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GUASTI COSE
SCENE ONE MARQUETTE COVE COURTHOUSE
Rain pelts against the windows of the courthouse as Darren Reynolds steps through the front doors, shaking out his umbrella. The dreary weather is the perfect symbolization of his mood at the moment as he prepares to watch Blake Thomas' bail hearing. His feels are a mish-mash of anger and guilt and sadness, wanting so much for Blake not to have to spend a life in prison, but also knowing that he can't trust anything that Blake tells him anymore.
Blake claims to not have killed Aaron Maddock, but there was gunpowder residue on his hands after the murder and his fingerprints were found on the gun. Not to mention the fact that Darren found Blake and his best friend Vince in hushed whispers at the police department last night. He's sure that Vince knows all about Blake's affair with Aaron, the fact that he slept with the man on the eve of his wedding. And he's not all that sure that Vince wasn't a motivator for Blake's bad behavior. Vince might act like the perfect citizen now, but Darren has seen first-hand the kind of damage Vince can inflict on others. He could be up to his old tricks again and bringing Blake along for the ride. "Darren." Speak of the devil. Darren turns to face Vincent Moore as he strides down the hallway toward him. "I'm glad you're here," Vince says. "Blake needs all the support he can get." Darren folds his arms in a standoffish stance. "I think he's gotten enough of that from you, don't you think? Whether it will do any good is an entirely different manner." "You know, Blake loves you. I thought you loved him," Vince snaps. "I don't see why you're being such an asshole." "If he loved me so much, he wouldn't have cheated on me with Aaron!" Darren insists. "He wouldn't have lied to me about where he was going every night for the past year!" Vince is blunt, "you two weren't dating." "Well, which is it?" Darren demands. "We weren't dating, or I owe him?" "I don't see how those two are mutually —" "Darren Reynolds," Constance Lake, the District Attorney, approaches Darren with all the guile of the devil ready to make a deal with Faust. Darren has gone up against her in court several times. And he's lost every single time. The woman is a shark. "What can I do for you?" "I hear you're out of work these days. How would you like to come work for the District Attorney's office?" Vince cuts in, eyeing Constance suspiciously. "And exactly what would his first case be?"
Constance's grins the widest Cheshire grin that Vince and Darren have ever seen. "Prosecuting Blake Thomas to the full extent of death row."
Yet things shall always remain... Guasti Cose. |
