Previously In The Seed Of Good & Evil
Buffy: (Buffy looks at Dawn's neck and sees a blinking red light under her skin.) Red, blinking, light, thing?
Dawn: You're all worried that something's going to happen to me. Well, I'm not going to break or explode or do something crazy. I feel fine; I don't care about this stupid thing in my neck.
(Dawn takes out a butcher knife and smiles at her reflection in the knife.) This should work just fine. (She smiles to herself.)
Buffy: I'm trying to save my sister.
Spike: Well you should be trying to save yourself or better yet, me.
Harm: Idiot, I was going to give you another chance. Well Spiky, I'm going to love staking you.
Spike: This was fate. We were meant to be together.
Buffy: We made a mistake one night Spike. Don't confuse that with fate.
Spike: So act like it's a mistake and the worst thing in the entire bloody world, but know this Buffy, you couldn't be more wrong.
Buffy: You, you!
Spike: Me, what? (Buffy kisses Spike passionately.)
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The Seed Of Good & Evil Chapter 8
(Scene 1: It's the middle of the night. Dawn sits up in her bed. She feels under her pillow and reveals her butcher knife. She walks down the stairs and then down into the basement. She shuffles near Spike's bed. Lifting the knife above her head she begins to descend the knife on the body when Buffy pulls the covers from her face and begins opening her eyes.)
Buffy: Spike?
Dawn: Buffy? (Dawn drops her knife.) You're not Spike.
Buffy: Neither are you.
Dawn: Where is Spike?
Buffy: He's upstairs. (Buffy pulls the covers closer to herself.) You didn't see him?
Dawn: No. (Dawn looks down.)
Buffy: I heard something. I think you dropped your. (Buffy looks on the ground at the knife.) Butcher knife? Dawn, what's the knife for?
Dawn: I, I don't know. Why am I down here? What am I doing here? !
Buffy: Calm down OK.
Dawn: (Dawn starts crying, she picks up the knife.) What am I doing with this Buffy? (Dawn holds up the knife.)
Buffy: OK, I'll tell you what you're doing; you're giving that to me because honestly it's making me a little nervous. (Dawn passes Buffy the knife.) Good, good. (Buffy puts the knife beside her.) Do you remember at all what you were planning to do?
Dawn: No, what's happening to me?
Buffy: I don't know yet, but I'll find out, OK. (Buffy hugs Dawn.)
Dawn: OK. (Spike is walking down the basement stairs.)
Spike: I found your flavor, which I had to go out for, I might add, but here you go. Double scooped Rocky, (Spike sees Buffy and Dawn hugging.) Whoa, what's the bit doing awake? (Dawn and Buffy let go of each other.)
Buffy: It's going to be OK Dawn.
Dawn: I know. (Dawn wipes her eyes.)
Spike: So who died? (Dawn and Buffy look up at Spike. Spike looks behind him and then back at Dawn and Buffy.) Oh, right, very funny.
(Scene 2: At the Magic Box. Buffy, Willow, Xander and Anya are looking at some books to put a name to the sewer demon.)
Buffy: And that's when it happened. Dawn was standing over me attempting to do God knows what with the largest butcher knife we own.
Willow: Are you sure it wasn't a really big butter knife? I mean those are practically harmless, well unless your butter.
Buffy: I wouldn't be freaking out over a butter knife Will. I'm worried that something is going to happen to her or to us before I can find out where this slime demon is hiding.
Willow: You can't believe that Dawn wanted to hurt you Buffy. She would never.
Buffy: I don't, I just get a little edgy finding a decapitator next to my bed in the mourning.
Xander: As we all, but this still doesn't make sense.
Willow: Actually it does. The demon must have programmed the chip to hurt people or maybe this was more like a sleep walking episode.
Xander: No not that. Wouldn't Spike have known if Buffy was in danger? I mean sharp knife, controlled Dawn, he should have had some idea, but he came back with the Rocky Road absolutely clueless. Even when you were attacked by that vamp Dawn staked he knew something was happening, so why did he draw a blank this time?
Buffy: Good question. Will, answer?
Will: Nothing so far.
Anya: Isn't it obvious?
Xander: Um, no.
Anya: Maybe Buffy wasn't actually in danger. Dawn came to Spike's bedside. She had no intent to hurt Buffy only Spike, in which case would be why he didn't sense anything. Dawn obviously has repressed aggression against Spike, which, no offense, but I can't blame her. He was a bloodsucking maniac.
