Worst of Friends/Best of Enemies
Episode 21
Disclaimer: I in no way own any of the characters in this story
Setting: Set in the 5th season of Buffy the Vampire slayer, the story takes place between the 2nd and 3rd episode, all the characters exist with the exception that the Buffy / Dracula situation is unresolved. Spike & Riley are the only ones that know she has been bitten.
Situation: The story manly deals with a conflict between Xander & Harmony, and though Buffy is in the story, it is sort of a Scooby club episode
Interior -Spikes lair - under ground dawn
Voice muffled Ammie: "I knew you were okay, I just knew it, I told everyone you wouldn't just leave us."
(Harmony pulls away from embrace)
Ammie: "Mom and dad said you did, but I knew."
Dawn " Ammie!" she says getting up from the floor.
Spike " Dawn, giv'em a second."
Ammie "What's wrong? Harmony why."
Harmony "Ammie, I can't I can't do this"
Ammie " Do what?"
Harmony " This, I cant do this, not right now."
Spike: "You gotta tell her some time love"
Dawn "Spike" remorsefully
(Harmony and Dawn both give a scowl to Spike)
Ammie "Tell me what? What's wrong? Please Tell me, we can."
Interrupted
Harmony "What fix it? You cant no one can, just leave! please"
(Ammie embracing her sister, who flinches at the touch, Ammie steps back)
Ammie " Harmony? You're so cold, and you're all wet, you're going to get sick".
Spike "Not bloody likely" said with a smug reaction tossing a cigarette.
Dawn "Spike, your not helping " she gives him a stern look.
Spike "Well, excuse me if I find this all bleeding funny!
Ammie "We've been so worried sick Harmony, What are you doing here? With him"
Spike "Hey, I'm right here!"
Harmony (looks around frantic) "I, I have to go"
(Harmony brushes her sister away, retreating into the shadows away from the confronting closeness of her sister)
Ammie " You're leaving now? You can't just leave, why haven't you call?"
Harmony meets the terror filled eyes of her sister, but cant hold the gaze
Harmony: (looking away) "You, you shouldn't be here, it's not safe "
Ammie: "Was it me? Did you leave because of me, something I did?"
(Harmony retreats into the shadows away from the confronting closeness of her sister)
Harmony "It's, it's not you, thinks just, theve changed."
Ammie "Changed? Harmony tell me please, I'm still you're sister" Dawn: "We should leave"
Ammie: "Butt out dawn, Harmony's my sister, nothing can change that."
Harmony " I wouldn't be sure of that "
Dawn " Ammie, you have to give her a little time, " she touches Ammie's shoulder."
Ammie: "Time?"
Harmony " Leave Ammie, you never saw me, it's best " her voice cracks"
Ammie "Best? Best for whom, for you?"
Harmony "No, you don't understand"
Ammie "Understand, how can I you don't tell me what's wrong? Please, I trusted you."
(Ammie knocks away Dawns hand, approaching here sister.)
Harmony "That's why you have to go, you can't trust me, no one can, not ever!"
Voice raised and angry
Ammie "Trust? You just pick up and leave right Graduation, 3 months, And were just supposed to let you leave?"
Voice lowers
Harmony "Yes".
Dawn "Let her go, you don't know what she's been through Ammie".
Ammie "What? And you knew about this?
(Ammie Backs away from Dawn in disbelief, while Spike sits back in his chair watching the spat; more interested in it, then the television.)
Dawn "Not in the beginning, I just, I told you its complicated, she has her reasons Ammie."
Voice raised
Ammie " I don't believe you, you said you were my friend, I don't believe any of this "
(Ammie steps back angry and confused, looking from Dawn to Harmony)
Harmony "Same difference"
Ammie " How could you do this? I'm You're sister, your supposed to be there, watch out for me!"
Harmony "Not anymore, not like this, I'm dead do you hear me, dead!"
Ammie: " What? Harmony you're scarring me "
Harmony "Ammie do you really thing I can ever go home looking like this."
(Harmony lurches out of the shadows, her face morphing into the vampire image that she truly is; Dawn and Spike look away as Ammie recoils in horror.)
