Angel
~~~~~~~~~~ Prologue ~~~~~~~~~~
In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer.
The Master's lair. Colin is tossing stones into the pool. He takes a few more from the Master's hand.
Darla comes into the lair.
Darla: The Slayer.
Master: Zachary was strong, and he was careful. And still the Slayer takes him... as she has taken so many of my family. (takes a breath) It wears thin. Colin, what would you do about it?
Colin: I'd annihilate her.
Master: (Inhales) Out of the mouths of babes...
Darla: (makes her way down) Let me do it, Master. Let me kill her for you.
Master: You have a personal interest in this.
Darla: I don't get to have any fun.
Master: I will send the Three.
Darla: The Three?
Cut to an alley. Three tough guys are lighting up cigarettes. The Three come around a corner at a
steady, deliberate pace. The men see them coming and leave. Cut to the Bronze. A cockroach is
being chased along the floor.
Girl: I got it!
She holds the roach up to the bartender and drops it into his jar.
The bartender nods his head and goes to get the drink.
Cut to Buffy and Willow sitting at a table.
Willow: It's an annual tradition. The closing of the Bronze for a few days to nuke the cockroaches?
Buffy: (not paying attention) Oh.
Willow: It's a lot of fun... What's it like where *you* are?
Buffy: (looks up and smiles) I'm... sorry, I was just... thinking about things...
Willow: So, we're talking about a guy?
Buffy: Not exactly a guy. For us to have a conversation about a guy, there'd have to be a guy for us to have a conversation about. Is that a sentence?
Willow: (smiles) You lack a guy.
Buffy: I do. Which is fine with me, most of the time, but...
Willow: What about Angel?
Buffy: Angel? I'd like to see him in a relationship. 'Hi, honey, you're in grave danger. I'll see you next month.'
Willow: He's not around much, it's true.
Buffy: (looks dreamy) When he is around... it's like the lights dim everywhere else. You know, it's like that with some guys?
Willow: Oh, yeah! (looks over at Xander)
Xander is on the dance floor, making a fool of himself. He dances up to a girl.
He backs away and bumps into Cordelia.
Xander: I'm sorry, I was just...
Cordelia: ...getting off the dance floor before Annie Vega's boyfriend squashes you like a bug?
Xander: Oh, so you noticed.
Cordelia: Uh, huh.
Xander: Yeah, thanks for being so understanding.
Cordelia: Sure.
Xander: Y'know, hey, I don't know what everyone's talking about. That outfit doesn't make you look like a
hooker! (laughs)
He leaves the dance floor and goes over to Buffy and Willow.
Willow: Just sitting here, watching our barren lives pass us by. (sees a roach) Oh, look, a cockroach. (stomps it)
Buffy lifts her eyes to see and then turns them back down.
Buffy: Alright, now I'm infecting those nearest and dear to me. I'm gonna call it a night. (gets up)
Willow: Oh, don't go!
Xander: Uh, yeah! It's early! We could, um, dance!
Buffy: Rain check? Good night. (leaves)
Xander lets out a breath. Willow holds her shoe up to him.
Buffy makes here way out of the Bronze looking bummed. She passes the stairs. Angel is watching
her go. Buffy senses something and turns to look. Angel is gone. She continues out. Cut to the
street. Buffy is walking home. She senses something and stops to look behind her. Nothing. She
continues and walks past an alley. She hears a breath and stops.
One of the Three roars and drops down to the sidewalk behind her. She reaches into her coat, pulls
out a stake and quickly spins around to stake the vampire. Another of the Three grabs her arm as she
swings.
The third member comes up on her other side and grabs her other arm.
They pull her into the alley and up against a fence. The first one approaches her.
She kicks him in the crotch, elbows the third, and begins fighting the second. He blocks her swing
and thrusts his knee in to her gut, slamming her into the fence. The other two recover and grab her
again. The second one slowly approaches her with death in his eyes. Buffy is terrified and struggles
to get away. Opening credits roll. Buffy's theme plays.
