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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Willow has an organ grinder monkey with her in Buffy's dream for no reason that Buffy can comprehend.

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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Willow has an organ grinder monkey with her in Buffy's dream [[RealDreamsAreWeirder for no reason that Buffy can comprehend.comprehend]].
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* LadyInRed: Drusilla wears a red dress, presumably in contrast to the white-clad virginal Buffy (Angel having already 'corrupted' her). With her black hair it also counts as RedAndBlackKeepBack given her role as a wanton who turns Spike/Angelus against each other, and kills Kendra in "Becoming".

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* LadyInRed: Drusilla wears a red dress, presumably in contrast to the white-clad virginal Buffy (Angel having already 'corrupted' her). With her black hair it also counts as RedAndBlackKeepBack given [[spoiler:given her role as a wanton who turns Spike/Angelus against each other, and kills Kendra in "Becoming".]]
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* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic
** "Anything", by Shawn Clement and Sean Murray, is playing in the Bronze during Buffy's first dream. The opening lyrics are: ''Take me over, I'm lying down / I'm giving in to you'', appropriate for the episode where Buffy decides to give up her virginity.
** "Transylvanian Concubine" by Rasputina, plays for Drusilla's birthday party.
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* EyeScream: Drusilla threatens to gouge Dalton's eyes out for losing her "present", before Spike stops her.

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* {{Interrupted Declaration of Love}}: As he's about to depart on a ship, not to see Buffy for months or maybe forever, Angel starts to say he loves her, when they're attacked by Dalton and his henchvamps.

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* {{Interrupted Declaration of Love}}: InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: As he's about to depart on a ship, not to see Buffy for months or maybe forever, Angel starts to say he loves her, when they're attacked by Dalton and his henchvamps.henchvamps.
* InstrumentOfMurder: Buffy uses a drumstick to stake a vampire at the Bronze.
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* LadyInRed: Drusilla wears a red dress, presumably in contrast to the white-clad virginal Buffy (Angel having already 'corrupted' her). With her black hair it also counts as RedAndBlackKeepBack [[spoiler:given her role as a wanton who turns Spike/Angelus against each other, and kills Kendra in "Becoming".]]

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* LadyInRed: Drusilla wears a red dress, presumably in contrast to the white-clad virginal Buffy (Angel having already 'corrupted' her). With her black hair it also counts as RedAndBlackKeepBack [[spoiler:given given her role as a wanton who turns Spike/Angelus against each other, and kills Kendra in "Becoming".]]



** Buffy and Angel have sex for the first time.

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** Buffy and Angel have sex for the first time.sex.
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* ShoutOut: Angel losing his soul if he experiences perfect happiness is a reference to ''{{Faust}}''.

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* ShoutOut: Angel losing his soul if he experiences perfect happiness is a reference to ''{{Faust}}''.''Myth/{{Faust}}''.

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* RelationshipUpgrade: Xander suggests to Cordelia they start dating openly, as contrary to all logic they're still seeing each other. Cordelia refuses as she has more to lose socially.

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* RelationshipUpgrade: RelationshipUpgrade:
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Xander suggests to Cordelia they start dating openly, as contrary to all logic they're still seeing each other. Cordelia refuses as she has more to lose socially.socially.
** Buffy and Angel have sex for the first time.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Willow is worried that Oz is a year older than her. Buffy notes with irony that ''her'' LoveInterest has already celebrated his bicentennial.
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* EvilIsNotAToy: After being revived, the Judge notes that Spike and Drusilla's [[UnholyMatrimony love for each other]] makes them vulnerable to his power. He backs down when Spike points out they freed him in the first place; how long this would have lasted is unclear.


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* PureIsNotGood: The Judge's definition of "pure evil" is pretty demanding. He vaporizes Dalton because he likes reading and threatens to do the same to Spike and Dru, two mass-murderers who happen to love each other.

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* YouLookFamiliar: Brian Thompson, who plays the Judge, was [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E1WelcomeToTheHellmouth Luke in the pilot]].

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* YouLookFamiliar: Brian Thompson, who plays the Judge, was [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E1WelcomeToTheHellmouth Luke in the pilot]].
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: Surprise refers to the surprise party that the Scooby Gang holds for Buffy, the Scooby Gang finding out about the unexpected coming of the Judge, and the surprise ending involving Angel which isn't explained in the episode itself and comes out of nowhere.

