Tim Please. Please.

Victor I’m frightened.

Tim Don’t be frightened.

Victor And also disgusted.

Tim Well, of course you’re disgusted. But you love me.

Victor Yes.

Tim And I think we’re allowed one final request.

Victor Alright.

Victor’s hand moves under the sheet and on to Tim’s erection.

Tim Does that feel nice?

Victor Yes.

Tim Why do you think that’s nice? I think you’re sick. Twisted. Touching up a corpse.

Victor It’s nice because it means you …

Tim What? What?

Victor You want me.

Tim Yes.

Victor And maybe you love me.

Tim No. I don’t think it ever meant that.

Victor No?

Tim Maybe I need you or I need someone. To stop me being alone. Alone with this. (Indicates his erection.) But don’t confuse that with love.

Victor So what is love?

Tim I never found out.

Victor You never loved me?

Tim I don’t know if I ever loved you because I never knew what love was.

Victor Fuck you.

Tim No point me lying now baby. Might as well get it all out in the open before I hit the morgue.

Victor I want you to lie to me. Please. Make this like an opera. Sing to me. I hold you in my arms and tell me you will love me for ever.

Tim I can’t do that. Play with me.

Victor No.

Tim Make me come. This is real. Make me come.

Victor It’s terrible.

Tim It’s what I want.

Victor starts to masturbate Tim, crying as he does.

Victor This is so shit. I hate this. Is this all there is?

Tim That’s it. Yes.

Victor There’s got to be more than this. What is there? This is … animals. What makes us better than animals? Revolution never saved us. Money never saved us. No love. I want more than this.

Tim Faster. Faster.

Victor What is it? Children? To have a child? Is that what save us? I can’t have a child. Fuck this gay. Fuck these men and their fucking together.

Tim That’s good. You’re good. I love you. I love you.

Victor You only say that when I do this.

Tim Oh yes.

Victor Why can’t you say that some other time?

Victor pulls away.

Tim Don’t stop.

Victor Why do you only say I‘love you’ when you feel orgasm coming?

Tim That’s when I feel like saying it.

Victor Just one time.

Tim Fuck you. Don’t leave me like this. Finish me off. Finish it.

Victor No.

Enter Nadia. She can’t hear Tim when he speaks.

Nadia How are you?

Victor Okay.

Nadia Did you know what to do?

Victor I guess. I will leave you now.

Exit Victor. Nadia sits.

Nadia Well … goodbye. I … goodbye.

Tim Can you hear me?

Pause.

Tim Please. Try to hear me.

Nadia You were like a brother. I just want to say that.

Tim Bring him back. I didn’t mean that. I didn’t want to hurt him.