Buffy (annoyed): Him??? Him???
Angel (idly): Nice to know you didn’t forget my name.
Buffy: Angel, what in the Hell do you think you’re doing here?!
Angel (innocently): I came to see what I could offer for the situation.
Buffy (can’t believe it): Oh, really? And who told you this?
Angel: Willow told me. She called me after you took Dawn shopping.
Buffy (exasperated) (sighs): I can’t believe it.
Faith: Don’t blame her, B. He needed to know.
Buffy: Why?! Why, so he can go and tell all of his friends back in L.A.?! How about Cordelia? Hell, why don’t you just go tell Wesley and he can tell the whole Watcher’s Council?! Why didn’t all of them show up?!
Angel: Cordelia wasn’t feeling well, and Wesley was working on a case for me.
Buffy: Excuses, excuses! You always have an excuse for everything, don’t you, Angel? Beating up Riley...leaving me...killing Ms. Calendar.
Angel: I’ve told you. That wasn’t me. That was Angelus. You know that...
Buffy (angry): As far as I’m concerned, as of right now...you and him are one in the same.
Angel (calm): Take it easy, Buffy...
Buffy (snaps): No!
After a second:
Buffy (sniffles, starting to cry): I will not take it easy...Giles...my baby sister has been turned into my baby sister...I--I--I’m no good with babies, Giles. If you don’t find a cure for this spell...she’s...
Giles: It’s all right, Buffy. We will find a cure, I promise you. Now, please...hand me Dawn.
Buffy tenderly hands Dawn over to Giles.
Giles lays Dawn on the table.
Dawn cries at the cold table touching her back.
Giles (calming): It’s okay, Dawn. It’s all right...
Giles lifts up her shirt.
Giles (noticing): There! You see, Buffy? Do you see that symbol on her chest?
Buffy walks over to Dawn and Giles.
She focuses her eyes on Dawn’s shirt, seeing a small cross embedded with a moon.
Buffy (confused): Yeah...what is that? I--I just thought it was a birthmark or something...
Giles: It is the mark of the demon.
Buffy: What demon is it?
Angel (low voice): Why don’t you get your boyfriend to come and find out?
Buffy turns to Angel.
Buffy (angry): For your information, that boyfriend you mention happened to have left! It probably had something to do with your little macho pissing contest when you showed up!
Angel: Buffy, I told you...I only came to apologize.
Buffy: Then why didn’t you just do that? Why did you have to attack him?
Angel: We went through this already, Buffy; he attacked me first.
Buffy (scoffs): What are you, in third grade?
Dawn begins to wail, still on the table.
Faith walks over to Dawn and Giles, picking her up, holding her gently in her arms.
Faith (calmly, quietly): Can you guys keep it down? You’re scaring her...
Dawn continues to cry, but they have lowered to a whimper.
Faith takes her out of the Magic Box and continues holding her, and rocking her.
Faith (calmly): It’s okay, Dawnie. I can understand how you feel. Hearin’ those two argue sometimes makes me wanna jam a stake through Lover Boy’s heart. (smiles) You’re lucky your mom was there to hide you from all that. That was one ugly battle, kid. You probably wanna know about what was goin’ on, don’t ya?
Dawn gurgles a little.
Faith (grins): I’ll take that as a yes. Okay, here we go. Buffy loved Angel; Angel loved Buffy; Angel and Buffy had sex; Angel lost his soul, killed her friends. Angel realized they couldn’t be together, dumped her the night of the Prom; Buffy was heartbroken; Angel left for Los Angeles on Graduation Day. Does that clear it up, Dawnie?
Faith touches Dawn’s nose and Dawn giggles in delight.
Teenage Dawn (thinking): Oh, no...what’s happening to me?
Her voice inside her head is strangely high-pitched.
Teenage Dawn (thinking): My voice inside my head...it’s higher...oh no! I’m getting younger in my head, too!
We see a pair of black shoes from the ground, beginning to walk up to Faith and Dawn.
Voice: Well, I never thought I’d believe it; Little Faith…the Rogue Slayer…finally settled down and got herself a little one of her own there, eh?
Faith looks at the figure.
Faith (annoyed): What do you want, Spike?
FADE TO BLACK
Cast List for This Chapter
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
David Boreanaz as Angel
Eliza Dushku as Faith Lehane
Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
James Marsters as Spike
Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn Summers (voice only)
Notes for this Chapter
Apparently Willow called Angel and informed him of the situation after Buffy left [although we don’t see the call, we’re led to believe that’s what happened]. Past Episode Reference:The line:
“that boyfriend you mention happened to have left!”
is a reference to Season 5’s “Into The Woods” when Riley, approached by the government, chose to leave Buffy because he felt she wasn’t giving him the love he deserved.
Past Episode Reference:The line:
“It probably had something to do with your little macho pissing contest when you showed up”
is a reference to Season 4’s “The Yoko Factor” when, after Buffy went to L.A and argued with him, Angel came back to Sunnydale to apologize to Buffy...but ran into Riley first and the two fought.
This exchange between Angel and Buffy:Buffy: Then why didn’t you just do that? Why did you have to attack him?
Angel: We went through this already, Buffy; he attacked me first.
Buffy (scoffs): What are you, in third grade?
is a direct reference to Season 1’s “Angel” episode “Sanctuary” where this dialogue takes place:
Buffy (offended): You hit me...
Angel: Well...not to go all schoolyard on you, but...you hit me first.
Faith easily sums up the events from Season 1’s “Angel” to Season 3’s “Graduation Day” [to when they fell in love to when he left town]. Buffy references three different episodes in the same sentence when she says the following to Angel:“You always have an excuse for everything, don’t you?”
Past Episode Reference: “Beating up Riley...” is a reference to, like before, Season 4’s “The Yoko Factor” Past Episode Reference: “leaving me...” is a reference to Season 3’s “Graduation Day” when Angel left her to go to Los Angeles. Past Episode Reference: “killing Ms. Calendar” is a reference to Season 2’s “Passion” when Angelus killed Jenny Calendar because he was trying to stop her from replicating the curse to restore Angel’s soul to his body. We see that, even though Buffy has kept a level head throughout all of this, she’s slowly losing it because she feels she won’t be able to take care of Dawn in her present state. We also notice that, perhaps due to prolonged exposure to the effects of the spell, it’s slowly making Dawn younger [inside her mind as well as outside of her body]