~~~~~~~~~~ Part 1 ~~~~~~~~~~
In the alley. The vampire comes up to Buffy, grabs her head and moves in to bite. Angel comes up
behind him, grabs him by the hair and pulls him off of her.
Buffy is surprised, but quickly regains her head. She kicks up with both feet and gets the other two
both in the face. One of them grabs her again and holds her against the fence. Angel continues to
fight the other two. One of them pulls a piece of iron bar off of a window.
Angel turns around, only to be sliced in the chest with the bar. Buffy pushes the vampire off of her
and punches him hard with a doubled fist. Angel is bent over in pain and is about to be stabbed
again. Buffy quickly kicks his attacker in the face, and he falls back away from Angel. She helps
Angel up.
They come running out of the alley. The Three get up and give chase. Buffy and Angel jump over the
bushes in front of her house and run onto the porch. The Three are hot on their trail. Buffy gets the
front door open.
She follows Angel in and slams the door on one of the vampire's hands. He struggles a moment, but pulls his hand back out. She slams the door shut and locks it. The vampire looks in through the glass.
Another one looks in through the window.
Buffy: I've heard that before, but I've never put it to the test. (leans on the door, sees his wound) Oh... I'll go get
some bandages, just... take your jacket and your shirt off.
She heads into the kitchen. Angel looks out the window one last time and follows her. He takes off
his jacket and his T-shirt. Buffy looks at him from behind and sees his tattoo. She brings over the
first aid kit.
Angel: I live nearby. I was just out walking.
Buffy: So, you weren't following me? I just had this feeling you were.
Angel: (smiles) Why would I do that?
Buffy: You tell me. You're the mystery guy that appears out of nowhere. I'm not saying I'm not happy about it tonight, but... if you are hanging around I'd like to know why. (finishes bandaging)
Angel: Maybe I like you.
Buffy: Maybe...
They smile at each other. Buffy hears the door open and quickly goes to intercept her mom. She's
also worried about the Three outside. She pulls her mom into the house and closes the door.
Buffy: There's a lot of weird people outside at night...
Joyce starts toward the kitchen. Buffy comes after her.
Joyce: I am. For a little gallery, you have no idea how much...
Buffy: Well, then why don't you go upstairs and get into bed, and I can bring you some hot tea?
Joyce: That's sweet! (suspicious) What'd you do?
Buffy: Can't a daughter just be concerned about her mother?
Angel comes into the living room behind Buffy. Joyce sees him.
Angel: Hi.
Buffy: Oh! Okay... Um... Angel, uh, this is my mom. Mom, this is Angel. Uh, we ran into each other on the way home.
Angel: Nice to meet you.
Joyce: What do you do, Angel?
Buffy: He's a student. (her mother gives her a disbelieving look) Uh, first year community college. Angel's been helping me with my history, you know I've been toiling there.
Joyce: It's a little late for tutoring. I'm gonna go to bed, and, uh, Buffy? (starts up the stairs)
Buffy: I'll say good night and do the same!
Joyce looks back down at her daughter and nods.
Cut to Buffy at the front door holding it open.
She closes the door. Angel is still there behind it. They go up the stairs and into her room. She closes
the door quietly.
Buffy: And I don't wanna get you dead. They could still be out there. (moves to the center of the room) So, uh, oh... two of us, one bed. That doesn't work. (faces him) Um, why don't you take the bed? Y'know, you're wounded...
Angel: I'll take the floor.
Buffy: Uh, no, that's not...
Angel: Oh, believe me, I've had worse.
Buffy: Okay. Um, then why don't you check and see if the Fang Gang is still loitering and, um, keep your back
turned while I change?
Angel goes over to the window to have a look. Buffy goes to her closet and changes.
Buffy: Y'know, I'm the chosen one, it's my job to fight guys like that. What's your excuse?
Angel: Uh, somebody has to.
Buffy: Well, what does your family think of your career choice?
Angel: They're dead.
She has finished changing and comes over to him.
Angel: (faces her) I-it was.
Buffy: I'm sorry.
Angel: It was a long while ago.
Buffy: So, this is a vengeance gig for you.
Angel: (pauses) Y-you even look pretty when you go to sleep.
