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Episode 2.9: Born Again
“Tara?” Dawn says gently reaching out her hand
She flinches away from her
“Tara, it’s me, Dawn…you, you came to me, you took Casey”
“I…don’t, I don’t know!” Tara mumbles to her self repeatedly
“Good job Dawn” snaps Connor
“Excuse me? This is my fault?”
“Well, you did open up the crazy portal that Tara or someone that looks like Tara stepped out of…and took the kid”
“This can’t be because of that”
“Right, so she’s not curled up exactly where it opened?” adds Connor
“Dawn, what did you do?” asks Faith, who has been absent during the spell
“I did…nothing. I didn’t…”
“Where’s Casey?” asks Thalia
“Nobody told you?” Harley speaks up “Casey’s the little girl right? The one that went into the portal”
“You let Casey walk into a portal?” Faith asks angrily
“No, I…”
“She didn’t let her…she placed her” adds Connor
“What is this, pick on Dawn day!? I did wrong okay, but…”
“err people, Tara is gone” says Ryan cautiously
Everyone turns to stare at the very open window as the curtains blow about in the wind.
Garrison is walking past the bar as Tara wonders past him looking lost
He looks at her like she’s lost her mind but shrugs her off as a drunk returning from a Halloween party.
Andrew is sat on the chair watching Doctor Who videos as Garrison enters behind him slowly. Andrew jumps up like a child who’s parent has returned with gifts.
“Hey you! Where’ve you been?”
Garrison stares at him hard, it’s clear he’s been crying
“Sit down and shut up” he says in one dash
“What?” Andrew replies quivering
“We need to talk. Now”
~*~ROLL CREDITS~*~
Starring:
Eliza Dushku
Michelle Trachtenberg
Tom Lenk
Lisa Roxanne
Ryder Strong
Special Guest Star
Vincent Karthieser
Guest Starring:
Amber Benson, Christina Vidal, Shawn Ashmore as Ryan
“She couldn’t have gone far” Dawn calls back as she rushes ahead of Thalia, Ryan and Connor “She doesn’t know this place”
“By the looks of things she doesn’t know much” Connor throws out
Thalia nudges him on the arm and shakes her head “Lay off a bit Connor”
He rolls his eyes and catches up with Dawn “Listen, if we slow down for a second I can probably sniff her out”
Everyone pauses for a moment “Anything?” asks Dawn
“This way” Connor nods towards an alley
“Down there? As in the alley that leads to the brightest most insanely loud outdoors club in the entire world?” adds Thalia “Well, she won’t have a break down, there”
“So, Harley right?” asks Faith as she strolls through a cemetery with the demi-slayer.
“Right”
“And…Anya told you to come here? Because you were getting gritty with Xander?”
“I was not! I spoke to him…twice without her supervision and she went all Kathy Bates in misery”
“So, what’s your story?”
“Well, my name is Harley Davidson”
“You’re kidding”
“Apparently my parents wanted me to have a bad childhood”
“Continue”
“I’m nineteen, I was born in Brooklyn, One of five kids, the only girl…been doing the slayer thing since…late spring 2003 which I heard has something to do with some place named Sunnydale?”
“That was some fight”
“You were there? Against all the Turok Han?”
“Yeah, it was…colourful”
“Damn! That is so cool, I killed one of them once”
Faith stops in her tracks
“When?”
“About four months ago”
“You’re sure?”
“As sure as the night is dark…what’s up?”
“We killed them all”
“Obviously not”
“Where were you when you saw this Turok Han?”
“Visiting my aunt in Cleveland”
“Cleveland.” Faith takes a deep breath “Field trip time”
Andrew and Garrison are sat in silence.
“You said that we need to talk, but you’re not talking, so I’m gonna go and…”
“Sit. Down.”
Andrew sits down nervous but calm.
