Buffy the vampire slayer, "Reality Bites."

SCENE TEN: SUNNYDALE HIGH SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY:

[Buffy, Xander and Willow walk into the library before school the next morning. Willow and Xander are trading insults but Buffy looks as though she had another sleepless night. Giles comes out of the office upon hearing them, and instantly the trio look worried.]

Willow: "Giles, what's wrong?"

Giles: "How did you know something was wrong?"

Xander: "No offence Giles, but if you were playing poker you'd have a major loss."

Giles [pulling off his glasses and wiping his brow before replacing them]: "Another person was taken last night."

Buffy: "By the same people? How do you know?"

Giles: "Because they left a nice white painting on the house."

[Giles comes over to them pulling out a photo of someone, and they crowd around to look at it.]

Giles: "Amanda Janson. Student from UCLA home for a few days. From all reports she was a studious person, not involved in anything strange…. was there anything strange on patrol last night Buffy?"

Buffy: "Nothing. It was absolutely dead- excuse the pun. And I was so determined to kick some major ass and get the information about Samantha too."

Willow [under her breath]: "Very unsafe."

[Buffy shoots her a look as though she is going to say something, but decides not to. Instead she looks more intently at the photograph Giles' is holding.]

Buffy: "You know, there's something familiar about her…."

Giles [eagerly]: "Yes?"

Buffy: "I don't know, I can't quite put my finger on it."

Giles [sighing]: "Like you can't put your finger on where you've seen that sign?"

[Buffy's face goes red, but she doesn't say anything.]

Giles: "The point is- we've got to find these people before they're too late. We know they want to give Samantha and Amanda to the Master, but we don't know why. We know where they were, but we don't know where they are. And the white sign seems familiar to some of us, but we don't know why."

Xander: "Very accurate summary of what we don't know Giles."

Giles [wryly]: "Thank you Xander."

Willow: "So what do we do now Giles?"

Giles: "We pray."

[Willow, Xander and Buffy exchange looks.]

Xander: "Now that really is a bad plan."

[Buffy sighs and it looks as though she's fighting against something. Finally she takes a deep breath.]

Buffy: "There's something I want-"

[The bell goes interrupting her.]

Xander: "Well no time for wants now, we've got to get to class."

Willow [eagerly]: "Yes, we're moving on to anatomy today so we don't want to miss anything."

Buffy: "Oh that would be such a shame."

[Giles is watching Buffy thoughtfully, and she meets his eyes.]

Giles: "You were saying?"

Buffy: "No time now….but do you think, maybe we could come back here after class?"

Xander: "I've never spent as much time in the library as I have this year."

Willow: "Then maybe you'll get better marks this year than ever?"

Xander: "Maybe, but I think that might be a long bow to draw."

Giles: "Of course we could come back here after class."

Buffy [sounding strange]: "Great."

[Buffy, Willow and Xander leave the library, and Giles looks after them thoughtfully.]

[End of scene.]