The Hourglass - A Days series (Read 1,358 times)

[billiereed]

I am really excited to share my first story here! It's an ensemble. I'd love to hear your thoughts on characters and couples you'd like to see featured prominently! Anyway, this series will be told in script format for the time being. It picks up from the 11/7/14th episode of Days of Our Lives. Happy reading! Please note: I hope to update this once a week but please bear with me as I am in the middle of moving and it's kind of stressful haha

Episode 1
Original Airdate – November 10th, 2014

Scene One: Horton Square

JJ spots Eve approaching him from across the square. She’s wearing a coat with the collar turned up, almost obscuring her face.

JJ: Eve? Do you really think this is the best place for us to meet?

Eve: Shhh! Come with me.

JJ: Wh-what?

(JJ breaks off as Eve yanks him through the throng of people, looking both ways as she does so. She pulls them right into the south end of the Salem park.)

JJ: You wanted to talk?

Eve: Of course I did. We have to get our stories straight. If Paige ever finds out what happened last night…

JJ: She won’t. How could she? No one knows. No one was around. But it doesn’t matter, because she has a right to know. I promised her that I wouldn’t keep anymore secrets and this one...

Eve: Shut up, JJ. You’re not going to say a word to my daughter about us sleeping together. You know if she finds out, she will never, ever forgive either of us!

(Little do Eve and JJ know that they've been overheard. Chad Dimera who is hidden a ways back, breaks into a wide grin.)

~*~*~*

Scene Two: Upstairs at The Brady Pub

Theresa’s eyes pop open and she looks about groggily.

Theresa: What the –

(She looks around and discovers she’s in a bedroom above The Brady Pub. She looks very confused. She looks down at her clothes. She’s wearing pajama bottoms and a tank top. She tugs at the fabric.)

Theresa: Okay this is too weird. I don’t remember how I got back here, let alone getting into my pajamas.

(There is suddenly a knock on the door and she jumps.)

Anne: Theresa, its Anne! Are you in there?

Theresa: (finding her voice) Yeah-yeah I’m here. (She stands up and starts to sway. She just barely catches herself on a dresser before she can take a header to the floor. The dresser rattles).

Anne: Hey, what’s going on in there? (Pounds on the door)

Theresa: Nothing, I’m coming; I’m coming. (She walks to the door and opens it.)

Anne: (taking one look at her) Oh my god.

Theresa: What?

Anne: You look like crap.

Theresa: (sneering) Gee, thanks, Anne. Just what a girl wants to hear. You look so hot yourself.

Anne: What happened to you last night? We were on the way to my place, passing through the park; and you just - poof! Vanished.

Theresa: (sagging against the door frame) Wait, I did? We never made it to your place?

Anne: (looking at her strangely) No… What the heck is wrong with you, Theresa? Did you hit Grams’ clam chowder a little too hard?

Theresa: I don’t know – I don’t know what’s wrong with me. But something definitely does not feel right. I need to get to Brady. Right now.

~*~*~*

Scene Three: Clyde’s Room

Jordan has the gun aimed dead at Clyde’s chest though it’s visibly shaking in her hand.

Clyde: Put the gun down. I said I was sorry. That not enough for you?

Jordan: Enough? Do you think ‘I’m sorry’ fixes anything? My god, Clyde, I was fifteen years old!

Clyde: I told you; I know I was wrong.

Jordan: (near sobbing) Wrong? It was more than wrong, you bastard. It was rape! (the gun shakes in her hand more) When I think of what you did… God, you make me sick… You made your fortune selling me to your friends like a freaking brood mare. (She cocks the gun again) I am going to blow you away. Nothing is going to stop me.

Clyde: Not even if I tell you what really happened with your dear Mama? Come on, Tammy Sue, do you really want two murders on your dainty little white hands?

~*~*~*

Scene Four: Dining Room at The Brady Pub

Abigail looks between Kayla and Ben and then back at the older woman.

