Season 3 Quotes

Season 3

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ANNE
Cut to a Los Angeles beach. A wave crashes on the sand. In the far
distance a pier stretches out into the water. Buffy steps into view,
walking barefoot across the sand. She stops and looks out over the
ocean. She closes her eyes and raises her head to just feel the sun on
her face and listen to the waves come in. The camera pans down from her
face to her waist. A pair of hands reach around her and clasp in front,
and she covers them with hers. The camera pans back up to her face. She
looks back at Angel leaning his head over her shoulder. She reaches up
with her hand and brushes it against his cheek.

Buffy: How did you find me here?

Angel: If I was blind, I would see you.

She lowers her hand to take his again at her waist and closes her eyes.
She embraces his arms tightly to her.

Buffy: Stay with me.

Angel: Forever. That's the whole point. I'll never leave. (whispering
into her ear) Not even if you kill me.

Buffy's expression turns from contented to dismayed.

FAITH HOPE AND TRICK
The Bronze. "The Background" by Third Eye Blind begins to play as the
camera approaches the door. Cut inside. The camera pans past several
couples dancing slowly to the music. It comes to rest on Buffy and
Angel. They hold each other close and look deeply into each other's eyes
as they slowly dance.

Lyrics: Everything is quiet

Buffy: I miss you.

At a nearby table Oz, Willow, Cordelia and Xander watch them dance.
Their faces are devoid of any expression.

Lyrics: Since you're not around

Buffy moves her left hand with her Claddagh ring down Angel's arm to
take his hand.

Lyrics: And I live in the numbness now

The ring is loose on her finger, and before she can clasp his hand it
falls off and clinks on the floor.

Lyrics: In the background

Angel and Buffy both look down at the ring.

Lyrics: I do the things we did before

Angel reaches down to pick up the ring. The music fades out.

Lyrics: I walk Haight Street to the store

Angel stands back up holding the ring. He gives Buffy a wounded look.
She looks at the ring, frightened. Suddenly she flashes back to the
mansion and sees herself thrusting the sword through Angel, and his
surprised and pained face as the vortex closes and he disappears into
Acathla's mouth with it. Her flashback is over, and the camera is on the
gang at the table again, still watching, still expressionless. Cut to
Angel and Buffy on the dance floor.

Buffy: I had to.

Angel's breath is shaky. He looks down at the ring in his fingers. He
clenches it in his fist. Blood begins to ooze from between his fingers
and drip to the floor. He looks intensely at Buffy.

Angel: I loved you.

Buffy watches aghast as the blood continues to drip. Then a bloodstain
appears on his shirt at mid-chest. It grows quickly and begins to soak
the front of his shirt. Buffy draws a frightened, worried breath and
reaches out to his wound.

Buffy: Oh, God! Angel...

Angel: (yells) GO TO HELL!

He stares at her with intense anger in his eyes. Buffy looks up from his
chest wound to his face. It has turned green, and one side is rotting.
Angel smiles and laughs smugly as he looks back at her.

Angel: I did.

ALL MEN ARE BEASTS
Pete: All the same! (punches again) You're all the same!

He backhand punches a third time, and she falls from his grip. As he
advances on her, she push kicks him off and away from her into a stack
of crates. Behind her the door opens, and she looks back to see Angel
standing there in his game face. He roars deeply and attacks Pete. Pete
comes to meet him. Angel swings his chains at him and gets him in the
face. He swings the chains the other way and gets Pete in the face
again. Pete lunges at Angel and bends him backward over a crate with his
hands around Angel's throat. Buffy stands up and steps back, watching
them fight. Pete pulls Angel up from the crate and throws him to the
floor. Then he turns his attention back on Buffy and starts to advance
on her. Behind him Angel gets up and comes at him, wrapping the chains
around his neck. He lifts Pete over his back and slams him down on the
floor. Angel pulls at the chain, choking Pete. Buffy winces when she
sees. Angel gives Pete's neck a twist and breaks it. He lets go, and
Pete falls dead to the floor. Angel looks down at his kill, and begins
to calm down. Pete has changed back to his normal state. Angel breathes
heavily as he looks up and over at Buffy. They just stare at each other
for a moment while Angel catches his breath. He slowly starts to go to
her, and changes to his human face. He stops in front of her. She looks
up at him, not knowing what to expect. After a long and intense look he
finally speaks.

Angel: Buffy?

He falls to his knees and holds her tightly. Buffy is surprised by this
turn of events and isn't sure what to do. Angel just keeps holding her
even tighter and starts to sob into her jacket.

Angel: Buffy...

She finally seems to accept that he's back and sheds a few tears. Her
head and heart are too heavy with thoughts and emotions for her to
speak. The camera cuts to a shot of them from a distance, with Pete
lying to one side and Debbie in the foreground.

HOMECOMING
Cut to Angel's mansion. Cut inside. There is a fire going in the
fireplace. Angel walks past it, and the camera follows him. He is
shivering from the cold. He stops and paces back. He turns to go back
again, but is startled by some rustling in the atrium. Slowly he walks
to the doorway. He quickly whips the drapes aside, and there he finds
Buffy, holding a small paper bag. He jumps back a little, startled.

Buffy: I-it's just me. (holds out the bag) Here.

Angel takes the bag and opens it as he walks back into the room. Buffy
follows him in, but keeps her distance. Angel remains faced away from
her. He pulls a quart-sized clear plastic container out of the bag. It's
filled with blood. Angel lifts it to his nose and sniffs.

Buffy: How are you feeling?

Angel jerks his head away slightly from the tub of blood, then lowers it
to take off the lid.

Angel: It hurts... less.

Buffy: Good.

She is unsure how to continue. She turns around and takes a few steps
away before facing him again.

Buffy: I haven't... told Giles and the others that... you're back.

Angel: (quietly) Giles...

He remains faced away from her.