Ammie "Harmony " she screams fainting to the ground
Fade To Black
Exterior University Dorms Dawn Xander & Tara walk out side to ward a car, Suddenly a van with spray painted windows pulls to a stop, a sliding door opens and hands pull both inside. The van exits campus.
Xander " Hey, that's my shoulder okay, ease up all right?
Man driving "The Master wants to talk with you "
Xander "Alright alright, so where is he"
Man with roll of Tape "Relaxing, He's more of a night person."
Tara "Xander, Who are they talking about?"
Xander "Well, our favorite blood sucking count."
Thug "Have some respect!" (Smacks Xander)
Tara "I thought Buffy staked him"
The 2 thugs in the back of the van laugh, 1 puts duck tape over Tara's & Xanders mouth; the other holds a Taser, clicking it to see the spark.
Fade to Black
Interior-J and R factory- night Giles Riley Buffy and Willow stand next to a large door in and abandoned warehouse debating a course of action.
Giles " Well, if she is involved we should check out some of her haunts"
Riley " She could be trying to using Xander to Get at Buffy"
Buffy "But it is not her style "
(Makes a sniffing action and reacts to bad odor.)
Willow " Buffy? What is it?"
(Buffy puts her hand to nose, Giles and Riley attempts to smell, willow looks around.)
Buffy " I don't know, but it is coming from there " Pointing to a metal door."
Riley " I'll open it, but everyone be careful" stepping to the side at the ready."
Giles " Here we go, Ready? "
The entire group says in unison "Ready"
Fade to black
Interior -Spikes lair - under ground dawn
The perspective is woozy and comes from a lying down, almost dream like, you see Harmony's human face, image is replaced by the correct vampire image as vision comes to focus. Harmony "You see! You see Ammie, this is why I'm here, why I can't go back"
(Looks to Ammie and Spike) Ammie: "Harmony, you, your face, Oh my god!" reaching out and then recoiling as she shuffles back as best she can
Harmony: "I can't go home, not like this " folding her arms tight
Dawn walks up, kneeling down helping her friend to her feet, while keeping an eye on Harmony.
Dawn: "Come on Ammie"
Harmony backs away, not baring see how she looks at her.
Ammie: "What, but how, why'd this happen?" eyes tearing
Harmony: (Crying and angry) "Why does anything happen, I don't know, the point is it did and that is why you have to leave."
Dawn: "She's right "
Ammie: "What do you know Dawn, you see me one 2 times at school and you know me? know my sister?"
Harmony: "She knows what I've become Ammie"
Dawn steps forward attempting to keep the two sisters from getting out of hand.
Ammie: "I know you Harmony" wiping her tear stained cheeks
Harmony: "You know what? You don't know shit, you don't know what it's like to she you mom and dad, and know, that I don't dare go near you."
(Ammie coldly stares at Harmony, and says nothing, Dawn steps up beside Ammie putting her hand)
Dawn "Ammie? You okay?"
Ammie shakes of the touch of her friends grasp, more angry than mad or scared
Ammie "How the hell do you think I am ".
(Harmony looks to Spike and expression of hurt and confusion on her face)
Spike "Well it could be worse"
(All 3 women look in unison at Spike)
Spike "Yeah that's right" he steps forward shrugging and obviously uncountable in this touchy feely moment. Dawn: (annoyed) "What? What are you talking about Spike?"
Harmony: "You don't, know what you are talking about Spike" dismissing spikes comment as inessential
Raise voice Spike: "I bloody well do and I'll tell you" Interrupted Ammie: "What do you have anything to do with this, with my sister?"
(Ammie sees Spike Harmony and Dawn get silent and they all experience an awkward moment of silence.) Dawn: "Ammie I think "
Ammie looks at Harmony, who as reverted to human guise, she looks at her sister.
Ammie: "Oh, oh! Him?"
Harmony does not answer, Ammie looks to Dawn who avoids the question, and Ammie scowls at Spike Harmony: "Ammie you don't understand, Spike he" looking for help.
Ammie (directed to spike) "You did this? You took my sister from me? you bastard"
She runs up to spike crying she repetitively hits spike in the chest with her hands, before falling to the floor sobbing.
Harmony walks up to her little sister, picking her up, attempting to calm her and herself down at the same time. Harmony: "Ammie"
Ammie: "Why Harmony, why did you let him?"
