"The Longing" (part 1) By Lisa

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Night time at Mansbridge Academy

A strange Girl enters. She looks around at this massive place. In walks Murdoch towards her.

MURDOCH: Hi! May I help you?

KALI: Dr. Murdoch. I’m your new day student.

MURDOCH: Oh yes! Please come this way to my office.

Downstairs in the wine cellar, Drew is watching the TV. Karl walks over with Marty. Merrill and Essie are at the table.

KARL: Who’s that?

DREW: She’s a new day student.

MARTY: Don’t tell me Drew; you have a crash on her? You and your day school females.

DREW: I don’t have a crash on her. It’s just… She looks familiar to me.

MERRILL: Why do you say that Drew? Have you met her before? (Essie goes over to the others)

DREW: No, it’s like I knew her, somewhere back in the past. I can’t put my finger on it.

ESSIE: Maybe she’s a reincarnation of someone you killed. Back to take revenge on you. (She laughs)

KARL: That’s stupid Essie.

ESSIE: What’s so stupid about? It could happen. (Takes remote and turns it off) There, now we don’t have to think about it any more. (Grabs Karl’s hand) Come on Karl let’s play some chess.

KARL: Fine! We’ll leave you alone with her mystery girl. (Karl and Essie walk away)

The others all leave Drew alone. Drew turns the TV back on.

On the TV

MURDOCH: Well everything is in order. Now I’ll show you to your room. This way please. (They start walking upstairs)

KALI: Great! I can’t wait to get started.

In The Conservatory the day students are in class. It’s almost the end of the class. The students are reading some books and some are writing.

MURDOCH: That’s it for today. Class dismissed! Have a good night.

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The students get up and some leave right away. Nick goes over to Kali.

NICK: Hi! I’m Nick. What do you think if we go out tonight?

MIMI: Nick get lost! (Mimi pushes him a little. He starts to leave)

NICK: I’ll check you out later. (Leaves)

MIMI: I’m Mimi. (They start walking)

KALI: Kali. Nice to meet you. So… what’s up with him?

MIMI: Don’t mind him. He’s just a jerk.

KALI: What do you guys do for fun around here?

MIMI: Not much. Were not to leave the grounds after curfew, but some of us… just sneak out anyways.

KALI: Really! (They get upstairs and stop at Mimi’s room) So what else are we not supposed to do?

MIMI: Well… pretty much everything.

KALI: That’s so lame!

MIMI: Yeah, Dr. Murdoch and his rules. So do you want to go talk in my room?

KALI: No, I’m really tired. Got in late last night.

MIMI: I understand, maybe we’ll do it another time.

KALI: Yah sounds good.

MIMI: Well good night. (Opens her door. Kali walks away to her room and enters)

Nighttime Downstairs with the vampires. Drew is asleep in his coffin, dreaming. In his dream a girl with dark hair stands with her back away from Drew. It looks like Sherry.

DREW: Sherry, is that you?

(He walks up to her and he turns her around. You can’t really see who it is.)

KALI: (Mysterious) No Edward! It’s me… your long lost Lover!

(She hands him a red rose. Drew suddenly awakes scared and on him is a red rose. He gets out of coffin and goes to the table and sits with the others. He places the rose on the table in front of him. Marty is off somewhere else.)

KARL: Drew! Boy you look like crap. You didn’t sleep well?

DREW: No. Bad dream.

MERRILL: What’s that? (Points to rose)

ESSIE: (she picks it up and smells it) It’s a red rose, Merrill.

MERRILL: I know what it is. (She takes it from Essie) Where did it come from?

DREW: I was hopping you guys could tell me.

MERRILL: (she puts it back down on table) You don’t think we had anything to do with it?

DREW: Then who put it in my coffin?

KARL: Marty!! (Marty comes in)

MARTY: What?! I didn’t do it!

DREW: (he gets up) All I know is I was dreaming and this girl gave me a rose. When I woke up…

MERRILL: …There was this rose, with you.

DREW: The girl called me Edward. How would she know that? …I’m going upstairs alone to think. (He leaves past Marty)

(On the couch upstairs Kali is reading a book. She also has a wine glass with red wine in it. Drew doesn’t know she’s there and Kali here’s him mumbling to himself)

KALI: Hello! (She looks around) I know your there, I heard you talking to yourself. (He shows himself) Come. Talk with me.

