Blown Away 4 final chapter
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Bo pulls up in front of Nora’s house.
Bo: Maybe this is how its supposed to be, Red…you did it. You found happiness out of all the pain I created for you. I tried to fool myself into thinking I was happy. Little did I know…little did I know?
He takes a CD out of the holder and places it carefully in the player and hits start.
When a man loves a woman,
Can't keep his mind on nothing else
He'd change the world for the good thing he's found.
If she is bad, he can't see it
She can do no wrong
Turn his back on his best friend if he put her down.
When a man loves a woman,
He'll spend his very last dime
Trying to hold on to what he needs
Bo: I’ve never loved anyone the way I love you…I never will…I can’t believe this is it. I never thought there’d be a time in my life I’d have to admit it was over, truly over…
He'll give up all his comforts
And sleep out in the rain
If she said that's the way it ought to be.
Well, this man loves you, woman.
I gave you everything you have
Trying to hold on to your hot blood long.
Baby, please don't treat me bad
When a man loves a woman,
Down deep in his soul,
She can bring him such misery
Bo: That I’d have to say good-bye. (tears form in his eyes)I’ll always love you Red…always…
If she is playing him for a fool
He's the last one to know.
Loving eyes can never see
When a man loves a woman
He can do her no wrong
He can never hug some other girl.
Yes, when a man loves a woman
I know exactly how he feels
'Cause baby, baby, you're my girl
When a man loves a woman
Bo: You’re happiness has always been my top priority…I know you’re happy…good-bye…
He slowly drives away, heading towards the Palace. He walks up to the front desk.
Bo: Is Asa Buchanan here?
Desk Clerk: Excuse me?
Bo: Asa Buchanan? His wife Renee owns this place…(getting angry) heard of her?
DC: Ms. Divine?
Bo: Ok…
DC: Asa Buchanan is forbidden from entering Ms. Divine’s business…has been for some time now…
Bo: Thanks..
Bo heads toward the lounge and finds himself a nice seat
at the corner of the bar.
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Nora pulls up in front of her and Bo’s old house. How she
hated that he sold it so fast. She really loved that old barn…she
thought back to when he first surprised her with it. She sat in
her car staring at the family playing in the living room. She
instinctively put her hand on her tummy…
Nora: (to herself) I always thought I’d raise my children in that house…
She sighed and rubbed her stomach.
Nora: No sense dwelling on it…I better get home…Sam’s gonna start to worry…
She begins for home.
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Bo makes his way up to the roof of the Palace. He walks around
looking over Llanview as night begins to fall. So many people,
hurrying home to their families, their loved ones, their lives.
Not him, he had nothing to go home to. No one to love, no one
to love him.
He sat in the middle of the roof.
Bo: (shaking his head) Nora…I tried to replace you in my head, in my heart…I couldn’t. I wasted too much time and now its too late…when did I lose everything? (inhaling deeply) Lost my father…my brother…my son…friends…the love of my life…everything…Bernie, where are you when I need to talk…(he looks around)
He gets up and stands on the edge of the building.
Bo: A month ago I was getting ready for marriage…like so many times before. (pausing) Hank was right…(calling out) you were right Hank!!! You were right!!! I didn’t love Melanie…(normal tone and sinking to the roof again) you were right…I didn’t love her...she died for nothing…she was on her way to a wedding, to marry me…(laughing to himself) and I didn’t even love you…I lied to you, to myself…to the whole town…I killed you…
He truly is the picture of a man losing his mind. He takes his gun out of its holster and looks at it
Bo: Killed you the same as if I took this gun (holds the gun up as if to fire) and shot you dead…(he tilts his head and takes a bead on an invisible target) Bam!! You’re dead Melanie! (repeating the gesture) Bam!! You’re dead, Drew! (turning quickly, but keeping the gun in the same position)Bam!! You’re dead, Asa! (turning again) Bam!! Clint! Bam!! Hank! Bam Bam Bam!!
He looks over the edge of the Palace roof and takes a step up on the edge again.
Bo: I can’t live like this anymore…everyone I loved…anyone I cared about…
He takes his gun and puts it to his own head
Bo: I love you Nora…
He pulls the trigger.
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Nora is heading home to try and smooth things over with Sam. She
knows he is going to be very upset and she will have tons of making
up to do.
