XANDER: I bet she's giving them great advice.

WILLOW: Absolutely! Those kids are lucky to have Buffy looking out for them. I just wish she believed it. She's still stressing over the whole "dropped out of college, not actually qualified" thing. Plus the salivating hellmouth underneath her feet and the whole?

XANDER: From beneath you, it devours. It's not the friendliest jingle, is it? It's no "I like Ike" or "Milk: it does a body good."

WILLOW: I know. It's gonna be bad. It's gonna be real bad. And I wonder, will I? Well, if it comes? When it comes, will I be able to help?

XANDER: I think so.

WILLOW: I don't know. I don't know what I can do. I mean, frankly, I'm?I'm scared of what I might do.

XANDER: Yeah, I get that. Figuring out how to control your magic seems a lot like hammering a nail. (Willow looks confused) Well, uh, hear me out. So you're hammering, right? OK, well at the end of the hammer, you have the power, but no control. It takes, like, two strokes to hit the nail in, or you could hit your thumb.

WILLOW: Ouch.

XANDER: So you choke up. Control, but no power. It could take like ten strokes to knock the nail in. Power, control. It's a tradeoff.

WILLOW: That's actually not a bad analogy.

XANDER: Thanks.

WILLOW: Except... I'm less worried about hitting my thumb, and more worried about going all black-eyed baddy and bewitching that hammer into cracking my friends' skulls open like coconuts.

XANDER: Right. Ouch.

WILLOW Sorry. (beat) Xander, being back here... I don't know...

XANDER It'll take time. Are you sure you're ready for this?

(Willow nods and walks forward without Xander.)

• Willow's Witchiness
• Xander & Willow

written by: Rebecca Kirshner; Transcribed by: CariCranberry. Edited by me. . Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/buffy/season7/transcripts/126_tran.php