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Date Posted: 15:01:21 04/10/03 Thu
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Episode TEN: BLOOD
"I need to see it now" Faith demands, it seems the world around her is spinning
"Are you sure miss?" the officer asks gently
"Yeah, Faith, maybe we should get Xander or...or I'll do it" Dawn speaks awkwardly
"I can handle it" Faith snaps before calming "I...can handle it"
"I'm just saying that maybe..." Dawn is cut off as Faith turns to her
"Dawn, It's cool, I've been a..." Faith looks at the police officer
"I've been doing my job for six years, I've seen a tonne of dead people...it's all good"
Faith starts to follow one of the officers into a small room at the end of the corridor
"She's seen a tonne of dead bodies?" the officer asks Dawn
"erm...yeah,she...err...was in the army?"
The officer nods respectfully and leads her to follow.
"That's not Travis" Faith says instantly
"I assure you Miss that is Travis Stone, he has three variations of photographic identity" the Officer says in a very matter-of-fact style
"It can't be" Dawn says quietly in the background as a small woman enters with a large file
"Results of the autopsy, Sir" she hands them to the officer and leaves
Flicking through the pages the Officer stops and looks up at Faith
"When did you say your friend died?"
"We don't know if he's dead! but, he went missing...maybe three weeks ago, four weeks?"
"According to this report, this IS Travis Stone. He was last seen nearly three months ago at a Los Angeles airport, this body was long dead before it made it to the river"
Faith and Dawn look at eachother in shock.
~*~ROLL CREDITS~*~
ELIZA DUSHKU -MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG - TOM LENK
LISA ROXANNE - RYDER STRONG and NICHOLAS BRENDAN
Guest Starring: Shawn Ashmore as Ryan Hallow
"Are you okay?" Garrison asks as Andrew cleans up at the bar.
"Why wouldn't I be?" Andrew replies coldly
"You know, I don't know. It might be the near death and...oh, grief amongst your friends?" Garrison says clearly wound up.
He walks over to Andrew and stands in his path
"Why won't you tell me?"
"Tell you what?" Andrew says in avoidance knowing exactly what he means
"What's wrong with you...why won't you tell me?"
"because there's nothing wrong"
"Hey..." Garrison says semi-insulted as he grabs Andrew by the arms
"You do know don't you? that I love you and...you can tell me...anything"
"I know" says Andrew in guilt as he walks away from him.
Back at the apartment Faith is sitting quietly as Xander and Dawn discuss her in the kitchen
"She's been hit hard, it's like...in a way she was happy that he was dead because...at least she knew..." Dawn starts
"but now...Travis wasn't even Travis" Xander finishes
"Right, Travis was..." Dawn is cut off
"Gunn's friend" Dawn, Faith and Xander turn to see Fred standing in the doorway
"He was killed three months ago at an airport in Los Angeles by a man named Rivers" Fred begins as she takes a seat at Faiths side.
"Rivers was from an asylum, he had an unhealthy obsession with powerful women...Buffy's predecessor, no supernatural death there, he drove her to suicide"
Faith looks at Fred in disbelief
"Don't come in here and say that Fred!...Trav was my friend and he still is"
"He wasn't Travis Faith!" Fred says shockingly standing up to her
Faith pauses before pinning Fred up by the wall
"Then who the hell was he if not my friend?"
A stunned silence fills the room as Faith looks at Dawn and Xander in disgust before releasing Fred and leaving.
"Faith, Faith come back!" Dawn calls as she follows her into the street.
Faith ignores her and continues to walk on until she hears Dawn screaming.
Faith rushes back as a large lifts Dawn from the ground and hurls her across the street through the window of the weapon shop.
Within seconds Faiths rage has been enough to end the demons life.
"We need to get you to a hospital" Faith says as she pulls Dawn up, her arm heavily bleeding.
As they walk away, a puddle of Dawns blood begins to shine as it grows into a the solid form of a demon.
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COMMERCIAL BREAK
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"You girls are gonna need your own room her by the end of Summer" laughs the nurse bandaging Dawns arm up.
"I hate Doctor humour" snarls Dawn as the nurse walks off.
"Kid, you gotta stop doing this to me...I'm gettin' old, don't think my heart can handle the stress" the two exchange sympathetic smiles.
"In hospital for a change?" Thalia says as she limps through the door on crutches
"What are you doing here?"
"Time to get the cast off" she smiles
the three girls sit there looking around in some pain both physical and emotional.
"Got another body from the river" Faith hears in the background.
She rushes out of the door and there he is, Travis suspended inside a half closed body bag.
Faith looks at him in a matter of confusion
"Who are you?" she says holding his hand and letting it slip free as the cart is taken away from her.
Garrison is sat alone in the bar, most lights are off, infront of him is lined six shot glasses accompanied by a large and half empty bottle of Tequila.
"You alright mate?" Ryan asks as he peers through the door.
"Go away" Garrison speaks up bitterly
"Hey, ice much? What's up?" Ryan says as he plods himself down opposite him.