Buffy: Well, when I wake up it's an entirely different story.
They go over to her bed. She hands him the comforter from it.
He lays the comforter down on the floor next to her bed. She gets into her bed and he lies on the
comforter.
Angel: Hmm?
Buffy: Do you snore?
Angel: I don't know. It's been a long time since anybody's been in a position to let me know.
He turns his head to look at her. She smiles and settles in to sleep. Cut to the library the next day.
Buffy: Not *in* my bed, *by* my bed.
Willow: That is so romantic! Did you, uh... I mean, did he, uh...
Buffy: (smiling) Perfect gentleman.
The girls exchange smiles.
Buffy: What? Saving my life? Getting slashed in the ribs?
Xander: Duh! I mean, guys'll do anything to impress a girl. I-I once drank an entire gallon of Gatorade without taking a breath. (smiles)
Willow: It was pretty impressive. Although later there was an ick factor.
Giles: (coming to the table) Can we steer this riveting conversation back to the events that happened earlier in the evening? (Buffy sits down) You left the Bronze and were set upon by three unusually virile vampires. (puts a book in front of her) Did they look like this?
Buffy: Yeah. What's with the uniforms?
Giles: It seems you encountered the Three. Warrior vampires, very proud and very strong.
Willow: (to Giles) How is it you always know this stuff? You always know what's going on. I never know what's going on.
Giles: Well, you weren't here from midnight until six researching it.
Willow: No, I was sleeping.
Giles: Uh, o-obviously you're hurting the Master very much. He, he wouldn't send the, the Three for just anyone. We must step up our training with weapons.
Xander: Buffy, you should stay at my house until these Samurai guys are history.
Buffy: (turns to him) What?
Xander: Ah, ah, don't worry about Angel, we'll look around your house and tell him to get out of town fast.
Giles: Angel and Buffy are, are not in any immediate jeopardy. Eventually the Master will send someone else, but
in the mean time the Three, having failed, will offer their own lives in penance.
Cut to the Master's lair.
He hands the Master a spear. The Master passes it to Darla. She starts to walk around behind the
Three as the Master goes over to Colin.
One of the Three raises his head in hope.
Master: Hmm. (gets up) I am weary, and their deaths will bring me little joy.
The Master begins to walk away, and Colin follows. Darla watches them go and smiles. She lifts the
spear and dispatches the first of the Three. The Master stops and turns to Colin.
He looks over at Darla as she kills the next one and continues away. Cut to the school. Cut to the
library door. Giles sets out a sign that reads 'Library CLOSED for filing. Please come back tomorrow.'
Cut inside. Buffy is checking out the weapons case.
Giles: Um, nothing. The crossbow comes later.
He takes the crossbow from her and goes to put it back. Buffy is disappointed.
Buffy: Giles, 20th Century? I'm not gonna be fighting Friar Tuck.
Giles: You never know with whom or what you'll be fighting. (puts on his head pads) And these traditions have been handed down through the ages. (grabs his staff) Now, you show me good, steady progress with the quarterstaff, and in due course we'll discuss the crossbow. Put on your pads.
Buffy: (laughs) I'm not gonna need pads to fight you.
Giles: Well, we'll see about that. En guard!
He makes several thrusts and she parries them all. She takes the offensive, pushes his staff to the
floor and punches him in the face. She comes around with the staff into his back, and again to knock
his legs out from under him. He falls onto his back. She stands over him.
Cut to the Summers house at night.
Cut to Buffy coming into her room. She closes the door and looks around.
Buffy: Angel?
Angel: Hey.
She turns on her desk lamp.
She hands him a plastic bag of food. He accepts it and looks at it.
Angel: Uh, I read a little.
Buffy looks over to her diary. It's out of place.
Buffy: My diary? You read my diary? (goes to put it in a drawer) That is *not* okay! A diary is like a person's most private place! (comes back to him) I... You don't even know what I was writing about! 'Hunk' can mean a lot of things, bad things. And, and when it says that your eyes are 'penetrating', I meant to write 'bulgy'.
Angel: Buffy...