Buffy: And I'm not going to. They wouldn't understand that you're...
better. A-a-and I'm gonna keep helping you get better. It's just that
everything's different now. I'm a senior. I'm really working harder in
school. (smirks slightly) I'm even thinking about college. A-and I'm
involved with someone.

This causes Angel to turn around and give her a surprised look. Buffy
startles and takes a step back. He reaches out and straightens the lapel
of her leather jacket. Buffy takes it from him, and he lets go. He turns
away again, wincing from his body aches as he does so.

Buffy: His name is Scott. He's a nice, solid guy. He makes me happy...
and that's what I need: someone I can count on.

BAND CANDY
Cut to Angel's mansion. Cut inside. The door to the atrium is open. The
camera slowly tracks toward it. Soon a shirtless Angel is in view,
practicing the slow, elegant forms of T'ai Chi. He brings his arms down
together in front of him and then over to his right. As he brings his
left arm up across his abdomen, he crosses his right arm over his left.
His motions remains fluid as he slowly moves his left arm out in front
of him, palm up, and extends his right arm out to his side. He draws his
arms together again, this time crossing his left arm over his right and
repeats a mirror image of his last move. Never stopping his motion, he
brings both hands to his waist, palms facing forward, and slowly raises
his right arm and sweeps it across in front of himself, palm down, while
he sweeps his left arm across below his right, palm up. Buffy walks into
the doorway and stops just to watch him, amazed at the fluidity and
smoothness of his motions. Angel doesn't notice her, and continues the
exercises. He has his arms extended, his left hand angled up sharply
from his forearm, and his right hand clasping the heel of his left. He
brings them around in a broad sweeping motion toward Buffy and then
raises them, separates them and spreads them apart with his palms facing
away from him. He raises his head as he does so and sees Buffy standing
there watching him.

Angel: Buffy.

She looks down briefly, slightly embarrassed to be caught watching him
like that, and then looks up at him again with a little smile on her
lips.

Buffy: I didn't know you could do that.

He gives her the briefest glimpse of a small smile as he tries to
straighten himself up from his slightly bent stance.

Angel: I-I'm feeling better.

He can't maintain his posture, and bends back over, supporting himself
with his right hand on his knee. Buffy rushes to his aid.

Buffy: Angel...

She gets under his left arm and helps him stand up straight.

Buffy: Let's... get you inside.

They slowly make their way back into the mansion. Cut inside. There is a
warm fire going in the fireplace. Buffy picks up a small paper bag as
they go past the coffee table in front of it.

Angel: It's late. How'd you get away?

Buffy: Aw, it was easy. Started a fire in the prison laundry room. Rode
out in the garbage truck.

They stop and let go. Angel faces Buffy, not sure what to make of that.

Angel: Oh.

He sits on the edge of the couch.

Buffy: I'm joking. (raises her right hand and waves it) No garbage.
Smell me.

She steps closer to him, but stops. Angel just looks up at her. She
lowers her arm and sighs. She puts the bag down next to him and steps
over to an adjacent couch set at a right angle to his, and sits also,
but very stiffly. Angel leans back on his cushions.

Angel: How is, uh... Scott?

Buffy: Scott? (smiles weakly and looks down) Oh, um... boyfriend Scott.
Uh... (inhales deeply) A-actually, he's not... (looks up at him) He's
fine. (exhales and nods)

Angel gives her a little nod. Buffy indicates the bag she left next to
him.

Buffy: Uh, that's for you.

Angel reaches for it.

Buffy: Uh... I-it's fresh from the butcher.

Angel: Thanks.

He reaches in and takes out a quart-sized plastic tub of blood. He gives
it a brief look, then slips it back into the bag and sets it aside.
Buffy looks away shyly, knowing he doesn't want to eat in front of her.

Angel: You're being careful, right?

Buffy: (looks up surprised) With Scott?

Angel: The slaying.

Buffy: Oh. (smiles and exhales) Uh... Yeah. Of course. (nodding a lot)
Full of carefulness.

Angel: (looks down) I worry about you. (looks at her)

Buffy: (pauses briefly) I worry about *you*.

He stares down again for a moment, stroking the cushions.

Angel: I'm getting stronger.

Buffy: (gives him a little smile) Yeah, pretty soon, you won't even
need me.

Angel: (nods a little) That'll be better.

Buffy: (unsure how to take that) Yeah.

They continue to sit in silence.

REVELATIONS
Cut to Angel's mansion. He and Buffy are practicing T'ai Chi in front of
the great fireplace. Angel concentrates on the exercises, but Buffy
watches his moves and does her best to mirror them. They each begin with
their arms stretched high above and ahead of them, hands together. They
lower their arms to waist level with a graceful bend at the elbows.
Buffy glances over at Angel, watching his elegant movements. She turns
her attention back to the exercise, and crosses her right wrist over her
left. They both sweep their crossed arms in a wide arc from left to
right, and then draw their hands in to their waists and make a quarter
turn to their left, so that Buffy has her back to Angel. They both
extend their arms and slowly raise them, never stopping their fluid
movements, until their hands are again held high. Angel takes the two
steps over to Buffy and puts his hands over hers. Buffy looks up at his
hands on hers as he pulls her arms down and around her. She slowly turns
to face him and angles her face up toward him. Their lips almost meet
when Buffy suddenly pulls away and walks over to one of the two couches
set at right angles to each other to get her things.

Buffy: Uhh... I gotta go. Big night for us Slayer types.

Angel turns away, a confused expression on his face. Buffy pulls on her
backpack.

Buffy: People to see, demons to kill. (starts to leave) Better hurry
before somebody figures out what we're doing.

Angel: (pulls on his shirt) What are we doing?

Buffy: (stops) Training. (quietly) And almost kissing.

Angel looks at her and steps toward her as he buttons his shirt. Buffy
turns to face him.

