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Date Posted: 00:14:31 04/20/03 Sun
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Episode Twelve: Ashes
Previously on Faith
Faith: "Who are you and what the hell do you want?" - To Travis - Essence
Faith: "Travis!" - Nature Calls
Nurse: "It's like she's made of you" - Blood
Andrew to Dawn: "I mean, Faith being your sister and all"
Dawn: "What?" – Blood
“Goodbye my sweet Faith…I’ve got builders to eat”
Travis runs into the night as Faith lays still under the stars.
“Ryan!” Thalia and Dawn call in concern as they lift him the object turns over into Thalia’s light. Fred lies there, neck snapped, eyes wide.
“I…I didn’t…I” Xander doesn’t know how to react. Faith stands and pulls Xander in kissing him passionately and tearing at his clothes.
“You were sent here to love me?” she asks
He nods in guilt
“Do you?” she asks sternly.
Before Ryan can answer the door comes from its hinges as demons lurk into the small space.
….
“What was that? What just happened?” Ryan asks in astonishment at the puddle of slush where the demons once stood.
“I…I don’t know” Dawn speaks in fear “It just happened”
“Dawn” Ryan, says calmly
She turns to face him calmly taking a deep breath
“What?”
“What you asked…well” He pauses as a smile creeps up on him “I do”
Dawn takes a moment to register before a grin dashes across her face.
She immediately falls to her knees where Ryan is bundled on the floor and the two begin to kiss passionately.
Ryan breaks the kiss.
“What? What’s wrong?” Dawn asks
“Thalia, Garrison, Andrew….” He reminds her
She looks at him blankly before her eyes widen and she springs to her feet sprinting to the stairs.
**Los Angeles Airport, 19:23, March 7th 2005**
The airport lounge is completely crowded as several people dash about awaiting their flights.
Faith is shimmying along listening to her headphones as she collides with a man, possibly in his early to mid twenties.
“Hey watch it” Faith says angrily
“Sorry” he says before cussing her under his breath
Faith sits down opposite another Young man who seems to be staring at her with some twisted fascination, the man is Travis, he looks her up and down and spots the luggage label on her bag.
Faith is oblivious to him as she flicks through the pages of a trashy magazine, he steps up and heads towards the bathroom.
Inside, a man, the one that crashed into Faith, is washing his hands.
“Hey” Travis says casually, the man nods in recognition.
“Where you flying to?” he asks
The man looks at him suspiciously “Boston”
Travis smiles as the man walks away and drops his cell on the floor.
“Hey, man, you dropped your cell” Travis calls
The man walks back and takes it from him, shaking his hand
“Thanks”
Travis has a tight grip, before the man can move away Travis pulls out a large knife and buries it in his chest. He drops to the floor covered in blood.
“Don’t mention it” he smiles as he rummages through his pocket and pulls out a ticket reading ‘Travis Stone – flight: 6661923 Los Ang – Bos Mass’
Back to present times, Dawn and Ryan are running through the hospital
They hit the door to the stairway only to stop in their tracks. Where the stairs once were, rubble remains as Andrew claws angrily at the rubble crying.
“I can’t…where…I can’t find him, where is he I can’t find him!”
Andrews look into Dawn, eyes his red with tears of frustration.
Starring
Eliza Dushku
Michelle Trachtenberg
Tom Lenk
Lisa Roxanne
Ryder Strong
And Nicholas Brendan
Guest Starring:
Finola Hughes, Katherine Sutherland, Jennie Garth, Felicia Day, Mary Wilcher, Tamin Sursok, Shawn Ashmore, Eric Balfour as Travis
It’s a rainy day outside of Faiths apartment, Travis is kneeling at Faiths window smiling darkly as he watches Faith and Xander.
** Boston, Mass. March 11th 2005**
Dawn is wrapped up on the chair in a blanket.
“Get up and don’t try to be ill” Faith says as she walks past Dawn
Travis is in the kitchen preparing a drink for Dawn, he slips a pill into her drink and smiles to himself.
Thirty minutes later Faith is still calling Dawn to get up.
“I feel sick”
Faith checks Dawns head, rather mother/sisterly
“Damn, have you been head butting candles?”
“It’s that spell you did, it’s made me all gross”
Travis is reading paper in the corner and smiling to himself.
Back in present times Travis is laughing to himself
“Silly bitch” he thinks out loud, suddenly, as if out of nowhere he is kicked down.
