The night grew colder as the filming shifted to various setups. Kate had makeup smeared across Billy's face—a recurring occurrence. Every kiss they shared left him covered in makeup, which she applied to make her skin look as pale as it did in the film.

  Billy sighed inwardly as he attempted a run that was rejected. They had spent two hours on a small se, and his feet were cramping from the disfort of the shoes.

  –This one has to be the take.– someone from produ remarked.

  James was shouting at a few people, his patience wearing thin. Billy's calm, bright eyes trasted with the reprimands he overheard. Despite his unusual shyness, there was a certain strength in the way he worked that mao temper Cameron's frustration.

  Se 103, Take 15–

  112 INTERIOR – SUITE HALLWAY

  Rose smiles mischievously aures for Jack to be quiet. Rose and Jack slip out of their , closing the door behind them. She leads him quickly down the hallway toward the B-deck lobby. They’re halfway through the open space wheting room door swings open, and Lovejoy steps into the hallway. The valet spots Jack with Rose and takes off after them.

  ROSE: Let’s go!

  She and Jack dash past a few startled dies alemen. Rose leads him past the staircase to a bank of elevators, where they nearly collide with aor.

  ROSE: Down! Quickly, quickly!

  The operator scrambles to obey. Jack even helps shut the steel door. Lovejoy runs up just as the elevator starts to desd, smming a hand against the bars of the door. Rose makes an undylike and rude gesture, ughing as Lovejoy disappears above. The operator stares at her, open-mouthed.

  A quick adjustment follows as the cameraman moves in a rapid sequence.

  113 INT. B-DECK LOBBY / ELEVATORS

  Lovejoy emerges from another elevator and rushes to the one Jad Rose used. The operator is closing the door to asd again. Lovejoy runs around the elevators, sing the lobby for Jad Rose. Not finding them, he tries the staircase leading down to F-deck.

  114 INT. F-DECK HALLWAYS / FAN ROOM

  A funal space with access to maery areas (fan rooms, boiler intakes). Jad Rose lean against a wall, ughing.

  JAbsp;This guy is relentless for a valet.

  ROSE: He’s a former Pion. Cal’s father hired him to keep him out of trouble... to make sure he always returo the hotel with his wallet and watch after wandering the less respectable parts of town.

  JACK: Kind of like what we’re doing now... uh-oh!

  Lovejoy spots them from a nearby corridor and charges toward them. Jad Rose sprint around a er into a dead end. There’s a door marked "CREW ONLY," and Jack flings it open.

  In a swift motion, the cameras capture a dynamic, fluid sequence.

  They enter a CREW ON ROOM, filled with noise and chaos. There’s except for a staircase leading downward. Jack locks the door, and Lovejoy pounds on it moments ter. Jack smiles at Rose aures to the stairs.

  JACK: After you, my dy.

  -cut.-

  Billy was thrilled, nailing the se perfectly. Both actors delivered fwlessly. As the door closed, the call for a cut was heard, and Billy exhaled while Kate celebrated their success.

  –I think we .– murmured Kate. It was almost ten in the m.

  She wore only a dress, using gloves and a scarf to shield herself from the cold between takes. Before each shot, she would hold Billy’s icy cheeks in her hands, smiling. It was a silly but endeariure.

  –It was the cameramen’s fault; they were a bit fused about the lighting.– Billy remarked.

  The room was empty, resembling a wooden warehouse. They opehe door to see the crew bustling around, anizing the se. Billy desded the stairs. The grand ship seemed distant; the lower se art of a smaller set.

  –It feels strao go down.– Rose ented.

  Se 104, Take 1–

  116 INT. BOILER ROOMS FIVE AND SIX

  Jad Rose desd the escape stairs, gazing around i looks like a vision of hell itself, with r furnaces and bed figures moving amidst the smoky glow. They run along the boiler room, dodging stunned firemen and stokers with their coal carts.

  JAbsp;(shouting over the din) Keep going! Don’t mind us!

  They sprint through an open watertight door into BOILER ROOM SIX. Jack pulls her into a sweltering alleyway between two boilers, where they stop in the shadows, out of sight from the workers. Hidden, they watch the firemen shoveling coal into the insatiable furhe roar of the fmes eg all around.

  A quick cut transitions to them running down a corridor, caught in their own world. Billy, too, is lost in his. He’s there, entirely immersed, without ag or direg him.

  Jad Rose rush through rows of stacked cargo. She clutches herself against the chill after the stifli of the boilers. They stumble upon William Carter’s new Renault t car, strapped to a pallet. It looks like a royal carriage from a fairy tale, with brass trim and headmps perfectly plementing its deep burgundy color.

  Rose climbs into the luxurious rear seat, behaving like a queen. The walls feature crystal flowers, each etched with a rose. Jack hops into the driver’s seat, sav the feel of the leather and wood.

  JAbsp;Where to, my dy?

  ROSE: To the stars.

  From above, Jack’s hands emerge from the shadows, pulling her back over the seat. He nds beside her, their breaths loud in the quiet darkness. He gazes at her, and she smiles. It’s the moment of truth.

  JAbsp;Are you nervous?

  ROSE: Quite the opposite, darling.

  He strokes her face gently, caressing her. She kisses his artist’s fingers, then, daringly, says:

  ROSE: Put your hands on me, Jack.

  Billy adjusts Kate’s posture, his eyes refleg an infinite desire that captures the lens’s glow.

  –You’re beautiful.– Jack/Billy whispers, improvising, before pulling her close and kissing her.

  He kisses her neck as she tilts her head, exposing her colrbohey tinue kissing passionately, to the point where the cameras stop rolling, but no one calls for a cut. He breaks character briefly, notig the cameras still focused on them.

  He lifts her and pces her on his p. She squeals in surprise as he unbuttons her shirt and nibbles her neck. She presses her face against him.

  –Cut.–

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