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Episode 2.6: 1923
“What the hell is that?” Faith calls to Dawn who is wearing a shocking bright pink shirt with green splashes across it.
Dawn shakes her head signalling Faith to stop talking.
“It looks like a care bear threw up on you”
“Thanks Faith. It’s my birthday present from Buffy”
“There’s a surprise”
“She wants to talk to you” Dawn grins handing Faith the phone
Faith gestures to Dawn that she’s going to kill her.
“Hey B…Yeah nice shirt you got Dawn…right…yeah I know you got ears”
Dawn laughs before heading out to answer the door for the mailman.
“Ooh parcels. Thanks”
Dawn carries in a large pile of smartly wrapped parcels. She begins to tear at them.
“Any mail for me?” Faith asks smiling.
“Err..” Dawn scurries through the mail “Here. Bill”
“Right” Faith gives a half smile then heads to the kitchen.
“Ooh, absentee Father has a cheque book”
She continues tearing at the paper and comes across a large parcel. From it she pulls a smaller box. Then a smaller box than that until she reaches a jewellery box. Inside there is a small silver cross-encrusted with diamonds.
“Whoa, who got you that?”
“I don’t know”
“Read the note”
“Just says ‘see you soon’”
Connor comes out of his room stretching, wearing a dressing gown.
“Junior, your senior is showing”
Connor looks down and wraps himself up embarrassed.
“Faith can I talk to you…alone”
“That’s my cue” Dawn smiles, heading to the bathroom.
“What’s up?” Faith says looking a bit baffled.
Connor sits down next to her, making sure to tuck his dressing gown between his legs.
“Here” he passes her a small white envelope
“What’s this?”
“Angel. He told me to give it to you If he didn’t make it”
Connor steps up and begins to walk off
“Why are you only giving this to me now?”
He stops and turns to smile at her “Happy Birthday Faith”
~*~ROLL CREDITS~*~
Eliza Dushku
Michelle Trachtenberg
Tom Lenk
Lisa Roxanne
Ryder Strong
Special Guest Star
Vincent Karthieser and Nicholas Brendan
Guest Starring
Megan Mulley, Emma Caulfield
Faith is sat with Dolly. They’ve closed the diner and are sat with a bottle of tequila, Faith is reading the note from Angel.
‘Well Faith, one of us has made it. Keep up the good work kid. Fred told me how you’ve got your own little Scooby gang now, sounds like you got the good ones! Well, except Xander maybe’
Faith smiles, tears in her eyes
‘Keep up the good fight Faith. You’re strong, one of the strongest and don’t think otherwise. Can you imagine this face to face? No, neither can I. Connor, he can hold his own, but take care of him Faith and he’ll take care of you. If ever you feel like it’s not going right, just hold onto this’
Faith pulls out a claddagh ring from the envelope.
‘The only other person I’ve ever given this to is Buffy. Take care Faith’
“You okay honey?” Dolly interrupts as Faith wipes the smudged make up from her face.
“Yeah, whoa think maybe I’ve had too much to drink. I’m getting all soppy”
Dolly lays her hand on top of Faiths and smiles at her “Faith”
“You can be honest with me”
Faith looks at Dolly and laughs
“Nothing to tell, everything’s…all right” she says with sincerity.
“Good. More to drink?”
Dawn, Andrew, Garrison and a very barely clothed Thalia are walking along the promenade of Boston Beach.
“I didn’t even know Boston had a beach” Dawn laughs
“It doesn’t” Thalia replies as she drops her ice cream down her chest.
“Then how are we going to a beach party”
“Boat party”
“Oh, I feel stupid”
“Yep”
The two girls smile at eachother sarcastically and continue to walk on.
“So, Thalia, you gonna stick around for the rest of my birthday or have you got private tutorial?” Dawn smiles
“Well, I was thinking of hanging around but I’m actually not entirely sure if I want you to live until your next birthday” she smiles back
“Wow, that’s really bad tension” Andrew says looking up over his shades.
