ACT IV
INT. FONTAINE LIVING ROOM
Lucy sits on the sofa as Xander and Liv come into
the room.
LIV
Hey mom!
LUCY
Hey kiddo! How was your evening!
LIV
Oh, you know. The usual. A few vampires.
Hoard of undead zombies. Oh! and I met
the cutest guy!
XANDER
And then she burned down his house.
LUCY
You burned down his house?!!
LIV
Well it was just the guest house and it
was all in the line of slayerness duty.
LUCY
Still... not exactly how you land a guy
pumpkin.
LIV
Well he didn't know it was me. Omigod!
he was so cute he asked me to be his lab
partner and...
LUCY
Honey, you can tell me about it
tomorrow. Bed.
Liv sighs in exasperation.
LIV
I'm not twelve anymore Mom, you can't
just tell me to...
Lucy gives her daughter the resolve face.
LUCY
Bed.
LIV
Okay...
As Liv heads upstairs, Xander sits down on the
sofa.
XANDER
So, Liv tells me that you're worried
about me.
Lucy cuddles up to Xander.
LUCY
I've just noticed you've been... tense
lately. Ever since that trip to the
morgue.
XANDER
It's just... I don't know. Ever since
that vision with... Lateesha. I've been
getting a bad vibe from all of this.
More than usual. It was bad enough when
I found out that Amy was involved but
now with this... this *thing*.
LUCY
(gently)
Hey.
Lucy gives Xander a tender kiss. He relaxes
slightly.
LUCY
You worry too much. You just need to
have faith in yourself. Whatever it is
or whatever turns up... I'm sure you can
handle it.
Lucy snuggles up to Xander some more.
XANDER
(troubled)
I hope so.
LUCY
Come on... What's the worst that could
happen?
CUT TO:
EXT. GRAVE SITE IN AFRICA
TITLE: AFRICA - July, 2004
Xander stands in front of a freshly dug grave
looking pretty down in the mouth. A shovel and a
pickax lay on the ground in front of him. The Igqhira
approaches him from behind.
IGQHIRA
Giles is looking for you. He's worried.
XANDER
I've already talked with Giles. I'm
done. I quit.
Igqhira sadly shakes his head.
IGQHIRA
You knew this day would come.
XANDER
Is that supposed to make me feel better?
IGQHIRA
You trained her as best you could.
XANDER
She deserved better.
IGQHIRA
Yes, but she got you instead.
XANDER
Thanks for uplift.
IGQHIRA
This would be the part of the
conversation where I shake my finger and
say I told you so.
XANDER
And this would be the part where I tell
you to take a flying fu-
Igqhira holds up his hand and stops Xander.
IGQHIRA
Listen to me Watcher. You have done your
duty. Your charge has fulfilled her
destiny.
XANDER
Go to hell.
IGQHIRA
The girl was a slayer. Did you think
that being her watcher would change her
future?
XANDER
I've changed the future. I've defied
prophecies. She wasn't given a chance.
Her death was pointless.
IGQHIRA
You saved her from being a sacrifice to
a false god. She saved lives and
defeated much evil. For every step she
has made another will be able to make
two more. She was a positive force in
this world and has moved on to the next.
Her path will not end here. Nor will
what she has done. Saying her death is
pointless is to discount her life.
Xander gives Igqhira a look of disgust.
XANDER
Iggy? Get lost.
IGQHIRA
Your journey is not over, Watcher. What
you have started here is just a small
step on the path of...
XANDER
Forget it Iggy. I've been fighting this
battle since I was fifteen. I've lost my
home. My girl. My eye. And now I've let
an innocent girl die. Someone else can
fight the good fight. I've done enough
harm. So save me the fortune cookie
wisdom and let me do what I came here
for.
IGQHIRA
And what is that?
Xander pulls out a wooden stake and waves it at
him.
XANDER
My last good deed.
Xander throws the stake into the ground by
Igqhira's feet. Xander picks up a nearby shovel
and starts to dig.
XANDER
I'm not going to let her wake up as one
of them. You can either leave or dig.
Doesn't matter that much to me.
Igqhira shakes his head and walks away. Xander
starts to dig.
As we pull back we see a figure cloaked in black
hidden and silently observing Xander. As we turn
around to the front of the figure we see the face
of Amy as she smiles and observes Xander's
actions.
AMY
Just like he said it would be...
INT. VIZIER'S SANCTUM - PRESENT
Amy stands with several Izithunzela around her. A
tear in the fabric of reality appears and the
Vizier and the cloaked figure step through. Amy
kneels on the ground.
AMY
Master.
VIZIER
Who's this? What is she doing in my
sanctum?
CLOAKED FIGURE
She is my abathakathi. My witch.
VIZIER
She has no right to be here!
CLOAKED FIGURE
(threatening)
She does now.
The vizier recoils a bit.
CLOAKED FIGURE
(to Amy)
Have you captured the slayer?
AMY
No master. But I have brought the one
you have told me of. She will be the
slayer's undoing...
VIZIER
(to cloaked figure)
Does everyone around here talk like they
are out of Star Wars?
One of the izithunzela steps forward. It is a
young African girl with a scar around her neck,
her eyes are milky white and of course... it is
Lateesha, Xander's former slayer. The Vizier looks
at the walking corpse, recognizing what it is...
VIZIER
That... That's the body of a slayer.
AMY
I found her after she was re-buried by
the Watcher. The powers of the slayer
still reside within her... reduced but
still there.
A tendril reaches out from within the cloaked
figure and caresses Lateesha.
CLOAKED FIGURE
Yessss.... Yesss.... she will be his
undoing....
Dark laughter erupts from the cloaked figure as
we....
FADE TO BLACK
END ACT IV
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