Abby: How did this happen, Kayla? The hospital wanted nothing to do with me after that stunt Sami pulled.

Kayla: (looks at Ben and then Abby) Well there was someone in your corner pulling for you.

Abby: Who?

Kayla: Someone on the hospital board.

Abby: Who? Why are you being so vague here?

Kayla: It’s just that this person on the board, the one who got you your job back… He is… Chad Dimera.

Abby: What?

Ben: (balling his hands into fists at his sides) Son of a b****!

~*~*~*

Scene Five: Salem Park

Chad keeps grinning and then placing his hands in his pockets, saunters away whistling triumphantly under his breath.

Eve: Do you hear me, JJ? You can’t say one word about what we did – to anyone!

JJ: (rubbing his cheek) I don’t know if I can keep this quiet, Eve.

Eve: You have to. Dammit, JJ. You know that my daughter would never, ever understand why we did what we did. Hell, I still don’t know why we did it.

JJ: Me either… I mean, we were upset but it’s no excuse. I love Paige.

Eve: I love her too, of course I do. She’s my daughter. We betrayed her and I just feel sick about it. She will never forgive me for sleeping with her first boyfriend. (She grabs JJ by the lapels of his jacket.) So you will swear to me, right here and right now, that you will never, ever tell Paige or anyone else that you sexed me up.

JJ: I – I … Wait, I didn’t-

Eve: You kissed me first, JJ!

JJ: No, you kissed me first.

Eve: Well, you-

JJ: (holding up a hand to stop her) You know what? It doesn’t matter who kissed who first. The thing is we kissed and did a lot more than that too. Paige will never understand or accept it.

Eve: Damn right she won’t, so now do you see why she can never, ever know?

JJ: (reluctantly) Yeah, I see that. I won’t say a word.

Eve: Thank you, JJ! (She goes to hug him but backs away instead.) Never mind. Now just let’s go our separate ways, okay?

JJ: Gladly … (He walks off in one direction as Eve heads in another)

~*~*~*

Scene Six: Upstairs at The Brady Pub

Anne: You need to see Brady? Wait a moment, Theresa. Did you forget that he refuses to see you? That he has that butler of his acting like a guard dog just to keep you away from him?

Theresa: (rubbing her forehead) Of course I didn’t forget … that anyway. But I need him right now, Anne. You don’t understand. I feel like something really awful happened and only Brady can fix it.

Anne: What are you talking about?

Theresa: What time is it?

Anne: What?

Theresa: What time is it, Anne? How many hours am I missing?

Anne: (checking her watch) It’s five minutes to nine.

Theresa: Nine … And we left here last night at what time?

Anne: (shrugging) I don’t know, ten maybe?

Theresa: So that’s what – something like eleven hours – I can’t account for.

Anne: Theresa, you really are freaked out, aren’t you?

Theresa: (Nodding) Yes!

Anne: I bet there’s a simple explanation for all of this.

Theresa: Okay, explain it to me then. I certainly wasn’t drinking. I’m pregnant, remember?

Anne: I remember.

Theresa: (shaking her head) I just need to figure this out. I also need to make sure this baby is alright. If anything happens to him or her, I will lose Brady forever.

Anne: Okay, I’ll get you to the hospital so we can discreetly get you examined.

Theresa: Screw that. I want Brady there with me when the test comes back positive. Seeing him… everything will make sense again. I just know it.

Anne: I thought the plan was to sit on this little nugget of information for a bit.

Theresa: Plans change, Anne. Get used to it.

~*~*~*

Scene Seven: Downstairs at The Brady Pub

Ben: What a total punk! Chad Dimera is-

Abby: The only one who could get my job back.

Ben: (Staring at Abby in shock) Oh my god… You’re not seriously… I mean, you’re not thinking of taking the job?

Abby: Ben-

Ben: This is insanity, Abby. You take that job back and Chad will never be out of your hair – our hair.

Kayla looks between them with a grimace.

Kayla: I think I should go. You two need to talk about this. And just talk about it - no yelling or throwing around accusations.

