Resolution: Ch.4
by lexus
A large mausoleum. Spike is there. He’s smoking a cigarette and pacing. In front of him is a large mirror.

Spike: Hurt me, Stab me, Boil me, Rip out my heart.

Kneels in front of the empty mirror

Spike: Just make me the man I used to be, make me whole.

Spike rips open his top and we see the scars on his torso.

Spike: Make me what she wants me to be. (Begins to sob)

Angel enters discreetly but Spike still whips around to face him. Spike has his game face on, he sees that the intruder is Angel and relaxes back to human face.

Spike: Oh it’s you.

Angel: Expecting someone else?

Spike: Hoping for some one to pound on.

Angel nodds and sits down on a shabby chair.

Angel: I know the feeling.

Spike: (smiles bitterly and stubs his cigarette out on the mirror) no you don’t, you lucky prick.

Angel: She isn’t going to choose me. She’s going to die with you, in your arms.

Spike: Angel sweetie, if the Slayer dies with me then it’s not because she wants to. It’s because she can’t bear to see you wither.

Angel: She loves you.

Spike: But not as much as you.

Angel: You can’t know that. She looks at you…

Spike: And she sees a man. Sometimes. She looks at you, Angel, she looks at you and she sees her future, you’re silk and Honey to her Mate.

Angel: (quietly) Sp…

Spike: But you know what? (Spike laughs hysterically) I want this so much! I want more then anything to die beside her, to be the only one there.

Angel: (quietly) She doesn’t know me anymore, truth be told… I don’t know her any better.

Spike: (Spits) There are things time can’t change, can’t destroy. You know what’s in her heart. It beats for you.

Angel: No

Spike jumps up, he paces the room a few times and then kicks over a chair. Smashing it into pieces. He turns from Angel hiding his face.

Spike: I lived with the Lass; I’ve seen her sad, happy, angry, hurt. I’ve seen the darkness in her heart, Heck I *am* the darkness in her heart. But there’s apart of herself, her soul she never shares, not with me, not with Red, not with English, not even with lil’ Bit.

Angel: (to himself) The part she saves for me?

Spike: (turning to him smiling bitterly) only.

FADE OUT

(FALL TO PIECES- AVRIL LAVINGE begins to play.)

I looked away
Then I look back at you
You try to say

Angel is pacing around the Mausoleum, in a fit of agitation he picks up the mirror and throws it to the floor watching it shatter into pieces.

The things that you can't undo
If I had my way
I'd never get over you

Spike is leaning against a tree smoking, a tear trickles from his eye.

Today's the day
I pray that we make it through

We see both Angel and Spike sink into sitting position

Make it through the fall
Make it through it all
Both Spike and Angel break down, crying into their hands.

And I don't wanna fall to pieces
I just want to sit and stare at you
And I don't want a conversation
Buffy is in the kitchen washing the dishes, she’s looking at them sadly.

I just want to cry in front of you
I don't want to talk about it

The Camera pans to see Dawn in the doorway of the kitchen watching her sister desolately.

Cuz I'm in Love with you

Dawn turns away.

You're the only one,
I'd be with till the end

Willow, Xander and Giles are sitting reading, but you can tell that their minds aren’t on their work.

When I come undone
You bring me back again

Xander slams the book and looks helplessly at Willow and Giles. He jumps to his feet and leaves the room.

Back under the stars
Back into your arms

Willow begins to cry hysterically. Giles wraps his arms around her and cries his own tears into her hair.

And I don't wanna fall to pieces
I just want to sit and stare at you

Buffy finishes putting away the dishes, she takes out a teacloth.

I don't want to talk about it
And I don't want a conversation
I just want to cry in front of you

Buffy looks at the teatowel and hugs it too her face,

I don't want to talk about it
Cuz I'm in Love With you

Buffy screams into it.

Wanna know who you are
Wanna know where to start
I wanna know what this means

Faith is vigorously punching a punching bag; She keeps punching faster and stronger.

Wanna know how you feel
Wanna know what is real

Faith burns out and collapses against the punching bag.

I wanna know everything, everything

Faith begins to weep; her sobs are muffled by the punching bag.

And I don't wanna fall to pieces
I just want to sit and stare at you
I don't want to talk about it

Buffy slowly walks out of the kitchen and down the hall.

And I don't want a conversation
I just want to cry in front of you
I don't want to talk about it


Buffy walks calmly out the front door and onto the front porch. Suddenly she starts retching and she vomits.
Cuz I'm in Love with you

Buffy sits up and she’s crying.

And I don't wanna fall to pieces
I just want to sit and stare at you
I don't want to talk about it
And I don't want a conversation
I just want to cry in front of you
I don't want to talk about it

Individual shots of all the characters (Angel, Spike, Buffy, Dawn, Willow, Xander, Giles and Faith) crying

I'm in love with you
Cuz I’m in love with you
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with you

The shots blend to become one.

BLACK OUT

Next-Morning. Will, Xander, Giles and Dawn are all sitting not really doing anything, just sitting and looking devastated.

