The Fault in Our Stars Page #27

ISAAC:

"So anyway, Augustus, my friend...

Godspeed."

Gus nods a couple times.

GUS:

Thank you Isaac.

This causes Isaac to lose it. He clings to the lectern.

ISAAC:

Goddamn it, Gus.

GUS:

Hey don't swear in the Literal

Heart of Jesus.

ISAAC:

Sh*t! Ass! Balls!

Isaac sighs. Wipes away the tears. And another beat passes.

ISAAC:

Can I get a hand here, Hazel?

Hazel remembers Isaac can't see. She rises, goes up to get

him, walks him back to her seat.

GUS:

Hazel Grace, it's down to you.

103.

Hazel takes out a piece of paper, walks up to the dais. Takes

a beat to ready herself.

HAZEL:

"Augustus Waters was the great star-

crossed love of my life. Ours was

an epic love story, and I won't be

able to get more than a sentence

into it without disappearing into a

puddle of tears.

(BEAT)

Like all real love stories - ours

will die with us, as it should. I'd

hoped that he'd be eulogizing me,

because there's no one I'd rather

have..."

And that's all she can get out before falling apart. She lets

it out for a couple beats and then pulls herself together.

HAZEL:

(beat, composing herself)

"I can't talk about our love story

so instead I will talk about math.

I am not a mathematician, but I

know this:
there are infinite

numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1

And .12 And .112 And an infinite

collection of others. Of course,

there is a bigger infinite set of

numbers between 0 and 2, or between

0 and a million. Some infinities

are bigger than other infinities. A

writer we used to like taught us

that. I want more numbers than I'm

likely to get, and God, I want more

numbers for Augustus Waters than he

got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot

tell you how thankful I am for our

little infinity. You gave me a

forever within the numbered days,

and for that I am eternally

grateful. I love you."

Gus smiles, nods, and closes his eyes. CUT TO:

BLACK.

Over which we hear a RINGING TELEPHONE.

INT HAZEL'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

Hazel turns on the LIGHT by her bed. Her HOUSE PHONE is

ringing and it's 4am.

She knows instantly.

104.

HAZEL (V.O.)

Augustus Waters died eight days

later in the ICU...

Hazel's head falls into her chest.

HAZEL (V.O.)

... when the cancer, which was made

of him, stopped his heart, which

was also made of him.

Her bedroom door opens. It's Frannie and Michael. This only

confirms her worst fears. She starts to cry. Her parents

embrace her in the bed.

HAZEL (V.O.)

It was unbearable. The whole thing.

Every second worse than the last.

EXT HAZEL'S HOUSE - DRIVEWAY - SAME

Hazel sits in the car in the dark. She's blaring the loudest

music she can possibly blare - a means of drowning out the

horrors of the world. Over which we hear this:

HAZEL (V.O.)

One of the first things they ask

you in the ER is to rate your pain

on a scale from 1 to 10. I'd been

asked this question hundreds of

times and I remember once, early

on, when I couldn't catch my breath

and it felt like my chest was on

fire, and the nurse asked me to

rate the pain and though I couldn't

speak, I held up 9 fingers.

The loud music isn't protecting Hazel as well as she hoped.

She falls apart nonetheless.

HAZEL (V.O.)

Later on, when I'd been feeling

better, the nurse came in and she

called me a fighter. "You know how

I know," she said. "Because you

called a ten a nine."

INT HAZEL'S BEDROOM - ANOTHER MORNING

Hazel puts on her funeral dress. She looks in the mirror.

HAZEL (V.O.)

But that wasn't the truth. The

reason I called it a nine was... I

was saving my ten.

105.

INT CHURCH - DAY

The place is filled today with mourners for Augustus Waters.

Hazel comes in with her parents and stands in the back,

watching people she's never seen before approach the Waters

family and extend their deepest condolences.

HAZEL (V.O.)

And this was it. The great and

terrible ten.

When Mr. and Mrs. Waters see Hazel, they open their arms.

MRS. WATERS

He loved you so much.

Hazel nods. Hugs them back.

HAZEL:

He loved you so much too.

More MOURNERS approach the family, leaving Hazel stranded in

the receiving line. Her eyes turn towards the COFFIN. She's

not entirely sure she wants to go there but she takes a deep

breath, wills herself to walk towards it.

Gus is there in the same suit he wore to Oranjee.

Immediately, Hazel breaks down. And immediately, she catches

herself.

HAZEL:

It's ok, you hear me? It's ok.

She leans forward and kisses his cheek. She looks around.

Once in the clear, she pulls out a hard pack of Camel Lights

and sticks them in the space between Gus and the lining of

the coffin. A MINISTER approaches at that moment.

MINISTER:

I think we're ready to begin.

Hazel nods and walks back to her parents, taking her seat in

the middle of the room.

MINISTER:

Augustus Waters fought hard for

many years. His battle was a

courageous one and his strength was

a source of inspiration for each

and every one of us...

Hazel frowns. This is all such bullshit. And she hears:

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