SCENE TEN
9:15 P.M. A bedroom.
Part of a parlor is also visible. The bedroom as a window
opening onto the fire escape, a bed on a wall, and a curtained doorway, rear.
There is a door between the bedroom and the parlor. Renesmee is there getting ready
for her date with Jake. Nahuel walks in sad and fresh from the rumble
NAHUEL
Nessie...
RENESMEE
I'm in here. I was just getting ready to-[She is hurriedly trying
to put a bathrobe over her dress. Nahuel comes in before she can
finish, so that she leaves it over her shoulders, holding it
closed with her hands.]
NAHUEL
Where are your grandparents?
RENESMEE
At the store. If I had known you were-You have been fighting,
Nahuel.
NAHUEL
Yes, I'm sorry.
RENESMEE
That is not like you.
NAHUEL
No.
RENESMEE
Why, Nahuel?
NAHUEL
I don't know why. It happened so fast.
RENESMEE
You must wash up.
NAHUEL
Nessie-
RENESMEE
You can go in there.
NAHUEL
In a minute. Nessie... at the rumble-
RENESMEE
There was no rumble.
NAHUEL
There was.
RENESMEE
You are wrong.
NAHUEL
No; there was. Nobody meant for it to happen...
RENESMEE
...Tell me.
NAHUEL
It's bad.
RENESMEE
Very bad?
NAHUEL
You see... [he moves to her, helplessly]
RENESMEE
It will be easier if you say it very fast.
NAHUEL [nods]
There was a fight-[She nods.] And Edward-[She nods.] And somehow
a lighter-and Edward someone-[He takes her hand.]
RENESMEE
Jake. What happened to Jake? [The name stops Nahuel. He yanks off
the robe, revealing that she is dressed to go out.] Nahuel, is
Jake all right?
NAHUEL
He killed your father. [He walks into the parlor, slamming the
door behind him. A pause.]
RENESMEE
You are lying. [Nahuel has started to leave the parlor, but comes
back now. Swiftly searching behind the furniture, he come up with
an n object wrapped in material the same color as Edward's
shirt. From the bedroom, Renesmee's voice calls out, louder.] You
are lying, Nahuel! [Coldly, Nahuel unwraps a flamethrower, which he puts in
his backpack. There is the sound of a police siren at a distance.
He goes out. During this, Renesmee has sat on
The bed. She rocks back and forth repeating the same line, .]
Make it not be true... please make it not be true,
please-make it not be true. [As she speaks, Jake appears at the
fire-escape window and quietly climbs in. His shirt is ripped,
half-torn off. He stands still, limp, watching her. Aware that
someone is in the room, she tops her speaking. Slowly, her head
turns; she looks at him for a long moment. Then, almost in one
spring, she in on him, her fists beating his chest.] Killer,
killer, killer,
JAKE
I tried to stop it; I did try. I don't know how it went wrong...
I didn't mean to hurt him; I didn't want to; I didn't know I had.
But Sam... Sam was like my brother. So when Edward killed
him-[She lifts her head.] Edward didn't mean it either. Oh, I
know he didn't! The look on his face. Oh, no. I didn't come to tell you just for
you to forgive me so I couldn't go to the police-
RENESMEE
No!
JAKE
It's easy now-
RENESMEE
No...
JAKE
Whatever you want, I'll do-
RENESMEE
Stay. Stay with me.
JAKE (Holding her close)
I love you so much.
RENESMEE
Tighter.
[Music starts.]
JAKE
We'll be all right. I know it. We're really together now.
RENESMEE
But it's not us! It's everything around us!
JAKE
Then we'll find some place where nothing can get to us; not one of
them, not anything. And-
[He sings.]
I'll take you away, take you far far away out of here,
Far far away till the walls and the streets disappear,
Somewhere there must be a place we can feel we're free,
Somewhere there's got to be some place for you and for me.
[As he sings, the walls of the room begin to move off, and
the city walls surrounding them begin to close in on them. Then
the room it self goes, and the two lovers begin to run,
battering against the walls of the city, beginning to break
through as chaotic figures of the gangs, of violence, fail around
them. But they do break through, and suddenly-they are in a world
of space and air and sun. They stop, looking at it, pleased,
startled, as boys and girls both sides come on. And they, too,
stop and stare, happy, pleased. Their clothes are soft and pastel
versions of what they have worn before. They begin to dance, to
play: no sides, no hostility now; join, making a world that Jake
and Renesmee want to be in, belong to, share their love with. As
they go into the steps of a gentle love dance, a voice is heard
singing.]
OFFSTAGE VOICE [sings]
There's a place for us,
Somewhere a place for us.
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us
Somewhere.
There's a time for us,
Some day a time for us,
Time together with time to spare,
Time to look, time to care,
Someday!
Somewhere.
We'll find a new way of living,
We'll find a way of forgiving
Somewhere,
Somewhere...
There's a place for us,
A time and place for us.
Hold my hand and we're half way there.
Hold my hand and I'll take you there
Someday,
Somehow,
Somewhere!
JAKE and RENESMEE
Hold my hand and we're halfway there.
Home my hand and I'll take you there
Someday,
Somehow,
Somewhere!
[As the lights fade, together they sink back on the bed.]