Six Times Deadly: A Lawson Vampire Story Collection (The Lawson Vampire Series) (17 page)

BOOK: Six Times Deadly: A Lawson Vampire Story Collection (The Lawson Vampire Series)
9.89Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
ads

PANEL FIVE
:
 
ANOTHER KICKS HIM IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD.

  1. 3.
    CAP:
     
    I heard bells again.
     
    These two moved too fast to be human.

PANEL SIX
:
 
LAWSON PUNCHES ONE IN THE STOMACH.

  1. 4.
    SFX:
     
    Oof!
  1. 5.
    CAP:
     
    Score one for the dude with the headache.

PANEL SEVEN
:
 
ONE OF THE GIRL’S GRABS LAWSON’S WRIST AND ATTEMPTS A JOINT LOCK.
 
HIS PISTOL CLATTERS AWAY.

PANEL EIGHT
:
 
LAWSON TWISTS HIS BODY TO ESCAPE THE LOCK.

PANEL NINE
:
 
LAWSON MANAGES TO FREE HIMSELF.
 
BOTH GIRLS BACK AWAY.

  1. 6.
    GIRL ONE:
     
    Who are you?
  1. 7.
    GIRL TWO:
     
    We’ve never seen a human move like you.

PAGE SEVENTEEN

PANEL ONE
:
 
LAWSON’S FACE – A WRY SMILE.

  1. 1.
    LAWSON:
     
    I’m not human.

PANEL TWO
:
 
BOTH GIRLS FOLD THEIR ARMS.

  1. 2.
    GIRL ONE:
     
    We found Shannon’s body.
  1. 3.
    GIRL TWO:
     
    And decided to wait here for you.

PANEL THREE
:
 
LAWSON NODS.

  1. 4.
    LAWSON:
     
    Well, here I am.
     
    The name’s Lawson.

PANEL FOUR
:
 
THE GIRLS MOVE CLOSER, SNIFFING AT LAWSON ALMOST.

  1. 5.
    SFX:
     
    Sniff – sniff
  1. 6.
    CAP:
     
    I felt like a side of beef.

PANEL FIVE
:
 
THEY MOVE CLOSER TO LAWSON:

  1. 7.
    GIRL ONE:
     
    We are Tella.
  1. 8.
    GIRL TWO:
     
    And Stella.

PANEL SIX
:
 
BOTH GIRLS ARE INCHES AWAY FROM LAWSON.

  1. 9.
    CAP:
     
    Twins of death.
     
    Lucky me.
  1. 10.
    TELLA:
     
    What do you want with the microfilm, Lawson?

PANEL SEVEN
:
 
LAWSON’S HANDS FORM FISTS – LIKE HE EXPECTS TO BE ATTACKED AGAIN.
 
HE’S TENSED.

  1. 11.
    LAWSON:
     
    Friends of mine are on that film.

PANEL EIGHT
:
 
SPLIT FRAME AS THE GIRLS LOOK AT EACH OTHER AND THEN BACK AT LAWSON.

  1. 12.
    STELLA:
     
    You are one of us?

PAGE EIGHTEEN

PANEL ONE
:
 
LAWSON SHRUGS.

  1. 1.
    LAWSON:
     
    I don’t know what you are.

PANEL TWO
:
 
MULTI-SPLIT-PANEL AS THE GIRLS SHAPE SHIFT INTO HAIRY WEREWOLVES, UNRECOGNIZABLE FROM THEIR HUMAN FORM.

PANEL THREE
:
 
LAWSON SEEMS DISAPPOINTED AT THE BEASTS BEFORE HIM.

  1. 2.
    LAWSON:
     
    Werewolves?
  1. 3.
    TELLA:
     
    We prefer lycanthropes.

PANEL FOUR
:
 
LAWSON GRINS.

  1. 4.
    LAWSON:
     
    I liked you guys better as hot twins.

PANEL FIVE
:
 
THE GIRLS CHANGE BACK INTO HUMAN FORM.

  1. 5.
    STELLA:
     
    And you would be…what?
  1. 6.
    LAWSON:
     
    Vampire.

PANEL SIX
:
 
THE GIRLS CHUCKLE.

  1. 7.
    TELLA:
     
    What kind of vampire uses a gun?
  1. 8.
    LAWSON:
     
    What kind of lycanthrope uses a crossbow?

PAGE NINETEEN

PANEL ONE
:
 
THE GIRLS AND LAWSON FACE EACH OTHER.
 
NO ONE SPEAKS.
 
