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Date Posted: 01:05:28 05/16/03 Fri
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It’s a cold, windy day in Boston. It’s mid-morning on June 28th 2005.
Dawn Summers is laying with her legs spread behind, kicking up and down as she lays on her front looking through a photo album.
There’s pictures of all her old friends, Janice, Kit, Carlos, Cassie, Tara, Spike, Anya, Amanda, all of which are now gone, dead.
She continues to stare at the pictures, flicking past Xander, Willow, Giles and Oz, but stops when she sees a picture from her 13th Birthday party. She is sat with her Mother, Sister Buffy, Riley, Willow and Xander. She looks so happy.
Sniffing back tears Dawn reaches for the phone and pauses for a moment, wondering whether or not to call Buffy to arrange an extended visit.
She’s been lonely since finding a lover, only to lose him straight away. All of this is new to her and her closest friend Andrew is too preoccupied with his Boyfriend Garrison.
Garrison is walking through the part talking on his cellular phone.
“Ryan, I’m not going to lie for you much longer, you need to decide”
“I don’t care Ryan, I feel like crap lying to my friend”
Garrison looks to himself doubtfully
“Right, I’ll see you then”
He hangs up and walks on rolling his eyes as his phone rings again
“What?”
He yells as he answers
“Oh, it’s you”
~*~ROLLCREDITS~*~
Eliza Dushku
Michelle Trachtenberg
Tom Lenk
Lisa Roxanne
Ryder Strong
Special Guest Star
Vincent Karthieser
Guest Starring
Amber Benson as Tara
“Penny for them?” Thalia smiles at Dawn
“Huh?”
“Your thoughts, what’s up?”
“Nothing” Dawn snaps
“Chill! Just askin’”
“Well can you not”
“Damn! What’s not biting your ass”
Dawn rolls her eyes and begins to walk out of the cafeteria
“Bitch” Thalia says under her breath
Dawn stops dead in her tracks
“You got something you want to say to me?”
Thalia eyes her up and down before squaring up to her
“Matter of fact, yeah…get over it!”
“Excuse me”
“Hard life? Who hasn’t. Deal, don’t take it out on me”
“Whatever” Dawn says “You’re just jealous”
“Of what?”
“Of me”
“I’m jealous? Of some over emotional, spoilt brat? Makes sense”
Dawn looks at Thalia with a piercing stare before slapping her across the face sharply
Thalia simply laughs in reaction “bout time”
Dawn starts to walk away and Thalia pulls her back by her hair. Within seconds crowds are gathered around them cheering them on.
Eventually, Andrew, who’s wondering care-free through the cafeteria, comes over and breaks it up
“Okay, what’s going on?” he asks trying to play Mother
The two girls sit sorely opposite eachother, bundled on the floor they stare at eachother, clearly ready to go another round.
“Ask her” Dawn hisses as she storms off
Andrew turns to Thalia expecting an explanation
“Ask her” she sneers before dusting herself off and heading in a different direction.
“She is such a bitch” Dawn complains to a not-very-interested Connor
“What did she do exactly?”
“She…well, she asked me what was wrong”
“Cruel girl”
“No, but then she started throwing all these names at me and stuff”
“Ever think they were true?”
“Excuse me?”
“Word’s don’t hurt as much if you know they don’t mean any fact”
Dawn rolls her eyes and throws her head down in Connors lap
“Whatever! I am so not living with her again! Can I stay here”
Look around, Connor is confused
“This is Faith’s, we all live here”
Dawn throws herself down in a tantrum
“She’s everywhere I go!” she says as she storms out of the door past Thalia who’s walking in.
“Take that was about me?” Thalia smiles at Connor
“You to have been fighting like, a lot since I got here, what’s that about?”
“Girls got issues”
“Haven’t we all?”
“That’s what I said” she smiles as she pops a grape into her mouth..
“So why do you guys live here anyway, don’t they have dorms?”
“We flooded them then blew up the student housing” she says casually.
“I’m gonna take a bath, you need me, just knock” she smiles as she leaves the room.
Faith is sat in the corner of Andrews bar staring out of the window at Garrison, he is pacing the floor talking on his phone.
“He’s very gestury” Faith laughs
“Hmm” Andrew agrees not interested at all, Faith catches on.
“Trouble in Andrew land?”
“More like his head, he’s been really Dark phoenix lately”
“How so?”
“Phone calls, mood swings and….and phone calls”
“Sounds…manish”
“I don’t like it, he’s hiding something”
Faith takes a moment and thinks back to their conversation in the Supermarket a few days back.
“Maybe” she says to herself
“what?”
“Or…maybe not, even, no, I doubt it” badly trying to remove her foot from her mouth.
They both look out at a clearly trouble Garrison.
END OF PART ONE
“Garrison” comes a sharp and hoarse voice that rings through you like a cat being strapped to a washing machine.
“Wondered when you’d actually show your face” Garrison turns to face a very tall, very ugly, scaly and sharp edged demon.
