Dimitri and Alex are seated in their favorite restaurant.
Dimitri: "You.." (He kisses her hand, which he's holding in both of his.) "...you are a miracle."

Alexandra (pulls her hand away and starts to reprimand him): "This is what we need to talk about... your behavior the other day. It's not, it's not that I don't understand. You know, it was a relief. You were happy." (She adds disdainfully) "You're American. So you... I'm not angry." (Dimitri's trying not to laugh, trying not to smile.) "It's just that we need to make things clear, that I am your doctor, you are my patient."

Dimitri (leans back in his chair): "Yes, yes, yes. And I had just been through the shadow of the valley of death, and there in the sunlight, I find this gorgeous, brilliant woman. (He becomes more passionate in his speech.) "And I'll be damned if I'll follow all the niceties when all I wanted in the world was to grab her at that moment and kiss her."

Alexandra (taken aback by his outburst, she can't stop grinning herself): "Yes. Well, you certainly did that." (She stops smiling, gives him a grim look.) "Stop grinning."

Dimitri: "Why? I can't. I can't. I'm happy." (He leans forward on the table.) "You know, you're small, but I bet you can handle a BIG animal."

Alexandra (confused, not sure how to interpret his remark): "I beg your pardon?"

Dimitri (laughs): "I just want to take you riding. At dawn tomorrow, I'll call the stables..."

Alexandra (quickly, shaking a finger at him): "No, you'll do no such thing."

Dimitri: "Alex, it'll be therapeutic. You said I needed support, friendship, fun."

Alexandra: "What about what I need?"

Dimitri (seriously): "All of the above, from what I can tell."

Alexandra (laughs): "Ah! How dare you!"

Dimitri: "Well... let's say that if the diva in the bathtub on the floor above came crashing down and ruined your chances for knighthood... they don't hand those out posthumously, do they? Ladyhood, womanhood, damehood, all of that? Would you be satisfied? No! Because you're a brilliant scientist. But from what I can tell, you are alone." (He motions his hand back and forth between them.) "So we needed each other."

Alexandra: "That's all very well and good, but what happens if you stop cooperating with my little theory and you end up in the great big paddock in the sky? Then what?"

Dimitri: "Yeah, well, then you're just going to have to make sure that that doesn't happen." (He grins at her, the calls the waiter.) "Waiter! Like to order." (He leans back in his chair.)

Waiter (handing them menus: "Very good, sir."

Dimitri: "Thank you."

Alexandra: "Thank you."

Waiter: "You're quite welcome. And to start?" (Prepares to write down the order.)

Dimitri: "Um... one of each." (Alex and the waiter stop and stare at Dimitri, surprised.)

Waiter: "Come again?" (Alex grins.)

Dimitri (closing his menu): "I want all of them, one at a time. Thank you." (He hands the waiter the menus and leans up on the table, staring at Alex.) "Because we are going to be here for hours, days, months. Maybe the rest of my life." (She laughs, and he continues to smile at her.)

Back to the present.....
Gillian: "No wonder you couldn't resist him."

Alexandra: "He was right. I did need all of the above. I just didn't realize it until he came along and
he showed me what I'd been missing."

Gillian: "So then what happened when you went riding? Did you already know that you were falling in love with him?"

The scene fades out, then returns later.
Alexandra: "Dimitri used to say we should live each day as if it were a gift. I mean, that's what made our time together so special, because we never took anything for granted. We always had that threat hanging over our heads. He had a lot of courage, you know."

Another flashback....
Dimitri: "What you have given me... in a way, my life was over when I came to you. I was planning to go to Vadzel and end it there. I was. I was." (She smiles, shaking her head in disbelief that he'd kill himself that way.) "So this... sitting here with you.. it's a miracle." (He looks at her intently.) "But I don't... I don't want you to be hurt anymore. I don't want this to be harder on you. Well, I'll find another doctor. I will leave the country."

Alexandra (shaking her head again): "You can't."

Dimitri: "Alex, it's all right."

Alexandra (getting teary eyed): "No, it's not. It won't help. Don't you see? You could go to Ethiopia, you could go to the end of the world, and I'd still stay awake at night worrying about you. I love you." (She laughs, embarrassed, and pauses.) "It's too late. Don't you see it's too late?"

Dimitri (shaking his head, pleased at her profession): "It's not. It's not, Alex. It... it's just begun. It's just begun." (He gathers her in his arms, Alex laying her head on his chest, and he stroking her hair.)

Back to the present....
Gillian: "If only he'd been right. Is that when you decided to get married?"

Alexandra: "No. That was a few weeks later."

Flashback:  The restaurant in England. Thinking Alex isn't coming, Dimitri stands up and starts paying his bill when she rushes up and stops him.
Alexandra (out of breath): "Oh. Sorry. Oh, bloody lab. I just bumped into the baked potato man." (She puts her hand on his arm.) "It's all right. You're all right. It's negative."

Dimitri (surprised): "Oh, um... it worked?"

Alexandra: "Yeah."

Dimitri (tentatively, not able to believe her): "It worked?"

Alexandra: "Yes."

Dimitri (waves his arms about): "Oh, I... I had this terrible speech prepared, you know. I was going to go, you know, fly to Vadzel."

Alexandra: "Ski off a cliff... I know. Well, not to be. You're going to have to make other plans now."

Dimitri (grabs her shoulders and shakes her lightly): "You're saying that it really worked?"

Alexandra (happily): "Yes! You're in remission."

Dimitri: "Oh." (He has to sit down, breathing hard.)

Alexandra (helping him): "Sit down." (She sits down across from him.) "The deterioration has reversed. The rogue cells are breaking down. It's excellent."

Dimitri (pointing a finger at her): "You did it."

Alexandra: "Oh, God, no." (She points up.) "He did it. And you did it. I just got lucky. I got very lucky." (She takes his hand in hers.) "I'm so grateful because, you know, you do your best, and I really -- I expected this to work. But if it hadn't, I couldn't bear it."

Dimitri (quickly kisses her hand twice, then leans closer): "Marry me."

Alexandra (surprised): "Oh... no."

Dimitri: "No, no, no, no. I am serious."

Alexandra: "Just sit for a minute and breathe and know it in your bones that it worked, you're all right, you're going to live forever."

Dimitri (shakes his head): "No. Will you marry me? I have wanted to marry you for the longest time, Alex, but I dared not ask."

Alexandra: "Why?"

Dimitri: "Because I knew you would say yes and I wouldn't do that to you."

Alexandra (confused): "But I love you."

Dimitri: "So say yes."

Alexandra: "Why wouldn't you ask?"

Dimitri: "I couldn't put you through that again, what you suffered with your father. You deserve a full and happy life."

Alexandra (drops and shakes her head): "Oh. You're so bloody noble. First Edmund and now me. You're going to protect us all?"

Dimitri (winks at her): "If I can."

Alexandra (pauses, brushing some hair off her face): "All right. I'll marry you."

Dimitri (excited): "Yes! Yes, yes, yes." (She laughs at his reaction.)

Alexandra: "Wait, under one condition though..." (She points her finger at him, saying softly.) "I'll keep all your secrets, and I'll love you forever." (She points at him again.) "You have to promise me, though, that you won't protect me from the truth, no matter how grim, because if we do this, we're one person and what hurts you hurts me, what gives you joy gives me joy, and that we'll be married together, for better or for worse."

Dimitri: "And in sickness and in health."

Alexandra: "As long as we both shall live. That's what they meant." (She shakes her head at him.) "I won't settle for less."

Dimitri (taking her face into his hands): "Alex, that's exactly what you'll have." (They kiss and she throws her arms around him.)