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Characters: Nikolas Cassadine, Alfred
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Nadine: You don’t have to carry me.
Nikolas: Oh, come on. You’re suffering from — from smoke inhalation. I don’t want you to get winded. You need to rest and recuperate.
Nadine: Well, I’m — I’m grateful to be alive and that you pulled me out of that fire.
Nikolas: Even though you insisted that I get Matt Hunter out first?
Nadine: Well, if you hadn’t, he might have died.
Nikolas: Yeah, but see, if you would have died, I would have never forgiven myself for leaving you behind, see?
Nadine: Well, I didn’t, and I feel like I’m here under false pretenses. I mean, I don’t mind resting for a couple of days, but I’m not really that hurt.
Nikolas: No? Well, I’ll tell you what. Think of it this way. If you’re here, well, that means that you’re not climbing through the police commissioner’s window or following people around on the docks or getting yourself burnt to a crisp. See, it’s very therapeutic to me.
Nadine: Ah, okay, well, then.
Alfred: Good afternoon, Miss Crowell. I welcome you on behalf of the entire staff, and we’ll do our best to make your stay here as comfortable as possible.
Nadine: Well, thank you, Mr. — Oh, Alfred, I don’t know your last name.
Alfred: You only address a butler by his first name, Miss.
Nadine: Oh, well, in that case, you’re going to have to call me Nadine.
Alfred: It’s an honor to have you here, Nadine, and might I express my personal delight that you were not incinerated last evening.
Nadine: Yeah, I’m feeling pretty good about that myself.
Nikolas: Okay, so I ordered some roasted chicken for dinner. What are you doing?
Nadine: Where’s the vacuum?
Nikolas: The what?
Nadine: Vacuum cleaner. It’s a machine. It’s picks up dust and crumbs, sometimes it has a big hose or a bag. On wheels, and you push it or pull it. It makes a lot of noise.
Nikolas: I’m sorry. I have no idea.
Nadine: Well, I need one. I got cookie crumbs all over the place, and no offense to your cleaning lady, but there’s a bunch of dust bunnies under that chair.
Nikolas: Dust what? What’s a dust bunny?
Nadine: I never know when you’re teasing.
Nikolas: I’ll tell you what. I’ll tell Alfred, and he’ll take care of everything. How’s that?
Nadine: Oh, I hope I didn’t get Alfred into trouble.
Nikolas: No, no, of course not. In fact, he may have said something about the maid being on vacation. She usually does all the cleaning on this floor.
Nadine: I — I’m not complaining. I just didn’t want to leave a mess.
Nikolas: No, no. But see, the idea here is for you to get some rest while my staff takes care of you. You understand?
Nadine: Yeah, I don’t know if I was meant to be waited on.
Nikolas: Well, could you get used to it, just for me?
Nadine: It’s not that difficult to do chores on crutches. I mean, it takes a little longer, but they get done. And I was lucky that all I got out of it was a broken leg.
Nikolas: From falling off of a hay truck?
Nadine: Yeah, well, it was pretty late into the night, and my brother warned me to stop stacking so quickly, but I wouldn’t listen. I just wanted to finish. Anyway, that broken leg was a lot worse than a little smoke inhalation.
Nikolas: So what you’re saying is, you’re immune to pain.
Nadine: I’m not in pain, except when I cough. And I definitely don’t need to be pampered.
Nikolas: I disagree with you.
Nadine: Why’d you stay with me at the hospital? And why’d you bring me back here? I mean, I thought maybe we were on to something before the fire, but it seems like something’s changed.
Nikolas: Yeah. Um, I don’t know, when I — when I pulled you out of — out of the building and I thought I was too late, and you weren’t breathing, I — look, I don’t know, I — I guess — I don’t quite know what’s going on, but I know that something’s going on, something good.
Nadine: I don’t know what to say, for once.
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