Worst of Friends / Best of Enemies
Episode: 11
Disclaimer: I in no way own any of the characters in the story
Setting: Set in the 5th season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, after the 2nd episode, all the characters exist with the only the difference is that the Buffy /Dracula situation is still unresolved and only Spike knows that Buffy has been bitten.
Situation: The story mainly has to do with the conflict between Xander & Harmony, and is not a just about Buffy, sort of a Scooby club episode. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________ Int shot: Magic Box - night Giles stands by Willow, Xander and Anya walk over from the counter, Dawn comes back a little happier.
Focus it on Dawn: her happy expression slowly fading as she looks at the seriousness on all their faces
Dawn: "So what do we do?"
Xander: "Harmony has a sister"
Giles: " It seems that is the case " (rubbing his chin and thinking on a course of action)
Willow: " Well." (Sitting at the laptop looking awkward)
Xander: " A sister." (Saying out loud as to make a point)
(Whispers)
Anya: " You just said that " (holding his arm, smiling out of general nervousness)
Willow: " So she doesn't know?" (Looking at everyone awkward)
(No one answers not knowing quite what to say)
Willow: (pfffh..) "Of course she doesn't, why else would she come to us if she did" (look around with a smirk)
Dawn: "She's was bound to find out sooner or later"
Xander: " I mean I went to school with her, for what 4 years, you think someone would say, hey harmony has a sister" (talking to self, as if on different frequency)
(Willow looks at Xander knowingly smiling, then to Dawn)
Willow: " What would you say anyway?" (In low voice)
Giles: " Not just her, Harmony has had more than enough time to contact her sister and family, if she had wanted to."
Dawn: " So we do nothing?" (Looking surprised)
Willow: " It's sad, maybe she just wants to save them grief?" (Getting a look from Anya)
Dawn: "But, maybe we could. You know talk to Harmony, let her know."
Anya: "Yeah, like she cares about someone's feeling, Hello! Broken arm, right here " she motions to her arm, hurt in last encounter with Harmony. (Xander snaps back)
Xander: "What ever she's going to do she'll do, she might be a Vamp, but other than that nothing much has changed."
Giles: "Okay, let's let Harmony sort her issues out, we have more pressing issues."
(Silence as everyone looks up at Giles)
Giles: "The Creature, and how were to deal with it."
Willow: "Right, Well I'll cross reference all the police and local news reports, with the information that Xander gained."
Xander: " Right" Xander says, returning to the background of the conversation
Giles: "A pattern might be right under our nose"
(Dawn notices that the issue with Ammie was taking a back seat to creature attack in the cemetery, she knew that Harmony had to be told, they were sisters. She had to tell her (picking up her jacket); she makes her way to the door.)
Dawn: "Okay, I'll see everyone later" she waves to the group.
[Dawn leaves scene]
Willow: "You heading home?
Dawn: Yeah, You know just in case" she smiles.
(Willow smiles waving quickly as if to be caught)
Dawn: "Okay see yah!"
(Dawn Departs)
(Fade out to commercial)
Ext. shot: Darkened Alley-night (Low-angle shot, water splashes out of drain to the right, alley has beaten/ worn trash bins, sound of running is heard (OS)
Feet run bent scene, a person frantically looking to escape something yet seen, (Change view to show man in Grey jacket and jeans running across the alley), he stops to catch his breath next to a bin (leaning on it for support). He looks around straining to see in the dim light of the alley, to see if he lost her, when he turns he finds that he has not.
The Blond attacker grabs him, heaving him across the alley; he lands on top of a half full Dumpster, rolling off with resounding thud. Struggling to maintain his balance he gets to his feet.
(PO: long view of alley, Jets of steam obscuring its far end, the glow of lights and sound of cars showing that the alley leads the other way out to a street.)
Demon: "Hey, I told yah okay? I don't know anything, so why not just call it even?" Looking through the shadows and deciding which way he could run.
Blond: " Even! You made me run, me" (emphasizing self-importance)
(Demon says nothing)
Blond: " I hate running you get all sticky & sweaty, eeeugh." brushing her hands off and making a yucky expression as if touching something bad.
(The blond walks out into the pale flickering yellowish glow of an overhead street lamp)
Harmony: "Here's the deal, right, you just tell me what I want to know, and then you can just go back to your pathetic little life or what ever it is"
(Harmony makes dismissing gesture)
Demon: "You'd let me live?" looking skeptical.
She moves up to the demon, until within easy arms reach, making the frightened man cringes at her approach.
Harmony: "Of course, scouts honor "
(Odd look from Demon)
Demon: "You where a Girl scout?" Looking but not believing
(Harmony makes annoyed look)
Harmony: (hands on hips) " The Point? I could've been"
Harmony: " I mean who really uses those knots anyway?"