Buffy: Sorry. It's just... (smiles weakly) old habit. (loses the smile)
Bad, bad habit to be broken.

Angel: It's hard.

Buffy: It's not hard. (with resolve) Cold turkey. That's the key to
quitting.

They both look at each other for a long moment, knowing it's just not
that easy.

Buffy: (weakly and desperately) You think they make a patch for this?

Angel: You have to go.

Buffy: I really do.

Angel looks away as Buffy turns again to go. She only gets a couple of
steps when she sighs and turns to face Angel again.

Buffy: I'm gonna try and vent a little hormonal angst by going out
there and killing a Lagos, whatever that is.

Angel faces her again upon hearing that demon's name.

Angel: Lagos?

Buffy: Some demon looking for some all-powerful thingamabob, (Angel
sits, suddenly worried) and I gotta stop him before he unleashes unholy
havoc, (sees his worried look) and it's another Tuesday night in
Sunnydale.

Angel can't bring himself to look at her again, and so just stares off
into space.

Angel: Be careful.

REV CONT
Angel's mansion. He and Buffy are kissing passionately. The camera
circles around them as they continue kissing. Suddenly Buffy breaks it
off and takes a couple of steps backward and looks away from his face.

Buffy: Oh, God...

Angel: (confused) Buffy...

Buffy: What am I doing? (looks up at him) What are *you* doing?

Angel: (still confused) I don't know.

Buffy: Shame on you!

Angel doesn't know how to respond to that. He puts his hand to his
forehead. Buffy heads over to her things on the couch.

Buffy: Oh, God, I... I don't even know why I came back here.

She starts to pull on her jacket. Angel steps over and takes it from her
hands.

Angel: It's good you did.

Buffy looks up to him, waiting for an explanation.

Angel: I think I have what you're looking for.

He leads her by the hand over to a pedestal where the thing he got from
the crypt lies, still wrapped up in rags.

Buffy: Great... Just, wherever this was gift-wrapped, remind me not to
shop there.

LOVERS WALK
Cut to Angel's mansion. He places another log on the fire. Buffy is on
the couch with a pile of brochures on her lap.

Angel: College, huh?

Buffy: Higher education. Kind of an intense proposition.

Angel: Where do you wanna go? (slowly comes over to her)

Buffy: (closes her brochure) I have no idea. My mom was the one that
got all these. She's so excited, she can't stop talking about it. (Angel
sits across from her) I had a really hard time coming up with an alibi
so I could come over here.

Angel: She doesn't know about me.

Buffy: Big no. She's having enough trouble dealing with the Slayer
issue. I don't think she's ready to process the information that... you
and I are friends again. Anyway, I think this college jones is just a
reaction to the whole Slayer thing.

Angel: She wants you to get out.

Buffy: Someplace a little less Hellmouthy. (nods) She has a point.
(draws a breath) Y'know, but there are reasons to stay, too.

Angel: What are they?

Buffy: (taken aback) Um... you know, there's my Slayer duties,
obviously. What do you think I should do?

Angel: As a friend, I... (stands up) I think that you should leave.
(goes to the fireplace) This is a good opportunity for you.

He leans against the cold stone, facing away from her. Buffy gets up to
gather her brochures.

Buffy: Yeah. It's not like there's any great thing keeping me here.

She stuffs them into her bag. Angel turns around when he hears the
papers rustling. Buffy zips her bag closed and pulls it onto her
shoulder.

Buffy: Thanks for the advice. It's another perspective to consider.

Angel: Where are you going? You just got here. It's early.

Buffy: Yeah, well, my mom starts worrying a lot earlier these days.
I'll stop by soon.

She leaves without looking back. Angel watches until she's gone.

LOVERS WALK CONT.
Cut to Angel's mansion. He sits in the atrium waiting for Buffy to come
visit. When he hears her footsteps he turns to see her step through the
makeshift door and stop just inside the atrium.

Angel: Hey. (stands up) I was wondering when you were coming.

Buffy: I'm not coming back.

Angel just looks at her.

Buffy: We're not friends. We never were. And I can fool Giles, and I
can fool my friends, but I can't fool myself. (shakes her head) Or
Spike, for some reason. What I want from you I can never have. You don't
need me to take care of you anymore. So I'm gonna go.

Angel: I don't accept that.

Buffy: You have to.

Angel: How can...

He takes a step toward her, and she backs away.

Angel: There's gotta be some way we can still see each other.

Buffy: There is: tell me that you don't love me.

Knowing that saying those words would be a lie, Angel instead says
nothing. After a long moment, Buffy turns and goes back into the mansion
and leaves. Angel sits down on the edge of one of the flower beds,
staring sadly out into space.

AMENDS
Buffy: Angel!

