The
Diner of Love
3503 Angel Square Court
Llanview, PA
"Nothin' Could Be Finer Than Some
Lovin' In the Diner"
"There ain't no lovin' like some diner lovin', hey ho"
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"Nothin' Could Be Finer Than Some
Lovin' In the Diner" |
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SophieSoaps's TAKE TWO
Page 1 NancyGe The
Michael-Near-Death Scene Nurse: You have a visitor outside who’s been waiting a long time to see you. Michael/Al: Smiling broadly. Please have her come in. Marcie enters the room. Marcie: How are you doing? Michael/Al: Fine, thanks to you….and can I say, I owe you my life…I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you.. Marcie: cutting him off. Please, we don’t like each other; you don’t owe me anything. I wouldn’t have let you or anyone else die when I could help. Michael/Al: Still you did save me and I owe you everything and if there’s anything I can do… Marcie: Stop!! You don’t owe me….and there’s nothing anyone can do for me. Can you bring back the dead? Take me back in time? Stop starring at me! Michael/Al: No, I can’t undo what’s happened but I’d like to be your friend. Marcie: Yeah, just what I need in a friend-a homophobic jerk who makes nasty comments about my brother. Michael/Al: About that. Look the first night we went out, we liked each other before things got off on the wrong track. Marcie: I liked you because you looked just like Al. I thought you would be like him. I was stupid….you couldn’t be more different. Al would never say things like that or think like that. Michael/Al: Yeah I’m sure he wouldn’t and neither…(stopping to remember Luna’s admonitions). Look, Marcie I know I said some hurtful things and I’d like to say I didn’t mean them but the truth is.. Marcie: You did mean them and you’re just a…. Michael/Al: Yes, I was a creep but the point is that everything’s changed. I was near death; I would be dead if not for you. That kind of experience changes people or makes them want to change. And I want to change….anyone could have saved me-no one could have saved me, but you did. There had to be a reason. And the truth is I was half-dead anyway before then, I just didn’t know it. I’ve been detached and kept people away since I left for boarding school. I haven’t seen my mother or brother for years. And as for the things, I said about your brother…well, when I know you better, I’ll tell you where that came from. Marcie: I’m amazed and thank you for telling me… Michael/Al: And can we give it a try being friends? Marcie: friends.
Gabrielle’s Death Scene Per the rules, she had to stay dead but I would have used that to give her a final scene in the white light with Al and to leave behind a message that would help him in his goal to return to Marcie. And it would've tweaked the rules a little too. Finally, my ending would have gotten her out of the restroom. –NancyGe 5/6/04 Palace on New Year’s Eve. Gabrielle has just told Michael/Al of her
planned wedding for Valentine’s Day and has wandered off to the restroom. She
is attacked by the MBK but manages to stagger out of the bathroom. She is found
by an extra who goes to the party room and yells, “Is there a doctor in the
house?” Michael/Al rushes to the scene and is devastated to see Gabrielle on
the floor. Michael immediately begins working on her while Al finds himself in
the bright light with Gabrielle. Gabrielle: Here we are again… Al: Yes, and you have to go back again. You and Bo are so happy. You need
to focus on that. Gabrielle: No, now listen to me. I am supposed to be here, you weren’t.
You never were. Al: I couldn’t let you make that sacrifice. What happened to me was my
own fault. You were happy. Gabrielle: I could never be completely happy in a world without you in
it. And of course, I would make that sacrifice. You were the best thing I ever
did in my life. I would do anything for you; I would do everything for you. You
are supposed to stay here with Marcie, you are supposed to have children. And
when you do have children, you’ll understand why it wasn’t even a close call
for me. Michael is still working on Gabrielle. She gains consciousness for a
minute and whispers to him: “Tell Marcie that Al’s still here-she just has
to look for him.” Bo is now there also. “I love you,” she tells him. Back in the white light, little Gabrielle has arrived and is meeting her
grandmother. Al returns to Michael’s body as Gabrielle dies. He is openly
sobbing as Marcie arrives. They comfort each other. Bo tells her Gabby’s dying
words but she won’t make the connection till later.
