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Episode 2.11: Too Long (2)
“Willow are you sure that’s accurate?”
“It’s pretty much what I got”
“Well, get it again” snaps Dawn “What kind of ultimatum is that?”
“Wait!” Tara speaks up “there’s something here”
“You wont die Dawnie”
“Sure?”
“Willow, you were trying to translate this as Sumerian, it’s…not”
“Oh, sorry Dawnie” she smiles guiltily
“So, what’s the what then? I’m not a slayer?”
“Oh, well, you sort of are…If you want”
“If I want? Casey can be the key?”
“No”
Buffy turns to Willow “I told you to wear glasses, do you read anything right?”
“Maria’s reading, it-it said that the line desperately wanted you and the power of the key was stopping that from happening”
“So, that’s it right? It’s good Dawn doesn’t have to be the slayer?”
“Well, not really…”
“How not really? What not really?” Buffy is getting frustrated “I don’t understand. I thought the power was shared, all the potentials were called?”
“Not as full slayers though, they have twice the strength of man, half the strength of a slayer…the line is still running. When Kennedy and all the others die they won’t call anyone else”
“You’re sure?”
“So what’s happens then?” Dawn asks nervously in reply to Taras explanation.
“You make a choice. Either way, it’s going to be a b-big choice”
“How big?” Buffy is becoming clearly frustrated at the mess that has become of her sisters life, thanks to the overflow of unknown power.
“As long as you’re living, only one of the two can exist. You can either be the key or keep the slayer line going”
Silence falls across the room, Kennedy and the others look at eachother in worry for Dawn.
“Tara, you’re newly back to this, are you completely sure that this is the case?”
“She’s right Tara, maybe you’re off game” Willow follows on Buffy’s comment
“She’s right, it’s what it says” Maria speaks up “check the translation”
Bickering about Dawns choice continues over the room as she slowly stands in shock, stepping to one side and holding her head.
Andrew steps onto a stool and begins to bash a pan against the wall to get everyone’s attention.
“Stop the madness you vultures! This is Dawns life you’re deciding here!”
“Slayer” Dawn says as she turns
“You’re sure?” Tara follows, already knowing
“Dawn, you…you haven’t got to this, you’ve seen what it can do to you” says Buffy desperately trying to handle the idea and put Dawn off of it.
“So, Dawn was the slayer? The others came here to find out which of them would be called and…it’s Dawn” Kennedy says bitterly.
Buffy and Willow both give her ‘not the time or place’ look, she sinks down.
“It’s got to be the slayer” starts Dawn “the key…it’s not right, it constantly leads me into trouble that I don’t know because there’s no specific thing that wants to cut me open and pour me out…If I get flu, I go all weed killer and it’s insane. At least I know what a slayer is about”
“Then it’s decided” says Tara, ready to defend Dawn “Tonight, we sort this out forever”
~*~ROLL CREDITS~*~
Eliza Dushku and Michelle Trachtenberg
also starring
Tom Lenk
Lisa Roxanne
Ryder Strong
Amber Benson
with Vincent Karthieser as Connor
Special Guest Star
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alyson Hannigan
Guest Starring:
Lindsey Sloane, Megan Mullally, Kristy Wu, Iyari Limon, Shawn Ashmore as Ryan and Christine Healy as Epiphany
“Amy!” Faith calls to warn one of the slayers of an approaching Turok Han, fortunately Thalia manages to disturb the ground between them with a bolt of lightning.
Connor flips off of Ryan’s hands and snaps one of the TH necks between his feet before spinning another over the top of him.
“Faith where are they coming from?” calls Ryan desperately fighting off
He notices the sewer and rushes closer, signalling Thalia who crushes a large tomb to the ground for Ryan to fill in the hole.
“I not like bumpy head jerk!” yells Chao Ann as she repeatedly kicks one of the Vampires in his sides.
“I knew this would happen” Faith calls to Thalia
“What?”
“Everytime these girls come to town something bad happens”
So distracted with the two vamps ahead of her she is taken from behind and thrown hard into a tree.