She looks around, but he's nowhere to be seen. She walks toward the doorway to the atrium and looks out. She sees the steps leading up and runs toward them. Cut to the hills behind the mansion. Buffy runs through the bushes, frantically looking for Angel. She climbs further up the hill and finds him standing at the top looking out over a peaceful residential area of town.
Buffy: Angel.
He hears her say his name and briefly glances in her direction before looking back out over the rooftops. Buffy slowly walks over to him.
Angel: I bet half the kids down there are already awake. Lying in their beds... sneaking downstairs... waiting for day.
Buffy: (out of breath) Angel, please. I need for you to get inside. Th-there's only a few minutes left.
Angel: I know. I can smell the sunrise long before it comes.
Buffy: (anxiously and hurried) I don't have time to explain this. You just have to trust me. That thing that was haunting you...
Angel: (interrupts) It wasn't haunting me. It was showing me.
Buffy: (confused) Showing you?
Angel: What I am.
Buffy: (insistently) Were.
Angel: And ever shall be. I wanted to know why I was back. Now I do.
Buffy: You *don't* know. Some great evil takes credit for bringing you back and you buy it? You just give up?
Angel: (harshly) I can't do it again, Buffy. I can't become a killer.
Buffy: Then fight it.
Angel: It's too hard.
Buffy: (desperately) Angel, please, you *have* to get inside.
Angel: It told me to kill you. You were in the dream. You know. It told me to lose my soul in you and become a monster again.
Buffy: I know what it told you. What does it matter?
Angel: (raises his voice) Because I wanted to! Because I want you so badly! I want to take comfort in you, and I know it'll cost me my soul, and a part of me doesn't care.
He sobs. Buffy is at a loss for words.
Angel: Look, I'm weak. I've never been anything else. It's not the demon in me that needs killing, Buffy. It's the man.
Buffy: You're weak. Everybody is. Everybody fails. Maybe this evil did bring you back, but if it did, it's because it needs you. And that means that you can hurt it.
Angel doesn't want to believe her.
Buffy: (pleadingly) Angel, you have the power to do real good, to make amends. (raises her voice) But if you die now, then all that you ever were was a monster.
She looks out at the sky as it begins to lighten.
Buffy: (begging frantically) Angel, please, the sun is coming up!
Angel: Just go.
Buffy: I won't!
Angel: What, do you think this is simple? You think there's an easy answer? You can never understand what I've done! Now go!
Buffy: You are not staying here. (grabs his arm) I won't let you!
Angel: I said LEAVE!
He jerks his arm free of her grasp. In her anger and desperation Buffy punches him. He reacts by shoving her away from him roughly, making her fall face forward, hard to the ground.
Angel: (quietly to himself) Oh, my God...
He goes to her and crouches over her, grabbing her by the shoulders and turning her around to face him. Buffy fears his intentions and cries out.
Buffy: No! No!
He grabs her roughly by the arms and holds her firmly.
Angel: Am I a thing worth saving, huh? (shakes her) Am I a righteous man? (shakes her) The world wants me gone!
Buffy: (tearfully) What about me? I love you so much... And I tried to make you go away... I killed you and it didn't help.
She shoves him off of her and gets up.
Buffy: (crying) And I hate it! I hate that it's *so* hard... and that you can hurt me *so* much. (sobs, then harshly) I know everything that you did, because you did it to me. Oh, God! I wish that I wished you dead. I don't. (whispers) I can't.
Angel gets up now, too.
Angel: Buffy, please. Just this once... let me be strong.
Buffy: Strong is fighting! It's hard, and it's painful, and it's every day. It's what we have to do. And we can do it together.
Angel struggles with himself, knowing she's right.
Buffy: (resolvedly) But if you're too much of a coward for that, then burn. If I can't convince you that you belong in this world, then I don't know what can. But do *not* expect me to watch. And *don't* expect me to mourn for you, because...
She stops in mid-sentence because it has inexplicably begun to snow. She and Angel both look up at it coming down, lightly at first and gradually heavier. The camera pulls up above them and shows them standing there with the snowflakes swirling around them in the gentle morning breeze, and the ground around them starting to become white. Cut to Angel, looking around in amazement. Buffy walks to the edge of the hill and looks out at the town as the roofs on the houses below also start to become white.

GINGERBREAD
The playground where the children were found. The carousel is bedecked
with candles and flowers and pictures of the children. Buffy quietly
walks up to it. She pulls her arms to her body for warmth. To her right
she notices Angel approaching.

Angel: Hey.

Buffy: Hi.

They embrace each other lovingly for a long moment. Buffy looks up into
his face.

Buffy: How are you?

Angel: I'm alright. I think I'm better than you right now.

They both look over at the carousel.

Angel: I heard about this. People are talking. People are even talking
to *me*.

Buffy: It's strange. People die in Sunnydale all the time. I've never
seen anything like this.

They both stroll over to a bench.

Angel: They were children. Innocent. It makes a difference.

They sit facing each other.

Buffy: And Mr. Sanderson from the bank had it coming? (sighs) My mom...
said some things to me about being the Slayer. That it's fruitless.
(shakes her head) No fruit for Buffy.

Angel: She's wrong.

Buffy: Is she? Is Sunnydale any better than when I first came here?
Okay, so I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming
back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, (gestures) the
boy that stuck his finger in the duck.

Angel: Dike.

Buffy gives him a confused look. Angel smiles.

Angel: It's another word for dam.

Buffy: Oh. Okay, that story makes a lot more sense now.

Angel: Buffy, you know, I'm still figuring things out. There's a lot I
don't understand. But I do know it's important to keep fighting. I
learned that from you.

Buffy: But we never...

Angel: We never win.

Buffy: Not completely.

Angel: We never will. That's not why we fight. We do it 'cause there's
things worth fighting for. Those kids. Their parents.

Buffy: (has an epiphany) Their parents.

Angel: Look, I know it's not much.

Buffy: No. No, it's a lot.

HELPLESS
Angel's mansion. The lights are low. The logs in the fireplace are
burning steadily. Candles are lit throughout the room. The camera pans
across a blanket upon which are the remains of a cozy picnic dinner.

Suddenly Buffy hits the floor in front of the fireplace hard on her
back. She has her right knee pulled up to her chest. Angel crouches over
her, holding himself up with his arms and grinning down at her. She uses
her leg to throw Angel over her head. He flips backward and lands flat
on his back. Buffy does a kick-up, bringing her up to a standing
position, and spins around to face Angel as he gets to his feet. He
hesitates for a moment before lunging at her with a wide punch that she
easily ducks. She comes up behind him, and he turns around to face her.
He tries a left-hand punch, but she inner form blocks it and flies into
a half-spinning in-to-out crescent kick. Angel ducks it, but gets
knocked off his feet when Buffy keeps on spinning downwards with a back
leg sweep, sending him to the floor. She scrambles to grab a baguette
from the blanket and rolls toward Angel. She comes up straddling him at
the waist and plunges the long, thin loaf at his chest, stopping just
short of penetration.

