Missing Scenes From Welcome To The Hellmouth 2/2

["Eric Bailey" <ebailey140@xxxxxxx>]

Lyrics: I feel love with my friends / I feel love in my songs / If I 
could just hold love / Then all the answers might come / I said, oh, 
if 
we're all children of God / And we just turned away / I got a lack of 
belief / I said a world without faith / It's time we turn back around

Buffy: (finds Giles) So, you like to party with the students. Isn't 
that kinda skanky?

Giles: Oh, right, this is me having fun. Watching... clown hair 
prance 
about is hardly my idea of a party. I'd much rather be at home with a 
cup of Bovril and a good book.

Buffy: You need a personality, stat!

Giles: (points to the crowd below) This is a perfect breeding ground 
for vampire activity. It's dark, it's crowded... Besides, I knew you 
were likely to show up, and I have to make you understand...

Buffy: ...that the Harvest is coming. I know, your friend told me.

Giles: What did you say?

Buffy: The Harvest. That mean something to you? 'Cause I'm drawing a 
blank.

Giles: I'm not sure. Uh... W-who told you this?

Buffy: This... guy. Dark, gorgeous in an annoying sort of way. I 
figured you two were buds.

Giles: No. The Harvest. Did he say anything else?

Buffy: Something about the Mouth of Hell. I *really* didn't like him!

The band has finished its song and there's lots of applause. They 
soon start their next song, "Swirl". Giles moves around Buffy, leans 
on the railing and looks down at the crowd.

Giles: Look at them, throwing themselves about, completely unaware 
of the danger that surrounds them.

Buffy: Lucky them.

Giles: Or perhaps you're right. Perhaps there is no trouble coming, 
the signs could be wrong. It's not as though you've been having the 
nightmares.

Buffy is silent. Cut to below.

Cordelia: My mom doesn't even *get* out of bed anymore. And the 
doctor says it's Epstein-Barr. I'm like, pleeease! It's chronic 
hepatitis, or at least chronic fatigue syndrome. I mean, *nobody* 
cool has Epstein-Barr anymore. Now, where's Buffy? She said she'd 
be here...

Jesse spots Cordelia and comes over.

Jesse: Hey, Cordelia!

Cordelia: Oh, yay, it's my stalker. (makes a face)

Jesse: Hey, you, uh, you look great!

Cordelia: Well, I'm glad we had this little chat.

Jesse: (coughs) Listen, uh, you know, you wanna dance, you know?

Cordelia: With you?

Jesse: Well, uh, yeah.

Cordelia: Well, uh, no! C'mon, guys.

She and her friends leave. Jesse is left in the dust.

Jesse: Fine! Plenty of other fish in the sea. Oh, yeah, I'm... on 
the 
prowl. Witness me prowling!

Cordelia: Now, were is she? She wouldn't stand me up... Nobody 
stands me up...

Cut to Buffy and Giles on the upper level.

Buffy: I didn't say I'd never slay another vampire. It's not like I 
have all these fluffy bunny feelings for them, I'm just not gonna get 
way extracurricular with it. You know, if I see one, sure I'll...

Giles: (interrupting) Will you be ready? There's so much you don't 
know about them, about your own powers. A vampire appears to be 
completely normal until the feed is upon them, only then do they 
reveal their true demonic visage.

Buffy: You're like a textbook with arms, I know this.

Giles: The point is, a Slayer should be able to see them anyway. 
Without looking, without thinking. Can you tell me if there's a 
vampire in this building?

Buffy: Maybe...

Giles: You should know. Even through this mass and this... din, you 
should be able to sense them. Well, try! Reach out with your mind. 
(Buffy looks around) You have to hone your senses, focus until the 
energy washes over you, until you, you feel every particle o-of...

Buffy: There's one.

Giles: W-where?

Buffy: Right there, talking to that girl.

Giles: You don't know...

Buffy: Oh, please! Look at his jacket. He's got the sleeves rolled 
up, and the shirt! Deal with that outfit for a moment.

