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Episode 2.12: Rat Race
Previously on Dawn of Faith.
Andrew meets Garrison – Bar Wars
Andrew teams up with Linda – Nature Calls
Andrew works for demon – The Price 1923
Garrison tells Andrew he’s lost his power – Rest In Peace
Garrison discovers Andrew lost his power – Rest In Peace
Andrew and Garrison fallout big time – Born Again
Demons banished from earth – Too Long
Linda watches as Lissy dies – End Of The Line
Linda sees the power killing the demons – Too Long
“I don’t buy it”
“It makes little or no sense at all”
Connor looks up innocently as Thalia & Faith stand over him
“What are you talking about?”
“I always thought that nothing to do with you physically resembled any part of your Fathers”
“okay”
“Connor”
“Yes?” he replies to Thalia with a yawn
“You’re a little to very naked”
Connor looks down and pulls his sheets around him.
“I thought I had a lock on that door?”
“You did”
“Well…?”
“I took it off” Thalia smiles
“Why?”
“Needed to get the remote…you left it in your room”
“Would it not have been easier to change the channel by hand?”
“Possibly”
“Faith…?”
“Thalia put the lock back on, I broke it off cause you were snoring and I came in to put a pillow on your face again”
“Again?”
“It gets annoying” she says as she turns with Thalia to walk out of the room.
Both girls in their sleeping clothes, casually sit around the kitchen as Connor, still in a bed sheet plods out behind them.
“Any news on the left over demon last week?”
“No” Faith says raising her hand to her mouth to hold in a burp “soul?”
“It jumped me”
“Randy?”
“Think not”
“This is nice” Thalia says out of the blue, toast spluttering from her mouth
“What?” Faith replies totally not into it, but more into not reading about murders in the newspaper.
“Us, the three of us, it’s almost eleven and we’re just casually sitting about eating breakfast and chillin’ it’s nice”
“It is. But, when you go back to college…”
“Yeah, about that, I’m thinking possibly…No”
“No?” Faith asks, suddenly alerted to the conversation
“No returning”
“Can’t lecture you”
“Indeed not”
“Me neither” says Connor who’s picking apart a croissant.
“Anyway, I’m gonna go give Dawn and Ryan their wake up call”
She grabs a sausage from the table and heads to the door.
“Connor” she says as she opens the door
He looks round at her and she nods between his legs whilst waving the sausage in the air before aggressively biting the end off.
He looks down and crosses his legs embarrassed.
Over at Andrews apartment, both the lovers are still in bed, Andrew has his head resting on Garrison chest, he’s wide awake.
Garrison stirs as he wakes, wrapping his arm around Andrew and kissing him on the head
“Morning baby, been awake long?”
“Not really, they’re showing ‘Golden Palace’ and it’s just plain silly, why did they not just end ‘Golden Girls’ on a high”
“I here ya, one of the great mysteries of the world”
“Like the Bermuda triangle?”
“That and why you’re so ticklish in such inaccessible places” Garrison slips his hand somewhere beneath the covers as Andrew starts wriggling madly and laughing.
“You know what? I think today is gonna be one of those days” smiles Garrison
“What days?”
“Nice…normal”
Outside the bar, a yellow cab pulls up
“Thanks” says a woman’s voice, the cab drives off.
Linda Rayne stands smiling, looking around at the old town.
~*~ROLL CREDITS~*~
Starring:
Eliza Dushku and Michelle Trachtenberg
also starring
Tom Lenk
Lisa Roxanne
Ryder Strong
Amber Benson
with Vincent Karthieser as Connor
Guest Starring:
Jennie Garth, Lindsey Sloane, Shawn Ashmore as Ryan
“You should probably apologise” says Connor of Faith
“I know!”
He looks at her as if waiting for her to actually do so.
“Fine!”
Within minutes Faith arrives at Dolly’s diner, her pride pins her outside for a moment before she awkwardly fiddles with her hands as she steps in the door.
Dolly is stood wiping down the counter
“Go away!”
“Dolly, listen…”
“No. Faith, great you saved the world, we’re cool sweetie but please go”
“Why?”
“It’d just be a good thing to do right now”
Faith looks at her confused as the bathroom door opens and Linda steps out
“Oh, morning Faith!” she smiles maliciously as Faiths jaw drops. Faith turns to Dolly who shrugs and continues with her work.
“Why are you here?”
“It’s where I live, or at least…where I lived”
“So why come back, after, you know…everyone in your family died, largely a fault on her part”
Linda looks to the ground quietly before snapping her head back up
“Don’t try the psyche on my Faith, I’m not as dumb as some”
“Some what?”
