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The Seed Of Good & Evil Chapter 14
(Scene 1: It's mourning. Buffy is in her bed. She can feel some one is in the room with her. She opens her eyes.)
Buffy: Please leave.
Giles: I'm afraid I can't do that. (She turns around.)
Buffy: Giles? (Giles walks over to Buffy's bed and they hug.) What are you doing here?
Giles: I'm here. . . for you.
Buffy: I'm sorry that I, well let's just say that wasn't exactly the warmest welcome I've ever given.
Giles: It's quite all right. I spoke to Willow and Tara. They told me a few things.
Buffy: Things, as in Jade?
Giles: Yes, your prior condition came up.
Buffy: Giles, I was going to tell you, eventually. It's just that, well I didn't have a long distance service, and you'd think I would after they've bugged me half to death. I just still couldn't bring myself to agree on the rates and are you buying any of this?
Giles: Not really, no.
Buffy: Ok, well then I guess I should tell you the truth.
Giles: Yes, you really should.
Buffy: I had a speech prepared for this very moment. It had superb dialogue and your lines mostly consisted of, that's great Buffy. Doesn't sound very Giles or British-like, but it was perfect in my head. Very flowing, and very unrealistic, but it was worth a shot. You know I still haven't seen her.
Giles: Seen her? (Giles realizes Buffy doesn't know about Jade.)
Buffy: All the medicines had me to out of it. Have you gone by the nursery?
Giles: No, Buffy, I haven't.
Buffy: Is there something wrong with her? I know that her heart beats a little lacking. (Giles looks down.) But it totally comes back and she's perfectly healthy again.
Giles: Buffy, I, I don't know how to tell you this. (Giles takes off his glasses and starts cleaning them.)
Buffy: How about you stop stalling, that always helps.
Giles: I'm not stalling. I'm cleaning my specs.
Buffy: Same difference. (Giles puts his glasses back on.) You know when I was asleep I, I heard her crying. I wanted to take her but I was so tired.
Giles: Buffy, do you know what happened to you?
Buffy: Derek did something to me, but I'm here so everything must be OK, right?
Giles: Buffy, you were in an accident.(Buffy looks confused.) Derek didn't make it and Jade, she. . . Buffy, Jade is dead. (Buffy looks up at Giles.)
Buffy: Dead, oh. (She looks out of the window. Giles puts his hand over top of hers and looks down.)
(Scene 2: Dawn is looking out of the window at the house. Willow comes into the living room.)
Dawn: Xander and Anya are here.
Willow: OK. (Willow opens the door. Xander and Anya walk in. Willow shuts the door and they walk into the living room.)
Xander: Shouldn't we be at the hospital?
Willow: No, Giles wants some personal alone time with Buffy.
Xander: Oh. So how's she handling the whole Jade thing?
Willow: I wouldn't know.
Xander: What, why not?
Willow: Be, because maybe I didn't exactly tell Buffy about the whole Jade thing, technically speaking.
Xander: You didn't tell her?
Willow: I THOUGHT YOU were going to tell her!
Xander: Says who?
Willow: Well, that little voice inside of me that paralyzed me when I saw Buffy, for one. It convinced me to let you do it. (Everyone gets quiet.) Look at how fidgety we get when we mention Jade, imagine how Buffy's going to feel.
Xander: This is going to be really tough on her.
Anya: I assume that means lots of tears, junk food, daytime television and tissues. We've stocked up, right?
Willow: I think we should be extra sensitive about what we say around Buffy. (Willow looks at Anya.)
Anya: You know, you could have been a little less evident when you looked at me. I have never said anything to hurt or offend Buffy.
Xander: Is that you're final answer?
Anya: What's that suppose to mean?
Xander: Nothing. Willow why don't you give us some rules, major dos and don'ts.
Willow: Well, don't mention Jade or baby. I mean don't act like nothing ever happened just go as Buffy goes. If she wants to talk to you about Jade then you talk, but no opening of discussion about anything like that. We have to be her shoulders, and we have to make this as easy as possible on her. Coming to grips with Jade's death is going be very hard.
