Away from Her Page #19

wouldn’t think they’d leave

valuable books lying around in the

rooms. The people staying here are

not necessarily honest. And I think

they’ve got the clothes mixed up. I

never wear yellow.

She runs her fingers over the book tenderly.

FIONA:

I seem to remember you reading this

to me. You were trying to make me

feel better. You tried so hard.

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FIONA (cont'd)

You’re a lovely man you know. I’m a

very lucky woman.

GRANT:

Fiona...

FIONA:

You’ve been gone a long time. Are

we all checked out now?

Grant is very thrown. He doesn’t know how to respond to all

this. Decides he shouldn’t. He inhales and continues.

GRANT:

Fiona, I’ve brought a surprise for

you. Do you remember Aubrey?

She stares at him for a moment, as if waves of wind have come

beating into her face. Into her face, into her head, pulling

everything to rags.

FIONA:

Names elude me.

The look passes, as she retrieves, with an effort, some

bantering grace. She sets down the book carefully and stands

up. She lifts her arms to put them around him. He holds her,

astonished. Settles into the embrace. She pulls his earlobes.

FIONA:

I’m happy to see you.

She smiles, smells his shirt.

FIONA:

You could have just driven away.

Just driven away without a care in

the world and forsook me. Forsooken

me. Forsaken.

He keeps his face against her white hair, her pink scalp, her

sweetly shaped skull. With tears in his eyes he says:

GRANT:

Not a chance.

Kristy opens the door slightly, and sees them embracing.

She’s amazed. She looks back at Aubrey, offscreen. Only his

feet are visible through the doorway.

Fiona and Grant hold each other like they’ll never let go.

We hear k.d. Lang’s version of “Helpless.”

105.

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EXT LAKE -DAY 188

We race backwards over ski tracks in the snow. They go on and

on and on until they melt and dissolve into:

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EXT PIER - 1961 -MORNING 189

GRANT’s MEMORY: Fiona at 18, looks at us. Smiling. Full of

life. She turns away from us.

FADE TO WHITE.

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