Chapter Nine

Toulouse: I know she still loves him... there's got to be a reason...

Argentinean: How 'bout one of them is a duke and the other (he falls asleep)

Toulouse: Something's wrong...

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(Piper is coughing)
Prue: A bit more for me lovey, there you go...

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Warner: The boy is here...

Morris: I told Satine that if Leo were to come near her he would be killed!

Warner: He very soon will be...

Toulouse: He will be killed... that's it! That's why she's pushing him away - to save him! That's it, that's it! LeO! Oh god this is high up!

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(Leo appears at the door to Piper's dressing room)
Leo: I've come to pay my bill.

Piper: You shouldn't be here Leo. Just leave.

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Toulouse: Be killed, killed... killed! I must warn him!

Leo: You made me believe that you loved me! Why shouldn't I pay you?

Piper: Please...

Prue: She's got to get on the stage!

Morris: Jealousy has driven the sitar player into hiding!

Leo: If it's you job, you did it very, very well... Why can't I pay you like everyone else does?

Piper: Leo, it's nothing just leave...

Morris: But I have found him!

Piper: (sees Warner with a gun) Go. Please go...

Leo: But if it wasn't real...

Piper: Go...

Leo: Why can't I pay you?

Toulouse: Leo! Leo!

Morris: Open the doors!

Leo: Let me pay! Let me pay!

Morris: Open the doors!

Leo: Tell me it wasn't real! Tell me you don't love me!

Morris: Open the doors!

Leo: Tell me you don't love me! Tell me you don't love me!
(the doors open, leaving Leo and Piper exposed to the audience)

Morris: Ha Ha Ha! I am not fooled! Though he has shaved off his beard and adopts a disguise, mine eyes do not lie! For it is he! The same, penniless sitar player! Driven mad by jealousy!

Leo: This woman is yours now. I've paid my whore. I owe you nothing. And you are nothing to me. Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with love.
(Leo walks down the aisle of the theatre)

Toulouse: I can't remember my line!

Morris: This sitar player doesn't love you! See, he flees the kingdom! (to Piper) Pumpkin, it's for the best. You know it is. The show must go on. (to Audience) And now my bride, it is time for you to raise your voice to the heavens and say your wedding vows!

Toulouse: I've got it! I've got it! Leo, stoooooooooopppppp! The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return!

Piper: Never knew
I could feel like this
Like I've never seen the sky before
Want to vanish inside your kiss
Every day I'm loving you more and more
Listen to my heart
Can you hear it sing
Come back to me
And forgive everything
(she gasps)
Seasons may change, winter to spring
(whispers) But I love you
(sings) til the end of time

Leo: Come what may
Come what may
Come what may
Come what may
I will love you

Piper: I will love you

Leo: Until my dying day
Piper: Dying day

Both: Come what may

Leo: Come what may

Piper: Come what may

Both: I will love you until my dying...

Toulouse: (spoken) Leo! He's got a gun! They're trying to kill you!

Morris: (spoken) Shut up!

Toulouse: (spoken) Look, he's got a gun!

Doctor:Vive la vie la boheme!
(utter chaos on stage - Argentinean wakes up and bursts through the doors)

Argentinean: No problem! Go back to work!

Cast: No matter what you say, you shouldn't stand in our way. You've got to stand your ground! For Freedom, Beauty, Truth and Love! Children of the Revolution...

Piper: I'll fly away

Leo: My gift is my song...

Cast: No, you won't fool the Children of the Revolution (repeated)

Piper: I'll fly away

Leo: My gift is my song!

Cast: Come what may

Leo and Piper: I will love you!

Cast: Come what may

Leo and Piper: Yes, I will love you!

Cast: Come what may

Leo and Piper: I will love you until my dying

(Dan picks up the gun which has somehow ended up in the aisle of the theatre. He points his gun at the lovers)
Dan:(spoken)My way! My way! (Morris punches him and he falls to the ground)

Leo and Piper: day!

(audience applauds and cheers)
Man: Stand by for curtain call! Dancers positions please!

(Piper coughs and wheezes)
Leo: Piper! (she coughs more) Piper... Tell me, tell me, what's the matter? tell me... Piper.. what's the matter? God... oh my god! SOMEONE GET SOME HELP!

Morris: Fetch the doctor.

Piper: I'm sorry Leo. I... I... I... I'm dying

Leo: Shhh...

Piper: I'm so sorry.

Leo: You'll be all right. You'll be all right. All right...

Piper: I'm cold... I'm cold... cold... Hold me... You've got to go on Leo.

Leo: Can't go on without you though...

Piper: You've got so much... to give. Tell our story, Leo.

Leo: No...

Piper: Yes, yes... Promise me, promise me...

Leo: Yes

Piper: I will... I'll always be with you...
(she dies. Leo starts to sob)

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Toulouse sings: There was a boy... a very strange enchanted boy...

Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months and then - one not-so-very-special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. A story about a time. A story about a place. A story about the people. But above all things a story about love. A love that will live forvever. The End.

Singing: The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love in return...

THE END