Simon - Alex, please let me in. Alex, unbar the door...
Alex - Oh, Simon, there's no lock on my door as you know Come on Simon, it's not up to me stay or go!
Simon - Alex, the lock's on your mind and your heart. Please Alex, your word is the key - let me in Please Alex, I need just here you say...
[ Alex rolls her eyes... ]
Alex - All right, all right: Come in!
[ Simon enters with a flourish. ]
Simon - It's good to see you, Alex. If I scared you I didn't mean to, Alex Don't speak - you don't need to, Alex, let me say my peace
Alex - Would you like a drink? No, I don't suppose you do What do the others think of this new side of you? Mark my words - it's mirth, not fear, that you inspire You may be crazy, may be lonely, certainly not a Vampire!
Simon - Bring the crystal, Alex. But leave the Bristol, Alex I would whet my whistle... Mmm, on you!
Alex - Simon - SIMON! You can't resist! Yes I can. And I will! We exist just for the thrill! Talk like that will get you killed! Simon, don't act with me!
[ Alex slaps Simon hard and he goes sprawling. He is shaken. The scene begins to flip-flop between Alex and Simon, and Rose and Carmine. ]
Carmine - I said I would believe Simon - I said you would believe Rose - You said you would believe Alex - You said I would believe?
[ Rose is making her move on Carmine, removing his clothing and her own. ]
Carmine - My every bone is shaking, Rose, what do you intend to do?
Rose - Bow before your Goddess: Down on your knees with you! No more talk of Heaven: Tonight you burn in Hell!
Carmine - But if God is watching, Rose,...
Rose - That's just as well! Stay, God, sit and watch awhile: You might learn a thing or two! Go on: Call Him, beg Him, plead Him with your voice! Then whisper softly to me, unlike God I might respond! It's either him or me, Carmine, make the choice...!
[ Back to Alex's room... ]
Simon - Had you remained, my love, and joined in our repose, You'd apprehend my intent for their craven souls The desperate confusion tangled in their stare Was the fusion of wanting and despair Swollen with fore-tasted nectar I turned them on to my confidence Carmine's cherry red began to flow Then, unsettled by the sapid feast, they praised me with their curses And exalted in my dark gift of love!
And as if their blood wasn't enough, now I have come for you, my love!
[ Alex, timeless, in soliloquy. Simon, Rose, and Carmine, lost in their passion, like lambs to the slaughter. ]
Alex - Simon, Rose & Carmine - Eve and the serpent come to mind What a relief not to see your own reflection! I've wandered this garden a thousand times To know your own beauty, to not need a measure! The choice with which they're faced The image before was is forever the same an ego's confection! Yet they eat from my anemic tree The absence you see is again and again! the freedom you treasure!
[ The two scenes in parallel: ] Simon - Alex, it's time to decide! Rose- Carmine, It's time to decide! Alex - There is something true to what you say! Carmine- There's something true to what you say! Simon - Alex, please give me your all! Rose- Carmine, please give me your all! Alex - But the decision has been made! Carmine- But the decision has been made!
Alex - Now you have come for me my love! Carmine - Now you have come for me my love!
Simon - Now I have come for you my love! Rose - Now I have come for you my love!
Alex - Now you have come for you your love! Carmine - Now you have come for you your love!