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* DoubleMeaningTitle: Surprise "Surprise" refers to the surprise party that the Scooby Gang holds for Buffy, the Scooby Gang finding out about the unexpected coming of the Judge, and the surprise ending involving Angel which isn't explained in the episode itself and which comes out of nowhere.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: Surprise refers to the surprise party that the Scooby Gang holds for Buffy, the Scooby Gang finding out about the unexpected coming of the Judge, and the surprise ending involving Angel which isn't explained in the episode itself and comes out of nowhere.

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As Buffy's 17th birthday approaches all hell breaks lose. Spike and Drusilla seek to reassemble a demon known as [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Judge]], Jenny is revealed to be of the Gypsy clan that cursed Angel, and upon having sex with Buffy, Angel loses his soul.

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Buffy tosses in her sleep, then wakes up thirsty, but the water glass by her bed is empty. Seeming unaware that Drusilla silently follows, she carries her glass down the hall to find that her bathroom is really The Bronze. Buffy moves through the crowd of people dancing in slow motion, sees Willow speaking French to an organ-grinder's monkey, then encounters her mother who asks "Do you really think you're ready, Buffy?" before the saucer she holds drops to the floor and smashes.
As Joyce turns away, Buffy moves back into the crush, then turns herself, smiling at something she sees behind her. The crowd has parted and Angel is slowly coming toward her, quietly smiling as well. Suddenly, Drusilla steps up behind Angel and stakes him in the back. Angel, his face a mask of agony, reaches toward Buffy's 17th reaching hand, but his fingers turn to dust before they can touch. In vamp-face, Drusilla says "Happy birthday, Buffy." and Buffy wakes with a gasp.

Buffy visits Angel first thing in the morning after she dreams of his death.
Angel answers a knock at his door to find a distraught Buffy wanting to see with her own eyes that he's all right. Hearing that she dreamed Drusilla was still alive and killed him "right in front of her," Angel tries to comfort Buffy, to reason with her, but when her anxiety only seems to escalate, he simply kisses her. Totally diverted, Buffy melts into his arms and their embrace deepens until the Slayer reluctantly pulls away, saying she needs to get to school. Caught himself, Angel agrees she must, then catches her and kisses her again. Feigning resolve, Buffy moves toward the door while Angel stalks her, corners her, and kisses her yet again. At the neck-kissing stage, Angel comes to his senses a little. Struggling for control, he reminds Buffy to tell him what she'd like for a gift. After a moment, she says "Surprise me." Angel gives her a crooked little smile, murmurs "Okay, I will," and gently kisses her one last time. Buffy sighs and confesses that it's becoming harder to say goodbye, no matter whose bedtime it is. Staring intently into her eyes, Angel agrees.

Walking across school grounds a little later, Buffy tells Willow all. The two friends wonder whether Buffy is ready to take her relationship with Angel to the next level and Willow is awed to hear that Buffy believes it's "sort of inevitable." They spot Oz. Buffy encourages Willow to go talk to him, then continues on her way. Transparently delighted when Oz asks her out, Willow remembers with chagrin that the Scoobies are throwing Buffy a surprise
birthday approaches all hell breaks lose. party the following night. Oz is delighted in turn (in mellow Oz fashion) when Willow invites him to go as her date. Inside at their lockers, Xander tries to suggest that Cordelia be his date to the party, since they'll both be going anyway, but she still doesn't want anyone to know about their relationship. Xander stalks away and runs into Giles, then Buffy and Ms Calendar. The four of them take a table in the lounge area, but Xander doesn't stay long. With Jenny a silent auditor, Buffy fills Giles in about her nightmare and her fears for Angel. Unlike Angel, Giles concedes that Buffy's dream could be a portent, but insists they can protect Angel in any case. Buffy, still worried, goes off to class. Meanwhile, Spike, confined to a wheelchair and recovering slowly from his injuries, tries to talk Dru into having her party in Vienna to escape further interference from Angel and the Slayer. In contrast, Drusilla seems both entirely cured by the interrupted ritual using Angel's blood and completely unscathed by the ensuing disaster in the church. Nor does she share Spike's emotional distress, dismissing his request to leave "cursed" Sunnydale and continuing to decorate their lair for the upcoming event. When Dru begins to fuss over the flowers, however, Spike indulges her with a peek into one of her presents. "It reeks of death," she purrs, then slams the box shut.

