INT. LEXCORP PLANT – MEDICAL INFIRMARY
Nora lies sleeping on a medical bed, a blanket pulled over her. She has looked better. Victor sits next to her, lovingly stroking her hair. He takes the thermometer from her mouth and looks at it.
NORA FRIES
I feel hot.
VICTOR FRIES
The fever has returned.
NORA FRIES
I'm sorry.
VICTOR FRIES
You are not to be sorry. There was nothing you could do. I had hoped it would not be as high, but these are things that were not meant to be.
NORA FRIES
Victor, I want to tell you something. I do not feel like I am going to die.
VICTOR FRIES
My love, I have told you, there is nothing I can...
She puts her hand on his face.
NORA FRIES
Listen to me, Victor, just listen to me. I am sick. I feel the fever. I have felt... ill for some time now, but... I do not feel like I am going to die.
She looks up at him.
NORA FRIES
You remember Annabelle...?
He winces, as if in pain, at the sound of that name.
VICTOR FRIES
With every breath.
NORA FRIES You are a doctor... a very good one. You know the joy of bringing life into this world. You know what it is like to save a life, but you are also a man. You can never know what it is like to carry a life inside of you, to feel it grow within your body. You can't know what it is to really feel the spark of life as it comes into existence, as nature and God join together to knit a little baby inside of you. In the same way, you can't know how it feels when that spark... disappears. It's there one second, and the next...
She shakes herself back into the moment.
NORA FRIES
It is not like pain. It is nothing like pain. It is not like burning your hand against a flame, more like a person who is cold, sitting in front of a fire for warmth, and then it goes out. There is sorrow. There is darkness. There is cold, but it is not pain. It is much worse. It is death. It is a horrible thing to feel.
VICTOR FRIES
Nora... My Nora.
NORA FRIES
I have felt them both, Victor. I have felt life and I have felt death. Now, I have been sick for a very long time, but it is important to me that you know, no matter what happens today, that I have never felt as if I was going to die, not once. There was never a single moment when that sense came over me again. I never once doubted that we could not beat this together.
Victor takes her hand and kisses it.
NORA FRIES
On the good days and the bad, when I felt refreshed and full of energy, and when I could not as much as stand up on my own, I was always strong in here...
She takes his hand and places it over her heart.
NORA FRIES
... because you were my strength. You are my life. You are my spark, my loving Victor.
VICTOR FRIES
And you are mine... my Nora.
He leans in and kisses her.
Nora lies sleeping on a medical bed, a blanket pulled over her. She has looked better. Victor sits next to her, lovingly stroking her hair. He takes the thermometer from her mouth and looks at it.
NORA FRIES
I feel hot.
VICTOR FRIES
The fever has returned.
NORA FRIES
I'm sorry.
VICTOR FRIES
You are not to be sorry. There was nothing you could do. I had hoped it would not be as high, but these are things that were not meant to be.
NORA FRIES
Victor, I want to tell you something. I do not feel like I am going to die.
VICTOR FRIES
My love, I have told you, there is nothing I can...
She puts her hand on his face.
NORA FRIES
Listen to me, Victor, just listen to me. I am sick. I feel the fever. I have felt... ill for some time now, but... I do not feel like I am going to die.
She looks up at him.
NORA FRIES
You remember Annabelle...?
He winces, as if in pain, at the sound of that name.
VICTOR FRIES
With every breath.
NORA FRIES You are a doctor... a very good one. You know the joy of bringing life into this world. You know what it is like to save a life, but you are also a man. You can never know what it is like to carry a life inside of you, to feel it grow within your body. You can't know what it is to really feel the spark of life as it comes into existence, as nature and God join together to knit a little baby inside of you. In the same way, you can't know how it feels when that spark... disappears. It's there one second, and the next...
She shakes herself back into the moment.
NORA FRIES
It is not like pain. It is nothing like pain. It is not like burning your hand against a flame, more like a person who is cold, sitting in front of a fire for warmth, and then it goes out. There is sorrow. There is darkness. There is cold, but it is not pain. It is much worse. It is death. It is a horrible thing to feel.
VICTOR FRIES
Nora... My Nora.
NORA FRIES
I have felt them both, Victor. I have felt life and I have felt death. Now, I have been sick for a very long time, but it is important to me that you know, no matter what happens today, that I have never felt as if I was going to die, not once. There was never a single moment when that sense came over me again. I never once doubted that we could not beat this together.
Victor takes her hand and kisses it.
NORA FRIES
On the good days and the bad, when I felt refreshed and full of energy, and when I could not as much as stand up on my own, I was always strong in here...
She takes his hand and places it over her heart.
NORA FRIES
... because you were my strength. You are my life. You are my spark, my loving Victor.
VICTOR FRIES
And you are mine... my Nora.
He leans in and kisses her.