Abby: I can be calm…

Ben rolls his eyes and crosses his arms.

Kayla: (kissing Abigail’s cheek) I’ll see you later, sweetie. (She offers Ben a little smile) You take care, Ben.

Once Kayla is gone, Abby reaches for Ben’s arm but he shakes free of her grasp.

Abby: Ben, come on.

Ben: No, you come on, Abby. If you go back to your old job, you’re playing right into Chad’s hands. He wants to show me up; prove that he’s Mr. Rich and Powerful and that I can’t compete with him.

Abby: You don’t need to compete with him. I’m with you, Ben. I chose you, remember? I thought we were solid.

Ben: I thought so too…

Abby: Look, Chad won’t be a problem unless you let him become one.

Ben: I don’t trust him, Abigail.

Abby: Do you trust me? Or do you – God, do you think I’m so faithless little slut like everyone else around here?

Ben: I don’t think that, Abby, of course not.

Abby: Then you need to trust me when I say that I have no interest in anything Chad, let alone anything he does. However, I need a job and I loved my job so yes, I am going back to it.

Ben: No way. You can’t.

Abby: Ben, I don’t want to hurt you here but –

Ben: Yeah, of course you don’t (He says sarcastically. He then turns on his heel and stalks to the door).

Abby: Ben, wait! Ben, where are you going? Come on! (Realizing people are staring at her; she sighs and lets him go)

~*~*~*

Scene Eight: Clyde’s Room

Jordan has tears running down her face in earnest now. Her hands are shaking more than before on the gun. Clyde eyes it but makes no attempt to fight Jordan for it. Instead he holds up his hands for a moment.

Clyde: You killed your Mama, Tammy Sue. There was no mistake; there wasn't no accidental slip of your fingers. You grabbed a gun and you killed her in cold blood. You killed your own Mama in a fit of rage!

Jordan: (vehemently shaking her head) No, no, no. That’s not how it was. I got a hold of the gun just to keep you from sending me upstairs with another one of your ‘friends’. Mama came in…

Clyde: She saw you were crying; she saw you were hysterical and do you remember, little girl, how you ran to her and told her what I was doing with you? And she –

Jordan: (Her whole body is tremoring now) And she – she didn’t believe me! Even with that monster ‘Hank the Tank’ standing there, breathing all over my neck, making me feel sick...

Clyde: Oh it was more than that, honey. She said you were lying. That I would never, ever do a thing like that. She told you to put down the gun and you didn’t. You shot her point blank in the chest, not even two paces between you. She didn’t have a chance.

Jordan: Nooooo!

Clyde: (advancing on Jordan who has a devastated, far off look on her face) Oh yes, Tammy Sue. She looked you right in the eyes and called your bluff. And you saw red and you killed her. Wasn’t no accident about it. You were purposeful and what’s that word – methodical? Yes, that’s it… You got blood all over your hands.

Jordan: (shaking her head over and over) I didn’t mean to-

Jordan breaks off as Clyde suddenly jumps on her, wrenching the gun from her hand. There is a major scuffle then and the gun goes off. We see Jordan in slow motion slide to the floor as Clyde triumphantly holds up the pistol.

[gapeach]

WHOA!! Love that Chad knows about Eve and JJ! Wonder what he is going to do with this choice nugget?? No more Jordan! How is Clyde going to fix this?!?!

[sevenna92]

So this is supposed to be a retelling of the current storylines of the show? Wow, this is pretty dang good so far! Me like!

[unavitasegreta]

What an intriguing start! Can't wait to see how things turn out for Jordan.

[fluffysmom]

Great beginning to the story. Looking forward to seeing what happens next.

[heroicmuse]

I love this! You are doing a great job with Anne and Theresa's voices in particular, and the plots...wow!

[Kpatch]

I wonder if Tammy Sue really killed her mother or if Clyde has her so mixed up that she just believes it. Either way, she's been shot, maybe dead.

