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Date Posted: 18:21:21 03/16/03 Sun
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FAITH: fic/series
Episode Three : In the face of danger
Previously on Faith & Buffy,the Vampire Slayer:
*We're your arch nemesisisis* (Warren w/ Jonathan and Andrew - Gone)
*Look who i found buying pigs blood* (Willow w/ Andrew - Never Leave Me)
*I prefer guestage* (Andrew to Wood)
*You wanna go to a star wars convention next month* (Andrew to Xander - Essence)
*Buffy wants me in Boston to look out for Dawn* (X to Andrew - Time Ago)
*You think she'll let us hang out in her place* (Andrew to Xander - Time Ago)
*Who? Faith? Sure!* (Xander replying to previous comment)
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"No way it is not happening" squeals Faith
"Please, only this once"
"I look like a care bear threw up on me" Faith is being forced into tiny pink dresses by an overly enthusiastic Dawn
"If my principal is going to meet you, you cant dress like an Uber dyke" Faith throws Dawn a 'You didn't go there' look
"oh, Uber...Yike"
"Uber Yike?" Dawn tries to back pedal "Yeah yike, like Uber hot...you cant be hot for the Dean"
Faith stares bluntly then laughs
"Nice save Dawnie"
"I've had practice"
Faith continues to rifle through clothes
"Why am i meeting this guy anyway, what did you do?"
Dawn looks down to the ground
"I may have accidently beaten the Gym teacher and accused him of being a hellgod"
"They want me in over that? Can't they just send you to therapy"
Dawn looks up cheekily "the councellor wont see me anymore"
Faith laughs "It's your fourth day" and grabs Dawn by the hand "Come on we're going out"
A battered blue van with a sofa tied to the roof judders down the motorway into Boston
"Xander, play!"
"Okay if you'll shut up"
Andrew has a look of ultimate achievment on his face as Xander reluctantly starts
"I went to the shop and i bought an Apple, a Boat, a Comic book and a D...D...Dork who's sat next to me now!"
Andrew pouts in a sulk "No fair Xander, you cant call me a dork we're both going to this convention"
The car speeds on from underneath we see a small Blue, very boney red eyes demon gripping to the bottom of the car laughing like a Hyena
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~*~ ROLL CREDITS~*~
Starring : Eliza Dushku, Michelle Trachtenberg, Tom Lenk and Nicolas Brendan
Guest Starring: Ryder Strong, Eric Balfour as Travis
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"Got me feelin' Hella Good so i'm gon' keep on dancing' blairs our from large speakers at the 'G Spot' a Nightclub Faith used to attend when she was 15 years old there she is in a tight packed crowd with Dawn, dancing the night away.
Dawn leans into her to shout over the volume
"Faith! I'm gonna get a drink, you want"
Faith gestures no and continues Dancing, Dawn props herself against the bar and signals for the barman
"Hey, just a coke thanks"
"$5.50"
"You're kidding i'm not paying that"
a voice comes in from behind her "I'll get this"
Dawn spins in her seat to see Xander stood
"Xander!" she squeals as she runs and hugs him looking over his shoulder in mid-process
"and...Andrew? Why Andrew"
"I've been asking myself the same thing"
"Hey nerd boy"
"Hey Daw...Hey"
Dawn laughs it off
"Kidding, what are you guys doing here"
Andrew chirps out "There's a star wars convention at the Library and..."
Xander cuts in "Where's Faith?"
Dawn looks into the crowd "Was there, now not"
Faith slips out a side door and lights up a cigarette staring into space
[Boston, Mass - Summer 1998]
Faith is stood in the same spot as her watcher walks up behind her
"Faith, you've been called, you're the slayer now you dont have time to go clubbing"
Faiths watchers looks up at the door
"at an Over 21's club, Faith you're sixteen. You have more important things to worry about"
"Kissing Toast, I know"
"Kakistos"
"That's the one"
Her watchers eyes widen "No, Faith Kakistos is here"
Faith spins around and is knocked to the floor, four Vampires grab Faith and hold her against a fence as Kakistos grabs her watcher by the throat.
