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Previously In Majesty
Dawn: It's just when I was with Johnny, I was so free, it's like he knew. (Dawn turns around to walk out, but Johnny stops her. His eyes are yellow.)
Buffy: Knew what?
Dawn: He knew I was the key.
Buffy: You can't go skipping school whenever you feel like it. You have to be responsible, you're actions don't just affect you. They affect all of us.
Dawn: Stop blaming me for your mistake. You abandoned your daughter. You're no better than. . .
Buffy: Dad? (Buffy has this shocked expression on her face.)
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MAJESTY
~Father Knows Best~
(Scene 1: It's mourning. Buffy and Dawn are sitting on the couch listening to Hank's stories.)
Hank: I've been all over the world girls, places I can barely pronounce, but the entire time I wondered how you two were doing?
Buffy: And yet no phone calls, no emails, not even a letter. You must have not wondered all that much.
Hank: Buffy, I was busy and scared. I had been out of your life for so long and I didn't want to interrupt anything. But I want you both to know that I love you so much (Buffy looks over at Dawn who is smiling.) and from now on things are going to be different.
Buffy: Enough! (Buffy stands up.) I am so tired of your lies. The only person you love is yourself, and after what you've done to us, I don't even know how you manage to pull that off.
Dawn: Buffy.
Buffy: You know there were times when the only thing in this world I needed more than you was air, but you were too busy. You were overseas or tied up on a business trip.
Hank: That won't happen again I promise.
Buffy: Oh you promise, well I feel much better considering we all know what your promises are worth.
Dawn: BUFFY! (Dawn stands up.) You're angry because Dad hasn't been here, and so am I, but he's here now? (Buffy holds Dawn's hand.)
Buffy: That's exactly what he wants you to believe Dawn, and you can because you don't know what I do. His heart has never been with us. See that's what his master card was for, to bad that's void too.
Hank: Buffy, please. .
Buffy: What's wrong dad? Are you embarrassed, maybe a little uncomfortable? Well heaven forbid you'd have to feel a forth of the pain we've had to suffer through.
Hank: You use to be my little girl, but a lot has changed.
Buffy: Funny how your just noticing that, but then again you'd have to be on the same continent to monitor some ones life.
Dawn: Buffy, give him a break.
Buffy: A break. (Buffy looks down and then back at Hank.) Mom was sick for a few months, where were you? She died and we. . . we thought that was the end of our world, where were you? (Hank doesn't say anything.) I had a baby, a little girl, named Jade. (Buffy starts tearing up.) She's the most perfect thing. . . and where in the hell were you?
Hank. Buffy. (Hank goes to hug Buffy. Buffy backs up.)
Buffy: Don't touch me. Never touch me. (Buffy walks out of the house, slamming the door behind her.)
Dawn: Buffy! Buffy! (Dawn turns to Hank.)
Hank: My absence really destroyed her.
Dawn: It's not you. (Dawn turns to the door.) It's Jade.
(Scene 2: Willow and Xander are walking. They're eating pretzels.)
Willow: So do you think we've given them enough alone, work stuff out, time?
Xander: I don't think there's enough of that time in the world. Let's face it Will, when Buff's mom died and when Giles left, Buffy felt like an orphan, and with good reason. I mean, sure this guy is all, super dad now, but he's missed so much that he should have been here for. I don't know how Buffy's going to forgive him.
Willow: Are you OK?
Xander: It gets hard, then I spend time with you and it gets a little easier. (Willow smiles.)
Willow: Now if only some one could do that for Buffy.
Xander: Maybe now someone is.
(Scene 3: There's a knock on Spike's crypt door.)
Spike: Go AWAY! NO ONES HOME! (The knock gets louder.) Bugger. (Spike gets up and opens the door and Buffy walks in. He shuts the door.) Slayer, I don't have much time I've got things to do, evil stuff, you know. (Buffy looks up at Spike, her eyes are filled with tears.) Then again I'm dead, I've got all the time in the world.
Buffy: I need you. (Buffy hugs Spike.)
Spike: You have me.
(Scene 4: Drusilla is in her mansion when another vampire arrives.)
Drusilla: Where have you been?
Vampire: Majesty, I know you wish to find the seed on your own, but I. ..
Drusilla: You've stirred up a little trouble for the slayer?
Vampire: I'm trying, but fighting her head on, nothing has ever survived.
Drusilla: She's a biter, that one is. Biters are so much more entertaining to kill. (Drusilla smiles.)
Vampire: But how?
Drusilla: Never question. (Drusilla caresses the vampire's cheek and then takes her nail and makes a shallow cut on the vampire's neck.) You just have to wait and see. (Drusilla licks the blood off her finger.)
(Scene 5: It's night. Willow walks into Dawn's room. Dawn's looking out of the window.)
Willow: Not planning another escape I hope.
Dawn: Being that my boy friend's a demon, it's pretty unlikely.
Willow: Where's your dad?
Dawn: He out looking for Buffy. I've never seen her so, so upset. I don't know if it's that she hates our dad or. .
Willow: She doesn't hate him; it's just loosing your mom, Giles, and Jade. She could have really used a father.
