Scenes with Darla 69
[Darla pulls the stake out of her right palm and lets it drop as she walks towards Angel.]
DarlaYou *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.]
Darla
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!
[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.]
Darla
How could you put this in me? I hate you!
[Darla hits him again, but Angel refuses to let go of her throat.]
Darla
They breathe. They breathe and pound. I don't breathe, you idiot! You can't strangle me!
[Darla laughs.]
I'm not gonna strangle you.
[Angel pulls her away and slams her back up against the wall, pulling out another stake.]
Darla
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.]
Darla
Do it! Do it! Make it stop!
[Angel gently restrains her, wrapping her tightly in his arms and pulling her up against his chest.]
No it won't, Darla. Darla, listen to me.
Darla
Make it stop! Make it stop.
The child. The child has a heartbeat. It has a soul.
[Darla flailing wildly]
Darla
No! Not my child! No!
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]
Darla
No, it doesn't.
[Angel holds her]
Darla
It can't.
[Angel is pushing Darla in a wheelchair through the hospital while she is having contractions]
Darla
[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?
Human as is in humanoid? As in cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers?
No - human as in - a boy.
A boy. A boy. You're carrying a boy.
Darla
Great.
Gonna have a son. I'm gonna have a son.
Guys. As fascinating as an ultra-sound image of an unborn child may appear...
Me. A father. To a son. You know what that means?
We're surrounded by vampires?
[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.]
Oh. We are surrounded by vampires.
Hey, I'm all for being idolized, but what the hell is going on?
To protect the miracle child.
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.
[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.
Darla
[smiling] Guess I'm getting dinner after all.
Darla, you might wanna join the fight.
Darla
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.
Darla
Okay. I'm in.
Gunn, you and I can hold them off for as long as we can. The rest of you, get Darla to the car.
Darla
Oh, I'd rather stay and fight. Show these youngsters a thing or two about real carnage.
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.]
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.
Darla
[smiling] They do now. Vampires have great hearing.
[Darla is still in the back of the car. Wesley is sitting on the trunk facing Fred, standing behind the car. Gunn is sitting on the side of the passenger door. Cordelia starts the car.]
It's been six and a half.
Darla
It's so typical of him.
It probably wouldn't hurt to wait another minute, right? I mean, what's the worst thing that could happen in another minute? [Darla lets out a blood-curdling scream.] Ask a stupid question...
Her water's broken. This is for real. There should be a blanket in the trunk.
What are we gonna do? Deliver the kid right here? Shouldn't we go somewhere?
[Gunn gets the blanket out of the trunk and he and Wesley help a screaming Darla to lie down in the back seat while the camera pulls up to give us an overhead view of them.]
Now it's up to us to protect Angel's unborn child. Darla, we're trying to take you out of here. Relax. The trick is to breathe. Like this.
[Wesley demonstrates short panting breaths]
Heh, heh, heh, hoh, hoh, hoh, heh, heh, heh...
Darla
I... Don't...
[sits up and sends Wesley, Cordelia, Gunn and Fred all flying backwards, away from the car and morphs into her vampface]
Darla
Breathe!
[Cordy, Wes, Fred, and Gunn all sit in the front of the convertible, leaving a very pregnant Darla alone in the back.]
Darla
Doesn't anyone wanna sit back here with me?
Darla
I promise I won't throw anyone out of the car. Not while it's moving.
It's not that we don't trust you. I mean, we don't trust you, but, the fact is, your water broke all over the back seat.
Darla
Oh.
[Darla is standing on top of a building looking over the city below, her hands cradling her pregnant belly.]
You always did love a view.
Darla
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?
To make it better, maybe?
Darla
Or to destroy it finally.
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.]
Darla
Alright then, how's this? It doesn't have a future. Not with me.
Darla
Angel, I can't have this baby.
Darla
I can't let it out. I-I can't.
Okay, not sure you have a lot of choice in the matter...
Darla
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...
Darla
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.
Well, you've never *loved* anything, Darla.
Darla
That's true. Four hundred years and I never did. Til now. I don't know what to do.
Well, you-you'll do the only thing that you can do. You'll have it. You'll have it and then...
Darla
What? We'll raise it?
Darla
It's impossible.
This whole thing is impossible, Darla, but it's happening.
Darla
What do I have to offer a child, a human child, besides ugly death?
Darla
You know it's true.
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...
Darla
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.
Darla
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...
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 closes his eyes as he holds a crying Darla.]
Darla
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?
Darla
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?
Darla
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.
Darla
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.]
Darla
The only good thing.
[Angel buries his face in his hands, still holding onto Darla's, takes a sobbing breath.]
Darla
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.]
Darla
(o.s.) I've always been there, close to your heart. After all...
[He looks over toward the dark corner of the room as Darla materializes out of thin air in front of him.]
Darla
...isn't that where a mother belongs?
Darla
[softly] I have her memories, her feelings. Isn't that what makes a person who they are?
GGirl
[weeping in the corner]) Let me go, please...
Darla
I know that sound, the look in her eyes, the smell of fear. [kneels beside the girl.] I've nurtured it a thousand times in all the people that I've murdered.
Darla
And I'll always be a part of you. You shared your soul with me once when you were growing inside of me when I'd lost my own. You brought light to my shadow, filled my heart with joy and love. I'd never felt so close to any living thing as I did to my beautiful boy.
Why'd you leave me? Did you hate me that much?
Darla
Baby, no. I wanted to be with you more than anything.
