VINCENT//

/casts resurrection.

VINCENT//

I see you're not going to Cedric's gathering tonight. Any particular reason why?

GEORGE HENRY//

Just don't feel like it.

VINCENT//

'Don't feel like it'?

Don't lie to me.

MYRTLE//

I thought you liked their get-togethers.

GEORGE HENRY//

I do.

VINCENT//

You're crippling the party by leaving them alone.

Or worse yet, they'll control your character.

GEORGE HENRY//

Worse things have happened.

VINCENT//

What's on your mind?

GEORGE HENRY//

I just wanted to be home when Summer gets off from work. It's supposed to be a stressful day for her today.

VINCENT//

You can never truly be with her.

GEORGE HENRY//

I know that, Master. My brain knows it but my heart doesn't.

VINCENT//

Enough of this meat-speak. You are an eternal and she is a mortal.

GEORGE HENRY//

I know this. But I can't help myself.

I've never felt this way before.

VINCENT//

Tell me you aren't thinking of breaking the Masquerade.

GEORGE HENRY//

I don't know what I'm thinking.

VINCENT//

You will not break our vow of secrecy.

I'll not have one of mine be the guilty party.

MYRTLE//

Oh, Vincent. We made it through.

VINCENT//

We did, dear wife. But things were different for us.

MYRTLE//

I was mortal and yet you still loved me.

VINCENT//

You were not, are not, ordinary.

And it is not his feelings I doubt.

MYRTLE//

She always seemed like a nice girl to me.

VINCENT//

Nice has nothing to do with it. When I began to court a witch, even one not connected to a founding family, I had little reason to believe she'd run to the police.

We have no such insurance here. If she fears you, she'll only run to the authorities.

MYRTLE//

She met the Count and didn't run in terror.

VINCENT//

Straud carries himself well. He doesn't walk into a room declaring himself an immortal.

MYRTLE//

But when you meet him, you immediately know there's something different about him, even if you cannot put your finger on it.

VINCENT//

That's not the same and you know it.

I hope you're not thinking of converting her.

GEORGE HENRY//

Let sleeping dogs lie.

VINCENT//

And let those risen keep vigil at their bedside.

Your feelings for her will fade with time. Keep her beautiful and enjoy the view from afar. It is our way.

MYRTLE//

His feelings may not fade with time. Mine haven't.

VINCENT//

She will be most lovely if you let her alone in her natural habitat.

You love what she is but you may not love what she'd become.

MYRTLE//

He doesn't have to turn her.

VINCENT//

That is the progression of things. If you show her your true face, you'll become invested in a way you aren't today. You'll think preserving her for yourself into eternity is an adequate tradeoff for spoiling her with the curse but don't be fooled by the Devil's choice.

It is selfishly you make the decision.

MYRTLE//

And yet by adhering to your exclusionary creed, you deny eternal life to someone you could save from damnation.

Someone you claim to love!

VINCENT//

Do you fault me for never turning you, fair wife?

MYRTLE//

I suspect my natural vertices would have stopped the curse from ever taking hold.

VINCENT//

But we never tried.

MYRTLE//

I don't think I ever wanted it.

Not that I ever really considered it. I was taught that time on Earth was fleeting, ephemeral. I never got used to thinking it wasn't.

VINCENT//

And what if you consider it now?

MYRTLE//

I have my regrets but I'm not so sure I could have done anything different.

What I wouldn't do for a flesh and blood body, but then I wouldn't be flesh or blood, would I? I'd have been cursed to undeath.

VINCENT//

Maybe if you'd had more help researching your potion.

MYRTLE//

It is of no matter. Would my potion have saved me from Agnes?

VINCENT//

Only we could have done that.

VINCENT//

/casts sleep.