Dawn: I know that, but that's past, he's here now and she's totally pushing him away.
Willow: I think by doing that she's getting out her frustration and eventually she'll be able to forgive him.
Dawn: But when?
Willow: I don't know. Buffy and your dad have a lot to talk about.
(Scene 6: Buffy is walking though the cemetery. She feels someone creeping behind her. She takes her stake out and turns around. Her father backs up.)
Hank: Whoa, whoa, it's just me, princess. (Buffy puts her stake down.)
Buffy: Don't call me that. (Buffy starts walking away. Hank follows her.)
Hank: Buffy, what exactly are you doing in a cemetery? Does this have something to do with that fellow I saw last night? You know he seems a little strange, I don't think you should be seeing him.
Buffy: (Buffy turns around.) You've been back for a day and you think you can run my life, which by the way you know nothing about.
Hank: But I want to know things. I love you Buffy, you're my. . . . daughter and I just, I want you to know.
Buffy: DAD! (Buffy runs up and pushes her father out of the way and gets punched by a demon who, was lurking behind Hank. He tries to punch her again but she duck and side kicks him. He falls over a gravestone.)
Buffy: You know (She punches the demon.) this really isn't. (The demon goes to grab her and she breaks his neck.) A goodtime. (Buffy turns to her dad.) Are you OK?
Hank: I'm, I'm fine, what, what, what was. .
Buffy: Some places have bears and wild cats. Sunnydale has, weirdos with really bad acne.
Hank: He isn't dead?
Buffy: Dead, No, no, he's, sleeping. (Hank walks up and hugs Buffy. At first she hesitates, but she eventually hugs him.) I missed you.
Hank: I missed you too. I'm sorry Buffy, for not being the father you wanted me to be.
Buffy: Well, I'm sorry I said those things. I haven't been the easiest person to live with since Jade left. Besides I, I was angry.
Hank: You have every right, don't be ashamed or apologize for you feel. My car is just around the corner, we can go home right now, maybe talk until sunrise if you'd like.
Buffy: I'd like.
Hank: Great. (Hank smiles. His cell phone rings.) I'll meet you there. (Buffy starts walking away.) Hank Summers speaking.
Caller: Take the letter from his right hand.
Hank: What?
Caller: You heard me. (Hank walks over to the demon and picks up the letter, he opens it up.) Do you see that number? (The paper has 30 written on it.)
Hank: Yes.
Caller: That's how many days you have to give me the information I need.
Hank: What is this, a threat? I told you I'd get the child and I will.
Caller: And the slayer?
Hank: Buffy doesn't suspect a thing.
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Previously In Majesty
Dawn: It's just when I was with Johnny, I was so free, it's like he knew. (Dawn turns around to walk out, but Johnny stops her. His eyes are yellow.)
Buffy: Knew what?
Dawn: He knew I was the key.
Buffy: You can't go skipping school whenever you feel like it. You have to be responsible, you're actions don't just affect you. They affect all of us.
Dawn: Stop blaming me for your mistake. You abandoned your daughter. You're no better than. . .
Buffy: Dad? (Buffy has this shocked expression on her face.)
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MAJESTY
~Father Knows Best~
(Scene 1: It's mourning. Buffy and Dawn are sitting on the couch listening to Hank's stories.)
Hank: I've been all over the world girls, places I can barely pronounce, but the entire time I wondered how you two were doing?
Buffy: And yet no phone calls, no emails, not even a letter. You must have not wondered all that much.
Hank: Buffy, I was busy and scared. I had been out of your life for so long and I didn't want to interrupt anything. But I want you both to know that I love you so much (Buffy looks over at Dawn who is smiling.) and from now on things are going to be different.
Buffy: Enough! (Buffy stands up.) I am so tired of your lies. The only person you love is yourself, and after what you've done to us, I don't even know how you manage to pull that off.
Dawn: Buffy.
Buffy: You know there were times when the only thing in this world I needed more than you was air, but you were too busy. You were overseas or tied up on a business trip.
Hank: That won't happen again I promise.
Buffy: Oh you promise, well I feel much better considering we all know what your promises are worth.
Dawn: BUFFY! (Dawn stands up.) You're angry because Dad hasn't been here, and so am I, but he's here now? (Buffy holds Dawn's hand.)
Buffy: That's exactly what he wants you to believe Dawn, and you can because you don't know what I do. His heart has never been with us. See that's what his master card was for, to bad that's void too.
Hank: Buffy, please. .
Buffy: What's wrong dad? Are you embarrassed, maybe a little uncomfortable? Well heaven forbid you'd have to feel a forth of the pain we've had to suffer through.
Hank: You use to be my little girl, but a lot has changed.
Buffy: Funny how your just noticing that, but then again you'd have to be on the same continent to monitor some ones life.
Dawn: Buffy, give him a break.
Buffy: A break. (Buffy looks down and then back at Hank.) Mom was sick for a few months, where were you? She died and we. . . we thought that was the end of our world, where were you? (Hank doesn't say anything.) I had a baby, a little girl, named Jade. (Buffy starts tearing up.) She's the most perfect thing. . . and where in the hell were you?