You killed yourself. I wasn't even born yet. And you-
Darla
Did what I had to. My life for yours. I did so many terrible things, Connor, so much destruction, so much pain. You were the one good thing I ever did. The only good thing. I'd die every day for the rest of eternity for you. And this... [Gestures to the virgin girl]...is how you repay me?
You don't understand. We need her for our baby, to keep it safe.
Darla
By anointing it in the blood of an innocent? You really think that safety can be plucked from the arms of an evil deed?
Good, evil. They're just words.
Darla
[shakes her head] Don't let this happen, Connor. Don't let my death mean nothing.
They hate us... because we're special.
GGirl
I don't hate you. Please.
Darla
They're scared because of what you've done not because of what you are.
They wanted to kill me when I was still inside of you.
Darla
But that changed when they saw you, held you in their arms, felt the warmth of your skin, the goodness in your heart.
And it will happen again when they hold my child. It's the only way.
Darla
You have a choice, Connor. That is something more precious than you'll ever know.
What choice? They're hunting us like animals!
Darla
Because you're acting like one. As a vampire I killed without mercy or remorse because I didn't have a soul. What's your excuse?
You think I wanna do this?
Darla
Then don't.
Darla
Why? [Gestures to Cordelia in the next room] Because she told you? There are things happening, Connor, things that I can't... It has to be your choice. You can stop this.
Her blood for our baby's. It's fair, isn't it?
GGirl
Please, I wanna go home.
Darla
This isn't you, Connor.
You've been gone a long time, Mom. How would you know?
Darla
Because we shared a soul. I feel the pain, the anger, the hurt, like it were my own. But most of all, I feel the good in you and no matter how much you're beaten or twisted or lied to, it's still there in your heart. I know it, and deep down, you know it, too.
[Connor kneels down to untie the bound hands of the virgin girl he's holding captive. Darla stands nearby.]
Darla
You're all right now. Everything's going to be all right.
[frozen] Nothing. I, uh...
It's time. Take her in the other room.
Darla
Listen to your heart.
[to Cordelia] She didn't do anything. We should let her go.
No we shouldn't. We need her, Connor. Our baby...
Shouldn't be anointed with innocent blood.
Anointed? Who's been filling your head with big, confusing words?
Just been thinking about it.
Or, maybe... a little birdie's been pecking at you behind my back.
Darla
[to Connor] She'll lie to you.
You know how much they love to use the magic, Connor. A spell for this, a spell for that.
Darla
Close her out, baby.
Whatever you're hearing, whatever you think you're seeing...it's a trick.
Darla
Don't let her in.
Darla
No.
Trying to turn you against me with a cheap vision of... [looks to where Darla's standing] ...Darla?
[to Cordelia] You can see her?
Darla
Connor, listen to me.
Darla
You have to let her go.
It's your father. This is how much he hates you.
Darla
I love you. Please.
Torturing you with this sad imitation of your dead mother.
Darla
[crying] Don't let her do this.
Are you going to let them do this to us? Are you going to let them kill our baby?
Darla
[desperate] Connor, listen to me...
[yelling, crying] You are not my mother!
[Darla looks on horrified as Connor grabs the virgin girl by her bound hands and drags her into the other room.]
[Connor puts virgin girl on the ground in the center of the circle where Cordelia was chanting before. The girl looks up to see Cordelia swinging a huge butcher's knife at her head. When the girl looks up at Connor, she has Darla's face now.]
Darla
Please, don't do this Connor. Don't--
[Connor just stands there, watching Cordelia murder this girl, listening to the sounds of blood spattering as Cordelia makes the killing blow. The girl collapses in the middle of the circle.]
There. That wasn't so hard, was it?
[Angelus and William have just discovered a limp and disheveled Darla lying naked, face-down in bed.]
Darla. Darla! Darla! What have they done? My sweet death.
Darla
Angelus. You're back.
I'd claw my way back from the depths of hell to lay by your side.
[Pulls her into his arms for a kiss, but recoils, drops her, stands and wipes his mouth.]
WBWilliam the Bloody
Well, that cheeky bastard. Had us tossed and then violates your woman.
Darla
Not until I asked him to. Oh, come on. Have you seen him? With the eyes and the chest and the... immortality.
WBWilliam the Bloody
We're immortal.
Darla
Not like him. I mean, he's not some common vampire. He's... I don't know what he is. A giant. A titan straddling good and evil, serving no master but his own considerable desires.
Darla
And spiritual. Did you know he spent 150 years in a Tibetan monastery? Which I guess explains all the desire.
Darla
Darling. It was just fornication. Really great fornication.
WBWilliam the Bloody
She's glowing, mate.
Darla
Little bit.
WBWilliam the Bloody
Best fit you for a pair of antlers. Been made the right cuckold, you have.
Time for another pony ride?
WBWilliam the Bloody
Son of a bitch!
Darla
He's insatiable.
WBWilliam the Bloody
Drusilla, you--you let him touch you?
WBWilliam the Bloody
Uh, no. No.
That's why he had us tossed. So he could violate...
Darla
He didn't...
WBWilliam the Bloody
Violate in succession!
Darla
Concurrently.
Concurrently? You never let us do that!
Darla
Come on, Dru. Let's have a bath so the boys can weep in private.
Will you hold me under the water?
Darla
If you wish.
[The women walk into the next room giggling.]
Rrrrarrgh! [throws a vase against the wall, shattering it] This is a slight that will not go unmet.
WBWilliam the Bloody
Death's too quick.
Not all deaths are quick.
WBWilliam the Bloody
What do you have in mind?
I think it's time The Immortal found out exactly who he's dealing with. I think it's time for blood vengeance.
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