Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
"Where Everybody Doesn't Know Your Name"
A year after Tara's death By: Justin Boggan - Started March 24, 2003 - Finished April 25, 2003 8:05 p.m Chapter 1: "untitled"
- 1:43 a.m. -
Whack!
Spike hits a tombstone.
Spike: "You bloody, sodding prick."
Buffy fights the vampire. The vampire pulls out a tombstone and throws it at Buffy. She kicks it mid air and it breaks apart.
Buffy: "That's desecration. You're gonna have to pay for that. Work it off till you're dead tired."
Vampire: "Anyone ever tell you that you are not funny slayer?"
Buffy kicks him and he falls over a tombstone.
Buffy: "That's a pretty strong opinion coming from a dead guy."
Vampire: "Yeah well, I'll live forever, but you'll never be funny."
He picks up a tripod of wood for flowers and breaks it apart. He the pieces as Bos. He twists them around and around and he spins in circles. Buffy ducts and ducts again. He hits her in the back and then the legs with the Bos and she falls down.
Buffy: "Well this is new. So you're a teenage mutant ninja vampire?"
He sits on her and uses one of the Bos to hold her neck down and with the sharp end of the other, holds in up and prepares to impale her.
Vampire: "See, listen to me- it's not that hard. Listen. Hmmm, I hope you're hungry. I brought your favorite- steaks!"
He gets taped on the shoulder and turns around.
Spike: "And here's a knuckle sandwich!"
Whack! He sends the vampire to the floor.
Spike: "Didn't your mother ever tell you you could get hurt playing with these things?"
He steaks the vampire and it yells as it turns to dust. He offers his hand to help Buffy up.
Buffy: "No thank you, I got it Spike."
Spike: "look, I was just being a gentlemen. You could at least say thanks for helping."
Buffy: "Look, I don't care if you got your soul back or not. I had it. I was doing just fine."
Spike: "Oh yeah, fine. And if I hadn't shown up you'd be well done."
Buffy: "Look Spike, no one even asked you to come along. I'm not blind Spike! You only follow me cause you want to be with me, but there is never going to be anything between us tonight, or any other night!," she says as she turns around, "I just can't take you anymore. This life hurts so much, I can't take any of you! I wish it was just me."
Spike looks at the ground.
Spike: "well that's all well love. You can sod off and kiss my ass. I don't need this or any of you. I wish yu'd all just lay off my bleeding back and disappear with your everyday problems of saving the world. You know damn well I hate it anyway. And another thing..."
Spike looks up. Buffy is gone.
Spike: "Buffy?"
Buffy turns around while saying,
"I'm just tired Spike, so... Spike?"
She looks around.
"Spike? This isn't amusing. You either come out now, or I leave you here."
No answer. She looks around again.
"I'll give you a kiss..... Spike?"
- Theme song-
- Cut to Buffy's house - - 1:43 a.m. -
Dawn goes downstairs to get a glass of water. Willow is already down there sitting in the dark at the kitchen table. Dawn doesn't turn on the lights.
Willow: "Thanks. I didn't feel like having lights right now. What are you doing up?"
Dawn: "Can't I get liquid refreshment?"
Willow: "Yeah I know, but you should be sleeping. Dreaming of boys and school and ... boys."
Dawn gets her water and walks off.
Dawn: "Yeah what ever. I wish you guys would just leave me alone. I'm not a little kid."
She walks up stairs. Willow talks to herself aloud.
Willow: "It's not the same. A year later and I still think about you and me. Sometimes I wish I could forget this world and that it was just me," she puts down her cup, "I wish."
- 1:43 a.m. -
Xander pulls the phone away from his ear in frustration. He is lying on his bad.
Xander: "God, Anya you called me! And now you want to fight?"
Anya: "It's two o'clock at night and I'm lonely. You can't show a little compassion?"
Xander: "Look, I just fell asleep and hour ago. I got to get up in four and go to work. Anya, I'm tired. It's to early to be compassionate."
Anya: "Well, I woke up just to call you! I mean, it's just like the wedding. I'm giving you my heart and you just walk over it."
Xander: "IT is not. Anya, you know I still care for you, but it's two o'clock! We can continue this tomorrow. I'm gonna hang up now, bye."
He hangs up.