Anya: So basically we all should just gawk at her until our stares make her terribly uncomfortable. At that point she will most likely crack under the pressure and talk about the things we all want to know, even if it's to difficult for her. Yes, we should all do that because that is a level of compassion only we can give.
Willow: Was that supposed to be sarcastic?
Anya: Sarcastic? If that were sarcastic I would have compared those rules and sensitivity, which are more oxymoron than anything else. That would have made it sarcastic or verbal irony. No, Willow what I said was simply the truth.
Xander: Don't jump men, this one's taken. She's all mine. (Xander starts laughing a little, but he notices he is the only one laughing and stops.) Tough crowd.
Anya: We're not tough honey, that just wasn't that funny, but it's good you tried. Points for effort. (Anya smiles and puts her arm around him.)
(Scene 3: Later on that night. Spike is in the Bronze drinking. He looks over at two vampires that are talking.)
Vampire 1: Did you hear about the slayer?
Vampire 2: Everyone has. Hiploid finished her off good. Phase two will be even better. (Spike gets up and walks over.)
Spike: You. Get up.
Vampire 1: What?
Spike: What are you deaf, GET UP! (Spike grabs the vampire by his shirt and yanks him up.) What do you know about the Hiploid demon?
Vampire 2: He doesn't know anything!
Spike: Really. (Spike grabs his arm.) Would he know anything if I twisted his arm back and snapped it off? Here, maybe I should see.
Vampire 1: Wait, I know something.
Spike: That's right, be a good boy and cooperate. Save your self a limb or two.
Vampire 1: The Hiploid demon will bring salvation to all of us. He has a weapon to destroy good. One so powerful, that nothing will be able to stop it.
Spike: Weapon. You don't say. (Spike throws the vampire back down. He takes a chair from one of the tables, turns it backward and sits down.) Well now, tell me more about this weapon. (The other vampires look at each other.)
(Scene 4: Harmony is in the warehouse with Jade. The Hiploid demon comes in.)
Hiploid demon: How is she?
Harmony: She's been a perfect little angel. (The Hiploid demon looks at her.) Devil, I totally meant devil.
Hiploid demon: Good. Has she shown any signs of her power?
Harmony: Not as of late. Well unless you count that huge spit bubble she made after she got her bottle. It was really big. (Harmony smiles.)
Hiploid demon: This is not the plan. She should be doing evil by now.
Harmony: She's only a couple of days old. She can't even lift her own head let a lone decapitate someone else's. Not yet I mean.
Hiploid demon: Majesty will not be please.
Harmony: Um, who's Majesty?
Hiploid demon: That's none of your concern. Record any progress that the weapon makes. I need to find a body. (The Hiploid demon leaves.)
Harmony: OK. (Harmony looks at Jade.) What is that smell? (Jade smiles a little.) You, well if that's not an evil deed I don't know what is.
(Scene 5: Buffy is in her hospital room watching television. Willow comes in.)
Willow: Hey, can I come in? (Buffy doesn't say anything. Willow walks over to her.) So anything good on?
Buffy: No. (Buffy clicks off the television.)
Willow: Actually I'm glad because this gives us time to talk. (Buffy is quiet. She looks around.) Or it gives me time to talk to myself. So, how have you been, OK?
Buffy: Giles is back. I'm glad he's back. I need to move on and having my watcher doesn't hurt. As soon as I can I'm going to patrol.
Willow: Buffy, maybe you should hold off on that. Just until you have enough time to heal, emotionally and physically.
Buffy: I'm fine on both counts.
Willow: Buffy, but what about, well I shouldn't say this. It's sort of breaking all of my rules but, what about?
Buffy: Jade?
Willow: Yeah.
Buffy: Jade was a mistake. She wasn't supposed to happen so in the end she didn't. Fate has a way of catching up to you like that. She's gone. It's better that way.
Willow: How can you. .
Buffy: WILL! It's better this way. (The room gets quiet)
Willow: Buffy, I don't think.. . (Buffy turns back on the television and starts laughing.)
Buffy: Friends, I love this show. It's so funny.
Willow: Yeah. (Willow looks at Buffy with sympathy.) Yeah it is. (She looks down.)