DREW: I’m sorry. I didn’t know anybody was out here.

KALI: Come here. Sit. (He sits) I’m Kali. Just arrive last night. So do you go here? I haven’t seen you around. (Takes a drink)

DREW: No. I’m just here to see Murdoch. What are you reading?

KALI: A book about Vampires.

DREW: Do you really believe in Vampires?

KALI: No! (Laughs) Come on Vampires, really! Do you care for a drink? (Holds up glass to him)

DREW: (Smells) I really should get going. (Gets up) Nice to meet you.

KALI: (she’s looks down at glass for a moment) Wait! I don’t… (He’s gone) know you name.

(Back downstairs Drew's back and he tell everyone about Kali)

MARTY: Welcome back!

MERRILL: Did you figure out what your dream was about?

DREW: No, I just had a little talk with that new girl, Kali. She’s the new day student.

MARTY: Oh no! You’re going after another day student. You’re going to put yourself through that again?

DREW: It’s not like that. She was reading about vampires and drinking what I thought was wine, but when she offered me some it smelt like blood.

KARL: Blood! Really, do you think she’s in a vampire cult?

MERRILL: Get real Karl! You must have just smelt her.

(In walks Kali, but they don’t know she there yet.)

DREW: Then what about this feeling I have, that I know her from some place?

KALI: I can answer that. (They all turn around)

ESSIE: What are you doing down here?

KARL: She from the Furry! They sent her to find us! (In walks Murdoch)

MURDOCH: On the contrary Karl. She’s not from the furry. She’s a vampire like the rest of you.

MARTY: Wait a minute! (Walks over to Kali and Murdoch) If she’s a vamp, then how is she allowed with the day students? I thought that was a rule.

KARL: Yeah! And how come she doesn’t go up in flames in the sun?

KALI: I use sunscreen!

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MURDOCH: (he and kali laugh) No! She’s kidding. Actually Karl, she stays in the shade. If you all have been watching her you will see that everywhere she went was through the shade. Anymore questions?

MERRILL: Is Kali going to join us?

MURDOCH: Not if anything goes wrong while she’s with the day students. The Elders put Kali with the day students to see if a vampire can live among humans. Kali however wasn’t supposed to interact with any of you. (Looks to Drew) I’ll let you all get acquainted. (He leaves)

KALI: Okay. I know you all have questions, so let’s hear them.

DREW: I have a question. Did you get into my dreams?

KALI: Why would you think that?

DREW: Well, nobody here did. And since you’re the new vampire, I suppose you did.

KALI: Drew, come with me. (Holds out her hands, but he doesn’t take them) I need to show you something, alone. (Drew walks past Kali and goes into his room Kali follows.) Sit down, Drew. (He does and she sits in front of him)

DREW: What are you going to show me?

KALI: Take my hands. (He hesitates but does) I am going to take you back, back to my past. Close your eyes. (He does. And we see flashes of pictures) Along time ago, I was a princess. In love with a painter, whom my father hated. I would sneak behind his back to see my love, but one day my father found out…

(The past)

KING: I forbid you to see that… that painter! Get to your room! (She storms upstairs) Fredrick! (He enters) I want you to do something for me. It’s about time I teach that painter a thing or too.

(Upstairs in her room.)

KALI: One day me and my love were going to meet at our secret place, he was they’re waiting for me… (She sneaks out of the castle and horses run past her. She runs to her and her loves secret place.) …But I arrived to late. My fathers’ guards beat him up. (They get on their horses and she goes to her love.)

CATHERINE: (cries) No!! Edward! (Holds him) Please don’t leave me.

FREDRICK: Princess. Come with me. (He grabs her and puts her on his horse and they ride back)

(At the castle. Fredrick pulls Catherine into the room. Catherine goes to her Father)

CATHERINE: You had no right father to kill my love. (She storms upstairs to her room again)

KALI: Grief struck as I was I took my own life.

CATHERINE: I’ll show him. (Grabs a knife and cuts her wrists. Then there’s a knock on the door and enters a vampire. He starts to drink from her wrists. When Edward arrives from the window)

EDWARD: get away from her you fiend. (Vampire runs off down the hall.) Why!? Please come back to me! I’m here! (In comes the king)

KING: What have you done!? My daughter. It’s your fault!