Buffy: Yes, and revenge demons were perfect little angels.
Anya: No, but we are alive when we're alive and dead when were dead.
Xander: OK, lets retract the claws shall we. Anya, no matter how she puts it, is right Buffy.
Anya: Of course I am. It's the only logical answer.
Willow: This is not good. If Dawn keeps doing this. . . .
Buffy: The next time we go to sleep could be our last. (Buffy looks down.)
Anya: Boy, am I glad Xander and I live on the other side of town. (Anya smiles.) But this is not such a good thing for you guys. (Anya looks at Xander.) Was that insensitive or bad timing?
Xander/Buffy/Willow: Both.
Anya: Oh.
Xander: Zipper lips An. (Anya acts like she's zipping up her lips.) So what are we going to do?
Buffy: The only thing we can do. Identify this creep. Get that chip out of Dawn's head and kill the demon hopefully before he hurts any one of us.
Anya: Well duh. (Everyone looks at Anya.) I think what Xander was asking was what do we do with serial Dawn. Don't get me wrong I've become rather fond of her, but I could do without her chopping me into little bits. Right Xander? Xander?
Xander: Take my silence however you'd like to.
Anya: See he agrees with me. (Anya smiles and looks back down at her book. Willow and Buffy walk over to one of the bookshelves.)
Willow: Did my ears deceive me or was that real?
Buffy: I know, Xander totally doesn't agree with Anya.
Willow: Not that. You defended Spike's bad name to Anya. That's very un- Buffy like. Especially considering less than a week ago you were all anti- Spike yourself. What happened?
Buffy: It's a long story, involves a very persuasive speech though.
Willow: Oh.
Buffy: Yeah, believe it or not he convinced me that denying him and Jade was wrong?
Willow: Jade?
Buffy: Yeah it's a name I'm trying out for baby, is it stupid?
Willow: No, very cool actually, I like it. Jade. (Willow smiles.)
Buffy: Yeah, anyway I figure that I have to trust Spike eventually, so why not now.
(Scene 3: Spike goes to his lair and finds Harmony inside.)
Spike: Harm.
Harm: What are you doing here?
Spike: I live here. Wait that didn't come out right.
Harm: Yeah, well where's your stuff?
Spike: It's, well it's.
Harm: GET OUT SPIKE!
Spike: Did I do something wrong?
Harm: Yes, you did something very, very wrong and stupid I might add. You left me, tab and all, at the Bronze last night. I don't get dumped Spike, because when I get dumped, I get angry, and when I get angry, I get even. (Harmony holds up a stake she had behind her back.)
Spike: What do you think you're doing with that?
Harm: It's called revenge Spiky. One ripped out heart for another.
Spike: I don't want to have to kill you (Spike thinks about what he said.). . .again.
Harm: Ironic because that's the only way to keep yourself living. . . . dead.
Spike: OK, Harm I'll stop the dead dialogue if you will.
Harm: Deal.
Spike: All right then. (It gets quiet.) Aren't you supposed to try to, you know?
Harm: Oh, right I was preparing for the right moment. Which is now, so watch out. (Harmony walks up to Spike. Spike grabs her arm in midair and twists it back causing Harmony to drop the stake. He lets go of her.) Ow, ow. Did you have to twist it back so far?
Spike: What's this whole stake me thing really about Harm, and don't lie because your bloody horrible at it. What are you up to?
Harmony: Nothing. . . . (Spike gives her a look.) That I would tell you about. I thought I could trust you, but I was wrong.
Spike: How about this? You don't stake me or attempt to, although it is worth a good laugh, (Harmony pouts.) and I'll let you borrow the place.
Harmony: No, how about you let me have the place and I'll try not to kill Buffy. (Harmony laughs she turns away from Spike. Spike picks up the stake, grabs Harmony into a headlock and holds the stake over her heart.)
Spike: Touch a hair on her head and you'll be dust.
Harmony: What is wrong with you? You use to try to kill her all the time.
Spike: That was before.
Harmony: Before what? (Spike lets go of Harmony.)
Spike: Before I fell in love with her, that's what.
Harmony: And you think I'm pathetic.
Spike: What's that supposed to mean?
Harmony: Don't you see what she's doing to you? You're the joke of the underworld Spiky, the pet vampire to the slayer. They say she has you house broken.
