Scenes with Puppet Angel 343
[Angel stares at Cordelia, working up the nerve to confess his feelings for her.]
Why are you looking at me like that?
AngelUh . . . no reason.
Okay. It's getting creepy now.
Angel
I was just thinking about things. People. You know, how they relate. Take you and me, for instance. We're very different. Very different. Obviously. [points at Cordy] Human, [points at self] vampire. [points at Cordy] Woman, [points at self] man... pire.
Has someone been putting vodka in your blood?
Angel
[chuckles] See? You're funny! And I, well I get off a good one every once in a while, but you...
Angel, are you trying to say you love me?
Angel
W-What?
Angel
You do? When did this...
[calling into Wesley's office] Angel loves me! I love him!
Angel
Oh, my God!
You guys love us and we love you!
WFWesley, Fred, Gunn
[offscreen, in chorus] We love you, Angel!
They were all saying it earlier. Just in case this prophecy comes true and we all die. You're not gonna want a hug, are you?
Angel
[chastened] No.
[Darla pulls the stake out of her right palm and lets it drop as she walks towards Angel.]
You *so* want to play the good guy, don't you? Yeah. You're the good guy who did *this* to me.
[Hauls back and knocks Angel across the face, slamming him against one of the games.]
You may have the face, but you don't know the hunger! It pounds! You can't make it go away! You can't stop it!
Angel
I'll stop it!
[He hauls back and hits Darla. The two of them fight. In the end Angel manages to grab Darla by the throat and push her up against the wall.]
How could you put this in me? I hate you!
[Darla hits him again, but Angel refuses to let go of her throat.]
They breathe. They breathe and pound. I don't breathe, you idiot! You can't strangle me!
[Darla laughs.]
Angel
I'm not gonna strangle you.
[Angel pulls her away and slams her back up against the wall, pulling out another stake.]
Come on! Do it! (Angel hesitates) Do it!
[Angel slowly lowers the stake and looks down at Darla's belly. We hear a heartbeat. Angel slowly steps back from Darla. Darla lunges, grabs a hold of Angel's jacket and shakes him.]
Do it! Do it! Make it stop!
[Angel gently restrains her, wrapping her tightly in his arms and pulling her up against his chest.]
Angel
No it won't, Darla. Darla, listen to me.
Make it stop! Make it stop.
Angel
The child. The child has a heartbeat. It has a soul.
[Darla flailing wildly]
Angel
Our child. Our child. Our child. That's why you've been craving purer and purer blood. That's why it's been driving you out of your mind. It has a soul.
[Darla collapses against Angel's chest, sobbing]
[Angel holds her]
Angel
It does.
Angel
Yes, it does. It does.
[Angel is pushing Darla in a wheelchair through the hospital while she is having contractions]
Angel
How you feeling?
[irritated] I haven't had blood in almost a day and your devil spawn is trying to rip its way out of my body. How you think I'm doing?
Angel
What is it?
Human as is in humanoid? As in cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers?
No - human as in - a boy.
Angel
Boy?
A boy. A boy. You're carrying a boy.
Angel
Gonna have a son. I'm gonna have a son.
Guys. As fascinating as an ultra-sound image of an unborn child may appear...
Angel
Me. A father. To a son. You know what that means?
We're surrounded by vampires?
Angel
No, it's a human bo...
[He trails off as he looks away from the monitor for the first time and notices the vampires lining the teaching gallery above them and the back wall of the room.]
Angel
Oh. We are surrounded by vampires.
Hey, I'm all for being idolized, but what the hell is going on?
Angel
What do you want?
To protect the miracle child.
Angel
Protect? Ah, that's good. We're all here for the same thing.
[The guy with the sword that Lilah called earlier suddenly jumps through one of the glass windows above, dressed like a ninja and holding the sword in front of him, screaming 'die!' The miracle child worshipping vampires jump on him en masse, and he goes down with a strangled scream. We hear a crunch and someone gulping down liquid.]