Harmony: "Ammie, Ammie it wasn't Spike, do you hear me?"
Ammie stops crying looking into the face that up to a few months ago was the closest person she had in her short life, no she did not know what or who she was looking at.
Dawn: "Listen to here Ammie"
Moment of silence, Ammie regains a slight bit of indifferent composure, looking to her sister.
Ammie: "Okay"
Harmony: The loser that did this is long gone, you think I would let anyone touch me that I didn't want to?
Ammie: "So, so what is he, is he like your boyfriend or what?"
Harmony looks to Spike, spike gesture that Harmony could take that one, as he lights a smoke
Harmony: "We, (pause) Were still working that out "
Spike: "As I said niblet, things aren't that bad, when you look at it."
Harmony looks to Spike and Dawn, Dawn in typical summer fashion began to scowl in a way that could peel paint. Ammie: "Wait if Spike, if he has something to say, then let me hear it."
Spike: "Right like I was saying things aren't all that bad"
Ammie: "Really and why, because from where I am standing it does"
Walking over and hopping up and taking a set upon a crypt next to the 3 women.
Spike: "First I mean you don't have to put no bleeding daises where they plant her, wondering when the bugs and maggots are going to get at her.
Ammie: " Great, thanks"
Spike: " Right now, I mean there's plenty a things worse that being one of the undead, I'll tell you" pointing at Ammie to make a point.
Dawn "Okay Spike" Hands on waist
Spike " What?"
Harmony "Ammie you have to promise me"
Ammie "What "
Harmony "You can't tell mom and dad, you also got to forget that you ever saw me, please you know that they wouldn't understand."
Ammie "I can't do that Harmony"
(Dawn and Spike exchange curious glances, Harmony looking to her sister.)
Harmony "Why?"
Ammie "I already lost you once, I'm not going to let that happen again.
Harmony "Haven't you heard anything I said, things have changed, I've changed"
Ammie " I know, I see that Harmony, but you're still my big sister Lamo"
Harmony: (surprised look on face) "What? You don't, you cant"
Ammie: "And nothings going to ever change that, do you hear me? I guess you're stuck with me Harm."
(Ammie turns around crying at a shocked Harmony, Spike and Dawn don't say anything)
Harmony " You, your such a freak Ammie, it's unreal"
Ammie "I'm a freak don't get me started, I mean with out me who's going to stop you from becoming a major fashion disaster?"
Harmony: (looking at her young sister) "Me?" Ammie: "Right, like Cornelia told you " A look is not made, its."
Ammie / Harmony: (in unison) "Its accessories" The two sisters laugh
Ammie: "I mean look at you, really that top with those pants, Harmony what were You thinking?"
Harmony "Right like you haven't been raiding my closet, the moment I was gone"
(The sisters embrace and walk off screen laughing)
Ammie "Please, your stuff is so last year, you need some serious shopping"
Harmony "Well I know this totally cute little boutique"
Ammie: "Yeah?"
Harmony: (To Ammie) "You know the best part?"
Ammie " What?"
Harmony "They're open late"
Ammie "Great I'm there, but, you're buying"
Harmony "Am not!"
Ammie "Are so Sis, like my allowance can afford to fix your look "
Harmony "You're so going to so get it "
(The 2 sisters walk out of the room laughing and giggling, leaving Dawn and Spike alone)
Dawn "Well, That was, different"
Spike " And what were your expecting Dawny, you in freaking Sunnydale of all places.
(Spike checks his watch; curses and jumps back down in the chair fiddling with the remote)
Dawn " Spike?" Dawn says walking up to him as the TV flickers on)
Spike "Shh! Passions is on, I missed this one last time your gang came busting in here."
(Dawn shakes her head, lays down on sleeping bag pouting,)
Spike "What now? You know I'm watching the Tele."
Dawn "Ammie ends up going shopping, Buffy's who know where, and I end up Stuck watching soap opera reruns with you." Spike: "Yeah, What of it?"
Dawn: Life really sucks!"
Spike "Well get used to it, and while your up, be a love and whip up some popcorn."
Stands there in utter disbelief. Dawn (under breath) " Xander when I get my hand on you, you're are so going to get it "
(Dawn stomps off toward the makeshift kitchen, clanging the pots and pans.)