Spike: I'm nobody's pet! (Spike morphs his face into a vampire.) I'm wild.
Harmony: You were pre-Buffy, but now. (Spike slams Harmony against the rock wall. A few rocks crumble off the wall.)
Spike: Now nothing Harm. I'm still wild, got that?
Harmony: Prove it. Help me. (Harmony caresses the side of Spike's face.)
(Scene 4: Dawn is at the house with Tara. They're in the living room.)
Dawn: Buffy looked so afraid. She thought I was going to stab her, but I would never do that Tara, I love Buffy, but.
Tara: But something is happening that's out of your control and Buffy knows that.
Dawn: It's the weirdest feeling. I get all hot inside like I need something to cool me down and then I black out and I end up in places doing things that I don't understand. I'm so afraid. I thought I was OK, but I'm not.
Tara: Don't worry, they'll figure out a way to stop it. (Tara hugs Dawn. You can see a little sweat on Dawn's forehead.) OK, long hug, that's good. (Dawn hugs Tara tight and mischievously smiles to herself.) Dawn, I can't breathe! Dawn? (Tara starts gasping for air.) DAWN!
(Scene 5: Everyone is still at the Magic Box.)
Willow: Oh, I think I found our demon. Hiploid Mon Callous demon. He is really powerful, Buffy.
Buffy: Then why is he making my little sister do all his dirty work?
Willow: I don't know, but the real question is why he hasn't attempted before. Unless he's been planning something all this time.
Anya: Or maybe he's been waiting.
Buffy: Waiting?
Anya: Sure. From what I've read about your baby Buffy there are going to be a lot of demons waiting for it. Some are going to want to kill it, most likely this Hiploid Mon demon guy. He's using Dawn to get close to your vampire spawn.
Buffy: Well that's never going to happen and her name is Jade. Besides I can't let him use my sister or hurt anyone else I care about. I can't and I won't.
Anya: Easier said then done. (The phone rings, Anya picks it up.)
Xander: Don't worry Buff we'll find this thing.
Buffy: Yeah, but what if we don't find it in time? (Buffy looks down. Anya walks over to them.)
Anya: We all have to go now.
Willow: What is it Anya?
Anya: That was Dawn. Tara is in the hospital.
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Buffy: (Buffy looks at Dawn's neck and sees a blinking red light under her skin.) Red, blinking, light, thing?
Dawn: You're all worried that something's going to happen to me. Well, I'm not going to break or explode or do something crazy. I feel fine; I don't care about this stupid thing in my neck.
(Dawn takes out a butcher knife and smiles at her reflection in the knife.) This should work just fine. (She smiles to herself.)
Buffy: I'm trying to save my sister.
Spike: Well you should be trying to save yourself or better yet, me.
Harm: Idiot, I was going to give you another chance. Well Spiky, I'm going to love staking you.
Spike: This was fate. We were meant to be together.
Buffy: We made a mistake one night Spike. Don't confuse that with fate.
Spike: So act like it's a mistake and the worst thing in the entire bloody world, but know this Buffy, you couldn't be more wrong.
Buffy: You, you!
Spike: Me, what? (Buffy kisses Spike passionately.)
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The Seed Of Good & Evil Chapter 8
(Scene 1: It's the middle of the night. Dawn sits up in her bed. She feels under her pillow and reveals her butcher knife. She walks down the stairs and then down into the basement. She shuffles near Spike's bed. Lifting the knife above her head she begins to descend the knife on the body when Buffy pulls the covers from her face and begins opening her eyes.)
Buffy: Spike?
Dawn: Buffy? (Dawn drops her knife.) You're not Spike.
Buffy: Neither are you.
Dawn: Where is Spike?
Buffy: He's upstairs. (Buffy pulls the covers closer to herself.) You didn't see him?
Dawn: No. (Dawn looks down.)
Buffy: I heard something. I think you dropped your. (Buffy looks on the ground at the knife.) Butcher knife? Dawn, what's the knife for?
Dawn: I, I don't know. Why am I down here? What am I doing here? !
Buffy: Calm down OK.
Dawn: (Dawn starts crying, she picks up the knife.) What am I doing with this Buffy? (Dawn holds up the knife.)
Buffy: OK, I'll tell you what you're doing; you're giving that to me because honestly it's making me a little nervous. (Dawn passes Buffy the knife.) Good, good. (Buffy puts the knife beside her.) Do you remember at all what you were planning to do?
