XANDER: Excuse me. I need to be both giving *and* receiving of mirth. Is it too much to ask for a little backup?

BUFFY: I'm here for you, Xand. I'm Support- O-Gal. I just... feel a little weird about this us-against-Cordelia thing. She's had a rough time.

WILLOW: It's true. Cordelia *belongs* to the justified camp. She *should* make us pay. And pay and pay and pay... In fact, there's just not enough pay for what we...

XANDER: (interrupts) Look, you want to do guilt-a-palooza, fine, but I'm done with that. Starting this minute, I'm gonna grab ahold of that crazy little thing called life and let it do its magical little heal-y thing. What's done is done. Let's be in the moment. Behold the beauty that is now. Who's with me?

BUFFY: He's actually making sense. We're young and free in America. How dare we be spun by love or the lack of same?

WILLOW: Absolutely. I-it's self-indulgent. I-I'm in. I'm on the joy train. (smiles)

They all put on bright smiles and radiate them into the Bronze. Slowly their luster fades, and they all end up looking glum again.

BUFFY: That didn't work. Who wants chocolate?

• Xander & Cordelia
• Xander & Willow

written by: Marti Noxon; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/43wish.html