Cut to: A young Buffy, watching her parents bring Dawn home from the hospital.

Flash: Buffy when she first found out she was the slayer.

Flash: Faith sitting in a bar downing shots at a very young age

Flash: Buffy and Faith's first meeting.

Flash: The mayor's transformation.

Flash: Buffy standing over her mother's body

Flash: Faith seeing her watcher die.

Flash: Buffy standing in front of Angel with a sword, right before she killed him.

Flash: Faith accidentally killing the deputy mayor.

Flash to the night Buffy jumped from the tower.

Flash to Faith sitting in jail.

Buffy climbing out of her grave.

Flash: Buffy giving the amulet to Spike.

Flash: Faith sitting by Tara's grave.

Flash:

We see Faith's eyes up close with a small glint of a tear about to creep out. The scene turns to Buffy and we see her face is cold and pale. Her eyes fixed deep into the darkness.

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Cut to: The basement.

Willow and Dawn are sitting on Spike's cot watching the entranced women as they visit this other reality.

"So, how long do you think they'll be like that?"

Willow yawned, "I'm not sure Dawn."

"Why don't you go take a nap? I'll stay here to make sure everything's ok."

"No, it's ok. I wanna be here when they come back to this planet. I wanna make sure Faith is ok.—and that they don't kill each other."

"It's ok Willow, you look really tired."

"Ok but only for a little bit. Thanks Dawnie." With that, Willow walked slowly up to her room. Her feet were heavy and her whole body was drained. She plopped herself right down on the bed and sighed. She was laying on her back and her hands were up over her head. She felt something hard under her wrists. The witch rolled over onto her stomach. It was Faith's journal. The one she said her father had given her. She took the book into her hands and thought about opening it. Instead she put it on the table by the bed and got herself comfortable in the bed.

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Cut to:

We see Faith in the dark again, sitting across from Buffy with her eyes wide open. "Buffy, I had no idea…no idea what you went through when you had to kill Angel, when you jumped off the tower to save the world. You truly are a hero. If only I had known that—"

"Shh…" Buffy interrupted.

Spike is walking through a cemetery smoking a cigarette. Buffy walks up to him and takes his hand in hers. She leans up to his cheek and kisses him softly. The sun in shining bright and we see the couple walk off into the distance.

"Buffy…" Faith looked at her friend. "Was that the future, or…?"

"It was… It was my dream. He's human, in my dream."

"It felt so real."

"It's real, in my heart. I feel like he's human, but I know he's not. It hurts."

"You love him." Before Buffy could say anything another image came through the darkness.

Faith is running toward someone we can't see. She's in an alley and it coming to a dead end. The girls she's running after stops and turns to face her. It's Willow.

"Faith, I can't do this anymore." Faith slaps Willow across the face. The crying redhead looks at the slayer with tearful eyes and says, "It's over Faith."

"I know." The slayer said through clenched teeth. Faith slowly pulls a dagger out of her jacket pocket and plunges it into the witch's stomach.

Faith let go of Buffy's hands and they were jolted back into reality, sitting in the same positions as when they started.

That was four hours ago.

Fade to black...

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