Buffy, what's happened here?
BuffyGod. I don't even know where to start.
Well, Willow's clearly been abusing the magicks.
Buffy
She has. She was ... and I barely even noticed. Giles, everything's just been so... [sighs.] Xander left Anya at the altar, and Anya's a vengeance demon again... [Giles looks shocked.] Dawn's a total klepto ... money's been so tight that I've been slinging burgers at the Doublemeat Palace ... [looks down at the floor.] And I've been sleeping with Spike.
[Giles stares at her... then starts laughing. He covers his mouth with his hand but can't stop. Buffy stares at him.]
[trying to calm down.] Sorry.
[He bursts out laughing again. Buffy rolls her eyes, now just looks amused. Giles keeps laughing and slowly Buffy starts to laugh too.]
...
Sometimes the most adult thing you can do is... ask for help when you need it.
Buffy
Now you tell me.
I'm sorry to disappoint...wait, is that happy crying?
Buffy
Yes, dummy. You think I wanted the world to end?
I don't know. Didn't you?
...
Buffy
I don't want to protect you from the world. I want to show it to you.
Buffy
I doubt we'll even see each other. Assuming I even half understand my fuzzy job description.
It's not fuzzy. You're what, dealing with troubled kids?
At a spanking new Hellmouth High. Please, outside of drugs, violence, and unwanted pregnancy and the unleashing of hordes of Armageddon that comes pouring out of its schools foundation every now and then, what trouble could these kids have?
I had a quota, the guy had it coming. What's the big?
NNancy
I think I'm gonna be sick.
Buffy
Anya, that thing you created burst through solid pavement and ate her dog.
Wait -- that gets your sad noise? People's lives are in danger, and you give it up for the Yorkie?
I dreamed of killing you. I think they were dreams. So weak... did you make me weak? Thinking of you. Holding myself and spilling useless buckets of salt over your... ending. Angel, he should've warned me. Makes a good show of forgetting, but it's here. In me. All the time. The spark. I wanted to give you... what you deserve. And I got it. They put the spark in me and now all it does is burn.
Buffy
Your soul?
Bit worse for lack of use.
Buffy
You got your soul back. How?
It's what you wanted, right? It's... it's what you wanted, right? And-and now everybody's in here... talking. Everything I did... everyone I... and HIM. And it. The other. The thing... beneath... beneath you. It's here, too. Everybody. They all just tell me go. Go... to Hell.
Buffy
Why? Why would you do that?
Buffy, shame on you. Why does a man do what he musn't? For her. To be hers. To be the kind of man who would nev... To be a kind of man. And she shall look on him with forgiveness... and everybody will forgive and love. And he will be loved. So everything's okay, right? C-can we rest now? Buffy? Can we rest?
Well, if she's doing that--ducking Giles--then, she's evil, right?
Well, I've avoided Giles tons of times. Just meant I was lazy, not evil.
Buffy
I hope you're right, because defeating Lazy Willow -- probably less hard.
William's a good boy. Carries her water, carries her sin. Supposed to get easier, isn't it. Supposed to help to help, but it doesn't. Still so heavy.
We should've put a leash on him.
Buffy
Yes, let's tie ourselves to the crazy vampire.
Buffy
It's pretty easy. Spike follows the exciting smell of blood and we follow the fairly ripe smell of Spike.
It's smellementary. Also I'm sure there's tunes like this, you know procedures we can use that don't involve magic spells, just good solid detective work. And we can develop a data base of tooth impressions and demon skin samples and I could wear high heels more often.
Buffy
Wow, that was so close to being empowered.
Everybody loves a slender ankle.
Buffy
Oh, I'm sorry. I... I didn't mean to interrupt.
That's all I had left in me anyway.
Buffy
I didn't realize meditating was such hard work.
I'm healing. Growing new skin.
Buffy
Wow. That's magic, right? I mean, when most people meditate, they don't get extra skin, right? 'Cause, Clem should, like, cut back.
It's magic. I'm drawing power from the earth to heal myself.
Buffy
We're on the second floor.
[laughs] You know, Giles says everything's part of the earth-- this bed, the air, us.
Buffy
Explains why my fingernails get dirty even when I don't do anything.
Plus, you stuck your thumbs in a demon.
Buffy
True. You're wiped out. I-I should go.
No. Please stay. I missed you so much when I couldn't find you.
Buffy
We missed you too. I missed you. Dawn's working on what caused the mutual no-see-ums, but so far we haven't--
Buffy
You did a spell?
I didn't mean to. I-I just remember, thinking how I wasn't ready to see you guys yet. I was afraid we wouldn't, you know, connect.
Buffy
So you made it happen just by thinking it?
I guess I have a ways to go before I master my powers, huh?
Buffy
It's okay. As long as you're all right.
It's nice to be forgiven. Too bad I need so much of it.
Buffy
I have a confession to make. I thought it might be you, with the flaying.
Buffy
I wanna be the kind of person that wouldn't think that. Xander never thought it.
He did a little. Heck, I did a little. Xander has the luxury of not saying it. But you're the Slayer. You have to say stuff like that. It's okay. It's okay too if... you still don't think I can recover from this magic stuff. Because honestly, I'm not that sure about it either. [sighs]
Buffy
I thought you were too tired.
It hurts too much not to try.
Buffy
I'm sorry.
And it just takes so much strength, I don't have that much.
Buffy
Well, I got so much strength, I'm givin' it anyway.
Buffy
Will it help?
Buffy
Good. [sighs]
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