Fractured Picture

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INT. YOUNG NEIL'S BEDROOM.

His bedroom was greyscale until the lights turned on. Ever since Scott's death, he'd been reading books and trying to write a movie script about it. 

Neil: Okay, there I am, right, at my roommate's bandmates funeral thinking "Like, What if I can die?", and right when I find out I'm a xenophile. That why I'm busy writing this movie, so don't bother calling.

That entire self talk was him recording his voicemail. For whatever reason he decided to make it unnecessarily long instead of just saying "Don't Call, I'm busy".

He would spend many hours, struggling to come up with something. Only after hours of not coming up with anything, he passes out at his desk. Once he woke up, he saw he hadn't even written more than one sentence.

NIGHT

While Neil was asleep, feeling someone was in his room. He saw two a shadows on his wall, looking over, he sees one standing above the other one who typed what was on his computer.

Neil: My sleep paralysis demons?

The slowly turn toward him, one puts a finger to their lips while the other, gently pats his head until he was knocked out again.

Shooting up from bed the next morning, Neil checks his computer to see an entire script has been written and printed.

Neil: Woah...I wrote a feature length screenplay in my sleep...I'm a screen writer!

Which for Neil was a Massive W for this man.

As for someone else, That being Ramona, she was changing hair color again. This time going for a fiery red with yellow.

AT THE SECOND CUP

Coffee was brewing in the Second Cup with Julie abysmally and begrudgingly making coffee. The bell ding as Julie turns to see it's Ramona.

Julie: You changed your hair, what's up Ramona?

Ramona: Nothing major. Just somebody kidnapped Scott Pilgrim and faked his death.

Julie: You're F&@*in$ joking?

Heavily irritated by this idea and desperately wanting to know why Ramona cares.

Julie: Stacey, I'm taking my 15!

Stacey: You took your 15 minutes, 20 minutes ago, and would you stop swearing we have fucking customers!

Julie: F$&! my life!

Brushing it off cause she didn't care, she still took the 15 minutes.

Julie: Tell. Me. Everything.

Ramona: Last night in my dreams. I saw Scott's Subspace Highway...and heard his voice.

Julie: Subspace what?

Ramona: It doesn't matter. I think it means he's alive. So I went back to the Rock-it to look at the security footage of what we thought was Scott's death.

Going through the footage frame by framed, revealed Scott had been pulled through a green portal.

Ramona: Someone grabbed him, and pulled him into a portal.

The hand that grabbed Scott threw the coins about before the portal closed.

Ramona: Somebody wants us to think he's dead.

During the flashback, Julie had given Ramona a slice of cake they had at the Cafe.

Julie: I knew it was too good to be true.

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