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Date Posted: 01:03:06 05/16/03 Fri
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Episode 2.2 “Crowded (part two)”
“What? What’s Angel? Is he here?” Faith asks in confusion
“He’s dead” Connor says bluntly
“Yeah, for like 200 years” Faith laughs
Connor shakes his head, eyes to the ground.
“You serious?” Faith asks weakly “How?”
“He made a mistake”
“What kind of mistake?”
“Shansu”
Faith can’t grasp what’s being said “W…how…”
“Made him human again, didn’t stop the ageing effect”
“You mean…”
“He became a 250 year old man…he may as well have walked outside on a Summers day” Connor says deeply and sad.
Faith looks at Connor still. The two of them trapped in each other’s look as Faith collapses back against the bar, unable to keep on her feet.
“It can’t, he can’t be” she says violently kicking up a rage.
Connor attempts to calm her, she begins to pound her fist on his chest but he takes it all in before grabbing her closer, tears forming on both of them.
Faith breaks down and falls to the ground in Connor’s arms. He holds her as they cry together.
~*~ROLL CREDITS~*~
Starring:
Eliza Dushku
Michelle Trachtenberg
Tom Lenk
Lisa Roxanne
Ryder Strong
Special Guest Star
Vincent Karthieser and Amber Benson as Tara
Guest Starring:
Tamin Sursok, Jennie Garth, Megan Mulley, Eric Balfour as Travis
“Buffy?” Dawn asks at the sadness in her sister’s voice
“Oh my god! Are you sure…I mean, how…when?” she asks in concern, clear they are talking about Angel.
“Is there anything I could do?”
“She’s not here, she’s…” Dawn stops as the door open, Faith trails in followed by Connor
Dawn looks at Connor like he’s a bad memory “She knows”
“Yeah, I’m sure. She’s with Connor. Faith it’s…Buffy”
Faith gathers herself then takes the phone into her room.
Dawn and Connor stand opposite eachother awkwardly
“You okay?” she asks “Stupid question”
“I’m cool” he says unmoved
“Right. Listen Connor…”
“Don’t” he stops her
“What?”
“Don’t do the ‘I know what it’s like thing’ you don’t”
“You learnt a lot about me whilst living with your head up you’re a-“ she stops in mid sentence “Listen, my Mom died when I was fourteen…well, I was like a few months old really but…felt 14”
“Oh” Connor says backing down and easing himself onto a chair
Dawn calmly sits beside him “It’s weird huh”
“How so?”
“Well, our parents both died. Both of us had less than average up bringing and we’ve both got like super powers”
“Perfect Couple” Connor says unsuggestively but enough to put Dawn off ease
He notices her stiffness “Sorry, I wasn’t implying that…sorry”
“No, No. I, I’m just a little taken back by it’s all…Obviously not as much as you, who is remarkably calm throughout all of this” she observes
“I’ve dealt in my own way” he snarls as Faith enters the room
“You kids gonna be all right for a while?” she asks having clearly smudged tears through her make up.
“Where are you going?” Connor asks
“Willow’s opening a portal, I need to see Buffy, you’re welcome to share the ride…I’ll be gone a couple of hours”
“We’re cool here” Connor brushes off her offer.
Andrew is sat with Connor and Dawn in Dolly’s, infront of Andrew is a kid’s fun meal, Dawn has a large milkshake. Connor is half way through two plates of fries and a double sized cheeseburger.
“Man, he’s throwing them down like he’s fighting vampires”
Andrew says in astonishment
“He had a fight on the way over” Dawn starts
“Hey waitress lady, more food” Connor calls with a mouthful.
Not loving his tone, Dolly replies
“Get it your self. All you gotta do is walk over”
Connor looks at her harshly and continues eating.
“Anyway, yeah, Buffy was the same, so’s Faith…whenever they kill something they get really hungry and…”
Dawn suddenly realises why Connor won’t stand up.
“…And what?”
Andrew asks before catching on
“Oh” he smiles
The two of them stare at Connor who slowly stops chewing
“What?”
Screen: San Diego, 1996
A girl named India Cohen is fighting a large horned demon in a rainy alleyway.
She beats him continuously until a bolt of lightning and a roll of thunder throws her senses.
Distracted she is caught at the ankle and flipped against a wall, hitting her head hard.
“End Of the Line” the demon smiles as he tears through her flesh, leaving her mangled and dead as the rain dilutes her pouring blood.
END OF PART ONE
It’s the dark of night.
Thalia is walking around the basement in which she dusted Travis. She is, again, alone.
“Light” she thinks to herself “Duh” she holds out her hand and ignites a small ball of fire.
She is looking for Travis ashes, just to make sure that he is definitely dead.
“What are you doing here?” asks a hoarse voice
Thalia spins to see a tearful and bruised Linda standing in tattered clothes
“What the hell happened to you?” Thalia asks humorously “Improvement granted”
“Bite me bitch! What, Faith and the gang send you here to fetch me?” she hisses
“No…” Thalia says firmly before softening to sadness “I haven’t seen them”
“Oh Boo Hoo!” Linda reacts
“With all immaturity I see! Why are you here?” Thalia asks
“No reason”
“Except you’re alone right?” Thalia questions unjudging
“Is that why you’re here?”
