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Episode 10- Part of Me by AnyaRocks
Faith is walking, holding a small child's hand.
Faith: "When we find some food I'll take you to the playground."
Girl: "Is momma coming?"
Faith: "No it's just me and you, I will always take care of you."
Girl: "Can we swing?"
Faith: "Anything you want."
(Cut to Dawn slipping out of the house)
She walks down the street, it's pitch black, not a person in sight, except the demon
who's watching her. She senses something is following her so picks up the pace but
it grabs hold of her.
(cut back to the Summers home.)
Willow, Xander and Kennedy are in the living room.
Willow: "He stole part of me, all the power, I can't feel it anymore. It's all gone."
She begins to cry.
Kennedy: "Willow we have more important things to worry about, it's just magic, you
can do spells without power."
Willow: "How can you say that, it isn't just magic to me Kennedy, it's part of who
I am."
Kennedy: "Willow, magic isn't a person, it's something they do."
Willow: "You never understood me, now instead of comforting me you're belittling
me and what I am."
Xander: "Ladies maybe you shouldn't discuss this just now."
Kennedy: "Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if you wouldn't make such a big deal of magic.
Maybe it's for the best." Faith comes down the stairs obviously shaken, heads to
the kitchen and gets a beer.
Willow: "Look, this isn't working. I get nothing from you but statements against
what I do, magic is part of me and if you can't understand that maybe you should
just leave."
Kennedy: "What the hell, sure ask me to leave now, you think Ms. icy cold slayer
here's gonna comfort you? Get you in bed maybe is it." Xander quickly exits the room.
(cut to an alley)
Dawn is struggling with the demon for all she's worth but losing fast. She lets out
a blood curdling scream just before it strikes her on the back of the head with a
clawed hand. We get a shot of the ladies in the Summers home still arguing till a
faint scream is heard. Faith glances at Kennedy.
Faith: "We'll finish this later I promise." She and Xander take off down the street
while Willow continues to cry and Andrew
is playing with his chart trying to guess where Robin is by doing dot to dot's.
Faith jumps on the demon who kicks her into a doorway and goes after her. Xander
grabs Dawn and heads off straining to watch the night with his good eye.
The demon repeatedly kicks Faith in the stomach before she grabs hold of its leg
slamming it through the glass on the door of a building which reads, Joe's House
of Pain. She dives inside the building thrusting a shard of glass through its eye.
Pink stuff oozes out as the demon screams and fades away.
(Cut to Summers home)
Willow is huddled in a corner, she sees everyone taunting her back in high school,
Cordelia, Harmony and the gang.
Harmony: "What a nerd you are Willow. Now you don't even have magic, that was what
saved you from utter loneliness."
Cordy: "Yeah, now you don't have any friends."
Harmony: "Only Xander and he's all grown up now, he has Amy, poor little Willow is
all all alone in geekville having nothing to make her important. Even what drew Tara
to her is gone."
The girls laugh and kick mud on her as she wakes up screaming no.
Faith comes in and goes to Willow's room hearing the scream.
Faith: "Red, it's ok man, we'll find what belongs to you somehow." She kneels down
next to the bed.
Willow: "I dreamed everyone hated me again, people only like me because of the magic,
without it I'm nothing. Everyone hated me in school, but Buffy and Xander and maybe
he was only my friend because he wanted Buffy."
Faith: "No Red, only those bitchie Cordette's hated you and who the hell cares what
they think. They were a bunch of losers. Yeah I picked on you but that was only cause
I liked to hear you babble. So you've got to snap out of this cause I'm having dreams
to and you know, I'm not real good with this talking, opening up deal but I think
I might need some help."
Willow: "You know Buffy never said those words to me, she'd get all I'm the slayer,
I'll do it alone, she never asked for help."
Faith: "Yeah well name's Faith Red, and I'm askin' which is somethin' I've never
done either but it's all part of shedding the old skin, becoming a new person." She
smiles at Willow who grins back. "Now I'm gonna go check on D, if you can't sleep
just come get me, I'll try to do the friend thing and sit up with you."
She goes into Dawn's room where Andrew was just peaking in. They exchange glances
and he heads to Willow's. Dawn is crying softly.
Faith: "Hey D, it's ok now, you're safe."
Dawn: "As mean as I've been, you..."
Faith: "yeah no big deal, it's my job right?" Faith glances at her seeing a birthmark
on her stomach, the right side, it looks like a red cherry.)
Her mind does a flashback. It's a cool fall day in Boston, Faith is a young teenager,
they're in an apartment which has no electric, no TV, very rundown place.
Faith: "One day we'll be out of this mess, I promise, you won't live like this forever kiddo." She hugs the small girl tightly. "I'm gonna have to sell some dope for mom, I'll steal a few bucks from it so we can have a good meal." A monk enters the room.
Monk: "My child, we can not wait for the watcher, it isn't yet your time for the sworn duty you so strongly dream of. We're taking the child and your memories will fade away."
Faith: "No you can't take her, she's part of me, she's all I have that loves me, please no don't kill her and give her to someone else!" Tears stream from the younger Faith's face as we get a shot of a cherry red birthmark on the child's stomach.
Dawn: "Faith, Faith, are you ok?" Faith looks at dawn then races from the room visibly shaken.
(fade to black grrrrr arg!)