At The Movies [William]

Don't worry. he said, half looking at the screen, because he didn't want to miss anything, half looking at her, and the way they hands met, because it made him smile for some stupid reason. My hand has survived worse, trust me. And it really did, though as most of those things involved Spirit, he thought it's better not to mention them in detail.

For the next 20 minutes they sat and watched the movie in silence, with only a few things, such as rocks and clouds coming 'out' from the screen. Then, the atmosphere darkened as the rescue mission was sent to the unresponsive planet, and it wasn't too long before the huge, metallic, dragon-looking thing was breathing fire at them, it's shape seemingly leaving the screen.

William gave a tight squeeze of reassurance in return to Savannah's, before nodding along her words. Me too. I can't see how anything but the cannon could bring that thing down. He of course knew that the metallic dragon wasn't real, and was probably made from nothing more but pixels on the screen, added to the scene after it was shot somewhere in the world, however, he was so immersed in the movie, that he started talking about it as if it was real, much the same way Savannah looked like she would attack the screen any second now, while on the said screen the small crew of ten man tried what William had just said: shooting at the beast. It didn't work.

I think they'll need a bigger gun. he commented quietly to her ear.

'A fool with a ridiculous idea', as Savannah said, turned out to be a pretty accurate description of a man that soon separated from the group, thus presenting himself as the main character of the movie. However,something happened that was somewhat unexpected. Instead of the using the hero's idea to save the day and him becoming the leader of the group, they soon witnessed as his plan failed, resulting in death of the youngest member, and the hero being spat and yelled on by the rest of the crew members as they made they way across the bare land of the planet, and away from the dragon. The metallic beast didn't follow them, staying rooted to one place... 'As if it was guarding something.', the hero though, still crying the tears of sadness and guilt, before the screen went black for a second, and the movie cut to the scene that showed the politicians and scientist left on Earth, waiting for the call from the space crew.

William simply couldn't get into that part of the movie. The politicians were stiff, closed minded people, which was one of the types he hated the most, to he turned his attention elsewhere for the moment. During the intense scenes of fighting, his right hand somehow found the was to Savannah's shoulder, hugging her closer to himself. A bold move indeed, yet he didn't even notice he had done it, although if the look of utter worry on her face was anything to go by, neither did she.

The story continued to unfold on the screen in front of them, the voice of narrator coming back as it told in short what happened over the next few days during which the crew still didn't send a reply. He noted the fear that he felt for them, worrying whether they were dead or alive, and he knew that he was hooked. The director, the screen write, whoever created this, was really good.