Notes: This is a take off of the musical Les Misérables by Alain Boubil and Claude Michel Schönberg based on the novel by Victor Hugo.
Timeline: Like the novel Les Miserables, this story takes place over many years. This first part takes place from 1974 - "Welcome to the Hellmouth"

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CAST
Jean Valjean - Rupert Giles
Chain Gang - Diedre Page, Thomas Sutcliff, Philip Henry (see Season 2's "The Dark Age")
Javert - Ethan Rayne
The Bishop of Digne - Quentin Travers
Workers - People of L.A.
Fantine - Joyce Summers
Thénardier - Cordelia Chase
Mme. Thénardier - Willow Rosenburg and Harmony Kendall (depending on the song)
Eponine - Xander Harris
Gavroche - Dawn Summers
Enjolras - Faith
Marius - Angel
Members of the Resistance - Anya, Andrew , Spike, Kennedy and various potentials, just waiting to be killed.
French army - Turok-han
Also appearing - Jenny Calendar, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, Charles Gunn, Fred Burkle

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1974, England, Five young people are in a graveyard casting spells. GILES is one of them. He does not look happy to be there.

PROLOGUE

CHORUS
Look down, look down!
Look at the pentagram
Look down, look down!
We need some blood of ram

THOMAS
We lust for power
It makes our life complete

CHORUS
Look down, look down
Magics rising at our feet

DIEDRE
We do no wrong
We’re getting stronger now

CHORUS
Look down, look down
Who brought the blood of cow?

PHILIP
It has to work
Or all will be in vain

CHORUS
Look down, look down
Draw blood from all our veins

When Eyghon gets free
Nude we’ll be
‘Ere for lust

CHORUS
Look down, look down!
The sacrifice is made
Look down, look down!
We all will now get laid

Having completed the spell, the group begins getting naked. The leader of the group, ETHAN, grabs GILES and pulls him aside.

ETHAN
Now Ripper, here comes the sun
You wanted out
So you’re parole’s begun
You know what that means

GILES
Yes, it means I’m free!

ETHAN
No! It means you may go your way
But you’re still one of us
You bear the mark
You share the blame
And any associated shame

GILES
When I started it was fun and games
I yearned for love

ETHAN
You will yearn again
Unless you learn a way to break the spell

GILES
I’ll find a way, mark my words
To be free from this hell.

ETHAN
Five years we’ve been more than friends
And now you just want to flee
Now, Ripper, you will see…

GILES
My name is Rupert Giles!

ETHAN
And mine’s Ethan Rayne
Do not forget my name
You can’t forget me
Ripper, you will see!

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GILES wanders throughout England trying to find his way.

QUENTIN TRAVERS finds him begging on the street and brings him to the Watcher’s Council

THE WATCHERS’ PLANS

QUENTIN TRAVERS
Come in, sir, for you are weary
and the night is cold out there
Though our lives seem very humble
What we have, we have to share
There are actions to be taken
You may join us. It’s not wrong.
Our clandestine group of Watchers
Needs some youths to make us strong

But remember this, my brother
See in this some higher plan
You will use this knowledge we give you
To become a stronger man
By the witness of the Watchers
By our passion to stop wrong
We have raised you out of darkness
Now please hand over that bong.

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1996, Los Angeles

AT THE END OF THE DAY

THE MIDDLE CLASS
At the end of the day you’re another day older
And that’s all you can say for the middle class
It’s a struggle. Not a blast.
Buying with credit, not paying your bills
Daily living over our heads
What a pain in the ass.
Then we start taking pills.

At the end of the day you’re another day warmer
The L.A. sun makes everything hot
The A.C. will no longer work
Five hundred dollars to fix it.
The repairman won’t give you a break.
What a goddamned jerk.
We need something stronger than pot.

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At the Summers house in LA, we see JOYCE crying while she packs boxes.

