WILLOW: Come in.

AMY: It's me. Dawn said I could come up. So, is she pissed at you too, or just me? What did you tell her about me?

WILLOW: D'you want something?

AMY: Um ... yeah ... actually. I mean, I, I don't, don't know if you wanted to keep it, or... (looks at rat cage)

WILLOW: You want it? Really?

AMY: Well, yeah, you know, I mean ... it's not much, but it's home. Or it was. I don't know, I guess it's stupid, but...

WILLOW: No, i-it's not stupid. You can have it, of course.

AMY: Hey. So I hear you got this whole cold-turkey thing goin' on. How's that going?

WILLOW: It's good. It's really good. I mean, i-it was hard at first ... frustrating ... doing everything the slow way. It was like, 'is everything gonna take forever, forever?'

AMY: (sympathetically) Yeah.

WILLOW: But, uh, it's better now. I'm ... getting my focus back.

AMY: (re Willow's completely highlighted text book page) Mm. I can see that.

WILLOW: (defensively) It's a pivotal page.

AMY: So this is it, huh? This is ... gonna be your life from now on?

WILLOW: What? No.

AMY: Well, you're never gonna do it again. Ever. You're never gonna ... feel how it made you feel.

WILLOW: Don't think that's the way to look at it.

AMY: Hey Will? It's your birthday.

WILLOW: Um, no it isn't. But now that you mention it, Buffy's is coming...

AMY: Potestas. (latin translation: "power" or "you have the power.")

WILLOW: What? (alarmed) Amy...

AMY: (smiling) It's a gift. It's magic ... and it didn't come from you. It came from me. Completely legal. (pause) Enjoy.

• Willow's Witchiness

written by: Jane Espenson; transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/112doublemeatpalace.html