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The Seed Of Good & Evil Chapter 14
(Scene 1: It's mourning. Buffy is in her bed. She can feel some one is in the room with her. She opens her eyes.)
Buffy: Please leave.
Giles: I'm afraid I can't do that. (She turns around.)
Buffy: Giles? (Giles walks over to Buffy's bed and they hug.) What are you doing here?
Giles: I'm here. . . for you.
Buffy: I'm sorry that I, well let's just say that wasn't exactly the warmest welcome I've ever given.
Giles: It's quite all right. I spoke to Willow and Tara. They told me a few things.
Buffy: Things, as in Jade?
Giles: Yes, your prior condition came up.
Buffy: Giles, I was going to tell you, eventually. It's just that, well I didn't have a long distance service, and you'd think I would after they've bugged me half to death. I just still couldn't bring myself to agree on the rates and are you buying any of this?
Giles: Not really, no.
Buffy: Ok, well then I guess I should tell you the truth.
Giles: Yes, you really should.
Buffy: I had a speech prepared for this very moment. It had superb dialogue and your lines mostly consisted of, that's great Buffy. Doesn't sound very Giles or British-like, but it was perfect in my head. Very flowing, and very unrealistic, but it was worth a shot. You know I still haven't seen her.
Giles: Seen her? (Giles realizes Buffy doesn't know about Jade.)
Buffy: All the medicines had me to out of it. Have you gone by the nursery?
Giles: No, Buffy, I haven't.
Buffy: Is there something wrong with her? I know that her heart beats a little lacking. (Giles looks down.) But it totally comes back and she's perfectly healthy again.
Giles: Buffy, I, I don't know how to tell you this. (Giles takes off his glasses and starts cleaning them.)
Buffy: How about you stop stalling, that always helps.
Giles: I'm not stalling. I'm cleaning my specs.
Buffy: Same difference. (Giles puts his glasses back on.) You know when I was asleep I, I heard her crying. I wanted to take her but I was so tired.
Giles: Buffy, do you know what happened to you?
Buffy: Derek did something to me, but I'm here so everything must be OK, right?
Giles: Buffy, you were in an accident.(Buffy looks confused.) Derek didn't make it and Jade, she. . . Buffy, Jade is dead. (Buffy looks up at Giles.)
Buffy: Dead, oh. (She looks out of the window. Giles puts his hand over top of hers and looks down.)
(Scene 2: Dawn is looking out of the window at the house. Willow comes into the living room.)
Dawn: Xander and Anya are here.
Willow: OK. (Willow opens the door. Xander and Anya walk in. Willow shuts the door and they walk into the living room.)
Xander: Shouldn't we be at the hospital?
Willow: No, Giles wants some personal alone time with Buffy.
Xander: Oh. So how's she handling the whole Jade thing?
Willow: I wouldn't know.
Xander: What, why not?
Willow: Be, because maybe I didn't exactly tell Buffy about the whole Jade thing, technically speaking.
Xander: You didn't tell her?
Willow: I THOUGHT YOU were going to tell her!
Xander: Says who?
Willow: Well, that little voice inside of me that paralyzed me when I saw Buffy, for one. It convinced me to let you do it. (Everyone gets quiet.) Look at how fidgety we get when we mention Jade, imagine how Buffy's going to feel.
Xander: This is going to be really tough on her.
Anya: I assume that means lots of tears, junk food, daytime television and tissues. We've stocked up, right?
Willow: I think we should be extra sensitive about what we say around Buffy. (Willow looks at Anya.)
Anya: You know, you could have been a little less evident when you looked at me. I have never said anything to hurt or offend Buffy.
Xander: Is that you're final answer?
Anya: What's that suppose to mean?
Xander: Nothing. Willow why don't you give us some rules, major dos and don'ts.
Willow: Well, don't mention Jade or baby. I mean don't act like nothing ever happened just go as Buffy goes. If she wants to talk to you about Jade then you talk, but no opening of discussion about anything like that. We have to be her shoulders, and we have to make this as easy as possible on her. Coming to grips with Jade's death is going be very hard.
