Chapter 13 :
Waiting room.
Hospital - noon - waiting room - Lorne is sat on the bench in front of the corridor where Angel paces up and down.
LORNE:
Stop! You gonna make me sick to walk round and round like that. The smell is already unendurable for my delicate nose.
Angel stops, looks at Lorne and start again his pilgrimage across the corridor.
LORNE:
OH! Don't worry, he's sturdy, he gonna be ok.
ANGEL: (confident)
Yeah he's strong... But have you looked at him recently?!
LORNE: (sarcastically)
Yeah, the worst two days in my life....
ANGEL:
He's really thin and tiny he seems to be fragile like if we can break him just in touching him.
LORNE:
Yes, but it's just an impression. Remember he was strong enough for fight you.
ANGEL:
What I will do if he doesn't come out unscathed?
LORNE:
He gonna be ok!
ANGEL:
You sure?!
LORNE:
No, but I try to comfort myself like I can.
ANGEL:
That's my fault I sent him in this site.
LORNE:
Oh! He's grown up in a hell dimension.
ANGEL:
Yes, but there wasn't any guns.
LORNE:
No.. but there was a kind of mechanic arms that flings stakes very very fast.
Angel continues to walk in round and then stops close to Lorne.
LORNE:
Don't worry.
CUT TO: Hospital - 2:00 p.m. - Angel's standing against the wall, Lorne's still sat.
ANGEL:
I gonna call Cordy.
LORNE:
Yeah, go talk to the girl, she can reassure us.
Angel leaves the room.
CUT TO: Angel comes back.
ANGEL:
She's not at the hotel or at her place.
LORNE:
That's not reassuring.
A nurse walks in the corridor, Angel throws himself on her.
ANGEL:
I'm waiting since two hours, my son was shot in the stomach, and I don't know anything..
NURSE:
I'll check it.
Angel looks her get away.
LORNE:
Damn! You'll end up by sitting yes?!
ANGEL:
If he's okay he will never leave the house any more.
LORNE:
Well, I guess that if you telling that to him you'll freak him out and he'll clear off. Remember how much difficult that was to convince him to stay with us after the vampire sect attack him. Vampires or not he didn't want to come. We had obliged to do some intensive bootlicking.
ANGEL:
Yes, but here it's a gun shot, I mean it's human. I can't be touch by human stuff so I thought him too but it's not true.
LORNE:
Well, I don't know what to say to you, let me think...
CUT TO: Same place - 4:00 p.m. -
LORNE:
Ah! Wait, you know what can make you feel better...
ANGEL:
Yeah, the doctor comes here and says everything is good..
The doctor comes to them.
DOCTOR:
Everything's good.
ANGEL: (to Lorne)
You see, I'm better now.
DOCTOR:
We put the bullet off of him and we've repaired the intern damages that were a lot, it's for that that took time. But he's good now. Just 2 weeks completely immobile and 4 or 5 days here, and he gonna hurt some times but that will stop... I guess.. - he looks at Lorne - You have some serious skin problems, we have a really good dermatologist, upstairs.
LORNE:
No, it's alright maybe later.
DOCTOR:
Well, he's sleeping now, he's in the recovery room he'll wake up in one or two hours but he'll fall asleep immediately after that, so you can go.. - Angel goes for open his mouth but the doctor cuts him - but you gonna say me, no, like all the parents and I gonna say to that, but there are rules nobody never listen it and I will sigh and let you stay but when the new guard will take their turn you'll have to go and come back to the visit hours. I gave all the instruction to the nurse in the recovery room. - facing Lorne - You know they are really good. - he leaves.
CUT TO: Recovery room - Angel arrives, Connor is lying on a bed, he's on a drip and has two tubes come out of his stomach, one for take the blood away and the other for ... the other stuff.. He's attaches to a cardiac machine that makes bip, bip. Angel takes a chair and sits on close to Connor's bed. He touches Connor's hand but doesn't take it afraid to hurt the kid.
ANGEL:
What I will do about you. - smiling.
CUT TO: Recovery room - 7:00 p.m. - Angel's fallen asleep the head under his son's bed. Lorne is standing next to him. Connor's waking up. Lorne taps Angel's shoulder for wakes him up. Angel opens his eyes and straightens him back. He looks at Connor who looks like weak, tired and lost.
ANGEL:
You're in the hospital - Connor looks at him but says nothing - how do you feel?
CONNOR: (weakly)
I have tubes in my gut.
ANGEL:
It's normal, it's for evacuate the blood outside of you.
CONNOR: (weakly, but we can hear fear)
I want my blood stays inside of me!
ANGEL:
It's necessary it's for avoid an internal bleeding.
CONNOR:
What's an internal bleeding?
ANGEL:
Humm.. something very long to explain, so how do you feel?
CONNOR: (he looks under the cover)
I'm wearing a kind of dress, how do you think I'm feeling?
LORNE:
Good enough for whine.