Buffy: Gotcha!

Angel: (defeated) Uhh! Right in the heart.

Buffy: (smiling) Satisfied?

Angel: I'm not sure that's the word.

Buffy: (taken aback) Okay.

She sets aside the baguette, stands up and takes a few steps away.

Buffy: I didn't mean 'satisfied' like...

He grabs the baguette and gets up also.

Angel: No, I, I wasn't trying to...

Buffy: (awkwardly) 'Cause we're not having satisfaction in the personal
sense.

Angel: Of course. (exhales)

Buffy: (smiles) I should go. (walks past him) Giles is...

Angel: (turns with her) ...is waiting for you. (Buffy faces him) I
know.

Buffy: (smiling) Thanks. For the workout.

Angel: (nods) Um, am I gonna see you this weekend? You, uh, you-you
probably have plans.

Buffy: Right, birthday. Um, actually, I, I do have a thing.

Angel: Oh, a thing. (trying to be cool) A date?

Buffy: (nods) Nice attempt at casual. Actually, I do have a date.
(steps closer) Older man. Very handsome. He likes it when I call him
'Daddy'.

Angel: (smiles) Huh, your father. (frowns) It is your father, right?

She gives him a big reassuring grin and nods.

Buffy: He's taking me to the ice show. (Angel sighs with relief) Which
should be big fun. I could use a little fun.

HELPLESS CONT.
Cut to Angel's mansion. The fire is going nicely. The camera pulls back
to show Buffy and Angel sitting on the floor in front of the fireplace.
Buffy unwraps a book, Angel's birthday gift to her. She opens it and
leafs through it. It's a copy of "Sonnets from the Portuguese", classic
love poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning to her husband, Robert
Browning. On the title page Angel has written simply "Always".

Buffy: (softly) Thank you. That's beautiful.

Angel: You really like it?

Buffy: Of course I do. It's sweet and thoughtful and... full of neat
words to learn and say like 'wilt' and 'henceforth'.

Angel: Then why'd you seem more excited last year when you got a
severed arm in a box?

Buffy: I'm sorry. Uh, it's just suddenly there's this chance that my
calling's a wrong number, and... it's just freaking me out a little.

Angel: That's understandable.

Buffy: Angel, what if I have lost my power?

Angel: You lived a long time without it. You can do it again.

Buffy: I guess. But what if I can't? I've seen too much. I know what
goes bump in the night. Not being able to fight it... What if I just
hide under my bed, all scared and helpless? Or what if I just become
pathetic? Hanging out at the old Slayer's home, talking people's ears
off about my glory days, showing them Mr. Pointy, the stake I had
bronzed.

Angel: Buffy, you could never be helpless or boring, not even if you
tried.

Buffy raises her eyebrows and gets up.

Buffy: Don't be so sure.

She steps over to a table.

Buffy: Before I was the Slayer, I was... (leans on the table) Well, I,
I don't wanna say shallow, but... Let's say a certain person, who will
remain nameless, we'll just call her Spordelia, looked like a classical
philosopher next to me. Angel, if I'm not the Slayer, what do I do? What
do I have to offer? Why would you like me?

Angel: (quietly) I saw you before you became the Slayer.

Buffy: (confused) What?

Angel: I watched you, and I saw you called. It was a bright afternoon
out in front of your school. You walked down the steps... and... and I
loved you.

Buffy: Why?

Angel: 'Cause I could see your heart. (gets up) You held it before you
for everyone to see. (walks to her) And I worried that it would be
bruised or torn. And more than anything in my life I wanted to keep it
safe... to warm it with my own.

Buffy looks up into his eyes for a long moment, then leans into him, and
they embrace, holding each other close.

Buffy: That's beautiful. Or taken literally, incredibly gross.

Angel: (grimacing) I was just thinking that, too.

BAD GIRLS
Lyrics: She burns friends like a piece of wood

When Buffy reaches Angel she jumps up on him and wraps her arms around
his neck and her legs around his hips. Angel supports her at the waist.

Buffy: Hey! You're not leaving, are you?

Lyrics: And she's jealous of me because she never could

Angel: (glances over at Faith and the boys) I saw you making friends.

Buffy: (glances dismissingly) Them?

Lyrics: Hold herself up without a spine

Buffy: (faces him, smiling) Boys! I like you.

Lyrics: And she'll look me up when she's doing fine

Angel reacts in his usual somber way. Buffy hops down off of him.

Buffy: (coyly teasing) What's the matter? You're not afraid of little
me, are ya?

Angel: (seriously) We better sit down. Come on.

He leads her away to a small alcove behind the stairs.

Buffy: I can sense this is a business trip.

Angel sits. Buffy plops down next to him.

Buffy: (flippantly) What's the what?

Angel: Balthazar.

Buffy: (snuggles close to him) Dead demon.

Angel: Not as dead as you think.

He gets up and sits across from her, putting some distance between them.

Angel: Word on the street puts him in the packing warehouse on
Devereau. He's looking for...

Buffy: His amulet. It's supposed to restore his strength.

Angel: From what I'm hearing, that's not something we'd like to see
happen.

Buffy: No problem. We got the amulet.

Angel: I know. I spoke to Giles, but he said you gave it to someone.

Wesley pokes his head around the stairs and finds them.

Wesley: (points accusingly) Ah. There you are.

Buffy: (mockingly) Ah. Speak of the really annoying person.

Wesley: (looks around) You're certainly giving me a run for my money.
(sits next to her, whispers) I think we ought to establish that if
you're going to go out slaying, you leave me a number where I can
contact you.

Angel: Where's the amulet?

Wesley snaps his head around and looks at Angel in surprise.

Wesley: Who are you?

Angel: A friend. Do you have it?

Wesley: (smugly) It's somewhere safe.

