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Scene 21: The Gatehouse. The baby is on a makeshift alter. Thelma is standing next to Ella on the far side of the altar.

Thelma: I hear footsteps! They're coming!

Ella: Then make yourself scarce, Azazeal must not suspect that this is a setup!

Thelma: good luck! (She hides behind a curtain)

Azazeal: (As he enters the gatehouse) Leave my son alone. You've no idea what you're doing or who you're dealing with, girl.

Ella: I do, I'm restoring the natural order of the universe. (she starts a chant in a foreign language)

Cassie: Azazeal! Do something! Save our son! Please!

Azazeal: (Ella raises a short dagger over the baby, while continuing her chant. Azazeal continues towards her) Ella, stop what you're doing. You're murdering an innocent child. (Cassie takes a larger dagger and slices her hand so some of her blood is on the blade. She quietly creeps up behind Azazeal) He is not the key to stopping the Nephilim and you know it.

Cassie: We both know he's not (Azazeal whips around and as he does, she stabs him up through the heart with the blade.)

Azazeal: What have you done? (he staggers backwards and falls.)

Cassie: What you deserve. This is for Thelma, and for everyone else who lost their lives because of you.

Azazeal: But I loved you Cassie. And I know you loved me too.

Cassie: What can I say, things change.

Azazeal: (as he dies) Take care of him. (he turns to dust and disappears in a flash of light)

Cassie: Is he gone?

Ella: Yes, he is. (The baby cries) Come take your son.

Cassie: (walks over and picks up the baby) Where's Thelma? Thelma? Thelma! You did perform both rituals together right?

Ella: Yes, she should still be here.

Cassie: THELMA!

Thelma: (Emerging from behind the curtain) What? What's the matter?

Cassie: I was afraid that you'd been taken away when Azazeal died.

Thelma: Nope, I just got tangled up. Is it over?

Cassie: I hope so.

Ella: Yes, we're done.

Cassie: So the Nephilim have been sent back into the abyss.

Ella: They have.

Thelma: And Azazeal?

Ella: He's gone forever.

Cassie: Good. Maybe now I can get on with my life?

Thelma: I'd say so. (Goes to put her had on Cassie's shoulder and is shocked that she can actually touch her). What the . . .?

Cassie: How is that possible?

Ella: That ritual you found was not the one I thought would be best for you, so I found a better one.

Thelma: (puts a hand on her heart) I'm alive again?

Ella: Mmhmm. The incantation I performed was one to restore the damage Azazeal had done to Cassie.

Cassie: But Cade is still here. Some might say he was part of the damage.

Ella: Yes, but he was conceived in love and that can never be seen as damage.

Thelma: Ella, thank you.

Ella: Well, It's time both of you got on with your lives. Let's get out of here.

Cassie: (as they're leaving the gatehouse)You know what this means now Thelma?

Thelma: What?

Cassie: If you continue to eat the way you have over the last few months you're going to have to start to go to the gym.

Thelma: The downside to being alive. But it's a downside I'll take with open arms. Now had over my godson! I've been dying to hold this little one. (Cassie hands the baby over to Thelma and puts an arm around Thelma's shoulders. After they get a distance away from the gatehouse, Cassie turns around and uses her powers to shut the door on the gatehouse)