CONNOR: (looking Lorne and then Angel)
He's still here!?
LORNE:
Yeah, what do you want, see you wounded and to be at the mercy of everybody make me happy, it's my only entertainment (to Angel) Cordy still doesn't answer.
ANGEL:
It's weird... May be she doesn't answer 'cause she's sleeping.
CONNOR:
It's passionate but I want my clothes.
ANGEL:
What for?
CONNOR:
Just for look it. For put it on! Moron.
ANGEL:
I'll put this one on the drugs' back.
CONNOR:
What's dug?
ANGEL:
d.r.u.g. - realizes what he's saying - whatever! Nothing. But you don't gonna get dressed as you stay here.
CONNOR: (agitated)
And when I go out of here?
ANGEL:
Well, one hour and... Four days..
CONNOR: (upset)
What! I don't stay here during four days! - crying like that he makes him exhausted.
LORNE: (for himself)
And here we are, we're going to do butt licking again.
ANGEL:
You've got shot and you have tubes in you stomach!
CONNOR: (starting to get up)
You want bet that I can!
Angel gets up of his seat quickly and puts Connor to bed again.
ANGEL: (sighing)
You can't be reasonable for once!?
LORNE: (sarcastically)
I thought the doctor said that he gonna wake up and fall asleep immediately after, why he doesn't fall asleep immediately?
Connor looks at him badly, short of breath.
ANGEL:
Yeah, you need to sleep, you look tired.
CONNOR:
I'm not tired!!
LORNE:
I go back to L.A fetch some blood for you. - he leaves the room, with a little smirk for Connor who returns back the smirk.
ANGEL:
So, you still didn't say if you're good, you hurt? Because if you're in pain we can call the nurse who'll give you more drugs.
CONNOR:
What's drug?
ANGEL:
I don't know, you know?
CONNOR: (he looks at him confused)
So when I leave?
ANGEL:
Still four days.
CONNOR:
I don't think so. - resolute;
ANGEL:
You can't eat or drink but I can bring you ice.
CONNOR:
What do you want I do with ice!!
ANGEL:
I go to bring you some ice. - he leaves the room.
He approaches to the ice machine, takes a cup and putts the ice inside.
ANGEL:
I'm two hundred fifty years, I did wars and a lot of fights and it's just a tiny kid who'll get me! - he goes back to the room but Connor's fallen asleep. Angel drinks the cup. - Hou! It's cold!
PC: Chapter 14: Cordelia comes to see Connor & Angel.
Hospital - noon - waiting room - Lorne is sat on the bench in front of the corridor where Angel paces up and down.
LORNE:
Stop! You gonna make me sick to walk round and round like that. The smell is already unendurable for my delicate nose.
Angel stops, looks at Lorne and start again his pilgrimage across the corridor.
LORNE:
OH! Don't worry, he's sturdy, he gonna be ok.
ANGEL: (confident)
Yeah he's strong... But have you looked at him recently?!
LORNE: (sarcastically)
Yeah, the worst two days in my life....
ANGEL:
He's really thin and tiny he seems to be fragile like if we can break him just in touching him.
LORNE:
Yes, but it's just an impression. Remember he was strong enough for fight you.
ANGEL:
What I will do if he doesn't come out unscathed?
LORNE:
He gonna be ok!
ANGEL:
You sure?!
LORNE:
No, but I try to comfort myself like I can.
ANGEL:
That's my fault I sent him in this site.
LORNE:
Oh! He's grown up in a hell dimension.
ANGEL:
Yes, but there wasn't any guns.
LORNE:
No.. but there was a kind of mechanic arms that flings stakes very very fast.
Angel continues to walk in round and then stops close to Lorne.
LORNE:
Don't worry.
CUT TO: Hospital - 2:00 p.m. - Angel's standing against the wall, Lorne's still sat.
ANGEL:
I gonna call Cordy.
LORNE:
Yeah, go talk to the girl, she can reassure us.
Angel leaves the room.
CUT TO: Angel comes back.
ANGEL:
She's not at the hotel or at her place.
LORNE:
That's not reassuring.
A nurse walks in the corridor, Angel throws himself on her.
ANGEL:
I'm waiting since two hours, my son was shot in the stomach, and I don't know anything..
NURSE:
I'll check it.
Angel looks her get away.
LORNE:
Damn! You'll end up by sitting yes?!
ANGEL:
If he's okay he will never leave the house any more.
LORNE:
Well, I guess that if you telling that to him you'll freak him out and he'll clear off. Remember how much difficult that was to convince him to stay with us after the vampire sect attack him. Vampires or not he didn't want to come. We had obliged to do some intensive bootlicking.
ANGEL:
Yes, but here it's a gun shot, I mean it's human. I can't be touch by human stuff so I thought him too but it's not true.
LORNE:
Well, I don't know what to say to you, let me think...
CUT TO: Same place - 4:00 p.m. -
LORNE:
Ah! Wait, you know what can make you feel better...
