Hope Falls Season 2 - Eagle Valley (10 page)

INT: EAGLE VALLEY KITCHEN

"I can't get you out of my mind Derrick." She said in a soft, sultry voice. "What we did the other night on the grass."

Derrick's head snapped up, the picture forgotten. "Sophie, don't."

"Oh, Derrick, I keep thinking of your hands all over me, all over my body. Your mouth on my breasts." She smiled and came closer to him.

"Sophie, we agreed we wouldn't speak of this."

"Please, Derrick, I can't think of anything else but you. I can't feel anything but you inside me, I need to feel that Derrick."

Derrick felt himself growing hard despite himself. "Sophie…" he said with longing.

Looking on behind the kitchen doorway, her heart hammering, Susan continued to listen. She was not hearing this, she was not hearing this. The ring on her finger, his ring, burned.

"God Derrick," Sophie continued. "I still feel you inside me. I can't think of anything else. Tell me you don't feel the same way?"

She moved closer to him, unbuttoned her shirt until she stood in only a pair of lace panties in front of him. "Look at me Derrick."

Against his better judgment, Derrick looked. And was entranced. Slowly, he reached out a hand and tweaked a nipple, pulled her to him.

Sophie let out a soft moan that stabbed into Susan's heart. Sophie, seeing Susan's shadow in the doorway of the kitchen, smiled.

CAMERA SWITCHES TO INT. EAGLE VALLEY KITCHEN. CAMERA ZOOMS IN ON
ERIN
'S FACE. SHE WEARS A LOOK OF DISBELIEF

Erin
, lurking in the corner of the kitchen, watched Derrick and Sophie slowly remove their clothes. She could not believe what was going on, what was happening right in front of her.

She watched Sophie's slow seduction of Derrick and followed the woman's gaze to the kitchen doorway. There,
Erin
spotted Susan, watching the scene with a shocked look on her face, just like her. Susan looked over and spotted her, her head jerking back at being seen.

She looked at
Erin
as if she were seeing her for the first time.
Erin
shrugged helplessly and then had an idea. She motioned to Susan to meet her upstairs, hoping that she got the point.

Susan nodded. She understood.

Steeling herself for what was about to happen, she blushed. Her cheeks complimented her black hair, giving life to her face. Sighing, she took a step forward.

"Excuse me?" She said out loud.

Derrick, who currently had his mouth, attached to Sophie's right breast, looked up. A spell had been broken, it seemed. Derrick looked at Sophie, at his own hard on, and then he saw Susan, standing in the kitchen doorway.

"I'm just going to go upstairs and find a room, shall I?"
Erin
said. "I'll leave you two at it." Smiling sweetly, she headed up the back steps to the second floor of the house. She was vaguely aware of Cleo ushering a man inside the living room before she mounted the steps.

Derrick tucked himself back inside his boxer shorts and pushed Sophie away from him. "Susan…."

Susan shook her head at him and held up her hand. A single tear slid down her cheek and her bottom lip quivered. "Don't." She said. "Please don't."

Slowly, she made her way past them and followed Erin up the stairs.

Smiling to herself, Sophie turned away from Derrick and did up her shirt. She had another call to make.

Chapter Twenty Two

INT: EAGLE VALLEY HOUSE: LIVING ROOM "So," Cleo said, "You are Derrick's brother." She did not bother to disguise the sarcasm in her voice.

"I know it's hard to believe." Madder said.

"That's putting it lightly."

"There's no need for sarcasm."

"I'm not being sarcastic." Cleo reached for her mug of tea and took a sip to steady her nerves.

"How do I know you're who you say you are?"

"I have proof if that's what you're asking."

"Smart man."

"So they tell me."

Cleo let some of her impatience snap to the surface. "Look, why don't you just tell me why the hell you're here."

"I should of that would have been obvious. I want to see my brother."

Madder reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a photograph. In it, there was a boy that was clearly Madder holding a child that looked very much like Derrick.

"We were separated." Madder said. "After our parents died. We were both so young." Madder looked away for a moment, real emotion showing on his face. "Do you mind, Ma'am," he said, not looking at her. "Do you mind getting Derrick so I don't have to say this twice?"

Cleo closed her eyes for a second to sense the air around her. There were secrets inside of him, but he was telling the truth. Sighing, knowing that his coming brought trouble, she went to the doorway.

"Derrick!

INT: EAGLE VALLEY HOUSE:
ERIN
'S BEDROOM

Susan sat down on the bed while
Erin
closed the door.
Erin
's auburn hair looked copper red in the soft light of the afternoon. It was getting darker.

Finally,
Erin
spoke. "Do you want to talk about it?"

Susan shook her head. "No. I can't. I can't talk about it now."

"He's your fiancée isn't he?"

Susan looked at her. "How did you know that?"

Erin
blushed. "I noticed the engagement ring on your finger."