IT’S A BATTLE OF WILLS.

PANEL TWO
:
 
TELLA WALKS CLOSER TO LAWSON.

  1. 1.
    TELLA:
     
    We are what’s known as
    Burlchaktang
    .
     
    Like police.
  1. 2.
    LAWSON:
     
    I’m a Fixer.

PANEL THREE
:
 
BOTH GIRLS LAUGH.

  1. 3.
    STELLA:
     
    You fix things?
  1. 4.
    LAWSON:
     
    Messes like what Shannon made.

PANEL FOUR
:
 
THE GIRLS SHAKE THEIR HEADS.

  1. 5.
    TELLLA:
     
    We’ve been on his trail for a long time.
  1. 6.
    STELLA:
     
    You had to go and kill him.

PANEL FIVE
:
 
LAWSON’S EYES NARROW.

  1. 7.
    LAWSON:
     
    Why were you after him?

PANEL SIX
:
 
TELLA POINTS AT LAWSON.

  1. 8.
    TELLA:
     
    Isn’t it obvious, Fixer?
     
    He wasn’t just selling out your race.
     
    There are names of our people on it as well.

PANEL SEVEN
:
 
CLOSE-UP OF LAWSON’S FACE.

  1. 9.
    CAP:
     
    This was not good.
     
    If I didn’t get the film back, revelations that the world had a race of vampire and lycanthropes would freak humans out big time.

PANEL EIGHT
:
 
LAWSON THUMBS OVER HIS BACK AT BARTOK’S CORPSE.

  1. 10.
    LAWSON:
     
    No offense, but maybe wasting Bartok wasn’t the best move.
     
    Especially after you guys took out Rudi earlier.

PAGE TWENTY

PANEL ONE
:
 
BOTH GIRLS LOOK AT EACH OTHER.

  1. 1.
    TELLA:
     
    We haven’t killed anyone –
     
  1. 2.
    STELLA:
     
    - tonight.
  1. 3.
    LAWSON:
     
    That wasn’t you in the alley outside of Rikki’s?

PANEL TWO
:
 
CLOSE-UP OF LAWSON’S RIGHT EYE AND THE FURROWED BROW.
 
THE TWINS ARE REFLECTED IN HIS PUPIL.

  1. 4.
    TELLA:
     
    No.
  1. 5.
    CAP:
     
    Something wasn’t right.
  1. 6.
    SFX:
     
    Ha ha ha ha ha…
  1. 7.
    CAP:
     
    Behind me…

PANEL THREE
:
 
WIDE SHOT OF BRILLIANT LIGHT FLOODING THE WAREHOUSE.
 
LAWSON AND THE GIRLS TURN AWAY.

  1. 8.
    VOICE:
     
    FOOLS!

PANEL FOUR
:
 
BARTOK SITS UP IN HIS CHAIR PULLING GOBS OF LATEX AND FAKE BLOOD OFF.
 
HE’S GOT A HUGE SMILE.

  1. 9.
    BATOK:
     
    You know, it was never enough for me to have that silly microfilm.
     
    Who would have believed it?
     
    No, I needed something better.

PANEL FIVE
:
 
LAWSON POINTS TO THE DOOR.

  1. 10.
    LAWSON:
     
    Tella – the door!

PANEL SIX
:
 
THE DOOR SLAMS SHUT JUST AS THE TWINS REACH IT.

PAGE TWENTY-ONE

PANEL ONE
:
 
WIDE SHOT OF BARTOK’S CHAIR LIFTING UP ON SOME TYPE OF HYDRAULIC CRANE.
 
HE’S CLOSE TO THE CATWALK RUNNING JUST UNDER THE CEILING RAFTERS.

  1. 1.
    SFX:
     
    Whirrrrr…
  1. 2.
    BARTOK:
     
    I’m going to enjoy this.

PANEL TWO
:
 
CLOSE-UP ON LAWSON, TELLA, AND STELLA’S FACE.
 
ALL LOOK PISSED OFF.

PANEL THREE
:
 
BARTOK’S HENCHMEN CLAMBER ONTO THE CATWALK WITH AN ASSORTMENT OF WEAPONRY.

PANEL FOUR
:
 
BARTOK GESTURES TO SEVERAL CAMERAS.

  1. 3.
    BARTOK:
     
    I’ve got video running.
     
    I’m anxious to see if you’re truly susceptible to the stuff of legends.

PANEL FIVE
:
 
LAWSON BACKS UP.

  1. 4.
    LAWSON:
     
    You’re going to be disappointed.

