Behind the Curtain - Heathers

Dead Girl Walking

The day was going to be full of rehearsals, 9 to 5 was practically a full workday. But it was going to be fun, that was a certain point.

"I'll be home soon," Artemis called to her mum as she left the house.

She walked to the nearest Zeta beam and arrived at rehearsal five minutes early, but Dick and Jason were already there with Bruce.

"Hi guys," She said as she took a seat next to them, "How's life going?"

"Life is great," Dick replied, "Add on rehearsals and it is asterous. I finally get to move from my seat reading a book, unless he moved me last night when I wasn't there."

"Not that I'm aware of," Artemis said, "Though surprises are common here."

"Alright, thank you Mr Wayne," Artemis turned her attention to Glynn as he came over with Bruce, "I'll do what I can but I can't make any promises."

"Thank you for trying anyway," Bruce said, "I'm sure the effort would be much appreciated."

"What's going on?" Dick asked, also listening in on their conversation.

"Nothing for you to worry about Dick," Bruce came down and ruffled his hair, "Grown-up stuff."

"I'm 16, I can deal with grown-up stuff," He huffed but he knew he wasn't going to get anything out of the playboy.

"Maybe when you're seventeen," Bruce said and moved to sit at the back of the theatre as Raquel and Kaldur came in.

"Won't be hard for them to act like their married, they practically are already," Artemis had to refrain myself from giggling at Jason's remark and watched as they took a seat a few spaces from us and began to talk in hushed voices.

Next in came Wally, Zatanna and Bette, who took their seats with us as Glynn began to address us.

"I'm sure you know the routine by now, get on with it," And he moved back to his paperwork as the warm ups began.

"Okay guys, today is going to be a hard day on you. We're setting from the end of Candy Store to the end of Freeze Your Brain, a large portion of the first act but we have eight hours to get this done, so we should be good," Glynn said, "Victoria is going to run the dance with the Heathers on Thursday after you've learnt the song so we'll only be needing those three next Thursday. Now, the Heathers will end centre stage and Veronica to the left. J.D, you're where I left you last rehearsal. Kurt and Ram, you'll be sat on the higher stage when it arrives so stand over there for now. Positions everyone."

Everyone quickly got into their positions and began their runthroughs and line learning. By this point Artemis' script didn't even look like a script anymore, it was a mess of notes, highlighting and tears.

"I didn't catch your name," She read and looked back up from her script to Dick standing just across the stage.

"I didn't throw it," Even if it wasn't scripted for her to fangirl over that line, she would.

It is a gold line, not the best in the show, but damn near close to it. If anyone used that on her in real life, she'd be a goner for sure. The fight was being set after Candy Store next Friday so they skipped past that part putting everyone else but the three boys into position and then ran the entire scene three more times. After that, they had a break and moved to the scene in the garden with Veronica's parents.

"Come on I don't even know his name," She read off, totally not feeling intimadated by Barbara at this point but trying to act like it.

They then ran that scene another 3 times before another break and began work on the final scene of this rehersal, the 7/11 scene. It was quickly blocked and they ran it another couple of times before one last quick break and everyone joined them for a final run through before the end of rehersal.