Susan looked down at her hand. The ring seemed almost foreign to her now. "Yes. I suppose he is."

"You don't sound as if you're too sure."

"I don't think I am." Susan felt the tears come. "God, Erin, they were going at it in the kitchen! They've done it before, they've…" She closed her mouth for a moment, unable to speak, fresh tears flowing.

"It's okay, Susan."
Erin
came to sit beside her on the bed and put her arm around her softly. "It's going to be okay."

"You don't understand. You can't understand."

"I just want to find Miriam."
Erin
figured that, in times like this, it was best to stick to her story. "I just want to know she's okay."

"They don't know what happened to her. They never found her body." It was the first time Susan had admitted that her friend might be alive. The first time that she had admitted to herself that Miriam might be out there somewhere. It hurt, just knowing that it might be true.

"I can't talk about this now. But I will. I'll tell you anything you want to know. But tomorrow, okay?"

Erin
smiled at her and squeezed her hand. "Sure, no problem."

Susan hugged her. "You going to be okay?"
Erin
asked?

"Sure," Susan said, "I'm just going to go lie down for a while. Get some rest. I'm a little tired." She got up and went to the bedroom door. "By the way." She said. "Thanks."

"For what?"

"For giving me a hug." Susan smiled weakly and slipped out, shutting the bedroom door behind her.

INT: EAGLE VALLEY KITCHEN

"Derrick!"

Derrick turned towards Cleo's voice. Without another word to Sophie, feeling as if his world would fall around him if he closed his eyes for a second, left the kitchen and went in the direction of the living room.

Sophie smiled to herself and took her cell phone out of her pocket. She dialed the number from memory and a gravelly voice answered."

"Yes?"

"It's done."

"What's done, Sophie?" Howard's voice was soft. She knew he was anxious.

"I drove a stake between them. I don't think they can repair this."

Howard laughed softly. "Is there discord in the house Sophie?"

Sophie smiled. "Discord is their new bedfellow."

"Tell me what you've done." He said.

And she told him.

INT: EAGLE VALLEY HOUSE: SUSAN'S BEDROOM

Susan pulled on her nightgown and slowly got into bed. She had taken off the engagement ring and placed it on her bedside table where it now winked at her like an eye in the darkness.

She would decide what to do about that tomorrow, she thought. What to do about Derrick, about Sophie.

I just want a normal life, she thought. That's all I ever wanted. Sighing, she pulled the covers up to her chin and closed her eyes, moonlight slipping in through the cracks of the blinds. Night had come while she had been lying here and now she could feel the darkness around her.

Just before she was about to drift off to sleep, she heard a noise.

By the time the hand gripped her in the dark, it was too late. Something smashed into the back of her head and Susan felt herself tumble into unconsciousness.

Chapter Twenty Three

INT: EAGLE VALLEY HOUSE: KITCHEN

"It's done." Sophie said into her cell phone.

"What's done, Sophie?" Howard's voice was soft. She knew he was anxious.

"I drove a stake between them. I don't think they can repair this."

Howard laughed softly. "Is there discord in the house Sophie?"

Sophie smiled. "Discord is their new bedfellow."

"Tell me what you've done." He said.

"I slept with Derrick."

"I know that part."

"Ah, but did I tell you I did it in front of Susan?"

Howard laughed softly. "Come again, my dear? I must be going deaf."

"You heard me. I fucked him in the kitchen and made sure she was watching."

Howard laughed louder. "You really are a foxy minx, aren't you?"

Sophie smiled. "It's what you pay me to do."

"Ah, correction." Sophie could hear his voice harden over the phone. "It's what we CREATED you to do. Do you remember Dragon's Cove, Sophie?"

FLASH!

A MAN STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET. SMALLER PALM TREES LINE THE SIDES OF
A CITY STREET
. THE TOWN LOOKS BEAUTIFUL ON EITHER SIDE, IT'S SIDEWALKS MADE FROM VARNISHED STONES AND WHAT LOOKED LIKE ACTUAL BOARDWALK STREETS. THE MAN HAS HIS HAND RAISED TO US, HOLDING OUT HIS HAND TO US.

HE HAS BLACK HAIR BUT IT IS WHITE AT THE EDGES. HIS EYES ARE JUST AS DARK.

"I won't hurt you, Sophie." The man says.

"What do you want from me?" Sophie asked. She was astounded to find herself here, in this white place, amongst all this hot, blinding stone.

"You must return, Sophie. You are needed here."

Sophie looked down at her feet. They were bare. The stone was hard underneath them. "What do you want with me?"

"You are needed here." The man said. He smiled. "You are needed in Dragon's Cove…"

FLASH!

"Oh, God." Sophie stifled a sob. "Yes, I remember Dragon's Cove."

"Then remember what you are. You remember how we found you?"

"Yes." A whisper.

"Alright then." Howard's voice softened. "I think it's time you go find your tools."