Very good dialogue and descriptions. Looking forward to more, billiereed.

[billiereed]

Omgosh thanks for all the reviews thus far! It's very appreciated. Yes I am sort of rewriting the current stories onscreen, playing them differently. I think the ending of this episode will shock you but I am excited about the twist myself. Thanks everyone. More soon.

Episode 2
Original airdate: November 11th, 2014

Scene One: The Brady Pub

Abby is sitting at a table, checking the messages on her phone. There are none and she sighs. Just then Chad Dimera walks in the door and approaches her.

Chad: Abby, just the person I was hoping to see.

Abby: (rolling her eyes) Chad, what do you want?

Chad: Now come on, is that anyway to talk to the guy who’s going to save your family?

Abby: Excuse me. What are you talking about? My job – how you got me my job back? Or something else?

Chad: Something else, but how about that job ‘thing’ huh? Pretty neat, right?

Abby: (begrudgingly) Yeah, it is. I just want to know what your motive for that was exactly. You’ve made it perfectly clear that I disgust you after what I did with your brother so…

Chad: You’ve got it all wrong, Abigail. Am I angry? Yes. Do I hate you? No way.

Abby: (looking uncomfortable) Chad—

Chad: (sliding into the chair across from her) Abby, I loved you. Believe it or not, that kind of love just doesn’t evaporate. Not on my part anyway…

Abby: Chad, why are you saying all of this? Especially after last night when you took great pleasure in egging on my boyfriend and taunting me too.

Chad: (smirking) About that boyfriend … I take it he heard that I got your job back. That’s why you look so lonely and miserable.

Abby: (shaking her head) It doesn’t matter. You said something about ‘saving my family’. What did you mean by that?

Chad: (smiling) I thought you’d never ask.

~*~*~*

Scene Two: Outside the Kiriakis Mansion

Theresa and Anne are slowly sneaking up the front walk.

Anne: Theresa, are you sure you want to do this – tell Brady that he’s going to be a father – now? If you just wait awhile-

Theresa: Shh! I am doing it today, right now. Just distract Henderson somehow so I can sneak in the back way and get to Brady.

Anne: Fine, but you owe me.

Theresa shrugs and then turns and runs out of sight, around the side of the house. Anne knocks on the door and waits. Henderson promptly answers the door.

Henderson: May I help – (He stares at her closely and then starts to close the door in her face)

Anne: Hey, wait just a minute. What are you doing?

Henderson: You are not welcome on this property.

Anne: I’m not selling anything.

Henderson: (sarcastically) Of course you aren’t… Goodbye.

Anne sticks her toe in the door to stop Henderson from closing it. She winces as he squishes it.

Anne: Wow! What happened to genteel hospitality?

Henderson: It doesn’t apply to someone like you.

He squishes her toes still more and she has no choice but to jump back. He closes the door in her face.

Anne: Ouch! You piece of— (She shakes her head) You’re on your own here, Theresa.

Anne hurries off.

~*~*~*

Scene Three: Outside of the Kiriakis Mansion

Theresa arrives at the back door. She looks around and then places her hand on the doorknob. She turns it but the door won’t open.

Theresa: Dammit! (She looks around and starts to pace) How do I get in there? Wait! How do they do it in those cat burglar movies? (She lifts her hand and produces a bobby pin from her hair. She fits it into the lock and jimmies it until the door unlocks.) Aha! It works… Brady, here I come.

~*~*~*

Scene Four: Clyde’s Room

In slow motion, the final scenes from yesterday’s episode play out again. Jordan and Clyde scuffle for the gun and it goes off. Jordan hits the floor as Clyde smiles widely.

The camera spins around the room and then to Jordan who’s eyes are open. She stares up at Clyde and then feels her face, neck and shoulders, clearly looking for any wounds.

Jordan: You shot at me, you bastard!

Clyde: (smiling) It didn’t take huh? (He points to a hole in the wall where the plaster has fallen away) Looks like you got lucky. (He leans down and grabs her by the hair) You won’t be so lucky next time. Now get outta here. Just get!

