C: Madeleine, Louie is shy.
Madeleine (M): (Madeleine rises and comes towards Louis. She draws
back the lace fringes round her throat, so he can see the two marks there.
She says softly, dreamily.)Drink.
C: (Louis turns away. Claudia speaks, icy, from the bed.) Do
it Louie, because I can not do. I haven't the strength. You saw to that
when you made me.
L: (Louis turns to Madeleine.) You haven't the vagues consception
under god what you ask.
M: oh contrare Mouriser, I have. (Louis pushes her away. Claudia
screams.)
C: You have found your new companion Louie, You will make me mine.
L: How do we seem to you. Do
you find us beautiful, magical. Our white skin our ferce eyes. Drink you
ask me, Do you know the thing you will become.
C: Your evil is that you can not be evil, and I shall suffer no longer.
L: Don't make me do this, I can
not.
C: Yet you could do it from me. Snach me from my mother's hand, like
two monsters in a fairy tale. And now you weep. You haven't tears enough
for what you've done to me. (She points to Madeleine) You give her
to me Louie, Do this before you leave me. (She begins to weep, sobbing
like a child.)
C: Oh god, I love you still, and that's the torment of it. but who
will care for me my love, my dark angel when you are gone? (Louis looks
at Madeleine.)
L: what do you think she is Madline, a doll?
M: A child who can not die.
L: For a child who did die?
M: A daughter.(Bite)
Her finger clutches a locket around her neck, Louis touches it,
opens it.
THE LOCKET -- A picture of a young girl, Claudia's age, wistful,
beautiful.
Louis pulls her to him and starts to drink her blood.
M: (Madeleine is now on the floor, two sets of vampire bite marks on her neck. She screams out in pain.)
EXT. HOTEL BALCONY. LATER.
Louis on the balcony, weakened terribly. A breeze blows on the gauze
curtains behind him. Claudia comes through the curtains, alarmed. Louis
speaks without turning.
C: Louie what happening to her?
L: She is dieing. It happened to you to, but you where to young to
remember.
C: But if she dies?
L: (He turns to look at Claudia.) It's only mortal death. Bare
me no ill will my love, we are now even.
C: What do you mean?
L: What died in that room was not that woman, but what has died is
the last breath of me that was human. (She takes his hand.)
C: Yes father, atlast we are even.
She bends down and kisses him. He looks up, at the wafting curtains.
he sees
-- MANY VAMPIRE SHADOWS Silhouetted, coming closer. CLAUDIA Looks
up and sreams.
THE CURTAINS Are ripped aside. The vampires of the Theatre surge
through.
INT. CORRIDOR OF THEATRE DES VAMPIRES. NIGHT.
In a press of vampires, Louis, Claudia and Madeleine are forced
down the dark corridor.
THE BALLROOM.
Vampire chaos, as they are dragged through. Louis struggling like
a demon.
L: Get me Armand, he won't stand for this.
S: Death for the others, for you eternity in a box, walled in a doungen,
your only comfort will be your screams, Perhapes it will take centuries,
Take them.
L: Claudia, Armand Armand, Armand, Claudia, Claudia, Armand!
The sound of something being dragged through the crowd. Horrible
echoing, scraping. A huge metal coffin being dragged through the vampires.
Claudia screams. The vampires grap Louis. They force him towards the coffin.
Louis struggles fiercely as he is forced into the coffin. Louis, struggling
in the coffin. Then the lid is forced down, huge locks closed over it.
S: Laugh.
INT. COFFIN.
Louis, in the smallest imaginable space. Beating his forehead against
the metal.
EXT. COFFIN.
Claudia is carried away. Vampire hands drag the coffin across the
stone floor.
LVE: Laugh.
Other Vampires: Laugh.
EXT. CELL. NIGHT.
The Vampires of the Theater throw Madeleine and Claudia into a cell
locking the door.
C: Let me out, no...
EXT. COFFIN.
Is thrust into a niche in the wall. Bricks being placed over, mortar
trowelled on.
S: Pleasent dreams
L: No, help.
INT. CELL. DAY. Claudia wakes up. The cell is open to the blue sky above, and the sun is slowly creeping over the rim of the top of the tower like cell.
C: Madiline, wake up. (Claudia shakes Madeleine waking her up. They both gasp and huddle together. The sunlight reachs them and they scream as their flesh burns.)
INT. COFFIN.
Louis upside down. Sounds of bricks and mortar. Then terrifying,
unearthly scream pierces the coffin, striking to his very soul.
L: Claudia!
The lid opens. He sees - ARMAND Above him, reaching down to take
his hand.
L: Where's claudia?
.
A: Claudia? I can not help her.
L: Where's Clauida? (Armand points to his cell at the end of the
passage, the foot of the steps. )
.
A: I can't save her, I could only risk lossing you. Louie don't. (
Armand approaches, trying to pull him away, but Louis shrugs him off. He
draws nearer and nearer.)
The other vampires are gathered around the cell. Santiago gives
Louis a smug look.
INT. BRICK AIRWELL
.
On the stones lie Claudia and Madeleine, burn to ashes, in each
other's arms. Louis looks up at the walls of this airwell, many stories
to the sky. The ashes fly up into his face.)
A: Come Louie, not here.
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