Buffy: "I don't know. I just want a nice, quiet summer to decide what the hell I'm gonna do with my life."
Willow: "But you already graduated College. I mean, I thought when you pick a major & get a bachelor degree for that major that you, you know, have a plan for a job this major might lead to."
Buffy: "Well, I did. I had a plan. Now I don't want to do that for the rest of my life. I mean, Will, that's a long time. Think about it, the rest of your existence on this earth, that's your 9 to 5."
Willow: "Granted, it's a big deal, but, that's why you're supposed to decide early &-", Willow stops seeing Buffy's annoyed look, "It's a shame they don't pay you for doing this every night." They are in the graveyard, "I mean, it's like a 5 to 9. Or a sunset to sunrise. What is that, like 6 to 5. I'm getting off the subject, aren't I?"
Buffy's thoughts are obviously elsewhere, "The rest of my life... You know, a slayer isn't supposed to live past the age of 30. Or at least, no slayer has ever lived past the age of 30."
Willow: "Yeah, but, Buff, all those other slayers didn't have us."
Buffy: "Well, two do. Me & Faith. Maybe I should just do what she does. Live with friends."
Willow: "But Faith doesn't have a College degree. You should take advantage of it, Buffy. You are of an educated few. You have knowledge"
Buffy: "& you're gonna have more. Can't I just live off your scholarship to graduate school?"
Willow: "No, I kinda need that. You could further your furthered education, you know. But, usually that requires a specific interest of some kind."
Buffy: "I could get a masters in slaying."
Willow: "If only you could. Pity the Watcher's Council doesn't pay you & is insane."
Buffy: "I wouldn't say they're insane. Definitely off their rocker, but if they thought that there was a chance that Faith would come out of that coma they would never have tried to kill her. I mean, proof is that they haven't come after me or her since then."
Willow: "Well, I still hold to the creed that murder is a bad thing."
Buffy: "& in the case of vamps?"
Willow: "Well... no. Killing is good, keep on killing those vampires, Buff. It's what you do best."
Buffy: "That's what I've been thinking lately."
Buffy sighs & then is distracted by a commotion at a different part of the cemetery. Buffy immediately gets up, "Stay here."- she instructs Will & runs over to find 3 vampires attacking a man. She immediately kicks & grabs the feeding vampires off of their victim. She stakes one of them right away & fights the remaining two at once. Up comes Willow, who has left the previous area despite Buffy's instruction to stay put. Willow kicks a vampire (she's learned a thing or two over the years) about to get at Buffy from behind, as Buffy stakes the second vamp. Then, Buffy turns around & throws the third vampire 10 feet across the cemetery unto an upright tree branch & the vamp disintegrates.
Buffy & Willow rush over to the man the vampires had been attacking. Buffy flips the victim over to see if he's alive.
"Oh my god, Wesley."- Buffy says as she sees her former Watcher with blood streaming down his neck. He has three deep & mauled wounds around the neck area.
Wesley: "Oh, thank you god. I have found you before it was too late."
Willow: "No, don't try & talk. You're badly hurt. We need to get you to a hospital."
Wesley: "It's too late for me. They'll never saved me in time & even if they could, they'll just be back & then it may be too late."
Willow: "Be back? I think he's delirious, Buffy. Let's pick him up & take him-"
"Be QUIET!"- Wesley screamed, overcome by a spasm of pain, "Buffy, you & Faith are in great danger. The world is in danger. I could not tell you this over the phone. They've been following me for weeks, this is the first chance I had to contact you. Buffy, I must tell you this quickly so you can hear all I have to say. The outcome of the battle between good & evil hangs in the balance in what I have to say to you now.
"The Watcher's Council has fallen victim to an evil. A short time ago, a man became named Jerald Anderson took over as council head in place of Quentin Travelers. I have recently discovered that the man is not human. He's not a watcher but a vampire, a very evil & old vampire whose true identity is not known to me."
Willow: "So that explains why they tried to kill Faith."
