Speaker 1: Oh, Calvin, you're early. You look ridiculous. It's really you
don't think it's too much.
Speaker 2: It's perfect. Is this what you're wearing for our flight? Lesson?
Speaker 1: Because you'll be a little uncomfortable distracting. It's a dress, Calvin.
I'm sure you've seen women in Phoenix wearing them.
Speaker 2: Not you.
Speaker 1: You weren't supposed to see it. I picked up my
Christmas bank address from the post office on my way
over here, and I thought i'd try it on before
you got here.
Speaker 2: Do you want me to leave and come back in
twenty minutes?
Speaker 1: No? Actually, can you help me with the zipper?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 2: I thought about what you said about why I stopped flying,
and there's something you should know.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 2: I've never told anyone this.
Speaker 1: You only have to tell me if you want to.
I don't want to push you.
Speaker 2: You're right. I am afraid, but not a flying or
crashing or anything like that. I'm afraid of remembering remembering
what the day my mom died. Oh, she died after
a car accident. I was flying when it happened. My
dad got me on the radio. He told me to
land and call him immediately. I asked if everything was okay,
and he said, yes, everything was fine, but that he
wanted me home, so I ignored him. I was seventeen
and I wanted to keep flying. I had no idea
My mom was in a hospital slipping away, and I
wasn't there. I never got to say goodbye.
Speaker 1: That's terrible.
Speaker 2: I blamed my dad for all of it.
Speaker 1: You need a clear head to land a plane. Telling
you something like that while you're in the air is
way too dangerous.
Speaker 2: But he lied to me.
Speaker 1: Any pilot would have done the same thing.
Speaker 2: You would have lied to.
Speaker 1: Me if it meant protecting you.
Speaker 2: Promise me you'll always tell me the truth, no matter what.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you can't tell the truth.
Speaker 2: I understand why he did it, but I never forgave him.
Speaker 1: That's why you and Walter stopped talking.
Speaker 2: That was the beginning of the end. That winter, I
flew in the festival and had my accident. I swore
a flying and left for college as soon as I could.
I wasted so much time being angry at him because
I thought that it made it hurt less. Now that
he's gone, I realized all this time I've been mad
at myself.
Speaker 1: Do you want to know what Walter said? About you.
He told me you made him a better man. He
said that, Yes, he loved you so much.
Speaker 2: He never said it.
Speaker 1: From what you've told me, it sounds like you never
said it to him either.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not going to make that same mistake again. Abby.
There's something else I've been wanting to tell you. Okay,
thank you for being there for me, helping me. These
last few days have been the best days I've had
in a long time. And if you want me to
stay in Northern Pines longer, say the word.
Speaker 1: I thought you didn't like it here.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to face my past, and now I
have because of you.
Speaker 1: Do you want to stay?
Speaker 2: I'm not ready to say goodbye to you. I think
there's something between us.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say.
Speaker 2: Think about it. If you want to give this a try,
I'll stay. Tomorrow's Christmas Eve. You can tell me then. Okay,
So are we flying this plane or what?
Speaker 1: Calvin?
Speaker 2: You did it because of you?
Speaker 1: No, this was all you.
Speaker 2: Where are we flying today?
Speaker 4: Let's do a.
Speaker 1: Wide loop over downtown. I think you know the way.
Speaker 2: I remember.
Speaker 1: Great job today, Calvin, you were amazing up there.
Speaker 2: I can't thank you enough.
Speaker 1: You feel ready for tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: Will you be there watching?
Speaker 1: Of course I'll be there, Calvin. What's wrong?
Speaker 2: Is someone in the hangar?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Why I thought I saw something? It's dark. My mind's
playing tricks on me.
Speaker 1: What did you think you saw?
Speaker 2: You're gonna think I'm crazy?
Speaker 1: Try me.
Speaker 2: I thought I saw my dad.
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, Calvin, what think best?
Speaker 2: Oh? You are so dead?
Speaker 1: Miss me? Miss me again. Weren't you captain of the
football team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so don't make me tackle you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for breaking my fall.
Speaker 2: Any time? Are you doing that thing again?
Speaker 1: What thing?
Speaker 2: The thing where you make someone want to kiss you?
Probably you know that's not actually a thing?
Speaker 1: Right right now?
