My Demon (on hold)

School Hard Pt 2

[The alley outside the Bronze. Sheila comes out with two guys and they walk along the alley.]Sheila: Alright. Which one's Dwayne and which one's Dell? (hic) Don't tell me. Dell's the one with the tattoos. You guys weren't lyin' about havin' a Cadillac, were you? 'Cause I'm crazy about a Cad. Just the feel of the leather makes me wanna...[She's gotten a bit ahead of Dwayne and stops to look back at him. She sees he's gone.]Sheila: Where'd you go?[She looks the other way at Dell, and he's gone, too.]Sheila: What's going on? (starts walking slowly, looking around) Where are you guys? Not funny![She turns around and is startled by Spike.]Sheila: Who are you?Spike: Who do you want me to be?

Sheila: Did you see...Spike: ...those two losers who thought they were good enough for you?Sheila: What happened to 'em?Spike: They got sleepy.Sheila: Huh?Spike: And you got something a whole lot better.[He slowly walks past her and down the alley. She follows him with her gaze.]Sheila: Hey, wait up! What's your name?[She starts after him. The camera follows her, but then pans down to Dwayne and Dell, dead in a pile of trash.]

[Cut to the library. The table is full of books, and Xander, Willow and Jenny are looking through them doing research.]

Giles: Spike. That's what the other vampire called him? That's a little unorthodox, isn't it?Buffy: Maybe he's reformed.Giles: Perhaps he went by another name in... times past.Nikki: I mean my brother went as the great evil and I the great terror so try something like that.

Jenny: Well, whoever he is, we'll need all the help we can get come this Saturday.

Xander: So, this night of St. Vigeous deal. If they're gonna attack in force, aren't we thinkin' vacation?Willow: We can't run, that would be wrong. Could we hide? I mean, if that Spike guy is leading the attack, (shudders) yeeehehehe. Giles: Well, he can't be any worse than any other creature you've faced, Or Nik.

Nikki: Hey! (thinks for a moment)  you have a point

Angel: (suddenly appears) He's worse well not worse than Nik but he's worse than any monster you have faced. (they all look at him) Once he starts something he doesn't stop until everything in his path is dead.Xander: Hmm. So, he's thorough, goal-oriented.Buffy: We were at the Bronze before. Thought you said you might show.Angel: You said you weren't sure if you were going.Buffy: I was being cool. C'mon, you've been dating for, what, like, two hundred years? You don't know what a girl means when she says maybe she'll show?Willow: Wow, two centuries of dating. If you only had two a year, that's still, like, four hundred (Buffy gives her a look) dates with four hundred different... (looks at the mace on the table) Why do they call it a mace?Nikki: Oh Willow you're so pretty (pats willows head)Willow: (blushes) Thanks (looks at Nik). Nikki: No problem love.[Once again their interaction causes a strange feeling of jealousy in Buffy which no one notices.] Giles: Uh, we do have slightly more urgent matters to discuss.

Buffy: Yeah, like keeping my mom away from Principal Snyder tomorrow night?

Jenny: And not dying Saturday.Giles: Angel, do you know if this Spike fellow goes under any othername?[They all look where he was, but he has disappeared. The library doors finish shutting.]Xander: Okay, that's it. I'm puttin' a collar with a little bell on that guy.

[Cut to Drusilla's room. There is chanting going on elsewhere. The camera pans from her bed past her TV and lamp and over to her collection of dolls. She lifts one and turns it to face away.]Drusilla: Miss Edith speaks out of turn. She's a bad example, and will have no cakes today. Shhhh.Spike: (comes up behind her) Darling, are you going to eat something?Drusilla: I'm not hungry. I miss Prague.Spike: You nearly died in Prague. Idiot mob. This is the place for us. (leads her to the bed) The Hellmouth will restore you, put color in your cheeks, metaphorically speaking, and in a few week's time...