“We gonna do this quick?” he continues
“You see, I’ve been doing some thinking, you have so much more than your Father or Grandfather or even your Great Ancestors had. You have friends, You have love”
“So, what? You’ve been hunting my kind for a millennia and now you’re just going to end it because of love”
The demon snaps his head back howling with laughter
“Not so. You see, friends can help you, If I kill you now, they’ll find me and they will kill me, unless of course they keep suspecting you like they do now”
“What do you mean?”
“You think they aren’t suspicious of you’re phone calls? You’re attitude? They know you’re up to something” He smiles before vanishing into a dark cloud.
Dawn is sat half asleep at her desk during class, she slips on her elbow and squeals as she wakes up.
The entire class begins laughing at her, she sinks in her seat embarrassed.
As Dawn is leaving class she is approached by one of the guys in the class.
“Hey, Summers right?”
“Who’s asking?”
“Sorry, I’m Tony, Tony Thomas” He says
“Hi Tony Thomas, how can I help you, god that sounded cheesy”
He lets out a small laugh “It’s cute”
She blushes “So, is there anything in particular or are we just making me make a fool of myself” she jokes
“There’s a huge party over at Alpha Beta Gamma tonight, I was wondering if you fancied going”
“A party”
“Yeah, I mean, you’re welcome to bring that girl you hang round with or Andrew”
“You know Andrew?”
“Kind of, Garrison and I used to share a dorm room in our freshman year”
“What are you now?”
“Junior, you?”
“The Freshman” She cringes
“It’s all good, so I’ll see you tonight, around eight”
“I’ll be there” Dawn smiles before practically skipping along the hall.
“What the hells wrong with you?” asks Faith very loudly in Dawns ear
“No talk, Dawn dead” she groans
“She’s been to all night frat parties three days running” Connor says over his cereal
“ahh, self inflicted, get up, go to college”
“No. People. Bad”
“Hey, Kid, I promised Blondie I’d look after you, which means teaching you to take responsibility for your being an idiot”
Faith grabs a bag and heads for the door
“Now, I’ll be home late, I’ve got to go spy on a gay…guy! I meant guy!”
With that, Faith makes her exit and slams the door loudly
“Brain” Dawn calls out
“Take it you’re not going to another party tonight?” asks Connor
“What? Hell yeah! It’s the ‘we survived the week’ party”
“Don’t you think you should give it a rest for a while?”
“No” Dawn snaps as she peels herself from the chair and heads off to bed.
Connor sits in her place looking concerned.
“Andrew will you stop it” Faith calls as he slowly sneaks along in the middle of the day dressed head to toe in black, wearing a mask.
“Sorry” he whines
“There he is”
They slowly creep within hearing distance of Garrison
“Why’s he with a demon?” Faith whispers
“Gee, Faith maybe this is the secret, you think” Andrew replies sarcastically.
“Look, you’ve been hunting down my kind forever and now, you’ve found me, the last one. Don’t go through my friends, you have me here now, just do it”
“That would be no fun” smiles the demon
“But I will give you an appetiser” He smiles as he slashes his claw across Garrisons chest, Andrew attempts to run out but Faith holds him back.
“Is she drunk?” Thalia asks her friend Jodie as they look on at Dawn sat across the field with Tony and his friends.
“Looks like it”
“It’s 11.30 in the morning, that’s plain nasty” Thalia replies, acting like she doesn’t care, when she’s looking on in fear.
“Connor, we’re going to a party, change your shirt” Thalia says as she crashes through the apartment after college.
“What? Where? What’s wrong with my shirt?”
“Party, Frat House, What’s not”
Connor suddenly comes over all shy
“I’ve been with people, I’ve seen naked bodies, you can change your shirt infront of me” She laughs
Connor looks at her unsure before pulling his shirt over his head and scrambling around to find another.
Thalia sits, clearly in awe with Connor.
“What?” he gives a semi laugh
“Huh? Oh, nothing, I just figured you’d be more puny, that’s all!”
“Sorry to disappoint”
“Believe me you’re not”
“What?”
Thalia snaps out of it “Nothing, we should go”
“Aren’t you gonna change?” he asks
“I look good in whatever I wear” she smiles as he follows her out of the door.
END OF PART TWO
“There was this one time that my Sister had this boyfriend who had this real big thing with like killer hickies” Dawn slurs as she slumps over a chair.
“Really?” Tony says pretending to care what she says
“Yeah and she dates this guy called Spike and he was a…”
“Undertaker” Connor jumps in quickly
“No he wasn’t, he was a…”
“Yes, Dawn, he was” he says firmly trying to save her
“Oh, cause I always thought…never mind”
“Who’s this?” asks Tony
“Names Connor, I’m a friend of Dawns”
“You get invited here Connor”
“By Thalia”
“Eww” Dawn pokes her tongue out at the suggestion
“Well, nice meeting you Connor, but we were in the middle of a conversation”
“right” Connor stands with his hands in his pocket before clicking on “So I should go” he says as he hops over to Thalia.
