Beautiful Creatures Page #6

Maybe I was just unloved.

Ugh. I did the best I could.

And look at what I am now.

Oh, that's right, blame the mother.

You think Lena is a good girl now,

but it won't matter.

Even if her true nature doesn't claim her

for the Dark, the curse will.

It's already started.

- I'm warning you.

- What curse?

- Pay no mind to her lies.

- You know it's true.

Ah! AW.

Look at my manners.

Here, honey. Let me serve you.

Get away from him!

Oh, really, coz?

Lena, will you stop this?

Stop it!

[RIDLEY LAUGHS]

RIDLEY:

Oh, just another good girl gone bad, I guess.

GRAMMA:

Lena, child, there's no need for this.

Will you stop this immediately?

Breaking windows on poor,

helpless little mortals.

She's already closer to the Dark than I was!

- You know that's a lie!

- I want you out of here.

[RIDLEY LAUGHS]

GRAMMA:

Ridley, don't make me get up from this table!

[DISHES RATTLING AND BREAKING]

I am so sick of everyone treating you

like you're something special!

There's nothing special about you!

Go on, you tell her, Macon!

You know how she will be Claimed!

I said, get away from my boyfriend,

you witch.

[SCREAMS]

GRAMMA:

Oh.

LARKIN:

Oh, Lord.

Boyfriend, huh? Heh.

Is he gonna be all right?

GRAMMA:

He'll be fine.

What curse was Ridley talking about?

Ridley was just telling stories

to get your rage going, to lose control.

You mustn't let her.

Larkin, help me take him to my room.

Oh. He Will. Heh.

Sitting there eating through a Caster combat

like you're two sandwiches shy of a picnic.

LARKIN:
Better be a sandwich

when I get back. I'm still hungry.

Did you see the way she looks at the boy?

There's no getting in-between them now.

Then it has begun.

ETHAN:

Hey, there.

How do you feel?

Like I was in a tornado inside a dining room.

No big deal.

I'm so sorry about Ridley.

I didn't know she was back.

Yeah. She's sort of a b*tch, isn't she?

She's a siren.

She can make mortals see,

think or do whatever she wants...

...especially men.

Isn't that, like, the working definition

of a b*tch?

[LENA CHUCKLES]

She wasn't always like that.

We were like sisters. You know?

Traveled together so much

we shared the same suitcase.

Did homework, watched Disney.

We were just kids.

The night Ridley turned 16, she ran away.

She said she could feel herself turning Dark.

She said she had to get away

before she hurt anybody she loved.

Before she hurt me.

I followed her.

Then it happened.

[GASPS]

[MEN CHATTERING AND

LAUGHING NEARBY]

MAN 1:
That was better.

MAN 2:
That's what I'm talking about!

MAN 3:

Guys, hold up a second.

No, I gotta go. I gotta go. Hold on.

LENA".

I saw it all.

She loved me.

I know it.

It's not fair what happened to her.

And the same thing could happen to me.

It won't.

Did you see me tonight?

I can't control myself.

Lena, I don't believe that we have

one fate and no choice.

We make our own lives.

ETHAN:

Two, please. Thank you. This is Lena. Lena.

MAN:
Hi, Lena.

LENA:
Hi.

- Here, I gotta give you the money, heh.

- Heh.

MAN:
Let me get your change.

- Thanks.

MAN:

There you go.

ETHAN:
You good? Your kids are good?

MAN:
Oh, yeah.

ETHAN:

Good.

GIRL:

You got the tickets?

Hi.

BOY:

Get a load of this.

[EMILY CHUCKLES]

You know, maybe you have Ethan fooled,

but not me.

Oh, shucks.

Ahem. Uh, Chill, girl. Chill, chill.

[ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]

EMILY:
See the look on her face?

- Ha, ha.

EMILY:

I see right through her.

Hi. Just, uh-- Just one, please.

MAN:

Alrighty.

There you go.

Do not let them bother you, okay?

[FILM CHARACTERS

SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

MAN [ON SCREEN]:
Yeah, I've been up

since 5. Feeling pretty good, though.

Heh. You want Milk Duds?

LENA:

What do you put them in your pocket for?

I have to hide some for myself,

because Link never shares.

MAN [ON SCREEN]:

All right. I mean, I've been doing better...

Oh. I'm so sorry. I didn't realize I had that.

No, it's okay.

I wanna see.

WOMAN [ON SCREEN]:

Be right there.

MAN:

Yeah, whatever you can find!

There's gold in there, and silver, get it all!

[WOMAN SCREAMS]

GENEVIEVE:
Oh, my God!

ETHAN CARTER:
Genevieve!

GENEVIEVE:

Ethan!

[ETHAN CARTER YELLS]

GENEVIEVE:

Ethan.

Don't you dare. Okay, don't you dare

go anywhere.

Don't you dare, Ethan Carter Wate!

[SOBBING]

Come back. Wait, Ethan.

Body of my body, marrow and mind...

...soul of my soul, to our spirit bind...

...blood of my heart, my tide, my moon...

...blood of my heart, my salvation, my doom!

Genevieve.

Was I shot?

What happened to your eyes?

[GRUNTING]

Form up, COMPANY!

At the ready!

Fire!

SARAFINE:
Oh, my darling Lena,

do you see now how you must be Claimed?

We are the descendants of Genevieve.

Her Dark power is in our blood.

Oh, how I've missed you, my daughter.

Your mother, Sarafine,

has come home for you.

[LENA SHRIEKS]

[AUDIENCE MURMURING]

Guess Satan hates sequels too.

[AUDIENCE CHUCKLING]

AM MA:

It's over.

There is no more.

It's served its purpose.

[DOOR OPENS]

MACON:

Lena?

The curse began

with your great-great-great grandmother.

Genevieve Katherine Duchannes.

She had the temerity

to fall in love with a mortal...

...your ancestor, Ethan Carter Wate.

In 1864, he deserted.

Came home to his Genevieve.

But he was killed in front of her eyes,

by Union soldiers...

...who were ransacking Greenbrier

during the battle of Honey Hill.

And in her madness, in her grief,

she used a spell that is forbidden to us.

To bring him back to life.

A spell that left a curse?

No Caster may reverse death.

So she lost her soul,

consumed by darkness forever.

But the spell worked.

If Genevieve loved him, Why'd she kill him?

In that kind of darkness,

there's not even a memory of love, only power.

Everything has a price.

LENA:

You told me my mother was dead.

You lied to me. Why? Why?

Lena! Our words, our language...

...cannot explain all that there is.

There are other ways someone can die to us.

MACON:

No, I'll tell her.

Your mother, Sarafine,

is the most powerful Dark Caster of all of us.

She lives in the darkness, in the shadows.

If she does appear,

it's in the guise of someone else.

She has no love for you.

That's what I was trying to protect you from.

I'm gonna be claimed for the Dark,

no matter what?

No, not necessarily.

I know your true nature, it's strong.

Sarafine recognizes it too.

She knows that without the curse...

...your true nature

would claim you for the Light.

No, I believe the curse can be broken.

But you need to have a will that's so strong

you control your own nature.

- That's what I told her.

- First thing you do, get rid of him.

- Wait, what?

- Sarafine's using you.

- That's not true.

MACON:
Listen to me, Lena.

- No, listen to me--

-Ethan, Mason's right.

If you're to break this curse,

you have to control your emotions.

And loving this boy

puts you in terrible danger!

How could you know?

You never loved anyone.

You despise mortals.

You never even had a friend,

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