Buzz:  Honey!  I'm home! (Ricky Ricardo accent of course)  Hey I got X-Mas 
decorations to brighten up the place...and maybe next time I'll bring home a 
(realizes Jenna isn't responding from the bathroom) X-Mas tree.   (walks up to 
bathroom door)  Hey, if you're using this as a scare tactic....making me believe you  fell down and cracked your head on the floor, it's not going to work.   I mean I  invented the silent treatment as a scare technique back in the 50's.  So (sits on 
couch), stay in there forever, I don't care (springs back up and bangs on      door) ...Jenna!!!!

Scene II:  Buzz talking bathroom door off the hinges
 

Jenna:(still off screen) Oh, no you don't!  Put that door back where you found it Buzz Cooper!

Buzz: (staring) You're taking a bath...

Jenna: Yes, a sponge bath (tosses sponge at Buzz's head..it bounces off, he's still staring).  Would you hand me something please, a towel or something? 

Buzz:(Buzz reaches for a mall washcloth then hands her a robe)  Here, it 
used to Harley's (still staring at Jenna off screen) 

Jenna:(exasperated sigh)  Thank you.  What are you looking at? (Buzz laughs  and inarticulately grasps for words as Jenna pushes past him in robe)  Peeping Tom.  Voyeur. 

Buzz:  When did you get those?  (pointing at Jenna's luggage)

Jenna:  Well (hopping, trying to put her slippers on) after I lost the hearing, thanks to you, I packed up what I could,  put in storage and had it sent  here while you were gone (still trying to get her last slipper on).

Buzz:  Gee, can I help?

Jenna:  No!, you can't help me.  I don't know why you brought me here but if it's  anything like (pointing to bathroom door) what it looks like, I'd rather sleep in the gutter.

Buzz:  Jenna, you locked yourself in the loo, would not answer me...of course I was worried.  You just got out of the hospital.

Jenna:  I was not talking to you because I was furious with you, because if you forget, you accused me of shooting my husband.

Buzz:  Nooo, I didn’t accuse you, I asked you, just like you asked me if I offed Roger.

Jenna:  (still fuming)  Well, not everyone’s defense is fighting back, you know, there are other ways.

Buzz:  I’m sorry if I offended you.  Let’s have a little cease fire, OK,  while we chow down.  Look, I don’t mind but it’s kind of lukewarm now, and the cheese when it cools down doesn’t really turn back into cheese.  I’ll heat it up for you.

Jenna:  I’m not hungry (plops down on the couch, sighs leans over and places her arm across her stomach)

Buzz:  You got to keep up your strength, for the baby’s sake.

Jenna: Would you leave my baby out of this  And please stop being so damn nice!  If you really cared about me and my child then you wouldn’t have waltzed into that courtroom at the last minute waving this unholy agreement which lost everything I had in the world.

Buzz:(looks around at her luggage)  Well not everything.

Jenna:  (at full steam) Oh, yes right.  You really would prefer if I really didn’t have anything left, except the maybe the clothes on my back, and even that you probably would prefer I didn’t have!  So I’d be totally dependent on you for robes and food!  Well if you think I’m going to be dependent on you for food, you’re wrong!  I’ve saved  about a hundred dollars, I can feed myself and then I’ll figure out what I’m going to do !! 

Buzz:  Would you stifle it baby!  You know you’re a big blabbermouth, lady.  You know, I think I liked you better when you were moping in the bathroom!

Jenna:  Fine!  (turns to leave)

Buzz:(grabs her arm)  For one thing, and I’ll say this one more time.  I did what I did so you could be independent, which is what you came on saying you wanted, a way to get out of Roger’s evil clutches.  And I gave  you that way.  Now maybe I wouldn’t have done it if I’d known he was swimming with the fishes, but you’ve got to admit it worked (Jenna glaring at him)  You’re so independent (chuckling), I’m the only friend you have in the world!

Jenna:  That’s what you’d like to believe!  ARGHHHHH,  you egomaniac.

Buzz:  And as for designs, I did for you what I would have done for any stay mutt.

Jenna:  WOOF!!  WOOF WOOF!!!

Buzz:  But hey, if you think you can get someone to take you in, you know, a head of state that you’ve charmed, hey go for it!