“What’s wrong with you?” Garrison says through his teeth
“Nothing, you’re the one who’s gone all principal snyder on me”
“Andrew”
“What? I don’t understand what I’m supposed to have done wrong”
“You’ve been working for a demon Andrew!”
“Wh…who…how do you know that?”
“That’s not important”
“I think it might be you know”
“No, No Andrew it’s not. I loved you”
“Loved? You mean Love?”
“I don’t know. I…I don’t know anymore”
“But, I done it for you! I done it to save you”
“But it didn’t help Andrew! The others will still come after me”
“But you said you were free”
“Because I didn’t want you to worry about me, to do something stupid. Now, without my powers they’ll come after me and win and that’s your fault”
END OF PART ONE
Tara’s world is spinning around her as the lights a music flash around.
Nothing feels right to her, she can’t understand a thing and everything around her is insane. People staring as she barely stands, like a paranoid wreck.
Connor, Dawn, Thalia and Ryan arrive on the scene in time for her to begin curiously investigating things. Taking peoples food, knocking things over, trying to eat material things. She has no human knowledge aside from limited speech.
Tara sees Dawn and rushes up the side of a ride as crowds begin to gather around them.
Tara is screaming and shouting about nothing that makes sense. “End of the line little one” she repeats continuously.
“What’s she talking about?” Ryan asks
“I’m thinking Casey perhaps?” Thalia adds “We gotta get her down, now”
“Tara…Tara it’s me Dawn…”
Tara looks down and grins before screaming at the top of her lungs, from her point of view Tara is a blinding green light with two lights at the centre. One is a pure white, the other a musty light, almost dimmed.
“I’m going up” Dawn says boldly
“No you’re not Dawn! Whether you know her or not, something about you is making her react…insane”
“Guys got a point” Ryan puts in as Thalia stays quiet but nods in agreement
“God! When did the two of you get civil?”
Within seconds Connor is half way up the ride. Tara flinches and screams directly into his ear.
“This is not going to end well” Thalia says, hands on hips
“Hey” Connor places his hand gently on Taras “It’s okay”
“I…don’t know…I don’t know, I don’t know” Tara says repeatedly bashing her head against the ride.
“Hey, Hey stop that” he says pulling her away slightly
“I don’t know who I am” she says whimpering like a broken child
“You’re safe okay? That’s all that matters, come on” he reaches further across as Tara reaches her hand out to him, she wraps herself across his back as he begins to climb down.
Connor’s hand slips on the ride Tara is flung from his back as he is flung from the ride. There’s a huge gasp from the audience as the two fall, luckily to the quick thinking of Ryan, Tara is throw across to the bouncy castle.
Connor, however, is not so lucky as he crashes through the roof of wooden stall.
Thalia helps Connor up as Ryan tends to Tara. Dawn is stood speechless, looking into space like her world has just collapsed around her.
“You okay?” Thalia asks Connor, who stands slightly crooked but not badly injured.
“I’m fine. Tara?”
“Ryan’s got her”
“I’m taking her back to the apartment, tell Dawn to take a breather” he says with absolutely no emotion attached what so ever.
Thalia steps over to Dawn
“Where are they going?” Dawn asks as if they’re defying her
“They’re taking Tara home and you’re staying here”
“No, I’m going with her”
“Dawn, don’t” she says gently
“Why shouldn’t I?”
“Because you need to step down”
“Step down? My friend just almost died…again”
“Because of what?”
Dawn looks down “Because Connor slipped on the…”
“Dawn” Thalia says sternly
“…Because I messed up”
“Big time. Dawn you don’t get it do you?”
“Get what?”