“What?”
“You ladies have been living together for live nearly five months now and you’ve been through so much, you’ve ruined so much housing and you don’t get along anymore – it’s so sad”
“We get along!” Dawn protests
“Yeah, we’re just playing – most of the time” Thalia finishes “Where’s this party anyway? We’ve been walking for miles”
“You know what guys, I just remember I left my car in park and…”
“We walked here” Thalia interupts Garrison
“I left the oven on? I’ll be back soon” He kisses Andrew then runs off.
“Strange kid”
“You’re a strange kid” Andrew says defensively to Dawn
“Andrew, it’s not sincere”
“Yeah, well, he’s not a kid, you are. You’re nineteen. He’s like twenty four in September”
“Sugar Daddy”
“Nah Uh! I’m totally going to be twenty two this year!”
“I thought you left school with Buffy”
“No, Dawn. I was a sophomore when she was a senior” he says implying that she knows nothing.
“So, why’d you leave?” asks Thalia
“Dawns crazy sister blew the school up. I didn’t have much choice”
Dawn slaps Andrews arm.
“Hey!” he yells
“Well, Hello Giant Snake ring a bell?”
Faith stumbles into her apartment and throws herself onto the chair, slouching in a somewhat drunken stupor. A knock at the door.
“What?” No Answer.
“Idiots” Faith mumbles to herself as she makes her way to the door. She pulls it open without looking.
“We don’t buy or …Xander”
Faith smiles before another person turns the corner complaining about sun lotion.
“And…Anya”
“Faith. Hi. Happy Birthday!” she says “Xander give her the over priced and clearly chosen by me gift”
“Chosen by you?”
“Yes, his was far too thoughtful. It’s like you had a thing”
END OF PART ONE
“Hey, Garrison has been gone for like almost an hour” Dawn points out
“Probably masturbating” says Thalia as Andrew says “Probably changing”
“Hey!” Andrew whines “He doesn’t need to”
“Andrew! I’m shocked! That is very unlike you!”
“What you think because I’m newly gay that I can’t be outspoken” he says trying to sound as though he’s an activist, this is overshadowed by his blushing.
“Not at all! Testify! Least one of us has someone” Dawn sighs
“You’re just jealous”
“Explain how”
“Well, you obviously still have a crush on me Dawn” Andrew says smugly
“Andrew – You had a crush on me remember?”
“Dawn, sweetie, I don’t think so!”
“Whatever!”
“Hey Garrison” Thalia looks up and interupts the needless squabble.
“Hey, erm sorry I took so long. Dawn…” he grabs her by the hand and pulls her up “Come with me”
“Where are we going?”
“I got you a…surprise”
“What kind of sur…” she stops breathless outside a shiny red car.
“You got me a car?”
“Yeah right Dawn! Look inside”
She glares into the backseat to see a large bump covered in a black blanket, excited she tears it off, her face drops.
“Ryan?”
“Surprise!” Thalia, Garrison and Andrew call as Ryan lays awkwardly smiling.
“Hey Dawn…sorry I’m late” Connor stops in his tracks when he sees Ryan and Dawn stood opposite eachother, clear that something is between them “Who’s This?”
“This is Garrison’s best friend, otherwise known as Dawns one and only, until he lied to her then disappeared for three months or so” Thalia replies
“Lies? What is it with people and their lies”
“Childhood issues?”
“Something of the kind”
Thalia can see the looks of hurt and distress on his face.
“You wanna, go somewhere?”
“Somewhere is good” He says without changing tone or facial expression. The two of them walk off.
Dawn turns as they fade into the crowd.
“Who…where did Thalia go?”
“She disappeared with Boy Wonder” Andrew replies.
“Who’s Connor?” Ryan asks jealously, seeing the look or hurt and worry on Dawns face.
“He’s…why?”
“Just wondering”
“Don’t get jealous, you don’t get to be jealous after what you did!”
“err…Andrew I’m thinking that we should leave these two alone”
“Actually, sweet pea, you’ll have to leave them alone, alone because I kinda have to go somewhere”
“Where?”