Buffy: And 'A' doesn't stand for 'Angel' for that matter, it stands for... 'Achmed', a charming foreign exchange student, so that whole fantasy part has nothing to even do with you at all...
Angel: Your mother moved you diary when she came in to straighten up. I watched from the closet. I didn't read
it, I swear.
She just looks at him.
Angel: I did a lot of thinking today. I really can't be around you. (Buffy looks up) Because when I am...
Buffy: (looks down) Hey, no big. Water... over the bridge, under the bridge...
Angel: When I am all I can ever think about is how badly I want to kiss you.
Buffy: ...over the dam... (looks up at him) Kiss me?
Angel: I'm older than you, and this can't ever... I better go.
Buffy: H-how much older?
Angel: I should...
Buffy: (approaches him) ...go... You said...
They kiss. They kiss again. They kiss passionately. She puts her arm around him. The kiss goes on
for several moments. Angel suddenly pulls back and looks away.
He turns to face her and growls. She sees he has his game face on and screams. He takes a last look
at her and jumps out of the window. He slides down the roof and off onto the ground. Buffy goes to
the window and watches him run away. Her mother comes running into the room.
Buffy: Uh, nothing. I saw a shadow.
They both look out the window.
~~~~~~~~~~ Part 2 ~~~~~~~~~~
The next morning at Sunnydale High. The team is walking up the steps from the street toward the
building.
Buffy: I can't believe this is happening. One minute we were kissing, and the next minute... (to Giles) Can a vampire ever be a good person? Couldn't it happen?
Giles: A vampire isn't a person at all. (clears his throat) It may have the movements, the, the memories, even the personality of the person that it took over, but i-it's still a demon at the core, there is no half way.
Willow: So that'd be a no, huh?
Buffy: Well, then what was he doing? Why was he good to me? Was it all some part of the Master's plan? It
doesn't make sense!
They've reached a bench where Willow and Buffy sit.
Buffy doesn't react, so Xander looks up at Giles.
Xander: I-I know you have feelings for this guy, but it's not like you're in love with him, right?
Buffy looks away.
Cordelia: What?!
He looks at Cordelia. She's looking somewhere else, but turns to him.
Cordelia looks back at another girl wearing the same dress she is.
The two girls disappear into the building.
Cut to the hall outside Angel's apartment. He comes through the door and goes to his apartment
door. He unlocks it and goes in. Cut inside. There are a bunch of old books stacked along the wall. He
closes the door and goes over to turn on a lamp. When he straightens back up he senses a presence.
Darla: A friend.
He quickly faces the voice. Darla comes out of the shadows wearing a catholic schoolgirl uniform.
Angel: A lifetime.
Darla: Or two, but who's counting?
Angel: What's with the catholic schoolgirl look? Last time I saw you it was kimonos.
Darla: And last time I saw you it wasn't high school girls. (flares the skirt) Don't cha like? (approaches Angel) Remember Budapest? Turn of the century? You were such a bad boy during that earthquake.
Angel: You did some damage yourself.
Darla: Is there anything better than a natural disaster? (walks away) The panic. The people lost in the streets. It's
like picking fruit off the vine. (reaches the bed) Nice! You're living above ground, like one of them.
You and your new friend are attacking us, like one of them. (walks to the window) But guess what,
precious? You're not one of them.
` She draws the window blinds open, letting in a stream of sunlight. Angel is blinded, and he stumbles
backward to get out of the light.
Angel: No. But I'm not exactly one of you either.
Darla: (walks to the fridge) Is that what you tell yourself these days?
She opens the refrigerator and sees the bags and bottles of human blood.
Angel: Maybe you don't wanna be.
Darla: I'm not afraid of you. I bet she is, though. (starts to leave) Or maybe I'm underestimating her. Talk to her.
Tell her about the curse. Maybe she'll come around. And if she still doesn't trust you, you know
where I'll be.
She exits the apartment, leaving an angry Angel behind. Cut to the library. Buffy is looking through a
book. So are Willow and Xander. Giles comes up behind Xander and startles him.
Xander: Can you please warn us before you do that?
Giles: There's nothing about Angel in the texts, but it suddenly occurred to me that it's been ages since I've read the diaries of any of the watchers before me.