Speaker 4: I don't care, Abby, Sorry, I'm late. I Oh, you're
not ready and completely coved in snow.
Speaker 1: Trevor, I am so sorry. The flight lesson ran a
little long.
Speaker 4: The flight lesson right, that's what this is.
Speaker 5: I'll be ready in five minutes. Here, I got us
some old cider.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 1: They really went all out decorating this year. I've never
seen so many points that is in one room.
Speaker 4: It's nice.
Speaker 1: Are you going to give me the silent treatment all night?
Or can we talk about this?
Speaker 4: What is there to talk about?
Speaker 1: Calvin? Thought he saw Walter in the hanger. I had
to distract him.
Speaker 4: So you decided to roll around in the snow with
him making out.
Speaker 1: We weren't making out, you were about to. Everything happened
so fast.
Speaker 4: He's not Thomas. You understand that, right?
Speaker 1: Yes? I understand?
Speaker 4: Are you sure? Because I've never seen you remotely interested
in anyone You've known Calvin all of and you're acting
like a hormonal teenager so.
Speaker 1: I like him? Why is that so bad? Can't you
just be happy for me?
Speaker 4: No? I can't. You're drawing too much attention to yourself.
People have noticed.
Speaker 1: What's that supposed to mean?
Speaker 4: Have you forgotten that missus Cole has pictures of you
and Thomas at the Historical Society. She didn't recognize you before,
but with Calvin here, it's hard to ignore the resemblance
you two have to Thomas in that pretty blonde pilot
named Abigail. Couldn't you have at least changed your name
when you came back to Northern Pines.
Speaker 1: My name wasn't documented anywhere back then. I'm sure of that.
Missus Cole was probably fishing for information, that's what she does.
Speaker 4: No, she wasn't. She has copies of Thomas Forrester's journal pages.
Speaker 1: Thomas kept a journal.
Speaker 4: The way she talked made it sound like some sort
of vampire.
Speaker 1: Tell or how'd she get Thomas's journal?
Speaker 4: Walter let a fur to copy the pages for the
Historical Society.
Speaker 1: So Walter has the journal.
Speaker 4: That's what she led me to believe.
Speaker 1: So that's how Walter knew how to turn himself into
a vampire. It wasn't a hunch. That's probably how he
knew I was a vampire in the first place.
Speaker 4: Abby, What exactly did Thomas know about you?
Speaker 1: Everything I told him? Everything I was afraid of that
I didn't think he'd write it all down.
Speaker 4: It's best to be proactive. You can fix this, missus.
Cole's right over there by the drink table. Go wipe
her memory.
Speaker 1: No, no, not yet. It's a huge leap to go
from reading some journal pages from one hundred years ago
to accusing me a friend, of being a vampire. Even
if she does suspect something, she'll come to me first.
Speaker 4: Oh great, Now Calvin's here where at the door? He's
headed this way? Oh and he doesn't look happy.
Speaker 1: Hey, Calvin, what are you doing here?
Speaker 2: You and you outside what's this all about? You know
exactly what this is about outd Now, don't make me
do this in front of the whole town.
Speaker 1: Oh no, you went into the hangar? Yep.
Speaker 4: How quickly can you wipe someone's memory? Can you do
two people in a row? Or do you need to
recharge or something?
Speaker 1: I'm not wiping his memory. I'm done lying to Calvin.
Speaker 4: No, you have to keep lying, otherwise this won't end
well for you.
Speaker 1: I told you the truth about me, and you handled it.
Speaker 4: That's right. I handled it, but only because I was
already so in love with you that you could have
told me what Edward Freakin Cullen wouldn't have mattered. Why
did you have to say that as if you didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean for you to fall in love with me.
I didn't mean for Walter to turn into a vampire.
I didn't mean for any of this to happen.
Speaker 4: But it did. That's why I'm begging you to keep
on lying. You're a vampire pretending to be a human.
It only works if you lie.
Speaker 1: I want my to Calvin.
Speaker 4: Do you really think he's going to accept you? Forgive
you keep your secret? Yes? I do what happened when
you told Thomas.
Speaker 1: What you were I think you can put the pieces together.
Speaker 4: I want to hear you say it out loud. You're
not thinking straight. How did Thomas react when you told him.
