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fellowshippers2004-02-16 09:12 pm
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You Seem To Move On Easy
Title: You Seem to Move On Easy
Pairing: Sort of Orlijah
Summary: Orlando seems all too eager to leave, but Elijah doesn’t want to ever let go.
Rating: G
Elijah was insanely jealous.
Orlando, after working with him and the rest of the cast on The Lord of the Rings, had moved on to movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean and his latest projects, Troy and Ned Kelly.
Elijah wasn’t jealous of Orlando—that was preposterous. He was jealous of the people Orlando met. Bastards, all of them. Johnny Depp, Kiera Knightly; Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush; Brad Pitt—they were all evil bastards who were stealing Orlando away from him and the rest of the Fellowship.
He had tried boycotting Pirates of the Caribbean, but curiosity had gotten the best of him. He wanted to see if Orlando shared with Johnny and Keira what he had shared with Elijah and Viggo. If he had the same bond with the cast of Pirates as he did with the cast of Rings. And it had broken his heart to see that, yes, there had been a bond, however faint it might have been.
Elijah was losing one of the best friends he had ever made to a bunch of strangers, and he didn’t like that at all. He wanted to scream. He wanted to kick and scream and bite, anything to make Orlando come back to them. It had gotten to the point that he found himself waiting by the phone, waiting for it to ring, waiting to hear Orlando’s familiar voice, his warm laughter.
It never came.
Elijah didn’t know how Orlando could bear to go on after Rings. He himself wasn’t so sure if he wanted to act anymore because one of his greatest fears was finding an experience that topped the filming of The Lord of the Rings. For a while, he had even considered fleeing Los Angeles forever and just living the rest of his life in New Zealand, known only to the members of the Fellowship. Everyday apart from his friends and New Zealand caused the cracks in his heart to deepen a little bit more, until the point where he feared that it would one day truly break.
Maybe he was a little jealous of Orlando: he would love to get rid of the longing inside him that instead of dimming, only grew stronger with each passing minute. Tears still threatened to fall when he indulged in the feelings, but he never treated himself to those feelings long enough to allow them to spill. He wished he were as strong as Orlando. What kind of person was he anyway? The filming was a good thing, and now that it was over, he felt ready to break. How he hated himself.
He hated the people Orlando met even more though.
He considered meeting up with his friend once, but every time he tried to call, all he got was a busy signal, and he always hung up with a heavy heart. Of course Orlando wouldn’t have time for him anymore. It was to be expected. He was a big star now, just as Elijah had predicted that one day when he found Orlando worrying over the fate of his career during a break from the production. He remembered clearly what he had told the Brit: that he would be the biggest, brightest star out of all of them. He knew even then that Orlando—so beautiful and so talented—would outshine everyone he met.
When he comes home to his apartment everyday, Elijah finds ways to connect to Orlando. This usually consists of popping in the special DVDs with extra behind-the-scenes footage Peter gave them at the end of production into his DVD player. He spends hours staring at Orlando and the ways he bonded with Viggo and John and Ian on screen and the ways he bonded with Billy, Dom, Sean and him off screen. Sometimes, Orlando is in an interview on television. Elijah always tapes these occasions. Sometimes there are magazine interviews and Elijah always cries at the honesty Orlando gives the interviewer when he’s asked about the friendships he made on the set in New Zealand. And he always falls asleep with the magazine in his hands.
Lately, Elijah has found someone else to be jealous of. Kate Bosworth was cute and perky … and completely below Orlando’s standards. She would never last, Elijah knew. Orlando deserved only the cream of the crop and Kate just wasn’t it. But at least she got to see Orlando, maybe even on a daily basis.
Elijah couldn’t help but be jealous at that.
So here he sits again, in front of the television screen, watching Orlando act on Rings, phone on his lap and afghan wrapped around his body, waiting to hear Orlando’s familiar voice, his warm laughter.
It never comes.
Pairing: Sort of Orlijah
Summary: Orlando seems all too eager to leave, but Elijah doesn’t want to ever let go.
Rating: G
Elijah was insanely jealous.
Orlando, after working with him and the rest of the cast on The Lord of the Rings, had moved on to movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean and his latest projects, Troy and Ned Kelly.
Elijah wasn’t jealous of Orlando—that was preposterous. He was jealous of the people Orlando met. Bastards, all of them. Johnny Depp, Kiera Knightly; Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush; Brad Pitt—they were all evil bastards who were stealing Orlando away from him and the rest of the Fellowship.
He had tried boycotting Pirates of the Caribbean, but curiosity had gotten the best of him. He wanted to see if Orlando shared with Johnny and Keira what he had shared with Elijah and Viggo. If he had the same bond with the cast of Pirates as he did with the cast of Rings. And it had broken his heart to see that, yes, there had been a bond, however faint it might have been.
Elijah was losing one of the best friends he had ever made to a bunch of strangers, and he didn’t like that at all. He wanted to scream. He wanted to kick and scream and bite, anything to make Orlando come back to them. It had gotten to the point that he found himself waiting by the phone, waiting for it to ring, waiting to hear Orlando’s familiar voice, his warm laughter.
It never came.
Elijah didn’t know how Orlando could bear to go on after Rings. He himself wasn’t so sure if he wanted to act anymore because one of his greatest fears was finding an experience that topped the filming of The Lord of the Rings. For a while, he had even considered fleeing Los Angeles forever and just living the rest of his life in New Zealand, known only to the members of the Fellowship. Everyday apart from his friends and New Zealand caused the cracks in his heart to deepen a little bit more, until the point where he feared that it would one day truly break.
Maybe he was a little jealous of Orlando: he would love to get rid of the longing inside him that instead of dimming, only grew stronger with each passing minute. Tears still threatened to fall when he indulged in the feelings, but he never treated himself to those feelings long enough to allow them to spill. He wished he were as strong as Orlando. What kind of person was he anyway? The filming was a good thing, and now that it was over, he felt ready to break. How he hated himself.
He hated the people Orlando met even more though.
He considered meeting up with his friend once, but every time he tried to call, all he got was a busy signal, and he always hung up with a heavy heart. Of course Orlando wouldn’t have time for him anymore. It was to be expected. He was a big star now, just as Elijah had predicted that one day when he found Orlando worrying over the fate of his career during a break from the production. He remembered clearly what he had told the Brit: that he would be the biggest, brightest star out of all of them. He knew even then that Orlando—so beautiful and so talented—would outshine everyone he met.
When he comes home to his apartment everyday, Elijah finds ways to connect to Orlando. This usually consists of popping in the special DVDs with extra behind-the-scenes footage Peter gave them at the end of production into his DVD player. He spends hours staring at Orlando and the ways he bonded with Viggo and John and Ian on screen and the ways he bonded with Billy, Dom, Sean and him off screen. Sometimes, Orlando is in an interview on television. Elijah always tapes these occasions. Sometimes there are magazine interviews and Elijah always cries at the honesty Orlando gives the interviewer when he’s asked about the friendships he made on the set in New Zealand. And he always falls asleep with the magazine in his hands.
Lately, Elijah has found someone else to be jealous of. Kate Bosworth was cute and perky … and completely below Orlando’s standards. She would never last, Elijah knew. Orlando deserved only the cream of the crop and Kate just wasn’t it. But at least she got to see Orlando, maybe even on a daily basis.
Elijah couldn’t help but be jealous at that.
So here he sits again, in front of the television screen, watching Orlando act on Rings, phone on his lap and afghan wrapped around his body, waiting to hear Orlando’s familiar voice, his warm laughter.
It never comes.