Time Period: A Flashback-Gabriel's 25th birthday
Place: The Ballroom
Situation: Gabriel's birthday party
Action: Gabriel is dancing with Mary
Mary: Happy birthday, Gabe
Gabriel: Thanks, mother
Mary (choked up): You were born prematurely on this night twenty five years ago. Its a miracle that you are alive.
Gabriel: God has been good to us
Mary (crying): I apologize about the situation with your father. I should've told you about the rape earlier. It was all my fault that you and Francis are estranged. I miss the days when we used to live together and attend the same church.
Gabriel (choked up): I forgive you mother
Mary: I am happy that you decided to come home for your birthday. James and Ana love spending time with their older brother. Although Francis won't say it loud, he is happy that you are home.
Gabriel: I thank you for welcoming me back home
Mary (emotional, she hugs and kisses Gabriel): I love you
Gabriel: I love you too
Time Period: A Flashback
Scene: On the roof of Mary and Francis' castle
Action: Depressed, Gabriel gazes upon the kingdom. A teenage James teases and annoys him as usual.
James: My father is sick. He is knocking on death's door. He will have to choose a successor soon.
Gabriel: We share the same father. Remember?
James: I recall your father is elsewhere. He violated my mother.
Gabriel (walking away from James): I have no time for your criticism
James (following behind Gabriel): You were born outside my parents' union. You have no claim to the throne. I am the rightful heir.
Gabriel (closing the door on James): Goodbye, little brother
Scenario: After a huge fight with James over his paternity, Gabe returns to the palace after being gone for a long time
Mary (crying, she runs into Gabe's arms): Gabriel!
James (annoyed): Here we go again!
Gabriel (ignoring James): Hello, mom
Mary: Your absence almost killed me
Gabriel (touching Mary's cheek): I apologize for keeping you waiting
James (separating Mary and Gabe): That's enough for now
(Gabe hugs and kisses his mother goodbye once again. Mary's heart breaks with every step that he takes away from her.)
Place: The Palace-A Bedroom-Francis' Deathbed
Situation: Francis' Death
Action: Sickly, Francis rests on his deathbed surrounded by love. His affliction is brain cancer.
Mary (crying, she squeezes Francis' hand): I love you
Francis: I love you too
Mary: You live forever in my dreams
Francis: I have lost my battle against this illness. Time is up for me. You need to accept reality.
A teenage James: You could have changed your fate, but you choose not to
Francis: Love is surely a gift of sacrifice
A teenage Anna (sobbing): Daddy, please don't leave me
Francis (choked up): I had a long fulfilling life. Let me go please.
Lola (rests a hand on Mary's shoulder): Let him go
Mary (angry, she removes Lola's hand): I will not let him go
Francis (to Bash): Watch over Lola, Mary and our children
Bash (choked up):You always had a choice. Why did you have to choose this difficult path?
Francis: My future and fate were already predestined
A fully grown Gabriel (enters the room): I received the message
Francis (reaching out to Gabriel): Gabe, you came just in enough time to say goodbye
Gabriel (hysterical): Please stop this madness. I can't bear the pain.
Francis: You will get used to my absence with time
Gabriel: No, I won't
Francis (hyperventilating): I love you
Gabriel (holding Francis' hand): I am not of your flesh and blood. How could you possibly love me?
Francis (still losing breath): As I lay dying, I have seen the light and embraced the truth. You are my son. Your life is a gift that is a miracle. I apologize if I caused you pain.
Gabriel: I am proud to call you father. All is forgiven between us.
(Francis closes his eyes and the world stops to mourn his death)
Time Period: After Francis' death
Place: The Throne room
King James (sitting on his throne, he yells at Gabriel): I am the king! Bow down to me!
Gabriel: I am here to speak with mother
James: You can't talk to her until you bow down
Gabriel (looking at Mary who is sitting next to James): How long will you stand James' foolishness?
