The Seed Of Good & Evil Chapter 15
(Scene 1: It's been a week or so. Giles rolls Buffy into the waiting room area.)
Giles: You finally get to go home today.
Buffy: And I couldn't be happier. At first the green jiggle Jell-O was entertaining but it lost its spark. I pretty much knew from then on I had overstayed my welcome.
Giles: Right, well I'll do the paperwork, you just stay here.
Buffy: I'll try, but that sort of conflicts with my plans to sprint out of here.
Giles: I'm glad your sense of humor is still in tact Buffy.
Buffy: I'm glad you noticed. (Giles smiles and walks over to the counter. He begins talking with one of the nurses. Buffy closes her eyes and has a flash back. She sees a baby wrapped up in tattered rags reaching for her. She quickly opens her eyes. Suddenly a baby's cry echoes from the next hallway. Buffy looks up at Giles and then slowly stands up. She begins walking to the cry. Giles is talking to the nurse.)
Giles: So she has an appointment a week from now?
Nurse: Yes. I need her signature, if possible.
Giles: Oh, of course. (Giles turns around and sees an empty wheel chair.) Buffy? Where'd she go? (Buffy walks around the corner and finds a newborn crying in its stroller.)
Buffy: So you're the one making all of that noise. Don't cry kid. Your lucky, you have your entire life ahead of you. Now when you get my age and have my problems then you can cry. (The baby stops. Buffy smiles. She reaches down and touches the baby's hand.)
Woman: WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING? (Buffy looks up.)
Buffy: I, I, I thought she was alone. She was crying.
Woman: Get away from my baby, NOW!
Buffy: Look lady, I was just trying to. . .
Woman: Kidnap my newborn, yes I could see that. (The woman picks up her baby.)
Buffy: I really didn't mean any harm. (Giles comes around the corner.)
Giles: Buffy, what are you doing out of your wheelchair?
Buffy: Her baby was crying and I just. . .
Giles: Buffy I'm sure she's perfectly capable of taking care of her own child.
Buffy: But I. . .
Giles: But nothing Buffy. . . (Buffy looks up at Giles a little upset.) I'm terribly sorry for your trouble ma'am. She's been through a terrible ordeal. Buffy, come. (Buffy angrily glares at Giles.)
Buffy: Nice cover up Giles. (Buffy walks away. Giles follows her.)
Woman: Oh, no trouble at all. (The woman smiles and looks down at her baby, when she looks up her eyes have turned yellow like that of the hiploid demon.)
(Scene 2: Willow walks into the Magic Box. She's carrying a newspaper. Anya, Tara, and Xander are there.)
Willow: I found it. (Willow walks up to them.) I found the answers to all our questions.
Anya: In that thin, little thing? Which appears to be nothing more than a daily newspaper.
Willow: It is a daily newspaper, but read the headline. (Willow passes the paper to Xander. Tara and Anya look on with him.)
Xander: This is about Derek? I thought we didn't like Derek.
Willow: We don't, but maybe I've found the reason why.
Anya: I liked Derek, well except for the part when he tried to kill Buffy.
Xander: Hey, wait, it says he died of a broken neck.
Willow: Yes, and days before the accident even occurred.
Anya: But he was alive. I spoke to him and everything.
Xander: In a town filled with living dead An, verbal exchange is like gossip, you know that.
Anya: But he was so darn attractive.
Willow: I remember reading about a few of the hiploid demon's powers. Well, what if body snatching is one of them.
Xander: So that wasn't Derek that came to Buffy's house that night, it was some extremely, ugly, demon guy?
Tara: That would explain my weird feeling about him and Anya's strange attraction.
Anya: Yes, yes that's exactly what it does? You see Xander it was a natural, uncontrollable power drawing me to him.
Xander: You do realize you're an ex-demon, key pre-fix being EX.
Willow: Can we argue about this later? Right now we've got a demon to find.
(Scene 3: The hiploid demon is still wearing the woman's skin from the hospital. He walks into the abandon warehouse with Jade. Harmony meets him there.)
Harmony: Hippy, is that you?
Hiploid demon: Of course it's me. (Harmony takes Jade from the stroller.)
Harmony: Nice body, I guess.
Hiploid demon: It was the only one I could find on such short notice.
Harmony: So are the rumors true?
Hiploid demon: I'm afraid so. The slayer is alive, and she saw Jade.
Harmony: WHAT!
Hiploid demon: Don't worry, she didn't know who she was, and if she did, well lets just say that was the first and last time she will ever see her.
Harmony: So what do we do? The car crash plan was perfect. It made it look like an accident and Buffy's friends would never of expect us.
Hiploid demon: But now they might.
Harmony: So what do we do?
Hiploid demon: We display no mercy. At the right time, on the right date, at the right place, we will destroy them all.
(Scene 4: The gang is still at the Magic Box researching.)
Anya: So what do you think of that Cathedral on fifth street?
Xander: I think it has nothing to do with the hiploid demon, honey.
Anya: Well that's the point and you're right several of my guests might feel uncomfortable there. It's too holy and church-like. Well, I'm completely stumped. (Giles and Buffy walk into the Magic Box.)