ANGEL:
Yeah, the doctor comes here and says everything is good..
The doctor comes to them.
DOCTOR:
Everything's good.
ANGEL: (to Lorne)
You see, I'm better now.
DOCTOR:
We put the bullet off of him and we've repaired the intern damages that were a lot, it's for that that took time. But he's good now. Just 2 weeks completely immobile and 4 or 5 days here, and he gonna hurt some times but that will stop... I guess.. - he looks at Lorne - You have some serious skin problems, we have a really good dermatologist, upstairs.
LORNE:
No, it's alright maybe later.
DOCTOR:
Well, he's sleeping now, he's in the recovery room he'll wake up in one or two hours but he'll fall asleep immediately after that, so you can go.. - Angel goes for open his mouth but the doctor cuts him - but you gonna say me, no, like all the parents and I gonna say to that, but there are rules nobody never listen it and I will sigh and let you stay but when the new guard will take their turn you'll have to go and come back to the visit hours. I gave all the instruction to the nurse in the recovery room. - facing Lorne - You know they are really good. - he leaves.
CUT TO: Recovery room - Angel arrives, Connor is lying on a bed, he's on a drip and has two tubes come out of his stomach, one for take the blood away and the other for ... the other stuff.. He's attaches to a cardiac machine that makes bip, bip. Angel takes a chair and sits on close to Connor's bed. He touches Connor's hand but doesn't take it afraid to hurt the kid.
ANGEL:
What I will do about you. - smiling.
CUT TO: Recovery room - 7:00 p.m. - Angel's fallen asleep the head under his son's bed. Lorne is standing next to him. Connor's waking up. Lorne taps Angel's shoulder for wakes him up. Angel opens his eyes and straightens him back. He looks at Connor who looks like weak, tired and lost.
ANGEL:
You're in the hospital - Connor looks at him but says nothing - how do you feel?
CONNOR: (weakly)
I have tubes in my gut.
ANGEL:
It's normal, it's for evacuate the blood outside of you.
CONNOR: (weakly, but we can hear fear)
I want my blood stays inside of me!
ANGEL:
It's necessary it's for avoid an internal bleeding.
CONNOR:
What's an internal bleeding?
ANGEL:
Humm.. something very long to explain, so how do you feel?
CONNOR: (he looks under the cover)
I'm wearing a kind of dress, how do you think I'm feeling?
LORNE:
Good enough for whine.
CONNOR: (looking Lorne and then Angel)
He's still here!?
LORNE:
Yeah, what do you want, see you wounded and to be at the mercy of everybody make me happy, it's my only entertainment (to Angel) Cordy still doesn't answer.
ANGEL:
It's weird... May be she doesn't answer 'cause she's sleeping.
CONNOR:
It's passionate but I want my clothes.
ANGEL:
What for?
CONNOR:
Just for look it. For put it on! Moron.
ANGEL:
I'll put this one on the drugs' back.
CONNOR:
What's dug?
ANGEL:
d.r.u.g. - realizes what he's saying - whatever! Nothing. But you don't gonna get dressed as you stay here.
CONNOR: (agitated)
And when I go out of here?
ANGEL:
Well, one hour and... Four days..
CONNOR: (upset)
What! I don't stay here during four days! - crying like that he makes him exhausted.
LORNE: (for himself)
And here we are, we're going to do butt licking again.
ANGEL:
You've got shot and you have tubes in you stomach!
CONNOR: (starting to get up)
You want bet that I can!
Angel gets up of his seat quickly and puts Connor to bed again.
ANGEL: (sighing)
You can't be reasonable for once!?
LORNE: (sarcastically)
I thought the doctor said that he gonna wake up and fall asleep immediately after, why he doesn't fall asleep immediately?
Connor looks at him badly, short of breath.
ANGEL:
Yeah, you need to sleep, you look tired.
CONNOR:
I'm not tired!!
LORNE:
I go back to L.A fetch some blood for you. - he leaves the room, with a little smirk for Connor who returns back the smirk.
ANGEL:
So, you still didn't say if you're good, you hurt? Because if you're in pain we can call the nurse who'll give you more drugs.
CONNOR:
What's drug?
ANGEL:
I don't know, you know?
CONNOR: (he looks at him confused)
So when I leave?
ANGEL:
Still four days.
CONNOR:
I don't think so. - resolute;
ANGEL:
You can't eat or drink but I can bring you ice.
CONNOR:
What do you want I do with ice!!
ANGEL:
I go to bring you some ice. - he leaves the room.
He approaches to the ice machine, takes a cup and putts the ice inside.
ANGEL:
I'm two hundred fifty years, I did wars and a lot of fights and it's just a tiny kid who'll get me! - he goes back to the room but Connor's fallen asleep. Angel drinks the cup. - Hou! It's cold!
PC: Chapter 14: Cordelia comes to see Connor & Angel.