“Faith!” Chao Ann runs over, flipping over a Vamp and landing at Faiths side.
“Scythe” she says to her enthusiastically, Faith nods and forces herself to her feet before running to the exit at full speed.
As Faith departs, Amy is killed. Chao Ann charges back into the fight with full force as she works off of Sasha.
Connor is clearly enjoying the fight until Thalia is throws down hard, out of the game they have no instant firepower as Ryan drags her to safety.
Over at the apartment, Tara, Willow & Maria hold hands once again as Dawn sits in the centre of them.
“Higher Goddess, Higher power, call forth she from the corner tower”
Light begins to pour from every part of Dawn, bathing her.
“The peoples Warrior, Glory shines, fade the lock and undo time”
The three woman repeat this chant over and over until Dawn falls to the ground, darkness falls over the room as the windows crash open as a woman glides in, hovering over the floor.
“You’re kidding” Buffy snarks ruining the woman’s slightly dramatic entrance
“Bunny”
“Buf-fy”
She looks up to see the woman, the Guardian, who created the scythe.
“Does anybody I know stay dead? No offence”
“None taken”
“What are you doing here?” asks Buffy getting quite casual
“Buffy, you think we could focus on me a little?” asks Dawn
Buffy gives a look of apology “Continue”
The winds begin to howl again as the woman attempts to continue on from her dramatised prelude.
“Who dare summons me?”
Willow innocently raises her hand and smiles like a child that’s been accused of spilling milk on the carpet.
“Willow, Me…I’m Willow! Hey!”
The wind falls again as the woman turns to Buffy
“You’re kidding? What’s with the names?”
Buffy shrugs it off “What’s your name?”
“Epiphany”
With the exception of Dawn, everyone raises their eyebrows
“Buffy! Focus!”
“Sorry! God quit whining! So you’re in charge of this gig huh?”
“That would depend on what exactly I’m being called for”
Outside, Faith is sprinting at an unreal speed towards Frankies apartment
The world around her blurs into nothingness as flashbacks of Sunnydale run through her head. The look on Xanders face when he though Anya was dead, the feeling in her gut when she thought Wood was dead, Amanda, Molly, Diane … all those dead girls and it could happen again.
As she turns into Frankies apartment she collides with Dolly as they both fall to the floor
“Where’s the fire sister?”
“Go to my apartment, get Kennedy and Willow now”
Faith continues into the apartment as Dolly casually skips off towards her car.
As Faith reaches Frankies room fear seeps throughout her, the door has been forced off of it’s hinges. She enters with caution, fists at the ready.
“Frankie?” she calls out, breathless, her husky voice is harsher than usual
Reacting to a groan Faith leaps over the torn up sofa where she finds Frankie, completely battered, covered in blood.
“Who done this?”
Frankie smiles before going wide eyed as an Ubervamp swings the scythe toward Faith as her back’s turned.
END OF PART ONE
Flipping back over herself using her feet as leverage, Faith boots the scythe from the Vampires hands.
“Damn! When did they get cunning?” she pauses waiting for a move “oh, right – the same time they started to teach you sword wielding in the Hellmouth High”
“You know…” Faith flips over the chair landing at the TH feet “You should really start thinking about a facelift”
“It’s never a good thing” kick in the face
“When you’re face” spin kick into the back, knocking him over
“is bumpier than the side of a mountain” snap kick in the jaw.
Faith heads in to punch him in the face as he whips his claw up and grabs her by the arm, a look of fear in her face as he hurls her across the room.
Grabbing the scythe he swings it violently through the air, tearing everything Frankie throws towards him. From nowhere, or more accurately, under the settee, Frankie pulls out a hunting gun and releases the trigger.
She trembles in terror as the Vampire tumbles into her table, crashing down on top.
“Nice work, keep that for safety?”
“No. Hunting”
“Demons?”
“Rabbits”
“Big Rabbits” she says as she charges back to the Vampire grabbing a table leg, ready to lunge it into his heart she is pulled from behind as another of the Vampires pulls her off and throws her through the window.
Over at the apartment, Epiphany is still talking to the girls, still relatively casual with Buffy, as Dolly lets herself in.
