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Pruning
The road so far...
01. Backdated: Buffy visits NJ to pick up Hannah on her way to Cleveland and gets injuries that require a hospital visit with House. →
02. Faith is in over her head, invites Buffy and Giles to come help her out, with the alternative motive of reuniting them. →
03. Weeks later, Buffy and Faith share a prophetic dream, Cassie loses her sight and Hannah dies. →
04. More bodies show up, Cassie's still been blind, and the FBI pays a visit to investigate what they suspect is a serial killer targeting young delinquent girls. →
05. Backdated: Buffy calls Giles after burying Hannah →
06. Giles and Cassie begin training to try to focus her mind's eye, and lift some of the guilt she feels. →
07. Reid visits while on injured leave to make his resources available to the Y if he's needed →
08. Rupert's daughter Abby comes to stay. →
09. Faith and Reid take a break and go watch the 4th of July fireworks →
10. Fresh bodies start to come in with messages. Reid lends his experience in decoding them, with Giles translating the information to the occult. →
What's to come
11. Giles tells Abby's he's rented a proper flat for them to live in, but when she says she enjoys staying in Rehab, he decides that he'll build her a panic room. Just in case.
16a. Cassie explains to someone (Giles, Buffy or Faith) how her visions work, and that HBIC might work the same way. They develop a plan utilizing it, to manipulate everyone into positions without alerting them to it and tipping off HBIC
12. Slayer numbers are thin, Jill goes out on patrol alone and is snatched and brought back to the vampire's lair where her power is attempted to be sucked from her to fuel a major mojo spell. She is presumed dead.
16b. Giles, Buffy or Faith manipulates the team into believing that Jill is dead and forbids them from retaliating. Secretly, they're trying to draw HBIC out again and hoping she'll come straight for Buffy.
13. Faith goes off half-cocked to get Jill's body back and dream-whammied into a coma.
16c. Buffy mounts up on the offensive, deliberately allowing herself to be captured. She's got mojo for mystical GPS location, but it's FUBAR'd by HBIC's spells.
14. HBIC vamp has her minions lay siege to the Y, killing off the rest of the juniors they can find and destroying everything within it - Abby, Jack and Cassie lead survivors down to the panic room. Giles, Reid, Hellboy, Angel, Lucy, Illyria, Jack, Abby and Cassie hold up, acting like all hope has been lost.
15. Jack begins to break down to Cassie, and when Cassie moves to hug her, she's hit by enough power to kick her visions into gear, and she can see everything that's going to happen.
16a-c. Run through each in bits of flashback - different thread for each?
17. Team Rehab forms a rescue mission plan, including manipulating HBIC vamp's visions against her, creating a fake reality to hide their true intentions. Illyria and Hellboy serve as the first assault on the lair, with Angel, Lucy and Jack as backup and finally Giles protecting Cassie so that she can direct the rest of them on where to go.
Interludes (aka random events)
01. Lucy and Jill have a party in jail
02. Lucy uses duct tape to give Giles a straight jacket
03. Faith and Lucy decide to see if they can make Reid faint. Gay chicken ensues.
04. Buffy points out that Faith and Reid are a 'thing'
05. Hellboy vrs Illyria
06. Faith visits Virginia, takes Reid to a strip club in his wheel chair, buys him a lap dance, maybe picks up another junior
07. House plays doctor at Rehab
08. Hunt Emmett/Jasper Cullen and/or Jace Wayland?