Mary: Please bow down
Gabriel: But we are family
James (calling the guards on Gabriel): Guards! Please take this disgrace away!
(Quickly, guards come and take Gabriel away. Something stirs deep inside Mary as if she knows she will suffer a great loss in the future.)
Place: The Royal Garden-Mary's Private sanctuary
Action: Gabriel and Mary have a nice long chat
Mary: I am sorry for whatever happened earlier
Gabriel: Its OK
Mary: Really?! I can hit the rewind button
Gabriel: Don't change anything for me
Mary: You matter a lot to me
Gabriel (admiring Lilies): Time is a joke
Mary: What did you want to tell me, honey?
(Anna, Lola, and John distract Mary before Gabriel can share his heart).
Time Period: A Flashback
Scenario: The night of Gabriel's suicide
Action: Mary and Gabriel are eating dinner together
Scene 1: The Dining Room
Gabriel (sitting down to eat): OH, what a lovely last supper!
Mary (confused): Last Supper?!
Gabriel: I meant passover
Mary: I hope you are not dying
Gabriel: Aren't we all born to die?
Mary: Yes, but we should enjoy life
Gabriel: Is there hope for those who think otherwise?
Mary: Maybe
Scene 2: After dinner-Mary's bedroom
Action: Unnoticeably, a disorientated Gabriel watches his mother sleep
Gabriel (kissing Mary's forehead): Love you
Mary (mumbling in her sleep): Gabriel
Nostradamus (standing in the doorway): Are you sure you want to do this?
Gabriel (strapping on his rifle): Yes
(Under the watchful eye of Nostradamus, Gabriel commits suicide in the royal garden.)
Scenario: A murder suicide
Action: A loud gunshot jolts Mary awake at nighttime. Still in her sleeping attire, Mary runs outside.
She follows a trail of blood to the royal garden. Lola, John, Anna, James, Bash, and Nostradamus are standing around Gabriel's wounded dead body.
Mary (shocked, she falls to her knees): What happened?
Lola (helps Mary to her feet): Gabriel was shot
Mary (cradling Gabriel): Who killed my son?
James: Why does it matter?
Mary (hysterical, she shakes James): You killed your brother!
James: No, I didn't
Mary (Slapping James): I don't believe you
James (emotional): Mom..
Anna (comforting James): I believe you
Bash: He never stood a chance
John: God help him
Mary (desperate): Who on earth could've killed my son?
Nostradamus: Gabriel killed himself
Mary (yelling): Suicide. My son would do no such thing
Nostradamus: The signs were right in front of you
Mary: How I could've known what would happen?
Time Period: The Present Reality
Scenario: The Day of Gabriel's Funeral
Scene1: A Banquet Hall
Event: Mary's tea Time (Usually has it with Gabriel in the morning)
Bash (approaching Mary): I have two things to discuss with you
Mary: What is the first thing?
Bash (sitting down at the table): I have a note for you from Elizabeth
Mary (fighting back tears as she reads the letter): I pray God may strengthen you during this difficult time of great loss Elizabeth
Bash (squeezing Mary's hand): Why are you crying?
Mary (emotional): Elizabeth has shown compassion toward me
Bash: You and Elizabeth should have a tea party
Mary: Its not that easy
Bash: I have checked all of the evidence. Nobody murdered your son. Gabriel killed himself.
(Inconsolable, Mary runs out of the banquet hall. She visits Gabriel's little cottage in the woods where she has a complete breakdown. It is by God's grace that she tends the funeral.)
Time Period: The Present Reality
Place: Gabriel's Gravesite
Mary (talking to Gabriel's spirit): I miss you. You should've talked to me.
Gabriel's spirit (approaching Mary): I never had a chance
Mary: You were born prematurely. You died prematurely. That's so strange.
Time Period: The Present Reality
Place: The Dinning Room
Scenario: Dinner
James: Gabe killed himself because he didn't have any claim to the throne
Mary: His issues were deeper than that. He died of a broken heart.
James: I never knew he felt that way