Magic between us || Fillie

The Power Of Love

Mike was sleeping on his back with his arms wrapped around his girlfriend. She was on her side, pressed up against him, her face tucked between his shoulder and his head, her arm hugging him close.

El felt so safe, for the first time in a very long time, that her nightmare didn't scare her at all. She simply opened her eyes and sighed out, the air tickling Mike's neck.

She shifted a bit to get a better view of her sleeping boyfriend and smiled lovingly. Gently brushing her fingers through Mike's messy hair for a while, she slowly stirred him awake.

'Hey...what's going on?', he whispered groggily, 'Are you okay?'

'Yeah, I am', she replied, her tender smile never leaving her face, 'I just figured I'd wake you up so you could go back to Will's room.'

Mike brought his hand to his eyes, trying to rub the sleep away 'It's 3:15 now?'.

After El simply nodded, he added 'El, please tell me what's happening with you? I hate not knowing.'

'I don't want to talk about it right now, Mike, it's late and we're both tired', she said, a yawn taking over her as if to prove her point.

'Okay, but you'll tell me about it tomorrow?', he asked pointedly, desperately wanting to know, but he wasn't willing to keep his sleepy girlfriend awake longer than necessary.

'I will', she responded shortly, keeping eye contact the whole time, wanting him to believe her. She will tell him all about it, when she feels ready and when she actually has something concrete to say. For now, she'll keep on trying to figure everything out on her own.

'Promise?' he asked tenderly.

'Promise', she nodded reassuringly.

That seemed to ease Mike's mind, knowing they'd agreed long ago never to break any of their promises. He lightly pecked her forehead, got out of the warm sheets and tiptoed his way back to his friend's room.

'CUT!' Shawn yelled out and added, 'Alright, I think it finally worked, I'd just like it if we repeated the beginning one more time.'

Millie nodded silently as Finn came back into the room and walked towards the bed saying, 'What do you want us to do differently?'

'Um... Relax...if there's any way you could do that.' Shawn exhaled, approaching the two of them, 'You're too tense, it's like you're scared to touch each other', he said quietly so no one else would hear. This was exactly what he was afraid would happen.

The young stars blushed, averting their gazes to the ground. They've done ten takes so far, in most of them keeping as much distance as they possibly could and saying their lines in an almost robotic manner.

'Look, I understand that last night was...' Shawn paused, thinking of a way to say this more delicately, 'weird for you guys...but I need you to let that go, at least while you're here. What you do after leaving the set is none of my business, as long as it doesn't interfere with any of our jobs, okay?'

This was the second time he had to have this type of a conversation with them, Finn remembered. The first time being at the beginning of shooting for season 3 when he had told them, not so kindly, to put their 'fucking differences aside and act like professionals'.

It was their first day of filming that season and they had to do the first make-out scene and it was pretty bad, they knew it was. They had been trying to get it right for about 2 hours before Shawn finally exploded. He told them to leave the set and not come back until they were ready to work.