Folks. I’m hurting. Ha! Tech and ASL and new
play and actor who drama all in one.
Sorry
This one is Childrens Theater
What’s the difference? You can NOT have a fourth
wall and must open the possible truths available with reduced complexity but
not beauty
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Just waiting for the call
to be posted.
Still working through the
reworking, streamlining and additional material of making the previous Jeffrey
and Duncan posts into something more akin real scenes I can use in the context
of the other plotlines.
here's part two of three,
today's assignment
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The wiccan supply store.
DUNCAN finishes a call and hangs up, smiling.
JEFFREY
That sounded like a good call.
DUNCAN
It was. A very good call. We have the final ingredient.
JEFFREY
Where do I go to get it?
DUNCAN
Nowhere. Right here. They had a delivery truck coming to our
charming little town today anyway. It's
already in transit as we speak. Should
be here this afternoon.
JEFFREY
You're a lifesaver.
DUNCAN
This mean I get a date out of it?
JEFFREY
Well, I was hoping to get a date out of this anyway,
regardless. We don't have to make it
conditional on anything.
DUNCAN
So why'd you want to make him happy?
JEFFREY
Who?
DUNCAN
Your friend, who you gave the potion to.
JEFFREY
Micah.
DUNCAN
You said you did it to make him happy.
JEFFREY
Well, it didn't work out as planned.
DUNCAN
But why'd you do it in the first place?
JEFFREY
I've sort of been crushing on him for a while, so -
DUNCAN
So why not just give it to him, instead, for yourself?
JEFFREY
Colossal failure of nerve?
DUNCAN
You handed it off to him, so he could turn around and use it on
someone else instead.
JEFFREY
Idiot move, I know.
DUNCAN
Even if you were second choice, you didn't want to force it?
JEFFREY
Well, his first choice was a straight, married guy whose wife is
pregnant. I don't think that counts as
an actual first choice.
DUNCAN
It does if you give him a love potion, he uses it, and it works.
JEFFREY
No one likes to be second choice.
DUNCAN
No. They don't.
JEFFREY
So, about that date -
DUNCAN
You know, I don't like being second choice either.
JEFFREY
You're not. I mean, it's
not as if I have any other viable options right now, so you're first choice.
DUNCAN
By default. You're a real
charmer.
JEFFREY
Duncan -
DUNCAN
There
are so many things wrong with this, I can't believe you'd encourage him.
JEFFREY
You
haven't seen them together.
DUNCAN
I
don't need to. Auggie is straight, and
married, and his wife's pregnant. Jesus,
take a hint.
You
want him to be miserable?
JEFFREY
No,
of course not. Why do you think I gave
him the love potion in the first place?
DUNCAN
Apparently
because you were too chickenshit to use it on the guy you wanted to, a guy who
was at least actually gay to begin with.
JEFFREY
So
that would have been all right?
DUNCAN
No,
but currently you're just playing into every conservative religious person's
stereotypical gay nightmare.
JEFFREY
And
which nightmare is that exactly? They
have so many. They're obsessed with us.
DUNCAN
The
one where we gay men are constantly prowling around, looking to convert
unsuspecting straight men. Enough guys
do what Micah did, they set the movement back fifty years.
JEFFREY
Not
everything is about gay civil rights.
DUNCAN
We
don't have the luxury of being careless.
JEFFREY
Oh,
so as long as we're good little boys, stick to our own kind, they'll leave us alone? You know better than that.
DUNCAN
But
why provoke people with a stunt like this?
JEFFREY
We
are actively working to undo this as quickly as possible.
Micah
is not taking advantage of Auggie. I'd be surprised to hear he laid a finger on
him.
DUNCAN
Damage
is done, buddy.
JEFFREY
Look,
I made a mistake, he made a mistake.
DUNCAN
Drugging
somebody is a little more than a mistake.
JEFFREY
So
you're going to turn us into the police.
DUNCAN
Right. Because they'd believe this situation was actually
happening.