He lifts her up high and then crushes her neck dropping her body to Faiths feet, Faith looks on in shock and then screams out to a point of turning blue "No!"
Back to present times, Faith has a tear forming in her eye as she flicks her cigarette to the ground and stubs it out with her biker boot. Turning to head back inside Faith is cut off "Hey You!"
Faith looks around to see Travis stood behind her "Shouldn't hang round Dark alleys at night, might get...
[Sunnydale - 1999]
Faith and Buffy are fighting down an alley as Faith spins with a stake in hand "Faith, No" Faith plunges the stake into the man, hands covered in blood
"Faith...I might what? Hello"
Faith snaps out of her daydream "you might get hurt"
Travis smiles at her half hearted "I can hold my own"
"I can hold more than my own" she replies.
"You're a complicated woman Faith"
"You're a complete stranger Trav"
"That may be true, but believe me, when it comes to it, you'll be grateful for me"
Faiths looks him up and down "I take it that means you'll be around for a while?"
Travis nods as they head into the club bumping into a girl on her way out
"Excuse you" hisses Faith.
The girl is crying, argument with a boyfriend, she leans against the wall as she hears laughing
"Who's there?" The girl steps forward as a young man steps out
"Sorry, i didn't mean to scare you"
"Oh, it's okay, i'm a little on edge"
"You like you could do with a laugh"
"Believe me i could" the man grins from cheek to cheek.
Faith and Travis approach Dawn and the others in the club
"Made it then?"
Xander turns, the light catches his eye patch
"Faith"
Xander dots as he knods, Travis takes note of the eye
"What happened?" he asks innocently as Andrew gestures his hand in an executional 'dont ask, change the subject' motion
"So, erm...Dawn you look"
Dawn raises a brow "We dont go there remember"
Travis places his hands in his pocket and tenses up "Tough crowd"
The girl is outside curled up laughing her face is turning red with laughter as her eyes widen blood seeps through the underneath of her sweater, making small puddles at her feet, she is scared but can't stop laughing,
the man looks at her and smiles
"Side splitting joke, hey?"
he then reverts to his demon form, a small, spiney, blue red eyes demon. Flipping his claws along her side to finish the job he laughs and scampers off.
Police sirens flash as crowds of detectives gather in daylight around the body Faith & Xander stand at the side observing
"What happened?" asks Xander sharply
"Sides have..she's sideless"
"Huh?"
"Her sides split"
"ah, like with a joke"
Faith laughs then looks at Xander seriously.
Dawn & Andrew are sat playing tiddly winks in Faiths apartment as Xander and Faith burst through the door
"Dawn, laptop" commands Faith
"Whats going on?" questions Dawn jumping to her feet
"Look for Jesters or Comedian demons or something that can make your sides split, I'm gonna go see Dolly"
Faith grabs her weapons bag and yanks the door open.
"Faith you cant go alone" protests Dawn angrily
"Actually kid, I can, it's what i do and it's what I always did" replies Faith
"Fine, go and get yourself killed"
"Look Dawn, without coming over all Buffy on you, this IS my fight"
Faith refuses to wait for a response and jets to the door
Travis is stood infront of her holding his sides, hands covered in blood, he falls through the door into Faith.
"Trav, what happenned?" asks Faith, who's pacing back and forth across the floor biting her nails as Dawn tends to Travis' wounds.
"Some girl, she just made a joke and I...I couldn't stop laughing then she turned into this little goblin thing"
Andrew peeks up form the laptop and holds it up to Travis
"This little goblin thing?"
Travis knods weakly hissing as Dawn aids his wounds with sting spray disinfectant "Sorry".
