Captain Swan - On the Virge

Part 2/10

"A porn company? God, I would loved to have seen your face. Little miss virgin lost in a bay of pigs," Ruby laughed.

"I'm not a virgin." Emma rolled her eyes.

"Uh, excuse me, but when a girl's genitalia become petrified, she's reclassified a virgin."

"Beats sleeping with my married boss," Emma snapped.

Ruby sighed. "That's getting tired. At least I'm willing to make a sacrifice for my art. Sound familiar? I'm willing to do whatever it takes."

"So am I. You know, I should just take the job at the porn company, even edit my movie there." She said it, meaning it as a joke but it actually didn't sound like a bad idea once the words escaped her mouth. She could use all the equipment that she needed there to film her movie. All she had to do was take the job and work with the director and then she would sneak in at night when everyone was gone.

"What movie?" Ruby asked, confused.

Emma smiled mischievously.

"Hi, Emma. I'm going to be your tour guide here at Grind and I figured we'd start at the editing room. This way." Smee led her to the editing room as he told her about his job there. "I'm head of tech support. The tech guru if you need some technical help."

"Well, I haven't actually accepted the job yet," she said, looking around at the posters of provocatively dressed women on the walls.

"Right. Yes, I know. Of course." He opened the door and showed her the room. "This is just one of our small editing rooms," he said before he turned to look at her again. "Well I hope you take the job. It would be nice to have a pretty face like yours working here."

"Thanks," Emma smiled.

"One that doesn't have a freakishly large penis jammed into it." He practically hit himself over the head at his own words. "Oh god. I'm sorry that was terribly inappropriate. I didn't mean to say that to you."

Emma's jaw dropped, but then again, she really shouldn't be surprised that this was how they talked around here. "It's okay. Thank you for the tour but I should really get going, now." She turned around and started heading towards the door.

"Wait. At least let me show you sound stage."

"Sound stage?" Emma stopped dead in her tracks. This, she was intrigued by.

He led her to the room where he told her they recently shot glad-he-ate-her and she put her face in her hand, shaking her head.

"This actually used to be a warehouse until Regina took over and now it's one of the best sound stages in town. We've actually shot two-hundred movies here, alone."

Emma lifted her head up and nodded as Smee rambled on. She could definitely see herself filming her movie in that room as she took in the sight of all of the equipment.

After she went to Regina and accepted the job, Emma left the studio and called Ruby as she drove home. "This place has everything we need. Film stock, lighting, sound. It's perfect!" she shouted, a little too excitedly. "I'll edit the porno movies during the day and make my movie at night."

"What if we get caught?"

"We won't get caught. If we shoot a few hours every night after everybody leaves the building, no one will ever know. We could wrap the movie in under a month."

The next day, Emma sat at the reading table, her hair pulled into a ponytail as she wore a pair of dark-framed glasses. There were two actors, Will and Merlin and a blonde actress, named Tina sitting across from her. Smee was sitting on one side of her and a red head on the other side. As they read their lines, she tried to take it all in. She still couldn't believe this was what she was doing now.