As it has been prophesied by our great potentate Ul-thar, we vow our lives to protect this special child.
Angel
[aside to Darla] You hear that? Our kid. Special.
Now let us kill the humans so we may use their blood to nourish the mother and her miracle child.
[smiling] Guess I'm getting dinner after all.
Angel
Darla, you might wanna join the fight.
Sorry, darling. I'm gonna have to be Switzerland and sit this one out. Now, you did say you were just gonna kill the humans, right?
Yes, just the humans. Then we will nourish you, slice you open, wear your entrails as a belt and consume your eyeballs before we worship the miracle child.
Angel
Gunn, you and I can hold them off for as long as we can. The rest of you, get Darla to the car.
Oh, I'd rather stay and fight. Show these youngsters a thing or two about real carnage.
Angel
That's thoughtful, but, you know, you should go.
Charles, do you have an extra dagger I could borrow?
[Gunn pulls out a dagger and hands it to her.]
Angel
No my count of three. One, two...
[Fred holds the dagger against Darla's belly.]
You freaks make one move and I'll slice the miracle kid into triplets.
It's always the quiet ones.
[quietly to Darla] They don't know the knife can't hurt the baby.
[smiling] They do now. Vampires have great hearing.
[Angel is still held motionless by the metal grips while Holts admires one of Angel's swords.]
Angel
You're still human. How'd you manage this?
[Holtz puts the sword back into the weapons cabinet.]
So, the question becomes, now that I have you, what's the best way to get her?
Angel
Only dark magic could have brought you this far.
She was always the trick, you know, not you. Darla was the unpredictable one.
Angel
Was it a demon? Or something else?
[Holtz points a stake at Angel's chest.]
What if I just kill you now? Would she somehow sense it? Would she then come running? [Walks away from Angel] Would that bring her bursting through those doors, I wonder?
Angel
Did something come to you, or did you seek it out?
She might show herself in the service of revenge. It can be a powerful motivator.
Angel
Yes, it can. What did you have to give up for this second chance?
Give up? [Turns to face Angel] I had nothing to give up. You saw to that.
Angel
We took a lot from you, that's true. But we didn't get everything. We couldn't take your soul.
What do you know of a soul?
Angel
I know yours will be destroyed if you allow yourself to be used in the service of evil. You're a good man, Holtz. A righteous man. And you're being used for some purpose other than justice.
Could it be you really have changed? I don't remember you ever pleading so cravenly before.
Angel
And I remember you used to work with men.
[Holtz hits Angel hard across the face.]
[Darla is standing on top of a building looking over the city below, her hands cradling her pregnant belly.]
Angel
You always did love a view.
Look at it. Listen to it. Can you smell it? This world. This horrible world. Why would anyone want to bring a baby into it?
Angel
To make it better, maybe?
Or to destroy it finally.
Angel
Why is it everyone insists on planning my son's future before he's even born?
[Darla turns and walks past where Angel is standing.]
Alright then, how's this? It doesn't have a future. Not with me.
Angel
Darla...
Angel, I can't have this baby.
Angel
What?
I can't let it out. I-I can't.
Angel
Okay, not sure you have a lot of choice in the matter...
Look, I know. It wants to come out. I can feel it. It's ready. It's just... I can't let it. I can't let because... because...
Angel
You love it.
Completely. I love it completely. I-I-I don't think I've ever loved anything as much as this life that's inside of me.
Angel
Well, you've never *loved* anything, Darla.
That's true. Four hundred years and I never did. Til now. I don't know what to do.
Angel
Well, you-you'll do the only thing that you can do. You'll have it. You'll have it and then...
Angel
Why not?
Angel
This whole thing is impossible, Darla, but it's happening.
What do I have to offer a child, a human child, besides ugly death?
Angel
Darla.
Angel
No. What I do know is that you love this baby, our baby. You've bonded with it. You've spent nine months carrying it, nourishing it...