Willow: (to Buffy) That musta been so embarrassing when you thought he had read your diary, but then it turned out he hadn't, but then he felt the same way... (Xander gives her a look) I'm listening.
Giles: There's mention some two hundred years ago in Ireland of, of Angelus, the one with the Angelic face.
Buffy: They got that right.
Xander: (clears his throat) I'm not saying anything, I have got nothing to say.
Giles: Does this, uh, Angel have, um, a tattoo behind his right shoulder?
Buffy: Yeah, it's a, it's a bird or something.
Xander: Now I'm sayin' something. You saw him naked?
Willow: So, Angel's been around for a while.
Giles: Not long for a vampire. Uh, two hundred and forty years or so.
Buffy: Huh! Two hundred and forty. Well, he said he was older.
Giles: (sits) Angelus leaves Ireland, uh, wreaks havoc in, in Europe for, uh, several decades, and then, um, about eighty years ago, the most curious thing happens. He, he comes to, uh, to America, um, shuns other vampires, and, and lives alone. There's, there's no, no record of him hunting here.
Willow: So Angel *is* a good vampire! I mean, on a scale of one to ten, ten being someone who's killing and maiming every night, and one being someone who's... not.
Giles: I say that there's no record, but, uh, vampires hunt and kill. It's, it's what they do.
Xander: Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly.
Buffy: He could've fed on me, he didn't.
Xander: Question: a hundred years or so before he came to our shores, what was he like then?
Giles: Uh, like all of them. Uh, a vicious, violent animal.
Cut to the Master's lair.
Master: How can my children learn if I do everything for them?
Darla: But you've gotta let me take care of the Slayer.
Master: Oh! You're giving me orders now!
Darla: (walks away) Okay, then, we'll just do nothing while she takes us out one by one.
Master: Do I sense a plan, Darla? (she turns around) Share...
Darla: (walks back) Angel kills her and comes back to the fold.
Master: Angel! He was the most vicious creature I ever met. I miss him.
Darla: So do I.
Master: (considers) Why would he kill her if he feels for her?
Darla: To keep her from killing him.
Master: Hmm. (to Colin) You see how we all work together for the common good? That's how a family is
supposed to function!
Cut to the school at night.
Cut to the library. Buffy and Willow are studying.
Buffy: Huh? (comes back to earth) Oh! Um, reconstruction... Uh, reconstruction began after the... construction, which was... shoddy, so they had to reconstruct.
Willow: After the destruction of the Civil War.
Buffy: Right. Civil War. During which Angel was already, like, a hundred and change...
Willow: Are we gonna talk about boys, or are we gonna help you pass history?
Buffy looks up at Willow. She closes the book.
Buffy: You want Xander, you've gotta speak up, girl!
Willow: No, no, no, no. No speaking up. That way leads to madness and sweaty palms.
Darla peeks out from behind the stacks.
Buffy: (smiles) Unbelievable!
Darla continues to watch and listen.
Buffy: No, it's okay. I need to hear this. I need to get over him so I can...
Willow: So that you can... (makes a stabbing gesture)
Buffy: Like Xander said, I'm the Slayer, and he's a... vampire. God, I can't! He's never done anything to hurt me...
Okay, no, I need to stop thinking about this. Okay, let's give another half an hour and maybe
something will sink in. And then I'm going home for some major moping.
Darla smiles and backs away.
Cut to the Summers house. Cut inside to the kitchen where Joyce is doing her taxes and having
coffee. She hears creaking on the porch outside and gets up to investigate. She looks out the door
window and sees nothing. She opens the door a bit and still there's nothing. She closes the door and
heads to the front. Darla looks in, sporting her game face. Joyce walks slowly through the living room
and hears a knocking on the door. She looks out, sees Darla in her human guise and opens the door.
Darla: Hi! I'm Darla? A friend of Buffy's?
Joyce: Oh! (exhales) Nice to meet you.
Darla: (exhales) She didn't mention anything about me coming over for a study date, did she?
Joyce: No, I thought she was studying with Willow at the library.