"Andy what's it called"
"Andy? No-ones called me that before...i like it"
"Focus"
"It's called a Blah...Blah...Blahmexdifuss demon, it says..well it's pretty much like it says on the tin, it makes you laugh until your sides split"
"Why? Is it for fun or food or what?" Dawn sprawls out confused
"Mainly for fun, but they like it in the masses"
Faith takes a deep breath
"It's getting it's ass kicked in the masses as well"
Faith charges out of the door and heads off alone.
Down in the tunnels Faith, axe in hand, slowly lurks around looking for any clues as Dolly sneaks up behind her, by reflex she grabs him and pins him against the wall "Faith it's me" she releases her
"Blah-mexican?"
"Blahmexdifuss"
"That makes more sense, why are they here and where are they?"
Dolly brushes himself off "Come with me" she walks Faith further through the tunnels
"Faith, you dont wanna mess with these, they're killers"
"I'm not much for humour"
"they got other styles"
"So have I"
The two continue down the tunnels as Dolly comes to a stop "I don't see anything" points Faith
"I aint taking you further, these things are dangerous and i'm not being here for the main show, girl. Faith they..."
"Breed at mass, they can spawn upto ten for each side they split and thier pregnancy is only twenty four hours long" continues Dawn in the apartment
"We need to call Faith"
Dolly leaves Faiths side as she turns the corner a large, horned demon grabs her by the neck agains the wall as she grabs at its large stiff wrists
[Boston, Mass - 1991]
Faiths playing in her room as her drunken mother stumbles in and and grabs her by the wrist and starts hurling abuse at her
"Worthless child, you ruined me" she spits as Faith pulls trying to get away, screaming
"Stop screaming" yells her Mother, smashing the bottle to the ground and grabbing Faith by the neck as she pulls on her wrists.
Faith grabs the demon by the neck and snaps it's spine with one twist, gasping for breath she carries on.
"A large horned demon protects thier lairs to stop them from leaving, if Faith sees that she'll kill it, they're the only thing strong enough to kill them"
Xander & Andrew are stood at the outside of a broken down bar
"You sure this is where we can find one of those horny demons" asks Andrew unaware of his pun
"Pretty sure"
the two step through the ajar door and gaze around at the dark and dusty pit, Andrew bangs on the bar
"Service, Service" Xander slaps him up the back of the head
"Demon bar Andrew"
the two continue to wait as a young man in his early twenties rushes in the door and closes it behind him
"Oh, hey" the man says looking suspicious.
He reaches out his hand for a shake, Andrew shakes it, Xander leaves him hanging
"You the owner?" asks Xander as Andrew wonders off
"No, i just came to order some drink, he not here?"
"Apparently not" Andrew calls over to them in a panic "Found him"
Dawn is pacing the apartment with a phone in her hand "Faith, pick up"
Faith's phone is ringing on the floor of the tunnels
"What happened to him?" asks Andrew in a naive sense, hinting at comfort from the stranger
"Bitten and rising" the owner stands to his feet, game face and leaps to Andrew, the man jumps in front and flips him through a boarded up window into Sunlight as he bursts into flames
"Wow" sighs Andrew in awe, the man turns
"Garrison, by the way"
Faith is up in the mass with four of the demons coming from all sides, as another three lay heavily pregnant near them
"Kind of mad crazy anti natal clinic going on here"
Faith hurls a dagger into one of the pregnants demons stomach as it screams out releasing a green liquid the remaining demons leap on Faith pinning her down.
"Introductions later, you can fight, you can help" pants Xander to Garrison
"We've got a slayer to save"
"Slayer? No, i can't do that"
"Why not"
"I'm quarter demon"
"You ever killed a person, are you evil?"
"No and No"
"You're safe then, she's not prejudice, her adoptive sibling can end the world by bleeding and her best friends a Vampire"
Faith is collapsed on the floor laughing hard as the demons dance around her, she looks to the side and sees the females beginning to give birth, snapping out of it she kick flips upto her feet and boots two of the males across the tunnel
"I don't get the joke" she snarks as the fight ensues.