No. No, I haven't been nourishing it. I haven't given this baby a thing. I'm dead. It's been nourishing me. These feelings that I'm having, they're not mine. They're coming from it.
Angel
You don't know that.
Of course I do! We both do. Angel, I don't have a soul. It does. And right now that soul is inside of me, but soon, it won't be and then...
Angel
Darla...
I won't be able to love it. I won't even be able to remember that I loved it. [Starts to cry] I want to remember.
[Angel pulls her against him.]
Angel
Shh...
[Angel closes his eyes as he holds a crying Darla.]
Angel
You're gonna be okay.
No. No, I don't think so. Once he's gone, I won't be okay. I won't be okay at all. I don't know what I'll be. Angel... Our baby is gonna die right here in this alley. You died in an alley, remember?
Angel
I remember.
I wanna say I'm sorry. I wanna say it and mean it, but I can't. Aren't you gonna tell me it's okay?
Angel
No.
No? It's really not, is it? We did so many terrible things together. So much destruction, so much pain. We can't make up for any of it. You know that, don't you.
Angel
Yeah.
This child, Angel, it's the one good thing we ever did together.
[Angel lifts Darla's hand between both of his and pressed it against his lips.]
[Angel buries his face in his hands, still holding onto Darla's, takes a sobbing breath.]
The only good thing. You make sure to tell him that.
[Darla stakes herself, and her body crumbles into dust, leaving the crying newborn alive on the alley ground.]
Angel
What's going on?
Angel
Attacked? I thought you had double protection sanctorium spells?
I do, and they work. It's a thing with the door and the stairs and the world and a thing. Never mind!
Apparently you can be outside and chuck stuff in.
[Angel walks into the office, walks up to Linwood, slices him across the cheek, and pushes him facedown against the table.]
Angel
My son has a tiny scratch on his cheek, and now, by extraordinary coincidence so do you. I'm holding you personally responsible for anything that happens to him whether it's your fault or not. Cold, sunburn, scratched knee, what ever happens to him, happens to you, and then some. [He pulls Linwood back up, pushes him back into his chair and leans over him.] For not only are you not coming after him, you gonna make sure that he lives a long, healthy life. You just became his godfather, understand?
[Guards come in, in response to the alarm.]
[Angel starts to leave but turns back around before he reaches the door.]
Angel
Oh, and one more thing. College fund? Start saving. I got my heart set on Notre Dame.
DDoctor
I'm happy to report you have a healthy baby boy.
Oh, great. But I'm not the mother.
DDoctor
Oh, I'm sorry. (turns to Fred) I'm happy to report you have a healthy baby boy.
I'm afraid the mother is, ah, no longer in the picture.
DDoctor
I see. Well, his height and weight are in the ninetieth percentile. We gave him his vitamin K and his PKU and he's doing very well. We don't seem to have his - what's his name?
Angel
(arriving) Connor. His name is Connor.
DDoctor
Connor. Thank you. Mr. (looks at the papers) Angel. And congratulations.
Angel
Thanks.
Connor. That's a lovely name. I don't suppose you ever considered Wesley?
FAFred, Angel and Gunn
No.
[Wesley shrugs]
Angel
Lorne, I need you to use your contacts and find out what Holtz is up to. He's out there somewhere, and we can never forget that. Finding him is our number one priority.
Angel
Finding Holtz and making money are our two number one priorities.
(Cordelia walks by and clears her throat)
Angel
Helping the helpless, finding Holtz, and making money are our three number one priorities.
Angel
Guys, can I say something? Money's important (pauses) but it isn't everything. I got... I got carried away. (looks over at the pile of money) I just never had a life that was totally dependent on me before. But that's no excuse. (looks at the money again) Where was I?
Money's not the most important...
Angel
No, it's not. What's important is family ... and the mission.
(after a long pause and looking at the money) They tried to cut Fred's head off. We earned every penny.
Angel
Hold the baby.
(everyone begins grabbing money furiously)
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