“I don’t like him” he whispers
“What’s to like, he’s gross”
Connor looks at her baffled as Dawn stumbles over.
“Why are you two here?”
“You’re worried about me” Dawn yells
“Well don’t be because I can handle myself, I don’t need your help”
She is very clearly drunk and in a bad place
“Whatever” Thalia says turning away
“You wanna go again? We’ll go again, let’s go, I think we should go”
“Take another step Dawn and you’ll get a bold of lightning up your –“
“Okay, time to calm down” says Connor stepping into the ring
“Dawn, I think you should go home”
“I don’t care what you think, what you think you can just come here and be one of us and fit and make decisions?? You can’t, you couldn’t in LA and you can’t here”
Connor looks at Dawn, if looks could kill, is enough to say.
“Dawn”
“What?” she snaps
“Burn” he says through his teeth as he grabs Thalia by the hand and walks off.
Dawn stands looking sad for a moment, before falling down drunk against the wall.
“Hey, demon guy” Andrew calls out
“Who dare calls Darkathra”
“Hi, it’s me Andrew, I know Garrison, who you want to kill”
“You are a friend of the cursed one”
“Cursed? No, his powers way cool”
“You’ve clearly not seen it’s full extent, his true power”
“I so have, he popped a guy” Andrew says proudly
“You know nothing little mortal, what do you come to me with?”
“Oh, a request, See I was thinking, that you could not kill him…maybe, please”
The demon looks at Andrew like he’s an idiot
“Okay, not caring for manners, okay, if you don’t kill him, I’ll be your eyes and your ears”
“I already have such things” the demon shouts
“Okay, god calm down! Okay I’ll be your servant, like a minion?” Andrew pleads
“Done”
“What?”
“The boy lives and you are mine”
Andrew nods his head, gulping down fear.
Dawn is slowly coming round, as she opens her eyes she finds herself suspended above a large black hole in the ground
“What the f—“
“Hey Dawn, I’m so glad you came” smiles Tony as he removes his skin to reveal a rotting demon.
“Oh come on! Give me a break!”
Connor and Thalia are sat on the stairs bored.
“What’s her deal” Connor asks angrily
“Who cares, she’ll get over it”
“I care” Connor says
Thalia stops and looks at him frowning
“You really do don’t you?”
“What?”
“You care for her”
“She’s a friend, of course I care”
“No. You care for her, more than that” Thalia says with regret
Connor stops to think about his feeling
“I…Don’t know”
“Try me” Thalia, says as she leans in to kiss Connor, the two kiss heavily for a moment before breaking it off.
“I’m sorry” Connor frowns “I do”
The pair sit in the most awkward of awkward silences before two of the frat boys rush through the centre of them.
“Tony’s done it”
“He’s got the girl?”
“He’s got the key” the two laugh
Connor and Thalia look at eachother fearfully and follow.
The boys dress themselves in robes before heading down a dark staircase.
Thalia and Connor each dress in one of the robes and follow down, there they see Dawn, crying, suspended and ready to be bled.
Eight of the demon stand in a circle chanting as Connor and Thalia flip their hoods down
“Party’s over boys” Thalia smiles clenching her fists ready for action.
END OF PART THREE
So the fight ensues, Connor snaps three necks as Thalia takes on two of the demons, unable to use her powers in the cave beneath the college, she has to depend purely on her strength and skills.
The pair works in sync, twirling over eachother backs for a flip kick, bouncing off of eachother puns and generally beating the crap out of them.
Whilst distracted with the fight, one of the demons slips to the side and grabs a knife to attack Dawn with.
“Dawn” Thalia calls out.
“Connor, take these” Thalia kicks the two demons over to him as she kicks the other into the black hole and unties Dawn.
“Sorry” Dawn says
“Another time” Thalia smiles
the two of them hug and then head back into the fight, only to find Connor has killed them all.
“Thanks” says Dawn
“Anytime, Anyplace” Connor replies
Thalia looks saddened but also happy as she sees the sparks Dawn fails to.
Resting in bed, Dawn closes her eyes but is most definitely awake when she hears a voice.
“Dawn, Dawn”
She looks across the room to see Tara standing, bathed in light
“Dawn, it’s just a musical box”
“What? Am I still drunk?”
“She doesn’t understand Dawn, she’s just like you”
“Who?”
“You must promise her Dawn, promise to love her”
“Are you the first”
“No, You’re the last”
“the last what? Who’s like me, what do you mean?”
Faith walks into the room casually
“So, it’s not just me getting these creepy visits from Willows girl?”
“You can see her?”
“She’s stood right there Dawn, she keeps talking to me about music and you be the same”
“Neither of you, she” Tara says
“Who is she?” the girls repeat in Unison
“So precious” Tara smiles as she fades away
Faith and Dawn both suddenly find themselves waking up on the sofa, looking at eachother as if to question.
Over at Garrison’s apartment, he is fast asleep, Andrew lies next to him, wide awake. He slips out of bed, fully clothes and kisses Garrison on the head.
“For you” he smiles as he slips out of the door
END
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