Xander: "God, between her and work I just can't take it anymore. Something has to give, I wish they'd all just back off."
Looks at his empty house and takes a deep breath.
Anya hangs up frustrated.
Anya: "I wish I could make them all go away. Ugh! Stupid I can't wish harm against other people myself rule."
- 1:43 a.m. -
Giles goes into the kitchen and gets a drink. He sits down.
"Look at yourself. Two in the morning. Living in a house fool of girls clearly less than half your age. Not where you expected to be and the one person you're sworn to protect out by herself. Rupert, you really did it this time. I'm old, useless, don't have any skills for the real world and trying to train a Slayer that no longer needs training. Sometimes I wish I could just get away from all this. Was London really that boring..."
He takes a sip and when his head lowers he sees Willow cup.
"Willow's coffee cup," he examines it, "Still warm. Where is she?"
He gets up and puts it in the fridge. He puts his cup on the table and walks into the living room. He raises an eye brow.
"Not here."
He goes up stairs and to Willow's room. Knocks softly and enters.
"Willow?"
He closes the door to the touch and walks to Dawn's room. The door is open and he goes in.
"Dawn, have you scene..."
Dawn's not there. He looks at her bed and walks over. He leans over and picks up her diary. It's open and time and dated. He looks at his watch. It matches Dawn's time scribed onto the page by a couple of minutes.
"Oh dear. Dawn?"
He leaves the room at a quick pace and continues calling out,
"Dawn!?" Please answer me! Willow?"
He stops.
"Anyone!?"
A lump forms in his throat and he checks all the rooms in the house. He paces quickly down the stairs and to the kitchen. He stops with his hand apon the phone receiver. He picks it up and calls Xander's house. The machine picks up just as he hangs up. He thinks about waiting for Buffy to come home.
"I can't. What if they are in danger?..." he says aloud.
He sits down on the living room couch and pounders. He gets up, grabs his coat and keys and leaves the house. The car in still in the driveway. He checks his keychain.
"Damnit Rupert, if only you knew how to hot wire a car. By foot then."
He takes a few steps, then runs back to the house. He franticly unlocks the door and relocks it after he closes it.
"Weapons Rupert."
He opens the chest of weapons. He takes two steaks and leaves again. He closes the door and bites his lip.
"Do it."
He straightens his coat and walks off.
"You can do this."
He turns on the next block and immediately notices a pattern. Front some front doors are open. He walks up one of them's steps and lowly hums a British tune.
"Is there anybody home?" walks into the house, "Hello?"
He searches the rooms.
"Anybody?"
He finds the television on. He walks out and closes the door behind him. He jogs down to the next house. It's lights are on. He tries the door. Unlocked. He enters and quickly goes to the bathroom to see what the noise that he is hearing is.
It's door is open and a blow dryer on the floor. It is on.
"someone sure left in an awful hurry. From someone or something."
He puts the dryer down and leaves the house.
"If Buffy were here," he says as he leaves the house property, "she would want to go immediately looking for it. We need to find it now and such nonsense. But me, what can I do? Play back up? What good am I really? I no longer have anything to offer. Sure I did kill Glory, but even then that was when she was in human form. Look at this justifiably. How do I benefit each of them?"
Comes apon Xander's house. Peers through the windows
Xander, how have I ever benefited you? What contribution have you made? We have to recuse you and Dawn all the time. But you do console my Slayer; aided her in her time of need and you're not home. Perfect."
Leaves and heads for the graveyard.
"Why am I still here?"
Slowly, foot by foot he enters the cemetery. He looks around and is startled by a bird.
"Nothing to fear but fear itself. It is not going to peck you to death."
He turns around quickly.
"who's there?"
No answer, yet he feels like someone is there.
"I said who is there!? Show yourselves! Fight man to man, or man to vampire... ummm."
He pulls a steak from out of his coat
A voice echo's through the air,
"Be careful what you wish for....."
Whack! The steak goes flying out of his hand.
"Well, I have two! A ripping good time for everyone!"
Whack! the second steak goes flying out of his hand and lands ontop a burial chamber.
"...Or maybe just you."
He starts running faster and faster as the voice behind him seems to grow with each footstep. His heart pumping and the voice almost apon him.
" HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!....."
