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Buffy marches into the Library, clearly agitated.
Buffy: "OK, what's the sitch?"
Giles: "I'm sorry?"
Buffy: "What's the sitch here? You heard about the dead guy, right? The dead guy in the locker?"
Giles: "Yes."
Buffy: "Coz it's the wierdest thing. He's got two little holes in his neck and all his blood's been drained. Isn't that
bizarre? Aren't you just going 'Oooh'?"
Giles: " I see. Is he... will he rise again?"
Buffy: No, he wasn't changed. Just dead."
Giles: "Oh dear, I was afraid of this."
Buffy: "Well I wasn't. It's my first day. I was afraid that I was going to be behind in all my classes, that I wouldn't
make any friends, that I would have last month's hair. I
didn't think there'd be vampires on campus and I don't care."
Giles: "Then why are you here?"
Buffy: "To tell you that I don't care. Which I don't. And have now told you. So...bye!"
She does a backflip over the library balcony.
Giles: "You cannot escape your destiny."
Buffy: "Wanna bet?"
Giles: "Do you think it's coincidence your being here? It was fated."
Buffy: "Why can't you people just leave me alone?"
Giles: "Because you are the Slayer. Into every generation a slayer is born. One girl in all the world, the Chosen One."
Buffy: "Wow, you're gonna do the speech and everything."
Giles: "One born with the strength and skills..."
Buffy: "...to hunt the vampires...to stop the spread...they're evil...bla bla bla."
Giles: "I don't understand this attitude, you've accepted your duty. You've slain vampires before."
Buffy: "Well, I've both been there and done that and I'm moving on. Growing as a person."
Giles: "You have no idea what's going on, do you?"
Buffy: "There's vampires? Big deal, you kill them."
Giles: "You think vampires are the only threat we face here?"
Buffy: "What do you mean?"
Giles: "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Werewolves...zombies..."
Giles:"...ghouls...incubi...succubi...everything you've ever dreaded under your bed but told yourself
couldn't be by the light of day. They're all real."
Buffy: "What? You like sent away for the 'Time Life'
series?"
Giles: "Yes."
Buffy: "D'you get the free phone?"
Giles: "A calendar..."
Buffy: "Zombies huh? OK, first of all I'm a vampire
slayer and secondly I'm retired."
Giles: "But your work is not finished."
Buffy: "My work? I'm 16, I don't have work. I have
homework."
Giles: "And you haven't been properly trained."
Buffy: "Which is why you're here."
Giles: "Yes, I'm a Watcher and a Watcher serves by
finding the Slayer and leading her on her path. It is my destiny to guide you."
Buffy: "Yeah, well the last guy they sent to guide me...you should see what happened to him."
Giles: "Yes, I know all about it."
Buffy: "You don't know anything about it. You don't know what it's like. I was happy. I was Cindy-Lou Who just coasting
through my life when vampires, which are only supposed to be in cheesy movies, start killing people. People I know. And I
find out I'm the Slayer, the only one in the world and I gotta stop em. And I do. I train, I hunt. It becomes my whole life.
I can do things no other kid can do...actually that;s fairly lush, I'm kinda into that. So I killed the vampires. Yey me.
And when it's all over, what's left? My grades are the suck. My social life has achieved lepar stage and I get thrown out
of school for causing trouble. Not exactly a medal and a book deal if you know what I mean."
Giles: "Actually I do."
Buffy: "I just wanna be like everybody else. Like anybody else."
Giles: "But you're not are you?"
Buffy: "Well, I mean to be."
Cut to a confused...
Ext: The Bronze, featuring 'Dingoes Ate My Baby'!
Boy: "Are you the new girl?"
Buffy: "Yeah."
Xander: "Hey! I'm in line with you here right?"
Buffy: "Sure!"
Xander: "I'm pysched you came."
Buffy: "Is the band good?"
Xander: "Well they don't know any actual chords yet but they have really big amps. But it's always a good time though."
Buffy: "Yeah, it seems normal. A normal thing to do."
Xander: "Ah, yeah."
Buffy: "Well, I mean everyone comes here right?"
Xander: "So you didn't do normal things at your old school?"
Buffy: "Oh, no...only. Exclusively every day stuff. Homework, student council, football team..."
Xander: "You were on the football team?"
Buffy: "No I just...so is Willow coming tonight?"
Xander: "Oh I saw her sneaking onto campus with some guy."
Buffy: "Willow has a boyfriend?"
Xander: "She does tonight! I didn't know the guy. So you didn't have any extracurricular interests..."
Buffy: "What was he like?"
Xander: "Who?"
Buffy: "Willow's friend."
Xander: "Oh, um, kind of..."
Buffy: "...pale?"
Xander: "Yeah."
Buffy: "What was he wearing?"
Xander: "Er, a jacket."
Buffy: No, what was it like? Was it oudated at all?
Some old style?"
Xander: "You're really caring about this outfit. Yeah,
but is was pretty striking. Sleeves rolled up, collar...very Lionel Ritchie. I mean, who's still sporting that look?"
But Buffy is no longer listening and sprints away towards the High School.
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