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MAJESTY Prologue
Sequel To The Seed Of Good & Evil
~Farewell~
(Buffy walks into the house wearing her Double Meat Palace uniform.)
Buffy: Dawn! Willow! (She hears Jade crying.) Jade? (Buffy takes off her hat and walks up stairs. She quietly opens the door to her room and finds Dawn staring down, rocking Jade in her arms.) Dawn. (Buffy smiles.) You scared me when you didn't answer. (Dawn looks up at Buffy. Her eyes are yellow.)
Dawn: Don't worry Buffy, she's safe with me.
(Buffy wakes up from her dream gasping for air. She glares over at Jade's crib. When she notices it's empty she gets up and walks downstairs. Spike is holding Jade in the living room. He's standing up trying to get her to sleep. Buffy stands back and watches him.)
Spike: You know sleeping is much better than crying. There's the initial benefits like your mother being a little nicer to everyone and then there's the sleeping which we've all lacked since you've come. Well not me in particular. We're pretty much two of a kind, you and me bit, creatures of the night. We. . . (Spike yawns.) We come alive in darkness and what not and so on. (Jade looks like she's about to start crying.) Oh, bloody hell. . .icoptors. Come on Jade. This must be why most evil eat their young.
Buffy: Need a little help?
Spike: I'd fancy a little tingle in my arms again, yeah. (Spike gives Jade to Buffy. She makes faces at Jade.) What are you doing?
Buffy: Making wacky faces. I don't know if they help, but all the other parents seem to do it so I say follow the crowd. For her sake I'll be an idiotic tractable sheep for once.
Spike: Funny faces huh? I find she enjoys this one the best. (Spike morphs into a vampire. Buffy looks up at Spike. She pushes him away and he morphs back.) Hey, what's with the pushing?
Buffy: Don't you ever do that around Jade again.
Spike: Like she's never going to see it? It's who she is. It's where she came from. (Buffy looks down at Jade who is falling asleep.) There's a part of her that knows this face is there whether I show it or not. You can't keep everything that goes bump in the night away from her slayer. She's going to have her brush with evil sometime.
Buffy: Not again. Not if I have anything to do with it. (Buffy looks up at Spike.) She will never ever have to see the hell I've seen, or go through it. Not while I'm here.
Spike: You can't protect her all day and night it's impossible.
Buffy: I know that and I'm not going to, the council is.
Spike: Come again?
Buffy: There's a place in England. Giles says they can protect her there.
Spike: We can protect her here.
Buffy: But like you just said not all day and night.
Spike: I said you couldn't protect her, not alone, but that's why you have me and the rest of the little scoobies to help out.
Buffy: Do you love her?
Spike: That's like asking me if I love you. Buffy we're a family. Screws loose and all we are still a family.
Buffy: No, no we're not. (Buffy looks down in frustration and then looks back at Spike.) We're not a family, we never will be. (Spike looks down.) I'm sorry, but this is about keeping Jade alive.
Spike: What about us, you and me. Buffy if you feel anything for me, you won't let her go.
Buffy: She's leaving in a week.
Spike: Where is this coming from?
Buffy: I love her, that's where this is coming from. I love her more than you could possibly imagine. I died when I thought, when I thought I had lost her and I can't let that happen again, I won't. Jade is going to England where she's safe and that's it.
Spike: I don't even get a word in about this? You're acting like this isn't just as much my decision as it is yours.
Buffy: You can say what ever you'd like, but nothing changes the facts. You're a vampire, I'm a slayer and we live on a Hell mouth. I pretty much see a life cut short or one filled with psychiatric help if we keep Jade here. Hand her a fate like that and claim to love her in the same breath. I'd love to hear you pull off such a mass contradiction. That is, unless the Hell mouth is what you want for her?
Spike: Well, it would seem it doesn't really matter what I want. (Spike grabs his jacket.)
Buffy: Where are you going?
Spike: Why do you care slayer? My evil self won't touch your child. The child I helped create, that I couldn't possible love as much as you do because as you have so painstakingly reminded me, I'm a vampire, and that's fact. (Spike walks out of the house slamming the door.)
Buffy: Spike! Spike! (Jade starts crying and Buffy holds her head.)
