Unmask: Behind the Mask.
by axel
Joss Whedon owns all the Buffy characters. Any others are mine. (unless noted.)
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Jamie beat Spike, without Mercy. "I HATE YOU! YOU EVIL SON OF A BITCH!"

In desperation, Spike Grabbed a handful, of dirt, and threw it, into her eyes. She screamed, and he
threw her off. She swung wildly, but couldn't find him. Spike picked up a large rock, and hit her, in the head,
knocking her out. He couldn't help feel sorry for this clearly disturbed girl. But he couldn't think about that
now. He had to get back to the fight.

Sara stood over Faith, with a sword. "Wait" said Faith, "I want to join you! Please, I know I'm
bad, I just need to be show the light."

"You don't mean that" said Sara, "You want us to spare you, so you can kill us, later."

"Yeah, your right. Can't blame me for trying, can you." Sara raise her sword, ready for the
killing blow.

"NO," Spike yelled, as he got close to them! With lighting speed, he knocked Sara down,
picked up Faith, and ran. He jumped in his car, and drove off, with them behind them.
"Guess those crazy bitches don't believe in cars" he said, after he lost them. Then he
looked at Faith, and realized her hand was missing, "Oh God! (He pulled over, and tried to
stop the bleeding) Don't worry, We get you to a doctor. They can reattach it!"

"Ha, that's only if you still have the hand" she laughed weakly, "I kind of forgot to bring it.
And I don't think we should try to go back."

"The others?"

"All dead. Not a good day. God, it's cold."

"Just hold on, Pet. It's going to be OK. Old Spike will take care of you."
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Angel made his way, back to the camp, and found everyone dead. Then he found Connor.
"CONNORRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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"I've got them" said Willow, as she came into the room, "Well, one of them, anyway. East.
she's moving. If we hurry, we can find her.

"Finally, some action" said Jason, "It was beginning to feel like Dawson's, Fucking Creek,
around here."

"All right" said Xander, "I think we need to get straight on this. We take Buffy, if we can.
But kill her, if you have to."

"Sounds good, to me" said Amber.

"Kenny, can I talk to you, before we go" said Willow?

"Sure, Will (They go aside) What's up?"

"We have to break up."

"What?"

"You don't trust me. And I clearly can't trust you. It's not working."

"No. Will, no. I made a mistake."

"Yes, you did. But I forgave you. And you went, and did it again. I can't be with someone that
lies to me. If we get though this, we go are separate ways."

"No" said Kenny, now tearing up, "We can fix this. Willow, please don't."

"We have to go now," Willow then walked out, on a crying Kenny. Will didn't show any emotion,
until out of sight. Then she let herself cry. She did love Kenny. But she didn't trust her.
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"Everything OK," said Xander, as they drove. He and Willow were in a car, by themselves.

"I just ended it, with Kenny."

"What? Why?"

"She lied to me. She promised she was going to leave Oz alone, and they had him investigated."

"And your sure that's all?"

"What do you mean?"

"Will, I've seen how you look at him, since he's got back."

"That's not it, really, I."

"Hey, not judging. But I'm just saying, if you want to be with Oz, do it. Hey, I love Kenny, but
if she's not the one. If you can be happy, grab it. It doesn't happen all the time."

"Are we really talking about me, here? How did you, and Dawn get together?

"After I got assigned to Santa Carla, two years ago. Giles said I need help with the girls, and
sent Dawn. She'd graduated a year early from college, and Giles thought she was ready to
be a watcher. Hey, I loved her,like the bratty little sister, I never had. But I didn't think she was
ready. But she was great with the girls. Especially Amber. That girl was in trouble, and Dawn
got to her, like no body else. I saw that she wasn't a little girl anymore. She was a woman. She
had a maturity, that women twice her age, don't have. How could I not love her. We worried
Buffy would go crazy, when she found out. Guess she did."

Dawn's going to be OK. She has to be."