Dawn: We should be doing something.

Willow: Dawnie there isn’t anything we can do.

Xander: We’ve been looking at spell books for hours, there’s nothing in there.

Giles: (gloomily) just constant reassurance that we are all going to die.

Dawn: (angry) So what? We have an army of Slayer’s! We can fight this thing, what ever it is.

Giles: This isn’t a thing; it doesn’t have any physical properties what so ever. The most accurate way to describe it is as a virus. It is a virus, eating through our core of survival.

Dawn: But she’s my sister, she’s my sister and she’s going to die.

Willow: I know Dawnie, I know.

The group jump as they hear Buffy approaching, a second later she enters the room.

Buffy: (smiles shakily) Hey Guy’s

Xander: Hey Buff, How’d ya sleep?

Buffy: (shrugs) ok

Buffy sits down and looks at them all seriously.

Buffy: I think, I think it’s time I talked to you guys.

Xander looks like he is about to say some thing but Buffy stops him with a hand gesture.

Buffy: No wait, I have to say this… The reason I’m dieing tomorrow is because of all of you.

Willow looks hurt. But Buffy shakes her head.

Buffy: I mean to get this far makes me one of the oldest slayers… ever. And if it wasn’t for every one of you, the strength you have in your self and the strength, the strength you give me. With out that I would have died the day I stepped into the Hellmouth. None of you have the Power I have; none of you have seen the things I’ve seen. But all of you are great.

Giles has tears in his eyes

Giles: Well Buffy, that was very moving.

Buffy smiles

Dawn: (angrily) Just sounds like good-bye to me.

Buffy turns and faces her. She cups Dawn’s face in her hands.

Buffy: We always knew this day would come.

Dawn: No you always knew this day would come!

Buffy: Dawn…

Dawn: No! Buffy you always knew but I… I… (face crumples) I’m not strong enough.

Buffy: You are.

Dawn: No I’m not, I wasn’t last time. I’m not now.

Buffy: (choosing her words carefully) every day we make choices, the choice to fight, the choice to love, the choice to stay. We make them because we have to… because… because…

Dawn: (quietly and bitterly) it’s right,

Buffy: The day I jumped off that tower for you I died. Dawn I made that choice, and I can’t regret it. I’m more sure then anything of what I’m about to do. I know its right Dawn, I can feel it.

Dawn just nods through her tears.

Dawn: (shakily) Doesn’t mean I have to like it.
Dawn and Buffy hug, slowly the rest of the Scoobies stand up, walk over and join in the hug.

BLACK OUT.

Buffy is sitting on a blanket underneath a tree, she’s writing a letter. She frowns and scribbles something out. Suddenly she starts twisting around. She sees it’s Faith and relaxes smiling.

Buffy: Faith!

Faith: Hey B, watcha doin?

Buffy: Nothing successfully… I’m trying to write goodbye to some people: The Slayerettes, Andrew, Riley…

Faith: Army boy? Isn’t he all Mission Impossible down in South Africa somewhere?

Buffy: I can usually reach him through the flower shop (Faith looks at her strangely) . Would you think writing your last letter would be so…

Faith: Hard? Yeah well I assumed you know.

The two hear rumbling, the earth begins to crack around them, and violet fire begins to spurt from the cracks.

Buffy: (scared) FAITH!

Faith: (dodges some falling debris) Buff!

Buffy sees a large rock about to fall on Faith; she leaps and does a somersault pushing Faith out of the way. The rock crashes to the ground narrowly missing Buffy’s leg.

Buffy: We gotta get out of here.

Faith: Ya think?

The sprint towards a main road which seems to be unaffected, as the run they dodge and duck rocks and other rubble. Just as they are about to reach safety a park bench goes flying towards them. In perfect sync they kick it out to the air.

Faith: Still got it…

Buffy: After all these years

(Faith and Buffy Hi five.)
They walk quietly for a bit; Faith stops and pulls Buffy to a stop too.

Faith: I never stopped loving you all these years. You know that right? I mean there where times when I didn’t like you, Hated you, but never, I never didn’t love you. You where my first real friend you know? You risked your life for me and I kicked you in the ass (pauses) sometimes literally. Nothing I can do can ever make up for all that.

Buffy: (smiles) our relationship was never… uncomplicated.

Faith: Why are you doing this?

Buffy; because I have too.

Faith: There has to be another way B, there’s all ways another way.

Buffy: Until there isn’t.

Faith: I can’t believe this, Yesterday we where zoning out in front of a Adam Sandler and today…

Buffy: We’re Slayers, we live and breathe death.

Faith: You don’t deserve to die.

Buffy: I’m dieing the way I always wanted to, not on the sword of the demon, not at the teeth of a vampire, In the arms of some one I love, with my friends and family. I couldn’t ask for a better death.

Faith: I wish I could see it that way B, but for me it’s just the big ugly. The end.

Buffy: Think of it as… a long sleep at the end of a busy day.

Faith: Are you tired?

Buffy: (grins) exhausted.

FADE TO BLACK

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