Nora: (to herself) I am going to have to miss the convention…but I have to make it up to them…and Bo…I’ll have to call him on the sly…Sam will never go for me visiting Bo…oh man…what a mess…
As she passes the Palace, she notices a few squad cars and an ambulance in front with the lights still going. She pulls into the parking lot and slowly gets out of her car, heading to the main lobby doors. She sees the paramedics rushing towards her with the stretcher. She sees a familiar profile on the stretcher.
Nora: Oh my God!! Bo!! (she holds her hand to her mouth gasping in horror) NOOOOOO!!!!!!!
She lunges for the stretcher blocking its path…
Nora: Oh Bo…
He is covered in blood; she touches his chest, her hand shaking, the medics have towels and bandages wrapping his head, an IV runs to the bag above his head. A small monitor rests on his chest.
Medic: Ma’am…we have to go…
Nora: (near hysterics) no…no…why Bo? Why? (looking past the stretcher, she sees an older man with blood on his coat. She calls out to him.
Nora: Sir! (the man looks bewildered at her) Sir! What happened?
Bernie: I found the Commissioner…(shaken) I found him on the roof…
Nora: (to the medic) I have to go with him!
Medic: Ma’am we have to go NOW!
Nora rushes along with the medics. Bo is unconscious and it doesn’t look very good. They climb into the back of the rig. Nora holds his hand and caresses his cheek, unable to contain her grief.
Nora: (crying) Bo…Bo Buchanan…you better not leave
me…do you hear me? Bo…Bo…
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Bo opens his eyes a tiny bit. The light is intense and hurts.
His head is pounding and as he tries to focus, he sees through
his blurriness a figure in front of him, and feels a light touch
on his cheek.
Bo: Am I in heaven? (opening his eyes a bit more)
Voice: You’ve been known to call this heaven from time to time…
Bo: (opening his eyes all the way) NORA!!! OH MY GOD!!! (he sits up and grabs her, hugging her tightly, as if he’s clinging to life itself)
Nora: Honey (mock gasping)…you’re squeezing the air out of me!! (pretending to choke)
Bo: Oh Nora…(he feverishly kisses her neck) you’re here…you’re here…oh baby…(he kisses her deeply on the mouth and pulls her down on top of him, running his hands up and down her sides) I’m never letting you go never…
Nora: Bo…I don’t want you to let me go, so to speak…but sweetie, you’re making me crush the baby…
Bo: (stunned what she just said) The baby?
Nora: (sitting up on the edge of the bed and exposing her slightly swollen tummy) Yes…OUR baby? (noticing his confused look) Bo…what kind of a nightmare did you have?
Bo: (touching her stomach) our baby…our…yours and mine…our baby…you have no idea how wonderful that is to hear (he gently caresses her arm as she sits on the bed)
Nora: Bo...(looking at him questioningly) how much did you drink at Drew’s bachelor party last night?
Bo: Drew? (putting his hand on his forehead) Drew! Oh my God!! (he grabs her again and kisses her, taking her breath away) Drew is alive!!
Nora: Yes…yes, Drew is alive…Bo, honey…you’re scaring me…what happened…
Bo: I love you…you know that, right…and there is nothing in this world that would ever make me leave you…and this is our house…ours…forever and ever…and if you ever question that….if you ever, ever doubt what I am saying…you come to me…got it? (looking straight into her eyes) To me…
Nora: Ok Dorothy…what happened in Oz? (gently playing with his hair) because you are spooked…I can see it in your eyes.
Bo: Aw, Red…it was horrible…you and I weren’t together, and I don’t know why (pausing, trying to recover any detail of the breakup) all I know is I kept thinking is how I caused you this unbearable pain…and I was marrying someone named Melanie…
Nora: (playfully turning her back to him) Bo Buchanan…are you cheating on me?
Bo: God, not on your life (he pulls her back to him, kissing her shoulders, allowing his hands to slow maneuver to her tummy and then up to her breast) never in a million years (kissing her neck, trying to gently pull her down) …anyway, she died and you and Hank helped me through it…then I realized I loved you…(he has her lying on her side, they are facing each other. He kisses her gently) I loved you…
Nora: (throwing her head back slightly as he kisses her neck) Some things never change (she lightly pinches his cheek and smiles)
Bo: (getting serious) Oh but they did…when I went to tell you I loved you…you were living with that old law partner of yours…the one that came to town a few months back…
Nora: Sam? (startled at the mention of him) Rappaport??(crinkling up her nose) Eewwww…. (pretend slaps him) no sex for you for a week!