“You don’t need to do this, all this on the spot decision making and trying to be the leader. None of us need leading, well, maybe Andrew sometimes, but we’re all strong people Dawn”
“I know, I just…”
“You’re not Buffy, you don’t have to be. You’re free to go to college, have a life, you don’t need to make these huge dramatic gestures to try and fill her shoes”
“I’m not”
“Really? Something’s got to explain your ‘tude. You always act alone, like you’ve got nothing. You have everything Dawn, everything. You’ve a got a boyfriend who lied, nearly died and changed his destiny for you, you’ve got Connor! Connor who worships the ground you walk on. You have two crazy cool sisters and a Gay best friend who knows shoe’s better than I do….and…”
“and what?”
“You’ve got me”
Dawn looks up, surprised at the last part
“Don’t destroy yourself Dawn” Thalia gives a half smile
Dawn steps closer to Thalia and holds both her hands
“What happened to us? You were m first real friend my age”
“Maybe that’s it, not mature enough for you” she jokes
They smiles at eachother again before Dawn throws her arms around Thalia
“argh! I’ve missed you, I was so, so scared when you..”
“Is that why you left?”
Dawn breaks the hug
“No! …yes, I couldn’t do it…see you like that, I couldn’t do it and …”
“I know” Thalia says apologetically “We should probably get back, Tara’s probably a little overwhelmed by the male attention”
“She’s gay”
“Oh, well, we should still get back, she’s clearly broken”
Faith spin kicks softly knocking Harley to the ground.
“Come on!” she says holding her fist up for attack “that all ya got?”
She is really putting her through the paces. Harley runs at Faith and is knocked down, eyes shut, quiet.
“Harley?” Faith questions “Harley quit playing around”
Faith steps over and leans over. Within a second Faith has been kicked twice in the face and booted into the side of a tomb.
She stands holding her face, sore.
“That’s more like it” Faith says accepting Harleys hand as she helps her up “You got game girl”
“I know” she replies proudly
“Modesty too I see”
“You know it”
“You planning on sticking around Boston?”
“Could be”
“I like your attitude chopper”
“Chopper?”
“Harley Davidson…c’mon you didn’t think I’d let you get away without any gags”
Harley looks at her like she’s insane.
Back at the apartment Thalia is cleaning up Tara in the bathroom as Dawn and the boys hit the books.
“Dawn you can read like…every language right?”
“Right”
“Have you read the writing on the musical box? It’s the same as in this book”
Dawn checks the symbols and matches them up a look or worry creeps up on her face
“Smash it!”
“What?”
“Now, smash it now”
“Wh…” Before Ryan can finish, Dawn grabs the scythe that was used in Sunnydale, and smashes down on the box.
Her eyes widen as it reforms instantly.
Before she can speak Harley rushes through the door and snatches the scythe from her hand.
“Strong people, If I could borrow you for a minute” she grabs Connor and Ryan and pulls them with her.
“Where are you going?” asks Dawn
“Five Turok Han stopped by, I think we have apocalypse pending”
as everyone leaves, Thalia slowly walks out of the bathroom
“Where’d everybody go?”
“Apocalypse”
“Nice” she turns to head back in the bathroom as Dawn throws herself back on the chair.
END OF PART TWO
“So, you’re just gonna leave? Just like that?” Andrew says tears ready to escape as Garrison is throwing things into his bag.
“Andrew, I don’t know who we are anymore”
“It’s just powers you were fine with it before, I don’t understand”
“It’s not just powers Andrew, it’s part of me, you couldn’t even come to me or ask if I needed your help, you just done it and didn’t care about the consequences”
“Goodbye Andrew”
Garrison heads for the door as Andrew rips his shirt open.
“Yeah you know, you’re right! I didn’t care and I still don’t care!”
Garrison looks at Andrews body in shock.
“I didn’t care about the consequences like this scar here, and this cut here, this bruised rib…because I cared about him killing you! About me losing you!”
“Andrew…” Garrison stares at him hurt, lip trembling “You’re an idiot”
Andrew smiles “It’s what I do”
Garrison gives a half laugh and slowly moves up to him, grabbing him as the kiss passionately. Garrison pulls him tightly to him.