Speaker 1: He didn't want me anymore? Okay? He told me he
never wanted to see me again.
Speaker 4: So you left Northern Pines your home.
Speaker 1: There was no reason for me to stay. And then
he wrote all.
Speaker 4: Your secrets down in a journal for anyone to read.
Speaker 1: Calvin's not Thomas, and I think I'm in love with him,
and I have to tell him the truth.
Speaker 4: You're about to make the biggest mistake of your life again.
Speaker 1: I don't care, Calvin. I'll explain everything. Please just give
me a chance.
Speaker 3: I trusted you.
Speaker 2: I told you things I've never told anyone, and you
stood there listening to me go on about my regrets
with my dad, how I couldn't say goodbye, how I'd
never get the chance to forgive him, all the while
he was sitting in the hangar working on his planes.
And you knew about it this whole time. You knew
about it.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but you have to believe me what I say.
Speaker 2: Anything that comes out of your mouth anymore It's all lies.
That's all it's ever been. Do you really think that
everything you've said has been a lie? You said Thomas
wasn't nobody? Then my undead father gives me some journal
to read about you and my great great grandfather, who
looks a lot like me. Were you just playing out
some sick fantasy? Was that all this was to you?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear it. I'm done with you.
This thing between us, it's over. I don't want to
see you. I don't want to talk to you. I
don't want to feel anything for you when I'm flying
the festival tomorrow night. Don't be there.
Speaker 4: All right, Calvin, I think you made your point, and you.
Speaker 2: You were the one who signed his death certificate? What
kind of doctor? Are you?
Speaker 4: The kind who helps out in whatever way I can.
Speaker 2: I'm going back to the hangar.
Speaker 4: I'll meet you there. I'm still Walter's doctor. I can
help explain some things.
Speaker 1: I'm coming too.
Speaker 4: No, not you, come on, I'll take you on. Are
you gonna be okay tonight?
Speaker 1: I'll be fine.
Speaker 4: Are you sure? You look pale? I'm a vampire, more
pale than usual.
Speaker 1: I'm just tired.
Speaker 4: I was hoping I was wrong about Calvin. For your sake?
Speaker 1: Is this the part where you say I told you so?
Speaker 4: Stop Abby, don't push me away.
Speaker 1: I was wrong about Thomas, and now I'm wrong about Calvin.
When will I ever learn?
Speaker 4: You think i'd judge you for falling in love with
someone who doesn't love you back.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I came back. I have too
many memories here, too many connections. Something like this was
bound to happen. I can't stay here anymore.
Speaker 4: You're leaving.
Speaker 1: I have no choice. Everything's falling apart.
Speaker 4: Yes, you do have a choice.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the ride, Trevor. I am so sorry for
hurting you.
Speaker 4: So that's it. Then that's my goodbye. No, I'm not
letting you off the hook that easily.
Speaker 1: Don't make this any harder than it has to be.
Speaker 4: You turn around and talk to me right now. I'll
forgive a lot of things, but not this.
Speaker 1: What do you want from me?
Speaker 4: The worst thing you can do right now is run away.
Speaker 1: I have to.
Speaker 4: This is your home, this is where your friends are,
It's where you belong.
Speaker 1: Being here hurts too much.
Speaker 4: I hate to break it to you, but you are
not special. What you feel now, everyone's felt at one
point or another.
Speaker 1: You don't understand.
Speaker 4: Tell me, Abby, what don't I understand? Heartbreak? Projection? I
know a thing or two about that.
Speaker 1: See, you're better off without me.
Speaker 4: Tell that to all the people your blood saved. Tell
that to Walter, who's in the hangar right now talking
to his son for the first time in a decade.
Calvin's mad now that you've given him a huge gift,
a second chance with his dad.
Speaker 1: Don't you get it. I'm a vampire. I'm cursed, and
now Walter is too. He just doesn't know it yet.
Speaker 4: Enough with the self loathing. I'm sick of it. No
one cares that you're a vampire. Seriously, nobody. Did you
hear what Calvin said back then?
Speaker 1: Yes, I heard.
Speaker 4: He's em bothered about you drinking three square meals of
blood a day. No, he wasn't ranting about you being
a vampire. He's mad that you lied to him, That's all,
and that is something that can be forgiven.
