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Heaven
by Christoph Marzi

Prologue (Mr. Drood’s perspective)
Heaven wants to look at the London sky and climbs on a roof. She is followed by two strangers, Mr. Drood and the Man in Lumps. Mr. Drood has a secret mission to steal other people’s hearts. But this girl is different: when Mr. Drood cuts out Heaven’s heart, she is still alive and runs away.

Chapter 1
David is on his way over the roofs of London.
– David grew up in Cardiff in poor circumstances and finally left for London
– In London, he had temporary jobs, dealt with drugs and got caught stealing CDs
– But now he changed his life, he works as delivery boy with Miss Trodwood’s bookshop
– his spleen is that he doesn’t use either the bus or the underground; he walks and jumps over London’s roofs.
Today, he carries a valuable book and suddenly falls over Heaven. Heaven is totally lost and scared, because she doesn’t know what happened to her or why she is still alive. She tells David that two "bad men" stole her heart and are after her. David doesn’t believe a single word, but he must acknowledge that he can’t feel her heart beat any more.

Chapter 2
Heaven is feeling sick and dizzy and David notices that she is unusually cold. David helps her to St. Mary Abbot’s Hospital where the nurses can’t feel Heaven’s pulse either. Suddenly, Mr. Drood and the Man in Lumps appear. David sets off a fire alarm and flees with Heaven. After a chase through Kensington High Street station, they manage to fool the two pursuers and get away in a Taxi.

Chapter 3
As David is afraid that Mr. Drood and the Man in Lumps will wait for Heaven at her home in Richmond, they decide to go to David’s place.
– In the sky over Piccadilly Circus, the stars have been missing for more than 21 years
– Heaven’s parents are dead; she lives alone with her butler Mr. Mickey in Richmond
– Heaven owns a narrow boat in Little Venice as retreat
– She has a guardian called Mr. Sims, who used to be her father’s business partner
David shows her to his small room where Heaven can stay over night.

Chapter 4
David and Heaven are having breakfast and are trying to find out what happened. They decide that Heaven is safest at his place. David offers to deliver a message to Heaven’s butler in Richmond und to get some clothes from her narrow boat in Marylebone.

Interlude 1 (Mr. Drood’s perspective)
Mr. Drood is calling Heaven’s college in order to find out where she lives.

Chapter 5
David stops at a friend’s house in order to google information about Heaven.
– Heaven’s mother died after Heaven’s birth and Heaven’s father died in a plane crash
– Heaven’s father shared a huge enterprise with Mr. Sims, who took over the company after the death of Heaven’s father
When David walks up the huge driveway of the estate in Richmond, Mr. Drood and the Man in Lumps appear out of the bushes and attack him. They smack him and threat him with a knife, but David doesn’t give away Heaven’s whereabouts. In the last minute, Mr. Mickey, the butler, appears and routs the two "bad men".

Chapter 6
David is intimidated by the huge house. However, Heaven’s room is very empty and plane. Mr. Mickey tells him some things about Heaven’s family background:
– Heaven’s mother was very interested in the starless sky over London
– Heaven was never interested in the grandeur and the money she inherited
– Mr. Sims is the one who manages the legacies for Heaven
Mr. Mickey is worried about Heaven and enjoins David to take care of her.

Interlude 2 (Mr. Mickey’s perspective)
Mr. Mickey watches David leaving the grounds. When a car appears, he wonders if he made a mistake.

Chapter 7
David enters Heaven’s cozy narrow boat in Little Venice and starts packing her clothes. Suddenly, the door is opened and someone throws himself at him. It is Julian and Eve, who live on the boat next door. They believe David to be a robber and want to call the police. When they realize that David is a friend, they let him go. Before David leaves, Eve tells him:
– Heaven is born on the 25th of November, the day the stars over London vanished.

Chapter 8
Heaven and David meet in a pub and talk about their lives. They get closer. David’s mother suffers from agoraphobia and kept her children always in the house. That’s why David fled to London and avoids closed spaces. Heaven’s parents are buried on Highgate Cemetery. As Heaven has never been to Highgate, they decide to visit their graves.