EDWARD: I didn’t do anything. She killed herself. Because of you.

(They are at the funeral they put her in a mausoleum.)

KAIL: I wasn’t really dead. The vampire saved my life and turned me. (Back to the present. Drew opens his eyes.) After many years of thinking my love was dead, I found him. I found you!

DREW: Me! What?! Why can’t I remember you then?

KALI: I found you along time ago, but behind my back my maker erased your memory of me, but I found you again here. I slid into you dreams to see if you remembered me and I guess you don’t. I would love to give those memories back to you. If you’ll let me.

DREW: What if I don’t want them? If I was not meant to have them… then I was not meant to be with you.

KALI: Please, I need to show you are lives together before this all happened.

(She grabs his hands and they exchange memories. We see her memories of her and drew and then we see memories of him and Sherry. Then she let’s go of him)

KALI: Sherry must have meant a lot to you. I’m glad you found someone, after me. I’m sorry, I should have never came down here. (She storms off passed Merrill.)

DREW: Wait! (He goes after her but stops)

MARTY: What happened?

MERRILL: Do you believe what she showed you?

DREW: Eavesdropping again Merrill? She showed me things. I don’t know what to believe.

MERRILL: Drew maybe it’s best to forget her.

DREW: You don’t understand, that’s why she made contact with me, to show me how much we meant to each other. She came all this way knowing that I was here. I might not have those feelings for her anymore, but maybe if I spend time with her and we get to know each other again then maybe, maybe I will believe that she’s telling the truth and go from there.

MERRILL: Then go after her Drew.

(He goes upstairs and Murdoch is there)

MURDOCH: Can I help you Drew?

DREW: Did you see Kali come through here?

MURDOCH: I can’t say that I did. Why is there a problem?

DREW: Kali and I know each other from a long time ago and I would like to talk with her.

MURDOCH: Try the library. (Drew goes to library and finds her)

DREW: Catherine! (She looks with tiers in her eyes towards him) That’s your real name isn’t it? Princess Catherine. Don’t look so surprised. I remember. (Whips away her tiers)

KALI: You do not! (Gets up and starts to walk away, but he grabs her wrist) Let go!

DREW: No. Not until you listen to what I have to say. (She agrees and he lets go) I don’t know if what you showed me is true, but I’ve put everything in my past behind me.

KALI: So I’m just a memory you want to forget? Is that it?

DREW: No not at all. I wasn’t dead when you found me. I was hurt really bad. I went to your castle and I saw you take your life, I was too late, but then I saw a vampire drinking your blood, I chased him away, but I was too late and you died in my arms, I didn’t know you got turned. I was at your funeral. That’s what I remember. You died and I went on from there.

KALI: And eventually you got turned, by your maker.

DREW: Yes. Kali… I’m sorry.

KALI: Do you still love me?

DREW: I don’t know. I have fallen in love with others, but as you saw she died. I would like to…

(In comes Nick, Mimi, and Malcolm and Drew took off)

MIMI: Hey Kali! What’s wrong?

KALI: Oh nothing. I’m fine. What brings you guys down here?

Malcolm: We are doing research for are papers. (They all sit down)

KALI: So late at night. Does Murdoch know you’re down here?

MIMI: Murdoch said it’s all right.

NICK: Their do tomorrow morning. What are you doing here alone?

KALI: The same as you guys. (Takes a book from shelve and sits with them)

(Downstairs Merrill and Marty are together at the table. Essie is in her room. Karl is lifting weights. Drew Walks in)

KARL: Hey Drew!

MERRILL: Drew your back. (Gets up from table) What happened?

ESSIE: Did you find her?

MARTY: Come on you guys it’s none of our business.

ESSIE: Are you feeling all right Marty? It doesn’t sound like you.

MARTY: I just think if Drew wanted to tell us, it’s up to him.

DREW: Look we got interrupted. When I want you to know I’ll tell.

KARL: She was lying, right?

DREW: No! (Goes to his room and sits down)

ESSIE: Come on guys leave him alone. How would you all feel if someone from your past came and stirred things up? You wouldn’t want to talk about it either. (Merrill leaves the group and goes to Drew)

MERRILL: Drew, please tell me what happened between you and Kali. Maybe I can help.