Speaker 1: Stop giving me false hope. I wasted so much time
hoping Thomas would realize you loved me. I can't do
this again. I am leaving Northern Pines, and this time
I am never coming back.
Speaker 4: If you leave now you're not the woman I thought
you were.
Speaker 1: This is me saying goodbye. Are you gonna say it back?
Speaker 4: Please? Today? No? Then goodbye.
Speaker 2: You're telling me that you legitimately died in that plane
crash and now you're a vampire.
Speaker 6: That about sums it up.
Speaker 2: And Abby is also a.
Speaker 4: Vampire from what I know, she's been one for a
long time. It flies in the face of everything I
learned in med school. But her blood can heal just
about any human ailment. I use it sparingly. Of course.
That woman is a walking miracle.
Speaker 6: She saved my life.
Speaker 2: No she didn't. You still died.
Speaker 6: Do I look dead to you?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you something about Abby. She's a terrible vampire,
the worst. She doesn't bite people, and have you seen her?
She's about the scariest.
Speaker 3: Santa Claus.
Speaker 2: She should have told me you were alive.
Speaker 6: Cut her some slack. We made a judgment call. Turns
out we were wrong.
Speaker 2: Do you bite people?
Speaker 6: No, she's got me on the bloodbag diet. Honestly, it's
a nice change after eating frozen chicken pot pies out
of the mini fridge every night.
Speaker 2: Danny said, she got you to stop eating those old habits.
Speaking of Danny, she's flying into Fairbanks tomorrow. She'll be
here by tomorrow evening. I don't know if we should
tell her you're a vampire. Not yet.
Speaker 6: How about we tell her I survived the crash.
Speaker 2: You've done it before.
Speaker 6: So have you, And look at you now, you're flying again.
I saw you today, made me proud.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 4: One problem with that, Walta is not going to age.
This is how he'll look forever. Eventually, Danny and everyone
in town will need an explanation.
Speaker 6: I could crash my plane again, fake my death.
Speaker 2: No, Danny's smart. She'll probably figure it out a lot
faster than I did. But we can worry about that later.
Speaker 6: It's Christmas, the first Christmas we've all been together.
Speaker 2: Since since Mom.
Speaker 6: It's been way too long. I missed you kids so much.
Speaker 2: You could have called.
Speaker 6: Would you have answered?
Speaker 2: Probably not. I'm sorry about.
Speaker 4: That, Calvin. Do you have any other questions for me
before I go?
Speaker 2: No, I'm still trying to wrap my mind around all this.
There was a lot to process in Tom's Forrester's journal.
Speaker 4: You read it old, not all of it.
Speaker 2: I stopped after learning that the heroic legendary. Thomas Forrester
was not the pilot who flew through a blizzard to
save Northern Pines one hundred years ago.
Speaker 6: That was a blow to my ego. This whole time,
we've been honoring the wrong person so.
Speaker 2: Much for the Forester family legacy.
Speaker 6: You're my legacy, you and Danny. I'm sorry if I
ever made you think I cared about flying more than
you held on.
Speaker 4: Thomas Forrester wasn't the pilot who flew on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 6: Nope, And after reading that journal, I'm not even sure
I like the man.
Speaker 2: I'm still planning to do the flight. Everyone's excited about it,
especially missus Cole.
Speaker 4: If Thomas Forrester didn't save Northern Pines, who did?
Speaker 3: I'll give you one guess, Trevor.
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk Calvin. It's me, missus Cole.
I'm sorry. I'm not really feeling up for company tonight.
Speaker 8: Is something wrong?
Speaker 1: Yes, I got in a fight with like everyone.
Speaker 8: You don't look good, very pale.
Speaker 1: And really tired. It hit me all at once, just tired.
Speaker 8: Oh, I bet you're feeling a lot more than that.
What It starts with fatigue, then the nausea, kicks in,
followed by a crushing headache. How did you know that
I added a little something to your muled cider at
the Christmas banquet you drugged me? I used an old
family recipe. It's perfectly harmless to humans, but highly poisonous
to vampires. Vampires like you. I'd hoped I was wrong.
I've always liked you, but unfortunately it's my duty to
restore the natural order.
Speaker 1: You're going to kill me on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 8: You shouldn't exist, and soon you won't.
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