The next morning, her birthday, Buffy playfully tells her mom she suddenly feels "responsible, mature and level-headed" enough to become a licensed driver, to which Joyce replies with a wry "Uncanny." But when Buffy continues to plead, she is stunned to hear her mother ask "Do you really think you're ready, Buffy?" and to watch a plate slip from Joyce's fingers and shatter on the kitchen floor, eerily echoing details from her recent nightmare. Before class, Jenny arranges her desk and is surprised by a strange visitor, who turns out to be her Uncle Enyos, come to remind her that she is Janna of the Kalderash people and must still fulfill her Gypsy obligations. She has been sent to Sunnydale to make sure Angel's curse remains intact, but the Gypsy elder woman can sense that Angel's pain is lessening. When Jenny reluctantly reports that "there's a girl" in Angel's life, her uncle lectures her about the purpose of Angel's curse as cruel vengeance for killing their tribe's "favorite daughter," then charges Jenny with the task of separating Angel from his beloved Slayer. Meanwhile, in the library, Buffy tells Giles, Willow and Xander that her dream is coming true. Giles agrees that a mad, powerful, undead Drusilla could pose a substantial threat and promises to spend the day further researching Dru's history for any clue to her activities or whereabouts. Buffy listlessly agrees to return at 7:00 that evening, and wanders away to keep herself occupied until then. Willow and Xander conclude that the current crisis puts the kibosh on their party plans, but Giles insists they celebrate regardless.

That night, Jenny intercepts Buffy returning to the library, saying that Giles has changed the plan and wants to meet her somewhere else. Buffy, making no comment on Jenny's awkwardness, accepts her offer of a ride. Recognizing that they are near The Bronze, Buffy suddenly spots vampire activity around a truck backed up to a well-lit loading dock. Despite Jenny's demurral, Buffy dutifully goes to slay them while Jenny, seeming truly bewildered by the situation, waits in the car. Buffy recognizes the bespectacled Dalton from Spike's crew, but only has time for one taunt before the fight is on. She stakes one of the other vamps and, while she engages with a second, Dalton runs away—empty handed. Intercut with glimpses of Angel and the Scoobies hiding and waiting impatiently for their guest of honor to arrive, Buffy and the last vamp struggle hand-to-hand, then crash through a smoky window into what turns out to be the very back room at The Bronze where her friends are just deciding to abandon stealth in order to investigate sounds of battle coming from outside. With the battle abruptly inside, Oz—getting his first exposure to slayage as Buffy dusts her opponent with a handy drumstick—negotiates an abrupt expansion of his worldview with Oz-like equanimity. While the friends bring each other current, Jenny (apparently truly detailed by the gang to ferry Buffy to the party) brings in the oddly-shaped crate left behind by Spike's vamps. Buffy, Angel and Giles immediately open it. Inside, to the puzzlement of all, they find an armored, gauntleted, severed arm, which promptly comes alive and tries to strangle the Slayer. After prying Buffy loose, Angel explains his grim suspicion that Dru is attempting to bring back a powerful demon called the Judge, whose purpose is to rid the world of "the plague of humanity" by "burning the righteous down," leaving only evil demons alive. Recognizing Angel's account, Giles further explains that the Judge could not be killed, even by an entire army, and was only neutralized by being dismembered, with the pieces scattered to "every corner of the earth." Angel warns that if Spike and Dru succeed, reassembling the Judge will "bring forth Armageddon." Immediately, Giles says they must get the arm out of town and Jenny quickly chimes in "Angel should go." Without thought or hesitation, Angel accepts the mission to take the Judge's arm to "the remotest region possible," a trip that could take months. Buffy is frantic. Jenny tells Angel "I'll drive you to the docks."

Back at their lair, Dru threatens to poke out Dalton's eyes for losing her present, but Spike convinces her to give the hapless scholar one more chance to find it again. Leaving Jenny to wait in the car, Buffy walks Angel up a dock to the pier where a tramp freighter lies at anchor. Neither of them is able to hold back tears when he gives her the Claddagh ring he chose for her gift. Buffy pleads with Angel to stay, but he hushes her, urging her not to dwell on the time they'll be apart or the dangers they'll each certainly face. When their slow goodbye kiss breaks, Angel begins to say something else, but at that moment, vamps attack. In the ensuing fight, Buffy is thrown bodily off the pier and Angel leaps into the water after her, leaving Dalton and two vamp thugs to make away with the box containing the Judge's arm.