Jordan wrenches herself to her feet. Tears are falling from her eyes but it’s obvious that she is livid. She shoves a finger into his face.

Jordan: This isn’t over, Clyde.

Clyde: I got the gun and I say it is. I will kill you for real next time you come busting in here. Now get out.

Jordan shakes her head and storms out, slamming the door loudly behind her.

Clyde grins as he tucks the gun into a drawer on the bedside table.

Clyde: (grinning) Time for a shower.

He heads into the bathroom, whistling the whole way.

~*~*~*

Scene Five: Daniel’s Apartment

Daniel is moving around the apartment, gathering up things. He takes his keys off the coffee table and slips them into his pocket. He goes to the coat rack and pulls down the tan coat JJ borrowed the night before. He has just slid it on when there is a knock on the door. He sighs and opens it. We see Nicole standing there.

Daniel: Nicole, I really don’t have the time for this. I have to get to the hospital. I have to prep for a surgery. I’m not falling apart anymore so I don’t need you here right now.

Nicole: Is that why your eyes are bloodshot and you look like you’ve barely slept?

Daniel: Thanks a lot… Why are you here? To give me a pep talk? As much as I appreciate that…

Nicole: Relax, Daniel. No, I’m not here to hold your hand, I promise.

Daniel: Then what do you want?

Nicole: There is talk around the hospital that there is a patient under your care, a secret patient.

Daniel: (Looking shocked) How did you find – I mean, how did you – Darn it. Who told you, Nicole?

Nicole: I have my sources.

Daniel: Well, that source is going to be fired. Was it Anne Milbauer? I would love nothing more than to get her canned.

Nicole: I never reveal my sources. (She opens her purse and withdraws a recorder) So, Daniel, who is Patient Y?

Daniel: Patient Y?

Nicole: Come on. Who’s the person you’re treating? And is he or she who you are doing surgery on today?

Daniel: As much as I appreciate that you want to ‘get to the truth’, I can’t and won’t tell you.

Nicole: Come on, Daniel. If you don’t give me a scoop, I am going to lose my job!

~*~*~*

Scene Six: The Brady Pub

Abby: Well, what is it? What information do you have that can ‘save’ my family?

Chad: I happened upon some – shall we say – interesting information this morning.

Abby: About my family?

Chad: About your brother.

Abby: What about JJ?

Chad: I was taking a morning stroll through the park when I happened to see talking your brother talking to someone.

Abby: Who? Chad, stop with the subterfuge and just spit out whatever it is you have to say.

Chad: I saw JJ and his girlfriend’s Mom. Eve. That’s her name right?

Abby: Yes. (swallowing hard) What about them?

Chad: Well, they were talking about how they had bedded down together.

Abby: (eyes going huge in her face) What? You’re kidding! No, you’re lying.

Chad: Come on, Abigail, why would I do that?

Abby: Because you’ll do absolutely anything to try to get under my skin.

Chad: I don’t need to do a thing. I am already under your skin.

Abby: You are such a jerk. I am not going to sit here and listen to your lies anymore. JJ would never cheat on Paige, let alone with that – that woman!

Chad: Oh come on, Abby. You know better than anyone how easily someone can be taken for a ride by someone older… More seductive … Someone who says all the right things…

Abby openly fumes at him.

~*~*~*

Scene Seven: Daniel’s Apartment

Nicole: Come on, Daniel. I need a hot story or hell, a lukewarm one, or I’m going to lose my job!

Daniel: What are you talking about?

Nicole: My producer Miles called this morning. He says that lately my stories have been lacking. I am on the chopping block if I don’t find something – anything - that brings in more viewers.

Daniel: I am sorry to hear that, Nicole, but my hands are tired. I signed a clause which permits me from saying anything. And even if I hadn’t, I still wouldn’t tell you. There’s such a thing as doctor-patient confidentiality.

