SCENE TEN
ANOTHER ROOM IN THE PALACE
(The DOWAGER EMPRESS is at her desk. She smiles. DMITRY enters.)
DMITRY
Your Majesty.
(The DOWAGER EMPRESS gestures at the chair. DMITRY sits.)
DOWAGER EMPRESS
Dmitry, I sent for you because I owe you a debt of gratitude larger than I can ever repay.
DMITRY
No. Your Majesty, you --
DOWAGER EMPRESS
I want you to have the reward money. You've earned it.
(DMITRY leaps from his chair, exploding with emotion.)
DMITRY
Your Majesty, no! I will not take the money! I just came to tell you, I was sorry...
DOWAGER EMPRESS
Young man, I...
DMITRY
... and I'm going to keep my promise to stay out of your lives, forever.
DOWAGER EMPRESS
That last night in the palace... you showed us kindness and courage. Please, is there nothing I can do to repay you?
DMITRY
Promise me she'll have her home.
DOWAGER EMPRESS
She does.
DMITRY
And tell me that she's happy.
DOWAGER EMPRESS
Oh, Dmitri. I wish that I could.
DMITRY
Then that's all I ask.
(He gets up)
Farewell, Your Majesty.
(DMITRY gets up to leave. ANYA enters in a beautiful red gown. A butler follows her. They both stop in their tracks. ANYA at first stifles her first impulse but she then puts on a show of supreme confidence.)
ANYA
Dmitry.
DMITRY
Anya.
BUTLER
You will address the Grand Duchess Anastasia as Your Imperial Highness and bow before you speak.
ANYA
Please, it's alright Belvik.
DMITRI
Your Imperial Highness.
(DMITRY bows. An awkward silence.)
DMITRY (cont.)
I'm glad you found what you were looking for.
ANYA
I'm glad you did too.
(With nothing left to say, DMITRY starts to exit.)
ANYA (cont.)
Enjoy your fortune.
(DMITRY stops. He looks back at ANYA. He bows with his head. DMITRY exits. ANYA walks to her grandmother.)
DOWAGER EMPRESS
YOU ARE READING
Anastasia Revisioned
RomanceThis is kinda not(?) a fanfiction, but a retelling of a mashup of Disney and Broadway's Anastasia. In playwriting format. --- Anya, a girl suffering from amnesia, doesn't remember her past. Her only clue to it is to go to Paris. She teams up with tw...
