Just a warning I am Dyslexic so my stories will not be perfect.

I do not own Skip Beat.

Just wing it.

"It's not going to work." rang out from Itsumi's lips.

"Itsumi-san?" director Tokishima Haruto was gobsmacked as he looked at the main protagonist of his movie she didn't even seem like she was saying those words to anyone in particular if anything Itsumi Momose was lost in her own thoughts as Lory asked loudly as to break through the young actresses mind fog she seems to be sifting through.

"What will not work Itsumi-chan? His voice rang out loud and clear as Kyoko looked even more dejected than she had just portrayed in the scene they were displaying.

"It's not going to work," Itsumi said again as Lory's voice reached her inner thoughts and she spun to look first at Lory and the director and then Ren and Kyoko. "Don't look like that Kyoko, it's not your fault, it's mine! Director can't you see it's not going to work." Itsumi's mind seemed to be figuring out something a hundred miles a minute as she looked back at Ren and then Kyoko and shook her head before scowling at the floor.

"Itsumi-chan if you don't tell us what's not going to work we cannot help you solve whatever problem you're having," Lory said as Kyoko and Ren approached. "You did the scene wonderfully. Itsumi-san, what has you so tied in knots?" Ren asked gently as Itsumi looked at him once more.

"The story doesn't make sense," she said crisply with finality before looking around at everyone seated watching her.

"Am I the only one that sees it?" she asked, looking shocked no one else had picked up on the elephant in the room. "Clearly not Itsumi-san please enlighten us." The director said, trying not to sigh, it was then that Aoi raised her hand and Itsumi turned to her nodding for the girl to continue.

"Erm it doesn't make sense that Reo would fall in love with Kokoro." Aoi said flatly looking at Itsumi who smiled brightly and almost shouted "Exactly! Their love does not make sense!" The silence that followed this was almost more deafening than the normal noise during an audition for LME when the director suddenly just couldn't hold back anymore "Excuse me but how exactly does their love story not make sense! It's the basis of the entire movie!" he looked around looking for support but the other people present all seemed to be thinking deeply it was Shona who spoke next.

"No she is right, why would Reo fall in love with Kokoro? She is very self-centered, she only wants to marry a man who has money and wealth to keep her happy... she was never really interested in Reo for who he is... more so what he had," she said looking up at Itsumi who nodded happily that she could see her problem.

"But she's beautiful and talented in her own right so why wouldn't she fall in love with Reo?" Itsumi smiled at the director as he asked this. "Oh she very well could fall in love with Reo but not in the space of this movie she wouldn't, the lady is right," she said nodding acknowledgment to Shona "in her current form Kokoro is just looking how Reo can help boost herself she's not looking for love, she's looking for name and status that's all." Lory nodded slowly amazed he had not seen it himself, Haruto now listening to the words of his leading lady was ready to pull his hair out as he too saw the flaw in his beautiful story it was really Chiori who smacked the final nail in the coffin as she looked to Ren and Kyoko standing next to each other the angel and the one she guarded.

"Why would Reo fall in love with someone who offers him nothing when he has the perfect woman who would give him the world if only he asked her for it." With her words everyone looked towards the pair who were the object of Chiori's gaze as Lory stepped up behind his love me number 3.

"Do you think you could write it?" he asked softly as Chiori nodded as Itsumi had been Chiori was running through the hallways of her own consciousness finding the pathways in which the story could end in a way that would make sense. Haruto watched as Lory as the small girl if she could rewrite the end of his movie differently and almost told Lory he had real writers for that but as the small girl turned her eyes burning with an inspired passion she spoke with the confidence and assurance that Haruto had rarely seen in a writer.

"Oh yes Sacho I think I have the perfect solution." and she was off and almost running back to the tables still set up by the door the tables they had been using for the last three days a notebook retrieved from her bag and she was scribbling down as her life depended on it. "Lory?" Haruto asked begging for an answer to a question he hadn't quite had the confidence to pose yet.