Buffy looks at his jacket, reaches in and pulls out the amulet.

Wesley: How did you know?

Buffy: It pooches your jacket.

She tosses it to Angel.

Wesley: (protests) Now, hang on a minute...

Angel: (holds it up) Walking around with this thing is like wearing a
target.

Buffy: You're gonna put it somewhere safe (to Wesley) that's actually
safe?

Angel: (stands up) Yeah. I'll do it now.

Buffy: (stands also) I'll do some recon on Balthazar.

Wesley: (joins them in standing) (incredulously) If I may... Balthazar
is dead. Am I the only one that remembers that?

They ignore him. Angel leans over and gives Buffy a kiss.

Angel: Be careful.

Buffy: You know me.

Angel: (sternly) I mean it.

They both go in opposite directions, leaving Wesley behind and very
confused.

ENEMIES
Coming out of a movie theater
Buffy: Well.

Angel: Well.

Buffy: that was ....very...artistic

Angel: Yeah...

Buffy: wasnt what i expected, Ive never actually seen... well from the title i thought it was about food...

Angel: Well there was food....

Buffy: Right the scene with the....the food...So feel like getting some hot chocolate ..or some cold shower?

Angel: I'm sorry I wanted to take you out to somewhere fubn. Its been a long time since ive been to the movies...theyve changed...

Buffy: little scary..and a little not , whcih is also scary...im sorry i just dont like getting you worked up like that. we cant acxtually DO any of those things. youd lose your soul and besides i dont even own a kimono...
Angel: buffy you dont have to worry about me...

Buffy: I just dont wanna rub your nose in it...suddenly wondering where that expresion came from...

Angel: i dont need to see movies to get worked up...just being around you does that just fine...doesnt mean im going to lose control or im really frustrated around you..it feels nice just to feel...

Buffy: it doesnt drive you crazy when we're close?

Angel: watch this (leans in and starts kissing buffy) see..safe as houses...(leans in again and continues kissing her until faith shows up..)

Enemies--end
in the mansion...
Angel: how ys doin?
Buffy: been better...
Angel: not hard to believe. you were a real soldier last nite buffy...
Buffy: thats me--one of the troops...
angel: i know how hard it was for you...
buffy: i really doubt that...
angel: if theres anything i can do to make it better...
buffy: (sighs) look...i know you only did what i asked and we...we got what we wanted..
angel: i never wanted to go that far...
buffy: i know that...its not even a question of that...its just that after...i need a little break...please...
angel nods, buffy turns around and begins to leave...
angel: you still my girl?
buffy: (turns around and smiles wistfully) always....

EARSHOT
buffys looking into her compact mirror-to see if she has any aspects of the demon..."still got a mouth" she turns around and is startled that angel is there...\
angel: sorry
buffy: thats ok..i didnt see you so i shouldve known you w ere there. what are you doing here?
angel: its a dangerous time..you know with faith...
buffy: yeah ...faith...she well. faith what can you say about her?
angel: just wanna make sure youre ok and youre safe...

buffy: and the fact that youre right here..does that mean that faiths around..? are you keeping me safe by tracking me or tracking her?
angel: im tracking you..somethings bothering you...
buffy: alot of things...
they talk about the demon and the school basketball game..
angel: i wont let anything happen to you if i can help it...no matter what, ill always be with you...hey i love you, even if youre covered with slime...
buffy: i liked it all except that part...

Earshot--at the mansion after buffy cut out of school
buffy (trying to read angels mind): i know i saw you last nite but sometimes things can change quickly, ..i mean really quickly...listen to me im talking like faith (looks at him, stops talking and is trying to read his mind..angel doesnt react and is looking down..buffy continues) you know not that she was so bad to have around..you know before the evil...(she stops again...still no reaction from angel) you know i think she was hurting alot, and some people, protective type people could be drawn to that.. i guess...(looks at him again...) well the thing about faith,...
angel: (looks at her) you cant get into my mind...
buffy: how did you--why not?
angel: its like the mirror...the thoughts are there but they create no reflection in you.you got your aspect of the demon...(he gets up and walks away..hes now leaning on smething looking at her)
buffy; giles doesnt know how long its going to last. its ok. can be kinda headachy...
angel: you dont have to play games with me buffy...ever...
buffy: youre not exactly -joe heres what im thinking...
angel: so ask me...
buffy: oh but that would have made sense...
angel: what do you want to know about? faith? how i felt kissing her? pretending to have no soul? watching you suffer?
buffy: well..since you bring it up..
angel: i hated hurting you. more than i could stand...
buffy: look about the faith thing..id understand...she has that whole bad girl thing working for her...
angel: kissing her meant nothing...i dont want a bad girl, ive done that before...(buffy makes a face) ive lived a long time buffy and im past that..ive been with dozens of girls like that...more...
buffy: oh this honesty stuff is fun...
angel: and theres no comparison...243 years and ive loved exactly one person...
buffy: oh...(snuggles closer) it is me right?
angel (smiles at her) next time just ask...