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MAJESTY Prologue
Sequel To The Seed Of Good & Evil
~Farewell~
(Buffy walks into the house wearing her Double Meat Palace uniform.)
Buffy: Dawn! Willow! (She hears Jade crying.) Jade? (Buffy takes off her hat and walks up stairs. She quietly opens the door to her room and finds Dawn staring down, rocking Jade in her arms.) Dawn. (Buffy smiles.) You scared me when you didn't answer. (Dawn looks up at Buffy. Her eyes are yellow.)
Dawn: Don't worry Buffy, she's safe with me.
(Buffy wakes up from her dream gasping for air. She glares over at Jade's crib. When she notices it's empty she gets up and walks downstairs. Spike is holding Jade in the living room. He's standing up trying to get her to sleep. Buffy stands back and watches him.)
Spike: You know sleeping is much better than crying. There's the initial benefits like your mother being a little nicer to everyone and then there's the sleeping which we've all lacked since you've come. Well not me in particular. We're pretty much two of a kind, you and me bit, creatures of the night. We. . . (Spike yawns.) We come alive in darkness and what not and so on. (Jade looks like she's about to start crying.) Oh, bloody hell. . .icoptors. Come on Jade. This must be why most evil eat their young.
Buffy: Need a little help?
Spike: I'd fancy a little tingle in my arms again, yeah. (Spike gives Jade to Buffy. She makes faces at Jade.) What are you doing?
Buffy: Making wacky faces. I don't know if they help, but all the other parents seem to do it so I say follow the crowd. For her sake I'll be an idiotic tractable sheep for once.
Spike: Funny faces huh? I find she enjoys this one the best. (Spike morphs into a vampire. Buffy looks up at Spike. She pushes him away and he morphs back.) Hey, what's with the pushing?
Buffy: Don't you ever do that around Jade again.
Spike: Like she's never going to see it? It's who she is. It's where she came from. (Buffy looks down at Jade who is falling asleep.) There's a part of her that knows this face is there whether I show it or not. You can't keep everything that goes bump in the night away from her slayer. She's going to have her brush with evil sometime.
Buffy: Not again. Not if I have anything to do with it. (Buffy looks up at Spike.) She will never ever have to see the hell I've seen, or go through it. Not while I'm here.
Spike: You can't protect her all day and night it's impossible.
Buffy: I know that and I'm not going to, the council is.
Spike: Come again?
Buffy: There's a place in England. Giles says they can protect her there.
Spike: We can protect her here.
Buffy: But like you just said not all day and night.
Spike: I said you couldn't protect her, not alone, but that's why you have me and the rest of the little scoobies to help out.
Buffy: Do you love her?
Spike: That's like asking me if I love you. Buffy we're a family. Screws loose and all we are still a family.
Buffy: No, no we're not. (Buffy looks down in frustration and then looks back at Spike.) We're not a family, we never will be. (Spike looks down.) I'm sorry, but this is about keeping Jade alive.
Spike: What about us, you and me. Buffy if you feel anything for me, you won't let her go.
Buffy: She's leaving in a week.
Spike: Where is this coming from?
Buffy: I love her, that's where this is coming from. I love her more than you could possibly imagine. I died when I thought, when I thought I had lost her and I can't let that happen again, I won't. Jade is going to England where she's safe and that's it.
Spike: I don't even get a word in about this? You're acting like this isn't just as much my decision as it is yours.
Buffy: You can say what ever you'd like, but nothing changes the facts. You're a vampire, I'm a slayer and we live on a Hell mouth. I pretty much see a life cut short or one filled with psychiatric help if we keep Jade here. Hand her a fate like that and claim to love her in the same breath. I'd love to hear you pull off such a mass contradiction. That is, unless the Hell mouth is what you want for her?
Spike: Well, it would seem it doesn't really matter what I want. (Spike grabs his jacket.)
Buffy: Where are you going?
Spike: Why do you care slayer? My evil self won't touch your child. The child I helped create, that I couldn't possible love as much as you do because as you have so painstakingly reminded me, I'm a vampire, and that's fact. (Spike walks out of the house slamming the door.)
Buffy: Spike! Spike! (Jade starts crying and Buffy holds her head.)
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