“You just answered my question”
She says as she grabs her take out Coffee from the counter and heads out, followed closely by Faith.
“So, there’s some evil plot attached to this?” Faith asks as the walks behind Linda
“That’d be silly wouldn’t it?”
“The plot or the telling me about one?”
“Do the math sparky”
From behind Faith – Thalia, Dawn and Ryan are walking down the hill together laughing
“Hey Faith, what’s going on?”
Linda turns to face Thalia and Co. smiling as if nothings gone on between them
Within seconds, Linda is held against the wall by a harsh gust of wind from Thalia’s hands.
“Get. Gone” she roars as her eyes widen in anger
“What the -?” Ryan pushes into Thalia to stop her
“Thalia what are you doing?”
Linda looks down at Thalia, shaking as Thalia stares back, almost through her
“How come you didn’t get banished” Thalia snaps before storming off followed by Faith
Ryan’s a little confused “She’s a demon now?”
“I think it was a stab that she has no soul” Dawn snarls as she passes Linda, bashing into her as she walks away.
Over at Andrews…
“Hey, I was thinking of maybe going to the races tonight” says Garrison as he changes
“Have fun”
“You not up for it?”
“Not really my scene”
“Oh, well…okay…what do you want to do?”
“No, it’s okay you go – I’ll go bug Dawn or something”
“Andrew, are you alright?”
“Course I am!” he smiles
“You wanna check Dawns powers out?”
Andrew jumps up and down excitedly “So bad!”
Garrison smiles at him with laughter behind it
“It’s so cool though! She’s like this uber slayer being thing”
“That’s a fair point…what exactly is she?”
“Well, apparently she’s like one of four element things…she’s Fire”
“What does that mean?”
“No Idea, she’s going over Tara’s today to do the book thing”
“Tara got her own place? She’s only two weeks old”
“No, actually she’s staying with Maria in her …well, in her trailer”
“Oh” Garrison replies looking a bit baffled “So Maria…she’s like, staying?”
“Apparently so…she says something like, living near the heroes is safer than the road trip when you need there help or something…she’s a strange girl”
“Hmm…well, I’d best get going” he kisses Andrew who’s rather enthralled in his comic
“Okay, what time will you be home?”
“Probably not until around midnight…depends on the race”
“You’re spending eleven and a half hours at the races?”
“No, I’m training and going to the mall…you didn’t want to go remember…the Star Trek convention, you didn’t agree with the non-authenticity of the whole deal”
“Ahh, it’s all coming back” he smiles “Have fun”
“I’ll try”
Andrew watches from the window as Garrison walks away, he sighs a loved up sigh before closing the curtains and heading to is closet.
“It’s about time” snaps a demon, identical to that, which attacked Connor
“Sorry, he took along time to leave”
“You make me laugh”
“Why?”
“You have all these powerful friends, yet you still do workings for me”
“Well, Duh! You’d totally kill me if I didn’t”
“True. But wouldn’t they kill me? You’ve had months to tell them…even him, when he thought you’d left this all behind”
“I…”
“You enjoy it! You enjoy the darkness, the raw connection to the power”
“No, I…”
“You can’t deny it, it’s what you want, it’s who you are…all of your friends are tainted”
“Garrison, he’s not…”
“He was, not he’s tainted with the stench of you. That stench will never go away as long as you keep him with you, of course you could always stop all of this now and I’ll tell him and he’ll leave you…but at least you’ll be out of trouble”
“What do I have to do?”
END OF PART ONE
“Dawn, I’m trying” Tara snaps, very un gentle as her former self was “s-sorry, I just – I’m doing the best I can with what we’ve got”
“Tara it’s okay. I’m not gonna die if I don’t find out about the history of the Guardian”
“I just wish we had Giles texts – google is not would it claims to be”
“oh, we do! We have the text”
“Did Giles die? Because there is no way that he’d part with volumey text Dawnie”
“I know! But hey modern technology”
“How modern?”
“Scanner and disk” Dawn smiles as she pulls a pile of disks from her bag
“You couldn’t have pulled them out before? I’ve been typing so long my finger tips are flat” Maria calls from the corner causing Tara to giggle like a shy school kid.
Dawn rolls her eyes at Tara “two weeks and she’s back in the game”
“What?”
“err…To me, sun is better than rain!”
“Right” ‘she’s insane’ reads Tara’s face “that’s pretty Dawnie”
“I have something!” Maria calls them over
“The Guardians were allegedly here first, like the first thing that was around after the first, so the second”
Maria looks inwardly trying to un riddle what she just said
“…or something to that effect, basically, they’re old. They’re so old that it was actually them that banished the pure demons under the earth – they made the power, that made the magic, that was used by the men, to make the slayer”
“…Anything else?”
