INT. INN. SUPPER ROOM.
E: (Lestat Enters) She's here.
L: Your saying
E: You need company, Louie. More congenial then mine. (Lestat holds
up a candle and walks towards a large four-poster bed. Claudia lies there,
angelic, under the coverlet, two marks on her neck.) Remember how you wanted
her, the taste of her.
L: I thought I killed her.
E: Don't worry Louie, your conscience is clear. (Lestat strokes Claudia's
face lightly.)
E: Claudia, Claudie. Yes, listen to me. Your ill my precious, I'm going
to give you what you need to get well.
(Louie grabs Lestat's wrist as he is going to cut it, to feed Claudia)
L: No.
E: You want her to die then? (Louie releases Lestat's wrist, Lestat
punctures wrists and feeds Claudia. Claudia sucks on the wound, reviving,
making little noises.) That's it. Yes. Yes. stop, stop. Enough. (Lestat
pulls away gasping)
(Claudia being transformed. Becoming white yet robust, bright-eyed
yet crazed. Her hair becomes beautiful curls, shining in the candlelight.
Claudia sits up.)
Claudia (C) : I want some more.
E: Of course you want more.
Maid: Vous m'avez appellez Monsieur? Oh! Quelle belle enfant!
E: (The maid comes near the bed, kneels in front of Claudia. Lestat
lays his hand on the maid's throat and Claudia watches keenly. Claudia
lunges for the throbbing vein in the neck, locking on to the flowing blood.
The Maid is transfixed.)
E: Gently cherrie, your so innocent, you must not be made to suffer.
Good, yes, all right now, stop. ah, ahahaha, that's enough cherrie. You
must stop before the heart stops.
C: (Claudia looks at the corpse.) I want some more.
E: oh I know, but it's best in the beginning, less the death takes
you down with it. And you have done very well, not a drop spilled. very
good.
C: Where's Mama? (Lestat and Claudia sit on the Louis XVI settee. Claudia
is a vision, a doll made out of pearl. Animated, voice crisp. )
E: Mama, mama has gone to heaven, like that sweet lady right there,
They all go to heaven.
L: All but us.
E: You want to frighten our little daughter
C: I'm not your daughter.
E: Oh yes you are, Your mine and Louie's daughter now. You see Louie
was going to leave us, was going to go away. but now he's not. Now he is
going to stay and make you happy.
C: (Claudia runs over to him. She smiles at him.) Louie...
L: (Louis is conflicted. He cannot leave her. He touches her cheeks,
her hair. Same as his. Vampire skin and hair. He draws in his breath, shocked
by her beauty, then he embraces her as a father might a daughter. He looks
over her shoulder to Lestat. ) You fiend.
E: (Lestat smiles ) One happy family.
INT. ROOM. SAN FRANCISCO.
I: (Malloy is open mouthed. ) He did it to make you stay with him.
L: Perhaps. he knew me, he knew I would love her more then the waking
world But there was more to it. He lavished affection on her there is no
doubt about that perhaps in the end he did it because he was lonely to.
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