Xander, Andrew and Garrison arrive in the tunnels but are interveined by yet another of the 'Horny Demons'
"You got any fancy powers we can use now?" Garrison looks at Xander intrigued
"Only this" he holds the side of his head and stares at the demon who lifts off the ground and rockets backwards through the air crashing through the wall of the tunnel
"You are so hot...Cool, i mean cool" proclaims Andrew as the three man rush forwards.
"Faith, you're bleeding"
"I'll live"
Andrew looks around "Don't be so sure"
hundreds of the demons writhe around eachother in the whole in the wall, Garrison made, all looking angry
"My bad" he churns out.
"Anyone else, all about the running?" questions Xander
"Running sounds fun" says Fiath un characteristically.
The four of them charge out being followed by the demons as they crash into Dawn who is holding a small paper bag.
"Dawn get out of here, hurry" Faith grabs her but Dawn resists
"Can anyone hold them back?" asks Dawn boldly
"I can try"
Garrison repeats the process and they're slowed down breifly as Dawn pulls a small grenade from the bag and bites the pin
"Run now" screams Dawn as she hurls the bomb at the creatures.
Faith, Garrison, Xander, Dawn & Andrew crash through the entrance as a large explosion sends soil and grass everywhere.
"Dawn how did you know which way was to the field?" Faiths puts out there surprised
"Creativity...i got inspired"
Xander looks on a the pair with a strange look of mixed fear, curiosity and suspicion in his eyes.
Faith is stood in the doorway of the bar they were in earlier as Dawn plods past her barely able to carry a large box full of junk
"Dawn, you need a hand?"
"I can manage" spits Dawn
"D.." starts Faith walking over to Dawn
"I'm S...I'm used to fighting alone you know? I'm not used to having to worry about people, especially after last week"
"You don't have to worry about me Faith I can hold my own"
"I know i dont have to but I do, can't help it I guess" Faith looks for an acceptance
"That your apology" asks Dawn jokingly
"I dont apologise" says Faith, Dawn smiles at this realising its the most she'll get out of her.
"Faith, a little help here"
Faith takes the box from Dawns hands
"You did good today kid"
"Thanks"
"I'm proud of you" smiles Faith "You too" says Dawn unknowing of the impact Faith grins from side to side as Dawn walks back in
"Oh and Faith, i'm not a kid" she smiles.
Xander is leaning over the bar talking to Andrew
"You sure about this little man?"
"I think i can handle it, it'll be like Cheers"
"Yeah"
Dawn walks over as Andrew and Xander raise thier hands "Dawn!" she looks at them oddly "Whatever"
Xander turns back to Andrew
"She's too young to understand".
Xander wipes his hands together "You okay to lock up alone" Andrew nods at him smiling as Xander slaps him on the back in a buddy way.
"Bye guys" calls Andrew as Garrison steps out of the backroom
"Oh, you're still here" Andrew asks keenly
"Yeah, you want me to go?"
"No, you can hang, i get lonely easily"
Andrew drops a cloth from the side of the bar both himself and Garrison bend down to get it, thier hands touch, that moment is a memorable one, sparks flew.
Their hands remained in place as they looked up into eachothers eyes and smiled.
They're interupted as a very large shadow gathers over them. Looking up they see a large red demon, tall and broad standing over them
"So, you're back in business?" he says in a booming voice striking fear in Andrew
"erm...yeah, that's what we are...in business. Back in it"
The demon slams his hands down hard on the bar and smiles before relaxing
"That's great can I book my Brothers stag night?"
Andrew & Garrison look at eachother baffled.
[END]
NEXT WEEK
Fred visits for a lecture.
Faith needs to get a job.
Faith befriends a co-worker.
Bodies are mounting up.
Dawn has an encounter with Thalia.
Garrison and Andrew are getting to know eachother.
A Non-coporeal familiar face has it in for Faith.
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