“Guardians, Guardians…ah ha! Four Corners! Okay, the Guardians of the Four Corners, that’s you, well one corner…fire. They each have a specific power…”
“Like what?”
“Fire is strength, Air is control, Water is manipulation and Earth is…wisdom”
“Great so the other three wise people to death and I get beaten up?”
“Well, it depends on what manipulation it is…mind, elements, material, physical…same with control. But wisdom…yeah, pretty much just brain power”
The first time in a long time Connor actual isn’t needed for any life saving trauma, he has alone time.
What he does with the alone time? Look for people of course. Never one like his father to sit alone and reflect Connor loves to love and loves to be loved which is why he’s heading out to find a damsel in distress.
“Excuse me mister” comes a soft voice “Do you have the time?”
He turns to see a young woman, tall, slim, dark hair below her shoulders, a red smile that highlights blue eyes.
“Sir?”
“Sorry” Connor looks at the sun “It’s around three”
“You can do that?”
“Tell the time?”
“Tell the time from the sun”
“yeah, is that shocking?”
“Little bit” she examines Connor as if he’s just fallen from another planet “Bonnie”
“No, it’s Connor”
She laughs “No, I’m Bonnie – I take it you’re Connor”
“How did you know my name?”
“You just told me” she laughs
“Oh, of course, sorry”
“It’s okay…say, Connor are you doing anything right now?”
“Yeah, I’m talking to you”
“Other than that? Were you heading anywhere?”
“Just looking for trouble”
“Bad boy?” she smiles seductively “come with me”
As the night falls over Boston, several demons, clearly not from this world, gather at the racetracks.
Over the speaker “Guys and Ghouls I am proud to present the now nightly rubber burn!”
“Today we have a new racer with us”
The demon from Andrews’s apartment steps out claws thrashing the air as the crowd cheers.
He walks past a cage of humans, all starved and beaten…he spits at them, cheering up the crowd even more.
“…And we have fresh meat for the race”
The demon thumps his feet on the ground as he goes into his den and pulls Andrew out by the scruff of his neck, holding him up to the crowd.
The following day, Ryan & Garrison are sat in the coffee court in the mall after a hectic ‘new student loan’ shop.
“How weird are we talking?”
“No talk, no kiss, no sex, fully clothed” Garrison replies of Andrews behaviour last night
“Little more than I needed but continue”
“He’s just been weird, I swear the guy gets PMS, he just has these random days every few weeks where he’s all Dawnish”
“Hey, she may be a mildly schizophrenic overly dramatic brat but that’s the woman I love”
“Speaking of…have you guys spoke in the last…forever?”
“We’re focusing on Garrisons problems today, not Ryan and Dawns” he says as he slurps down an ice coffee
“These drinks are so American” he says spitting it out
“Strange that”
“So…Andrew…less detailed Andrew stories”
“Well” he starts awkwardly “I dunno, it’s just like after we had the whole fight over the demon thing or whatever we sorted it and were so cool with everything”
“…But now?”
“Now…like I said…not cool”
“PMS”
“Maybe…so, what’s the issue with Linda La Freak showing up very so not in the blue”
“Search me…or more, please don’t but…figuratively! She just kinda…came…mouthed off and is apparently very much still here”
“Hmm, strange little lady…” They sit in silence sipping on their drinks
“…Ryan…”
“Yeah?”
“You’re the last person on this earth I’d want to search” he smiles
Over at Maria’s, Tara is speaking to Dawn on the phone.
“Yes, we’ve definitely located one of the Guardians but we don’t know who…”
“no I mean like anything who…name, sex…we have location”
“Some place called…Amberfield?”
END OF PART TWO
“I hate shopping” Garrison continues as they walk through the mall
“Why so?”
“Dunno, it’s just…boring”
“Yeah, but I enjoy it as it means I get to spend my money before Dawn knows I have it”
“Always a plus”
They stop at another food court
“Why don’t we buy coffee and food from the same place?”
Garrison simply shrugs as he pays for a very large Muffin.
“Is that who I think it is?” Garrison asks spluttering food everywhere
“Who?”
“Linda…all with the big hat boxes”
“Wedding?”
“She has no friends”
“Races?”
“Dammit! She has to ruin everything people like” Garrison moans “New track tonight?”
“Could work”
“Ryan”
“Yeah?”
“You think we have relationship trouble coz we keep our money and go to the races a lot?”
“I think it’s a potential flaw in our perfection”
They both shrug it off as they take incredibly sized bites from their food.