“Ow, rib”
“Sorry…and I am, sorry”
“Me too”
“Andrew you can’t do it again, ever, you can’t work for a demon just because you want to help someone else, doesn’t matter who it is”
“What if it was for myself?”
“What?”
“What if I wanted to?”
Garrison laughs it off “You’re not that person” he kisses him hard on the head
“You’re right”
“About what?”
“I’m not that person” Andrew says smiling inwardly
“I love you so much Andrew, never forget that, not ever, there’s nothing you ever have to hide from me”
Garrison looks at him one more time before walking to the bathroom. Andrew sits on the bed looking guilty, remembering just a few months ago when he assisted The Rayne’s in luring Faith & Travis to the woods and the various other occasions he’s willingly helped soulless demons since arriving in Boston.
“Thalia?” Dawn calls out
“Yeah” she says popping her head round the bathroom door
“How’s she doing?”
Thalia smiles and brings Tara out of the bathroom “Ta Da”
Dawns face remains in shock as Tara nervously walks out with poker straight highlighted hair, misty eyeshadow and glistening lip-gloss. She has manicured nails and a delicate white top with a beige full-length skirt.
“Thalia, you were meant to clean her not Jenny Jones her!”
“She needed it” Thalia defends innocently
Dawn stands to walk over to Tara, she’s wary at first.
“Dawn?” Tara calls out to her
“Tara” she smiles as she begins to cry, she leaps at her the two of them hug closely both crying and smiling as Thalia grins from behind them.
“I am so good” she says to herself.
Dawn pulls back, wiping her tears “What was wrong with you?”
“Apparently, when you switch dimensions suddenly, I-It takes a while for your soul o-or you essence to follow you”
Dawn smiles again, pushing Tara’s hair behind her ears “I missed you so much”
“Tara” Thalia says “I don’t know you, but this feels like a group hug moment and…we did kind of do a one sided life story exchange in the bathroom”
Tara gestures her over and the three girls hug for a long time.
“Happy endings” Thalia smiles as she grabs Dawns hand.
Over at the graveyard…
“Was there like a friggin’ tour bus from Cleveland or what?”
Faith moans as she swings the scythe through one of the vamps.
“I thought you said these things were extinct?” adds Connor who flips over one and kicks it backward into Ryan, who throws it onto a picket fence.
“Yeah, well, I must’ve flunked that class Junior”
Harley boots one of the Ubervamps in the jaw hard enough to snap it’s head off. It was the last one in the attack. Ryan and Faith stare at her in astonishment.
“He tore my jacket”
Ryan looks over to see Connor crumpled by a tree, he extends his hand to help him up, his hand and an olive branch.
“Thanks” Connor says calmly as he brushes himself off.
“It’s cool”
“Cool”
“Are we?”
“Are we what?”
“Cool”
Connor looks at him for a moment, almost studying him from the inside out. He puts out his hand and does the typical weird flippy hand shake that guys try and do to look cool.
“We’re cool”
“Yo’ fella’s not to break up the bondage, but if you say cool any more it’s gonna start snowing. C’mon” Faith laughs at them and walks off with Harley.
“Geez, you Boston bunch are such drama”
The following night Faith, Ryan, Dawn, Andrew, Garrison, Harley, Tara, Connor and Thalia are all somehow in Faiths apartment.
“There is three times the amount of the people here than this apartment is designed for!”
“I live her, I’m not leaving” Thalia protests
“Second” Connor passes not paying attention.
“Well, I gotta go work the bar anyway” Garrison stands
“You want me to come with?” Andrew asks
“No, it’s okay stay with your friends, call me when you want me to meet you okay?”
“Okay” Garrison kisses Andrew on the forehead as Connor grins at them
“What?” Andrew asks paranoid “its perfectly natural”
“What is?”
