#emma/sarah/rachel/nina as incomplete figment in the minds of the audience i guess

[lighttailoring]

Ship: Emma/happiness (People, Places & Things)

AU setting: I don’t think it makes sense to put her anywhere but the real world, so

I could’ve asked this anonymously, but you would’ve known who it was from. 😂

Emma stands on the little podium in the centre of the stage. She has to be Emma right now, because Rachel's a work in progress and Sarah's too attached to the treatment centre - she'd liked Nina but apparently nobody else had. So she's Emma, and she's looking out into the audience for the last time before she says her final line - the actress is looking out into the audience for the last time, and Emma looks too, and this is the part that always gets tricky because it's almost over, these are the last words she gets to say before she stops existing (sort of, it's complicated) and she wants a cigarette and the next cigarette she'll get will be the one she lights up in reception when it all starts again and she wonders if the actress smokes and she wonders if that makes a difference and she's frustrated that she doesn't get to know because she'd like to know whether or not she's pissing off the person whose body she's fucking inhabiting, you know? And oh fuck that was a question mark wasn't it that's not the end of the sentence that's not the end of it that's not how a stream of consciousness works fuck off she's going to keep talking because, actually, whether you like it or not she exists in the minds of the audience now, beyond the stage, actually, and everybody's got a different version of her inside their head and like obviously she doesn't know what happens to them all but in terms of probability, right, one of them gets to be happy, right, like -

(I'm not Duncan Macmillan but hopefully @supervisormeero likes this)