With the armageddon-out-of-town mission a bust, the gang (minus Oz and Cordelia) congregates back at the library to research a way to find Dru and stop the Judge. Knowing she hasn't been sleeping well lately, the others let Buffy rest in Giles' office, where she slips into a dream of a huge, dim interior containing candles, greenery and, oddly, Jenny Calendar. Wearing a long white satin nightgown, the dreaming Slayer bends to examine a collection of variously-shaped boxes that seem to contain other pieces of the Judge. At that moment, Drusilla calls to her from the catwalk above, where she holds a strangely quiescent Angel hostage. When Dru presses a huge, curved dagger to Angel's throat, Buffy yells and wakes. She is only slightly comforted to find Angel sitting right beside her, safe and undead—so far. Back at the lair, Dru's party gets underway and Spike presents her with the final piece to the puzzle, the Judge's head. When the last box is in place, the whole structure glows from within and opens down the middle, revealing the enormous, blue-skinned horned demon inside. The Judge totters a bit when he steps from his reassembled coffin, and Spike, reaching out to tap the armor breastplate, confronts the demon about his murky intentions and weakened condition. Eager to see some action, Dru offers the Judge a "party favor." The demon chooses Dalton, who apparently still retains some vestige of humanity, and burns the long-suffering vamp to ash. Dru is wildly excited by the show. Buffy, recognizing the factory location of the vampire lair from her dream, takes Angel on a recon mission, sending the others to various transport locales, just in case the final pieces of the Judge have yet to arrive. At the factory, Buffy and Angel sneak along the catwalk and see
Spike and Drusilla seek entertaining their guests below, among whom is a huge blue demon. Just as they realize what they are seeing, the Judge becomes aware of their presence. Buffy and Angel are immediately captured and brought before the Judge, Spike and Dru, but manage to reassemble a demon known break free before the Judge can kill them. Together, they escape through the sewers and emerge above ground in the pouring rain. Then, still alive, still together, they hold hands and run for the nearest shelter.

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as [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Judge]], Jenny is revealed soon as they reach his apartment. To alleviate her uncontrollable shaking, he brings Buffy some dry clothes and urges her to be get under the covers "just to get warm." Seeming unwilling to let her out of arm's reach, Angel dutifully turns his back as she changes, but starts at her audible wince. Sitting on the bed to inspect the small cut on her back, Angel tenderly slips the camisole strap from her shoulder and tells her it's already healing, then falls silent and still. Unable to resist his proximity, Buffy shivers and leans back, tucking herself into his embrace. In this relative safety, with nowhere else immediately to be, and in reaction to all the stressful events of the Gypsy clan that cursed Angel, and upon having sex with Buffy, past two days, the Slayer quietly begins to weep. Heartbroken, clearly desiring her, Angel loses simply holds her. Struggling to express her deepest fear, Buffy says "You almost went away today." Shaken, Angel replies "We both did." When he tries again to tell her what he wanted to say on the docks, Buffy sits up and turns to face him in anticipation. "I love you, Buffy," he says, and his soul.voice breaks a little. "I try not to, but I can't stop." Helplessly, she tells him she feels the same way, then passionately kisses him through her tears. Uneasy, Angel pulls back long enough to murmur "Buffy, maybe we shouldn't..." but Buffy puts her finger to his lips and tells him "Don't. Just kiss me." She feels Angel give himself over to her desire as he slowly sinks backward beneath her. Some time later, they lie asleep side by side, Buffy's arm over his chest. Suddenly, Angel sits up with a gasp, then struggles from the bed, all the while thunder and lightening crash outside. Somehow he dresses and stumbles out to the alley, where he collapses in agony, crying Buffy's name. Inside, the Slayer sleeps undisturbed, never hearing as Angel calls her name over and over into the pouring dark.
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->'''Angel:''' Buffy, maybe we shouldn't...
->'''Buffy:''' Don't. Just kiss me.

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->'''Angel:''' Buffy, ''"Buffy, maybe we shouldn't...
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->'''Buffy:''' Don't. ''"Don't. Just kiss me.
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** "If this girl gives him one minute of happiness it is one minute too much!" sounds like hyperbole, but Enyros means it [[SexFaceTurn rather differently]].

