Noblesse Oblige

dialogue prompts from rest and be thankful by emma glass.

there is nothing here. there is nothing on the other side.

you'll sleep well tonight.

what happens if you die in a dream?

are you okay?

there's no time for coffee, so i didn't make it.

i can't go to work today.

why did you stop?

i'm sorry i'm late.

it's okay. i'll let you off the hook, just this once.

you look tired.

you mean i look like crap?

i need water. i need coffee.

you always look innocent, with your big fucking eyes.

have you had a coffee? you look as rough as i feel.

it helps to know where the end is.

this will never be too much for me.

it's never too much. i can take more.

i don't know what to do with my hands.

your heart is too big. it will get in the way.

i need you to be _____.

your pain is worse than i knew.

my knees aren't what they used to be.

i need more than your hand on my shoulder.

you scared the shit out of me.

don't be like that. it was just a joke.

will you check this for me, please?

i'm not cleaning up any _____ today.

you look very pretty today.

here you go, my sweet.

sit with me.

do you want me to be there?

do you want a cup of tea? i'll bring it to you.

you smell like hard work.

if i wasn't prepared, _____ didn't stand a chance.

it was better and worse than i thought.

i'm not ready to be soothed yet.

i didn't see it before, but i see it now.

i know you're hurting.

you take it all on, but you can't. one day it'll catch up with you and crush you.

you are kind, but they don't appreciate it. they'll take advantage.

i am always here for you. you know that, don't you?

say something. tell me i've done wrong.

don't scrub so hard. your hands are fragile.

today is not the day to be close to me.

do i have to believe you?

people come in here to cry.

i can't do this anymore.

we never made this much of a home.

i don't know what i'm doing. i don't know where i'm going.

darkness suits you.

all i want to do is sleep.

my brain feels like tenderized beef steak.

no one should have to see their child die.

i'm sorry i laughed.

i don't know what to tell you. i'm a mess. my life is a mess.

i'm going to dance it away.

i know where this goes. i've been there before.

you are so warm.

i will not miss this.

i should be fucking floating.

i don't need half-love, half-life. half is not enough.

i can be whole with nothing. i came from nothing. i came from nowhere.

i thought you were being murdered.

what has happened? what is happening?

if i told you, you would laugh.

who gets attacked by a crow?

tiredness is playing tricks.

i've seen it, too. the ghost.

i don't like not being able to see outside.

living here might not be so bad.

don't unravel. not here.

i feel like i'll never sleep again.

do you feel as lonely as i do?

i'm actually pretty disgusting.

i'm seeing things. messed up things.

The area was quite wide indeed but terrible at hiding spots. Hills, grass and more hills. Barely trees or any traces of proper civilization. ❝ Yes... We need to move forward... ❞ They needed to find a forest, a village or a city as soon as possible so they could hide from their captors. They were too weak to fight against them or even run from a chase, after all.

"Up ahead", he remarked, jerking his head towards the forest. "We can take a rest ther-."

A faint shot rang out before Francis could finish, stilling the blood in his veins for a moment. Had their captors found them? He didn't want to take the chance to look back; Francis just grabbed Alois by the wrist and rushed towards the wood, pulling the Earl towards a spot behind some foliage and branches where the light had yet to reach. Sometime later, Francis could hear the sound of hooves and hounds.

"Did ya find those lads? Swore I saw 'em come through here."

One of the others shook his head, rifle at the ready.

(  dialogue  prompts  taken  from  nosferatu  (2024),  directed  by  robert  eggers.  feel  free  to  edit  and  change  as  you  seem  fit.  ) 

❛ come to me. ❜

❛ a guardian angel. a spirit of comfort. spirit of any celestial sphere. anything. hear my call. ❜