CHOICES-graveyard (beginning..after staking 2 vamps)
buffy: well theres somethingb you dont see everyuday. unless of course youre me...
angel: that was bracing. you wanna do another sweep...?
buffy: thats what i live for...sad to say...
angel: youre too tired?
buffy; no..its just...do you get the feeling we're ina rut?
angel: (confused) a rut?
buffy: you never take me anywhere new...
angel: what about that fire demon nest by the beach?
buffy just gives him a look --like are you serious?
angel: i thought that was a nice change of pace...
buffy: so this is our future? so tis is how we're gonna spend our nights when im 50..and youre...the same age as you are now?
(more vamps show up)
angel: lets just get you to 50....

choices-end, a picnic in the graveyard...buffy and angel are leaning against a headstone on a picnic blanket...
buffy:
its gonna be fun..will and i are going to go on saturday and take a looka t the campus...im hoping mom will let me live there. too far to come home every nite. plus the uncool factor...either way ill be close to your place (pause..a look has passed) i dont know what the mayor was talking about..how could he know anything about us...?
angel: yeah well hes evil...
buffy: big time..he doesnt even know what a lasting relationship is...(angels shaking his head in agreement) probaly the only lasting relationship hes ever had is with evil...
angel: (nodding...) yeah...
the two snuggle closer

THE PROM-mansion..buffys alseep in angels bed...hes watching her closely..she wakes and sees angel smiling loveingly at her...
bufy: what? do i have bed hair or someting?
angel: (laughing) or something...
buffy; guess we got carried away with the post slayage nap ting...(reaches up and touches her hair) oh god...(sits up)
angel: where you going?
buffy: to go kill a cat on my head...
angel: no mirrors remember?
buffy; (sighs) you know this place isnt really girl-friendly...no mirroes no natural light...
angel: i think you look perfect...
buffy: oh yeah i really look...ok...(cuddles up to him...) maybe you should think about getting a few mirrors and maybe a drawer...
angel: a drawer?
buffy; for some of my stuff...cos thats what couples do...they have drawers...
angel: hmmm...thats right (he looks uncomfortable)
buffy: you know i figure how sometimes i could spend the nite...like after the prom..would be nice to be able to come back here and spend some time together...
angel: prom?
buffy: end of high school..rite of passage thingie...think catillion with spiked punch and electric slide..
angel: right (really looking uncomfortable now...)
buffy: dont worry..its at nite..and alot of girls have older boyfriends...youlllblend...
angel: uh huh..i think maybe you should get going..huh?
buffy: must be a few more hours before sunrise.. (opens drapes and sunlite comes in. angel jumps up and is looking at buffy l;ike shes crazy...)
buffy: sorry i guess its later than we thought..
angel still just loks at her...

THE PROM
joyce (buffys mom visits angel...this is kind of important to this ep so im leaving it in..)
joyce: i understand buffy spent the nite.
angel: im sorry about that...we came back after patroling...
joyce: im not interested in the details...its not why im here..
angel: ok...(looks a little confused and apprehensive)
joyce: im here cos im worried about you too in general...
angel: what happened before with me losing my soul...wont happen again...
joyce: (nods) youa nd buffy are from different worlds...she had to deal with alot , grow up fast..sometimes i forget that shes justa girl...
angel: and im old enuf to be her ancestor...
(my tape got messed up here so theres a space..)
joyce: good..when it comes to you angel, shes just like any other young girl in love...youre all she can see of tomorrow...but i think we both know youre going to have some tough choices ahead--if she casnt make them then youre gonna have to...i know you care about her..i just hope you care enuf...

THE PROM..
in the sewer...buffy and angel follow a vamp down there...
buffy: you need clothes..you dont have a tux do you?
angel: since when did patroling go black tie..?
buffy: for the prom silly...
angel: we have more important things to think about right now than a dance buffy...
buffy; sorry giles....
angel: c'mon dont be that way...
buffy sees a vamp says "not now" stakes the vamp...then she turns to angel
buffy: im not being that way...everytime i say something about the prom you get grouchy...
angel: im sorry..im just worried that youll get too invested in this whole thing..
buffy: what whole thing? (shes agitated now) isnt this the stuff im supposed to get invested in? going to the formal, graduating, growing up..?
angel: i know...(walks away)
buffy: (following) then what/ whats with the dire?
angel: (he turns around to her..seems upset and nervous) its uh...its nothing...
buffy: no you have something face...
angel: i think we need to talk..but not now.,..not here...
buffy: no. if you have something to say then say it...angel drop the cryptic youre scaring me...
angel: (walking towards her)- ive been thinking...about our future...and the more i do...the more i feel us...you and mebeing together is unfair to you...
buffy; is this about what the mayor said? because he was just trying to shake us up...
angel: he was right....
buffy: no..no he wasnt...hes hes the bad guy
angel: (walks away again...shaking his head..he finally turns and faces her) you desreve more...you deserve something outside of demons and darkness. i mean you should be with someone who can take you into the light. someone who could make love to you...
buffy: (crying now) i dont care about that...
angel: you will ..and children (hes calm ..visibly upset...but his voice is still steady)
buffy: children? can you say jumping the gun? i kill my goldfish!
angel: now. but you have no idea how fast it goes...buffy before you know it youll want it all..a normal life..
buffy: ill never have a normal life...
angel: right...youll always be the slayer...all the more reason you should have a normal relationship..instead of this...this freak show...
buffys face drops...angel realizes what he just said...
angel: buffy im sorry i didnt mean that...
buffy is crying she can hardly talk...
buffy (turning sround whispers) im going go...
angel grabs her by the arm and makes her face him...
angel: im sorry... buffy you know how much i love you...it kills me to say this...
buffy (widening her eyes...she still sees hope): then dont...(then when she sees his face she gets mad..he isnt going to change his mind): who are you to tell me whats right for me? you think i havent thought about this..?! (shes yelling now...)
angel softly..sounding a little annoyed: have you? rationally?
buffy: (walking away and yelling) no..of course not ..im just some scrawny little schoolgirl right?!
angel (still trying to remain calm and detached...but you could see him struggling with it) : im trying to do whats rigt here, im trying to think with my head...instead of my heart..
buffy: (she looks really mad now but is still crying..she walks up to hima nd is talking in that "tough girl" voice): you have a heart? it isntr even beating!
angels face drops...its a look of shock and disappointment..sadness) : (whispers) dont...
buffy: dont what? (shes still yelling and crying here) dont love you? im sorry you know i didnt know that i had a choice in that! im never gonna change! (then calmer...like a little girl again-whispers) i want my life to be with you...
angel (whispers)...i dont.
buffy (softly, defeated...whipsers) you dont want to be with me? i cant believe youre breaking up with me...
angel (looking down..he cant look at her): look it doesnt mean that i dont...
buffy: (turns away upset...again softly like a lost little girl): how am i supposed to stay away from you...?
angel: im leaving after the ascension..after the thing with the mayor and faith..if we survive--ill go..
buffy; where?
angel: i dont know...
buffy looking lost and standing far away from him...: is this really happening?
angel is upsetbut dry eyes...he cant seem to look at buffy but finally does...he looks like he wants to comfort her but knows he cant...or shouldnt