“Nowhere”
“You have to go to nowhere that’s somewhere?”
“Yes…No…”
“Guys” Dawn says turning around staring “whenever you’re ready”
Faith and Anya are sat awkwardly beside eachother on the sofa whilst Xander is wondering the streets of Boston looking for Dawn.
“So, Faith! How’s things been?”
“slow”
“Really? Have you ever considered moving to New York? Because it’s all very fast there and we could always use somebody a bit better than Harmony and Cody to fight our battles…” Anya pauses and takes a breath.
“Actually don’t come to New York. I don’t want you putting your woman parts near Xander”
“I’ll try to remember that. Didn’t you die?”
“Yes, didn’t you?”
“Well, yeah but my Sister the key”
“You know, you shouldn’t throw it around like that. Someone might want to leak the brat again, she’s not good for anything apart from ruining and ending worlds”
“Nice”
“It’s true” Anya starts laughing “I can’t believe how much Buffy must hate you now”
“What?”
“Well, you know, self centred spoilt Buffy, always though you took her things and now you’ve taken her sister”
“Right. So how did you live?”
“Hey! I was a vengeance demon, we’re immortal”
“You were a vengeance demon? And you didn’t tell anyone?”
“No! Why would I do that? They’d want me to do stuff”
“God forbid”
“Did you die for Dawn?”
“That was out the blue” says Faith taken back
“I know. But if people keep dying for her, she’s going to develop an ego”
“Anya, you’ve really grown as a person” Faith says sarcastically
“Thank You Faith. So have your hips!”
Faith looks at Anya offended, before checking her hips.
Ryan and Dawn are sat on a bench in silence.
“One of us should talk” Dawn says
“Okay I’ll…”
Before Ryan can get a third word out Dawn is away
“You know, where the hell did you go? I thought that you loved me then I thought you were dead and there was crying and drunken frat parties, the serious destruction of housing and the really bad dye job. Then you just turn up from nowhere and you’re all ‘Hey Dawn Happy Birthday’ but you’re not dead and it’s all…”
She is cut off by a kiss, which she keenly joins in before pushing him away
“Don’t do that! This isn’t then, it’s now. You can’t just kiss me to shut me up!”
“Sorry”
“Are you?”
“What?”
“Sorry”
“Of course I’m Sorry. Dawn, I love you”
“Then why did you leave me?”
“I had to” he says looking to the ground
“Why did you have to? Nobody has to do anything!”
“Dawn” he holds her hand in his “You know I was sent here remember?”
“I was sent here to love you, to let you love me and protect you”
“Guardian Angel” Dawn says unenthusiastically
“Yes”
“Yes what?”
“That’s it”
“You’re an Angel?”
“No, but I was yours, sort of…Dawn…I was meant to protect you and I failed so I was taken away, sent somewhere else”
“You’ve been with someone else?”
“No, that’s it! I couldn’t protect them because I didn’t love them!”
“You love me?”
“Yes, Dawn, of course I do, it’s why I came back”
“I don’t understand, who sends you to people?”
“It’s kind of a thing I was assigned from at birth”
“Like the Slayer?”
“Not really, but sort of, basically it’s my destiny”
The two lean in for a kiss as clouds crash around them, storm ahead.
A large, highlighted man appears to them.
“You return to this!” he storms at Ryan whilst pointing to Dawn
“You failed this, you do not belong here!”
Ryan stands up to him furiously “I failed the others, I didn’t love them”
“You think this is love? You have failed, unfulfilled potential and you know the price”
“The price?” Dawn asks nervously
“You must pay your debt with your life!”
“His life? Why?”
“He was born to do this and he failed now he must be un-born”
The man raises his hand to strike him down, Dawn jumps in his way, Ryan then moves her out of the way. The man stops.
“I can’t do this”
The man stops “It is pure”
Dawn holds Ryan close to her
“You will protect her Guardian, if you fail, you will pay” he touches Ryan head, surrounding him in light “Now you receive your inheritance”
With that the man vanishes.