Wesley: "Wait, you don't understand. My fellow watchers have no idea that they're working for a vampire. Every time Giles or I contacted the council about some evil we were up against, we would receive honest information. What occurred sometime, I am not certain when, is that Quentin Travelers, the former Head of the Council was killed by a vampire. When he changed he announced he was to retire in the immediate future & that he had contacted 'the powers that be' who ordained this man, a man he called Jerald Anderson, the new Council Head. Now, we just assumed he was one of us, a watcher all his life. But, I know now he is not. See some time after Quentin retired, he was discovered by a watcher friend of mine to be a vampire. We gathered a force & killed him. But, we, the idiots-" Wesley said, again overcome by a spasm of pain, "that we were, we did not put it together that this Jerald Anderson could have killed Quentin. We, the members of the Watcher's Council still fight for the cause of good. We aren't perfect, Buffy. I know we don't live in the world as it is today. I may not have always done what was best for you, but my intent was good. I only did what I was taught & instructed to do. But, see, now my fellow watchers & I are being instructed to do evil. Everyday it becomes worse. At first, Anderson would just receive reports from watchers, keeping eye on what the fighting effort was & such, & I'm sure debunking plans to prevent evil from coming about. As time progressed & he gained our trust & respect, he begun to ask unusual tasks of us. Things that did not make sense, but still we did not figure it out. Even when he ordered we murder Faith to have a new slayer under our control, we still did not suspect him. We paid for our foolery.
"Something is about to happen. I don't know what. All I know is that it's something to do with a sacred place- the first place, whatever that means- & an ancient ritual called Rubare Lotta."
Buffy: "But, why are they after you?"
Wesley: "Because I know too much & they didn't want you to know anything at all. What you don't understand is that when you died, Buffy, & Kendra was called & after she Faith, that delicate balance between good & evil was shifted to the side of good. We were starting to win. If Faith dies today & you as well, two girls will be called, the balance still in our favor.
"This vampire who now heads up the Watchers Council is authorizing terrible things. Many of my friends are dead, that's how I even begun to suspect there could be an evil within the council itself. I have known that my life would soon end, that's why it was of great import that I tell you this now. No one can protect you. You or Faith. First, you, then Faith.
"That's all I know. I've done my duty. & as always, the fight is yours." Wesley then passes out. The girls take him to the hospital where the doctors managed to keep him alive.
The whole gang, Xander, Willow, Faith, Buffy, & Oz, share a large apartment. The five are researching about the ritual that Wesley had described to them.
Willow, Oz, & Faith are in the living room & Xander & Buffy are in Buffy's bedroom, looking through stacks of old watcher diaries.
The phone rings & Xander picks it up & hangs up shortly. "That was the hospital. Wesley's been put under multiple police watch because he seemed to have lost more blood while in the hospital. They suspected foul play. They said he was going to be OK, & wake up sometime soon."
Buffy: "I should stay there."
Xander: "Staying will put you in more danger. Besides, he's safe now."
Buffy: "Then, you guys aren't, here with me & Faith. We're putting you in danger now."
Xander: "Buff, stop. All we need to worry about right now is the head of the council & what he wants from you."
Buffy looked down at her books, suddenly frustrated. "These are useless let's go help Will with the magic volumes."
Xander: "OK, but something might turn up in these, I should continue with them. One thing's for sure, we can't stay here. If they already got to Wesley, they know where we are. If they're after you, Buffy, we gotta move."
"Guys"- Yells Willow, "We got something."
Xander & Buffy rush into the area where Willow, Oz, & Faith are researching.
Willow: "OK, what I think this means... it's in some middle language. It's sorta like French & Latin combined. I think it says that Rubare Lotta means to steal fight, like rob someone of some ability that they have, or destroy that ability."
Oz: "Oh, & I just found something in this other text, that really old one from like the B.C.s. Will, you wantta check it out."
Willow reads it over with a puzzling look on her face, then her expression turns to fright.
"I think this says that the spell is an ancient ritual that will kill the slayer in you before killing you. When you die, or when they kill your slayerness, that's it, Buffy. No new slayer will be called. If they kill you then Faith, like Wesley suggested is their plan... They must want to get you first because you're the strongest of ability & will."
Faith looked down. Willow begun again, "& then they'll kill you, Faith, in the same way, leaving the world without a new slayer for all of eternity. The balance between good & evil will be forever in evil's favor. &, oh, Buffy, the next time anything apocalypsy occurs- that's it."
Xander: "This world will be ruled by demons."
Oz: "Game over."
Buffy: "So, they want to stop the legacy of the slayer."
Faith (after a beat): "So is this where we contact Angel?"
Buffy (distracted): "Huh?"
Faith: "I've worked with Angel on a lot of evil &, let me tell you, if anyone can help us with this, it's Angel. I mean, he knows everything. He knows about all these unknown kinda' demons & stuff. He could help us, figure out who this Anderson guy is. What his powers are, how we can fight him."