“Only me people!” she notices the woman “Hey floaty lady…ghost?”
“Guardian”
“Pretty.” She takes a moment as everybody looks at her waiting for her to explain why she’s there “Oh! Faith wants a Kennedy to get some Willow?”
“That’d be me, get some of…what?”
Willow stands to Dolly confused
“Make sense sweetie. Faith wants Kennedy to get some Willow for the Turok Han”
Buffy, Dawn and the others, except Tara stand to their feet.
“What? We killed them all…in Sunnydale…. Right?” asks Buffy
“Apparently not, you see, we though they came from Cleveland but they’re actually on overspill from the crater…”
“What do they want?” Kennedy asks boldly stepping forward
“Oh, don’t worry honey! They want to finish the job and kill the slayers”
“That’s me” Kennedy says, shocked at Dolly’s laid back attitude
“Oh, I’m sorry, you’re such a pretty girl to! I don’t understand how Willow stops these things?”
“I’m Willow!” she says as she steps forward
“Funny name”
“I know, all of them have” Epiphany chuckles.
Kennedy grabs her weapons bag and snatches Willow by the hand
“Can we help?” asks Buffy
“You can’t, you stay here, help Dawn sort this out” says Willow as she leaves the door with Dolly and Kennedy.
In the corner, Tara awkwardly raises her hand “Where did they go?”
Over at the graveyard, Thalia is still very much out cold
“Ryan, we can’t hold the front!” Connor says, bleeding and bruised but fighting on as he whips a double bladed axe through the neck of two Turok Han.
“Where’s Harley and Sasha?” he calls back
The two slayers are running at full speed as the lure them into an open space, a field.
Two slayers, five Turok Han, not the best odds when they have only a single sword and stake each.
Harley rolls under, bowling two vampires over
“I am so cool” She’s cut off as she’s lifted from behind, Ryan pulls her away as Connor runs for Sasha.
Too late, she’s shredded, literally being eaten by all of the five Turok Han, none of which are within a metre of eachother.
“Connor, come on” Ryan calls as Connor stands looking guilty
“Connor!” The Turok Han finish snacking and turn towards Connor who, after a second regretting his timing, follows the others.
As the fight ensues, Willow and Kennedy are heading in the direction of Frankies apartment and the graveyard.
“Kennedy…”
“Don’t”
“But…”
“Willow, it’s not the time, it’s resolved okay? I’m fine”
“You don’t sound fine”
“I’m in battle face”
She stops, knowing Willow won’t give up
“Willow, I really, really do understand … completely”
Willow can see the sincerity in her eyes and kisses her
“Now, come on red, we’ve got dust to make…again”
In the apartment, things have now become very matter of fact.
“It will end the slayer line completely” says Epiphany
“But, there’ll still be people called when I die? Not slayers…but, something else?”
“That is correct”
“…No more key? Not for evil or for good?”
“There’s more than one key child, they just open different things”
“But me as a key…that won’t be an issue anymore?”
“No. By combining the blood of the key, with the power of the slayer – a new line of warriors can be created”
“New?” asks Buffy ruining the mood “I thought you were a…”
“It’s different” Epiphany stops her “We were Guardians of the line, these are the warriors in the line, the Guardians of the earth”
Buffy backs down and smiles apologetically, again.
“Dawn, it’s on you”
“I’m ready. I can do this…wait…I need to know something”
Epiphany stands waiting for the question
“Kennedy and…Harley, all of them, will they…”
“They won’t lose any of their powers”
“Good”
“But their deaths won’t call another, there will only ever be Four Guardians in this world at any one time”
“Who will be the other three?”
“That is for the powers to decide”
“Right…so, when the slayers die? Once they’re all dead…that’s it? Just the Four corners?”
“That is correct”
“Okay, okay err…yeah…lot’s of new stuff for my head…not all of it fits granted but…”
“D-Dawn, you shouldn’t do this if you have any doubts at all” Tara says holding her hand
“I know. I don’t”
She stands tall and proud, taking a deep breath
“Let’s do this”
Willow arrives alone at Frankies apartment…the entire place is trashed and in silence
“Faith?”