❛ you wakened me from an eternity of darkness. ❜

❛ you are not for the living. you are not for human kind. ❜

❛ and shall you be one with me ever-eternally? ❜

❛ come here. there’s nothing to be afraid of. ❜

❛ i wish i could stay, my love. ❜

❛ why have you killed these beautiful flowers? ❜

❛ i must tell you my dream. ❜

❛ i’d never been so happy as that moment… as i held hands with death. ❜

❛ i wish you to have all you deserve. ❜

❛ you mustn’t leave. i love you too much. ❜

❛ i will stay with you until you are fast asleep. ❜

❛ uh, forgive me. i only wish to stay one night. ❜

❛ by god’s name, never speak of that castle. ❜

❛ i banish you, i banish you with garlic. ❜

❛ beware of his shadow. ❜

❛ the shadow covers you in a nightmare. ❜

❛ you are late. the midnight hour has passed. ❜

❛ i wish you to do as i request. ❜

❛ i will be addressed as the honor of my blood demands it.❜

❛ speak not of it again! ❜

❛ take heed what you do. ❜

❛ i might ease your wound. ❜

❛ come by the fire. ❜

❛ your face shows you unwell. ❜

❛ do you ever feel at times as if you were not… as if you were not a person? ❜

❛ look at the sky. look at the sea. does it never call to you, urge you? ❜

❛ you are fortunate in your love. ❜

❛ now are we neighbors. ❜

❛ it is late. you must wish to retire. ❜

❛ i have been enduring the most irregular dreams. i fear i am taken ill. ❜

❛ it is a black omen to journey in poor health. you will remain and well rest yourself. ❜

❛ dream of me. only me. ❜

❛ oh, he’s coming to me. ❜

❛ i cannot resist you, my love. ❜

❛ i am no one. i am his servant. ❜

❛ look, this is a pretty one. his lordship likes the pretty ones… ❜

❛ you are lost in his shadow. ❜

❛ soon i will no longer be a shadow to you. ❜

❛ soon our flesh shall embrace and we shall be as one. ❜

❛ i have not failed your lordship! ❜

❛ embrace me, my boy. i am so rejoiced to see you. ❜

❛ my dear creature, yes, i am he, and i am hither come to help you. ❜

❛ my dreams grow darker. ❜

❛ does evil come from within us or from beyond? ❜

❛ i shall persist to join you every night… first in sleep, then in your arms. ❜

❛ everything will be mixed with abomination, and you’ll be knee-deep in blood. ❜

❛ you are promised to me! ❜

❛ i will end this plague. this devil. ❜

❛ he hasn’t found you. ❜

❛ i feared i’d never see you again. ❜

❛ you shall crave of me nothing. ❜

❛ the bells of dawn shall toll in despair of my coming. and i shall taste of you. ❜

❛ pray, forgive me for all the troubles i have caused you. ❜

❛ i am only glad you have become yourself again. ❜

❛ may i… stay with you tonight? ❜

❛ this creature is a force more powerful than evil. it is death itself. ❜

❛ i have seen things in this world that would’ve made isaac newton crawl back into his mother’s womb. ❜

❛ i have wrestled with the devil as jacob wrestled the angel in peniel. ❜

❛ if we are to tame darkness, we must first face that it exists. ❜

❛ i have felt you crawling like a serpent in my body. ❜

❛ love is inferior to you. ❜

❛ i told you, you are not of humankind. ❜

❛ i am an appetite. nothing more. ❜

❛ i lay within the darkest pit. till you did wake me, enchantress, and stirred me from my grave. ❜

❛ you are my affliction. ❜

❛ i care nothing of your afflictions. ❜

❛ yet even now we are fated. ❜

❛ your passion is bound to me. ❜

❛ you cannot love. ❜

❛ yet i cannot be sated without you. ❜

❛ remember how once we were? ❜

❛ i abhor you. ❜

❛ i will leave you three nights. tonight was the first. ❜

❛ tonight you denied yourself, and thereby, you suffer me to vanish up the lives of those you love. ❜

❛ you revel in my torture. ❜

❛ upon the third night, you will submit, or he you call your husband shall perish by my hand. ❜

❛ till you bid me come shall you watch the world become as naught. ❜

❛ tell me, what is this insufferable darkness? ❜

❛ nothing you can say will shake me, for there is a devil in this world, and i have met him. ❜

❛ i’ve brought this evil upon us. ❜

❛ i sought company. i sought… tenderness, and i called out. ❜

❛ at first, it was sweet. i had never known such bliss. yet it turned to torture. ❜