"Where Everybody Doesn't Know Your Name"
A year after Tara's death By: Justin Boggan - Started March 24, 2003 - Finished April 25, 2003 8:05 p.m Chapter 1: "untitled"
- 1:43 a.m. -
Whack!
Spike hits a tombstone.
Spike: "You bloody, sodding prick."
Buffy fights the vampire. The vampire pulls out a tombstone and throws it at Buffy. She kicks it mid air and it breaks apart.
Buffy: "That's desecration. You're gonna have to pay for that. Work it off till you're dead tired."
Vampire: "Anyone ever tell you that you are not funny slayer?"
Buffy kicks him and he falls over a tombstone.
Buffy: "That's a pretty strong opinion coming from a dead guy."
Vampire: "Yeah well, I'll live forever, but you'll never be funny."
He picks up a tripod of wood for flowers and breaks it apart. He the pieces as Bos. He twists them around and around and he spins in circles. Buffy ducts and ducts again. He hits her in the back and then the legs with the Bos and she falls down.
Buffy: "Well this is new. So you're a teenage mutant ninja vampire?"
He sits on her and uses one of the Bos to hold her neck down and with the sharp end of the other, holds in up and prepares to impale her.
Vampire: "See, listen to me- it's not that hard. Listen. Hmmm, I hope you're hungry. I brought your favorite- steaks!"
He gets taped on the shoulder and turns around.
Spike: "And here's a knuckle sandwich!"
Whack! He sends the vampire to the floor.
Spike: "Didn't your mother ever tell you you could get hurt playing with these things?"
He steaks the vampire and it yells as it turns to dust. He offers his hand to help Buffy up.
Buffy: "No thank you, I got it Spike."
Spike: "look, I was just being a gentlemen. You could at least say thanks for helping."
Buffy: "Look, I don't care if you got your soul back or not. I had it. I was doing just fine."
Spike: "Oh yeah, fine. And if I hadn't shown up you'd be well done."
Buffy: "Look Spike, no one even asked you to come along. I'm not blind Spike! You only follow me cause you want to be with me, but there is never going to be anything between us tonight, or any other night!," she says as she turns around, "I just can't take you anymore. This life hurts so much, I can't take any of you! I wish it was just me."
Spike looks at the ground.
Spike: "well that's all well love. You can sod off and kiss my ass. I don't need this or any of you. I wish yu'd all just lay off my bleeding back and disappear with your everyday problems of saving the world. You know damn well I hate it anyway. And another thing..."
Spike looks up. Buffy is gone.
Spike: "Buffy?"
Buffy turns around while saying,
"I'm just tired Spike, so... Spike?"
She looks around.
"Spike? This isn't amusing. You either come out now, or I leave you here."
No answer. She looks around again.
"I'll give you a kiss..... Spike?"
- Theme song-
- Cut to Buffy's house - - 1:43 a.m. -
Dawn goes downstairs to get a glass of water. Willow is already down there sitting in the dark at the kitchen table. Dawn doesn't turn on the lights.
Willow: "Thanks. I didn't feel like having lights right now. What are you doing up?"
Dawn: "Can't I get liquid refreshment?"
Willow: "Yeah I know, but you should be sleeping. Dreaming of boys and school and ... boys."
Dawn gets her water and walks off.
Dawn: "Yeah what ever. I wish you guys would just leave me alone. I'm not a little kid."
She walks up stairs. Willow talks to herself aloud.
Willow: "It's not the same. A year later and I still think about you and me. Sometimes I wish I could forget this world and that it was just me," she puts down her cup, "I wish."
- 1:43 a.m. -
Xander pulls the phone away from his ear in frustration. He is lying on his bad.
Xander: "God, Anya you called me! And now you want to fight?"
Anya: "It's two o'clock at night and I'm lonely. You can't show a little compassion?"
Xander: "Look, I just fell asleep and hour ago. I got to get up in four and go to work. Anya, I'm tired. It's to early to be compassionate."
Anya: "Well, I woke up just to call you! I mean, it's just like the wedding. I'm giving you my heart and you just walk over it."
Xander: "IT is not. Anya, you know I still care for you, but it's two o'clock! We can continue this tomorrow. I'm gonna hang up now, bye."
He hangs up.