“Your inheritance?”
“Err…yeah, there’s something I’ve got to tell you”
Xander returns to the apartment having failed to find Dawn
“You really like her?” Thalia asks Dawn as they finally find a non-crowded room on the boat.
“I don’t know”
“You don’t know like yes or you don’t know like yes but I’m not telling you?”
Connor looks at her like she’s insane
“Sorry, it’s just…you lot, you Californian supernatural are all insane”
“Thanks?”
“It’s true! I know we’re in Boston, but I wasn’t waiting on Dawson’s Creek”
“Dawson’s Creek?”
“Lame TV show about over dramatic teens and their constant partner swapping”
“Sound like L.A with teenagers”
“Not much of a home guy?”
“Not much of an any place kinda guy”
“Care to share?” Thalia says as she attacks the mini bar of one of the cabins and hands Connor a small bottle of vodka citrus.
“Lies”
“What’s lies?”
“Everything”
“You’re against Lies?”
“Aren’t you?”
“Not if it means nobody will get hurt”
“There’s no such thing as lie that doesn’t hurt people” he replies throwing the drink down his throat and shuddering at the impact.
“You sure about that?”
The two stare at eachother, clearly unsure of whether to take part in the events they know are about to happen. Within a second Connor’s lips meet Thalia’s as the two of them tear at each other’s clothes and fall back on the bed.
Xander returns to the apartment having failed to find Dawn, he instead finds Faith and Anya in a drunken state laughing about Xander.
“Okay Ladies I think we need to change the subject to something a little less belittling”
They stare at eachother and laugh saying in unison “He said little”
“Ladies…”
“Don’t worry Xander, you’re not little” Anya says chirpily
“Seven minutes increased to” Faith smiles
“Well, do continue” he smiles, until Anya passes out on the floor, drunk.
Faith and Xander are walking along outside of the apartment to freshen Faith up.
“Faith, you sure you’re up for the reunion?”
“There’s a reunion?”
“Sunnydale”
“Doesn’t exist”
“Faith are you ears attached to your head when we speak?”
Faith passes a bewildered look.
“I know you weren’t a student there, but you hung round it a lot”
“So where is this reunion?”
“Los Angeles”
“Well, what a stupid place to have a Sunnydale Reunion”
“Faith, Sunnydale is gone remember?”
“Oh yeah” she giggles
“So, you gonna go?”
“Where?”
“To-the-reunion”
“It’s only been six years since you graduated”
“Yeah, the five year reunion was a no-go and most students don’t live to a ten year reunion”
“Right, when are we going?”
“Next Week”
“Next Week!!!??? So you’re hanging around till then?”
“No, we arranged to go back to New York for Harmony, we didn’t want to bring her hear as you’d never get rid of her”
“Hey, I can’t get in, I wasn’t a student”
“You’re Andrews date remember”
Faith falls to the floor laughing and rolling about
“What’s the joke?” Xander says actually worried
“Andrew loves boys!”
“Ohh Kaaay bed for you!”
END OF PART TWO
The next morning Faith and Anya wake next to eachother, looking at eachother fearfully.
“Did we?” Anya asks
“No, I don’t think…since prison”
“Right and this one time I nearly got sexy with Wi…someone during a spell”
“Right, no sex”
The two sit awkwardly before calling out “Xander?!!”
Over at the boat, Connor and Thalia wake in each other’s arms. Both get up and dress without saying a word.
As they leave the boat they bump into Garrison, Ryan and Dawn.
“Hey where did the two of you get to last night?”
They look at eachother awkwardly, Garrison knows instantly.
“Crazy party, should’ve been there Dawn” Thalia says as she walks home to get changed.
“Hey” she says as she passes Xander.
“What’s up with her?” he asks as Dawn runs up and throws her arms around him.
“Who’s this?” Connor asks
“Xander”
“That’s Xander? Who Cordelia dated?”
