Anthony Douglas #2

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FADE IN

INT: LOCKER ROOM - HOURS BEFORE GAME OVER

Anthony Douglas walks into a private dressing room in his normal gear (Black shirt, blue jeans, black cowboy hat, full length black leather duster, black boots, leather belt, sunglasses). Plainly decorated in gray paint and no wall decorations, Anthony takes his shades off and looks around. He takes out a piece of paper from his inside jacket pocket and sneers.

ANTHONY

I am totally alone. I know the feeling. I know how I react to it. I know what what it is. When you're totally alone, all you hear is a heartbeat. The sounds of emptiness are relaxing to me. The wind blowing unbroken by humanity; the sounds of the heart beating in one's chest; the perfect unbroken silence that I look for. People have told me in sessions where they try to understand me that I will get that silence when I am in the grave. I looked at them, smiled and told them that the grave will come soon enough.

Anthony walks into the room, hangs up the jacket and walks to the urinal.

VOICE

You thought you could leave and not deal with me anymore?

Anthony looks up with terror in his eyes. He flushes the john and looks in the mirror over the skin. Anthony stares at Anthony's reflection. . .a strange, almost evil smile on the reflection's face.

ANTHONY

I told you to leave me alone!

VOICE

Anthony, I can't leave you alone! You're part of me! I am you! I'm what you created, remember?

Anthony turns away and puts his hands over his head.

ANTHONY

Go away!!! Dammit!!! Leave me!!!

VOICE

I came with you because you know you wanted me to! Look at you! You're so weak with me! You're still trying to run from the past! You're still looking to make sure your family's death didn't happen! But it did happen and you made me to deal with it!!!

ANTHONY

What do you want with me?

VOICE

We have unfinished business! People from that other place followed you! Remember them? Lantlas cost you a fight because his friends got involved! Seth told you that you were sh*t under his feet!! Remember, you shot up his poster? You unloaded that gun you have loaded for yourself into his poster and said that he would die slowly!!!

ANTHONY

Enough!

VOICE

Al Laiman wanted you to be a his lap dog and I know you've heard his name mentioned in this place. And that savage Kri thought you sucked! All of them needed to get taken out! All of them needed to die in that HHW. . .all of them need to die now!!!

ANTHONY

ENOUGH!!!

Anthony punches the mirror, shattering it and cutting his hand. Anthony falls to the ground, looking at the blood coming out.

VOICE

You can't get rid of me that easily!

Anthony looks up and his demeanor has changed.

ANTHONY (calm, evil)

Nothing has changed! Nothing will change! Those four ran away from me once. . .they will not run away! They will not! I promise that! Lantlas. . .nothing has changed. You may switch your eyes from green to blue, red to purple. . .the only thing that's really going to change is that I am going to change your skin from pale white to blood red! The only thing that's going to change is your ability to walk upright! You and the rest of sycophants from the HHW that belly crawled over here. . .Nothing's f*cking changed! Only the scenery. Instead of GeNeo, it's Dominion. . .Instead of CUBA, it's some other group of crying asshats that don't deserve the privledge of chewing solid food! Nothing's changed! Nothing will! I told you people back there it wouldn't be over so long as I am breathing air, and I meant it!

Anthony stands up and walks to the mirror. The broken reflection smiles back.

VOICE

So, are we agreed?

ANTHONY

I know I'm going to hell. All that matters is who I am taking with me.

VOICE

Welcome home, Anthony!

FADE TO BLACK