Demon: "I told yah, I don't know anything" I just run the numbers, that's what Katheice demons do, were good with numbers " he mutters seeing a board sticking out of the dumpster.
(Harmony frown annoyed at what she hears)
Harmony: " oh well then you understand what subtraction is "
Demon: (questioning look)"okay?"
Harmony: "If you don't give me what I want, (fiddling with Demon's collar) I might just need to (pause) does some math of my own "
(Cuv: Harmony's face as it vamps out) turn to see the reaction of the Demon).
(Silently mouthed)
Demon: " Ah shit!"
Harmony: "You know all this running, it's gotten me a little bit, Hungry", she looks at his neck and she makes a low growl.
Demon: "Okay! Okay, What ever you want"
(Harmony smiles crossing arms)
Demon: " You see there's this thing, some creature or something, and it's like tanking demon & human alike.
(Harmony listen, failing to see the form slink into the alley, being too annoyed)
Demon: "Well, my partner, he like saw it, behind the old warehouse."
Harmony: " Saw what? Warehouse?"
Demon: " Off of Lincoln & Caldwell Ave., used to be some machine shop or what ever"
Harmony: " And? What did he see?" She asked looking closer at the demon; it's yellow cat-like eyes the only visible clue that she could see that the Guy was not human. Other than the smell, the advantage of being a vamp, you could smell these guys a mile away, how that was an advantage she still wondered. Didn't they bathe she thought to her self?
Demon: "It was about my size, and real strong, it seems to eat you from the inside out, my buddy saw the remains of what was a person, sort of like a fruit squeeze bottle with all the juice sucked away."
Demon: " so I thought, you know vampire (he shrugs), no offence!
(Distacefull look on her face)
Harmony looked at him, wondering if what he was saying was true; she could at least check it out before killing him. I t is not like he could get away the smell and all. She reached up to his collar and adjusted the jacket, which had been messed in his running from her; the demon flinched thinking that she was going to bite him.
The blond Vampire just patted his coat, turning to leave she told him, " If you're lying, I'll will find you".
Demon: (grabbing the makeshift stake out of the Dumpster) " Don't worry, you wont it's all legit, you wont see me again " preparing to stake her from behind.
(POV shot from the back and to the left of Demon with stick. Zoom up to the Demons hand holds the stake, about to hit harmony)
(A growl almost primal in nature is heard as something strikes, grabbing the unsuspecting man from behind)
OS: "Now, will have none of that " a voice is heard in the alley.
The demon and harmony spin around, surprised and looking around for where the voice came from. The same pale light illuminating the feature of single man, who backhands the demon up against his familiar Dumpster with a crash?
(The demon drops the stake staggering from the impact, Harmony sees it fall and land at her feet, realizing that she had almost messed up, again)
The figure enters the light watching every movement that the demon made, pulling out a cig and with a flick lighting it.
(Lighter closed with a click)
Harmony: " Spike!" a hint of emotion in her voice, covered as quickly as it was said.
(Under his voice:)
Spike: "Evening Harm" taking a drag from the cig
Demon: "Great, they know each other"
Spike: " What's this beating up helpless demons for fun? " he smiles
Spike: " I thought that was my private gig?" exhaling some smoke, while sneering at the demon.
Harmony: " Well you know just a little of this and little of that, a girls got to branch out."
Demon: "Hey man it seems like you 2 have something to talk about, why don't I just leave" (motioning to leave.)
Flash shot of spikes hand at the demon throught.
(Spike grabs the man off his feet by the coat pinning him to the Dumpster with relative ease, growling he debates a late night snack)
Demon: " its cool man, it's cool" voice noticeably shaking.
Spike: " It is it now, well than get the bloody hell out of here " he tosses the guy away.
Ext. shot street -Night: Quick pan out shot to a man running out onto a busy street
(The man staggers, while dashing out of the alley, making it out to the street, he quickly glances back and sees the 2 vampires move back into the steam and fading out of sight. A relieved expression passes over him, then the sudden glare of headlights, screeching tires & honking of horns.)
Demon: "Ah, shit!" (He looked like a Deer caught in Headlights)
The Demon's body is impacted off a Celica, then smacked like a cue ball off the front bumper by a Toyota forerunner, finally coming to rest against a mail box. The faces of 3 little kids wearing mouse ears look through the windows as the truck speeds off, the helpless body lying in a puddle, the watercolor quickly turning amber in the yellowish light. )
Fade to black
VO: (spike:) "Harm we need to talk"
Screeching tires and breaking of glass is heard in the distance
VO: (Harmony:) " We do?"