She carefully steps over piles of broken décor and furniture as she trips over the scythe
“Hey you” she smiles before dropping her expression in reaction the incredibly loud crash out back.
She grabs the scythe and rushes through the apartment block into the alley that leads from the back.
“Oh my god! Faith! Catch” Willow hurls the scythe
She swings it through the Three vampires as if they’re melted butter.
“What’s going on here?” asks Willow
“Good question” Faith begins to walk back through to the front of the building “No answers, all I know is that they’re here to finish the job and they’re dead keen on getting the shiny red axe”
“Faith, there’s another one” Willow yells as one of them charges at Faith, knocking her down to grab the scythe
“Marstatica!” calls Willow, holding the demon to the spot as she snatches the scythe from it’s lashing claws, Willow proudly hacks it’s head off with the scythe.
“Why do they want this so bad?”
“You’re asking the wrong gal, but I gotta feeling that someone will know”
~crash~
“I don’t know anything Faith I swear!” Dolly is being pinned against the wall by Faith
“Don’t lie to me Dolly, you’ve always come out with it in the past and I know that you know what’s going on”
“Faith…” Willow says softly
“Don’t tell me to stop Will!”
“Faith…” Willow grabs her arm and eases her away gently
“Thanks!” Dolly sighs before being held down again by Willows mind
“Now, you ever hear about the flaying of Warren Meers? Everyone in the underworld knows that was me, I’m one scary bitch and you don’t want to mess”
Faith laughs at how much Willow is quivering and fumbling during her interrogation act.
“Yo’ ease up Good cop bad cop!” says Faith “Just read her mind!”
Dolly sits nervously as Willows eyes glaze over a frosted white, her hair also flashing the same colour.
“Let’s go!” Willow says as she returns to normal
“What did you do to me?” asks Dolly scared
“Got what I needed…” Willow looks grossed out “and stuff I really didn’t, you should see a doctor about that rash”
The two girls walk off scythe in hand.
Faith’s apartment is flooded with white light as Dawn is practically orgasmic in the centre.
“Oh.My.Goddess” she says in a much to familiar way
Faith & Willow step into the room as Dawns hair is a bright white, before flashing back.
“She’s a goddess too?” asks Willow feeling unspecial
In the graveyard the fight is still going strong as Kennedy joins them.
“What’s been going on here? Where are they all coming from?”
“Ryan puts stones in drain” says Chao Ann as Kennedy boosts her into a flip.
“This is insane, there’s only eight of us…where’s Sasha and Amy?”
Connor looks at Kennedy blankly, a look of anger rushes across her face as she charges into the fight full force.
She manages to snap the neck of one of them using just her hands.
“Much vampires! We must go to the home!” Chao Ann says as she stops in her tracks.
Ryan turns immediately reacting to a scream, Chao Ann is no longer there.
“Where’d she go?” asks Harley stepping up next to Kennedy. Both girls look up into a tree as they hear twigs snapping and thud as Chao Ann falls out infront of them.
Neck snapped, bone visible, blood streaked down her face…her eyes, set in place, staring at them.
“That. Is. It!” says Kennedy, fully ready for whatever the throw at her
END OF PART TWO
“What’s going on and why is there some old lady in my apartment?”
“Oh, Faith…I forgot to tell you stuff” Willow says cheekily
“Look, whatever okay, we’ve got bigger things…” she’s cut off by Dawn
“It’s over”
“The Turok Han?”
“The Slayer Line”
“Excuse me?”
“It’s true” says Epiphany
“Thanks Glenda, but I’ll be listening the people I know or though I knew, what the hells goin’ on you guys?”
