Forgetting the Pain

March 12, 2003

Al voice: Do you remember what you dreamed about when you were a kid, what you wanted most of all? Did you ever tell anyone your dreams? Or were you afraid? Afraid they'd laugh at you?

Bartender: Just fixing this plug. Some jerk ripped it out of the wall. Be right with you.

Lindsay: That's ok, I don't want a drink. I was looking for Troy Maciver. Has he been back?

Nora: You know you're in trouble when the likes of Troy Maciver wants nothing to do with you.

Lindsay: No one's talking to you, Nora.

Nora: Wish I could feel sorry for you. That would be the mature course of action, but I just -- I'm not feeling very mature. I'm so tired of hating you, but the truth is, Lindsay, I just do.

Lindsay: If I were you, I would leave me the hell alone. I'm just looking for Troy.

*~*

Nora: What is it about you, Lindsay? What is this need you have to connect your life to mine?

Lindsay: What?

Nora: I can't go anywhere and do anything without you being there. Dinner at the palace --

Lindsay: Leave me alone.

Nora: No, there's Lindsay. A function at the hospital and, oops, there she is, there's Lindsay.

Lindsay: Stop it, Nora.

Nora: I can't even fall in love and try and live my life without you being there. Lindsay, Lindsay, Lindsay, everywhere I turn. How's it feel to be on the receiving end of this, huh? How does it feel to rather die than have someone keep after you like this? But they still do.

Lindsay: It's a bad day to make me mad, Nora.

Nora: You already are mad, Lindsay -- stark-raving mad.

Lindsay: You're just upset because I got Troy and you didn't.

Nora: You did? Where is he, huh? Troy can go to hell as far as I'm concerned, and you can go right along there with him. He's all yours -- that is if you can manage to track him down from wherever it is that he's hiding from you.

Lindsay: If you don't care about him anymore, why does it upset you that I'm looking for him?

Nora: You know what upsets me? What upsets me is that there were good people that I loved, good, honest, decent, kind people that died today, and you are still walking around breathing their oxygen and making people's lives miserable.

Lindsay: Who died?

Nora: No. You don't get to know that because you don't care. You don't care about anything but Lindsay. That's why nobody loves you. Bo, Clint, Sam, Troy -- they don't love you. They never did.

Lindsay: Stop it, Nora.

Nora: What's the matter, can't stand the truth?

Lindsay: Because it isn't true.

Nora: That's -- oh, yes, it is. That's all we talk about behind your back. That's all we laugh about you behind your back.

Lindsay: No one is laughing at me.

Nora: Are you kidding? Look what Troy did to you, made you a laughingstock. You go and throw yourself after him, and he's used to seducing you to get information out of you, and you believe it. You believe it. You were running off to the altar with him until he got what he wanted, and then he tossed you aside. Did you learn? No. No, you just picked yourself up and ran after him some more, till he seduced you again to shut you up. And he tossed you aside again like an old dishrag. And what do you do? You pick yourself up again and you're still chasing after him when he obviously wants nothing to do with you. Laughingstock.

Lindsay: I'm sorry that someone died, but don't take it out on me.

Nora: Oh, that's right. I forgot. This is Lindsay's world. We just live in it, right?

Lindsay: Yes, is Dr. Maciver working tonight at the hospital? Do you know where he is?

*~*

Nora: Hi. I'm sorry to have to meet you here, but my office is being painted. The fumes are unbearable. Let's sit over here. Ok. What's up?

Natalie: Well, I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to mess anything up if I moved in with Cristian.

Nora: I don't have a problem with that.

Natalie: Really? Well, I mean, you were so against it before.

Nora: Well, that was before Mitch Laurence was arrested for attempted murder and kidnapping. I mean things are a tad different now. And if this will holds up, he stands to inherit a fortune. So I'm sure he'll happily give you an annulment, no matter who you're living with.

Natalie: Just like that?

Nora: Just like that. He only wanted a divorce because he stood to gain your fortune. So, now that he's going to have a fortune of his own, if he divorces you, he's going to have to give you a settlement.

*~*

Natalie: Oh, all Mitch has wanted is for me to give him a divorce.

Nora: Well, that's so he could get his hands on your money. That's why he wanted you to sleep with him -- to make an annulment impossible.

Natalie: Well, I don't want an annulment. I want a divorce.

Nora: But you didn't sleep with Mitch Laurence. You never consummated the marriage.

Natalie: Yes, I did.