Setting: Set in the 5th season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, after the 2nd episode, all the characters exist with the only the difference is that the Buffy /Dracula situation is still unresolved and only Spike knows that Buffy has been bitten.
Situation: The story mainly has to do with the conflict between Xander & Harmony, and is not a just about Buffy, sort of a Scooby club episode. ____________________________________________________________________________ __________ Int shot: Magic Box - night Giles stands by Willow, Xander and Anya walk over from the counter, Dawn comes back a little happier.
Focus it on Dawn: her happy expression slowly fading as she looks at the seriousness on all their faces
Dawn: "So what do we do?"
Xander: "Harmony has a sister"
Giles: " It seems that is the case " (rubbing his chin and thinking on a course of action)
Willow: " Well." (Sitting at the laptop looking awkward)
Xander: " A sister." (Saying out loud as to make a point)
(Whispers)
Anya: " You just said that " (holding his arm, smiling out of general nervousness)
Willow: " So she doesn't know?" (Looking at everyone awkward)
(No one answers not knowing quite what to say)
Willow: (pfffh..) "Of course she doesn't, why else would she come to us if she did" (look around with a smirk)
Dawn: "She's was bound to find out sooner or later"
Xander: " I mean I went to school with her, for what 4 years, you think someone would say, hey harmony has a sister" (talking to self, as if on different frequency)
(Willow looks at Xander knowingly smiling, then to Dawn)
Willow: " What would you say anyway?" (In low voice)
Giles: " Not just her, Harmony has had more than enough time to contact her sister and family, if she had wanted to."
Dawn: " So we do nothing?" (Looking surprised)
Willow: " It's sad, maybe she just wants to save them grief?" (Getting a look from Anya)
Dawn: "But, maybe we could. You know talk to Harmony, let her know."
Anya: "Yeah, like she cares about someone's feeling, Hello! Broken arm, right here " she motions to her arm, hurt in last encounter with Harmony. (Xander snaps back)
Xander: "What ever she's going to do she'll do, she might be a Vamp, but other than that nothing much has changed."
Giles: "Okay, let's let Harmony sort her issues out, we have more pressing issues."
(Silence as everyone looks up at Giles)
Giles: "The Creature, and how were to deal with it."
Willow: "Right, Well I'll cross reference all the police and local news reports, with the information that Xander gained."
Xander: " Right" Xander says, returning to the background of the conversation
Giles: "A pattern might be right under our nose"
(Dawn notices that the issue with Ammie was taking a back seat to creature attack in the cemetery, she knew that Harmony had to be told, they were sisters. She had to tell her (picking up her jacket); she makes her way to the door.)
Dawn: "Okay, I'll see everyone later" she waves to the group.
[Dawn leaves scene]
Willow: "You heading home?
Dawn: Yeah, You know just in case" she smiles.
(Willow smiles waving quickly as if to be caught)
Dawn: "Okay see yah!"
(Dawn Departs)
(Fade out to commercial)
Ext. shot: Darkened Alley-night (Low-angle shot, water splashes out of drain to the right, alley has beaten/ worn trash bins, sound of running is heard (OS)
Feet run bent scene, a person frantically looking to escape something yet seen, (Change view to show man in Grey jacket and jeans running across the alley), he stops to catch his breath next to a bin (leaning on it for support). He looks around straining to see in the dim light of the alley, to see if he lost her, when he turns he finds that he has not.
The Blond attacker grabs him, heaving him across the alley; he lands on top of a half full Dumpster, rolling off with resounding thud. Struggling to maintain his balance he gets to his feet.
(PO: long view of alley, Jets of steam obscuring its far end, the glow of lights and sound of cars showing that the alley leads the other way out to a street.)
Demon: "Hey, I told yah okay? I don't know anything, so why not just call it even?" Looking through the shadows and deciding which way he could run.
Blond: " Even! You made me run, me" (emphasizing self-importance)
(Demon says nothing)
Blond: " I hate running you get all sticky & sweaty, eeeugh." brushing her hands off and making a yucky expression as if touching something bad.
(The blond walks out into the pale flickering yellowish glow of an overhead street lamp)
Harmony: "Here's the deal, right, you just tell me what I want to know, and then you can just go back to your pathetic little life or what ever it is"
(Harmony makes dismissing gesture)
Demon: "You'd let me live?" looking skeptical.
She moves up to the demon, until within easy arms reach, making the frightened man cringes at her approach.
Harmony: "Of course, scouts honor "
(Odd look from Demon)
Demon: "You where a Girl scout?" Looking but not believing
(Harmony makes annoyed look)
Harmony: (hands on hips) " The Point? I could've been"
Harmony: " I mean who really uses those knots anyway?"