"Men suck" Garrison snarks
"Not much for the self liberation then?...Men suck like I think women suck or...?"
"Like that, they suck"
"Ahh, trouble in Paradise?"
"Not paradise, we got the boat out of paradise then the boat crashes into a pile of flaming rocks" Garrison slurs
"Care to share?"
"He's being a complete moo moo!"
"A moo-moo?"
"Yeah a Moo Moo!! He's all trying on the sultry moody thing and it's not...nice...it's nasty"
"You tried talking to him...or is that the problem, that he wont talk?"
"Ryan, you're my buddy right?" Garrison starts in a clearly drunken stooper
"Right..."
"We talk right? like we tell eachother stuff...Like you're not a demon and I am..."
"Right..."
"Can I tell you something?"
"Course you can" Ryan says growing more serious with the concern at his friends state
"I love boys! ahahahahaha...No, seriously, boy...one boy...Andrew, Andrew's so cute...it's easier loving one boy than two girls"
"You're telling me"
"Yeah, I am telling you!...choose it's so much easier! Choose boys...less hassle!!!"
as this sentence finishes Xander enters looking for Andrew
"Choose Xander"
Ryan and Xander exchange glances and shudder
"Hey, oh sober one, is lover boy around?"
"Xander..." Ryan gestures to cut it
"Okay...is Andrew anywhere? I just wanted to see if he's okay after...everything, he's been real quiet since"
"You're funny Xander! You know what else is Funny? You and Faith how messed up is that?" Garrison laughs
Xander looks hurt then plops next to Ryan
Both Ryan and Xander look on at Garrison depressed "Line 'em up"
Back at the hospital Thalia is getting used to having her legs free again as Dawn speaks to the doctor in the corner.
Faith sits silently in the corner as Fred enters in a flurry
"Faith...Faith, we have a situation"
Back at the bar Faith and Fred look down at the men, all flung over eachother in the corner, two empty bottles of tequila.
"Five minutes...I leave them for five minutes!" Faith starts as she pours a large jug of Icey water of the three of them
"What?...bears, gummi...huh?" Xander mumbles as he comes round
"Get up!" Faith snaps
"What's wrong?" Xander says trying to keep his head up
"Well, nothing thats not of the norm, Dawns in hospital, I've touched a dead body and...well, if a demon attacks it's a regular day"
as Faith finishes this sentence the demon created from Dawns blood crashes through the window and knocks both Fred and Xander flying across the room.
"here we go" Faith snarks "I got it back"
"Don't try and fight me Slayer, I do not seek you!"
"You think I care what you seek?"
Faith starts as she leaps into the demon and knocks him back into the street
"I come for the girl"
"Right, the girl...well, I'm here"
"Not you!" he yells as he holds his hand infront of her stopping her
"I seek this girl"
from the demons hands comes a small shining ball. Inside the ball is a form of slideshow.
Faith sees several events that she has missed, Glory takes Dawn, Dawn is on the tower, Buffy dives from the tower, Dawn stops Thalia leaving, Dawn brings Faith back to life, the demon hold Dawn, Dawns blood is on the window ledge, Dawns blood, Demon arrives from Dawns blood, Dawn is at the hospital having a fit through lack of blood.
"That never happened" Faith says with fear in her voice
"You've been here for the past twenty minutes" the demon smiles
Faiths eyes widen as she grabs a sheer of glass and stabs it into the demons throat before rushing to the hospital.
"What'd I miss?" asks Andrew as he comes down the stairs to see a shattered window, Fred and Xander in the corner unconcious and Garrison covered in shattered glass.
Andrew rushes over to him and pulls him up with no reaction.
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COMMERCIAL BREAK
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"Garrison...Gary" Andrew panics as he slaps the side of his face
Andrew begins panicking and crying
"Please wake up, please..." at this Garrison begins to cough
"Man, what's your deal, what's with the slapping" he says, still drunken
Andrew grabs him and hugs him tightly
"Breathing...need to...Andrew"
Andrew ignores this and continues to hug him and kiss him on the head.
Faith runs into the hospital crashing into people as she searches for Dawn
She runs into her room where she finds Thalia sat next to an empty bed
"Where is she?" Faith says in panic, tearing her hands through her hair and shaking
"Faith, she's bad, she needs a blood transfusion"
"wel...I'll do it"
"Faith...blood type?"
"I don't know"
"well, as far as blood types go, I'd call Dawns...incredibly rare...as in...she's made of Buffy's blood"
"Rarer than you think...she's still...she made a demon by bleeding today"
"That's not a good thing" Thalia replies in shock
"Are you a relative of Miss. Summers?" the nurse asks smiling
"Kinda, can I do anything?" Faith asks desperately
"Come with me"
Thalia arrives outside the bar in a cab as Fred sweeps up glass outside
"What are you doing here?" Thalia asks
"I think that question suits you better, I mean after all, last time I was here you tried to kill Faith" Fred replies with attitude
"You should've been here a few weeks ago, you'd have really grown to love me" Thalia smiles sarcastically.
