Fic: Living La Vida Loca (5/?)
Title: Living La Vida Loca
Pairing: Scott/Alex
Rating: PG
Summery: An outsider look on the life of Scott & Alex on the set of Hawaii Five 0.
Author's Notes:
• Thanks for my lovely Sandra for reading over this
• I'm sorry it took this long to update the story but life got too busy with college then my muse just died after I handed the business plan .. so I had to revive her by giving the Business Plan an honorary mention.
• Anything in Bold means it was actually said in Arabic.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
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Day 5 Tuesday September 3, Part 1: 1:30 pm ~
Aloha people!
I’m sorry for interrupting your day and writing this post while I’m still on set but things happened and I must report them right now because it’s just that kind of moment that you want to fangirl about with everyone but there’s no one around!! Seriously it’s been the best day so far, not counting Alex snooping around in my laptop, but I’m getting ahead of myself.
Today was my first day on set. They’re shooting a scene from 2x06 before they start on 2x07 tomorrow, and god bless Lenkov and his brain because everything so far was naked sweaty Alex and nothing hurts!!
I’m not going to talk about the plot because SPOILERS, but I will say that everything we’ve been hearing from the media seems to be true. Other than that, I’m just going to focus on the rest of my day.
So my day started at 6 am. I got ready, grabbed my laptop bag and headed downstairs to find Akela waiting for me, coffee in hand.
We went to somewhere called Neal Blaisdell Center, which is apparently a famous arena for events in Oahu. Akela parked the car then went through with me until we got in and I could see the place alive with cameras and crew all over the place.
He introduced me to Nicole, the assistant director for this episode and said that if I need anything, she’ll be my girl.
Nicole, another native Hawaiian, is a twenty something brunette with short hair and a sparkly personality. She’s one of those people who you can’t help but smile and feel alive whenever you’re around them. She gave me a copy of the day schedule; they’re shooting 2 different scenes in the locker rooms, a scene in the backdrop area and the fight, obviously, with a few shots around the ring itself.
While the crew was setting up for the first scene in the locker room, Nicole told me to follow her to the make up trailer so she could introduce me to Alex and Lauren. I was about to tell her that I already met Alex but I didn’t know Lauren when the trailer door was open and Alex appeared in front of us.
“My girl Amy, glad you could join us today, welcome to Five 0,” smiled Alex.
Nicole, surprised, asked, “Oh so you guys met already?”
“Yeah, I met Scott and Alex my first day here during a meeting with Peter,” I smiled.
“Two down then and four to go, I don’t know if you want to meet Terry or not,” said Nicole.
“I would love to, if he’s available,”
“I think he’ll be around for the car scene with Alex, we’ll figure something out,” said Nicole looking through her papers.
“I can take her on a tour, Make up is done with me for now!” said Alex.
Nicole raised her eyebrows, “Really?”
Alex smiled, “Yeah sure, I don’t mind! Unless Amy has a problem with it?”
“Are you kidding me? Of course I don’t mind!” I said, not ready to believe my luck.
You know how you have this picture of someone in your mind because you’ve seen them in interviews and whatnot? Well, Alex is exactly is the way we always describe him, he’s hilarious, he has a story for everything and he’s the biggest goof ever. He told me about some of the stuff he used to do when he was in college and asked me a few general questions about life in the UAE.
He was in the middle of telling me a story about one of his assignments when he was a freshman at NIDA when my phone started ringing. It was my best friend’s ringtone and she knows better than to call me in the middle of the day unless it’s an emergency so I apologized to Alex, and answered the phone.
“What took you so long to answer, I’m DYING HERE,” yelled Sara at me.
“You’re scaring me, what’s the hell is wrong?”
“OK don’t be scared just yet but if your answer to this question is No, then I am going to kill myself. Is there any chance that you still have my business plan saved on your laptop?”
“Business Plan? I don’t know maybe, why?”
“Don’t tell me maybe I need a yes or a no!! My laptop is officially dead! I lost my business plan and Andy needs it in an hour or I’m not graduating this semester!”
“Oh my god, what happened to your laptop?”
“Long story short: it fell in the pool!"
"Shit! How are you still breathing? If it was my laptop...,"
Sara cut me off, "DETAILS LATER! Can you please pleas please move your ass and check if I’m graduating this year or not?”
“Sorry, give me a second,” I turn to Alex who was giving me a curious look. “I’m sorry about this, but it’s kind of an emergency, can you tell me about the closest place with an Internet connection?”
