Part IV
A Second Chance
The Gang at the Bronze. Techno music playing in the background:
Buffy: That’s pretty much the deal, Yoda wants me at the Temple of the Jedi ASAP.
Oz: Whoa. hope you don’t get airsick... spacesick...
Willow: WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA! PANIC! PANIC PANIC!
(Willow gets out an athsma inhaler)
Willow: Ok... better... WHOA! Ok, that’s all...wait a minute... now thought... What are you going to do? I mean you can’t just pack up and move to another galaxy, but, I mean, this is the opportunity of a life time! but, what about here and your duties and stuff? and.. where’d I put that inhaler?
(Willow takes another puff)
Buffy: As for packing up and moving, nope... I’m going to be given a crash course. He knows I’m not going to completely uproot my life to save people in another galaxy. Besides, saving you guy’s is too much fun...
Xander: Plus there’s the fact that we won’t live for more than a month or two on slayer detail..
Oz: Hey we didn’t do too bad last time..
Cordy: Ummm... I was the bait and I did better than you guys did!
Willow: Hey! we killed other Vampires... ok they were lame and we had supersoakers but hey, they got dead...
Oz: yeah, and we got wet...
Xander: And every time we tried to go near the holy birdbath after that, Father McKinley would chase us and swear....
Oz: Fortunately he was too drunk to actually make any sense, then we might have thought even less of him...
Willow: Why are all Irish priests drunk? I mean, you never hear about drunk rabbi’s chasing kids away swearing.. and you hear about that all the time with drunk Irish priests... and not just in Sunnydale.
Xander: Keyword: Irish. Believe me, I know. Most of my family is... hence why I don’t like Christmas at my place. Way too much emphasis on destroying brain cells
Cordy: Well at least you didn’t fall to the dark side...(they kiss)
Buffy: icsh, can everyone please get a patch for the Star Wars metaphors...
Xander: And where is our favorite little Jedi Master? He’s not right behind ready to hit me for calling him little is he?
Buffy: Na, he said he had stuff to do... meditate or something...
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Yoda sits on a stump as he talks to Faith. She’s wearing the same kind of shirt and the same kind of pants as Luke had while in training on Dagobah:
Faith: It’s kinda smelly here...
Yoda: My home this is!
Faith: Hey that it don’t mean it doesn’t smell like the dump out the back of my old place on a bad day..
Yoda: hmmm... your home.. miss it you do...
Faith: yeah....more than I thought I guess...
Yoda: Go back you want to?
Faith: Na... not really...I miss the people though...I remember there was this old guy.. he used to give us junk and stuff to play with....My cuz once found this old World War II rifle.. Almost blew his head off....
Yoda: And what now of him?
Faith (tears welling): He got turned. I watched him kill my mother. Ya know, she’d raised him like he was my brother, and he couldn’t see what he was doing....
Yoda: Blinded by the dark side he was... as you were
(Faith looks up at him, then looks away)
Faith: Yeah... guess...
Yoda: Easy it was... less pain for those that choose the dark side.. more for those they love...
Faith: Hell yeah... damn...
Yoda: Your actions you do regret yes?
Faith: I dunno... seeing Buffy there, ready to kill. Damn.
Yoda: Fear Is the ally of the dark side. This is what you used. Consumed by fear the Chosen One was...
Faith: Me or Buffy?
Yoda: Both...fear of being without love the two of you were.
Faith: How do you conquer that one.
Yoda: *sigh* You do not. Without this fear is to know only hatred. To know only hatred is to be one with the dark side.
Faith: Can I go back? I mean, after what I did.....
Yoda just stares at her, then there is a brilliant flash of light. The scene cuts back to Faith’s room at the Hospital. She stirs, opens her eyes and smiles at the hooded figure in front of her:
Yoda: More sleep you need... fear you will face after the sun...
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