“Could be” Thalia says as she ignores her, continuing to search
“Skip”
“Huh?” Thalia is confused
“I put the pile of dust in the bin”
“That was Travis!”
Linda’s face drops and the colour drains completely
“That…That was Travis!” she begs with her question as she grabs Thalia by the collar
“Err…Yeah what’s the big?” she asks pushing her off
“I don’t believe this, how could I…how could you be so stupid” Linda tears her hands through her own hair
“Did I miss a chapter? He’s dead, that’s a good thing…for the sane anyway”
“They’re gonna kill me! They’ll...I’m gonna die”
“Who’s going to kill you?”
“I..I was meant to bring Travis to them, oh god, I’m finished”
“Listen, I’ll help you okay…”
“You’ll help me?” Linda asks in suspicion “Why?”
“You’ll only make me ask myself, if you ask me” she says “Who will kill you?”
“The Elders” she says fearfully. Thalia’s eyes widen, face stone.
Whilst Andrew is out with Connor & Dawn, Garrison has closed up the bar.
He is cleaning behind it, whilst his cell is to his ear
“I just don’t think it will go down to well…Because everything is very up in the air at the moment…Xander has left, you’re all M.I.A…”
“It means missing in action…you’re all that…No, I mean you’re all missing not all …shut up”
Andrew slowly creeps into the bar and looks warily around him
“Right, so it’ll be here Thursday, bye” Garrison says hanging up the phone.
“Who was on the phone?” he asks quietly
“The…err…the drinks” Garrison is clicking his fingers whilst trying to come up with a name
“Delivery guy?” Andrew finishes
“Right, delivery guy. How’s Connor?”
“He’s coping…well, actually, they weren’t too close…like at all, apparently”
“Right” Garrison, says distracted “listen, I’m just going to go to the store, get some food”
“Well, hold on I’ll come with you”
“No, No. You…you just stay right there, I’ll get us something nice to eat” he smiles
“Okay, hot pockets!” Andrew smiles enthusiastically
Garrison kisses him on the head and walks away
“Hey why is the bar…” Before Andrew finishes, Garrison is out of sight
“Closed.” He looks to himself, confused.
Garrison continues to walk down the street as he picks out his cell and begins to dial again “Sorry about that” he continues as he walks on.
“You’re not doing anything for her!” Lissy screams at Thalia
“She’s your sister”
“She’s using you!”
Linda is stood calmly smirking as all of this goes on around and over her, Thalia catches her out of the corner of her eye.
“Why are you smiling?”
“Oh, it’s nothing…I’m just going to go to the bathroom”
The two continue to argue as Linda walks into the bathroom laughing.
She pulls out her cell phone and dials up.
“Hi, I have news on who killed Travis Rivers” she smiles wickedly to herself
Connor and Dawn are walking through a graveyard, it’s now come round to night again and the two are doing their first patrol together.
“So, what’s the deal with you and Faith, I thought you hated her?” asks Connor
“It’s complicated”
“Try me”
“She’s my Sister, I was meant to be sent to her but she went all crazy and so they finished making me out of Buffy and sent me to stable slayer and now I’m back here and we discovered this coz Faith died, I cried she woke up, shrank, I went to hospital nurse said we had the same blood. History –Oxygen”
She gasps as she finishes her one breathed sentence.
“Right. Dad’s not aloud sex, Dad had sex with my un-dead Mom, who died again and was bought back as a human, but then got turned into a vampire again, then died again to give birth to me. She stayed dead that time. Went to live in a Hell dimension till near graduation day, came back slept with the evil version of my Dads girlfriend, went a bit crazy, here I am”
“Wow. I thought Buffy died a lot”
Screen: Sunnydale 1997.
A girl, Buffy Summers, falls down into water after being bitten in a cave. Her friend Xander resurrects her.
END OF PART TWO
“What’s going on over there?” Dawn asks Connor as she sees a group of hooded men around a fireplace
“Let’s check it out” He says, edging them in slowly
“Hey” comes a whispered voice
Dawn turns to see Thalia
“What are you doing here?” Dawn asks as she ducks behind a tomb
“I’m sunbathing, what does it look like?!”
Thalia looks at Connor up and down
“Who the hell are you?”
“This is Connor, Angel’s son” Dawn replies
“Right, who the hell is Angel”
“My former human, former vampire with a soul, then human dead dad” Connor replies bluntly
“Right, man, you California kids got issues. How did you guys know the Elders were back?” Thalia asks whilst checking Connor out
“The Elders? Are back?”
“Try infront of you Summers”
She looks up and the five men are stood directly infront of her
“Holy crap!”
And so comes the fighting.
“Hey G” Faith calls in her Bostonian accent
Garrison turns, semi-startled towards her
“When did you get back?” he says coldly
“Nice to see you too, whassup?”