PANEL SIX
:
 
BARTOK NODS TOWARD ANOTHER DOOR AT THE END OF THE CATWALK.

  1. 5.
    BARTOK:
     
    We’ll see, I suppose.
     
    I’ll be right back – just have to wash up.

PANEL SEVEN
:
 
LAWSON LOOKS AT THE TWINS.

  1. 6.
    LAWSON:
     
    Any ideas?
  1. 7.
    TELLA:
     
    He dies.
  1. 8.
    STELLA:
     
    Painfully.

PAGE TWENTY-TWO

PANEL ONE
:
 
LAWSON FROWNS.

  1. 1.
    LAWSON:
     
    Tell me something I don’t know.
     
    You know he’s got the microfilm.
     
    This whole thing was a set-up to get us all here.
  1. 2.
    TELLA:
     
    We know this.

PANEL TWO
:
 
LAWSON POINTS AT THE CATWALK.

  1. 3.
    LAWSON:
     
    Any way you guys can jump up there?
  1. 4.
    STELLA:
     
    We came in that way.
     
    It was easier getting down.
  1. 5.
    BARTOK (OUT OF FRAME):
     
    Having a nice chat?

PANEL THREE
:
 
BARTOK IS CLEAN AND LOOKS PARTICULARLY PLEASED.
 
HE THROWS SOMETHING DOWN.

  1. 6.
    BARTOK:
     
    Let’s start with something easy.

PANEL FOUR
:
 
CLOSE-UP ON A STRING OF GARLIC CLOVES ON THE FLOOR IN FRONT OF LAWSON.

PANEL FIVE
:
 
LAWSON PICKS UP THE GARLIC.

  1. 7.
    LAWSON:
     
    Garlic?
     
    You’re joking, right?

PANEL SIX
:
 
BARTOK SHRUGS.

  1. 8.
    BARTOK:
     
    Supposedly, it’s quite loathsome to you.

PANEL SEVEN
:
 
LAWSON BITES THE GARLIC AND CHEWS.

  1. 9.
    LAWSON:
     
    Only thing this does is make me yearn for my Nana’s meatballs and sauce.

PANEL EIGHT
:
 
BARTOK FROWNS.

  1. 10.
    BARTOK:
     
    Very well, we’ll escalate thing then.

PAGE TWENTY-THREE

PANEL ONE
:
 
ONE OF BARTOK’S MEN RIPS A TARP OFF A GIANT HARPOON CANNON WITH A NASTY WOODEN TIP ON IT.

1.
 
BARTOK:
 
A stake through the heart perhaps?

PANEL TWO
:
 
LAWSON POINTS AT THE CANNON.

  1. 2.
    LAWSON:
     
    You shoot anyone with that and they’ll croak.
     
    Doesn’t prove I’m a vampire.

PANEL THREE
:
 
BARTOK HOLDS A PISTOL.

  1. 3.
    BARTOK:
     
    Fair point.
     
    How about this then?

PANEL FOUR
:
 
BARTOK AIMS AND FIRES A SINGLE BULLET.

PANEL FIVE
:
 
CLOSE UP OF BULLET GRAZING LAWSON’S LEG.

  1. 4.
    CAP:
     
    Hurt like hell, but it wouldn’t kill me.
  1. 5.
    LAWSON:
     
    Your aim sucks.

PANEL SIX
:
 
BARTOK AIMS WITH TWO HANDS THIS TIME.

PANEL SEVEN
:
 
CLOSE-UP ON LAWSON’S FACE.
 
HE’S NERVOUS NOW.

  1. 6.
    CAP:
     
    Maybe I should have kept quiet.
  1. 7.
    BARTOK:
     
    It has been a while since I shot.

PANEL EIGHT
:
 
BARTOK THUMBS THE HAMMER BACK.

PANEL NINE
:
 
LAWSON WAITS FOR THE SHOT, TENSING TO TRY TO AVOID IT.

  1. 8.
    CAP:
     
    I had to time it just right –
     

PAGE TWENTY-FOUR

BOOK: Six Times Deadly: A Lawson Vampire Story Collection (The Lawson Vampire Series)
9.89Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
ads

Other books

Allure of Deceit by Susan Froetschel
Breath of Air by Katie Jennings
How to Wed a Baron by Kasey Michaels
Hallowed Ground by David Niall Wilson, Steven & Wilson Savile
Assignment - Mara Tirana by Edward S. Aarons
Scandalizing the CEO by Katherine Garbera
The Missing by Jane Casey