Romeo and Juliet ~ Still a Tragic Love Story

An everlasting love.

Here is modified ending of Romeo and Juliet. Everything will be the same until Romeo enters the tomb and sees Juliet. (To see the original ending, click here.)

ROMEO

(ROMEO opens the tomb to reveal JULIET inside.)

A grave? Oh no! This is a lantern, dead Paris. Juliet lies here, and her beauty fills this tomb with light. Dead men, lie there. You are being buried by another dead man. (he lays PARIS in the tomb)
How often are men happy right before they die! They call it the lightness before death. Oh, how can I call this lightness? Oh, my love! My wife! Death has sucked the honey from your breath, but it has not yet ruined your beauty. You haven’t been conquered. There is still red in your lips and in your cheeks. Death has not yet turned them pale. Tybalt, are you lying there in your bloody death shroud? Oh, what better favor can I do for you than to kill the man who killed you with the same hand that made you die young. Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet, why are you still so beautiful? Should I believe that death is in love with you, and that the awful monster keeps you here to be his mistress? I don’t like that idea, so I’ll stay with you. And I will never leave this tomb. Here, here I’ll remain with worms that are your chamber-maids. Oh, I’ll rest here forever. I’ll forget about all the bad luck that has troubled me. Eyes, look out for the last time! Arms, make your last embrace! And lips, you are the doors of breath. Seal with a righteous kiss the deal I have made with death forever. (ROMEO kisses JULIET and takes out the poison) Come, bitter poison, come, unsavory guide! You desperate pilot, let’s crash this sea-weary ship into the rocks! Here’s to my love!

(JULIET wakes up and sees ROMEO)

JULIET
Romeo, my love!

ROMEO
Juliet, you live! Hath grief profoundly warped my brain? Is this a cruel creation of my own mourning mind? (ROMEO throws the poison aside) It does not matter. For candid or ersatz, I love you.

JULIET
As do I, my Romeo. But what was that vial you were holding?

(Noises are heard outside)

ROMEO
It matters not. Let us make haste. Let's go out to a place far far away. There, we will live forever in peace, undisturbed. The watchmen are coming. Let us pass through the forest.

(ROMEO grabs JULIET and runs outside. Enter watchmen)

CHIEF WATCHMAN
Who goes there? Halt! After them!

JULIET
Rain? why now?

ROMEO
Hurry, Juliet. The watchmen are on our tails.

(CHIEF WATCHMAN reaches JULIET)

CHIEF WATCHMAN
Avast! Daughter of the great Capulet? How could this be? And dear me, is that the son of Montague?

JULIET
Unhand me! I said let me go!

CHIEF WATCHMAN
It is your birth that wronged you, maiden, not I.

ROMEO
Let go of her! (ROMEO pulls out his knife and stabs CHIEF WATCHMAN)

JULIET
Oh my!

ROMEO
Leave him be, fair Juliet. Let us go.

CHIEF WATCHMAN
You're not going anywhere! (CHIEF WATCHMAN grabs onto ROMEO's leg) How dare you betray your bloodline! (CHIEF WATCHMAN pulls the knife from his chest and stabs into ROMEO's foot) There is nowhere to run! My men are coming! (CHIEF WATCHMAN dies)

ROMEO
Argh!

JULIET
No, Romeo!

ROMEO
Leave, my love. Let me rot in this unholy place.

JULIET
But--

ROMEO
Leave now! Save yourself! (JULIET hides near as the other watchmen come)

WATCHMAN #1
There is Romeo!

WATCHMAN #2
Kill him! (The watchman pulls out his knife)

JULIET
No!

(JULIET shields ROMEO and gets stabbed)

ROMEO
Juliet! No!

JULIET
I love you, Romeo. A heart displaying such braveness, such kindness should be able to beat unceasingly. Farewell.

ROMEO
No, Juliet! Don't leave me!

(JULIET dies)

ROMEO
Why did this happen to me? (ROMEO pulls out the sword from his foot) I will kill you all! I will show no mercy! (ROMEO kills the other watchmen) That's the last of them. (ROMEO walks to Juliet's corpse) Juliet why did this happen to you? Why is this happening to me? I will carry you out of this unholy place. (Bloody ROMEO carries Juliet's body and tries to walk out of the forest) I am rid of my ability to walk but I must save my Juliet. I can feel death drowning me in its icy breath. This is how it ends, I fall lifeless beside Juliet mine. I would not die any other way. (ROMEO kisses Juliet) Goodbye, cruel world.

(ROMEO dies)

~THE END~

So here is my modified ending. Hope you guys liked it! :) (To go to the original ending, click here.)