DREW: Her name is not Kali it’s Catherine… Princess Catherine. (The others are listening) We were lovers along time ago. I didn’t remember her because her maker eased my memories of her.

MERRILL: Do you believe her story?

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DREW: Yes I do. She showed it to me. She has the power to exchange memories with people, but she got things wrong, that’s why I didn’t believe her.

MERRILL: What did you tell her?

DREW: I told her what really happened to me. She claimed I was dead when she found me, but I was fine. (Flash back of what already was shown) I was too late she had slit her wrists. A vampire came and started to suck her blood, I chased him away, and I thought she was dead. I went to her funeral. How was I supposed to know she got turned? Then several years later she was with her maker and she saw me.

MERRILL: I bet when she saw you she wanted to tell you that she was still alive and still loves you, but her maker stopped her and wiped your memory.

DREW: It’s possible.

MARTY: (whispers) What’s going on?

ESSIE: Shhh!

MERRILL: Do you still love her, Drew?

DREW: We got interrupted. I couldn’t tell her how I felt when she was gone.

MERRILL: You got to let her know!

(Drew and Merrill pull curtain back to see them there)

DREW: You guys heard everything? (Starts to storm off)

KARL: Drew were sorry! We just want to know what’s going on! Maybe we can help.

DREW: Essie. (He stops)

ESSIE: Yes Drew!

DREW: Can you some how telepathically tell Kali to get down here?

ESSIE: I’ll need to be close to her.

DREW: Then go! (Essie goes upstairs to library)

ESSIE: Kali… Listen… Drew needs to talk to you. Get Downstairs. (Kali gets up and Essie leaves)

KALI: Um. Could you guys excuse me? I think I’ll turn in.

(Fake yawns and then she takes her books back to the shelves and goes downstairs. Once out of library she speed travels downstairs)

DREW: Kali. (Walks over to her)

KALI: What is it Drew?

DREW: I was trying to tell you how I felt about you before we got interrupted. Please sit. (She does. He sits beside her) I felt devastated when I thought you had died. I thought I would never fall in love again. Then some centuries later I found that love again. Then she was taken away from me. I’m still trying to get over her and maybe I never will, but Kali. I did love you once and maybe I never will. (The roof window closes)

KALI: So that’s you answer. (Tiers forming) You’ll never love me again. (She gets up)

DREW: I never said that. (Gets up too)

KALI: But that’s what you mean. You could never love a vampire. Look at you and Merrill. She loves you and you rather be with a mortal then with you’re on kind. (She storms off and goes out side.)

ESSIE: Go after her Drew. (He goes and the others follow)

MURDOCH: What’s going on?

KARL: Kali stormed off and Drew went after her.

(Outside Kali is standing in the open and the sun is rising. Drew arrives at the door and looks up at the sky)

DREW: Kali! Get back in here before the sun is up!

KALI: Never Drew! You made yourself clear! I can’t live without you!

MURDOCH: Where’s Kali? (The sun has risen and you hear a dreadful scream from Kali)

DREW: Do something Dr. Murdoch!

(Murdoch takes off jacket as he runs out to her and puts his coat on her. He picks her up and brings her into the building. Murdoch takes her to his office and the other go too behind them. Then the Mortals come out of the library)

MIMI: What was that horrible sound?

NICK: Who cares? (Yawns) Let’s get some sleep before class! (They go upstairs)

(In Murdoch’s office. Kali is on the couch with Drew at her side. Drew is holding her hand. The others are around them.)

DREW: Is she going to make it?

MURDOCH: Only time will tell. (VAKAAL comes. They all turn around) Lord Vakaal. (They all bow)

VAKAAL: I’m here for the girl.

DREW: Your going to help her right?

VAKAAL: (looks at her) In time she’ll be back as new. Meeting you again has corrupted her job.

DREW: Then why did you send her here? Didn’t you know she knew me?

MURDOCH: Drew that’s enough!

VAKAAL: No, I’ll speak with him. Drew, I know everything about her. I know her past with you. This is for the best. Now let me take her. (Drew picks her up in his arms and hands her over to him.)

DREW: Will I ever see her again?

VAKAAL: When the time is right. She’ll be back. (As Murdoch and Drew turn Vakaal and Kali disappear)