Fade to Black
Setting: Set in the 5th season of Buffy the Vampire slayer, the story takes place between the 2nd and 3rd episode, all the characters exist with the exception that the Buffy / Dracula situation is unresolved. Spike & Riley are the only ones that know she has been bitten.
Situation: The story manly deals with a conflict between Xander & Harmony, and though Buffy is in the story, it is sort of a Scooby club episode
Interior -Spikes lair - under ground dawn
Voice muffled Ammie: "I knew you were okay, I just knew it, I told everyone you wouldn't just leave us."
(Harmony pulls away from embrace)
Ammie: "Mom and dad said you did, but I knew."
Dawn " Ammie!" she says getting up from the floor.
Spike " Dawn, giv'em a second."
Ammie "What's wrong? Harmony why."
Harmony "Ammie, I can't I can't do this"
Ammie " Do what?"
Harmony " This, I cant do this, not right now."
Spike: "You gotta tell her some time love"
Dawn "Spike" remorsefully
(Harmony and Dawn both give a scowl to Spike)
Ammie "Tell me what? What's wrong? Please Tell me, we can."
Interrupted
Harmony "What fix it? You cant no one can, just leave! please"
(Ammie embracing her sister, who flinches at the touch, Ammie steps back)
Ammie " Harmony? You're so cold, and you're all wet, you're going to get sick".
Spike "Not bloody likely" said with a smug reaction tossing a cigarette.
Dawn "Spike, your not helping " she gives him a stern look.
Spike "Well, excuse me if I find this all bleeding funny!
Ammie "We've been so worried sick Harmony, What are you doing here? With him"
Spike "Hey, I'm right here!"
Harmony (looks around frantic) "I, I have to go"
(Harmony brushes her sister away, retreating into the shadows away from the confronting closeness of her sister)
Ammie " You're leaving now? You can't just leave, why haven't you call?"
Harmony meets the terror filled eyes of her sister, but cant hold the gaze
Harmony: (looking away) "You, you shouldn't be here, it's not safe "
Ammie: "Was it me? Did you leave because of me, something I did?"
(Harmony retreats into the shadows away from the confronting closeness of her sister)
Harmony "It's, it's not you, thinks just, theve changed."
Ammie "Changed? Harmony tell me please, I'm still you're sister" Dawn: "We should leave"
Ammie: "Butt out dawn, Harmony's my sister, nothing can change that."
Harmony " I wouldn't be sure of that "
Dawn " Ammie, you have to give her a little time, " she touches Ammie's shoulder."
Ammie: "Time?"
Harmony " Leave Ammie, you never saw me, it's best " her voice cracks"
Ammie "Best? Best for whom, for you?"
Harmony "No, you don't understand"
Ammie "Understand, how can I you don't tell me what's wrong? Please, I trusted you."
(Ammie knocks away Dawns hand, approaching here sister.)
Harmony "That's why you have to go, you can't trust me, no one can, not ever!"
Voice raised and angry
Ammie "Trust? You just pick up and leave right Graduation, 3 months, And were just supposed to let you leave?"
Voice lowers
Harmony "Yes".
Dawn "Let her go, you don't know what she's been through Ammie".
Ammie "What? And you knew about this?
(Ammie Backs away from Dawn in disbelief, while Spike sits back in his chair watching the spat; more interested in it, then the television.)
Dawn "Not in the beginning, I just, I told you its complicated, she has her reasons Ammie."
Voice raised
Ammie " I don't believe you, you said you were my friend, I don't believe any of this "
(Ammie steps back angry and confused, looking from Dawn to Harmony)
Harmony "Same difference"
Ammie " How could you do this? I'm You're sister, your supposed to be there, watch out for me!"
Harmony "Not anymore, not like this, I'm dead do you hear me, dead!"
Ammie: " What? Harmony you're scarring me "
Harmony "Ammie do you really thing I can ever go home looking like this."
(Harmony lurches out of the shadows, her face morphing into the vampire image that she truly is; Dawn and Spike look away as Ammie recoils in horror.)
Ammie "Harmony " she screams fainting to the ground
Fade To Black
Exterior University Dorms Dawn Xander & Tara walk out side to ward a car, Suddenly a van with spray painted windows pulls to a stop, a sliding door opens and hands pull both inside. The van exits campus.
