Missing Pieces - The Audition
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TITLE: Missing Pieces - The Audition
AUTHOR: mscc6422
PAIRING/POV: Rob/Kristen [KPOV]
RATING: PG-13
SUMMARY: Random between the lines story between R/K since Twilight to Eclipse filming. These two take place in Twilight audition
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing but the plot. Am not related with them, I just play with the possibility of what might happen and all these purely and simply my imagination.
NOTES: So yeah, I decided to dare myself and take the hugest challenge I could find.
Fragile
"Ready Kristen?" Catherine looked at me and raised her eyebrow. I exhaled loudly and forced a smile on my face as I nodded. "Be gentle, okay?" She said again and I nodded as I bit the bottom of my lips, repressing my laughter.
"Are you kidding me, Catherine?" I stood up and walked toward Catherine. "Wasn't I was gentle enough when the last guy hit me with the pillow?" I raised my eyebrows as I grinned to her. I was expecting a lot of thing. I was anticipating of a lot of thing as well for this audition. We were auditioning for one of the key scene for the film, for the book as well, and I knew people would do something crazy. Yet still, I wasn't expected the pillow would fly across the room and hit me square on the face.
"So, who's next?" I asked as I walked toward Catherine.
"Hm, this one is British guy," She smirked as she checked the file she held. "Robert Pattinson." She looked up to me and I saw a glint on her eyes. "He once starred in Harry Potter movie. His biggest gig so far."
"Oh, wow." I said as I took a seat by her side. "Do you think he’d be any good?" Catherine grinned as she heard my question. We've auditioned too many people and to be honest I started to be skeptical we'd ever found Edward. Well, at least the Edward Cullen Catherine and I would approved
"Let's give him a try, okay." She squeezed my hand before she walked toward the door to let this Robert Pattinson guy to come in.
I let put a yawn. It'd been a long day, and despite Catherine's and everyone's effort to make ourselves comfortable, I was sure we’re already wear off. Finding Edward was extremely hard. It was hard not because those actors were bad; it was the opposite actually. They were too good. Well, a lot of them were too good, too perfect. I know Edward supposed to be perfect, yet it was a huge different between Bella's definition of perfection and what most of them showed today. Their performances were loosing something. Loosing what, I still had no idea. Catherine said I was setting my expectation too high, and now I started to believe I was.
"Please come in Robert." Catherine's voice brought me back to reality. I looked up and I gasped. I could feel Catherine took her place by my side, yet I still couldn't move my glance from the person stood in the middle of the room. There was something about him that made me unable to turn around. And it wasn't just his look. It was the sense of fragility that he sent to us. He seemed a little out of place, not that he wasn’t confident, he was just looked a bit doubtful. It almost as if he wasn’t believed he deserved to auditioned in front of us.
"We're ready when you are." Catherine said again as she elbowed my ribs. I cleared my throat.
"Um, yeah, sure." I incoherently answered. I looked at him, looked for a clue for me, expecting he'd done what all actors had been doing all day, using me as one of the prop. Yet he didn't say anything. In fact, he wasn't even looked at me. His eyes were closed and he took a deep breath. Then lazily, he opened his eyes and started to say the lines, with his eyes locked on me.
When people auditioned for a part, they basically could do almost anything. There's enough space and, with a little imagination, enough props. Yet Robert Pattinson was standing there, in the middle of the room, his voice were clear, his eyes looked straight to me, as he said the line where Edward revealing himself to Bella. He was just standing there, yet the emotion in his voice, his intonation and his facial expression were more than enough to bring me to the meadow, awoken the Bella in me and made her terrified; mesmerized, and terrified. I no longer myself, and we're no longer in the middle of Catherine’s house. We were Edward and Bella, in the middle of the meadow. He was revealing himself to me. I had just received my confirmation. I, Bella Swan, fell in love with a vampire name Edward Cullen.