Tara and Maria are heavily continuing their research into whomever the new Guardian may be. Dawn has now joined them.
“Any luck?”
“Yes” starts Maria “well, maybe”
“We have a street and a house number…we’re waiting on the Coven for a name”
“What is it?”
“We’re waiting…”
“The street name”
“Omendale Road”
“Number?”
“Sixty Six?”
“Oh, this’ll be fun”
“What? You know this place?”
“Just a bit…that’s Darren’s ex-girlfriend, Emily’s house”
“You’re kidding?” laughs Tara “the evil one?”
“Who are you talking about?” Maria asks feeling left out
“Dawn’s cousin Darren, he lives in England and he once bought his girlfriend on holiday and she was trying to make a pass at Xander on his 21st birthday”
“Who’s Xander?”
“A friend of ours” laughs Dawn at the memories
“She was like fifteen and all over him, Anya went crazy”
“Anya?”
“His wife?” asks Tara
“Almost…again” laughs Dawn as Maria quietly watches on
As night comes back round, Connor meets Bonnie again, this time it’s arranged.
She’s late meeting him, she arrives running
“Connor, Connor please you have to hide me”
“From what? What’s wrong?”
“There’s someone after me…men…big men”
“Men? Humans…do you know them?”
“No…I’ve never seen them before in my life…please…hide me…”
“Look, here’s my keys I’ll sort this out”
“No, Connor you can’t” she begs
“I can handle myself…now Go!”
She looks at him thankfully before running off in the direction of the apartment as the men, three of them, all large, turn the corner.
“Hey kid! You seen some lady running round these parts?”
“You mean Bonnie?”
“She owe you to?”
“Owe me?”
“Money…”
“Money?”
“Dead presidents, G’s, greens, papers, cash…”
“I know what money is jerk! What does she owe you for?”
“What d’ya think? I’ll tell you something…it ain’t Candy bars”
Connor takes a moment to think over their laughter as he says to himself “drugs?”
“Yeah that’s right! Listen, you seem like a smart enough kid. Don’t be getting involved with trash like her…now if you tell, you’ll let her know that I will have my money by morning, got it?”
“Got it” he replies completely disconnected from everything
The men begin to walk off as suddenly two of the three falls to the ground, knives in their backs…dead or alive? Either way they’re not going to be attacking anyone soon.
“Back off!” Connor says dead, numb as the other runs.
It’s now the deepest, darkest night over Boston, the streets are dead as Ryan and Garrison climbs the fence to the old racetrack.
“I love that people here are so…non law abiding”
“I know, it’s like since the place got shut down, the illegal no rules races have doubled”
“Go figure”
They weave under the bleaches to watch from under the seats, as it’s evident that all seats are taken.
“Are these guys all demons?” Ryan asks in concern “Didn’t they go poof?”
“I thought so…but remember Connor said that he got attacked? Maybe some didn’t fit or something”
“That’s a whole lot of something…wanna blend?”
“I’m not a demon anymore Ryan!”
“It’s cool…just wear sunglasses…pretend you’re like Cyclops”
Ryan smiles at him as his eyes light a bright green, the same colour as when he uses his powers. “Let’s go”
The two weave through the crowd, eventually reaching the front.
“Err…I think we should leave now” says Ryan awkwardly trying to turn Garrison away
“Why? We just got here”
“No…leaving’s good” he says as he pulls Garrison’s arm, he pulls back releasing himself
“What’s the deal…” he stops mid sentence as he sees Andrew placing a helmet on and boarding a car
“Andrew?” he says confused
“Andrew?” asks Ryan “No, I meant Linda…over there with her big alien ship hat…Andrews here?”
“Racing…” he says stunned “…he’s…”
Over at Faith’s apartment, Connor crashes through the door
“Hey Junior some girl walked in when I was all naked…I sent her to your room”
Connor ignores Faith and runs into his room where Bonnie is sat in the corner shooting up. She giggles at him as he enters
Suddenly Connor flashes back to the first person he met on Earth…she died…heroine overdose.
“Get out!” he snarls
“Connor…you’re so pretty” she smiles
He’s not having it, more violently than he’s ever been when handling someone outside of a fight he lifts her by the arm and drags her to the door
“Connor what’s going on?” Faith says standing to him
“Stay away from me!” he spits as he throws her onto the floor crying.
“What the hell was that?” asks Faith, as the door closes on Bonnie “you can’t just leave her there”
At this point Thalia wonders through the door
“Uh there’s a girl crying on the floor…should I sweep her up?”