“Right”
“Why’d she do that?”
“Ahh, Angels son!” Xander nods as he shakes his hand.
“I’m not his Son, he’s my Father”
“Right” Xander says withdrawing. “Dawn, a word”
The two of them walk off as Connor and Ryan stare at eachother fiercely
“What’s up? Did Anya die again?”
“You forgot her Birthday”
“Who Anya’s? well, we were never that close and she’s like a billion years old I figured she didn’t celebrate”
“Faith”
“Faith forgot?”
“You forgot Faith’s birthday”
“No I didn’t it’s the same day as…oh god! It’s the same day as mine!”
“How can you forget your own birthday? Or were so busy not forgetting that, you forget hers”
“What am I gonna do?”
“That’s on you Dawn. I don’t think it’s the fact that you forgot, I think it’s the fact that Anya, Garrison and Connor remembered. Three people she barely knows”
Back at the apartment
“You know, you’re New York thing. Doesn’t sound so bad” Faith says to Anya, who is in the kitchen cleaning.
“Well, you’re not living with us. You’re a pig!”
“Am Not!” Faith says as she spills a dollop of sauce on the chair, receiving a sharp glare from Anya.
“Besides, Faith, I know the new council is all, slayer rights and crap, but no. They couldn’t afford a New York apartment.”
“So, I’d scum it. Maybe go stay with Robin” she smiles suggestively
“Robin’s gay!”
“You’re kidding?! Is there any good guys left”
“Xander…but keep your woman bits and your bouncy hips away from him”
Again, Faith checks her hips.
Anya throws down the sponge and washes her hands. She grabs her clutch bag and heads to the door.
“Where are you going?”
“I’ve been in Boston for two days! I need to go and make Andrew feel bad for letting me die in Sunnydale!”
She crosses Thalia as she steps out of the door.
“Hey” she says to Faith unenthusiastically.
“Hey Stranger? Where’ve you been for…forever?”
“Out, about”
“You okay?”
“Peachy” she pauses for a drink “Slept with Connor”
Faith almost chokes on her food.
“Connor who’s actually only four human years old, likes Dawn and seems scared of showers?”
“The one and only”
“Does Dawn know?”
“Do I care?” she says as she wonders off to her room, she lies on the bed and starts crying. Faith listens at the door, looking worried.
Over at the bar Anya is helping herself to drinks and dancing to ‘Lady Marmalade’ on the bar.
Andrew walks in, bloodied and bruised.
“Andrew there you…what the hell happened to you?”
“Anya?! What are you doing here?”
“Well, I came to make you feel bad, but now I do, what did you do?”
“It’s nothing, just bit of Vampire trouble”
“at 3p.m?”
“Special Vampires, with sunblock”
“Andrew, you’re a bad liar and a worse fighter”
“It’s nothing Anya!” he says as he attempts to storm upstairs but bumps into the wall and curls up in pain.
“You’re badly hurt Andrew, hurt like I was under those bricks” he glares at her “Sorry, I had to get it in there somewhere”
“Take of your shirt” she says
“What?”
“I need to clean you and fix you! You’re all fragile and dirty”
Upstairs, Anya is cleaning Andrews wounds as he stands in his swim shorts in the trousers.
“Well, if it makes you feel any better, I figured you’d be built and…” she looks down “developed like a school boy. Well done, you’re not” she smiles cheerfully.
He laughs, holding his ribs.
“So, you actually going to tell me what happened?”
“Only if your promise not to tell”
“I promise that I will tell if it’s something I can’t handle alone!”
“Anya!”
She rolls her eyes “Promise”
“Pinkie promise?”
She lifts her little finger and links his “Pinkie promise”
“What the hell is going on?” Dawn asks as she walks over to find Ryan and Connor very engaged in a physical fight.
Connor flips over the top of Ryan and kicks him from behind before jumping on top of him and punching him in the face.
Ryan stares at him hard and he goes flying across into a wall.
Dawn stares in amazement “Garrison are you two related?”