THE PROM
at the butchers
angel: what are you doin g here..?
buffy: hello to you too...
angel: sorry..i..im just surprised...
buffy: me too...i dont know why though..i mean where do i think you get your blood...
angel: how are ya?
buffy: right as rain...whatever that means...
angel just looks at her..again like he wants to comfort her and hold her...he obviously doesnt believe her
buffy: dont look at mew like that..i can lie to you if i want to,..we're exes remember?
angel: if it means anything..i miss you...
buffy: could we not please...when i think about us i have this tendency to go catatonic. and i cant afford that right now...gotta stop a crazy from pulling a carrie at the rpom...
angel: still planning to go?
buffy: strickly in the chaperone capacity. but its fine. i mean im cool with going stag..im over the buffy gets one perfecxt high school moment thing..but im not going to let some sub-human ruin it for the rest of the students...
angel: let me help you...
buffy: im ok..
angel: if you ever need my help...
buffy: look i got it...
angel looks down...
buffy (softer this time whispers) thanks

PROM
at the prom...wild horses is playing
"wild horses couldnt drag me away...."
angel walks in to the prom..bufy is talking to giles and doesnt see angel at first...giles points him out and buffy sees angel in a tux walking towards her..she meets him halfway...
buffy: i never thought youd come...
angel: its a big nite...i didnt want to miss it.. (she smiles at angel..he continues) its just for tonite..it doesnt mean..
buffy: i know..(softer) i mean i understand...
angel (whispers) dance with me...
the two dance and for the nite take comfort in each others arms...

GRADUATION PART 1
walking out outside...angels carrying a box they want to bring back to giles to look at...
buffy: i can takje it from here..
angel: its alright.. i can walk you back...
buffy: i dont need an escort..im a big girl..super powers remember..? i dont need you crowding me...
angel; i didnt think that i was...
buffy; no of course you dont..you just show up at the prom and then you disappear into the ozone...for all i know you left town...
angel: are you mad at me for being around too much or not being aroud enoiugh?
buffy: yes
angel: which?
buffy: what?
angel: i dont get you...
buffy: no you dont. not anymore...
angel: are you just making this harder to make this easier for yourself?
buffy: can we stop with the brain teasers i just wish it was done...
angel: its not that simple...for one the mayor..
buffy: i know ..world in peril...and we have to work together..my last office romance...
angel: want me outta your face (drops the box at her feet and walks away)
buffy: isnt this a LITTLE hard for you? (she yells after him)
angel: (turns araound i guess you can say hes "hissing" at this point ..hes annoyed): buffy how can you ask me that..just cos im not acting like a brat doesnt mean i dont feel anything...
buffy: nice to know what you think of me...
angel: what do you expect me to say when you just attack? (hes still really pissed off)
buffy; (upset and a littl;e annoyed too): i just cant take this anymore..i cant have you in my life when im trying to...
at this point faith shoots angel with the posion arrow...he looks at it..falls to his knees...buffy catches him..screams "angel!" and is looking around...this is also where i ended writing the quotes (i know i know illeventually finish it) anyway...they go to the library..where they take the arrow out and patch him up..they also realize its a poisoned arrow and buffy has to take him home to rest...everyone searches for a cure and it turns out to be the blood of a slayer...in GRADUATION PART 2 buffy realizes they cant use faiths blood to save angel...hes ready to die but wants to say goodbye first...from memeory the conversation kinda goes:
angel: buffy..is it really you...
buffy: yes...im here
angel: i ..i wanted to see you one...last...before i go...
buffy: youre not going to die...
angel: its itys ok.,.im ready...
buffy: i can cure you (pulls her shirt down a little) drink..drink me...
angel: (looks at her like shes got the cooties like hes afraid) no...you cant make me...
buffy; its the only way..the cure is the blood of a slayer...
angel (painfully gets up and tries to get away from her but can hardly walk) faith...
buffy: i tried..i killed her..drink
angel: it will kill you...
buffy: not if you dont take it all..
angel: walking/stumbling away from her: then its over...(he falls kinda walks into the other room)
buffy: she straightens him up so hes standing facing her.: its never over..i wont let it be over..drink...
angel just looks at her...
buffy keeps punching angel in the face and he keeps getting up looking at her in surprise...not trying to stop her not really doing anything...after about five times his face vamps out...ands he roughly grabs her...
buffy: drink...(she guides his face to her neck...)
angel pulls her roughly towards him and lifts her and bites her neck...he grabs her tightera nd she gasps...they fall to the floor...he keeps drinking...she kicks the table over and is moaning? screaming? the whole scene is done is a sexual way...finally her eyes go blank and he rolls off her...his face morphs back to normal...
angel: oh god buffy....
again from memory theres another part in the library while theyre getting ready to fight the mayor that angel turns to buffy:
angel: how are you...
buffy: im a fast healer like you...
theres a silence..he looks away...
angel: im not going to say goodbye...
buffy just looks at him in pain..
angel: after the fight im just going to leave...theres too much to say (??not sure here)
buffy just puts her hand up as if saying please no more and shes crying...
at the end of graduation part 2 he does just that..after the fight buffy sees xander, and giles and is standing by the ambulance and sees angel watching her...they stand pretty far apart and just look at each other...he turns away first and just walks away into the fog and shes left standing there..