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** "If this girl gives him one minute of happiness it is one minute too much!" sounds like hyperbole, but Enyros Enyos means it [[SexFaceTurn rather differently]].
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* EvilCripple / TwoFace: Spike is now in a wheelchair, and is scarred on one side of his face.

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* EvilCripple / TwoFace: EvilCripple: Spike is now in a wheelchair, and is scarred on one side of his face.

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* SealedEvilInASixPack: The Judge

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* SealedEvilInASixPack: The JudgeJudge could not be killed in ancient times, so instead he was cut into pieces and scattered in a number of boxes around the world.
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* SealedEvilInASixPack: The Judge
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* WomanInWhite: Buffy wears white throughout the episode, [[RuleOfSymbolism symbolising her virginal innocence]]. Drusila has changed from her own white gown to a LadyInRed.

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* WomanInWhite: Buffy wears white throughout the episode, [[RuleOfSymbolism [[VirginInAWhiteDress symbolising her virginal innocence]]. Drusila has changed from her own white gown to a LadyInRed.
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Willow has an organ grinder monkey with her in Buffy's dream [[RealDreamsAreWeirder for no reason that Buffy can comprehend]].

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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Willow has an organ grinder monkey with her in Buffy's dream [[RealDreamsAreWeirder for no reason that Buffy can comprehend]].comprehend.
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** Buffy sees Jenny Calender in her second dream, but doesn't understand the importance of this until the next episode.

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** Buffy sees Jenny Calender [[DreamingTheTruth in her second dream, dream]], but doesn't understand the importance of this until the next episode.
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* SexIsCool: When Buffy decides she will have sex with Angel, Willow just goes, "Wow!"
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* KnightTemplar: Even though Jenny tells her uncle that Angel saved her life and is seeking to atone for his evil deeds, Enyos Kalderash is determined that the vampire suffer for eternity for what he has done to their clan.

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* KnightTemplar: KnightTemplar / ReformedButRejected: Even though Jenny tells her uncle that Angel saved her life and is seeking to atone for his evil deeds, Enyos Kalderash is determined that the vampire suffer for eternity for what he has done to their clan.
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* LadyInRed: Drusilla wears a red dress, presumably in contrast to the white-clad virginal Buffy (Angel having already 'corrupted' her). With her black hair it also counts as RedAndBlackKeepBack.

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* LadyInRed: Drusilla wears a red dress, presumably in contrast to the white-clad virginal Buffy (Angel having already 'corrupted' her). With her black hair it also counts as RedAndBlackKeepBack.RedAndBlackKeepBack [[spoiler:given her role as a wanton who turns Spike/Angelus against each other, and kills Kendra in "Becoming".]]



* WomanInWhite: Buffy wears white throughout the episode, [[RuleOfSymbolism symbolising her virginal innocence]].

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* WomanInWhite: Buffy wears white throughout the episode, [[RuleOfSymbolism symbolising her virginal innocence]]. Drusila has changed from her own white gown to a LadyInRed.

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* NotADate: Xander suggests to Cordy that seeing as they're still together despite all logic, they should go to Buffy's birthday party as a couple. Cordelia says it's not a date unless you start spending money.

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* NotADate: Xander suggests to Cordy that seeing as they're still together despite all logic, they should go and they're both going to Buffy's birthday party bash, they should go as an actual couple on a couple.date. Cordelia says it's not a date unless you start spending money.
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* PortentsOfDoom: Buffy's dreams.

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* PortentsOfDoom: PortentOfDoom: Buffy's dreams.dreams. Enyos has also turned up because their clan seer senses that [[ThePowerOfLove Angel's suffering is less than it was.]]
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* IKEAWeaponry: The boxes containing the various parts of the Judge all lock together neatly, magically creating the complete item.

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* BuffySpeak: Maxi-wig. Sparkage.

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* BuffySpeak: Maxi-wig. Sparkage. World save-age.


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* EvilCripple / TwoFace: Spike is now in a wheelchair, and is scarred on one side of his face.


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* NotADate: Xander suggests to Cordy that seeing as they're still together despite all logic, they should go to Buffy's birthday party as a couple. Cordelia says it's not a date unless you start spending money.


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* PortentsOfDoom: Buffy's dreams.

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