Xander " Hey, that's my shoulder okay, ease up all right?
Man driving "The Master wants to talk with you "
Xander "Alright alright, so where is he"
Man with roll of Tape "Relaxing, He's more of a night person."
Tara "Xander, Who are they talking about?"
Xander "Well, our favorite blood sucking count."
Thug "Have some respect!" (Smacks Xander)
Tara "I thought Buffy staked him"
The 2 thugs in the back of the van laugh, 1 puts duck tape over Tara's & Xanders mouth; the other holds a Taser, clicking it to see the spark.
Fade to Black
Interior-J and R factory- night Giles Riley Buffy and Willow stand next to a large door in and abandoned warehouse debating a course of action.
Giles " Well, if she is involved we should check out some of her haunts"
Riley " She could be trying to using Xander to Get at Buffy"
Buffy "But it is not her style "
(Makes a sniffing action and reacts to bad odor.)
Willow " Buffy? What is it?"
(Buffy puts her hand to nose, Giles and Riley attempts to smell, willow looks around.)
Buffy " I don't know, but it is coming from there " Pointing to a metal door."
Riley " I'll open it, but everyone be careful" stepping to the side at the ready."
Giles " Here we go, Ready? "
The entire group says in unison "Ready"
Fade to black
Interior -Spikes lair - under ground dawn
The perspective is woozy and comes from a lying down, almost dream like, you see Harmony's human face, image is replaced by the correct vampire image as vision comes to focus. Harmony "You see! You see Ammie, this is why I'm here, why I can't go back"
(Looks to Ammie and Spike) Ammie: "Harmony, you, your face, Oh my god!" reaching out and then recoiling as she shuffles back as best she can
Harmony: "I can't go home, not like this " folding her arms tight
Dawn walks up, kneeling down helping her friend to her feet, while keeping an eye on Harmony.
Dawn: "Come on Ammie"
Harmony backs away, not baring see how she looks at her.
Ammie: "What, but how, why'd this happen?" eyes tearing
Harmony: (Crying and angry) "Why does anything happen, I don't know, the point is it did and that is why you have to leave."
Dawn: "She's right "
Ammie: "What do you know Dawn, you see me one 2 times at school and you know me? know my sister?"
Harmony: "She knows what I've become Ammie"
Dawn steps forward attempting to keep the two sisters from getting out of hand.
Ammie: "I know you Harmony" wiping her tear stained cheeks
Harmony: "You know what? You don't know shit, you don't know what it's like to she you mom and dad, and know, that I don't dare go near you."
(Ammie coldly stares at Harmony, and says nothing, Dawn steps up beside Ammie putting her hand)
Dawn "Ammie? You okay?"
Ammie shakes of the touch of her friends grasp, more angry than mad or scared
Ammie "How the hell do you think I am ".
(Harmony looks to Spike and expression of hurt and confusion on her face)
Spike "Well it could be worse"
(All 3 women look in unison at Spike)
Spike "Yeah that's right" he steps forward shrugging and obviously uncountable in this touchy feely moment. Dawn: (annoyed) "What? What are you talking about Spike?"
Harmony: "You don't, know what you are talking about Spike" dismissing spikes comment as inessential
Raise voice Spike: "I bloody well do and I'll tell you" Interrupted Ammie: "What do you have anything to do with this, with my sister?"
(Ammie sees Spike Harmony and Dawn get silent and they all experience an awkward moment of silence.) Dawn: "Ammie I think "
Ammie looks at Harmony, who as reverted to human guise, she looks at her sister.
Ammie: "Oh, oh! Him?"
Harmony does not answer, Ammie looks to Dawn who avoids the question, and Ammie scowls at Spike Harmony: "Ammie you don't understand, Spike he" looking for help.
Ammie (directed to spike) "You did this? You took my sister from me? you bastard"
She runs up to spike crying she repetitively hits spike in the chest with her hands, before falling to the floor sobbing.
Harmony walks up to her little sister, picking her up, attempting to calm her and herself down at the same time. Harmony: "Ammie"
Ammie: "Why Harmony, why did you let him?"
Harmony: "Ammie, Ammie it wasn't Spike, do you hear me?"