“Faith…” Dawn stands to her “I’m not the key and there’s no more slayer”
“Am I sitting down?” she asks
“No”
“I should be” Faith slowly sets herself down on the chair
“Whoever is going to explain this has ten seconds”
“Okay…” Andrew steps up and takes a deep breath
“Dawn was the key but when she was ill that never went well and I like flowers and she ruined that for me and so anyway, we though Casey was half a key and Dawn was three slayers, because she was meant to be called when Buffy died and in Sunnydale and when Lissy died but she didn’t because the key was blocking it, anyway, by mixing her blood”
Andrew points to a small bowl of her blood
“and doing some ritual that moves the slayerline around, there’s a new thing called “the Guardian” not very original but it works, and there’s four of them…but we don’t know who the other three are yet”
“except for, I’m guessing me, with the hair thing” adds Willow
“Right…except for…Willow who’s not a Goddess, just a guardian”
Faith sits stunned as everyone stares at her waiting a reaction
“Buffy?”
“It’s true” she shrugs, just as lost as Faith
“Right…well, in other news, lots of Turok Han are here fighting the others and they want this” Faith holds up the scythe.
“They keep following her for it”
“Following her like to here?” asks Tara
Faith and Willow look at eachother as if to accuse the other of being an idiot
“We have got to leave”
“You need to use up the scythe” Epiphany says
“Use it up?”
“Like washing powder?” asks Buffy confused
“It’s not fulfilled it’s potential”
“But it activated all those slayers…I’d say it was pretty fulfilled” adds Dawn
“It was created by us, to rid of the last demon on this earth”
Garrison looks at her nervously
“The last soulless being on this earth!” she corrects herself
He relaxes, as he plays with Andrew’s fingers in his own.
“Wait a minute!” Faith stands to her feet sharply “those girls are out fighting with no powers?”
“No, they have them…but that’s it. Faith, you’re the last living full slayer”
“Right…so you’re like strong?” she asks Dawn
“Strength and skills and all that” she smiles
“Good, Willow…” she passes her the scythe “work it out…”
She grabs Dawn and heads for the door.
Things in the graveyard are in full swing as Dawn arrives with Faith.
“Decided to come back!” Connor snaps at Faith as he help a barely conscious Thalia to her feet
“Hey, I wasn’t exactly having tea and cake Junior!”
“Where is everybody?” Dawn interrupts
“Vi’s with Caridad and Harley on the other side of the hill. Amy, Chao Ann and Sasha are dead and…”
“What?” Faith asks amazed at the bluntness
“It’s going down Faith” Kennedy says “They’re stronger than before, much stronger”
“Dawn?” Faith asks waiting for a plan
“What I’m leader now? No way!”
“Guys…kill” Ryan says as several of the Turok Han seem to be waiting for them to get back into the game.
And…away they go.
Over at Faiths apartment…
“Willow…can you feel anything?” asks Buffy
“There’s nothing there…it feels empty”
“You need to form the Four Corners”
“Shut up Andrew” snaps Buffy
“Wait…what did he say?” Maria asks as if she’s realised something
“Four corners? Like in ‘the Craft’ that’s how they got all the big power”
“Willow…what’s your star sign…your astrological rising?”
“I’m…May…air sign?”
“Right…a-and I’m a water sign…November”
“Epiphany, This may be a long shot, but clothes wise…I’m getting an earth feeling from you?”
“No. Air”
“I’m…Capricorn…” Buffy says enthusiastically
“You can handle hard craft?”
“I’ve died twice, kinda good with the handling”
“right, good, okay…I’m August so we’re cool, we’re four corners”
“What does that mean?” ask Garrison, confused
“It means they can focus the energy from the scythe into getting the job done”
“Doesn’t this make Dawn’s being a Guardian kind of pointless?”
“Only if it goes right” Epiphany smiles
The four girls form a circle, crossing hands around the scythe
“Just follow my lead” says Maria
“How do we know what to say?”
“You’ll know”
The scythe lights up as soon as the girls close their eyes
Maria begins “Passion, the fire, Create, the fire, Speak truth, the fire”
Almost as if rehearsed, Buffy begins
“Loyal, the earth, ambitious, the earth, Mother, the earth”
Followed by Tara and then Willow
“Mercy, the water, fury, the water, calm, the water”
“Free, the air, beauty, the air, live, the air”
“We call upon the Four Corners, mothers, gods and power, we call upon the corners from beneath us it devours. We summon on this light to blind spot in the dark, we summon on this night to tell these worlds apart”
Nothing.