Xander: Hey guys. Buff you look good.
Buffy: Thanks Xander. (Buffy smiles.)
Willow: Buffy, how are you doing?
Buffy: Great. (The room gets quiet.) So what's up? What's with all the solemn visages? This place looked rocking from the outside.
Xander: Rocking?
Buffy: I almost died. I think I earned my right to exaggerate, just a little. (No one says anything.) OK, are you all intentionally trying to freak me out or is the mime thing something you discovered over my all- expensive stay at the hospital?
Anya: Ask Willow. They're her rules.
Willow: Which if I remember correctly you sarcastically disowned.
Anya: Um, no I didn't. I said if I were to compare your rules to sensitivity . . .
Buffy: OK, you know what. I need to stretch out in the back, so if you guys can manage to finish this wrangle without me, that would be good. (Buffy walks to the backroom.)
Giles: What was that?
Willow: That was my airtight plan to make Buffy feel more comfortable. Was it just me or did it not work? (Anya's about to say something.)
Xander: Anya, zipper-lips. (Anya stops and gives Xander a look.)
(Scene 5: Buffy is in the back room. She looks at her punching bag.)
Buffy: Trusty, invariable punching bag. You wouldn't leave me.
Spike: Neither would I. (Buffy turns around. Spike comes from the shadows and walks up to Buffy.) Shouldn't you be resting up, love?
Buffy: I should be doing a lot of things, like being dead, but I tend to break all the rules. I'm here because I'm not human and Jade's gone because maybe, against all odds, there was a chance she was. They think I'm a miracle. If they only knew, right?
Spike: You are a miracle.
Buffy: Tell that to Jade. Oh, that's right you can't, she's dead. We couldn't protect her Spike. She didn't stand a chance on the Hell mouth. (Buffy starts punching the punching bag.) I knew it. You knew it. Yet I was stupid enough to spend all my time buying baby clothes I was never going to use.
Spike: Buffy.
Buffy: And blankets with worthless matching curtains that I didn't even like that much. Come to think of it, I, I don't even think they matched.
Spike: Buffy. (Spike turns Buffy to him.) Would you stop blaming yourself?
Buffy: I'm not blaming myself. I'm blaming this world. Jade didn't belong here just like me. Now I guess the only question is, when am I going to end up just like her? (Spike and Buffy look down. Buffy looks at Spike and walks into his arms. She lays her head on his shoulder. )
Spike: Buffy.
Buffy: Don't speak. Just hold. (They stand there holding each other in silence.)
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(Scene 1: It's been a week or so. Giles rolls Buffy into the waiting room area.)
Giles: You finally get to go home today.
Buffy: And I couldn't be happier. At first the green jiggle Jell-O was entertaining but it lost its spark. I pretty much knew from then on I had overstayed my welcome.
Giles: Right, well I'll do the paperwork, you just stay here.
Buffy: I'll try, but that sort of conflicts with my plans to sprint out of here.
Giles: I'm glad your sense of humor is still in tact Buffy.
Buffy: I'm glad you noticed. (Giles smiles and walks over to the counter. He begins talking with one of the nurses. Buffy closes her eyes and has a flash back. She sees a baby wrapped up in tattered rags reaching for her. She quickly opens her eyes. Suddenly a baby's cry echoes from the next hallway. Buffy looks up at Giles and then slowly stands up. She begins walking to the cry. Giles is talking to the nurse.)
Giles: So she has an appointment a week from now?
Nurse: Yes. I need her signature, if possible.
Giles: Oh, of course. (Giles turns around and sees an empty wheel chair.) Buffy? Where'd she go? (Buffy walks around the corner and finds a newborn crying in its stroller.)
Buffy: So you're the one making all of that noise. Don't cry kid. Your lucky, you have your entire life ahead of you. Now when you get my age and have my problems then you can cry. (The baby stops. Buffy smiles. She reaches down and touches the baby's hand.)
Woman: WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING? (Buffy looks up.)
Buffy: I, I, I thought she was alone. She was crying.
Woman: Get away from my baby, NOW!
Buffy: Look lady, I was just trying to. . .
Woman: Kidnap my newborn, yes I could see that. (The woman picks up her baby.)
Buffy: I really didn't mean any harm. (Giles comes around the corner.)
Giles: Buffy, what are you doing out of your wheelchair?
Buffy: Her baby was crying and I just. . .
Giles: Buffy I'm sure she's perfectly capable of taking care of her own child.
Buffy: But I. . .
Giles: But nothing Buffy. . . (Buffy looks up at Giles a little upset.) I'm terribly sorry for your trouble ma'am. She's been through a terrible ordeal. Buffy, come. (Buffy angrily glares at Giles.)
Buffy: Nice cover up Giles. (Buffy walks away. Giles follows her.)
Woman: Oh, no trouble at all. (The woman smiles and looks down at her baby, when she looks up her eyes have turned yellow like that of the hiploid demon.)
(Scene 2: Willow walks into the Magic Box. She's carrying a newspaper. Anya, Tara, and Xander are there.)
