TEXT: Prologue: A dark chapel. Dozens of candles on several tall iron candleholders are standing around the chamber. An altar stands at one end. Upon it sits the high demon D'Hoffryn. Kneeling before him on a small rug is Anya, she who was Anyanka, once demon but now doomed to be mortal, pleading her case. D'Hoffryn: (resolutely) Do not ask again. Anya: (shocked) But... But I... D'Hoffryn: (sternly interrupts) Your powers were a gift of the lower beings. You have proved unworthy of them. Anya: I was robbed of them. D'Hoffryn: By your carelessness. Anya: (dramatically) For a thousand years I wielded the powers of The Wish. I brought ruin to the heads of unfaithful men. I brought forth destruction and chaos for the pleasure of the lower beings. I was feared and worshipped across the mortal globe. (disgustedly) And now I'm stuck at Sunnydale High. (despondently) Mortal. Child. And I'm flunking math. D'Hoffryn: (dismissingly) This is no concern of ours. You will live out your mortal life and die. Anya: (pleadingly) Give me another chance. You can fold the fabric of time. Send me back to that place and I'll change it. I won't fail again. D'Hoffryn: Your time is passed. Anya: (desperately) Do you have any idea how boring twelfth graders are? (stands up) I'm getting my power center back. (defiantly) And if you won't help me, then, by the pestilent gods, I will find someone who will! Cut to Sunnydale High. Willow is lying on a grassy area, concentrating hard. Soon a pencil floats up into view and starts to slowly turn end over end. Willow smiles at her successful levitation. Beside her, Buffy does sit-ups. Buffy: The
SUMMARY:
Wanting to be a vengeance demon again, Anya tricks Willow into helping with a spell to retrieve her power center, the amulet Giles destroyed in an alternate reality (" The Wish "). Instead of the amulet, however, the spell transports Willow's vampire version to an unsuspecting Sunnydale.