SophieSoaps Marcal Rooftop Conversation I’ll
get the ball rolling. I loved Marcie and Michael’s rooftop love scene. I even
thought Riley was sweet serenading our couple. BUT, I wasn’t crazy about the
conversation they had afterwards. I understand the premise was to give us a
little more insight into Michael and why he is the way he is, but I felt it
could have been written better. So, here’s the conversation as I would have
written it. –SophieSoaps 5.3.04 Michael and Marcie on the roof, under a blanket. She is in his arms, but he is looking past her, off into the distance. MARCIE: Michael? What’s wrong? Was it… I mean was I…? MICHAEL: Oh, Sweetie. It’s not you. You were amazing. MARCIE: Then what’s wrong? MICHAEL: Nothing’s wrong. It’s just different. This is so new to me. MARCIE: New to you? What are you talking about? You’ve been with lots of women. Michael sighs and looks away. Marcie has hit a nerve. MARCIE: (cont’d, raising herself up on her elbow) I’m sorry. That didn’t come out the way I meant it to. MICHAEL: It’s true, though. They are both quiet for a moment. He raises up on his elbow to face her. I didn’t mean the sex was new to me, it’s the feelings that are new. You might not be the first woman I’ve been with, but you’re the first one I’ve ever really cared about. I’ve never said ‘I love you’ to anyone before you. MARCIE: For real? MICHAEL: Yeah, for real. It’s a lot for me, Marcie. I was closed off for so long… it’s kind of scary opening up to someone, letting myself be vulnerable. MARCIE: But why? MICHAEL: Why is it scary? MARCIE: No, why did you shut out your feelings? Was it being a doctor? MICHAEL: No, it started way before that. Michael sits up and Marcie follows. I… Marcie, John may be the cop, but I idolized our dad. More so even than John. When he died… I was so young; I didn’t understand why he wouldn’t come back. Every night I’d sit by my window and look at the sky and beg my dad to come home. But he never did, so I finally stopped asking. MARCIE: I know what that’s like. Whenever I saw the first star at night I’d wish for my mom to come back. It’s the hardest wish to let go of. MICHAEL: Yeah. It is. That’s when everything got so hard and I started hiding in my books. A couple of years later these people came to talk to my mom. I had straight A’s and my test scores were through the roof so they offered me this scholarship for boarding school. It was an opportunity my mom could never have given me on her own. If you could have seen her face… it was like this huge weight was being lifted off of her shoulders. She wanted so much for me, you know? I didn’t feel like I could say no, even though I was scared to death of leaving home. I was just a little kid. MARCIE: Did you tell her you were scared? MICHAEL: No, no… never. I couldn’t let her down, I couldn’t disappoint her, or John either. So I stuffed my fears way down and I got on the bus and I went. John thinks I never looked back, but it’s not true. I was so lonely I cried myself to sleep every night for the first month. But the more I missed them, the more it distracted from my schoolwork. And I couldn’t fail, Marcie. I just couldn’t. I had to be strong, so I taught myself to shut off my feelings and concentrate on my studies. I wanted to be a doctor and I couldn’t let anything shift my focus off of that goal. Anything or anyone. MARCIE: You’re not like that anymore, though. MICHAEL: No. Because of you. You got to me. MARCIE: I got to you? MICHAEL: Yeah. You remember the very first time we went out? MARCIE: Are you sure you want me to? MICHAEL: Apparently, you do. I was such a jerk to you. MARCIE: Yeah, what was up with that? MICHAEL: Marcie, when Reverend Buchanan first suggested we grab a bite, I thought “Why not? She’s cute.” But walking over to the Palace, talking to you, there was something about you. You were so sad, but you were fighting it, you know. You were really struggling to stay with the living, and that touched me. And then when you were talking about your brother and how close you were to him, it made me think of my own brother and I couldn’t have that. You were making me feel and I couldn’t let that happen… so I said that stuff about Eric being gay and everything. Then I saw the look in your eyes and I felt awful. I really hurt you. MARCIE: Why didn’t you ever tell me that before? MICHAEL: I told you, it’s all new to me. You know, it’s ironic. MARCIE: What is? MICHAEL: I’m actually a little jealous of Al. MARCIE: Jealous of Al? Why? MICHAEL: Because he got to be the first big love of your life. MARCIE: But it’s because of you that he’s not the last. I really do love you, Michael. MICHAEL: I know. I love you too. And I know if it hadn’t been for Al we never would have met. MARCIE: Sometimes I feel like he’s still here, like he’s watching over us. Does that seem strange? MICHAEL: No, not at all. Something kept putting us together. Maybe it was Al. MARCIE: Don’t be jealous. Al would have hated that. He always wanted everyone to be happy. MICHAEL: You make me happy. MARCIE: You make me happy, too. Fade out on their kiss.
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