#maybe ill do another one after i finish skoh

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Guys actor aus are actually gonna be the death of me DHDJSHVSH

I know I already wrote an actor au BUT. This idea came to be last night while I was trying to sleep

Robin and Nancy have been filming together for a few years now. They like their characters, and they like being around each other. Both of their characters have love interests, even if both of them might have considered… other options.

It’s while they’re filming in the middle of the night that everything changes. It’s a wound cleaning scene, one where Nancy gets to hold Robin’s face close and smile at her. Their characters whisper questions about love into the night, the focus entirely on them, moonlight shining down upon their faces.

They keep getting the scene wrong. They don’t even know why; it’s just that each time, one of them will fumble when Nancy’s character brings up her love interest. Robin will stammer out a line that’s meant to be confident, or Nancy will forget what she was meant to say. It’s all little things, but they keep doing extra takes to get it just right.

Nancy’s getting frustrated. She doesn’t know what’s wrong with this scene, or why she just can’t seem to perfect it.

She makes a split-second decision, one she makes fairly often in filming, to just do what feels natural for the next take. Screw the script. They’ll just end up trying again afterwards.

And so she does. Maybe she doesn’t follow what she’s meant to say, but it just feels more natural this time. The crew behind the camera just watches, choosing to see where this goes, deciding to let her do this. Just to see how it ends.

And, boy, does it end differently.

Nancy’s character is meant to bring up her love interest. She knows this, and Robin knows this, and the other absent cast members know this, and everyone knows this. It’s how the scene goes, how the viewers discover that the characters will get together.

She doesn’t.

“Well, it really depends on who it is,” Robin murmurs, just like every other take. Nancy doesn’t respond, just stares at her. Her gaze is full of intensity, full of warmth. And maybe there’s another emotion that she can’t name, simmering just beneath the surface.

Nancy doesn’t think about it. She just lets her body move on autopilot, hand moving up to softly cup Robin’s cheek. She thinks that someone should stop her, but doesn’t do it herself. How can she, when Robin’s breath hitches just slightly? How is she meant to stop when Robin is looking at her like that, dazed and trusting and a little confused?

Robin doesn’t pull away. And so Nancy pulls her close, and their lips meet, and everything feels right.

It’s a short kiss, broken fairly quickly. They stare at each other, silent, until Steve comes crashing through the bushes, exactly as he was meant to in the script. Completely oblivious to what just happened.

They talk about it, later that night, and a confession comes from it. In the pale moonlight of the lake near Robin’s trailer, a relationship is born.

Shockingly, the producers tell them that the scene was phenomenal. That they had a discussion, and some of the crew members pointed out that their characters did have a lot more chemistry than the creators planned for. And so, to the surprise of both of them, the ending was changed just slightly, just so that their characters ended up together.

They conveniently forget to tell the other cast members, ecstatic about their newfound affection. They hold hands under the table and kiss behind closed doors, and only Steve finds out within the first day.

It’s a week or so after that scene that the new scripts are delivered. Nancy is at Robin’s trailer when someone pounds on the door. Robin goes to open it, and there’s Max.

Before she can greet her, the new scripts are shoved into her face, with Max exclaiming in outrage that she and Nancy didn’t tell the group about the fact that they literally got their characters’ ending changed!

Max looks behind Robin to see Nancy, slightly flushed, sending a dopy smile Robin’s way, and just goes, “oh.”

And later on, when the season is released and the cast participates in interviews, of course questions would arise. On the first one that Nancy and Robin are both part of, someone asks for the story. And they tell it, and the viewers love it.

And maybe, just maybe, they love it, too.

(That’s an understatement. Nancy doesn’t even have the words to describe how she feels about Robin, but that’s an issue for another day.)