Dawn: No, what's happening to me?
Buffy: I don't know yet, but I'll find out, OK. (Buffy hugs Dawn.)
Dawn: OK. (Spike is walking down the basement stairs.)
Spike: I found your flavor, which I had to go out for, I might add, but here you go. Double scooped Rocky, (Spike sees Buffy and Dawn hugging.) Whoa, what's the bit doing awake? (Dawn and Buffy let go of each other.)
Buffy: It's going to be OK Dawn.
Dawn: I know. (Dawn wipes her eyes.)
Spike: So who died? (Dawn and Buffy look up at Spike. Spike looks behind him and then back at Dawn and Buffy.) Oh, right, very funny.
(Scene 2: At the Magic Box. Buffy, Willow, Xander and Anya are looking at some books to put a name to the sewer demon.)
Buffy: And that's when it happened. Dawn was standing over me attempting to do God knows what with the largest butcher knife we own.
Willow: Are you sure it wasn't a really big butter knife? I mean those are practically harmless, well unless your butter.
Buffy: I wouldn't be freaking out over a butter knife Will. I'm worried that something is going to happen to her or to us before I can find out where this slime demon is hiding.
Willow: You can't believe that Dawn wanted to hurt you Buffy. She would never.
Buffy: I don't, I just get a little edgy finding a decapitator next to my bed in the mourning.
Xander: As we all, but this still doesn't make sense.
Willow: Actually it does. The demon must have programmed the chip to hurt people or maybe this was more like a sleep walking episode.
Xander: No not that. Wouldn't Spike have known if Buffy was in danger? I mean sharp knife, controlled Dawn, he should have had some idea, but he came back with the Rocky Road absolutely clueless. Even when you were attacked by that vamp Dawn staked he knew something was happening, so why did he draw a blank this time?
Buffy: Good question. Will, answer?
Will: Nothing so far.
Anya: Isn't it obvious?
Xander: Um, no.
Anya: Maybe Buffy wasn't actually in danger. Dawn came to Spike's bedside. She had no intent to hurt Buffy only Spike, in which case would be why he didn't sense anything. Dawn obviously has repressed aggression against Spike, which, no offense, but I can't blame her. He was a bloodsucking maniac.
Buffy: Yes, and revenge demons were perfect little angels.
Anya: No, but we are alive when we're alive and dead when were dead.
Xander: OK, lets retract the claws shall we. Anya, no matter how she puts it, is right Buffy.
Anya: Of course I am. It's the only logical answer.
Willow: This is not good. If Dawn keeps doing this. . . .
Buffy: The next time we go to sleep could be our last. (Buffy looks down.)
Anya: Boy, am I glad Xander and I live on the other side of town. (Anya smiles.) But this is not such a good thing for you guys. (Anya looks at Xander.) Was that insensitive or bad timing?
Xander/Buffy/Willow: Both.
Anya: Oh.
Xander: Zipper lips An. (Anya acts like she's zipping up her lips.) So what are we going to do?
Buffy: The only thing we can do. Identify this creep. Get that chip out of Dawn's head and kill the demon hopefully before he hurts any one of us.
Anya: Well duh. (Everyone looks at Anya.) I think what Xander was asking was what do we do with serial Dawn. Don't get me wrong I've become rather fond of her, but I could do without her chopping me into little bits. Right Xander? Xander?
Xander: Take my silence however you'd like to.
Anya: See he agrees with me. (Anya smiles and looks back down at her book. Willow and Buffy walk over to one of the bookshelves.)
Willow: Did my ears deceive me or was that real?
Buffy: I know, Xander totally doesn't agree with Anya.
Willow: Not that. You defended Spike's bad name to Anya. That's very un- Buffy like. Especially considering less than a week ago you were all anti- Spike yourself. What happened?
Buffy: It's a long story, involves a very persuasive speech though.
Willow: Oh.
Buffy: Yeah, believe it or not he convinced me that denying him and Jade was wrong?
Willow: Jade?
Buffy: Yeah it's a name I'm trying out for baby, is it stupid?
Willow: No, very cool actually, I like it. Jade. (Willow smiles.)
Buffy: Yeah, anyway I figure that I have to trust Spike eventually, so why not now.
(Scene 3: Spike goes to his lair and finds Harmony inside.)
Spike: Harm.
Harm: What are you doing here?
Spike: I live here. Wait that didn't come out right.