“Little bit”
“How can you be a little bit related?”
“Same species”
“Buffy’s gonna love this”
“Can we focus” Xander interrupts as Ryan charges at Connor, who moves and smashes him face first into the wall. Dawn jumps in between them and screams.
“Stop it!”
“Both of you stop! What is this Connor?”
“Oh Me! It has to be my name thrown about! He lied to you Dawn!”
“I know Connor, that’s my business”
“But…”
“No Connor! No But! I know he lied and I forgive him because I love him”
Connor looks at her hurt before running off, Garrison follows.
“What the hell is his problem?” she asks turning to Xander, who is incredibly pissed at her.
“I think the problem, Dawn, is that you’re more blind than me!” he says before following Connor and Garrison.
Dawn stands, unsure whether she has caught on or not.
The night is now closing in over Boston. Andrew and ANYANKA (not Anya) are creeping around the streets.
She sees the large demon that has been causing Andrews slavery and stalking Garrison for his death.
“Wish granted” she says in game face.
The demon explodes. On the otherside of town, Connor and Xander gather around a collapsed Garrison on the sidewalk.
END OF PART THREE
Later on in the night, as Xander and Anya head back to New York, Garrison returns home to Andrew.
He sits him down and holds his hand in his “We should talk”
“What’s wrong?”
“The demon, that stalked me…”
Andrew shuffles awkwardly “What about him?”
“He’s dead”
“How…how do you know?”
“My powers are gone”
“What?”
“Ryan and I…we’re of the same species accept…he’s got it in his blood where as mine is more of a thrust upon gift”
“A Gift?”
“That demon, there was once two of them, like Gemini, one of my ancestors killed one of them and it’s power became a part of him. It seemed to be passed down through every generation that’s why the demon wanted us dead. We killed it’s partner”
“Ryan?”
“Ryan’s bloodline is directly from the demon, he’s like…gifted, like a Slayer, he gets called from the bloodline to have the powers”
“Wow. Confusing! So how did this thing die?”
“Don’t know, but it’s dead” he smiles “I’m free”
He leans in to kiss Andrew, who backs off, Garrison looks worried
“We’ve got to go, remember Dawn…she said we should meet up at Faiths”
Thalia is out patrolling, or at least, wondering the streets of Boston, she leaves the G-Spot with a man.
Minutes later, she is on his hips, kissing him in an alley.
“Faith, can I…can you come outside?” Dawn asks.
The two girls walk along the streets of Boston, silently.
“Why are we out here?”
“I’m sorry, that I forgot”
“It’s no big, kid”
“No, it really is”
“Dawn, it’s my 23rd, who celebrates that. You know, if it had been my 21st, I’d have killed ya”
They smiles “well, I’ll make it up to you I promise”
The two girls are now back outside the apartment.
“Dawn, will you stop. You haven’t got to make anything up to me!”
She puts the key in the door and walks in, flicking the light on
“Surprise!” comes from all directions as Ryan, Connor, Andrew, Garrison, Dolly, Anya & Xander (who actually went to the store for decorations) throws streamers everywhere.
“Dawn, you’re dead!” Faith smiles.
The party goes on into the night, around 2a.m as everything is still rather loud, Thalia slips in the door and into her room, un-noticed.
As the party dies, Anya and Xander really do leave.
“You sure you want to be travelling back so late?” asks Dawn
“Anya’ is driving!”
“Yeah, sweetie, I’m teleporting!” she laughs then goes.
Xander looks annoyed before she laughs “Okay, I’m driving back in the morning”
Dawn walks back over to Faith “I’m off to bed”
She kisses her on the head “Happy Birthday” she smiles
Faith wipes the kiss off and laughs at her “You too kid”
Connor, Garrison, Andrew and Xander are collapsed on the chair.
Faith smiles, for the first time knowing friends surround her.
“This’ll be fun” as she stands infront of them, lifting their arms to pose the in suggestive positions
END
Co-starring : Shawn Ashmore as Ryan Hallow
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