Why
would you just wait around for someone to change their mind?
JEFFREY
I'm
not just waiting around. He's my
friend. Friends spend time together.
DUNCAN
You
gave him a love potion he used on someone else.
Again, take a hint.
JEFFREY
So
what exactly do you do?
DUNCAN
What
exactly - ?
JEFFREY
When
you like somebody, you know, rather than just wait around for them to change
their mind, what do you do?
DUNCAN
I
tell them I like them, I ask for their phone number, I engage them in
conversation, I assume they don't need to be hit over the head.
JEFFREY
This
is new for me.
DUNCAN
What?
JEFFREY
Being
the one someone is interested in.
DUNCAN
Well,
it's fading fast if you don't get your act together.
JEFFREY
And
what exactly would constitute getting my act together?
DUNCAN
"An
it harm none, do what ye will."
JEFFREY
What's
with the ye olde Englishe all of a sudden?
DUNCAN
OK
- And if it harms none, do what you will.
JEFFREY
I
understood you the first time, I just -
DUNCAN
If
you're ever wondering what you should do, as a Wiccan, hopefully you ask
yourself the question, "How can I cause the least harm?"
JEFFREY
And
- ?
DUNCAN
Did
you ask yourself any questions at all?
Did you consider the harm you might be doing?
JEFFREY
But
I didn't do anything.
DUNCAN
Not
directly, no. Actually what you did was
worse. You handed off a love potion when
you weren't entirely sure what it was going to do, to a person who knew even
less about what he was doing than you did.
JEFFREY
Are
you actually angry with me right now?
DUNCAN
Yes.
Because I want to think you're better
than that. I want to think I'm attracted
to people who are better than that. But
it seems like every pretty surface just has a moron underneath it.
JEFFREY
I
am battling right now between being mad that you called me a moron, and
thrilled that you called me pretty.
DUNCAN
You
have irreparably damaged their friendship.
Your friend and his best friend.
There's no going back after this.
The trust has been violated in a way I'm not sure they can ever get
past. Not to mention his pregnant wife.
JEFFREY
Yeah,
that's bad. I get that.
DUNCAN
Did
you get it before you gave him the love potion in the first place?
JEFFREY
What?
DUNCAN
Did
you actually think - this either isn't going to work, or if it does, it's going
to end up driving a wedge between them and then maybe Micah will see me as the
only alternative he has left.
JEFFREY
Wow. You are way overthinking this.
DUNCAN
Which
means you're underthinking it.
JEFFREY
I
just wanted him to be happy.
DUNCAN
No,
you're careless. You didn't think it
through.
JEFFREY
It
sounds like if I thought it through and did it anyway, you'd have thought I was
an even worse person.
DUNCAN
Maybe,
but at least then I'd think you were a person who took the time to consider the
consequences of his actions before taking them.
JEFFREY
I
had several days when I was making the love potion to think about this. And then a few days before that when I was
considering whether to make it or not, and get the ingredients -
DUNCAN
And
the whole time - ?
JEFFREY
I
was wondering if I could work up the nerve to actually use it on Micah myself.
DUNCAN
But
you didn't.
JEFFREY
I
mean, if I did it without telling him, that'd be wrong, right? But I'd still know. Even if he said he loved me, I could never
really believe it because I'd altered his consciousness to suit myself.
DUNCAN
So,
instead of doing that, you just set him up to do the same thing to somebody
else.
JEFFREY
Man. I suck.
DUNCAN
Look,
you've got most of the raw materials you need.
It'll
be a while till the delivery truck gets around to me.
Go,
get your stuff together. Get the
pre-mixing out of the way. When the last
piece of the puzzle arrives, I'll give you a call.
JEFFREY
Did
I screw this up before it even started?
DUNCAN
The
love potion, yes.
JEFFREY
And
the you and me, potential us?
DUNCAN
Let's
get the mess you came in with cleaned up first.
Then
we'll deal with everything else.
(to be continued)
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