“I’m cool. You seen anyone yet?”
“No, Just came to get some smokes then go finish with my crying”
“You can cry?” he asks openly
“What, you think I’m made of stone?”
“Haven’t you got to be to do your job?”
“Man, something is not happening in your life. Emotions are the most important part, you gotta make every fight personal or you got no flare, you’re just kicking meat”
“Nice analogy” he smiles half hearted
“You sure you’re okay?” Faith asks in genuine concern “My best friend just died and I’m more upbeat than you”
“Sorry. For the downbeat and your friend also”
“Anytime.” She replies “Best go find short stack”
“Faith” Garrison calls stopping her “Got any advice?”
She stops to examine his expression “For what?”
“For someone stuck in the middle”
She smiles weakly and takes him to one side.
Screen: Sunnydale 1998
A dark night in a school Library, several students and vampires are at combat.
One girl, the slayer, Jamaican born Kendra, takes on the renowned leader of the pack, Drusila.
With limited struggle Drusila breaks the barriers and gets Kendra into a trance, moments later, Kendra lies dead throat-slit open.
“That’s your advice hey?” he smiles
“Work with what you got” she smiles
“Faith. Thanks”
“Don’t mention. Hey, I’m gonna go grieve aggressive style down at the cemetery, you want?”
“It’s a date” he smiles
Lissy is sat in the warehouse opposite Linda, both have their heads in their hands.
“You are such a boring babysitter” Linda complains
“And you’re such a selfish bitch” Lissy replies with no tone or expression
“Sibling rivalry hey” Linda laughs with a sincere smile
Lissy sort of smiles back “Extreme”
“Guess we never were gonna be the sit and braid each other’s hair kind” Linda sighs
at this Lissy smiles “We were once” she walks over to Linda and takes a clump of her hair, she strokes her fingers through it and begins to braid it.
“Why do you get yourself into these things?” she asks
Linda shrugs, both enjoy the silence until the windows around them shatter as a dozen of the cloaked men surround them.
“This is so typical!” Thalia says as she spins over a tomb stone into the face of one of the minions.
“That asshole Travis meets a dyson and now this bastards are back”
at this moment Faith and Garrison arrive on the scene as the last of the minions is killed
“Man, is this like the in place for rituals?” asks Connor “Boston sucks”
He receives a harsh look from Faith “I need friends my own age”
“Hey!” Garrison nudges her “Me and Andrew!”
Faith ignores the comment “What did they want?”
“The Elders, they’re back” Dawn says out of breath
“Oh the joy” Garrison follows on
“That was too easy” Thalia looks in concern
“That…you think that was easy?” asks Dawn, panting
“They’re back for Linda…Lissy!” Thalia squeals in realisation before sprinting off
“Who’s Linda-Lissy?” asks Connor as everyone begins running “Okay” he follows.
Screen: Boston, March 2005
Night, Faith is stood atop a Library as she crashes down onto a car roof and falls to the floor covered in blood.
“Lissy help” Linda calls as she is cornered by minions holding knives
Lissy snaps the necks of two of the minions before somersaulting over the top of another and landing infront of Linda.
She fights them off barely as one of the minions’ douses the place in petrol and lights a match.
“Lissy!” Linda calls again.
She sprints over and smashes one of the dead minions through the window
“Climb the tables, get out” Lissy calls fighting them off
“I can’t leave you! I’m not losing anyone else!” Linda says crying
“You wont, get Faith!” Lissy calls. Linda smiles at her and crawls from the window
Lissy spins straight onto the end of a minion’s knife
END OF PART THREE
Linda hits the ground and lands infront of Faith and the others
“Where’s Lissy?” she asks
“Inside” Linda chokes “Hurry”
Back inside, Lissy stares into the minions’ eyes as she drops from the end of the knife to the floor.
Faith crashes through the door and calls out through the smoke, she is followed closely by Thalia.
Faith and Garrison pull Lissy out, whilst Thalia shoots down a beam, collapsing the building around the minions as it burns, along with them.
“Lissy. Lissy!” Linda calls as she runs over to her Sisters side and grabs her hand
screen: Boston, June 2005
As the building burns to the ground, the slayer, Lissy Rayne lay’s bleeding heavily.
“Dawn do something” Faith says in panic.
“I don’t know…I can’t” Dawn says hesitantly
“Lissy, please, you can make it” Linda says as she cries over her.
Lissy weakly lifts her hand and strokes Linda’s hair “End Of The Line ‘Sis” she smiles before rolling her head to the side and dying.
“Oh God!” Dawn calls out as she throws herself back holding her stomach
Connor rushes to her side “Are you okay?” he asks holding her
“Yeah, I just feel a bit…strange”
“Strange? You just saw your friend die”
“No, different strange, like I’ve been hit with some real big virus suddenly”
“We should…help” Connor says as he leaves her side
“Yeah…help” Dawn says whether an agreement or a request she is unsure.
END
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