I DREAMED A DREAM

JOYCE
There was a time when Hank was kind
And his voice was soft
And his words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world wasn’t wrong
And the world was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong…

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When Buffy was a tiny baby
I dreamed our love would never die
I dreamed Buffy could be a lady.
Then I was young and unafraid.
Now Buffy’s antics drive Hank crazy
He’s found a new girl to get laid
The years have all become so hazy

Buffy burned down the gym
My marriage has become a disaster
And my hopes are torn apart
And my dreams are turned to shit.

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed

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A young girl, BUFFY, is wandering the streets

GRAVEYARD OVER THERE

BUFFY
There is a graveyard over there
I ought to go there, come what may
I see a vampire for me to slay
Over in that graveyard over there

I just let my Watcher get killed
Slaying no longer gives a thrill
It makes me dirty and musses my hair.
Over in that graveyard over there

There are some things I’d like to do
Go to the mall and look at shoes
But duty sends me over here.
Not a vampire, it’s just a deer.

Now Mom just wants to move away
To Sunnydale, it sounds kind of gay
But there are demons without a care
Over in that graveyard over there.

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1997, Sunnydale, BUFFY’s first day at school at Sunnydale High. As she enters the building, CORDELIA pulls her by the arm.

MASTER OF THE SCHOOL

CORDELIA
Come over here
You look kind of cool
But there’s a test
Cordelia’s group rules

What kind of clothes
Ought you to wear
So people won’t just
sit there and stare.

Seldom do you see
Pretty girls like me
A girl of good intent
Who’s content to be…

Master of the school
Doling out the charm
Ready with a handshake
And an open palm
Unless you’re a geek
A skater or a nerd
They see my disdain without a word
Glad to do a friend a favor
You’ll see I am very nice
But nothing gets you nothing
Popularity has got a little price

Master of the school
Keeper of what’s cool
Look at Xander there -
He’s such a tool
Everything here’s mine -
That girl’s put on weight
Knocking down the lower class
Makes me feel great!
Everybody’s Queen Cordelia!
Everybody’s role model!
I do what ever pleases
Hurry up and don’t dawdle.

XANDER
Master of the school
Just try to catch her eye
She is such a bitch,
We don’t know why.
A witch to the core
She makes Willow cry
She’s so very mean
You may want to die.
Everybody’s Queen Cordelia -
Everybody’s royalty!

CORDELIA
Watch who you talk to
Shut up and just follow me.

WILLOW
I used to dream
That I would become hip
But God all mighty
My backpack just will not zip
Master of the school
Cordelia doesn’t care
She’ll hurt other people
For just what they wear.
She’s knows what she’s like
She doesn’t give a shit.
All her followers tell her
That she’s just IT.
What a cruel trick of nature
Keeping her at our school
God knows how I’ve lasted
Being around somebody so cruel

CORDELIA
Master of the school

WILLOW and XANDER
Master in her mind!

CORDELIA
Guardian of coolness

WILLOW and XANDER
We’re doing fine!

CORDELIA
Everything here’s mine
and I’m full of wit.

WILLOW and XANDER
Hypocrite and backstabber
and total shit.

CORDELIA
Everybody bless Cordelia!
Everybody bow to me!
Everybody raise a glass!

WILLOW and XANDER
Raise it up Cordelia’s ass!

CORDELIA
Everybody raise a glass
to the Master of the School

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GILES comes out of the library and tells CORDELIA he needs to speak to BUFFY

THE WALTZ OF TREACHERY

CORDELIA
What to do, what to say
Shall you carry my new minion away?
What a gem, what a pearl
The library’s no place for this girl.

GILES
Your feelings do you credit
But I will only need a minute
I have something I need to tell Buffy

CORDELIA
Damn, you are stuffy.

GILES and BUFFY enter the library

GILES
Come Buffy, come my dear
From now on I will always be here
Where you go, I will be

BUFFY
Will there be vampires
waiting for me?

GILES
Yes, Buffy
Yes, it’s true
There are vampires just waiting for you…