“You know how not right that is?”
Travis turns to see Lissy, Vi and Shannon standing behind him
“Now, I may not be the one you were looking for, but I am a slayer…this is Vi and Shannon, they’re both demi-slayers”
“What the hell’s one of those?” Travis asks
“We’re mean okay” starts Vi “we’re like…not full slayers, but very strong girls”
“Women” Shannon corrects her
“Right, we’re strong women, independent women” Vi says attempting to be bold.
“Right” Travis says mockingly “Who wants to die first?”
From the window, in reaction to the noise Faith looks up to see the very open curtains as the four of them fight.
Without dressing fully (she is still in her underwear) Faith rushes out of the door
“Was I that bad?” Xander jokes to himself
Faith charges into Travis who has Shannon round the neck.
Lissy and Vi simply stare at the almost naked Faith as she smashes a fire extinguisher across Travis head, he runs off in a fury.
“That was easy” Lissy smiles as Faiths frown
“Too easy” Faith whispers
“Erm…Faith, about the nakedness” Shannon says
“You’ve seen it in the shower” Faith says as she walks in followed by the other three
“Good job that priests dead” she thinks out loud “He’d get suspicious”
The four girls sit down in the apartment with Xander as they discuss what’s been going on.
“What are you girls doing here anyway?” asks Xander
“Lissy came to Buffy’s Beauty Boot Camp” Vi starts
“Buffy got a call from Angel saying that Fred was coming to Boston to tell you about this guy and so she sent us to lend a helping hand where needed” Shannon finishes.
“Right, I need to call Angel” Faith says
“You going to get his help?” asks Lissy
“No, he should know about Fred. This is my fight and I’m going to win it”
Dawn, Andrew and Ryan are helping a very battered Thalia & Garrison back into the student housing via a stolen cab being chased by the demons.
“What happened to you guys?” Ryan asks Garrison
“I don’t know…those creatures kinda…dissolved into puddles” he starts holding his ribs as he limps along the drive.
“Then those puddles, they turned into bigger demons that crashed the stairs out on us” he finishes as a look of fear flushes through Dawns face.
Dawn looks out of the window to see where the demons have gone, she notices a large group of puddles up the steps.
“It wasn’t me” she says to herself
“What?” Ryan asks over hearing
“It wasn’t me, I didn’t melt those things…they just do that”
“How can you be sure?”
“I was nowhere near them” Dawn indicates the puddles then turns to Thalia
“It’s stopped raining, make it rain more” Dawn commands
“What?” Thalia asks weakly in confusion
“Do it! We need to dissolve those puddles now!”
Thalia steps up to the window and stirs up a storm, only, it seems to have an opposite effect, it multiplies the demons puddles.
“We need…” Ryan starts but is cut off as one of the demons heads rolls of its shoulders, Lissy is stood there smiling.
Vi, Faith, Andrew, Xander, Lissy, Shannon, Thalia, Garrison, Dawn and Ryan are sat around the house.
“This is going to be one hell of a bitch guys” Faith says in a sergeant major fashion
“We can do it” Andrew pipes up enthusiastically waving a sword.
“This is not just the demons here, there’s Travis as well, he knows most of us more than we know eachother, he’s clever and he knows it, there may be only one of him, but he’s the one here that knows what he’s doing, not them”
**Manhattan Asylum, 1983**
A Woman is kicking and screaming as she is pulled into a cell.
She screams out for her son saying she never meant to harm him.
Her mood constantly changes from saying she couldn’t harm he, she loves him, to saying that he is the spawn of the devil.
“Man, this woman is messed up” says one of the guards to another
“She had a child at the hands of rape…her Father was a schizophrenic, what did you expect?”
“You ask Me, that child’s lucky he’s being taken away at such an early point”
They look onto the door of her room ‘Madison Rivers’
END OF PART ONE
Travis is walking along the wet streets of Boston, looking over his shoulder in reaction to sound every so often.
“What do you want?” he asks as three women step of the alley, shielded by large black umbrellas.
Travis instantly recognises them as The Rayne Clan.
“Hey, it’s the chick that killed me, kudos” He smiles as he flicks a cigarette to her feet
“I wasn’t ready to sleep yet though”
“Don’t talk” Anna commands
“Woof! You think you can stop me?”
Before Anna has even taken a breath for reaction, four large muscular demons step out from all sides.