"Sure. Just like Anya has to be OK. Just like Buffy has to be, not evil. Just like Giles has to
be alive. Thing aren't the way, there supposed to be."

"Giles. we can't even bury him, because the cops have his body. (She starts crying) How did
we get here? Why did we let Buffy get this far?"

"I don't know?

"We're here, love" said Spike, as he pulled into the parking lot, of the emergency room, "We're
going to get you taken care of."

"Yeah, I remember" said Faith, "You took care of me. Mom, and Dad wouldn't lay a hand on me,
wile you were here.'

"Who are you talking to?"

"Grandma. She's sitting right there. She's going to take me with her. I won't be scared anymore."

"NO! YOUR NOT GOING ANYWHERE! I'M NOT LETTING ANYMORE DIE, TONIGHT, SO FUCK
GRANDMA!" Spike picks her up, and runs for the door. "HELP! THIS GIRL NEEDS HELP!"

"What happened," said the doctor?

"We were mugged! I fought them off, but they cut off her hand. She's lost blood. Just help her!"

"We'll do all we can."

"Spike" said a voice, behind him, "Your alive!" He turned to see Willow, and the others behind her.
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An hour later. Spike had explained why he was alive, and everything else.

"So Faith, and Angel were working together, behind are backs," said Willow?

"Yeah. Deal with it."

"Buffy's killing right now, because of her," said Xander!

"BUFFY'S NOT EVIL, YOU TWIT! She's been set up!"

"Really? Well, where is she now? (Spike was silent) I though so. She ran."

"Help any other killers, lately," said Jason?

"I don't know who you are, Nancy. But if you don't shut your bloody hole, I'll bury you,
in the parking lot!"

"Let's see you try."

"Hey" said Ashley, "this isn't helping! We can't do."

"Who said I'm helping you? You traitors turned on her! I'm getting Faith, on her feet, and we're
going after her!"

"Faith. one of us" said Willow, "And she betrayed us. She has to deal with the outcome now."

"She's lost her hand, already. She's paid.
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Faith was laying in her bed. She'd been given blood, and they didn't[' expect her awake, so soon.
But she was a slayer, and woke up fast. She opened her eyes, and saw Kenny sitting there.
"Is it time, for the main event, brat?"

"Like you said. I want you at a hundred percent, when I kick your ass."

"Sorry Kid" said Faith, as she her stump, that used to be a hand, "I'm never going to be a hundred
percent, again. So you just have to live, with being beat, by a one armed woman."

"Why'd you do it?"

"I though she was innocent. And after everything, though I owed her. Guess I just fucked things
up, like I always do. Listen, about what happened. It wasn't personal, I."

"It's OK. I get it. I'm going to kick you ass, when you get better, but I get it. But you know, they
won't let you back in."

"Yeah, I know. Guess me, and B came full circle. I'm the good slayer, she's the bad slayer.
Not as much fun, as I thought it would be."

Buffy came out, into the open. She'd been walking awhile, and knew she was being followed.
Suddenly she turned around, and saw Angel. "Angel God, you scared me! What are you doing
here?"

"You bitch! How could you?"

"How could I what?"

"STOP! DON'T YOU DARE PLAY WITH ME! MY FRIENDS, MY SON! THERE ALL DEAD,
BECAUSE OF YOUR SLAYER MOB!"

"NO! IT WASN'T ME! PLEASE, DON'T YOU TURN ON ME TOO!"

"STOP IT! I KNOW! WHISTLE TOLD ME! That's right, he was alive, when I found him! He told me
before he died! you killed him!"

"Yes, I killed him! But he was evil! He was working for the First. Angel I've found some things out. We've been set up for years.
You coming to Sunnydale. Me dying, and coming back. The activation, it goes so deep. We."