Hank. Buffy. (Hank goes to hug Buffy. Buffy backs up.)
Buffy: Don't touch me. Never touch me. (Buffy walks out of the house, slamming the door behind her.)
Dawn: Buffy! Buffy! (Dawn turns to Hank.)
Hank: My absence really destroyed her.
Dawn: It's not you. (Dawn turns to the door.) It's Jade.
(Scene 2: Willow and Xander are walking. They're eating pretzels.)
Willow: So do you think we've given them enough alone, work stuff out, time?
Xander: I don't think there's enough of that time in the world. Let's face it Will, when Buff's mom died and when Giles left, Buffy felt like an orphan, and with good reason. I mean, sure this guy is all, super dad now, but he's missed so much that he should have been here for. I don't know how Buffy's going to forgive him.
Willow: Are you OK?
Xander: It gets hard, then I spend time with you and it gets a little easier. (Willow smiles.)
Willow: Now if only some one could do that for Buffy.
Xander: Maybe now someone is.
(Scene 3: There's a knock on Spike's crypt door.)
Spike: Go AWAY! NO ONES HOME! (The knock gets louder.) Bugger. (Spike gets up and opens the door and Buffy walks in. He shuts the door.) Slayer, I don't have much time I've got things to do, evil stuff, you know. (Buffy looks up at Spike, her eyes are filled with tears.) Then again I'm dead, I've got all the time in the world.
Buffy: I need you. (Buffy hugs Spike.)
Spike: You have me.
(Scene 4: Drusilla is in her mansion when another vampire arrives.)
Drusilla: Where have you been?
Vampire: Majesty, I know you wish to find the seed on your own, but I. ..
Drusilla: You've stirred up a little trouble for the slayer?
Vampire: I'm trying, but fighting her head on, nothing has ever survived.
Drusilla: She's a biter, that one is. Biters are so much more entertaining to kill. (Drusilla smiles.)
Vampire: But how?
Drusilla: Never question. (Drusilla caresses the vampire's cheek and then takes her nail and makes a shallow cut on the vampire's neck.) You just have to wait and see. (Drusilla licks the blood off her finger.)
(Scene 5: It's night. Willow walks into Dawn's room. Dawn's looking out of the window.)
Willow: Not planning another escape I hope.
Dawn: Being that my boy friend's a demon, it's pretty unlikely.
Willow: Where's your dad?
Dawn: He out looking for Buffy. I've never seen her so, so upset. I don't know if it's that she hates our dad or. .
Willow: She doesn't hate him; it's just loosing your mom, Giles, and Jade. She could have really used a father.
Dawn: I know that, but that's past, he's here now and she's totally pushing him away.
Willow: I think by doing that she's getting out her frustration and eventually she'll be able to forgive him.
Dawn: But when?
Willow: I don't know. Buffy and your dad have a lot to talk about.
(Scene 6: Buffy is walking though the cemetery. She feels someone creeping behind her. She takes her stake out and turns around. Her father backs up.)
Hank: Whoa, whoa, it's just me, princess. (Buffy puts her stake down.)
Buffy: Don't call me that. (Buffy starts walking away. Hank follows her.)
Hank: Buffy, what exactly are you doing in a cemetery? Does this have something to do with that fellow I saw last night? You know he seems a little strange, I don't think you should be seeing him.
Buffy: (Buffy turns around.) You've been back for a day and you think you can run my life, which by the way you know nothing about.
Hank: But I want to know things. I love you Buffy, you're my. . . . daughter and I just, I want you to know.
Buffy: DAD! (Buffy runs up and pushes her father out of the way and gets punched by a demon who, was lurking behind Hank. He tries to punch her again but she duck and side kicks him. He falls over a gravestone.)
Buffy: You know (She punches the demon.) this really isn't. (The demon goes to grab her and she breaks his neck.) A goodtime. (Buffy turns to her dad.) Are you OK?
Hank: I'm, I'm fine, what, what, what was. .
Buffy: Some places have bears and wild cats. Sunnydale has, weirdos with really bad acne.
Hank: He isn't dead?
Buffy: Dead, No, no, he's, sleeping. (Hank walks up and hugs Buffy. At first she hesitates, but she eventually hugs him.) I missed you.
Hank: I missed you too. I'm sorry Buffy, for not being the father you wanted me to be.
Buffy: Well, I'm sorry I said those things. I haven't been the easiest person to live with since Jade left. Besides I, I was angry.
Hank: You have every right, don't be ashamed or apologize for you feel. My car is just around the corner, we can go home right now, maybe talk until sunrise if you'd like.
Buffy: I'd like.
Hank: Great. (Hank smiles. His cell phone rings.) I'll meet you there. (Buffy starts walking away.) Hank Summers speaking.
Caller: Take the letter from his right hand.
Hank: What?
Caller: You heard me. (Hank walks over to the demon and picks up the letter, he opens it up.) Do you see that number? (The paper has 30 written on it.)
Hank: Yes.
Caller: That's how many days you have to give me the information I need.
Hank: What is this, a threat? I told you I'd get the child and I will.
Caller: And the slayer?
Hank: Buffy doesn't suspect a thing.
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