I looked at him with disbelieve. I wasn’t expected him to be that good. I wasn’t expecting someone that looked a bit doubtful and out of place as he stepped into the room had the ability to sway me onto the virtual reality. He genuinely able to make me believe and he did nothing but stood there and saying the words. I didn’t know who he was, or what he did, yet I know one thing for sure: Robert Pattinson is perfect to be Edward Cullen.
(Im)Patience
"You asked us to do what?" I blurted out as I heard Catherine's request. I could feel my face start to blush. I glanced at Robert and I caught glimpsed of smirk on his face as he turned his face slightly down, as if he didn't want to involve in whatever that might come next. Catherine looked at me a little surprised. Yeah well, I was surprised with my own reaction anyway, why shouldn't she.
I always took pride on myself in how 'professional' I am. I came on time, I did what I had to do, and I did what my character had to do. I did all those not because I am a doll with no brain, like many Hollywood dolls. I did because I believed that was what my character needed to do. Catherine knew that. I guess that was why she was taken back on my reaction. Damn Mr-Harry-Potter-alumni, he made me unable to think straight.
"Kris," she began as she watched my face carefully. She smirked a little before she continued. She could tell the moment that just happened was out of my control. "Well, we'd been toying on the sequence of the filming and this might happen in the beginning, y'know. I just want to see, if, if Robert here could showed us this side of Edward."
Lie.
Catherine wanted to know whether we had chemistry that needed to be Edward and Bella, and what better way to show it than the kissing scene. Um, correction, the *bedroom* kissing scene. I knew the moment Robert finished his line, Catherine would asked me to participate somehow in this audition. Robert Pattinson had shown us what a great actor he is, with the monologue. Yet acting is not about you, it never does. It’s about connection, it always does. Being in romance-centered story like Twilight, connection became even more important than in other movie. That was why I was here, helped the audition process for Edward. Cause Catherine is all about reaction and nothing more important for Catherine but the way whoever-guy-that-would-played-as-Edward and I would interact.
So yeah, I was aware that we would need to do some ‘intimacy’ scene. That was what we’d been doing in the past auditions. Yet the bedroom scene never came to surface, until now.
“Ready?” Catherine said again. Was it a wink?
I chose to ignore whatever it was and chose to position myself on the edge of the bed. Robert came closer to the bed and he glanced between Catherine and I, then he cleared his throat. “Um, Kristen.” He started, “Could you, um, move to the middle of the bed?” His voice was soft, polite, yet firm. I looked up to him and shifted myself to the center of the bed. I didn’t have any other choice. This was his audition anyway; I was just a prop for him to prove himself to Catherine.
“Okay, just start whenever you guys ready.” I heard Catherine’s voice. I looked at Robert, he raised his eyebrow slightly, silently asked whether I was ready. I nodded.
I saw him came closer, kneed on the edge of he bed. He put his hand around my waist. Gently, barely touching, yet gave unexplainable sensation toward my body. I trembled as I moved toward him, felt his grip became more firm on my waist, pulled me to him until our body almost touching. Instinctively, I circled my hand around his shoulder, fighting the sudden urge to play with his hair. I felt his warm breath on my face as he whispered, “I want to try something.” He said as he leaned his face closer until our forehead touched.
I waited but there was nothing. He stayed there, waiting. I could felt his fingers on my cheek, on my chin, yet his lips didn’t move. He didn’t lean closer. My breath became heavier and I had to fight my eyes from closing. This was crazy, since he barely did anything but innocently and harmlessly touched my face.
I had to do something, before all went overboard. Before my feelings, my curiosity became uncontrollable. So I decided to lean closer, closed the gap and ended the waiting game. I closed my eyes and enchanted the same line over and over in my head as I leaned toward him, as my lips touched his surprisingly soft lips, as let myself drawn into strange sensation of satisfaction, fear and doubt that enfolded my soul as he deepened the kiss.
I’m just Bella and he’s just my Edward.
Yet as Catherine’s voice echoed in the room. As he let go my lips, and his touch on my skin. Not even as I pushed myself back to reality, did I believe any of the words I’d been saying in my head. Instead, I only had one thing, one fact in my mind.
Robert Pattinson is one heck of a kisser.