"JUST STOP LYING, YOU BITCH!" He punches her, hard. She stagers back, and he kicks her,
and sends her flying. Then he jumps the distance, and begins to choke her. Buffy finally fights back,
with a kick, to his nuts, followed by a spin kick to his jaw. But he seems not to feel it. He's
running on pure rage. He drives her, into the ground, and begins beating her, mercilessly. Buffy
summons all her strength, and pushes him off. But before she can get up, he's on her again Angel
is fighting more like an animal, then a man. In desperation, she pulls out a knife, and beings to stab
at him. She keeps plunging it in, and he doesn't seem to notice. But he finally begins to weaken,
and she pushes him off. "ANGEL STOP! I'M NOT EVIL! STOP!"
Angel gets up, and stares at her. So he doesn't see the other slayers, coming from behind."
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Willow is sitting in the parking lot, doing a locator spell. It's not working. Oz is in the shadows. His
eyes being to glow, and Willow's spell works. "I did it" she said, as she ran inside."

"I just hope your ready" said Oz. "It going to be bad. Don't let me down, Red."

"I did it" she said, "I know where Buffy is."

"Then let's go, get her," said Xander.

"Like Bloody Hell" said Spike, "Over my dead body!

"That can be arranged," said Jason.

"he's coming" said Willow. "We're going to need all the help, we can get. Once he sees her, he'll
have to except it."

"I'm coming to" said Faith, as she walked in" just signed myself out."

"Faith, even if we trusted you, after what happened. Your in no condition."

"I know I screwed up. But I was trying to do the right thing. Look, if I get kicked out, if I have to go
back to prison, I'll take it. Just let me make it right, first."

"If you screw us, you'll be sorry."

"I won't."

"Now wait a minute," said Xander!

"We don't have a minute" said Willow, "It's time to end this."
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Angel woke up, and saw slayers standing over him. He was chained up. "WHERE IS SHE?
I'LL KILL HER! BUFFY, HOW COULD YOU? YOU BITCH!"

"Angel" said Buffy, behind him, as he turned to see her, chained up, "They kidnapped me too."

"I'm afraid your not leaving here" said Sara.

"Sara" said Buffy, "What are you doing here? I told you to go home."

"You know her," said Angel?

"Yes, I met her, after I moved to Phoenix. Whistle kidnapped her, to get to me?"

"That's not really true" said Sara, I let him take me. A slayer can't be caught that easy."

"Your a slayer! I can't believe I didn't notice! I am rusty."

"We're all slayers" said Jamie, "Loyal to Buffy Summers. She was chosen by God, too."

"Uh, NEWS FLASH, CRAZY BITCHES! I'M BUFFY SUMMERS!"

"She's telling the truth" said the blond slayer, as she walked into the room, "I'm not Buffy
Summers."

"What" said Jamie, in shock, as the others gasped. Angel's eyes almost popped out, when
he saw the woman.

"I'm sorry I lied to you, but I had to. I needed you to believe I was her."

"You lied" said Jamie, "We believed in you."

"She had to" said Sara, "It was the only way. She didn't want too."

"Wait, you knew? Sara, you lied too. It's a sin."

"I'm so sorry, I hurt you all" said the woman. But Buffy's name has power. And I need it to
raise God's army. She's rejected her calling, so I took her name. Made it mean something."

Please don't tell me, your buying this" said Buffy, "She's not your savior, she's crazy! look,
I don't know you girl. But but some part of you has to know this is wrong! Don't let her ruin
you."

"I wouldn't expect you to understand" said the Woman, "Your weak sinful."

"Ha ha ha" Angel laughed, "Oh, he trained you well. You've got the redric down. Oh, and the
bond hair's a new look, for you. I just can't believe I missed it. All that time. The way you
moved. The way you fought. A potential slayer right under my nose, and I never saw it. He
must have though. That's why he chose you."

"SHUT UP" said the woman, "Don't talk about him! he was a good, holy man!"

"He was a psychopath, just like you."

"Wait" said Buffy, "Angel you know this woman?

As Angel speaks, we finally see the woman's face, "Her name's Justine."



















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