Chapter 9
David and Heaven finally discover the weathered tombstone of her parents on the jungle-like graveyard. Suddenly, a ghost-like creature called Sarah Jane talks to them:
– Sarah Jane was buried instead of Heaven’s mother
– The body of Heaven’s mother somehow completely disappeared after her death
Then they get interrupted by a gloomy voice.

Chapter 10
Mr. Drood and the Man in Lumps are standing in front of them and want to take Heaven with them. All at once, Sarah Jane lunges at the two “bad men” and Heaven and David manage to flee. They stumble over the graves without orientation and finally find shelter in an underground crypt. They are still being followed and hide behind some statues. They kiss.

"While the light cone of the torch explores the chamber like David’s tongue explores Heaven’s mouth, both were hidden in themselves and in the kiss, that had become a world of its own, one that neither of them had been looking for but one that they nonetheless both discovered."

Just before Mr. Drood is about to discover them, David manages to trick their pursuer and to lock him into a chamber.

Chapter 11
Back in the city, Heaven is beside herself with confusion: She screams that she wants her old life back and that she is going mad. When they go back to his place, David manages to calm her down. They both fall asleep tightly embraced.

Chapter 12
With subtle hints, each tells the other that they both have feelings for another.

Chapter 13
With the help of the telephone and the internet, David and Heaven investigate to find out what happened:
– Every 3 to 5 years, there was a case in London of a dead body found without heart
– When Heaven’s mother died, a few stars reappeared on the starless London sky
– There is a book called The Fallen Fairy’s Heart, that might explain what happened to Heaven and Heaven’s mother

Interlude 3 (Mr. Mickey’s perspective)
Mr. Mickey thinks tenderly about Heaven and about his friendship to Heaven’s father. Then he opens the door to his guests and welcomes in: Mr. Drood and a Man in Lumps.

Chapter 14
David and Heaven go to Mr. Merryweather who has read the book The Fallen Fairy’s Heart:
– It is about the fairy Hope, who used to be a piece of the sky
– In a storm, the piece of sky fell down on earth and got a human body
– When Hope died, she returned back to the sky and the stars reappeared

David and Heaven realize:
– Heaven’s mother was a fairy, too; when she died, she returned to the sky
– But not all of the stars reappeared, because a piece of her is still on earth: Heaven
– Mr. Drood is after the second heart, the fairy heart, that is within Heaven
Suddenly news on the radio: Mr. Mickey was just murdered in the house in Richmond. Moreover, Julian tells Heaven on the phone that Eve has been kidnapped and that Julian is looking for her. Heaven is broken-hearted and in total panic; they decide to help Julian.

Interlude 4 (Mr. Drood’s perspective)
Mr. Drood threatens Eve with his knife and promises his mysterious employer on the phone that he will bring Heaven to him.

Chapter 15 (David’s perspective)
David and Heaven hasten to Little Venice: When they enter Julian’s boat, they realize that this is a trap. Mr. Drood and the Man in Lumps hold Eve and Julian captive. The two boys try to overpower the two “bad men”, but they fail. Mr. Drood knocks them out and disappears with Heaven. When David wakes up, Julian is badly injured and Heaven is gone. He calls the ambulance and renders first aid. Then he decides to find Mr. Sims and ask him for help.

Chapter 16
David meets Mr. Sims in Canary Wharf and Mr. Sims takes him into his car. David suddenly realizes that Mr. Sims is Mr. Drood’s employer:
– Mr. Sims doesn’t possess a heart of his own; he regularly needs a new one
– Mr. Sims is a comet that came down to earth
– Since he has realized that Heaven has the heart of a fairy, he wants to have that heart in order to become a piece of the sky.
Due to a drink Mr. Sims gave him, David feels dizzy and faints.

Chapter 17
When David wakes up, he is in one of the capsules of the London Eye. And he discovers Mr. Drood, Mr. Sims and Heaven to be in another capsule. David wants to help Heaven and tries to climb towards her. After a James-Bond-like action scene on the London Eye, Mr. Drood falls to death and David manages to reach Heaven’s capsule. Suddenly, Heaven knows what to do: With her fairy power, she manages to swap hearts with Mr. Sims. He turns into ice and returns to the sky. And Heaven gets back her normal heart and life.

Epilogue
Mr. Mickey’s Funeral at Highgate Cemetery: Julian is recovering, Heaven and David moved into Heaven’s boat and the stars over the London sky are back again.