(Xander's basement. Anya is standing in the doorway.)

ANYA: Xander's not here.

BUFFY: Oh.

ANYA: You're not going away. Why aren't you going away?

BUFFY: Oh I was kind of hoping to look at some of Xander's stuff.

ANYA: Oh. Sure. Come on in. Make yourself at home. And so on.

(Buffy sees a poster of Jonathan, a Jonathan comic and lots of trading cards of Jonathan. Many pictures of Jonathan adorn the walls. )

ANYA: Oh you're still here. That's nice.

BUFFY: May I ask you something? Does it every seem just a little strange that Jonathan is so good at everything?

ANYA: (shrugs) He's Jonathan

(She resumes reading the book. Buffy takes it from her.)

ANYA: Hey! I was just at the part where he invented the internet.

BUFFY: Anya he fights better than I do. And I'm the slayer. The Slayer! That's supposed to mean something right?

ANYA: Oh! buck up you. You kill the best. Go you. Kill, kill.

BUFFY: Actually not needing validation right now, but thank you.

BUFFY: He just seems too perfect. I don't know.

ANYA: So I can have my book back?

BUFFY: Anya when you were a demon, you granted wishes right?

ANYA: Vengeance wishes on ex boyfriends. I'd wish he was a dog or ugly or in love with president McKinley or something.

BUFFY: But someone could wish the whole world to be different right? That's possible?

ANYA: Sure, alternate realities. You could uh, could have like a world without shrimp. Or with, you know, nothing but shrimp. You could even make like a freaky world where Jonathan's some kind of not perfect mouth breather if that's what's blowing up your skirt these days. Just don't ask me to live there! Now if I, uh, could just have book back you could be on your way someplace else?

BUFFY: (handing back book) Here.

written by: Jane Espenson; Transcribed by Corwin2. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/73superstar.html