Giles: It's dated?

Buffy: It's carbon dated. Trust me, only someone living underground 
for ten years would think that was still the look.

Giles: But you didn't... hone.

Buffy: (notices that the girl is Willow) Oh, no.

Giles: Isn't that...

Buffy: Willow.

Giles: What's she doing?

Buffy: Seizing the moment! 

She starts down to rescue Willow.

Buffy: I'm SO gonna stake that vamp...

Lyrics: We're formed in liquid / Pushed out still dripping / A world 
was thrown before my eyes

Cut to below. Willow is being led out of the Bronze by the vampire. 
Cut to Giles. He's at a loss for what to do.

Lyrics: Now paint a picture / Crayon stick figures / With blue-
haired people, purple skies

Cut to below. Buffy has lost them. She tries the back. She breaks a 
leg off of a stack of chairs and begins to stalk. After a while 
Cordelia comes out of the restroom and surprises her. Buffy reacts, 
taking Cordelia by the throat and pushing her up against a wall.

Buffy: (recognizing) Cordelia! (she lets go)

Cordelia: God! What is your childhood trauma?!

Her entourage appears in the restroom door behind her.

Buffy: Have you guys seen Willow? Did she come by here?

Cordelia: Why? Do you need to attack her with the stick? Jeez!

Buffy turns and goes.

Cordelia: (to her groupies) Excuse me, I have to call *everyone* I 
have *ever* met, right now. Has a date with me and she's looking for 
Willow...

Cut to the cemetery. Willow and Thomas are walking.

Willow: Oh, okay, th-this is nice... and scary. Are you sure this is 
faster?

They reach the mausoleum.

Thomas: Hey! Ever been in one of these?

Willow: No. Thank you. (turns away)

Thomas: Come on. (comes up behind her and pulls her hair back) What 
are you afraid of?

He moves in toward her neck. She lets out a yelp as he grabs her and 
pushes her into the mausoleum. Cut to inside the mausoleum. Willow 
trips down the stairs and stops up against the stone coffin. She 
turns around.

Willow: That wasn't funny!

Thomas comes down the steps. She backs away from him, against a wall. 
She trips over some stones.

Willow: I think I'm gonna go.

Thomas: Is that what you think?

He comes toward her again. She skirts by him, but only because he 
lets her. Darla blocks her way out of the mausoleum.

Darla: Is this the best you could do?

Thomas: She's fresh!

Darla: Hardly enough to share.

Willow: Share?!!! But... Look, I don't like girls that way!!!

Thomas: Why didn't you bring your own?

Darla: (gives him a look) I did.

Jesse stumbles into the mausoleum, holding his neck.

Jesse: Hey! Wait up!

Willow: Oh, my God, Jesse!

He is weak from blood loss and collapses. Willow tries to catch him 
and breaks his fall.

Jesse: Y'know, you gave me a hickey.

Thomas gives Darla a look.

Darla: (shrugs) I got hungry on the way.

Willow: Jesse, let's get outta here!

Darla: Oh, you're not going anywhere.

Willow: (confronts her) Leave us alone!

Darla: You're not going anywhere until we've (vamps out) *fed*!

Willow screams and falls back down next to Jesse. Buffy and Xander 
show up.

Buffy: Well, this is nice. I-it's a little bare, but a dash of 
paint, a few throw pillows... call it home!

Buffy moves behind the coffin to draw the vampires away from the 
others.

Darla: Who the hell are you?

Buffy: You mean there's actually someone in this town who doesn't 
know already? Whew, that's a relief, I'm telling you! Having a secret 
identity in this town is a job of work.

Xander: Buffy, we bail now, right?

Thomas: Not yet!

Buffy: Okay, first of all, what's with the outfit? Live in the now, 
okay? You look like DeBarge!

The vampires close in on her. She turns to Darla.

Buffy: Now, we can do this the hard way, or... well, actually 
there's just the hard way.

Darla: That's fine with me!

Buffy: Are you sure? Now, this in not gonna be pretty. We're talking 
violence, strong language, adult content...

