Missing Scenes From Welcome To The Hellmouth

["Eric Bailey" <ebailey140@xxxxxxx>]

Don't own any of it, blah, blah, blah...
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Oh, credit to AleXander's transcrips, for the actual show parts...

Cordelia: Well, you'll be okay here. If you hang with me and mine, 
you'll be accepted in no time. Of course, we do have to test your 
coolness factor. You're from L.A., so you can skip the written, but 
let's see. Vamp nail polish.

Buffy: Um, over?

Cordelia: So over. James Spader.

Buffy: He needs to call me!

Cordelia: Frappaccinos.

Buffy: Trendy, but tasty.

Cordelia: John Tesh.

Buffy: The Devil.

Cordelia: That was pretty much a gimme, but... you passed!

Buffy: Oh, goody!

They turn toward a drinking fountain. Willow is there. She 
straightens 
up and sees them coming.

Cordelia: Willow! Nice dress! Good to know you've seen the softer 
side of Sears.

Willow: Uh, oh, well, my mom picked it out.

Cordelia: No wonder you're such a guy magnet. Are you done?

Willow looks at the fountain, then back at Cordelia.

Willow: Oh!

She turns and leaves. Buffy watches her go for a moment, then looks 
back at Cordelia after she starts talking again.

Cordelia: You wanna fit in here, the first rule is: know your 
losers. Once you can identify them all by sight (glances after 
Willow) they're a lot easier to avoid.

Buffy lets out a nervous laugh and nods. She looks at Willow again, 
who has gone through the door at the end of the hall. Willow looks 
back at them before she continues.

Willow: Grumble... Hanging out with Cordelia... 'My mom picked it 
out..' I'm so pathetic... She's so pretty, though... Those eyes.. 
Those legs... Um.. (Shakes head) I've been hanging around Xander 
too long...

Meanwhile, in another hallway...

Cordelia: And if you're not too swamped with catching up you should 
come by the Bronze tonight.

Buffy: The who?

Cordelia: The Bronze. It's the only club worth going to around here. 
They let anybody in, but it's still the scene. It's in the bad part 
of 
town.

Buffy: Where's that? (stops outside the library doors)

Cordelia: About a half a block from the good part of town. 
(laughing) 
We don't have a whole lot of town here. But, um, you should show!

Buffy: Well, I'll try. (looks toward the library) Uh, thanks. Think 
that girl from the water fountain will be there?

Cordelia: Ugh, Willow? Maybe, but you can just ignore her...

Later...

The quad at school. Willow is sitting on a bench in front of a wall 
taking out her lunch.

Buffy: Ooo, there she is. How to approach this... Need to feel her 
out...

Willow: Oh, there she is! No, don't look! She doesn't like me, she 
likes Cordelia... How can anyone like Cordelia? I mean, OK, she has 
that face and body, but she's a... But, a girl wouldn't be 
interested in Cordelia's face and body... Not a normal girl, 
anyway... That would be bad! Really bad! She's coming this way...  
No, no, she can't want to talk to me... Stop staring... Focus on 
lunch... 

Buffy approaches her.

Buffy: Uh, Hi! Willow, right?

Willow: (looks up) Why? I-I mean, hi! Uh, did you want me to move?

Buffy: Why don't we start with, 'Hi, I'm Buffy,' and, uh, then let's 
segue directly into me asking you for a favor. (sits next to her) It 
doesn't involve moving, but it does involve hanging out with me for a 
while.

Willow: But aren't you hanging out with Cordelia?

Buffy: I can't do both?

Willow: Not legally.

Buffy: (exhales) Look, I really wanna get by here, new school, 
and... 
Cordelia's been really nice... to me... anyway, but, um, I kinda have 
this burning desire not to flunk all my classes, and I heard a rumor 
that you were the person to talk to if I wanted to get caught up.

Willow: Oh, I could *totally* help you out! Uh, if you have sixth 
period free we could meet in the library?

Buffy: Or not. Or we could meet someplace quieter. Louder. Uh, that 
place just kinda gives me the wiggins.

Willow: Oh, it has that effect on most kids. I love it, though, it's 
a 
great collection, and the new librarian is really cool.

Buffy: He's new?

Willow: Yeah, he just started. He was a curator at some British 
museum, 
or, or The British Museum, I'm not sure. But he knows everything, and 
he 
brought all these historical volumes and biographies, and am I the 
single dullest person alive?

Buffy: Not at all.

Xander hops up onto the wall behind the girls and sits on it between 
them. Jesse stands in front of them and drops his bag.

Jesse: Hey!

Xander: You guys busy? Are we interrupting? We're interrupting.

He tosses his bag to Jesse.

Buffy: Hey!

Willow: Hey!

Jesse: Hey there!

He drops Xander's bag next to his own.

Willow: Buffy, this is Jesse and that's Xander.

Xander: Oh, me and Buffy go waaay back, old friends, very close. 
Then 
there's that period of estrangement where I think we were both 
growing 
as people, but now here we are, like old times, I'm quite moved.

Jesse: Is it me, or are you turning into a bibbling idiot?

Xander: No, it's, uh, it's not you.

Buffy: Well, it's nice to meet you guys, I think.

Xander jumps down to retrieve the stake from his bag.

Jesse: Well, you know, we wanted to welcome ya, make ya feel at 
home, 
unless you have a scary home...

Xander: And to return this. (holds up the stake) The only thing I 
can 
think is that you're building a really little fence. (hands it to her)

Buffy: (takes it) Hah, no, um, a-a-actually it was for self-defense. 
Everyone has them in L.A. Pepper spray is just so passé.

