Twilight Breaking Dawn: Explore of the Vampires

6. Stealth

Reeling from the conversation with ALISTAIR, ORLA finds a tree with large thick branches in the forest. She climbs into the canopy and finds a place to sit, her back resting against the truck and her legs resting on a branch. She stares into the dark night.

Awhile later, BENJAMIN appears.

Benjamin: I'm interrupting.

Orla: Please, interrupt me. Sit. 

BENJAMIN goes so, so that he is sitting right-angled to ORLA.

Where's Tia?

Benjamin: Distracting Amun and Keba so that I might be able to hide for a short while.

Pause.

It's frustrating, having someone watching you all the time.

Orla: I know the feeling.

Benjamin: The little one, Maggie?

ORLA exhales. She nods, almost imperceptibly.

Orla: When I was bitten, screaming and roiling in pain...Maggie didn't need to come find me. She could've heard and run the opposite direction. I was frightened and alone, and then she appeared and took my hand and suddenly I felt...safer. I owe her for that.

Benjamin: You owe her the beginning. That does not mean you owe her the middle and the end.

ORLA considers this.

Orla: We have eternity, right? In theory. I want to use that eternity, every moment of it. I don't want to be stuck in between four walls...anywhere.

Benjamin: She'll come round to understanding that. It's just going to hurt her a little first.

Orla: I don't want to hurt her, Benjamin.

BENJAMIN places his hand on her knee. Just then ALISTAIR flies past. He smirks. ORLA frowns. BENJAMIN follows her gaze.

Benjamin: What was that about?

Orla: He accused me of being in love with you...which I am of course but I'm not going to tell him that. It's a deep rich friendship-love.

Benjamin: I suspect I also have fallen in friendship love with you.

Orla: It's only been a week but I wish always to know you, and Tia.

Benjamin: Agreed.

BENJAMIN looks in the direction of ALISTAIR.

He doesn't deserve you.

Orla: Yet. 

Pause. Suddenly, ORLA has decided and nods determinedly. She turns to BENJAMIN.

Love you, beautiful.

Benjamin: Love you.

In a fluid motion, ORLA drops to the ground and runs after ALISTAIR. She calls to him, calmly. 

Orla: What are you so afraid of?

ALISTAIR stops and turns.

Alistair: What?

Orla: I understand you are mistrustful. I understand it is your defence mechanism. You tell the people, who try to look too closely at you, all the horrible truths about themselves and hope they'll recoil.

Alistair: Look, you don't know me.

Orla: No, I don't.

Alistair: And you don't want to.

ALISTAIR gets close to her face, she doesn't blink.

You think how I am is just a cold exterior. But it goes through to my core. It's not what I want people to think, it's what I am.