Thomas roars behind Buffy. She pulls the chair leg out from inside 
her shirt. He attacks from behind, but Buffy neatly jams the 
makeshift stake into his chest. He falls back and turns to ashes. 
Darla can't believe her eyes. Neither can anyone else.

Buffy: See what happens when you roughhouse?

Darla: He was young and stupid!

Buffy: Xander, go!

Darla: Don't go far!

Buffy and Darla start to fight. Darla punches high, but Buffy blocks. 
Xander helps Willow pick up Jesse. Darla throws a backhand punch, but 
Buffy blocks again and follows up with a front snap kick to Darla's 
stomach. As she leans forward from the pain, Buffy slams her elbow 
into Darla's back. Cut to outside. Xander and Willow help Jesse out 
and they start to run. Cut to the mausoleum. Darla hits the wall and 
falls to the floor, winded.

Buffy: You know, I just wanted to start over. Be like everybody 
else. Have some friends, a cute redhead, y'know, maybe a dog... But, 
no, you had to come here, you couldn't go suck on some other town.

Darla: Who are you?

Buffy: Don't you know?

Luke grabs her by the neck from behind.

Luke: I don't care!

He throws her across the room. He grabs Darla and lifts her to her 
feet.

Luke: You were supposed to be bringing an offering for the Master! 
We're almost at Harvest, and you dally with this child! And since 
when are you a sub?

Darla: (fearfully) We had someone, but then she came. She killed 
Thomas. Luke, she's strong.

Luke: You go. I'll see if I can handle the little girl.

He approaches Buffy as she starts to get up, still a little dazed. 
Darla quickly climbs the steps, looks back once and runs out of the 
door. Luke attacks Buffy with a double punch, but she blocks it and 
delivers a punch to his gut and a hopping front snap kick to his jaw. 
He steps back, but isn't fazed.

Luke: You're strong.

He lands a solid backhand fist on her. She goes flying.

Luke: I'm stronger!

Cut to outside in the cemetery. Xander and Willow are supporting 
Jesse as they run.

Willow: We'll get the police, it's just a few blocks up!

They are stopped by a group of vampires. Cut to the mausoleum.

Luke: You're wasting my time.

She backs away up the stairs toward the exit.

Buffy: Hey, I had other plans, too, okay?

Luke shoves the heavy lid off of the coffin. Buffy does a cartwheel 
onto and over it to avoid it and kicks Luke in the chest with both 
feet, knocking him down. She grabs the stake from the floor and 
lunges at Luke, but he is too quick for her, and grabs her by the 
wrist.

Luke: You think you can stop me? Stop us?

He grabs the stake with his other hand and breaks it. Then he grabs 
her by the shirt.

Luke: You have no idea what you're dealing with.

He throws Buffy onto the rim of the now open coffin. She rolls off 
onto the floor, dazed. Luke gets up and starts toward her, quoting 
scripture.

Luke: 'And like a plague of boils, the race of man covered the 
Earth.'

Cut to the library. Giles is paging through an old volume and stops 
on a picture of Satan with lightning coming from his hand to a man's.

Luke: 'But on the third day of the newest light would come the 
Harvest. And the blood of men will flow as wine.'

Cut to the Master sitting in an intricately carved chair.

Luke: 'When the Master will walk among them once more!'

Cut to Xander, Willow and Jesse surrounded by vampires, including 
Darla.

Luke: 'The Earth will belong to the old ones.'

Cut to Buffy. Luke is in her face.

Luke: 'And Hell itself will come to town.'

He grabs Buffy and growls. He lifts her by the throat and throws her 
toward the coffin. Buffy flips over in a front layout and lands in 
the coffin next to a skeleton, and lets out a quick scream, but then 
remains silent, only breathing. She can't see or hear Luke. She 
slowly starts to get up. Suddenly Luke jumps up and into the coffin.

Luke: (smiling widely) Amen!

He moves in to bite Buffy.

To Be Continued...