#284 "Blood Lines" GUASTI COSE
#284 "Blood Lines"
Season Seven | Episode Thirty Three
October 29, 2008

POLOKWANE, SOUTH AFRICA
STERKFONTEIN CAVES

"I will have him drink of me, and turn me to the darkness," Akilah Moore says, tilting her head and allowing Chris Server to sink his fangs into her.

Her eyes widen in fear and a single tear rolls down her eyes as Chris drains the blood and life from her body. Midway through biting her, he slides his fangs from her skin and kisses her lips.

"I shall look upon the darkness and accept Akilah Moore as my bride, my Princess of the Night," Chris says. "And I will have her drink of me, and turn her to the darkness..."

He cuts his own neck, moving Akilah's lips to the blood and letting her drink from him.

"Drink," Chris whispers softly. "Drink, and be mine..."

"And join us in the darkness," Quentin Blood finishes.

"No!"

Quentin turns his head, finding Vincent Moore emerge from the cave's darkness. Alec Bale follows behind him with a limping Julia Mitchell. "Vincent. You are too late. My daughter has —"

"She is not your daughter!" Vincent says, advancing on Quentin. "Stop saying that!"

"But she is!" Quentin says, smiling. "I remember vividly the night that I ventured into that park in Chicago, lust in my heart. I found a victim...but she was far too beautiful to drain. I couldn't kill her. And so I made her my lover that night, beneath the starlight sky. Through some act of nature, she was impregnated..."



HANLEY HOME
1989

"What is that you want?" Leslie Moore demands, following her sister Yolanda into the foyer of the Hanley mansion. She's more than pissed off that Yolanda interrupted dinner to pull her into yet another inane conversation, and Yolanda can read it all over Leslie's face.

Yolanda presses forward anyway. "Did you tell Sean you're pregnant?"

"That is none of your business!" Leslie whispers, craning her neck to see if anyone is listening to them.

"There has to be some reason you aren't telling Sean that you're pregnant."

"You want an answer? Fine, I'll tell you! I was raped."

Yolanda's mouth falls open in shock. "Oh, Leslie...are you serious?"

Leslie turns away from her sister. Without looking her in the eyes she responds, "Yes."

Yolanda grabs Leslie by her shoulders, spinning her around. "That is not funny, Leslie. You know very well that our mother was raped! I was just a little girl, spending the night in the hospital with our mother when some monster brutalized her. And you have the fucking nerve to sit here and tell me you were raped?"

"I was!" Leslie insists. "The first time!"

"The first time? The first time you were high off your fucking ass. I've kept your secrets from Sean. I kept him from finding out about your stints in rehab, the money stealing, the drugs you still did right up until you got pregnant," Yolanda says. "I thought what happened then was enough to shock you into a normal life. But you did the same thing again, didn't you? You slept with him again?"

Leslie remains silent, biting her lip.

"So go ahead and tell me the truth. Akilah isn't Sean's daughter, is she? Just like Vincent isn't his son?"


Love is eternal. Life is forever.
Yet things shall always remain...
Guasti Cose.

POLOKWANE, SOUTH AFRICA
OUTSIDE THE STERKFONTEIN CAVES

"I think this is it," Matt Holden says, leading the way toward the large set of caves before them. "It was marked on Sara's map. So she should be in here with Vince and the others."

"Thank you, Matthew," Leslie Hanley says, turning to face Michael Hanley and Felicia Bale. "I want you to stay out here with Felicia. Michael and I will go inside."

"I'm going inside to get my son and my niece," Felicia insists.

"Don't argue, Felicia!" Leslie snaps. "We need to be adults about this, just so let me go in with Michael first."

Felicia is about to say something else, but stops herself when Michael shoots her a sympathetic glance. "Fine."

Leslie nods, leading the way with Michael following behind her.

"What a bi..." Felicia allows her voice to trail off once she remembers Matt is standing next to her.

"Oh, it's cool," Matt says. "I remember what a huge bitch Aunt Leslie used to be when she was all cracked out on drugs and they took her kids away from her."

Felicia, irritated, narrows her eyes at Matt. "And I seem to remember a certain young man who had to be shipped off and locked away in London to kick his own drug problem."

"Touch�."



MARQUETTE COVE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
1990

"Are you sure you're ready for this?" Yolanda asks, sitting down next to her sister in the hospital laboratory waiting room.

Leslie nods. "I need this. I can't get my life together if I don't know."

Yolanda wipes the hair from her sister's face. "I am so proud of you. Putting your life back together like this. No more drugs, no more lies. Starting fresh. Finally letting Sean into your life..."

Dr. Cyrus Anderson opens the door to the lab, emerging into the waiting room. He smiles, hugging a clipboard close to his chest.

"Well, Cyrus?" Leslie says, her eyes widened and ready for a surprise, good or bad.

"Akilah is most definitely Sean's daughter," Cyrus says.

"Oh my God!" Leslie gasps, leaping from her seat and hugging Cyrus. She pushes him and onto the floor. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!"

"I'll leave you two alone," Cyrus says, heading toward the door. "Don't be a stranger, Leslie. You and Sean are always welcome in my and Tina's home."

Once Cyrus is gone, Yolanda approaches her sister to give her a hug as well, but Leslie holds off.

"Stay away from me," Leslie snaps.

"Leslie...what?"

"You were going to tell Sean, weren't you? If Akilah wasn't his, you were going to tell him? Even after all I've done to put my life together for once?"

Yolanda rolls her eyes. "You're being ridiculous."

"No I'm not," Leslie says. "Everyone else is behind me? But my own sister has never been."

"You can't keep these secrets from Sean," Yolanda says. "Not if you really love him! He deserves the truth! Otherwise your relationship will be full of lies and deceit, and you might —"

"What? Start using again?" Leslie demands. "Go to hell, Yolanda. Go to hell and get out of my life."

As Leslie heads toward the door, she is surprised by a man they both know appearing in the doorway. He first looks at Yolanda, who looks away in embarrassment, then at an angry Leslie.

"What's going on?"

"Who told you? Yolanda?" Leslie demands.

"No, a nurse is a friend of mine," he says. "She told me you were here at the lab, and I...I had to see it with my own eyes. I had to hear the good news."

"Excuse me," Yolanda says, quickly exiting.

Leslie watches her sister go, then she approaches the man standing before her. Her expression is cold and fierce. She slaps him across the face. "Akilah is not your daughter, she's Sean's. So I would like it very much if you would do like I told you and stay the hell away from me, Derek."



POLOKWANE, SOUTH AFRICA
STERKFONTEIN CAVES

"Through some act of nature, she was impregnated. I could sense it afterward, sense the child growing inside her...weeks, months later. But what I could sense was also sensed by another in the town. A witch," Quentin continues. "A witch responsible for cursing me, blinding me from my quest and wiping the memories of my daughter from my mind. For years, I could remember nothing. And then...there was a realization. When my memories came back, I realized that my daughter was still near, and I was led to my beautiful Princess...Akilah."

"No, Akilah is not your daughter."

Startled, Quentin turns toward the cave entrance where the voice traveled from. Vince turns in the same direction, followed by Akilah and the others in the cavern.

They are all shocked to find Leslie striding into the candlelit cavern with Michael in tow.

"Akilah is not your daughter," Leslie says, repeating her words while coming face-to-face with Quentin. "I am."

END OF EPISODE #284

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