Xander: "God, between her and work I just can't take it anymore. Something has to give, I wish they'd all just back off."
Looks at his empty house and takes a deep breath.
Anya hangs up frustrated.
Anya: "I wish I could make them all go away. Ugh! Stupid I can't wish harm against other people myself rule."
- 1:43 a.m. -
Giles goes into the kitchen and gets a drink. He sits down.
"Look at yourself. Two in the morning. Living in a house fool of girls clearly less than half your age. Not where you expected to be and the one person you're sworn to protect out by herself. Rupert, you really did it this time. I'm old, useless, don't have any skills for the real world and trying to train a Slayer that no longer needs training. Sometimes I wish I could just get away from all this. Was London really that boring..."
He takes a sip and when his head lowers he sees Willow cup.
"Willow's coffee cup," he examines it, "Still warm. Where is she?"
He gets up and puts it in the fridge. He puts his cup on the table and walks into the living room. He raises an eye brow.
"Not here."
He goes up stairs and to Willow's room. Knocks softly and enters.
"Willow?"
He closes the door to the touch and walks to Dawn's room. The door is open and he goes in.
"Dawn, have you scene..."
Dawn's not there. He looks at her bed and walks over. He leans over and picks up her diary. It's open and time and dated. He looks at his watch. It matches Dawn's time scribed onto the page by a couple of minutes.
"Oh dear. Dawn?"
He leaves the room at a quick pace and continues calling out,
"Dawn!?" Please answer me! Willow?"
He stops.
"Anyone!?"
A lump forms in his throat and he checks all the rooms in the house. He paces quickly down the stairs and to the kitchen. He stops with his hand apon the phone receiver. He picks it up and calls Xander's house. The machine picks up just as he hangs up. He thinks about waiting for Buffy to come home.
"I can't. What if they are in danger?..." he says aloud.
He sits down on the living room couch and pounders. He gets up, grabs his coat and keys and leaves the house. The car in still in the driveway. He checks his keychain.
"Damnit Rupert, if only you knew how to hot wire a car. By foot then."
He takes a few steps, then runs back to the house. He franticly unlocks the door and relocks it after he closes it.
"Weapons Rupert."
He opens the chest of weapons. He takes two steaks and leaves again. He closes the door and bites his lip.
"Do it."
He straightens his coat and walks off.
"You can do this."
He turns on the next block and immediately notices a pattern. Front some front doors are open. He walks up one of them's steps and lowly hums a British tune.
"Is there anybody home?" walks into the house, "Hello?"
He searches the rooms.
"Anybody?"
He finds the television on. He walks out and closes the door behind him. He jogs down to the next house. It's lights are on. He tries the door. Unlocked. He enters and quickly goes to the bathroom to see what the noise that he is hearing is.
It's door is open and a blow dryer on the floor. It is on.
"someone sure left in an awful hurry. From someone or something."
He puts the dryer down and leaves the house.
"If Buffy were here," he says as he leaves the house property, "she would want to go immediately looking for it. We need to find it now and such nonsense. But me, what can I do? Play back up? What good am I really? I no longer have anything to offer. Sure I did kill Glory, but even then that was when she was in human form. Look at this justifiably. How do I benefit each of them?"
Comes apon Xander's house. Peers through the windows
Xander, how have I ever benefited you? What contribution have you made? We have to recuse you and Dawn all the time. But you do console my Slayer; aided her in her time of need and you're not home. Perfect."
Leaves and heads for the graveyard.
"Why am I still here?"
Slowly, foot by foot he enters the cemetery. He looks around and is startled by a bird.
"Nothing to fear but fear itself. It is not going to peck you to death."
He turns around quickly.
"who's there?"
No answer, yet he feels like someone is there.
"I said who is there!? Show yourselves! Fight man to man, or man to vampire... ummm."
He pulls a steak from out of his coat
A voice echo's through the air,
"Be careful what you wish for....."
Whack! The steak goes flying out of his hand.
"Well, I have two! A ripping good time for everyone!"
Whack! the second steak goes flying out of his hand and lands ontop a burial chamber.
"...Or maybe just you."
He starts running faster and faster as the voice behind him seems to grow with each footstep. His heart pumping and the voice almost apon him.
" HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!....."