"Maybe I`ve been just a man" Jesus glares at Judas. "But at least I`ve been
the good guy."
Judas lips form a mocking smirk. "And in the end you were the dead guy."
"It`s not like you`d survived me."
Judas eyes get hazy and he subconsciously raises his hand to his neck.
Seeing the gesture a bolt of electricity races down Olivia`s spine. Without
further thought she steps forward and kisses the red and sore spot. Judas
swings round and stares surprised at her.
"Don`t touch him, you little slut!" Luzi graps her wrists and tears her
apart from Judas. Her black coal eyes flash with pure hate. "It was all
your fault!"
Olivia gets pale, but fights the urge to avoid Luzi`s eyes. "What do you
mean?" she asks. "My fault? What did I do?"
"You existed!" Luzi spits out.
Jesus lays a hand on her shoulder and shakes his head looking pleadingly at
Luzi, and to common surprise she calms down almost immediately and even
manages to force a little smile on her lips. "But I guess I should be
grateful, for if you hadn`t existed, Judas probably would never have come
to me." She throws Judas an amorous look, but he keeps his head turned away
a thoughtful expression on his face.
"But I still don`t understand, what did I have to do with this?" Olivia`s
eyes wander from Jesus` skyblue to Luzui`s abysses of blackness.
"Let`s put it this way." Luzi sais a wicked gleam in her eyes. "Someone was
jealous."
A strained silence grows, then Olivia clears her throat. "So, it`s true."
She looks at Judas. "Judas was jealous towards Mary." Her shoulders sink
down and she looks like can`t supppress the tears anylonger.
Luzi gazes pitilessly at her. "That`s what you say." Olivia turns to Judas.
"So you and Jesus were more than....friends?" she asks quietly.
"What?" Judas looks up surprised, trying to slip of the thoughts taht have
been occupying his mind, and nodds absentminded.. "O Yes we were more than
friends." Olivia`s attempt to smile fails miserably "I`m sorry," she
murmurs stepping back. "I don`t want to be in your way.."
"What do you mean?" Jduas frowns, then a spark of understandking makes his
eyes gleam mischieviously. "You think Jesus and me were more than friends?"
he laughs loudly.
"you said, you were.
"Of course we were more than friends." Judas smiles warmly at her. "But not
that more."
He sighs. "We were a family. We all admired him, we shared his ideals, we
cared for each other, and he cared for us, but then," a hard expression
appears in his eyes. "then he began to care for only himself."
"That`s not true, Judas." Jesus protests halfhearted.
Judas turns to him and pierces him with dark eyes. "No?"
He starts circkling him like a beast of prey waiting for his bait to move,
but Jesus stands like frozen to the ground, and so he stops before him
throwing his hands into the air. "I adored you, Jesus. I would have done
anything for you."
"Like betray him?" Simon sais sahrply, but noone takes notice.
"Jesus, your message, your ideals why did you let them down? Why did you
let ita ll slip away?" Judas eyes look questioningly at Jesus, for once
every signo of irony washed away from them.
"It wasn`t my idea." Jesus replies rather helplessly. "It was his plan." He
points at God, who frowns as if he didn`t remember when exactly he made up
this plan to kill his own son, the one he loved most to save a race that
didn`t even believe in his existance, or at least that didn`t act as if it
did.