❛ it was you that gave me the courage to be free of my shame. ❜

❛ he took me as his lover then, and now he has come back. ❜

❛ all my sleeping thoughts are of him every night. ❜

❛ don’t touch me! i am not to be touched. ❜

❛ i’ll be good. i promise. ❜

❛ you could never please me as he could. ❜

❛ yes! take me! ❜

❛ kiss me. kiss my heart. ❜

❛ let him see. let him see our love. ❜

❛ without you, i will become a demon. ❜

❛ you’re safe with me. ❜

❛ keep away from me. i am unclean. ❜

❛ he will murder you if i do not go to him. ❜

❛ kill him i will. he shall never harm you again. ❜

❛ i can weep no longer, for i have no more tears to shed. ❜

❛ the grim reaper wields his heavy scythe with every change of wind. ❜

❛ the monster left you to the wolves, yet you prevailed. ❜

❛ his pull to me is so powerful, so terrible, yet my spirit cannot be evil as his. ❜

❛ we must know evil to be able to destroy it. ❜

❛ you are our salvation. ❜

❛ i bid you, come to me. ❜

"You better lie down 'cause the angels are watching."

"I'm not down, I'm just waiting for a sign."

"Won't you say something to make this place my home?"

"You will not bring your Gameboy or whatever to the table."

"I'm sorry that I yelled at you."

"I'm rehearsing what to say when the truth comes out."

"You know you're better than this."

"You've been hiding and you look half dead."

"I'm outta time, I'm outta fucking time."

"Imagine being loved by me."

"I can't quite remember."

"What have you seen?"

"I don't care, I'm comin' over."

"I don't even know who's my father."

"I'm a twisted fool."

"So this isn't just puppy love?"

"You really got a hold on me."

"Love me like you mean it."

"How did you turn your heart to stone?"

"I can't let go."

"You owe me a debt."

"You stole him from me."

"I hated you once, I envy you now."

"Time cast a spell on you, but you won't forget me."

The tree had thick sturdy branches and was full of leaves that were now just masses of shadows in the night. Even if he were to fall, at most he'd get a couple of scrapes. He could sneak back in and, if anyone were to ask, claim that he fell while walking.

With all his strengh there was left and effort, he managed to climb the stone wall, it took him a few times to sucessfully achieve it as well. And carefully crawled, avoid cutting himself in the middle of the shattered window. When hands finally touched the grass, he felt relieved but a tad concerned whereas everything wrong could still happen.

Francis glanced back at Alois as he rested, and nodded. "I suppose," he said as he shuffled back to his feet, "that our next move is to head towards the nearest road, away from. . . . wherever this is. . . "

🩺 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄 :

➺ it's never lupus. but go ahead, order the test and waste everyone's time. ➺ you don't need a medical degree to lie, just a motive and a heart beat. ➺ your symptoms are screaming 'you're lying'. lucky for you, i'm fluent in denial. ➺ you want empathy? see a therapist. i fix bodies, not feelings. ➺ pain is the body's way of reminding you that you're still alive. ➺ if we wait for the ethics committee, this kid is dead. ➺ i'm making the call. ➺ we save lives, but don't forget - every decision has a cost. ➺ that's not just a patient, that's someone's family -- their everything. ➺ i didn't become a doctor to watch people suffer because of red tape. ➺ welcome to the system, where billing codes matter than a human life. ➺ he's bleeding out. ➺ you want clean hands? this isn't the job for you. ➺ he's not unconscious, he's having a partial seizure. ➺ i know what i see, just because i explain it differently doesn't mean i'm wrong. ➺ that's a human life, it matters. ➺ biology doesn't care about your comfort zone. ➺ i'm trying to help you. ➺ where does it hurt? ➺ what brought you in today? ➺ i'm not going to lie to you - this is going to be a fight, but you won't be alone. ➺ you don't have to be brave, this is hard, it's okay to be scared. ➺ technically you aren't dying, but you are being dramatic. ➺ no, doctor google, wrong again. ➺ stop googling your symptoms, it's always going to say cancer. ➺ you're not allergic to anything...except maybe common sense. ➺ if you override my decision again in front of a patient, we're going to have a problem. ➺ this isn't just about skill, it's about trust. ➺ remind me again why i let you assist me? ➺ ten bucks says the new intern faints in under five minutes. ➺ we're not gods. we just play them until the shift ends.

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