Harm: Yeah, well where's your stuff?
Spike: It's, well it's.
Harm: GET OUT SPIKE!
Spike: Did I do something wrong?
Harm: Yes, you did something very, very wrong and stupid I might add. You left me, tab and all, at the Bronze last night. I don't get dumped Spike, because when I get dumped, I get angry, and when I get angry, I get even. (Harmony holds up a stake she had behind her back.)
Spike: What do you think you're doing with that?
Harm: It's called revenge Spiky. One ripped out heart for another.
Spike: I don't want to have to kill you (Spike thinks about what he said.). . .again.
Harm: Ironic because that's the only way to keep yourself living. . . . dead.
Spike: OK, Harm I'll stop the dead dialogue if you will.
Harm: Deal.
Spike: All right then. (It gets quiet.) Aren't you supposed to try to, you know?
Harm: Oh, right I was preparing for the right moment. Which is now, so watch out. (Harmony walks up to Spike. Spike grabs her arm in midair and twists it back causing Harmony to drop the stake. He lets go of her.) Ow, ow. Did you have to twist it back so far?
Spike: What's this whole stake me thing really about Harm, and don't lie because your bloody horrible at it. What are you up to?
Harmony: Nothing. . . . (Spike gives her a look.) That I would tell you about. I thought I could trust you, but I was wrong.
Spike: How about this? You don't stake me or attempt to, although it is worth a good laugh, (Harmony pouts.) and I'll let you borrow the place.
Harmony: No, how about you let me have the place and I'll try not to kill Buffy. (Harmony laughs she turns away from Spike. Spike picks up the stake, grabs Harmony into a headlock and holds the stake over her heart.)
Spike: Touch a hair on her head and you'll be dust.
Harmony: What is wrong with you? You use to try to kill her all the time.
Spike: That was before.
Harmony: Before what? (Spike lets go of Harmony.)
Spike: Before I fell in love with her, that's what.
Harmony: And you think I'm pathetic.
Spike: What's that supposed to mean?
Harmony: Don't you see what she's doing to you? You're the joke of the underworld Spiky, the pet vampire to the slayer. They say she has you house broken.
Spike: I'm nobody's pet! (Spike morphs his face into a vampire.) I'm wild.
Harmony: You were pre-Buffy, but now. (Spike slams Harmony against the rock wall. A few rocks crumble off the wall.)
Spike: Now nothing Harm. I'm still wild, got that?
Harmony: Prove it. Help me. (Harmony caresses the side of Spike's face.)
(Scene 4: Dawn is at the house with Tara. They're in the living room.)
Dawn: Buffy looked so afraid. She thought I was going to stab her, but I would never do that Tara, I love Buffy, but.
Tara: But something is happening that's out of your control and Buffy knows that.
Dawn: It's the weirdest feeling. I get all hot inside like I need something to cool me down and then I black out and I end up in places doing things that I don't understand. I'm so afraid. I thought I was OK, but I'm not.
Tara: Don't worry, they'll figure out a way to stop it. (Tara hugs Dawn. You can see a little sweat on Dawn's forehead.) OK, long hug, that's good. (Dawn hugs Tara tight and mischievously smiles to herself.) Dawn, I can't breathe! Dawn? (Tara starts gasping for air.) DAWN!
(Scene 5: Everyone is still at the Magic Box.)
Willow: Oh, I think I found our demon. Hiploid Mon Callous demon. He is really powerful, Buffy.
Buffy: Then why is he making my little sister do all his dirty work?
Willow: I don't know, but the real question is why he hasn't attempted before. Unless he's been planning something all this time.
Anya: Or maybe he's been waiting.
Buffy: Waiting?
Anya: Sure. From what I've read about your baby Buffy there are going to be a lot of demons waiting for it. Some are going to want to kill it, most likely this Hiploid Mon demon guy. He's using Dawn to get close to your vampire spawn.
Buffy: Well that's never going to happen and her name is Jade. Besides I can't let him use my sister or hurt anyone else I care about. I can't and I won't.
Anya: Easier said then done. (The phone rings, Anya picks it up.)
Xander: Don't worry Buff we'll find this thing.
Buffy: Yeah, but what if we don't find it in time? (Buffy looks down. Anya walks over to them.)
Anya: We all have to go now.
Willow: What is it Anya?
Anya: That was Dawn. Tara is in the hospital.
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