"She's going to be an amazing screenwriter one-day Hatoru you mark my words you will not be disappointed, Haruto sat and chatted with the actors and actresses occasionally looking over at the girl who scribbled away furiously he watched as Kyoko simply opened a bottle of water and placed it beside the girl who didn't even stop writing as she thanked her picked up the bottle downed half its contents then continued on at full force. When Haruto remembered his issue with a male lead it was almost too much for Lory when he said "Well why not ask Ren here?" Haruto had spluttered for a moment and then quietly said he didn't think Ren would be interested in such a small movie since he was working on much bigger projects he was lucky that Itsumi-san had been gracious enough to take the part after her success with Darkmoon his mumbling continued until Yashiro grabbing the bull by the horns asked

"Ahh when would the movie be filming?" Haruto grabbed his planner and listed off a few dates while Yashiro calculated his schedule for him trying to act nonchalant but really his heart was racing hoping he could fit this in 'Please Yashiro' he pleaded in his head as when Yashiro went quiet marking off different things and moving things it looked like to Ren he struck.

"We must not forget where we come from Director, I may be getting more offers and in different genres but I cut my teeth on wonderful movies like this one and honestly I am interested in where it will go from here, from what I have seen so far you have an amazing cast myself, Itsumi-san and Kyoko-san have good onset chemistry if I can be of help to you in any way I would happily do so." Haruto had barely even considered someone like Ren taking the movie spot but if he did this movie would be an instant success, there was not a woman alive he knew too that could resist the charms of Tsurguru Ren even his own lovely wife wasn't immune and his daughters... well his daughters would kill him if they ever found out he had turned the man down for a role.

"Ren if we talk with the director of 'in the shadows' I think with a few tweaks here and there we can fit it in if you would like?" Yashiro said as Lory watched the two men work the director to their own means and the man was almost salivating at the thought yes this would have been a big movie without Ren, Lory himself would have seen to that with Ren it would be spectacular! Ren looked at the director not wanting to answer his best friend without the directors going ahead.

"Well welcome aboard!" he said, swinging his hand out to Ren who shook it happily and thanked him for his kindness and consideration for him in the role even if they had just played the man like a fiddle.

Aoi laughed as she watched the antics and Kanae leaned over to the younger girl looking curious at her "is it always like this?" she asked motioning to the way Ren and Yashiro had played the director where chatting and Lory smiling like a cat who ate the canary. Kanae couldn't help but roll her eyes before she smiled at the young girl "welcome to LME, the only entertainment agency where you don't have to be mad to join but it helps." Aoi laughed again as Kanae smiled at Yashiro knowingly and he smiled in return neither would admit the thrill it gave them.

"Is Chiori a good writer then?" Shona asked as Kyoko retook her seat next to her after giving her the bottle of water Kyoko nodded smiling brightly, "Sacho was really amazed when he gave Chiori a Love me assignment a few weeks ago he had told her if she thought she could write the script better than the writers to make it so the story did not rely on the girl's good looks for ratings then she should prove it to him." Shona smiled "so I'm guessing she did just that didn't she?" Kyoko laughed lightly and smiled "Oh yes I don't think I've ever seen Lory look so happy yet annoyed that she had proved her point and shocked him entirely with her writing prowess, from what Chiori told me Lory asked to keep her work as he had a director in mind who might be very interested in her story." Shona whistled and was impressed.

"You Love Me lot are truly amazing," she said as she watched her brother work his magic and by the looks of it got something important sorted out as she watched Ren shake the director's hand she had a hunch Kyoko was not going to find it hard acting out the love scenes if what she thought happened had done so. It took just 32 minutes before Chiori was up and offering the paper she had been working on so diligently to the president.

"It didn't need much the whole story can stay but before the end, Reo has to realize he's been chasing after the wrong woman and the woman he should have been loving was right in front of him all the time and he won't realize this until he is right in front of Kokoro ready to propose. So when we get to the point and Haruta see's Reo with Kokoro in the restaurant he has been telling her about all this time she believes he is proposing but really he sits Kokoro down, I don't know who you have playing Reo but I imagined a Tsuruga Ren wanna be so I thought about how he would let a woman down while at the same time seems like the most perfect gentleman on earth." At this point Lory's eyes had shot to Ren's who was listening intently but also blushing as quite a few eyes with laughing smiles pointed towards him, Chiori continued not missing a beat.

"So he tells Kokoro that she doesn't need a man to make her dreams come true and that she is clever enough and has enough guts to be his boss one day so why should she settle for anything less? They leave as friends but not before Kokoro asks him if there was someone else, unable to explain Hatura to he says that his heart has always been with another even if he couldn't truly be with her, Kokoro will tell him how she always thought his heart was somewhere else and tells him if he truly loves this person no matter what it takes to go and get her because he deserves someone who will love him for more than his talent and money. She says this in a joking way of course as she does truly care for him just not as much as she could with the right man." Haruto was nodding along with Chiori following along like a rat to a pied piper, keep playing number 3 Lory thought.