“I don’t know if the arena offers that, but I think the main production van has a wireless connection so let’s go there,”
“OK thanks,” I follow him while going back to my conversation, “Babe, I’m going to check it now but I’m 90% sure that I do have the files so stop freaking out ok? You’re not failing!”
“Yeah sure, my boss is calling me, check the email and I’ll call you back.”
When I hung up, I looked at Alex who was still looking at me. I couldn’t help but ask, “Why are you looking at me like this?”
He smiled and said, “Arabic sounds sexy,”
I don’t know if I said this before or not but I blush easily, like really fast, even if the complement was said to someone who sitting next to me, so having one of the sexiest men alive tell me that my Arabic, which I 90% of the time mix with English words, sounds sexy caused my face to turn into a tomato within a second. “Thanks, I’m sorry about that, I usually try to speak in English when I’m around non-Arabic speakers but she was kind of shouting at me,”
“She? You called a girl babe, is she your girlfriend?” he raised one of his eyebrows.
“You can blame Danno on that because I call everyone babe but no, she’s the best friend so she gets all the pet names,”
“Then a boyfriend maybe?”
“Nope, not interested in anything right now but finishing my degree then getting a job,”
I started playing with my phone because this conversation was getting uncomfortable real fast. Thankfully, we reached the production van and sat down.
I opened my laptop and sure enough, the wireless connection was there. I hooked up my laptop, while Alex started playing with his phone, glancing over every so often to see what I was doing.
I found the file she needed and it was in the process of being uploaded when Sara called again, “You owe me so much, I’m sending you the file now,” I said into the phone.
“I love you so much right now! My first born is yours!”
I clicked on the send button, closed the browser window then got up, “No thank you very much, you know how much I don’t like kids, let alone your kids! I’m ok with being the cool aunt,”
“Yeah yeah sure, so now that I know we’re graduating together, how’s Oahu? Met the boys yet?”
“Oahu is good and yes I met the boys, haven’t you been reading the blog?”
“Nope, I’m the best friend, I get the right to be told the facts uncensored! So on a scale from 1 to 10, how hot was Scott?”
“Breathtaking, and Alex…” I turn around to see if I’m far away from Alex to say what I really want, only to find the man himself doing something on my laptop, “is doing something on my laptop which I should go check because all my stuff including the fanfics are there,” I quickly said goodbye to Sara and rushed back to sit next to Alex, who had pulled my laptop nearer to him. I should say at this point that my laptop should be considered hallowed ground when it comes to fandom. While I had changed my desktop background before I left (from a manip of Scott and Alex kissing to me and my friend at a concert), I have multiple folders filled with fanfics, manips, set pics, all of the fangirl essentials.
It is a dangerous area that is forbidden to anyone, let alone Scott Caan and Alex O’Loughlin…ESPECIALLY Scott and Alex!
“Uhh .. Excuse me Alex?”
Alex kept looking at the screen.
“What’s McDanno?” he asked
SHIT, “Aaah it’s the name we fans use to refer to your character and Scott’s. Instead of saying Steve and Danno we say McDanno,” I said sitting down and trying to grab my laptop and shut it down before it goes so far.
Alex slapped my hand lightly and said, “Wait I’m having way too much fun, where do you keep the pictures about the show? I have a bet to win!”
“A bet?”
“Yes a bet you know when two people..”
“I know what a bet is Alex, what bet?” I said, finally grabbing my laptop and closing the screen.
Alex sighed and said, “Scott and I have a bet going, you didn’t really talk about the show and us actors when we first met,”
“So?” I say, not impressed at all. Boys!
“We want to know who you like better. You must have a favorite, everyone does!”
“I do have a favorite,”
“Well who?”
“How’s the bet going again?”
“Well Scott thinks you like me better, you calling me sexy is his proof,” he smiles, “But I think you like Scott, you’re too relaxed about us hanging out. If I was your favorite you wouldn’t be able to say a proper sentence right now!”
“Oh wow, how big is your ego Mr. O’Loughlin?” I asked, very amused.
“Not so big but I was a fan before I was an actor. Besides, I don’t see you denying it,”
“I can neither confirm or deny,”
And it’s like Nicole was my guardian angel because she chose that moment to come and drag Alex back to set to start shooting.
I’ll talk more about the scenes later, mainly because this was supposed to be a lunch break for the actors and I’m currently sitting on the floor behind the production van. Alex and Scott are having lunch right now and are sitting in the same place I was sitting with Alex earlier.
Nicole just found me and apparently I can interview Grace and Daniel in a bit so I’ll keep you guys posted and write the second part of this post when I get back to the hotel later.
Aloha everyone .