a different beat on the drums and Belle and Ruby stopped playing.
"A thousand disbelievers couldn't keep me on the ground,
I've invented a momentum that'll never slow me down,
I believe it 'cause I feel it, and I shout it out loud,
I can, I can, I can, so"
Belle and Ruby played together before Belle stopped playing and clapped.
"Everybody said, boy, don't go any higher,
Uh uh, fuck that, I can do anything,
Never push the limit, and don't play with fire,
Uh uh, fuck that, I can do anything,
Na na na Na na na na Na na na na na na
Wear my heart on my fist take
You by surprise fighter,
Uh uh, fuck that, I can do anything
(hahaha okay, okay, okay)"
Ruby smiled now as she sang as did the rest of the band as they continued to play their instruments.
"Be a movie star or rock a main stage,
An Xbox tester, or an astronaut in space,
If they tell you that you can't,
You can shove it in their face,
I can, I can, I can, so
A hundred thousand disbelievers couldn't keep me on the ground,
I've invented a momentum that'll never slow me down,
I believe it 'cause I feel it, and I shout it out loud,
I can, I can, I can, so
Everybody said, boy, don't go any higher,
Uh uh, fuck that, I can do anything,
Never push the limit, and don't play with fire,
Uh uh, fuck that, I can do anything,
Na na na Na na na na Na na na na na na
Wear my heart on my fist take
You by surprise fighter,
Uh uh, fuck that, I can do anything
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)"
Regina played on the sound keyboard as she made it like there were trumpets.
"I can do anything,
Never try, never win, never get a break,
You miss a hundred percent of the shots
You never take,
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh [3x]
Everybody said boy, don't go any higher,
Uh uh, fuck that, I can do anything,
Never push the limit, and don't play with fire,
Uh uh, fuck that, I can do anything,
Everybody said, boy, don't go any higher,
Uh uh, fuck that, I can do anything,
Never push the limit, and don't play with fire,
Uh uh, fuck that, I can do anything,
Na na na Na na na na Na na na na na na
Wear my heart on my fist take
You by surprise fighter,
Uh uh, fuck that, I can do anything
Na na na Na na na na Na na na na na na
Everybody said, boy, don't go any higher,
Uh uh, fuck that, I can do anything"
Regina made the same sound as the ones in the beginning as the song came to an end. Ruby nodded again to signify that the song was over before Leroy held another thumbs up to say that they could start their next song. Regina started the song by playing on the piano making the volume a little lower as Ruby started to sing. Emma joined in a short while later as Ruby was in the middle of singing the first verse as she tapped on the cymbals.
"'Cause you're a sky, 'cause you're a sky full of stars
I'm gonna give you my heart
'Cause you're a sky, 'cause you're a sky full of stars
'Cause you light up the path"
Emma beat a quick beat on the bass drum before she played on the cymbals in a steady rhythm.
"I don't care, go on and tear me apart
I don't care if you do, ooh
'Cause in a sky, 'cause in a sky full of stars
I think I saw you"
Belle and Ruby started to play on their guitars as Emma made a steady beat on the bass drum and Regina played long notes on the keyboard. Ruby kept playing guitar as Belle stopped and Emma and Regina kept playing.
"'Cause you're a sky, 'cause you're a sky full of stars
I wanna die in your arms
'Cause you get lighter the more it gets dark
I'm gonna give you my heart
I don't care, go on and tear me apart
I don't care if you do, ooh
'Cause in a sky, 'cause in a sky full of stars
I think I see you
I think I see you"
The band play the same thing as the first instrumental break in the song except when Ruby sang again they continued to play.
"'Cause you're a sky, you're a sky full of stars
Such a heavenly view
You're such a heavenly view"
They kept playing until only Regina and Ruby were left playing and slowly they faded out as well.
"That was amazing guys. Come out so that Jefferson and Astrid can work on your outfits for the cover." Tinkerbell said over the intercom.
The band walked out of the booth and followed Jefferson and Astrid to another room filled with racks of clothes, shoes, hats and accessories. "Okay so let's see what I have to work with here." Jefferson said, holding his chin in his hand and contemplating what the band could wear, "Ah ha!" he said before he walked to a rack and began to toss clothes around. "Hmm, no that won't look good." he said as he was in the middle of tossing away another item of clothing. He turned to the band again and looked them over. "Hmm, okay. Have your pick of any of the items of clothing on these racks and we shall see if it will work." Jefferson said. The band smiled before they began looking through the clothing.
An hour and almost thirty seven outfit changes later they had all decided on the one outfit they would wear on the cover. "Ah you're done?" Jefferson asked when the four women stood side by side in front of him. "You look good." Astrid said, walking around the women to get a better look at the outfits they chose, "I like this." Astrid said. Jefferson walked around the women after Astrid with his chin in his hand as he "hmm'd" as he looked, "I love it!" he said.
Ruby wore black ripped skinny jeans and a burgundy leather cropped vest with black heels with her hair loose and falling in waves her red highlights accentuated by dark make up around her eyes and blood red lipstick. Belle was a little tamer with a blue button down backless vest and plain black skinny jeans with simple black heels and dark make up around her eyes and a light pink lipstick, her hair was half up and half down falling in gentle waves down her back. Regina looked dressed to kill with red fuck me heels and tight black leather pants with a plain black corset that laced up at the back, her eye make up was heavy and her lipstick was blood red. Emma wore black skinny jeans with black knee high boots, she wore a white tank top that was ripped at the back with a black cuff around her one arm, her eye make up consisted of just a swipe of black eyeliner and mascara and clear lip gloss whilst her hair fell in its usual messy curls.
"Great! Now let's take these off and put them away and then tomorrow we will begin shooting for the cover." Astrid said. The four women smiled before they got changed back into their clothes and left the recording studio.
A/N: Yaay! So I am on holiday now and you know what that means? Quicker updates! Hopefully! Okay so what do you guys think? Please leave me a review even if it's just to yell at me for how long I took on this update, on second thought leave a review and yell at me 'cause I deserve to be yelled at for not updating in over a month. So the songs used were 'Funhouse' by P!nk, 'Outlaws of Love' by Adam Lambert, 'Anything' by Hedley, and 'A Sky Full of Stars' by Coldplay. Go check these songs out. Next chapter we shall have some drama as we skip ahead to the photoshoot the next day and have some secrets exposed *gasp!*
Please don't kill me!
Until next time lovely readers *said from behind a chair as I'm too scared to face you guys in case you kill me*