“For two men to be in a relationship”
“err…okay I was just admiring how happy you are, happy is good”
“Why thank you Connor”
“That’s okay Andrew” he says clearly taking the piss “Happy honest relationships are what makes the world good”
Andrew darts a look at him and folds his arms in a sulk
“What’d I say?”
Faith laughs at them and heads into the bedroom where Dawn is performing a locator spell.
“Dawn are you done yet?”
“It’s not working Faith”
“Can’t Tara work that kind of magic?”
“You know, I’d ask but she’s kind still broken a little”
“Right well how hard can a locator spell be?”
“It just keeps blinking and then going dead”
“What does that mean?”
“Geez Faith, strangely I wouldn’t be repeating it for three hours if I knew”
Thalia soon joins them in the room
“What are we doing?”
“Harley got me to thinking, she’s one of those demi-slayers, like Vi or Kennedy or whoever. Since Buffy’s powers are gone the Slayers or wannabes come here”
“Point?”
“She’s trying to find who was called after Lissy died”
“But to no avail?”
“Not even a tiny veil, not even a doily sized veil”
Dawn lets out a mini scream of frustration
“It keeps blinking!”
“Dawn, it’s blinking over our street” Thalia points out
END OF PART THREE
“You think its Harley?”
“Dawn, do that cloud thing”
“What cloud thing?”
“The egg thing…”
“Yeah, Faith, you got a snake skin and various animal parts around?”
“We don’t even have eggs” Thalia adds with cutesy innocent smile
“What’s going on in here sounds like a Banshee disco” says Andrew as he pops his head round the corner.
Over at the bar, Ryan is sat with Garrison and a few dozen demons.
“So, things cool with the two of you now?”
“Very”
“How about the whole triangle? You and Connor looked less like you wanted to kill eachother”
“He’s not so bad” The two of them clink glasses together and smiles
“Like everyone’s been born again today”
Over at Faiths.
Dawn, Andrew, Thalia and Faith are still in the bedroom arguing over who should go to the magic shop.
Harley is sat with Tara and Connor. All very awkward
“So, Tara, where’s Casey?”
“Who?”
“You still not completely back?”
“I’m back, but w-who’s Casey?”
A look of panic falls across Connors face
“Dawn get out here!”
“Connor we’re busy”
“You may wanna hear this”
Dawn comes out clearly peeved at being pulled away
“What?”
“Tara…the floors yours”
Tara stands and walks over to Dawn
“Who’s Casey?”
“She’s the girl you took back to he musical land with you…are you still broken?”
“Musical land?”
“Still broken, great” Dawn says to herself
“No, Dawn I remember everything! I remember…everything. I’ve never been to a Musical land. I’ve never…”
“When was the last time you saw or spoke to me Tara?”
“In the hall, before…before I left”
“You’ve not been visiting me? In my dreams?”
“Dawnie I can’t, I couldn’t. I’ve been somewhere else, just…gone”
“Were you in Heaven?”
“I wasn’t anywhere. Just gone”
Dawn looks over at the musical box as it begins to let out a soft tunes that gets louder and louder before the lid flips open and light pours out as Faith, Andrew and Thalia run out of the room.
Garrison and Ryan see the light from the bar.
Tara (?) appears before Dawn and laughs “I can bring whole cities to ruin” she cackles before burning from the outside in and disappearing.
“What the hell was that?” asks Harley
“I d-don’t know but it’s borrowing my face without permission!” Tara says shaken.
As everything calms another flash comes from outside, with a more purple glow. Then silence until the door opens.
Two brunette girls are stood there, one looking nervous one very unamused.
“Dawn, you are in so much trouble!” says a newly coloured Buffy with her hands on her hips.
Kennedy looks on very pissed off.
A moment’s silence pass as Tara and Buffy lock eyes. Another woman walks into the room. Poker straight streaked hair, blonde streaks with a red base.
She is teary eyed and trembling lip
“Tara?”
“W-Willow”
END
Co-starring:
Iyari Limon as Kennedy
Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenburg
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
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