Darla: She is. Willow's the Civil War expert, but then I was supposed to help her with the War of Independence. My family kinda goes back to those days.
Joyce: Well, I, I know she's supposed to be home soon. Would you like to come in and wait?
Darla: (comes in) It's very nice of you to invite me into your home. (smiles)
Joyce: You're welcome. I've been wrestling with the IRS all night. Would you like something to eat? (starts to the kitchen)
Darla: (follows) Yes, I would!
She looks at Joyce's neck. Cut to the kitchen.
Darla: (vamped out) Something big!
Cut outside. Angel comes walking up to the house. He almost knocks, but then decides to leave. As
he goes he hears Joyce scream. He runs around to the back door and kicks it in. He sees Darla biting
Joyce.
Darla: I just had a little, there's plenty more. Aren't you hungry for something warm after all this time? Come on,
Angel. Just say 'Yes'!
She shoves Joyce into Angel's arms so he can see the bite and smell the blood. He struggles with
himself and looks away from the bite. Darla watches with a big smile. Angel looks up at her again with
his game face on.
She walks around them and leaves the house. Angel continues to struggle with himself. Buffy comes
in from the dining room, and Angel looks up.
She turns toward him and freezes with fear. Angel bares his fangs and growls.
~~~~~~~~~~ Part 3 ~~~~~~~~~~
The Summers house. Cut to the living room window. Angel flies through it and tumbles over the
porch, through the bushes and onto the lawn. Buffy comes over to the broken window and looks out
at him as he gets up.
Angel just looks at her. She goes back inside. He turns to leave. Cut inside. Buffy grabs the phone,
dials 911 and goes over to kneel by her mom.
Xander: Hey, Buffy!
She looks up to see Xander and Willow come in through the kitchen door.
Willow: What happened?!
Buffy: Angel!
Cut to the hospital. Giles rushes down the corridor trying to find Joyce's room.
Cut inside the room.
Buffy: My friend?
Giles comes in the door.
Buffy: (looks to see) Oh! Um... No, mom, this is Mr. Giles.
Joyce: Oh, the librarian from your school! (confused) What's he doing here?
Giles: Uh, I-I just came to pay my respects, wish you a speedy recovery.
Joyce: Boy, the teachers really *do* care in this town.
Buffy: Get some rest now.
She gives her mom a kiss and they all go outside the room. Cut to the hall.
Giles: ...a little low. It presents itself like mild anemia. Uh, you, you were, uh, lucky you got to her as soon as you did.
Buffy: Lucky? Stupid.
Xander: Buff, it's not your fault.
Buffy: No? I invited him into my home. Even after I knew who he was, what he was, and I didn't do anything about it... 'cause I had feelings for him, because I cared about him.
Willow: If you care about somebody you care about them. You can't change that by...
Buffy: ...killing them? Maybe not. But I think it's a start. (starts to leave)
Xander: Uh, we'll keep an eye on your mom.
Giles: (chases after her) Buffy! (blocks her way)
Buffy: You can't stop me. The Three found me near the Bronze and so did he. He lives nearby.
Giles: This in no ordinary vampire. (whispers) If there is such a thing. Now, he knows you, he, he's faced the Three! I think this is gonna take more than a simple stake.
Buffy: So do I.
Cut to the armory in the library. Buffy loads the crossbow with bolts.
Cut to Angel's apartment.
Angel: Leave me alone.
Darla: What did you think? Did you think she would understand? That she would look at your face... your true
face... and give you a kiss?
Cut to Buffy in the library. She takes a practice shot at an anti- smoking poster and nails the guy in the heart.
She has pushed Angel to the limit. He jumps up and shoves her against the wall with her arms pinned
up.
Darla: What do you want?
Angel: I want it finished!
Darla: That's good. You're hurting me. (smiles) That's good, too.
Cut to outside the Bronze. Buffy has the crossbow held ready. She comes through a hole in a fence
and goes toward the entrance. She hears glass breaking above her and turns to the noise. She looks
around as she goes to the wall where there's a ladder. She starts to climb.
Cut to the hospital room.
Giles: She makes quite an impression herself.
