Robot Wars - Part 1

This is set sometime after season 5, but Riley is still there… not that I like him, its just that I wrote him into the story accidentally. Well this is part one anyway. Enjoy!

-----------Prologue-------------------

Buffy is fighting a group of vampires in the cemetery. She gets out her crossbow, dusts 3, then finishes the other 2 off with her stake.
Voice: Nice work
Buffy: Buffy spins around and there is Faith.

----------Opening Credits Roll-----------

Willow and Tara are talking.
Willow: So do you want to go to the movies on Saturday?
Tara: Sorry. I'm going to visit my grandmother.
Willow: Didn't you just see her a couple of weeks ago?
Tara: Uh-huh…. Well, I like it there. Its so peaceful.
Willow: Well…. when are you coming back?
Tara: In a week or something.
Willow: But we were going to go to Lucianos' for my birthday. It was going to be just the two of us, you know?
Tara: Oh. Sorry. I guess I forgot .
Willow: Can't you go afterwards?
Tara: I'm sorry Willow. This is just way more important than you.

The next day at college.

Buffy and Willow run into each other in the hall.
Buffy and Willow in unison: Sorry!
Both rush off without giving each other a second glance.

They catch up with each other at lunch. They both eat their lunch in silence. Enter Riley.

Riley: Buffy?
Silence
Riley: Buffy!
Buffy: Huh? Oh. It's you.
Riley: What's that supposed to mean?
Buffy: Sorry. Nothing. I just feel a bit weird. That's all.
Riley sits down.
Riley: What's wrong?
Buffy: Faith.
Riley: Faith? I thought she was in jail.
Buffy: Guess not. Turns out when I died, the council let her out. She's back in business.
Riley: But she's a psychopath! No really! A nutcase! And after what she did to you! God!
He walks off, stunned. Willow is just sitting there, mashing her potatoes.
Buffy gets up.
Buffy: Willow!
Willow looks up, startled.
Buffy: Where did you come from?
Willow: I've been sitting here for half an hour.
Buffy: Oh. Sorry. I guess I was in a bit of a daze.
Willow: Yeah. Me too.
Buffy: Are you OK?
Willow: Yeah. Actually… no. I'm not OK.
Buffy: Well what's the matter?
Willow: Well, I was with Tara last night.
Buffy: Yeah.
Willow: Well she said she was going to her grandmother's for a week. When I reminded her that it was my birthday soon she said she just forgot and she said that it was way more important than me!
Buffy: Hey, I'm sure she didn't mean it.. Maybe her grandmother is ill.
Willow: No, she said she just wanted to get away from here.
Buffy: It'll work out.
Willow: I hope so.
Buffy: So what do you think about Faith?
Willow: Faith? I thought she was in jail.

End of part 1