“Well, that was a dramatic prelude for an anti…” before Buffy finishes her line a ray of light shoots from the scythe, shattering the windows of the apartment and filling the streets of Boston.
***Los Angeles, California***
Lilah Morgan stares from her office window angrily as light shoots past
***Brooklyn, New York***
Anya and Xander watch as a beam of light shoots through Harmony, crumbling her to ashes
***Westbury, England***
Rupert Giles cleans his glasses as he stands at the window with Rona, he sees light pouring from all places
***Sydney, Australia***
Linda Rayne is talking to several demon clients, as they become ashes infront of her
Back in Brooklyn, Faith & Co stop mid fight as all of the Turok Han vanishes.
The ground begins to shake violently as green lightning, clearly not of this world, shatters through the air tearing striking first in the middle of a field before tearing a whole in the fabric of reality, right infront of the group.
“Anyone?” asks Thalia
“They did it” smiles Faith “No more evil”
They watch in amazement as thousands upon thousands of demons simply vanish into the portal.
Calm.
At the apartment the light rushes back into the scythe causing Buffy, Maria, Willow and Tara to fly outwards as it simply disappears into a tiny light.
“That was…”
“Intense?” Tara asks of Willows comment
“Was gonna go with nifty, but intense also a good word for what it was”
END OF PART THREE
The Slayers are already packed into the back of a large van, Willow finds it easier to drive through a portal than attempt to carry everyone.
“I can’t believe it” Willow smiles with a tear in her eye “I mean…”
Tara tries to smile through her tears
“I only just got you back and now we’re going apart again and it’s awful, I can’t stand this”
“we’re not us anymore Will”
“But we could be”
Tara shakes her head as she hugs Willow “No looking back” she whispers
Willow nods once before climbing into the car and watching her out of the window as Kennedy approaches her.
“I’ll look after her Tara. Don’t be afraid to call up or anything”
“Thanks” she smiles as Kennedy nods and walks off “Kennedy”
She turns to face Tara “Nice to meet you, she’s a lucky girl”
They smile at eachother with a mutual understanding before Kennedy joins the others in the van.
Next is the goodbye for Buffy and Dawn
“Next time you’re gonna spaz out and change history, ask me first k?”
Dawn laughs “Yes, Sir!”
The sisters hug tightly
“Argh! Look at you, you’re all…woman like and independent”
“Thanks”
“What happened to little miss trouble on Tuesdays?”
“She grew up” Faith interrupts
“So did you, evidently” she smiles “You’ve done a good job Faith”
“Thanks, B” she says sarcastically
“You know what I mean! I don’t feel worried about Dawn now, I know that even when she’s a total spaz, you’ve got her back”
Buffy looks at them both and walks to the car, waving as it drives away
“Hey!” Dawn says offended, catching on
“You definitely got the fast gene from her”
Later on that night Dawn is talking to Tara on the bed
“Tara, I want to know more…I want to find the other Guardians, I want to find out what it means”
“We will Dawnie, we’ve got all the time in the world, we can do what we want now”
“Yeah, I made the mistake of saying that when Sunnydale went down faster than ‘Firefly’ did in ratings”
Connor is outside, he is heading back to the field in which Sasha was killed.
Kneeling silently in respect, Connor soon finds himself face to face with a demon from Quo’Tarth.
It’s one of the weaker one’s he’s very used to these, or at least was, and takes it down with ease.
“Looks like someone missed the ride” he says to himself, confused as to why, not only was there a demon here at all, but a demon from Quo’Tarth.
As he walks away, another unknown demon crawls out of a whole in the field, exactly where the first lightning hit is a swirling purple vortex…the demon turns and looks into it as hundreds and thousands of demons writhe around inside, climbing over eachother to reach the top.
Co-starring:
Felicia Day Stephanie Romanov
Meka Boorem Anthony Stewart Head
Emma Caulfield Mercedes McNab
Nicholas Brendan Jennie Garth
Christina Vidal Rhea Perlman
Dania Ramirez Indigo
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