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Willow and Buffy are sitting in a circle of salt, palms up. Buffy stares straight ahead, “Find the path to ones once lost,” Willow answers her with, “Spirit of spirits, show her face”
“Help to find the one we need,”
“Spirit of spirits, show her face.” The air starts to shimmer, a mirror appears.
“Spirit of spirits show her face” Buffy finishes the spell. An image starts to appear, but the mirror shatters then disappears.
“Damn!” Willow exclaims, “That should have worked.”
Xander, having watched them, stuffs his hand back into his bag of chips, “Maybe you forgot something.”
“Or maybe Spike and Angel are right and she’s dead.” Buffy whispers.
Xander points at Buffy, “Or that.” The phone rings and Buffy answers.
“Yeah?”
Spike’s on the other end, “Found a place, looks suspicious. You want us to check it out?”
Angel leans into the phone at Spike’s end, “We’ll check it out.”
“Where are you guys?”
“Desert. There’s a village in a forest near here.”
“There aren’t any forests in the desert, Spike.”
“You’re telling me. Come down here and check it out yourself.”
“You know I can’t. Anyway, we have to try the spell again.”
“Again? What, did the salt smudge?”
“The circle of salt protected the spell from the outside influence the other witch might enforce trying to prevent the spell.”
“Then bring out the salt.”
“Why? What did you find?”
Spike looks around him at the bodies, “A massacre.”
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AUTUM’S APARTMENT
Autum goes into the kitchen, grabbing a soda before she heads to the bathroom. She puts her drink down on the vanity table. She turns the knob on the tub, letting the hot water fill it. Autum strips down, leaving her cloths on the floor, and gets into the full tub, turning off the water. She hisses as she lowers herself in.
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Spike’s leaning over a body. “These people weren’t fed off of.” he commented to Angel.
“Why would she kill all these people?” Angel asked him.
“No idea. She always seemed so level headed.”
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Autum pulls the plug out of the tub. The red water drains, but a ring of red, obviously blood, is left on the surface. She grabs some gauze and tape, looking at the hole in her side.
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Autum gets run through with a pole
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Autum carefully wraps the wound. “A hell of a time for you to show up.”
She turns to face Voice, who pleads with her, “Look, just stop being so mad at me. What did I do?”
“You left for 300 years!”
“I didn’t mean to be gone that long, my hop was delayed!”
“I don’t care if you lost your fucking boarding pass, you were off this dimension for 300 YEARS!!”
“I’m sorry!”
“LEAVE!”
“You can’t have had many other serious relationships though.”
“Three, in-fact.”
“But there wasn’t… Never mind. The point is, we need to work through this.”
“No, we don’t.”
“I became immortal for you!”
“No! You’re immortal because you’re a coward.” She stands her ground, “Now go!”
A door opens and slam’s closed.
Autum’s eyes get wider, “Go.”
Voice pops out.
“I’ll be out in a second, pet.” She looks down at her wound. The blood had soaked through the bandages. “Damn.”
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Xander’s watching the TV, looking for missing people reports, “I can’t believe no one’s missing! There should be at least 300 missing people!”
Buffy doesn’t even bother looking up from the book she’s reading, “Just keep looking.”
Willow exits Angel’s office. “Found a book.” she tells Buffy, waving it in the air. She hands it to Buffy, who puts down her old book to look at this one.
Buffy rises from the couch, “That’s her!” she exclaimed excitedly, “Autum was her common name, her human one…”
Buffy passes the book on to Willow, “Kind of like Spike and Angel, those aren’t their real names. Her vamp name is… Hope.”
“Ironic is always fun.”
“The most common theory of her siredom is that Angel sired her in Ireland. There are other references to her being sired anytime since before the Crucifixion.”
“Then Angel didn’t sire her?”
“It’s still the most common theory. She died-died in a storage shed, she and her husband had been living in in Venice.”
Xander is puzzled, “But that doesn’t make sense, what would a vampire want with a husband, and mingle with food?”
Buffy ignores him, “Vampires have ways of coming back. Wil, what was she like?”
“Pretty, young, and very cruel.”
“What kind of cruel Wil?” Xander asks her.
“She mostly uses magic to get it done… and she doesn’t feed from humans, apparently we’re “beneath” her.”
“Then how does she survive?” Buffy inquires.
“By draining other vampires ‘til they’re dust.”
“Really, you can do that?” Xander asks excitedly.
“Apparently so.”
“How else does she kill?” Buffy asks Willow
“Just the basics, beat them ‘til they die… stick a thumbtack in their eyes, EWE!”
“What? What could be more ‘ewe’?” Xander worries.
“One time she killed a guy by sticking pokers into his eyes and running an electric current through them. And she was either inspired by Angel, or he by her. The same Valentine’s Day that Angel nailed the puppy to the door, she nailed the heart of a guy’s wife on the door.”
“So she’s into torture. What’s new?”
“That’s it, she only did it for a little while. Then she goes to Venice, living like a human, and dies. Her ‘dust’ is held in a vat of holy water at the Venetian.”
“Then why do I feel like she’s watching me?” Buffy asks her friends.
“Maybe because I am, ducks.” The Scoobies turn to see Autum standing before them
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