the role she was cast. (3721 words) by ellabell / @ellabellbee
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Warehouse 13
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Myka Bering/Helena "H. G." Wells
Characters: Myka Bering, Helena "H. G." Wells, Pete Lattimer
Summary:
Takes place as if written between S4 and S5. Cancer arc. Helena returns to the Warehouse to help, but doesn't quite know how to talk to Myka. Pete entertains a recovering Myka by being silly.
(This was supposed to be a one-shot, but I've added a second chapter.)
Please tell us why you like this fic so much!
The psychology, Helena's twisted reasoning in this makes so much sense. It is heart wrenching because it is so realistic. All the characters are! But all the heart ache gets soothed so well and soon, so this one is healing.
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ellabellbee replied to your post:i think i’m calling it a day soon with this...
Hey, when do you actually take the exam? (and, YOU CAN DO IT!) <3
it’s in four parts. i take the first one at the end of the month and the last three in july, possibly august if i want to push it back a little. like, i’m remembering way more stuff than i thought i would from my undergrad classes and the stuff i’ve taken since i’ve gotten to grad school. it’s just...A LOT. and i’m not even stressed, like only the mild level where i live my life, but it’s just the amount of info we’re all trying to cram into our heads in a short window of time that’s making it hard to shut down our brains at night. the good thing is i’m doing this with about 100 of my fellow classmates.
hummus: “I bet if it was the other way around she wouldn’t have ranted so hard.” idek.
I totally would have ranted hard about someone looking up the conference Nebraska was in and picking a random school to invent a record against like they were rivals.
and like, no disrespect or anything, but playing a total of 14 times between 1930 and 2010 isn’t the stuff of a heated rivalry, you know?
Should have let the prosecutor play fullback at Missouri. THAT would have been worthy of making it a thing.
ellabellbee replied to your post “roboticonography replied to your post “I have this idea for a...”
time travel? TIME TRAVEL? *heart eyes. I will be your biggest cheering section omg. <3
RIGHT? I do love me a good time travel story. But man, is the plotting tricky. Because I can’t be settling for some lazy, half-assed Doctor Who-style time travel. It’s got to make sense and hang together without any gaping holes or wibbly-wobbly nonsense. Which is SO HARD OMG. Getting all the character motivations and cause/effect stuff to line up is not so easy when you throw time travel into the mix, as it turns out.
BUT! I’ve been noodling on it today and I think I may have figured out the biggest hurdle and sketched out most of a plot that maybe sort of works? I hope? I’m still working out a few of the details, but omg I may actually write this thing! I just have try and keep it manageable and not let it turn into some 100K-word opus, because then I’ll never finish it. Got to keep it succinct and not drown myself in details and the urge to over-explain. Less is more when it comes to this story, I think.
Timestamp meme: Down the Rabbit Hole -- whenever the tv series starts production. :) (YES I'm cheating, deal with it.)
Regina has dragged them to Vancouver for the weekend because the ‘Marisol Mendez’ TV series is filming. Emma’s mildly star-struck by the whole business. There’s so many people around and so much expensive equipment and Regina keeps whispering for her to enjoy herself but she’s pretty sure she’s going to knock over a camera and they’ll kick her off the set of what the media have dubbed ‘The Children’s Game of Thrones’.
The cast have broken, sitting around with tea and coffee, and Emma gazes at Sara Ramirez from afar because she’s a goddess and Emma’s definitely not worthy of speaking to her.
(Henry has no such compunction, running up to her and tugging on her tailored trousers and saying, “you dress like my momma,” while Emma grimaces from a distance. The little girl they have playing Marisol holds more interest for him, however, and she takes him off to show him her classroom and trailer.)
"She’s amazing, isn’t she?" says a voice beside her and when she looks over she sees the woman cast to play Gin. She’s a newcomer to TV - having mostly been involved in Broadway shows until this point (and this gives Emma so much hope for a musical episode). "Nina Alvarez," she adds, holding out a hand for Emma to shake. She doesn’t really look how Gin had been described - but it was a change Regina had accepted, on a couple of conditions.
(“They want Gin to look Latina,” she says, “because Ramon’s not going to come along for a couple of seasons and they want the audience to buy Marisol as Gin’s biological child.”
"Isn’t that a bit ishy if Gin’s mother’s the whitest character on the show?" Emma asks.
They’ve got some guy from ‘Jane the Virgin’ playing Prince Charming,” Regina says, shrugging. “I think they’re aiming for ambiguous? To be honest, I’m not complaining all that much about more Latinas on my TV screen.”)
"She’s pretty great," Emma says. "I’m Emma, by the way. Regina’s partner?"
"Oh, the inspiration for the romance between Gin and Sal," Nina says, grinning. They’ve styled her dark red curls back into a tight bun and she’s got this ludicrously buff physique but when she smiles her cheeks round and dimples form.
"I don’t know," Emma says, shrugging.
"It’s so great," she says, "getting to play such an important character for my first TV role. And with people like Sara. I’m still a bit star-struck and she’s ridiculously nice."
Emma laughs. “I’ve been with Regina for going on two years and I still sometimes freak out over what a celebrity she is,” she admits. Regina’s meeting with the head writers currently and she’s trying not to feel needy and weak over how much she wants her here to hold her hand over this.
"Come on, Swan," Nina says, grabbing Emma’s hand. "I’ll introduce you around."