Jenna:   I think that sounds like a marvelously bloody good idea. It’s exactly what I’m going to do. (head for phone and begins dialing)
 

Scene III:  Buzz messing around in the kitchen stealing looks at Jenna on the phone

Jenna:(almost whispering)  I would appreciate it Dylan if you could tell Henry Chamberlain that Jenna Bradshaw called (Dylan hangs up on her, she dials another number)  Donna, Donna..it’s Mistress....it’s Jenna.  Hi, remember that you said your mother has a pull out couch that your mother uses in your apartment, that you said I could use anytime I needed to...I need to now?  Ahh, she’s wallpapering the whole apartment, I could that could be a problem.  OK, thanks.. (turns to Buzz who’s setting the table)  Well it’s all settled, I’m going to be staying with Henry and Vanessa Chamberlain.

Buzz:  Isn’t that Vanessa Lewis?  You mean you’re going to be camping out at the Lewis house?

Jenna:  Not that it’s any business of yours, but yes, and I’d rather you not call the house and disturb the family at all hours of the day and night.

Buzz:  Oh I wouldn’t dream of it.  Believe me when it comes to you, out of sight is  out of mind.  Do you need a cab or will Henry be getting on his motorcycle and picking you up? 

Jenna:  Being the gentleman Henry is he did offer.  But I think it’s too late for him to be driving, so I think yes I could use a cab.

Buzz:  Oh, anything for your ladyship, I’ll bow and scrape... (heads to the phone as Jenna looks on sadly...he dials and then presses down the dialtone and “calls” the Cab company....Jenna sees it and smiles)  Thank you.

Jenna:(sitting at the kitchen table)  Well thank you.

Buzz:  Oh, no sweat.

Jenna:  Charming phrase.

Buzz:  But you know, I really do think that you should eat before you go (plops food on her plate)

Jenna:  Will you please stop shoving this vile stuff in my face (shoves her plate) and stop pampering me as if I were a baby!  (he stares at her)  And don’t look at me the way Roger always looked at me the minute her found out I was pregnant, like some brood mare that has to be carefully taken care of, because she’s going to foal, or whatever it is they do. 

Buzz:  I have never ever looked at anything in my life the way Roger looks at it!  And don’t you ever ever compare me to him again.  And when it comes to naked women, I’ve seen my share of them,  pregnant naked women, and you look less like a brood mare than any of them ever did, when you were ....er....sponging yourself....

Jenna: (gets up and starts flinging food at him)  You had no right (there goes the lettuce) to break own that door (then the condiments).

Buzz:  I didn’t break it...

Jenna:  Who do you think you are?  Rex Harrison?

Buzz:  I unhinged it (flings food at her)

Jenna:Grrrr (flings it back and he grapples with her)  Let go of me!

Buzz:  (laughing) Who do you think you are.... Scarlet O’Hara?

Jenna:  Ow...let go of me.

Buzz:(holds her) Did I hurt you?  Are you OK, did I hurt you?

Jenna:  Would you just shut up and kiss me (He shuts up and kisses her, long and hard and leans her over the couch and they fall on it)  Ooof.....
 
 

Buzz:(gently)  You OK?  You OK? (Jenna nods as she pulls him back into a kiss...)

Scene IV:  Jenna in Buzz lap on the couch, both entwined in sliver garland.

Buzz:  Mmmmm, mmmm (breaks off kiss)  Not that I want you to think that I was thinking about your breeding potential or anything (Jenna snorts)  You did have a medical problem, I mean is it uh OK? 

Jenna: (smiling) Uh-huh, yes it’s OK.  I asked the doctor.

Buzz:  You did??    You mean there’s no surprises here.

Jenna:  Hmmmm

Buzz:  You mean you laid this trap for me and I kind of just marched in, like it was my choice  When did you start planning this maneuver?

Jenna:  The day my car broke down and this man by the name of Rex Mancini offered to fix it.

Buzz:  That’s about the time I started laying my plans

Jenna: Who do you think we were fooling?

Buzz:  I don’t know, ourselves maybe.  Don’t you think you should call Henry and tell him you’re not going to....come?