She walks straight over to Xander
"Faith's at the hospital, Dawn...not with the goodness"
"What's happened?" Ryan asks clearly keen
"She broke her arm, but it didn't heal to well and...blood...loss...lots"
"Is she okay?" asks Xander
"She'll live...hopefully" Thalia whispers
"What does hopefully mean?" Andrew demands joining in the conversation
"It means, she needs a blood transfusion...Buffy"
"Can't someone else do it?" Fred asks
"No Soul Sister,she's made of the girl"
"Faith can do it!" Xander says pretty sure of himself
"How?"
"Trust me..." Xander says grabbing his jacket
"Xander wait theres something else!" Thalia stops him
"She's...she's still the..."
Xander shakes his head before leaving to the hospital.
Andrew rather undiscreetly signals Fred, Thalia and Ryan to leave
"Right, we've got that...thing..." Fred starts
"At the place" continues Ryan as the three of them walk out.
"Sorry" Andrew says as he sits down next to Garrison awkwardly shuffling around
"for what?"
"For being a complete troll this last month"
Garrison turns to face Andrew and takes his hand in his
"I love you Andrew"
Andrew smiles half heartedly and nods
"Me too" he says awkwardly as he leans in and wraps his arms around him looking over his shoulder in guilt he spots Ryan out of the window shaking his head.
In a small side room at the hospital Faith is sat with Xander and a nurse
"Right, it seems you're suitable for your sisters transfusion"
"She's not my Sister" Faith laughs
"Is she your Daughter?"
Faith looks on insulted
"She's not related to you at all?" asks the nurse in shock
"No."
"But...never mind"
"But what?" Faith asks
"well, every cell in your blood matches Identical"
"What does that mean?" Faith demands
"It's almost as if...she is you, like you have the same blood...like twins or like she's made from you"
"made from ...." Faith stops
"I need to sit down"
"You are sitting Faith" Xander says as the nurse leaves
"Dawn...B...B...B"
"Buffy?" Xander says
"She's my...and...Buffy...Blood"
"I know"
"You know?" Faith reacts confused beyond limits
"I've been noticing similarities since you came back to Sunnydale...even before....since...RJ"
"RJ?"
"Long story, not worth it...but it's true Faith and Buffy...she knows it as well...she says the dream you shared...it was like Dawn was being sent to you but it went wrong...and so they finished making her out of Buffy" Xander says as if the fountain of knowledge
"Does Dawn know?"
"Not yet"
"She can't know, not yet"
"Okay" Xander says understanding as he holds Faiths hand
"I need to...bury Travis"
"He's not..."
"...or Rivers...whoever he is, I don't care, he was real to me"
Xander nods at her sympathetically as Faith leaves pushing past Fred on her way
"Is she okay?"
"She'll survive, shes kinda cut up over Rivers slash Travis and...Dawn, it's all new to her"
"Where's she going?"
"To bury him"
"To bury him?"
"Rivers...he was something to her...she wants to be his only friend, let him leave with some dignity or recognition I guess"
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COMMERCIAL BREAK
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"Hey Dawn" says Andrew as he enters the room with a bunch of flowers
She smiles at him "thanks"
"Dawn, I'm real sorry"
"For what?" she asks pulling herself up
"We were best friends for like...since Sunnydale went all gulp and it seems that since we've been here, we've not been and I miss that"
"It's okay"
"No, it's not, it seems with the bar and Garrison and everything I've ignored everything that's going on with you"
"Andrew, trust me it's fine, I've been a little pre-occupied as well"
"But, we're shopping pals, we haven't even been shopping"
"Andrew, the Malls like a year away...I promise, we'll hang when I'm out of here"
"That's cool, I just can't believe I've missed everything going on with you"
"Like what?" Dawn says sidetracked by a box of chocolates left by Fred
"Like, you still being the key and being Faiths..."
"What?" Dawn says wide eyed
"Which part?"
"Both...I'm still the key?"
"Yeah, you know, when you bought Faith back to life by crying and you made a demon by bleeding and...you didn't know about this did you? oh god Andrew!"
"erm...this is alot to...Faiths my what?"
Andrew tries to avoid the question
"nice flowers arent they"
"Andrew!" Dawn says fiercly
"She's your Sister"
Dawn sits up in her bed, jaw loose eyes wide.
It's now the dark of night and Faith kneels over a fresh grave as she strokes the letters on the stone
'Travis Riverstone'
'1978 - 2005'
"Hey, dark past huh? Looks like I've got a bit of a past I didn't know about"
Faith smiles
"It's strange aint it, you were my one true friend, just mine, not a friend of a friend...and you weren't even real...you were someone else"
"Sick man with a perverse obsession...but I still loved you..."
"Not like that" Faith smiles getting all shy
"But I did love you still"
Faith takes a moment and looks at the grave before leaning in and kissing the letters
as she does
Travis' hand tears from beneath the soil and grabs Faith around the neck
To Be Continued
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