Spread out over almost every square inch of the Summers’ house, most of the Potentials are sleeping. The few who cannot sleep, for tomorrow they enter the Hellmouth, whisper quietly to each or pray silently alone. A game of D&D is being played in the dining room by those whose nerves need something a little stronger than idle chit chat and out on the front porch, Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer, studies the nighttime sky of Sunnydale. An hour ago, when she’d first walked outside, the cold night air had comforted her. But now, as thoughts of what might have been, what could have been and what should be threaten to consume her, she craves a different kind of cold comfort. Turning her back on the Sunnydale nighttime sky for possibly the last time, she crosses the porch and goes back inside her home. Buffy offers a quiet goodnight to Giles, Andrew, Xander and Amanda, and then lovingly squeezes the sleeping Anya on the shoulder before making her way to the kitchen and down her cellar stairs. Down in the basement, William the Bloody, the vampire better known as Spike, rests on his cot. From his right hand dangles the Amulet, a weapon of unknown power and a jewel whose fate was now inexplicitly intertwined with his. At the sound of her opening the cellar door, Spike gathers the Amulet into his palm and rises from the cot. Seeing only her, and she seeing only him, the faint glow of the Amulet goes unnoticed… for the moment.
Willow and Kennedy, having already attended to each other’s needs earlier in the day and reaching the point where if Willow doesn’t know the activation spell by now, she never will, sleep dreamlessly in their upstairs bedroom. In the room to the right of theirs, Dawn also sleeps the dreamless sleep of the weary and in the room to the left, Robin dozes in a comfy chair while Faith is in the bed, her slayer body still healing. Back in Willow's room, a faint hum begins to emanate from the scythe. The Dark Slayer does not wake in response to this new development, but… (Fill in blank. Whatever is happening to Faith must result in her followig Buffy and Spike either physically [“Faith go poof”] or physiologically [think “Orpheus”.]
Back down on the lowest level of the house, Buffy and Spike have begun to slowly move toward each other across the basement floor. There is something that Buffy has been wanting, no needing, to tell Spike for some time now, and she knows that she must tell him tonight, because tomorrow may be too late. Watching her, Spike sees her lips part and the beginning of a sentence form. Before she can say anything, however, she notices the glow coming from Spike’s hand…
Further Instructions:
The author can flesh out my introduction more if they would like. In other words, the action does not have to begin where I left off, it can start earlier that morning or the night before or it can begin where I left off if you so choose.
Spike and Buffy time travel back to Season 2, at the beginning of the episode, Becoming, Part I. They have been given the mission (by whomever, author's choice, but perhaps the PTB a la Cordelia being owed one) to warn Kendra about her impending death. The reason for this mission is to change the outcome of future events (which events is author's choice) for the purpose of preventing The First and Caleb from rising in the first place. Choose which events should be altered (from any season) and then rewrite them to show how Kendra's survival changed their outcomes.
Remember that Faith is there too, either physically or physiologically.
Kendra will ultimately decide to go and face Drusilla, but she tells Buffy and Spike that she does not want to die a virgin. Spike and Buffy will help her with this. Perhaps this is the real mission after all? Maybe, maybe not; I'll leave that up to the author.
Kendra must have a starring role, she must be portrayed as the powerful, intelligent Slayer that she is and her dialogue CAN NOT be written phonetically.
Tastefully as dirty as you want it to be!
