After Life

Buffy is back, but she's not exactly Buffy.  Willow and Tara get ready for bed and Tara asks Willow if she's OK. Willow, trying to put on a false bravo says that she's fine, that Buffy's fine and "its all good".  Tara gently points out that Willow doesn't have to be brave around her.  Willow quietly admits that she thought that Buffy would be happier.  Tara just says to give her time and comforts a worrying Willow. That night, Willow has a dream where

Buffy comes into her bedroom and attacks her and Tara, telling them that "your hands smell of death!  Bitches!  Filthy little bitches, rattling the bones." She throws a crystal ball at them and both the witches wake up screaming.  They realise that Buffy was never in their room, but can't figure out how they were both dreaming the same thing.  They see something move across the room and Willow immediately calls Xander.  He's talking to them when Anya

suddenly becomes possessed and starts to cut herself in the face with a knife.  Xander grabs the knife and Anya collapses.  What Xander doesn't see is the weird bulge moving away from her under the carpet. The demon continues to possess people, including Dawn, and Willow and Tara have to do a spell to make it solid so Buffy can fight it.  In the middle of the spell, Willow breaks her connection with Tara and completes the spell on her

own. Buffy seems to be getting back to normal.  She sends Dawn to school and goes to the Magic Box, where she thanks the gang for getting her out of the Hell she says she was trapped in.  It is only after she has left the shop and run into Spike, that Buffy admits that she was in fact in heaven, at peace.  Spike doesn't know what to say, but Buffy simply says that the others can never know.

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