Nicole: Daniel—

Daniel: That’s all, Nicole. I don’t want to see you at the hospital anytime soon.

Nicole: Not even if I’m a patient?

Daniel: Let’s hope it won’t come to that.

Daniel ushers her out, offers her a wave which she returns with a grimace.

Daniel: Remember what I said, Nicole.

He climbs onto the elevator and the doors slide closed.

Nicole: Sorry, Daniel, but I can’t do what you say. My butt is on the line here.

She then turns on her heel and heads in the opposite direction.

~*~*~*

Scene Eight: The Kiriakis Mansion

Theresa walks through the mansion, headed to the living room’s double doors. Just then Henderson bursts in.

Theresa: (horrified) Henderson!

Henderson: I knew when I saw your cohort that you had to be somewhere around. Well, no matter, you are leaving now.

Theresa: No, Henderson. Stop pretending to be some vicious pit bull when you’re really just a big, fluffy puppy. You used to like me, didn't you? Can’t you just let me through? I really, really need to see Brady!

Henderson: I can’t allow that.

Theresa: Well, too bad. I’m going to see him whether you like it or not.

Henderson: You can’t-

Theresa: Oh, yes I can!

She darts past him, darting under his arm as he reaches for her. She runs for the stairs, screaming “Brady! Brady!” at the top of her lungs.

*~*~*~*

Scene Nine: The Brady Pub

Abby: I am going to choose to ignore that nasty snipe about EJ and me, and ask why - why if JJ did actually, as you claim, sleep with Eve Larson…You have to be the one to tell me.

Chad: I just thought you should know. So you can nip this thing –whatever it is – in the bud. I’d absolutely hate for your family to be publically shamed yet again.

Abby: (getting up and grabbing her things) I don’t want to hear another word.

Chad: (smirking) Come on, don’t go away angry.

Abby shoves away from the table and stomps outside. She has a horrified, shell-shocked look on her face. She turns to look back through the window where Chad is talking to a waitress.

Abby: I don’t believe you, Chad. JJ would never sleep with Paige’s mother … I mean, he wouldn’t, would he?

She looks at her cell phone and starts to text a message. It reads, “JJ, meet me at the house. We need to talk – NOW!!!”

~*~*~*

Scene Ten: Clyde’s Room

The sound of the shower and Clyde humming loudly can be heard as the door opens and someone slips inside the room, shutting the door after them. We don’t see his or her face, just two gloved hands. We hear dramatic, swelling music as the intruder moves about the room. They open drawers and even the closet and finally make their way to the bedside table. They lock their hands around the gun and **** the pistol, moving towards the bathroom.

Clyde is still humming but stops suddenly, looking around.

Clyde: Is someone there? I swear to heaven, Jordan, if you—

He breaks off as he yanks back the curtain. His eyes go wide and we see the gloved hands pull the trigger twice. Clyde’s eyes go wide as blood spurts from his chest. He lets out a curse and then slides down in the shower to the floor, dead.

The person tosses the gun to the ground and hurries out.

[fluffysmom]

Great ending to the chapter. I liked Chad telling Abby about JJ's dirty secret. Looking forward to finding out if Jordan was the shooter or if it's someone else.

[sevenna92]

Yay! Clyde is dead! I wonder who shot the guy?

Wow, Theresa is really determined to tell Brady about the news of her pregnancy. Well, good luck to her. How hilarious that Anne tried to distract Henderson so Theresa can sneak into the house.

And whoa, Abby found out about J.J. sleeping with Eve. Uh oh...

[gapeach]

Can't wait till Abby and JJ's conversation! Am loving this story and the way it is playing out here!

[André DiMera]

This is an awesome story so far! I can't wait to see who shot Clyde. Personally, I don't think it's Jordan, but I could be very wrong. Great story so far, billiereed!

[heroicmuse]

Poor JJ. Abby is the last person who needs to know about this, with Chad a close second.

Great job so far billiereed. I can't wait for the next installment.