EVERYTIME I LOOK AT YOU I DON`T UDNERSTAND WHY YOU LET THE THINGS YOU DID GET SO OUT OF HAND? YOU`D HAVE MANAGED BETTER IF YOU`D HAD IT PLANNED: He turns round to Olivia. "Do you wanna know what was his mistake?" he asks and when Olivia nodds he continues. WHY DID HE CHOOS SUCH A BACKWARD TIME AND SUCH A STRANGE LAND? IF HE`D COME TODAY HE WOULD REACH THE WHOLE NATION ISRAEL IN $ BC HAD NO MASS COMMUNICATION
"Hey, what do you want to imply?" Jesus face reddens clearly. "I don`t know. Tell me, Jesus." Jduas replies his glance firmly. "Is this a quiz? Well, then I`ll have a go. It was about ....finding a way to erase the Romans and their language?" Simon sais and when everyone stays silent, his blue eyes beam excited. "Was this right? Have I won? What do I get?" "How about another pair of braincells." Judas murmurs dryly. "Judas, you know the message, you know what Jesus wanted." Peter sais in his calm and low voice. Judas turns around his lips curling into a bitter smirk. "Do I? Ah yes, I know what he said and what we all used to believe. Love each other as you love yourself, and all that stuff." He gives a little laugh. "It turned out he loved himself a little more than other people." "How can you say that? You´re very wrong. How can you say that?" Jesus sais outraged. "Yes, how can you say that. He died for all of us." Olivia touiches Judas arm appeasingly; he stars at her sinisterly and tears himself apart. "How do you want to know, if he did it for all of us? You don`t even remember him telling everyone he was the true king of the Jews, you don`t remember him teasing the highpriests telling them all their studies were for nothing and he alonde had the ultimate answer to all questions; you don`t remember him saying he would defeat the Romans all by himself." He looks mockingly at Jesus. "Who would have known that you meant to defeat them by dying?" Jesus blue eyes flash angrily. "Don´t wast your sarcasm on me, Judas! Not after what you have done, you betrayed me!!" he screams hysterically. Judas replies his gaze dark flames dancing in his eyes. "I didn`t betray you more than you betrayed me, your friends, your ideals. Your ideals - but it never was about your ideals, was it? This wasn`t about saving your people or about building a new world founded on respect, this was all about masses cheer at you and crown you king, all about your ego, your glory, your power. Dying young would make you live forever in the memory. Everlasting glory, the superstar of all superstars, that`s what it was all about." He turns to Olivia, graps her arm and swings her roujnd forcing her to face Jesus. "Look at him, look at your messiah, that`s what it was about. Eternal glory, nothing else. He sacrificed everything, his friends, you." Seeing her eyes widened in shock he lets go of her and turns to Jesus. "So you better don`t call me a betrayer again!"
EVERYTIME I LOOK AT YOU I DON`T UDNERSTAND WHY YOU LET THE THINGS YOU DID GET SO OUT OF HAND? YOU`D HAVE MANAGED BETTER IF YOU`D HAD IT PLANNED: He turns round to Olivia. "Do you wanna know what was his mistake?" he asks and when Olivia nodds he continues. WHY DID HE CHOOS SUCH A BACKWARD TIME AND SUCH A STRANGE LAND? IF HE`D COME TODAY HE WOULD REACH THE WHOLE NATION ISRAEL IN $ BC HAD NO MASS COMMUNICATION
"Hey, what do you want to imply?" Jesus face reddens clearly. "I don`t know. Tell me, Jesus." Jduas replies his glance firmly. "Is this a quiz? Well, then I`ll have a go. It was about ....finding a way to erase the Romans and their language?" Simon sais and when everyone stays silent, his blue eyes beam excited. "Was this right? Have I won? What do I get?" "How about another pair of braincells." Judas murmurs dryly. "Judas, you know the message, you know what Jesus wanted." Peter sais in his calm and low voice. Judas turns around his lips curling into a bitter smirk. "Do I? Ah yes, I know what he said and what we all used to believe. Love each other as you love yourself, and all that stuff." He gives a little laugh. "It turned out he loved himself a little more than other people." "How can you say that? You´re very wrong. How can you say that?" Jesus sais outraged. "Yes, how can you say that. He died for all of us." Olivia touiches Judas arm appeasingly; he stars at her sinisterly and tears himself apart. "How do you want to know, if he did it for all of us? You don`t even remember him telling everyone he was the true king of the Jews, you don`t remember him teasing the highpriests telling them all their studies were for nothing and he alonde had the ultimate answer to all questions; you don`t remember him saying he would defeat the Romans all by himself." He looks mockingly at Jesus. "Who would have known that you meant to defeat them by dying?" Jesus blue eyes flash angrily. "Don´t wast your sarcasm on me, Judas! Not after what you have done, you betrayed me!!" he screams hysterically. Judas replies his gaze dark flames dancing in his eyes. "I didn`t betray you more than you betrayed me, your friends, your ideals. Your ideals - but it never was about your ideals, was it? This wasn`t about saving your people or about building a new world founded on respect, this was all about masses cheer at you and crown you king, all about your ego, your glory, your power. Dying young would make you live forever in the memory. Everlasting glory, the superstar of all superstars, that`s what it was all about." He turns to Olivia, graps her arm and swings her roujnd forcing her to face Jesus. "Look at him, look at your messiah, that`s what it was about. Eternal glory, nothing else. He sacrificed everything, his friends, you." Seeing her eyes widened in shock he lets go of her and turns to Jesus. "So you better don`t call me a betrayer again!"