Buffy the Vampire Slayer Page #32

Buffy looks at the partygoers. Her friends. They stare back

at her, scared, angry. She looks out the door. Back at her

friends.

BUFFY:

I'm going out the front.

PIKE:

Are you nuts, Buffy? There's a

hundred of them out there. They'll

rip us apart.

BUFFY:

You're staying here.

(before he can speak)

Some of them might not come after

me. If they don't this place is

gonna turn into a total stain.

PIKE:

You say that like it's a bad thing.

ANDY:

Buffy, this is crazy. What do these

guys want?

BUFFY:

Andy, start breaking up some chairs.

You'll need weapons.

Andy looks at her a moment, moves off. Buffy goes to Pike's

bag, starts pulling out stakes.

BUFFY:

(continuing)

Good thing one of us was prepared.

PIKE:

Buffy, there's no way you're going

out there alone.

Buffy stands up. She kisses Pike very hard on the lips.

BUFFY:

Don't piss me off.

She kneels down, begins to rip the hem of her dress.

CUT TO:

EXT. OUTSIDE THE GYM - NIGHT

We see the doorway to the gym. A mist has risen around the

entire house, swirling about the feet of the undead who stand

clustered about it. Some have keen and eager expressions,

some vacant, half-conscious with bloodlust. They wait.

A figure appears in the doorway, walking slowly out. Buffy.

Her torn dress now comes to just above her knees. She wears

Pike's leather jacket over it. She wears her purse strapped

across her chest under the jacket. In one hand she holds his

crossbow; in her other hand is a cross. As she steps further

away from the doorway, the vampires slowly begin to close around

her.

The door shuts behind her.

CUT TO:

INT. THE GYM - SAME TIME

Kimberly and some of the others are anxiously barricading the

door. Pike looks out the window after Buffy.

PIKE:

(to himself)

Come on, move.

CUT TO:

EXT. THE GYM - SAME TIME

The vampires move closer and closer. They circle her. She

waits, apprehensive. When they are about eight feet from her

she whips out a bottle of Perrier. She sprays it all around,

searing the inner circle. Screaming, they clutch their faces.

CUT TO:

INT. THE GYM - SAME TIME

PIKE:

Yes!

Others are watching as well. Andy comes up with some chair-

made stakes, hands some to Pike.

CUT TO:

EXT. THE GYM - SAME TIME

Buffy is defending herself in an astounding blur of gymnastics

and martial arts. Leaping, throwing kicks, punches, and the

odd stake, she manages to scatter them enough to make a run

for it.

CUT TO:

INT. THE GYM - SAME TIME

Everyone is watching through the windows as the vampires follow

after Buffy.

KIMBERLY:

It's okay! I think they're going

after her!

CUT TO:

EXT. THE GYM - SAME TIME

Almost as if it heard that, one of the vampires turns toward

the gym, grinning hugely. It and at least half the others

turn back toward the easy pickings inside.

CUT TO:

INT. THE GYM - SAME TIME

PIKE:

(to Kimberly)

I'll bet you feel stupid.

GARY MURRAY:

Let's get away from these windows!

Find something to cover them with.

Students start mobilizing.

PIKE:

Bring round the table.

NICOLE:

There's nails and stuff we used to

put everything up.

PIKE:

Get 'em.

Andy and some others drag a table forward. Pike helps hoist

it up against the window. He looks one last time outside,

then covers it up.

CUT TO:

EXT. CAMPUS LAWN - SAME TIME

Buffy runs. She heads toward the nearby cluster of school

buildings. Close behind are the undead. She passes a line of

parked cars.

ANGLE - CAR

Jeffrey and Jennifer are in the back of his parked BMW, making

heated, clumsy love. We can see them through the window.

JENNIFER:

Oh, yes! Yes!

JEFFREY:

Oh, baby!

JENNIFER:

Make me a woman! Yes! Make me a

woman!

As they are spouting this nonsense, Buffy zooms IN and OUT OF

the FRAME behind the car. After a second she walks back INTO

the FRAME, staring at the two of them.

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