Joyce: I-I know she's having trouble with history. I-is it too difficult for her or is she not applying herself?
Giles: She lives very much in the now, um, and, uh, history, of course, is, is very much about the, uh... the then. B- b-but there's no reason...
Joyce: She's studying with Willow, she's studying with Darla, I-I mean, she is trying.
Giles: Darla? I-I-I don't believe I know, uh...
Joyce: Her friend, the one who came over tonight.
Giles: Darla came to your house tonight? Sh-she's the friend that you mentioned earlier?
Joyce: Poor thing, I must've frightened her half to death when I fainted. Someone should really check and make sure she's alright.
Giles: (gets up) Yes, someone should, right away. I'll do it. (grabs his coat and leaves)
Joyce: That school is amazing!
Cut to the hall. He walks with Willow and Xander.
Cut to the Bronze. Buffy comes down the stairs. When she gets to the bottom she quickly turns to
have a look around. Angel backs into the shadows. Buffy hears a noise and pivots toward it.
Angel: Do you?
She faces his voice.
Buffy: You're not an animal. Animals I like.
She keeps looking around her. He growls and comes out of the shadows to face her. She trains the
crossbow no him.
He growls and begins to run. He jumps onto a pool table. Buffy follows him with her aim and shoots,
but misses. Angel jumps up onto a pipe above. Buffy can't see him in the shadows. He swings down
and kicks her in the back, knocking her onto a pool table. She kicks out at him behind her and sends
him into the wall. She runs around the table and dives for the crossbow. She rolls onto her back and
takes aim at him. He slowly gets up and growls.
~~~~~~~~~~ Part 4 ~~~~~~~~~~
The Bronze. Angel is in his game face and Buffy has her crossbow trained on him. Angel morphs
back into his human form.
Buffy launches the bolt. It hits the wall next to him.
Buffy: Why? (gets up) Why didn't you just attack me when you had the chance? Was it a joke? To make me feel for you and then... I killed a lot of vampires. I've never hated one before.
Angel: Feels good, doesn't it? Feels simple.
Buffy: I invited you into my home and then you attacked my family!
Angel: Why not? I killed mine. I killed their friends... and their friend's children... For a hundred years I offered ugly death to everyone I met, and I did it with a song in my heart.
Buffy: What changed?
Angel: Fed on a girl about your age... beautiful... dumb as a post... but a favorite among her clan.
Buffy: Clan?
Angel: Romani. Gypsies. The elders conjured the perfect punishment for me. They restored my soul.
Buffy: What, they were all out of boils and blinding torment?
Angel: When you become a vampire the demon takes your body, but it doesn't get your soul. That's gone! No conscience, no remorse... It's an easy way to live. You have no idea what it's like to have done the things I've done... and to care. I haven't fed on a living human being since that day.
Buffy: So you started with my mom?
Angel: I didn't bite her.
Buffy: Then why didn't you say something?
Angel: But I wanted to. I can walk like a man, but I'm not one. I wanted to kill you tonight.
Buffy looks at her bow and back at Angel. She puts the bow down on the floor and approaches him.
She offers her neck.
He just looks at her in silence.
Darla: Sure it is!
They turn toward the voice and see Darla coming out of the shadows. Cut outside. Giles, Willow and
Xander are walking down a street.
Giles: Keep looking for her.
Xander: I have a question: what if We find her and she's fighting Angel and some of his friends? What the heck
are we gonna do about it?
Cut to the Bronze.
Buffy: Bad hair on top of that outfit?
Darla: To love someone who used to love you.
Buffy: (looks at Angel) You guys were involved?
Darla: For several generations.
Buffy: Well, you been around since Columbus, you are bound to pile up a few ex's. You're older than him, right? Just between us girls, you are looking a little worn around the eyes.
Darla: (smiles) I made him. There was a time when we shared everything, wasn't there Angelus? You had a chance to come home, to rule with me in the Master's court for a thousand years, but you threw that away because of her. You love someone who hates us. You're sick. And you'll always be sick. And you'll always remember what it was like to watch her die. (smiles) You don't think I came alone, do you?
