311. The Morning After - Leslie

• FADE IN:


• INT. CATHEDRAL - MORNING


• ADA lies in a dark patch under a massive Rosetta the Cathedral wall.


• Colored sunlight recreates the pattern on the dusty floor.


• She wakes up with a start, her eyes popping open as she grabs her neck in panic.


• Two livid bites mark her neck.


• She looks around but sees no one.


• Slowly moving to her feet, she cautiously walks into the patch of light streaming from the stained glass.


• Her skin sizzles and she screams running out of the sunlight into the shadows.


• She looks at her arms as the burned skin smooths, healing.


• Ada looks around, then runs through the pew to the font of holy water in the back of the room.


• She looks down into the water.


• Her face is pale and when she opens her mouth, two fangs curve almost delicately where her incisors once sat.


• She backs away from the image in shock, stumbling into a pillar.


• Taking a deep breath, Ada tries not to panic.


• She goes back to the water and takes a second look, trying to slow her breathing.


• She pulls her hair back and slowly bares her fangs.


• Despite herself, she smiles a bit, almost shyly at first, then with a hint of pleasure.


• The flash of deviance frightens her and unexpectedly, a dark, red tear forms in the corner of her eye and falls into the font, creating red trails that radiate down into the water.


• She backs away and retreats to a windowless grotto.


• The door of the church opens and a young priest walks in.


• Instinctively, Ada licks her lips hungrily.


• She stops in the middle of the motion, realizing what she is doing.


• Horror seeps into her eyes.


• She blinks away more tears and interlaces her fingers tightly.


• Then without another thought, she dives into the sunlight.


• She screams as her skin bubbles and then she explodes in a fine mist of ash which falls gently through the colored sun beams.


• The priest stares in horror, staggers backwards before racing out the door, leaving the ash to fall gently like flakes of gray snow, onto the hard floor.


• FADE TO BLACK.