“Yeah, do that” Connor snaps “into the trash” he snarls as he walks into his room
“What bit his ass?”
“I think it’s more, what didn’t” Faith says concerned
“Sexual repression?”
“Lack of venting anger” says Faith
Back at the race track the speaker begins
“Tonight, in his third race this season….Andrew Wells” the crowd goes wild
“This season?” asks Ryan
“I’ve gotta stop this…” Garrison rushes forward but Ryan uses his mind to pull him back
“You wanna piss around six hundred demons off?”
He looks at Ryan, angry, upset, confused, cut off until the whistle blows and the engines start.
The two of them chase along the side of the track, following the car as Linda spots them and makes her way over.
Andrew looks from his window in fear as the demon grins at him with several sets of sharp teeth. He begins to crash spikes into the side of Andrew’s car knocking him into the railing.
Andrew’s car is slowly spinning out of control as the demon bashes into him harder on the corner, both cars spin out of control.
The demon topples over and catches fire, Andrew looks set to do the same
“Do something!” Garrison demands, as Ryan looks hard on swinging the car so that it flings Andrew from the opened window, throwing him to the grass.
Andrew looks up from the grass as Linda stands above him grinning, Ryan and Garrison soon appear at her side.
Andrew looks into Garrison’s eyes ready to drop tears, there’s nothing there. Garrison is empty – staring down on his former love.
END OF PART THREE
“Don’t Andrew! This is the second time you’ve done this…and do not give me any kind of crap about it being for me or to save somebody because it’s not true”
“It is” Andrew cries
“No, it’s not! Ryan, Thalia, Faith…Dawn who’s your best friend they can all kill demons like a fly, no more excuses Andrew when are you gonna grow up?”
Garrison heads to walk off as Andrew falls to his knees crying and pleading with him not to leave
“So” Linda smiles to Ryan “He knows about the deal with my Mother then?” Garrison stops in his tracks and slowly turns to her before storming towards her.
“No…” Andrew sobs pathetically
“Shut up!” Garrison stares with rage at Andrew, gritting his teeth, his face red.
“Oh…you didn’t know…well, I wouldn’t want to interfere”
“tell me now”
“…or what?”
“You don’t wanna try me lady!” he says getting dangerously close to hitting her as she can see in his eyes.
“That time in the woods, when Travis died…”
“What about it?”
“Come on, you don’t think Andrew really wanted to take those kids to play? He felt left out all of you with your super strength and skills…all the cool kids being his friend for sympathy”
“Stop it” Andrew begs as Ryan looks at him with pity
“don’t stop” Garrison blunts, avoiding eye contact with Andrew
“He came to use, asked to join us…give him a sense of power…so we did…he lured you into the bush, became part of the master plan, part of the right side”
“I don’t believe you” Garrison is almost crying in frustration
“Ask him”
He crouches to his knees and places his hands on Andrews shoulders, both of them crying to eachother.
“Tell me…tell me that it’s not true” he says softly as his hands shake
“I…I…” Andrew can’t get a word out
“Andrew?” Garrison looks into his eyes
“It’s true” he manages to say
Garrison doesn’t move for a moment he just stares at Andrew before letting go and walking away, closely followed by Ryan.
Linda smiles at Andrew “You make a deal with my family, you keep it…you’re lucky my Mother died before she sent even more demons after you”
“What?”
“Oh, come on! You really think demons would want such a weed doing their dirty business for them? You can barely open a bag of chips…Andrew you’re pathetic” she hisses before walking away smugly.
Andrew remains on the floor crying.
Returning to the bar at sunrise after pacing around for hours, Andrew finds all of Garrison’s stuff gone. Clothes, pictures, toothbrush…and a note on the bed.
Goodbye. I’ll always Love you - G Andrew pours out the envelope, it has a chain Andrew bought Garrison and half a picture of them, the half with Andrews face on.
Andrew sits on the end of the bed looking around the empty apartment as he spots Garrisons half of the photo in the trash.
Later in the day, Faith is passing down the street as she bumps into a proud looking Linda
“Well, if it isn’t the dark angel” Linda calls, completely ignored
“Oh, I get the ice queen routine cause of your friends little drama? Boo hoo” she mocks causing Faith to stop in her tracks and turn to face her.
“You gonna hit me Faith? You gonna tell me that I was a bitch? That I don’t care about anyone but me…that I’m so wrong I even let me own kid sister die? You think your words or fists can hurt me…come on then slut, bring it on”
Faith stares at her before bursting out laughing and carrying on down the street
“What’s funny?” Linda calls after her
“You…because you’re so not worth it” Faith laughs as Linda stands alone, completely.
END
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