Willow: I found it. (Willow walks up to them.) I found the answers to all our questions.
Anya: In that thin, little thing? Which appears to be nothing more than a daily newspaper.
Willow: It is a daily newspaper, but read the headline. (Willow passes the paper to Xander. Tara and Anya look on with him.)
Xander: This is about Derek? I thought we didn't like Derek.
Willow: We don't, but maybe I've found the reason why.
Anya: I liked Derek, well except for the part when he tried to kill Buffy.
Xander: Hey, wait, it says he died of a broken neck.
Willow: Yes, and days before the accident even occurred.
Anya: But he was alive. I spoke to him and everything.
Xander: In a town filled with living dead An, verbal exchange is like gossip, you know that.
Anya: But he was so darn attractive.
Willow: I remember reading about a few of the hiploid demon's powers. Well, what if body snatching is one of them.
Xander: So that wasn't Derek that came to Buffy's house that night, it was some extremely, ugly, demon guy?
Tara: That would explain my weird feeling about him and Anya's strange attraction.
Anya: Yes, yes that's exactly what it does? You see Xander it was a natural, uncontrollable power drawing me to him.
Xander: You do realize you're an ex-demon, key pre-fix being EX.
Willow: Can we argue about this later? Right now we've got a demon to find.
(Scene 3: The hiploid demon is still wearing the woman's skin from the hospital. He walks into the abandon warehouse with Jade. Harmony meets him there.)
Harmony: Hippy, is that you?
Hiploid demon: Of course it's me. (Harmony takes Jade from the stroller.)
Harmony: Nice body, I guess.
Hiploid demon: It was the only one I could find on such short notice.
Harmony: So are the rumors true?
Hiploid demon: I'm afraid so. The slayer is alive, and she saw Jade.
Harmony: WHAT!
Hiploid demon: Don't worry, she didn't know who she was, and if she did, well lets just say that was the first and last time she will ever see her.
Harmony: So what do we do? The car crash plan was perfect. It made it look like an accident and Buffy's friends would never of expect us.
Hiploid demon: But now they might.
Harmony: So what do we do?
Hiploid demon: We display no mercy. At the right time, on the right date, at the right place, we will destroy them all.
(Scene 4: The gang is still at the Magic Box researching.)
Anya: So what do you think of that Cathedral on fifth street?
Xander: I think it has nothing to do with the hiploid demon, honey.
Anya: Well that's the point and you're right several of my guests might feel uncomfortable there. It's too holy and church-like. Well, I'm completely stumped. (Giles and Buffy walk into the Magic Box.)
Xander: Hey guys. Buff you look good.
Buffy: Thanks Xander. (Buffy smiles.)
Willow: Buffy, how are you doing?
Buffy: Great. (The room gets quiet.) So what's up? What's with all the solemn visages? This place looked rocking from the outside.
Xander: Rocking?
Buffy: I almost died. I think I earned my right to exaggerate, just a little. (No one says anything.) OK, are you all intentionally trying to freak me out or is the mime thing something you discovered over my all- expensive stay at the hospital?
Anya: Ask Willow. They're her rules.
Willow: Which if I remember correctly you sarcastically disowned.
Anya: Um, no I didn't. I said if I were to compare your rules to sensitivity . . .
Buffy: OK, you know what. I need to stretch out in the back, so if you guys can manage to finish this wrangle without me, that would be good. (Buffy walks to the backroom.)
Giles: What was that?
Willow: That was my airtight plan to make Buffy feel more comfortable. Was it just me or did it not work? (Anya's about to say something.)
Xander: Anya, zipper-lips. (Anya stops and gives Xander a look.)
(Scene 5: Buffy is in the back room. She looks at her punching bag.)
Buffy: Trusty, invariable punching bag. You wouldn't leave me.
Spike: Neither would I. (Buffy turns around. Spike comes from the shadows and walks up to Buffy.) Shouldn't you be resting up, love?
Buffy: I should be doing a lot of things, like being dead, but I tend to break all the rules. I'm here because I'm not human and Jade's gone because maybe, against all odds, there was a chance she was. They think I'm a miracle. If they only knew, right?
Spike: You are a miracle.
Buffy: Tell that to Jade. Oh, that's right you can't, she's dead. We couldn't protect her Spike. She didn't stand a chance on the Hell mouth. (Buffy starts punching the punching bag.) I knew it. You knew it. Yet I was stupid enough to spend all my time buying baby clothes I was never going to use.
Spike: Buffy.
Buffy: And blankets with worthless matching curtains that I didn't even like that much. Come to think of it, I, I don't even think they matched.
Spike: Buffy. (Spike turns Buffy to him.) Would you stop blaming yourself?
Buffy: I'm not blaming myself. I'm blaming this world. Jade didn't belong here just like me. Now I guess the only question is, when am I going to end up just like her? (Spike and Buffy look down. Buffy looks at Spike and walks into his arms. She lays her head on his shoulder. )
Spike: Buffy.
Buffy: Don't speak. Just hold. (They stand there holding each other in silence.)
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