Demon: "I told yah, I don't know anything" I just run the numbers, that's what Katheice demons do, were good with numbers " he mutters seeing a board sticking out of the dumpster.
(Harmony frown annoyed at what she hears)
Harmony: " oh well then you understand what subtraction is "
Demon: (questioning look)"okay?"
Harmony: "If you don't give me what I want, (fiddling with Demon's collar) I might just need to (pause) does some math of my own "
(Cuv: Harmony's face as it vamps out) turn to see the reaction of the Demon).
(Silently mouthed)
Demon: " Ah shit!"
Harmony: "You know all this running, it's gotten me a little bit, Hungry", she looks at his neck and she makes a low growl.
Demon: "Okay! Okay, What ever you want"
(Harmony smiles crossing arms)
Demon: " You see there's this thing, some creature or something, and it's like tanking demon & human alike.
(Harmony listen, failing to see the form slink into the alley, being too annoyed)
Demon: "Well, my partner, he like saw it, behind the old warehouse."
Harmony: " Saw what? Warehouse?"
Demon: " Off of Lincoln & Caldwell Ave., used to be some machine shop or what ever"
Harmony: " And? What did he see?" She asked looking closer at the demon; it's yellow cat-like eyes the only visible clue that she could see that the Guy was not human. Other than the smell, the advantage of being a vamp, you could smell these guys a mile away, how that was an advantage she still wondered. Didn't they bathe she thought to her self?
Demon: "It was about my size, and real strong, it seems to eat you from the inside out, my buddy saw the remains of what was a person, sort of like a fruit squeeze bottle with all the juice sucked away."
Demon: " so I thought, you know vampire (he shrugs), no offence!
(Distacefull look on her face)
Harmony looked at him, wondering if what he was saying was true; she could at least check it out before killing him. I t is not like he could get away the smell and all. She reached up to his collar and adjusted the jacket, which had been messed in his running from her; the demon flinched thinking that she was going to bite him.
The blond Vampire just patted his coat, turning to leave she told him, " If you're lying, I'll will find you".
Demon: (grabbing the makeshift stake out of the Dumpster) " Don't worry, you wont it's all legit, you wont see me again " preparing to stake her from behind.
(POV shot from the back and to the left of Demon with stick. Zoom up to the Demons hand holds the stake, about to hit harmony)
(A growl almost primal in nature is heard as something strikes, grabbing the unsuspecting man from behind)
OS: "Now, will have none of that " a voice is heard in the alley.
The demon and harmony spin around, surprised and looking around for where the voice came from. The same pale light illuminating the feature of single man, who backhands the demon up against his familiar Dumpster with a crash?
(The demon drops the stake staggering from the impact, Harmony sees it fall and land at her feet, realizing that she had almost messed up, again)
The figure enters the light watching every movement that the demon made, pulling out a cig and with a flick lighting it.
(Lighter closed with a click)
Harmony: " Spike!" a hint of emotion in her voice, covered as quickly as it was said.
(Under his voice:)
Spike: "Evening Harm" taking a drag from the cig
Demon: "Great, they know each other"
Spike: " What's this beating up helpless demons for fun? " he smiles
Spike: " I thought that was my private gig?" exhaling some smoke, while sneering at the demon.
Harmony: " Well you know just a little of this and little of that, a girls got to branch out."
Demon: "Hey man it seems like you 2 have something to talk about, why don't I just leave" (motioning to leave.)
Flash shot of spikes hand at the demon throught.
(Spike grabs the man off his feet by the coat pinning him to the Dumpster with relative ease, growling he debates a late night snack)
Demon: " its cool man, it's cool" voice noticeably shaking.
Spike: " It is it now, well than get the bloody hell out of here " he tosses the guy away.
Ext. shot street -Night: Quick pan out shot to a man running out onto a busy street
(The man staggers, while dashing out of the alley, making it out to the street, he quickly glances back and sees the 2 vampires move back into the steam and fading out of sight. A relieved expression passes over him, then the sudden glare of headlights, screeching tires & honking of horns.)
Demon: "Ah, shit!" (He looked like a Deer caught in Headlights)
The Demon's body is impacted off a Celica, then smacked like a cue ball off the front bumper by a Toyota forerunner, finally coming to rest against a mail box. The faces of 3 little kids wearing mouse ears look through the windows as the truck speeds off, the helpless body lying in a puddle, the watercolor quickly turning amber in the yellowish light. )
Fade to black
VO: (spike:) "Harm we need to talk"
Screeching tires and breaking of glass is heard in the distance
VO: (Harmony:) " We do?"