Ammie stops crying looking into the face that up to a few months ago was the closest person she had in her short life, no she did not know what or who she was looking at.
Dawn: "Listen to here Ammie"
Moment of silence, Ammie regains a slight bit of indifferent composure, looking to her sister.
Ammie: "Okay"
Harmony: The loser that did this is long gone, you think I would let anyone touch me that I didn't want to?
Ammie: "So, so what is he, is he like your boyfriend or what?"
Harmony looks to Spike, spike gesture that Harmony could take that one, as he lights a smoke
Harmony: "We, (pause) Were still working that out "
Spike: "As I said niblet, things aren't that bad, when you look at it."
Harmony looks to Spike and Dawn, Dawn in typical summer fashion began to scowl in a way that could peel paint. Ammie: "Wait if Spike, if he has something to say, then let me hear it."
Spike: "Right like I was saying things aren't all that bad"
Ammie: "Really and why, because from where I am standing it does"
Walking over and hopping up and taking a set upon a crypt next to the 3 women.
Spike: "First I mean you don't have to put no bleeding daises where they plant her, wondering when the bugs and maggots are going to get at her.
Ammie: " Great, thanks"
Spike: " Right now, I mean there's plenty a things worse that being one of the undead, I'll tell you" pointing at Ammie to make a point.
Dawn "Okay Spike" Hands on waist
Spike " What?"
Harmony "Ammie you have to promise me"
Ammie "What "
Harmony "You can't tell mom and dad, you also got to forget that you ever saw me, please you know that they wouldn't understand."
Ammie "I can't do that Harmony"
(Dawn and Spike exchange curious glances, Harmony looking to her sister.)
Harmony "Why?"
Ammie "I already lost you once, I'm not going to let that happen again.
Harmony "Haven't you heard anything I said, things have changed, I've changed"
Ammie " I know, I see that Harmony, but you're still my big sister Lamo"
Harmony: (surprised look on face) "What? You don't, you cant"
Ammie: "And nothings going to ever change that, do you hear me? I guess you're stuck with me Harm."
(Ammie turns around crying at a shocked Harmony, Spike and Dawn don't say anything)
Harmony " You, your such a freak Ammie, it's unreal"
Ammie "I'm a freak don't get me started, I mean with out me who's going to stop you from becoming a major fashion disaster?"
Harmony: (looking at her young sister) "Me?" Ammie: "Right, like Cornelia told you " A look is not made, its."
Ammie / Harmony: (in unison) "Its accessories" The two sisters laugh
Ammie: "I mean look at you, really that top with those pants, Harmony what were You thinking?"
Harmony "Right like you haven't been raiding my closet, the moment I was gone"
(The sisters embrace and walk off screen laughing)
Ammie "Please, your stuff is so last year, you need some serious shopping"
Harmony "Well I know this totally cute little boutique"
Ammie: "Yeah?"
Harmony: (To Ammie) "You know the best part?"
Ammie " What?"
Harmony "They're open late"
Ammie "Great I'm there, but, you're buying"
Harmony "Am not!"
Ammie "Are so Sis, like my allowance can afford to fix your look "
Harmony "You're so going to so get it "
(The 2 sisters walk out of the room laughing and giggling, leaving Dawn and Spike alone)
Dawn "Well, That was, different"
Spike " And what were your expecting Dawny, you in freaking Sunnydale of all places.
(Spike checks his watch; curses and jumps back down in the chair fiddling with the remote)
Dawn " Spike?" Dawn says walking up to him as the TV flickers on)
Spike "Shh! Passions is on, I missed this one last time your gang came busting in here."
(Dawn shakes her head, lays down on sleeping bag pouting,)
Spike "What now? You know I'm watching the Tele."
Dawn "Ammie ends up going shopping, Buffy's who know where, and I end up Stuck watching soap opera reruns with you." Spike: "Yeah, What of it?"
Dawn: Life really sucks!"
Spike "Well get used to it, and while your up, be a love and whip up some popcorn."
Stands there in utter disbelief. Dawn (under breath) " Xander when I get my hand on you, you're are so going to get it "
(Dawn stomps off toward the makeshift kitchen, clanging the pots and pans.)
Fade to Black