Anya: So basically we all should just gawk at her until our stares make her terribly uncomfortable. At that point she will most likely crack under the pressure and talk about the things we all want to know, even if it's to difficult for her. Yes, we should all do that because that is a level of compassion only we can give.
Willow: Was that supposed to be sarcastic?
Anya: Sarcastic? If that were sarcastic I would have compared those rules and sensitivity, which are more oxymoron than anything else. That would have made it sarcastic or verbal irony. No, Willow what I said was simply the truth.
Xander: Don't jump men, this one's taken. She's all mine. (Xander starts laughing a little, but he notices he is the only one laughing and stops.) Tough crowd.
Anya: We're not tough honey, that just wasn't that funny, but it's good you tried. Points for effort. (Anya smiles and puts her arm around him.)
(Scene 3: Later on that night. Spike is in the Bronze drinking. He looks over at two vampires that are talking.)
Vampire 1: Did you hear about the slayer?
Vampire 2: Everyone has. Hiploid finished her off good. Phase two will be even better. (Spike gets up and walks over.)
Spike: You. Get up.
Vampire 1: What?
Spike: What are you deaf, GET UP! (Spike grabs the vampire by his shirt and yanks him up.) What do you know about the Hiploid demon?
Vampire 2: He doesn't know anything!
Spike: Really. (Spike grabs his arm.) Would he know anything if I twisted his arm back and snapped it off? Here, maybe I should see.
Vampire 1: Wait, I know something.
Spike: That's right, be a good boy and cooperate. Save your self a limb or two.
Vampire 1: The Hiploid demon will bring salvation to all of us. He has a weapon to destroy good. One so powerful, that nothing will be able to stop it.
Spike: Weapon. You don't say. (Spike throws the vampire back down. He takes a chair from one of the tables, turns it backward and sits down.) Well now, tell me more about this weapon. (The other vampires look at each other.)
(Scene 4: Harmony is in the warehouse with Jade. The Hiploid demon comes in.)
Hiploid demon: How is she?
Harmony: She's been a perfect little angel. (The Hiploid demon looks at her.) Devil, I totally meant devil.
Hiploid demon: Good. Has she shown any signs of her power?
Harmony: Not as of late. Well unless you count that huge spit bubble she made after she got her bottle. It was really big. (Harmony smiles.)
Hiploid demon: This is not the plan. She should be doing evil by now.
Harmony: She's only a couple of days old. She can't even lift her own head let a lone decapitate someone else's. Not yet I mean.
Hiploid demon: Majesty will not be please.
Harmony: Um, who's Majesty?
Hiploid demon: That's none of your concern. Record any progress that the weapon makes. I need to find a body. (The Hiploid demon leaves.)
Harmony: OK. (Harmony looks at Jade.) What is that smell? (Jade smiles a little.) You, well if that's not an evil deed I don't know what is.
(Scene 5: Buffy is in her hospital room watching television. Willow comes in.)
Willow: Hey, can I come in? (Buffy doesn't say anything. Willow walks over to her.) So anything good on?
Buffy: No. (Buffy clicks off the television.)
Willow: Actually I'm glad because this gives us time to talk. (Buffy is quiet. She looks around.) Or it gives me time to talk to myself. So, how have you been, OK?
Buffy: Giles is back. I'm glad he's back. I need to move on and having my watcher doesn't hurt. As soon as I can I'm going to patrol.
Willow: Buffy, maybe you should hold off on that. Just until you have enough time to heal, emotionally and physically.
Buffy: I'm fine on both counts.
Willow: Buffy, but what about, well I shouldn't say this. It's sort of breaking all of my rules but, what about?
Buffy: Jade?
Willow: Yeah.
Buffy: Jade was a mistake. She wasn't supposed to happen so in the end she didn't. Fate has a way of catching up to you like that. She's gone. It's better that way.
Willow: How can you. .
Buffy: WILL! It's better this way. (The room gets quiet)
Willow: Buffy, I don't think.. . (Buffy turns back on the television and starts laughing.)
Buffy: Friends, I love this show. It's so funny.
Willow: Yeah. (Willow looks at Buffy with sympathy.) Yeah it is. (She looks down.)
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