"So Reo goes looking for Haruta only to find outside the restaurant feathers no one else seems to be paying attention to them and he suddenly realizes that they must belong to Hatura, chasing the trail of feathers he finds himself standing outside a hospital when he enters he follows the feather right to a private room and sees Haruta staring through the open doorway but her form is almost transparent in shock he calls out to her but she doesn't seem to hear him as he runs over and tries to grab her, of course being almost a ghost this doesn't work even though she can affect the world around him and sometimes touch him he can never touch her. We see the pain at this moment at wanting to hold her, his angel whose wings are drooped and trailing along the floor almost completely featherless now as she steps into the room she had been looking into." Chiori was pacing at this point the excitement and energy of the story she was telling winding her up like a spring ready to explode with the energy it was containing.

"Reo his heartbreaking looks into the room just as the now barely visible Haruta touches the face of the female figure lying in the bed and as he watches Haruta's form finally disappear into the prone and comatose body of herself." Chiori paused for effect as Kyoko and Yashiro both gasped they were like children seeing magic for the first time almost falling out of there seats hanging on Chiori's every word it was Kanae who prompted Chiori, "so what happened?" Chiori smiles at her and continues.

"Well Reo is completely shocked of cause but he goes over to the prone figure being kept alive on life support she looks pale and emaciated like she has been there for some time and as he reaches down to touch her face he is stopped by a woman sharply asking who he is and what the hell does he think he doing to her sister. He stops his movement and jumps away to face the woman who sees tears running down his cheeks as he in a broken voice just asks her what happened? What happened to his Haruta. Seeing that it appears that this unknown man knows her sister she explains that on the day before the train crash Reo was almost killed in Haruta's car was involved in a traffic accident a man driving a large freight lory had a heart attack at the wheel and plowed through the crossroads she had been driving across, she tells him that she has been in the condition he sees now ever since and that she is glad that her sister has at least one friend outside of the hospital which we later learn is where she works as a specialist pediatric doctor who is basically work-obsessed and seems to do nothing but work all the time without really seeing her family often or having a social life."

"She tells Reo she is glad he has come today as they will be turning the life support off tomorrow so at least he will have a chance to say goodbye, she leaves the room allowing him time to do this and sobbing Reo collapses to his knees at Haruta's bedside he tells her how much he loves and needs her and how much she has changed not only his life but him for the better and how he doubts he could ever be happy living without her by his side, at this point director I was thinking of having a open door scene where you can see Haruta's silently crying sister pressed against the wall outside the room listening in to his confession while we can see Reo and hear him but allowing room for interpretation." Lory couldn't help as he wondered yet again at the amazing people his Love Me section held as the Director was now even writing notes and nodding in a little journal as he motioned Chiori to continue.

"Well as Reo starts to control himself more he stands and looks lovingly at Haruta in the bed before him, his words he had said to Kokoro in his ears how he couldn't be with the woman he loved and how it had taken on an entirely new meaning with Haruta completely missing from his life as he leans forwards kissing her brow lightly and whispering his love for her." By this point Yashiro was almost a sobbing mess Handkerchief in hand Sebastian had handed him, Shona was chuckling to herself as he rubbed his back and Kanae didn't know how to react as she patted his knee in a consoling way, Chiori took in all the waiting faces this was something she had found gave her great joy telling stories something her writing could do other than be vile and grudge filled, it could fill people with emotions and wonder.

"It's hard for him but Reo leaves giving Haruta's sister his card with all his contact details he asks her if she will please keep him informed, she nods unable to speak and we follow the broken-hearted Reo out of the hospital, now just after Reo steps out of the hospital we go back to Haruta's room where we see her sister caring for the flowers and the room as Haruta wakes up! Haruta's sister calls him the very next day and thinking she will be giving her sister an amazing surprise doesn't tell Haruta, but when Reo turns up giant bouquet of flowers in hand and Haruta asks who he is Reo is crushed though he tries not to show it as the doctors say it could be amnesia, Haruta's sister knows that the words she had heard the day before were really true honest feelings and tries to convince Haruta who insists she has no idea who Reo is and Reo once again leaves heartbroken." Lory wondered at this point if this film would have a happy loving ending that he was so hoping for like the past script had done.

