| (Liam is fighting in a tavern brawl, Darla is watching, she turns to the barmaid stood beside her) (Darla) W ho is he? (Barmaid) Who that one? (Darla) Yes. He's magnificent. (Barmaid) Oh yeah. Gods gift all right. (Darla) Really. I've never known God to be so generous. (Barmaid) Oh his lies sound pretty when the stars are out. But he forgets every promise he's made when the sun comes up again. (Liam sees Darla watching him, she smiles) (Darla) That wouldn't really be a problem for me, actually. (Liam smiles at Darla) ______________________________________________________________ (Angelus) You're no different than the rest of them (his father turns around, shocked and surprised to see him) Are you father? Cowering in their houses, boarding up the windows, smearing that foul herb in the doorways. You think something evil and vile and monsterous has taken to terrorising this village and everyone in it. (Father) Be gone, unclean thing! A demon cannot enter a home where it's not welcome. He must be invited. (Angelus) That's true. But I was invited. ( glances towards the open door, the body of a child is slumped next to it, Liam's sister. his father moans) She thought I returned to her, an angel. (Father) Murderer! (lunges at Angelus, Angelus steps aside and pushes him to the floor) (Angel) Strange. Somehow you seemed taller when I was alive. (Father) Lord. Bind this demon now. (Angelus) You think I ever let such a tiny, trembling thing ever make me feel the way you did. (Father) (makes the sign of the cross) Deliever me under thy protection father. (Angelus) You told me I wasn't a man, you told me I was nothing. And I believed you. You said I would never amount to anything. Well, you were wrong. (vamps out) You see father. I have made something of myself after all. (bites him) __________________________________________________________________ (Darla) This contest has ended, hasn't it. (Angelus) And now i've won. (Darla) Are you sure? (Angelus) Of course. I proved who had the power here. (Darla) You think? (Angelus) What? (Darla) Your victory over him took but moments. (Angelus looks at his father's corpse, stands up) (Angelus) Yes. (Darla) But his defeat of you will last lifetimes. (Angelus) What are you talking about? He can't defeat me now. (Darla) Nor can he ever approve of you. In this world or any other. What we once were informs all that we have become. The same love will infect our hearts, even if they no longer beat. Simple death won't change that. (Angelus) (looks around at the corpses of his dead family) Love. Is this the work of love? (Darla) Darling boy. So young. Still so very young. ____________________________________________________________________ (The Master) Angelus. The Latin for Angel, it's marvelous! (Darla) His name would already be legend in his home village. How he hardly left anyone alive there to tell the tale. (The Master) Ah you had a nice trip. I'm so glad. (Darla) On the way back we cut a bloody swath through South Wales and Northern England. He was magnificent. (Angelus) Yorkshire men. Tough as leather. (he laughs) So Darla here tells me you're some sort of master? (Darla) *The* Master. He commands our order. (The Master) The Order of Aurelius. We are the select, the elite. (Angelus) And you live in the sewers do you? (The Master) We live below giving tribute to the Old Ones. The waiting, that promised day when we will arise. Arise! And lay waste and burn them up! (laughs) (Angelus) Why would you wanna do that? (The Master) Eh? (Angelus) Well, I mean. Have you been above lately? It's quite nice. Me, I could never live in a rat infested stinkhole, like this. Pardon me for saying so. But i've got to have me self a proper bed or i'm a terror. Isn't that right love? (Darla) He's young. (Angelus) And this one, down in the goosefeathers. In the finest silks and linens, and the view. She's always got to have the view. Don't you my lamb? (Darla) (smiles nervously) We fed very recently. The blood is still hot in his veins. (Angelus) You noticed that did you? (The Master) We stalk the surface to feed and grow our ranks. We do not live amongst the human pestilence. (Angelus) I'll be honest. You really couldn't with that face now could you? (Darla) Angelus! (Angelus) It's not stuck like that, now is it? (Darla) The Master has grown past the curse of human features. (Angelus) I'm not going to get a bat nose like that, now am I? (The Master) Very few vampires are cunning enough to have lived as long as I have. Which you now demonstrate! ( throws Angelus against wall) (Angelus) (laughs) You and me Darla, what do you say? (The Master hits him) (Darla) Angelus. (Angelus) This is no place for you, bound to the likes of him. (The Master) You should show the proper respect! (hits him again) (Angelus) You belong by my side, out in the world feeding as we like, taking what we need. I'll give you that view you crave, Darla. I'll give you everything. (The Master hits him again, Angelus laughs) Tell the truth! Whose face do you want to look at for eternity. His or mine? (The Master) Idiot, I made her!....(Darla smiles at Angelus, The Master turns to Darla.) You're leaving with the stallion, aren't you. (Darla picks up Angelus, they leave.) ______________________________________________________ (Angelus) I hate the French. We should go someplace like Romania. (Darla) In Italy you said we should go somewhere like France. (Angelus) At least in Romania they really know how to treat a creature of the night. (Darla) You were craving rich food. That's what you said- something French. ________________________________________________________ (Angelus) (walks into alley, holds out his hand, Darla takes it) I thought we were meeting in the square? (Darla) I ran into Lord Nickols. Horrid little man (she looks at a corpse on ground) He was propositioning a streetwalker and bickering over the price. Can you imagine?! 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