In Darkness - Network

[ Dave and Balthazar sound like themselves. Dave also sounds like Hiccup. The woman does not sound like anyone. ]

Woman Hey!
Balthazar I'm sorry. I thought you were someone else.
Dave Where's Horvath? Did he get away? Where's the Grimhold? Who was that? That was her, wasn't it? The third apprentice?

Balthazar For centuries, Veronica, Horvath and I were the only thing standing between Morgana and mass destruction. Our friendship, and our magic, were what Veronica and I depended on.
Dave You fell for her, didn't you?
Balthazar I fell for her. Like you, all Veronica wanted was to be normal. Normal things, normal life. I fell... and so did Horvath. That's why Horvath betrayed us.
Dave For a thousand years... you've been carrying her around with you in the Grimhold.

[Sounds of a thin chain clanging together, as though being run through someone's fingers]

Balthazar I was going to give this to her that night.
Dave I'm sorry.

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Spike: Were you in love with him?
Electra: I guess I'll never really know. I just know I felt things I've never felt before. A kind of... wrenching feeling. I didn't know what it was; it just tore at my heart. Have you ever felt that way?
Spike: I have...
Electra: [sigh] I tried to save him, but I think I was the one who was saved.
Spike: When I was younger, I wasn't afraid of anything. I didn't have the slightest fear of dying, no reason for it. I thought that, if I die, that's fine with me - any time at all. But then I met a certain woman and it changed. I started to think that... I wanted to survive. For the first time, the idea of death began to scare me. It was on my mind... I'd never felt that kind of feeling: almost paralyzed.
Electra: And? Where is she now?
Spike: She... faded off somewhere. [sigh] Strange... You're the first person that I ever said this to.
Electra: Why did you keep looking for Vincent?
Spike: We share the same soul. That's why I have to see him one last time.

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Reyes I know it's impossible to stop thinking about what he said. About William. But it's all lies, Dana. And you were the one who proved it.

Scully And how should I prove it now? By insisting that I can protect him - only to learn too late that I can't?

Reyes You say it as if you have a choice.

Scully He didn't have a choice to come into this life. I don't have a choice about what he is or was. But I do have a choice about the life my son will have. [starting to cry] And shouldn't I choose that he never have to be afraid of anyone or anything? And can I ever really even promise him that?

Reyes But who can?

[Scully breaks down crying.]

[Lily sounds like Lily. Severus' voice is probably not familiar, as this was when he was 16. The other two voices wouldn't be recognizable to most people, but I would hope Reg recognizes his brother's voice. XD]
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Badger: Why ain't she talking? She got a secret?

Simon: No, I'm sure not--

River: [in Badger's accent] Sure, I got a secret. More'n one. [pause] Don't seem likely I'd tell 'em to you, do it? Anyone off Dyton Colony know's better'n to talk to strangers. [longer pause]

You're talking loud enough for the both of us, though, ain't you? I've known a dozen like you. Skipped off home early, minor graft jobs here and there. Spent some time in the lock-down, I warrant, but less than you claim. Now you're what, petty thief with delusions of standing? Sad little king of a sad little hill.

[Beat pause]

Badger: Nice to see someone from the old homestead.

River: Not really. [pause] Call me f'anyone interesting shows up.

Badger: I like her.

[Badger's voice wouldn't be familiar to anyone but the Firefly crew, but both River and Simon's voices are recognizable by those who have heard them speak.]