"Now I'm thinking a time passing scene with Reo on a bench, at work, at home etc as the world rushes by around him, the idea of humanity rushing onwards but he is stuck in his heartbreak and grief until we tie it back to Act 3 of the movie where Haruta is is trying to remember who she is and where she came from other than her name. She sits telling him of a small green park she had always loved a little spot of serenity with a pond and a pergola where she had often sat and rested in the sun and even though she could not remember what she knew something bad was happening to it. It's on one of Reo's many random wanderings that he yet again finds himself without purpose outside the hospital Haruta had been treated in and worked at he looks hopelessly at the people walking all around him maybe hoping for a glimpse of the woman he loves but we see him sign and continue walking, this is when Reo comes upon a small park not far from the hospital a big notice of the gate reads it will be closing in 3 days and then the land with be going up for sale at auction with planning permission for apartments, not knowing how or why Reo realizes this park is the place that had meant so much to Haruta and was the memory she held dearest so much so it followed her into the limbo between life or death and it's here that we leave Reo for the moment in the story." Aoi looked at Chiori in wonder as she asked "doesn't Reo get his happily ever after then?" Chiori smiled in a wait and see as sipping her water she wets her lips to continue.

"We go to Haruka now as she leaves the hospital, as she convalesces at her sister's house where she is waited on hand and foot and finally spends some quality time with her family, we pass through scenes of her slowly getting better, of her returning back to her own house and going back to work for the first time where all the staff and patients that she has worked over long periods with are so happy at her return. Yet there seems to the audience as if something or someone is missing she will occasionally while by herself see a flash in the corner of her eye as she reaches a box down of a tall shelf as if there should be someone there helping her reach, she almost hears someone smiling and laughing in the next room as she under her breath complains about one thing or another and the room is empty. It's after one such episode as she is calling them at work that she decides a walk is what she needs not thinking on it she begins walking towards a park she had always loved and was where her mom and dad had met that she is almost positive will not be there anymore as it was being sold off with planning permission, but still she walkers that way.

It is with complete shock she finds the small park is still there and even more beautiful than before full with flowers the likes she could hardly believe as she walks the well worn now well looked after paths through and past the now weeded clean koi pond and the pergola she had rest below so many times, it's here she sees a man from behind as he tends and prunes a beautiful rose bush with large golden roses on it planted below another new addition of a dove loft where she can see a number of doves looking down at the man and herself, its in that moment as he stands up wiping his brow and turning the doves take flight a few loose feathers falling down before Haruta's eyes as all in one she remembers everything that happened before she woke up after her accident." Haruto looked at Lory who now himself was almost in tears bursting with joy at the scene this wonderful young woman was painting with her words, he was glad he was already sold on this new direction if not he knew he would have been hounded by the old love monster is only so he could get this single scene.

"Reo is completely amazed as Haruta almost bodily tackles him into the pergola with the sudden understanding that it was the man before her that had been missing all this time, the man she was completely and hopelessly in love with." Chiori smiles brightly as everyone around her, even Kanae and Kyoko seem to sigh in relief that Haruta and Reo get there happily ever after.

"Then we will add a little filler moment of how Reo brought the garden to keep it a protected space for all the community and named it *Tengoku ga okutta with a scene showing above the gate to enter it reads

'In honor of DR Naoe Haruta, " I want to live in a world where people become famous because of their work for peace and justice and care. I want the famous to be inspiring; their lives an example of what every human being has it in them to do — act from love!"

more filler moment scenes maybe a wedding or so forth and we have it." Chiori ended her retelling so matter of factly that the president finally did give in to his laughter smiling brightly while clapping Chiori on the back happily

"So Haruto do 'we have it?'" he asked using Chiori's final words as Haruto smiling nodded enthusiastically before looking longingly at Chiori before his next words.

"And I Lory need Amimaya-san, you young lady are a rare gem and if you would be willing to work with me I have another story I'm having difficulties with." Chiori was shocked but not un-pleased, blushing at his compliment of calling herself a rare gem as she peered past the director she smiled as not only Kanae and Kyoko gave her big thumbs up but so did Aio, Marasuma, and Shona.

Lots of film storylines in this one hope you don't mind.

*Tengoku ga okutta - Heaven sent

sorry if this is incorrect blame google translate.

Thanks for reading

Neh xxx