Jenna:  Don’t you think you should call the cab company and tell them I’m not going to...come?

Buzz: (laughing)  Nah, let em run it up to the billions, just like I lost for you.  Oh I shouldn’t have brought that subject up.  You’re going to tell me to shut up, I can tell...and kiss you. (she nods...they kiss...) 
 
 

Scene V:  Buzz and Jenna still kissing

Buzz: (breathless) Oh, this amazing!  This is really amazing I’ve waited for this for so long, and now that it’s here...
 
 

Jenna:  Are you sure?

Buzz:  Oh, I’m sure, I’m sure (kisses her)

Jenna:  Just one little thing....one little thing

Buzz:   What? (still kissing)

Jenna:  How do you really feel about your ex-wife?
 

Scene VI:  Buzz up and slamming the refrigerator.

Buzz:   Mallet and Harley don’t have anything serious to drink around this place 

Jenna:  You’re avoiding my question about Nadine.  I know that you slept with her, I just want to know why.

Buzz:   You really want to do this?

Jenna:  I want to know how you feel, or was she just convenient?

Buzz:(Buzz's face tightens)  Uh, I’m going to say this to you, just one time and never again.  You may not say anything like that about any member of my family, my kids, my ex-wife, my uncle, ever again, you understand? 

Jenna:(quietly)  Absolutely.  I think it’s wonderful that you feel so deeply about them that they’re off limits to me.  I understand perfectly.  (Buzz sighs)  So I’m sure you’ll understand I’m off limits to you tonight.    I’m sure I can handle this bed by myself.

Buzz:  Oh well...fine fine fine!    The uh blankets and the pillows are right over there

Jenna:  Great, great, (tosses cushions to floor) Alright then..

Buzz:   So, I’ll go, and you can call me.  You know where I am if you need anything

Jenna:  Yeah, sure (continues to toss couch cushions)
 
 

Buzz:   Right.......(back to Jenna, hand on doorknob) Look, I wouldn’t have brought you here, no, I wouldn’t be here, if I didn’t want you so much I could die. (looks at her, she's holding a pillow with tears in her eyes)    Aw, come on.  I have waited so long for this night  I have waited through trials,  through your marriage, while you waged battle with yourself about what you wanted, about what you wanted from me.  Days, weeks, months, hours, minutes....   I have waited so long, for this moment, just so I that I could lay down with you and hold you in the dark, and talk to you about you,  not about somebody from some other time.  (sighs)  Oh come on, there are so many things about you that I don’t know....
 
 

Jenna:  You once said I was an open book.

Buzz:  Oh please, I was wrong, you’re a real page turner (takes pillow from her arms), you’re a well written mystery and I don’t have a clue, I mean (leans into her)...what...what... makes your hair smell so good  (presses her long hair to his face and breathes in)... 

and your skin (nuzzles her neck).... so soft....  If you had three wishes, what would you wish for... I mean...what do you want for Christmas?

Jenna: Christmas?

Buzz:  What do you want???

Jenna:  Christmas, I haven’t  really thought much about. Last year, all I could think about was Christmas, what I was going to get my new family, Vanessa and Henry.  Then Roger took it all away from me ...  on Christmas Day.  What were you doing on Christams, were you alone?

Buzz:  When you’re with the wrong person you’re alone.  I want this Christamas to be different, I want to spend this Christmas with you.  I don’t want to spend it thinking about people that have hurt us in the past.  I want us to be presents to each other, and not the kind you play with until the wheels break off.  The kind you look at after many years, and say ‘I’m glad I never lost this, I’m glad I didn’t break this.  This has value, (pulling at her robe)...this is what I am....’  Ask any thing you want for Christmas, I know what I want, more than anything....

Scene VII: Buzz and Jenna once again cradled on the couch kissing.

Buzz: Does this mean what I think this means?

Jenna:  Mmm. what’s that?

Buzz:  You haven’t told me what you want for Christmas. 

Jenna:  Roger gave me many things, that I thought I wanted, but he never gave me this (touches his face...pulls him toward her)

(Nadine barges in)

Nadine:  Buzz? (Buzz leaps off Jenna)

Jenna:  Nadine... Don’t you ever knock?