“Whoa, no need to get testy Lady, I’m listening”
“Yes” she starts “I think you are. Now…” she continues as she circles him
“I need you to do me a favour, you see, there’s this girl that keeps making things difficult for me. Four years ago, I had a ticket home…but something came up” she laughs
“I got stuck here and it was really, really annoying. You know what’s worse?”
“No, but I’m sure you’re going to tell me”
“Well, I used to be in such good shape really, I could’ve snapped that Faith girl like a twig, but now…I’m all old and stuff”
Anna’s tone and pace begins to change to a somewhat superficial diva in comparison to her usual English stiff upper lip.
“So, what do you want me to do?” Travis asks
“If you’d let me finish” she smiles as she drops her long black jacket to her ankles to reveal a tiny red dress.
“I need you to get the girl alone. Kill them all and get the girl”
“Can’t you just shoot her?” he ask viciously
“No, it’s not the plan, stick with the plan” she shouts clearly frustrated.
“I was a strong woman, I was a god, believe me! But now, I’m stuck in this horrible body forever and I want to go home, so get the girl alone, kill Faith, get Dawn…”
Travis smiles as Anna morphs into another image, Glory!
“And we’ll all be happy” she smiles.
“So, who are your friends?” he asks “Daughters?”
“No!” Linda steps forward
“We came from home to collect Glorificus and we kind of got stuck” Melissa finishes.
“Right, so I’m taking orders from three former hell gods, that actually have the combined strength of…well, three women? Don’t think so” he laughs as he walks off
“It’ll be worth it” Melissa calls
He stops in his tracks and turns “I’m listening”
“I’m not too sure this plan is going that great Faith” calls Ryan as he swings a sword through one of the demons, only for another one to crawl out of it.
“Yeah, you noticed that to?” Dawn follows.
They continue to fight on as the demons come by the pack.
Inside, Andrew is performing experiments on the arm of one of the demons to find any flaws in its molecular structure.
“I feel like Willow” he smiles to Garrison who is rubbing his shoulders in comfort
He leans over the table and knocks his arm into the salt shaker.
“Damn it!” he screeches as salt pours all over the arm “It’s all messed up!”
“Not necessarily” Garrison smiles as the arm begins to dissolve
“Of course!” Andrew smiles “the water made them bigger and salt makes them small” he smiles ingeniously.
“Yeah that’s right baby” Garrison smiles as Andrew enthusiastically runs out to Faith.
As He steps out of the door a claw is launched straight into his stomach as he falls to the floor bloodied.
“Andrew!” Garrison screams as he rushes to him.
“We need to get him inside” Xander says in concern as he lifts him.
Garrison is now fuelled for battle, weak or not.
“Get. The. Hell. Out. Of. My. Way!” he yells as he storms through a crowd of them sending them flying in all directions.
“Get inside now!” he calls to the team that look at him blankly “Now!”
Everyone is sat listening on as Garrison tells them the new plan.
“This has been one hell of a crappy day and without offence that was one hell of a crappy plan! We’re now two people down and the fight hasn’t even begun!”
He paces infront of everyone with a harsh look of anger across him.
“Lissy. You, Thalia, Vi, Ryan and Shannon are going to stay here and take on these demons… Dawn, you’re coming with Faith Xander and myself. Any objections”
“Yeah” Faith pipes up “Since when were you the leader?”
“Since you let one person die and nearly let another three” he snaps “let’s do this”
“Hold my hands” Garrison says to Dawn and the rest of his team
“We’re holding hands? That’s your plan?”
“I’m taking us to wherever Travis is” he says firmly “Thalia, you’re in charge here, you know what to do”
She nods at him and Ryan smiles at him, knowing he knows what he’s doing.
With that Garrison, Dawn, Xander and Faith teleport out of the room.
“He can do that?” Vi asks curiously “cool”
Thalia turns to the remaining four players “Right, this is the plan”
Garrison, Dawn, Faith & Xander arrive in a mist of blue light
“Where are we?” Xander asks
“We’re at college” Dawn replies as if he’s uneducated
“So the Lesson begins” comes a female voice from the corner.
The group turns to see Glory standing there as Dawns eyes widen.
“Dawn, what’s wrong?” Faith asks
“Glory” she replies, Faith turns in shock
“Hey sweetie, how’s ya been?”
END OF PART TWO
“You’re dead” Dawn says through her teeth.
“Really?” Glory laughs “But I look so good”
“Who the hell told you that?” Faith quips
Glory’s face takes on a look of stone “Kill her”
From all corners Vampires come out at them.