Bo: That would be a cakewalk compared to what happened in my nightmare…when I got to your house…you were cooking dinner…
Nora: (laughing and touching her neck) Me?? Cooking?? (still laughing as she turns on her back and nuzzles her head into the pillow) Oh Sweetheart!
Bo: Yeah…poached salmon!
Nora: You had to be dreaming! (laughing at the idea) The only thing I do to salmon is pile it on a bagel with some cream cheese!
Bo: (pulling her off the pillow into his arms and cuddling in) God I love you (kisses her forehead) and when I told you I loved you, you walked away…when you came back, you told me you and Sam were expecting a baby…
Nora: Well, I am expecting a baby…but yours silly! (kissing him on the cheek)
Bo: And you two already had a child…he was about four or five, a little boy…you named him Matthew…he was adorable…
Nora: Then he obviously wasn’t Sam’s!!
Bo: Baby…it was a horrible nightmare…I walked in the rain, I was so lost without you, so lost (she kisses him sweetly on the lips) I sold our home and watched a happy family enjoy what we should have had…
Nora: What we will have…are having (she moves his hand onto her tummy) don’t forget it…
Bo gently rubs her stomach and pulls her towards him, holding her securely in his arms.
Bo: I went to this warehouse and for some reason, I kept thinking you saved my life there, and I couldn’t go into Rodi’s because there were too many memories of us and I lost you (he gets quiet) that’s all that would register…how I lost you and would never have a chance to get you back
Nora: (turning his head to look into her eyes) you didn’t lose me…I’m right here…
Bo: It was so real…I felt every bit of the heartache, the pain…
Nora: (whispering in his ear) Let me make you forget it (she kisses his neck and runs her hand down his thigh) you know I can…
Bo: Nora (pausing)…I killed myself…
Nora: (stops the kissing) Bo…it was a nightmare…that’s all…honey…look around (sitting up slightly)…we’re in our bed, in our room, in our house…in less than four months, we are going to be parents (touching her stomach) …your son and Kelly are getting married in a week… and quite possibly we will be grandparents within the next year also…you are not going to kill yourself…you have too much to live for… (she kisses him)
Bo: (settling her back into his arms) I have you…if that was all I had, it would be enough.
Nora: No more drinking til all hours of the night…
Bo: No more drinking…the only thing I want to do til all hours of the night is make love to you (he starts to kiss her neck) over and over (running his hand up under her tee shirt)
Nora: Lucky for us its Saturday…
Bo: Luck has nothing to do with it…even if it was Monday…there is no way I’m letting you outta this bed…(nibbles her ear and trails along her neck)
Nora: We’re gonna invite Drew and Kelly up here? They are coming over today...
Bo: Drew and Kelly can stay in their own bed…C’mere Red…(he pulls her under the covers)
Nora: Oh Bo…
When a man loves a woman,
Can't keep his mind on nothing else
He'd change the world for the good thing he's found
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Three and a half months later, little Matthew Hanen Buchanan made
his arrival into the world (Bo was really hung up on the name
Matthew). He was his father’s pride and joy. Bo insisted
on catering to Nora’s every whim after the baby was born
(“I swear Bo, if you could breast feed him, you’d do
that too” “In a heart beat”) No one ever figured
out who Melanie was or was supposed to represent (“I’m
telling you Bo, it was some nightmarish reaction to those nachos,
there is no Melanie”) At Bo’s insistence, Nora called
Sam Rappaport, just to make sure he was firmly planted in Chicago.
(“Please, Red? For me?” “Bo…fine, as stupid
as I am going to sound, I haven’t spoken to the man in over
a year, but because I love you and it means so darn much to you”)
They found out not only was he firmly rooted in Chicago, he was
still married and he and his wife were expecting a baby not too
long after Matthew was to be born. Drew and Kelly had a beautiful
wedding, even though Nora was struck with a terrible case of morning
sickness in the middle of the afternoon, it still went off with
nary a hitch. They settled into a nice little garret, not far
from Bo and Nora’s home (Bo insisted on them turning in their
key to his and Nora’s house or give them a set to the garret
so they could see how much fun it was to be constantly interrupted)
And finally, three months after Kelly and Drew’s first anniversary,
little Andrew Oglethorpe Cramer-Buchanan was born, with dad Drew
in assisting mom, and Grandpa Bo, Grandma Nora and Uncle Matt
waiting down the hall to meet him.
The End!
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