Buffy: I know I didn't.
She kicks the bow up into her hands and aims it at Darla.
She produces two pistols from behind her back, one in each hand.
She shoots Angel. He staggers back onto a post.
Buffy retreats. Darla starts shooting at her. She rolls over a pool table and takes cover behind it. Cut
outside. Giles, Willow and Xander hear the shots from inside the Bronze.
They run to find a way in. Cut inside. Buffy reloads the crossbow.
She caps off a few more rounds, and the pool table takes a few hits. Buffy pops up with the crossbow
and takes a shot at Darla. She doubles over when it hits her in the abdomen. Buffy watches as she
straightens back up again.
She grabs the bolt, pulls it out and tosses it aside. Cut to Giles, Willow and Xander crawling along
the floor.
Willow: (calls out) Buffy, it wasn't Angel who attacked your mom, it was Darla!
Darla turns toward the voice and lets loose a hail of bullets as they hug the floor for cover. Angel
pulls the bolt from the wall. Darla turns her attention back on Buffy and hops up onto the pool table.
Buffy jumps up, grabs the edge of the table and pulls, knocking Darla onto her back. She pushes the
table away and starts to run for cover. Darla fires off a few rounds as she rides the table across the
floor. Buffy dives over a glass case as bullets break it all around her. The pool table has stopped
sliding, and Darla gets up to look for Buffy. She hops off of it and advances on the counter while
shooting. Giles gets up and messes with the lighting system controls. The strobes come on. Darla
looks up at him and stops shooting. Buffy takes the opportunity to change position. Darla sees her
move and lets loose another volley.
Angel comes up behind her, roars and plunges the bolt into her back. She is surprised and cries out
in pain. She turns to look at her attacker.
She falls to the floor and bursts into ashes. Buffy rises up to see. Angel looks up from Darla's ashes
at Buffy. She comes out from behind the counter. He looks at her a moment longer and then turns and
leaves. Buffy is speechless and just watches him go. Cut to the Master's lair. He screams as he wields
a tall candle holder and smashes it in anger. He flails out with his arms and knocks other things over.
Finally he sinks to the ground in grief. Colin comes over to him.
Master: (looks up) How dare you? She was my favorite. For four hundred years...
Colin: She was weak. You don't need her. I'll bring you the Slayer.
Master: But to lose her to Angel! He was to have sat at my right hand, come the day. And now...
Colin: They're all against you. But soon you shall rise. And when you do... (puts a hand on the Master's
shoulder) ...we kill them all.
The Master smiles at him and gets up. Colin takes his hand and leads him away. Cut to later at the
Bronze.
Buffy: Okay, so what's the difference between this and the pre- fumigation party?
Xander: Much heartier cockroaches.
Willow: So, no word from Angel?
Buffy: Nah. It's weird, though. In this way I feel like he's still watching me.
Willow: Well, in a way he sort of is. In the way of that he's right over there.
Buffy looks over where Willow is looking and sees Angel. She briefly looks back at Willow and then
heads over to him.
He Willow sit at a table with him facing away from Buffy and Angel. Willow watches as Buffy makes
her way to Angel. The crowd is dancing slow to "I'll remember you", by Sophie Zelmani. Buffy and
Angel reach each other.
Buffy: We're both good. You?
Angel: If I can go a little while without getting shot or stabbed I'll be alright. Look, this can't...
Buffy: ...ever be anything. I know. For one thing, you're, like, two hundred and twenty-four years older than I am.
Angel: I just gotta... I gotta walk away from this.
Buffy: (nods) I know. Me, too. (whispers) One of us has to go here.
Angel: (whispers) I know.
They look at each other a moment longer and then close in to kiss. The kiss becomes passionate.
Buffy puts her arm around Angel's neck. Cut to Willow and Xander.
Willow: Nothin'...
Xander: Well, as long as they're not kissing.
Willow just watches and says nothing. Cut to Angel and Buffy. They separate.
Angel: It's just...
Buffy: ...painful. I know. See you around?
Buffy walk away. Angel watches her go. The camera pans down to his chest where her cross has left
a deep burn.
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