Episode 3- Holding On by Buffyfan1973
Faith: "Red, hold on, I'll make it!" She dives on the vamp and kicks it off Willow
as Robin drags her to the side. The
vamp knocks Faith into a tree taking the wind out of her for a second. She recovers
jabbing it with a stake shrugging knowing it won't kill it. It kicks her in the stomach
knocking her backwards.
Robin: "Faith come on, she's hurt bad!"
Faith: "I'm trying!"
Andrew: "I'm frightened, that thing looks strong. It's to bad we don't have one of
those space weapons from..."
Robin: "Shut up Andrew now is not the time!" The vamp has Faith down with blood oozing
from her mouth and now stomach where it
rammed the stake into her.
Faith: "Damn it!" She kicks the vamp in the gut sending it flying, jerks down some
sort of wiring used
for utility purposes and races after it. It hits her again but she catches it round
the neck, ramming her knee into it's stomach and pulling with all her might decapitating
it.
(cut to Willow's hospital room.)
Kennedy: "Hey, you're awake, that thing knocked you in the head pretty good."
Willow: "I know, that's all I remember but someone told me they were coming."
Kennedy: "Faith, she almost didn't get away alive either. They're patching her up."
She gives Willow a gentle peck on the lips but Willow seems non-responsive then Andrew
races in.
Andrew: "Oh glad to see you're better. It was awesome, kick, punch, bam, blood and
gore." He's making strange facial motions as he speaks and Willow sort of smiles.
(cut to Faith's room.)
Robin: "Faith don't blame yourself, once we get a handle on who is to blame,"
Faith: "yeah tell me some more Wood-man. Give me the, in every generation a slayer
is born, line too. Don't you see it bub, if we don't find out fast what's going on
and stop it B's vision will come true. She saw an army of those things remember?"
Faith gets up from the bed, dresses and walks out leaving a stunned Wood behind.
(Cut to an abandoned crypt with Caleb and an unseen woman.)
Caleb: "Brilliant idea you had, these Turok-Han's are really distracting to the impressive
scooby gang."
Woman: "Yes and once Willow is to drawn into her magics, Faith in the bottle, the
others will be lost."
(cut to Willie's demon bar)
Faith is chugging her 5th beer down when she's tapped on the arm.
Willie: "Slayer, you're all humanity has now get used to it. Do you think Buffy'd
like seeing you try to run?"
Faith: "Fuck off man, I'm not B, I never will be B!"
Willie: "No you're Faith, headstrong, determined, you know your job fully, you know
you have the power, she let things get in her way, you don't." She throws down some
money, kicking the chair back under the table and walks out.
(Cut to next night at Summers home.)
Andrew is drawing on his board while baking a cake, Willow and Xander are talking.
Xander: "Wills, are you ok?"
Willow: "No Xander, the symptoms are back. I've tried to talk to Kennedy but even
after how I took power from her, she treats it lightly."
Xander: "I hope she and Robin will be ok on patrol, you think Faith ran off again?"
Willow: "Robin said she was mad when she left the hospital but someone has to believe
in her Xander. Someone has to believe she's ready and obviously most of you don't."
Xander: "I don't even trust her fully Wills. Look what she did to us before." Andrew
comes in with the cake, dough all over his hands still.
Andrew: "Look what I did to Willow, I was involved in the murder of Tara. If you
guys can let me in why not Faith. I think she's a kick ass slayer and I trust her."
(cut to Robin and Kennedy.)
Kennedy: "Think she's run off?"
Robin: "Faith, nah, she'll be back, she just needs time to adjust to being leader
but not to worry she'll combust and you'll get your shot." A vamp leaps out and she
easily kills it with a crossbow.
(cut to Joyce Summers grave.)
Faith: "Hey there miss S. I'm really sucking at all this. B just up and left me in
charge, well not just up and left but that's my secret. She left me with D, your
baby girl, and I know you're not proud of how I'm handling her. See the thing is
I don't know how to take care of anyone, not even myself. But I'm holding on hoping
someday someone will believe in me and quit comparing me to B. That's crazy though,
B'd never go get plastered and have a meaningless lay like I did last night. Oh and
I'm sorry for that little mishap a few years back, I didn't really want to kill you
miss S. I was crazy back then ya know." She looks up to see a shimmering white light
which evolves into a whitely clad lady, it's Joyce Summers.
Joyce: "I believe in you Faith. She was truly yours." The figure disappears as Faith looks on big-eyed, stamps out her cigarette and walks off.
(fade to black)