Taylor Updates: shallowness
Fandom: The O.C. Rating: PG.
Characters/Pairing: Taylor, OFC, (Taylor/Ryan)
Spoilers: Set during ‘The End’s Not Near, It’s Here’ (ep 4.16).
Genre: Missing scene, humour, foof.
Summary: A translated missing scene from the finale.
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, but I do own the errors.
Author’s Notes: With apologies to the French people and the O.C. production team. Thanks to taylortyme for the beta.
Taylor Updates
[A translated missing scene from the finale]
discovered by shallowness
TAYLOR is in the background typing furiously at her PRODUCT PLACEMENT. She has a towelling robe on over a SPARKLY dress and looks a little DERANGED. In the foreground, seated by the window, taking a final, forlorn puff of her DO WE REALLY WANT A PRODUCT PLACEMENT HERE?, is ROCHELLE, her FRENCH room-mate. She is in her 'LATE TEENS' and ticks the CHIC and GAMINE boxes - EVA GREEN lite, if you will.
ROCHELLE stubs her cigarette in a plate balanced precariously on a windowsill and takes a piece of CHEESE from said plate. The camera follows her as she walks towards TAYLOR. We see that on the walls of their room are two timetables, one enormous and meticulous with TAYLOR's name on top of it, the other tiny with ROCHELLE scrawled on it and a few IMPRESSIONIST posters and a signed picture of JERRY LEWIS. Apart from GIRLISH STUDENT PARAPHANALIA (BOOKS etc.), there is a BERETSTAND in the room. And BEDS.
ROCHELLE is leaning over TAYLOR's shoulder
TAYLOR (still typing): Must you?
ROCHELLE (frowning): But this is not true.
TAYLOR (not suspiciously at all): Yes, it is.
ROCHELLE: Every day, every night, when you are not asleep, reading or at lectures, you add to your blog. How have you had time to attend the extraordinary lecture on the style of modern French animated movies and go to this party and flirt with so many men like you are saying you did? I ask you: how?
TAYLOR: I'm very organized. Remember, the offer to co-ordinate your activities still stands!
ROCHELLE: But I was at this party too and it was nothing like you describe!
TAYLOR: I may have exaggerated. A teensy, tiny little exaggeration.
ROCHELLE: But the lecture?
TAYLOR: Well, I thought about going, and my blog entry captures the spirit of what I thought Professor Zébulon was going to say.
ROCHELLE: But you write that you entered into a long and serious discussion with Zébulon about the influence of anime with especial emphasis on weaponry, and what that said about the ambivalent relationship France had with NATO and how you got him to agree with you.
TAYLOR: Well, I would have…if I'd been there.
ROCHELLE: Aha.
TAYLOR (closing the laptop, previously referred to as the PRODUCT PLACEMENT, and turning to face ROCHELLE): So what if I did lie?
ROCHELLE: But why? Who cares? You have done so much already-
TAYLOR: Got married, got divorced, inspired award-winning literature, discussed said literature on France's premier literary talk show, called my mom a bitch, made up with her, returned to my studies, catching up on all my classes while maintaining an excellent average…I know. And that’s just this year!
ROCHELLE: So why say you are doing things you are not?
TAYLOR (looking furtive): Well, you don't know who might be reading.
ROCHELLE shrugs.
TAYLOR: Oh, I give up. Your interrogation technique broke me! (TAYLOR starts pacing.) I've put up with a lot from you, Rochelle Auteil - the smoking!
ROCHELLE: You make me smoke out by the window!
TAYLOR: The accusation of lying!
ROCHELLE: You admitted you were lying!
TAYLOR: And your initials!!!
ROCHELLE: Huh? What has that got to do with the price of baguettes?
TAYLOR marches up to her and grabs her by the lapels.
TAYLOR (hissing): I know he's reading it. I know he is, and I am not going to give him the satisfaction of thinking that I have even a moment to spare on thinking about his pitiful, tanned, hot, drool-making body, or those rare, glorious moments of funny or his special brand of chivalry or missing him. Because I'm not. OK?
CLOSE UP on TAYLOR looking FIERCE and ROCHELLE losing all her GALLIC COOL.
FIN.
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