“Nice plan Garrison!” Xander smirks
The fight gets straight into it as Faith notices Travis standing in the shadows.
She follows after him, crossbow at arms.
Dawn, brave and confident of her new found powers, approaches Glory
“Hey” She says calmly “You grew your hair”
“You like it?” Glory smiles
“Not really, you still look like trailer park trash”
“Yeah and you still look like a mouse” Glory says hurt
“Mouse? You can’t think of anything better tramp?”
Glory takes a moment stunned at Dawns bravery before smacking her across the face
“Shit” she says to herself
Dawn looks back and laughs in disbelief “You have got NO strength”
Glory looks angry, like a child that can’t get her own way
“Let me go home” Glory whines as she pulls out a knife and cuts Dawns wrist
Dawn hisses in pain “great Idea Glory” she says as she walks out of the room and locks the door.
Glory stands confused until demon forms from a pool of blood and begins tearing at her as she screams.
Upstairs in the college Melissa is running down the corridor from the mass of Vampires downstairs.
She steps on as a cigarette butt lands at her feet.
“It’s you, thank god. Glory needs your help with the girl”
“Yeah, you know what, I changed my mind. I have my own vendettas and so…”
Travis grabs her close and snaps her neck.
Minutes later, Faith arrives and finds Travis doing up his fly as Melissa lays naked and bloody on the floor.
“You’re one hell of a twisted bastard” Faith says as she shoots an arrow into his arm. He flinches before snapping it and throwing it down.
“I’m not sick Faith, not twisted, I just take after my Mother…we’re special” he cackles.
The two head right into the battle, Faith is beating Travis severely. He catches her off guard and twists her arm up her back.
“Wanna hear a story? About when I came into your room at night, when I took photographs of you sleeping?”
**Flash of Travis’ apartment, walls thick with pictures of Faith**
“How about watching you and Xander have sex? He’s a looker ain’t he?”
“Shame you wont get to see him again…until you both go to hell”
Faith realises that it’s a trap and snaps her arm away from Travis, boots him in the face and runs downstairs.
“You run little girl, run like the wind” Travis looks down at Melissa then rubs himself “where were we?”
Back at the student house the fight is slowing as Thalia stands on the roof, beams of light bathing her as the sun slowly rises over Boston the demons begin to dry out.
Garrison looks at the windows, seeing the sun rise all around him he looks at a large wooden and door and smashes it, sending large chunks through all the window, enabling floods of light to enter, sending the Vampires to dust.
Travis is stood in a dark room upstairs as he notices the sun rising “Shit”
“Where’s Xander and Dawn?” Faith asks as she comes down to Garrison.
“They’ve gone back to the house to finish off” Garrison replies casually.
Back at the house
(V.O Travis) “Time for Plan B”
Lissy, Thalia, Andrew, Dawn, Vi and Shannon are lying amongst broken wood and bricks as the remainders of the exploded house burn behind them.
END OF PART THREE
A week has passed since the events occurred.
Ryan & Xander have not been seen since.
The two sisters, Faith & Dawn, stand side-by-side at the edge of the docks as Andrew, Thalia and Garrison approach them in a pick up truck.
“You feelin’ okay kid?” Faith asks Dawn
“Leg kinda stings”
“I can’t believe a lack of sugar is what cause your blood to go all crazy” Faith laughs
“Yeah, and you told me to cut down”
There’s an awkward silence between the two of them as the others carry over a large iron box.
Dawn is carrying three dolls in a bag, she takes them out and binds them in ribbon.
Placing them in the box and pouring in ready mixed concrete she smiles
“Enjoy the new host Glory”
Thalia raises her hand over the concrete, raising sun to quick set.
Garrison lifts the box as far as he can and hurls it into the ocean.
Faith looks at Dawn and Dawn at Faith as they both place two single flowers down at the side of the dock.
Andrew then steps up and places down a “League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen” video
“We’ll find you soon buddy” he smiles, tears in his eyes.
The five remaining members of the group stand as the sunsets.
“You do realise, that everyone here likes men” Thalia says.
“Dawn, you think we should, you know, go tell Buffy that there’s another sibling?” Faith asks
“Don’t see why not, I have a feeling it’s going to be a quiet summer”
They link arms as the five of them walk on, the wind blows gently through the flowers as the box sinks slowly to the bottom of the sea.
END OF SEASON.
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