Xander: So what do you do for fun, what do you like, what do you 
look 
for in a man, let's hear it.

Jesse: If you have any dark, painful secrets you'd like us to 
publish?

Buffy: Gee, everyone wants to know about me. How keen.

Xander: Well, not much goes on in a one Starbucks town like 
Sunnydale. 
You're pretty big news.

Buffy: I'm not. Really.

Cordelia: (interrupts) Are these guys bothering you?

Buffy: Uh, no!

Willow: She's not hanging out with us.

Jesse: (stands next to her) Hey! Cordelia!

Cordelia: (to Jesse) Oh, please! (to Buffy) I don't mean to 
interrupt 
your downward mobility, but I just wanted to tell you that you won't 
be 
meeting Coach Foster, the woman with the chest hair, because gym was 
canceled due to the *extreme* dead guy in the locker.

Buffy: What?

Willow: What are you talking about?

Cordelia: Some guy was stuffed in Aura's locker!

Buffy: Dead.

Cordelia: Totally dead. Way dead.

Xander: It's not just a little dead, then?

Cordelia: Don't you have an elsewhere to be?

Jesse: Y'know, if you need a shoulder to cry on, or just to nibble 
on...

Buffy: How did he die?

Cordelia: I don't know.

Buffy: Well, were there any marks?

Cordelia: Morbid much! I didn't ask!

Buffy: (looks at everyone) Um, I gotta book. I'll, I'll see you guys 
later.

She grabs her things and leaves. Cordelia stares after her.

Cordelia: What's her deal?

Willow: (in awe) She's so... mysterious!

Cordelia: Whatever...

Cut to Buffy, heading toward the gym

Buffy: Damn, why's that Jesse guy being so nosy? Dark secrets? No, 
no, he couldn't know... He just met me...

Buffy's room. She's considering what to wear to the Bronze. She holds 
a 
shiny black outfit up to the mirror.

Buffy: Hi! I'm an enormous slut! (holds up a blue floral dress) 
Hello! 
Would you like a copy of 'The Watchtower'? (lowers the dress) I used 
to 
be so good at this.

Her mother comes into the room.

Joyce: Hi, hon.

Buffy returns her dresses to the closet.

Buffy: Hey!

Joyce: Are you, uh, going out tonight?

Buffy: Yeah, I'm going to a club.

Joyce: Oh. Will there be boys there?

Buffy: Um, why do you ask?! Um, I mean (Thinking of clever answer) 
No, Mom. It's a nun club.

Cut to outside the Bronze. People are arriving and meeting. Buffy is 
wearing the cross around her neck. She walks up to the entrance, 
gives 
the doorman some cash and goes in. Sprung Monkey is playing "Believe" 
loudly, and the dance floor is crowded with people.

Lyrics: Oh, I just want to believe / Can you hear me? / Can you see 
me? 
/ What's inside of me? / Oh, I just want to believe / If my life can 
have a purpose / Help me to believe / Oh, I just want to believe / 
Can 
you hear me? / Can you see me? / What's inside of me? / Oh, I just 
want 
to believe / If my life can have a purpose / Help me to believe

Buffy moves to the music a bit. She sees a guy waving in her 
direction 
and waves back, then notices someone behind her waving back and pulls 
her hand down, embarrassed.

Buffy: Wonder if she's here?

Lyrics: Everybody wants to find the circle / The line of truth that 
has 
no end / Because so many nights I've slept with the feeling of 
empty / 
And I say, right now I'm ready to believe

She finds the bar and sees Willow sitting there.

Buffy: Hey!

Willow: Oh, hi!

Buffy walks around her and sits on the stool next to her. Willow 
turns 
to face her.

Willow: Hi!

Buffy: Oh, you're here with someone?

Willow: No, I'm just here. I thought Xander was gonna show up.

Buffy: Oh, are you guys going out?

Willow: No, we're just friends. We used to go out, but we broke up.

Buffy: How come?

Willow: He stole my Barbie. (Buffy looks confused) Oh, we were five.

Buffy: Oh.

Willow: I-I-I don't actually date a whole lot... lately.

Buffy: Why not?

Willow: Well, when I'm with a boy I like, it's hard for me to say 
anything cool, or, or witty, or at all. I-I can usually make a few 
vowel 
sounds, and then I have to go away.

Buffy: It's not *that* bad!

Willow: No, i-it is. I think boys are more interested in a girl who 
can 
talk.

Buffy: You really *haven't* been dating lately.

Willow: It's probably easy for you.

Buffy: Yeah, real easy.

Willow: I-I mean you don't seem too shy.

Buffy: Well, my philosophy, do you wanna hear my philosophy?

Willow: Yeah, I do!

Buffy: Life is short.

Willow: Life is short!

Buffy: Not original, I'll grant you, but it's true. You know? Why 
waste 
time being all shy and worrying about some guy, and if he's gonna 
laugh 
at you. Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.

Willow: Oh, that's nice!

Buffy looks up and sees Giles on the upper level.

Buffy: Um, I'll be back in a minute. (gets up to go)

Willow: Oh, tha-that's okay, you don't have to come back.

Buffy: (smiles) I'll be back in a minute.

Willow: (to herself) Seize the moment.

Cut to Buffy, making her way to the stairs. The camera follows her up.

Buffy: This BETTER be important... I've gotta get back for when 
she's ready to seize the moment...