(back on the tower platform from The Gift)

DAWN: (flashback) Buffy, no.

BUFFY: (now, remembering) Dawnie, I have to.

DAWN: (now) Buffy? Buffy... Buffy ... how.... Is it you? I mean really? What are you do- (creaking, Buffy turns back to edge) (shrieks) No! Don't! Don't jump, Buffy, don't move! Just walk to me. Please! Please? I'm your sister. Dawn. We were up here ... together, and then ... you went away. And you don't wanna do that again. I don't know how you're back, but you are, and please, just stay still. (tower creaks some more) Or-or move. But-but towards me. Because the tower was built by crazy people and I don't think it's holding up very well. Talk to me. Say something!

BUFFY: Is ... this hell?

DAWN: (confused) What?

BUFFY: Is this hell?

DAWN: No! Buffy, no! You're here ... with me. Whatever happened to you, whatever you've been through, it's ... it's over now. You're- (more creaking) We have to get off this tower!

BUFFY: It was so ... clear ... on this spot. I remember ... how ... shiny ... and clear everything was. But ... now ... now...

DAWN: Buffy ... please ... listen to me. You told me I had to be strong ... and I've tried. (tearful) But it's been so hard without you. I'm sorry. I promise I'll do better, I will! If you're with me. Stay with me ... please. I need you to live. Live! For- (creaking, Dawn loses balance) Buffy!

BUFFY: Dawn.

DAWN: Buffy!

BUFFY: Dawn!

(runs to her, gets them off the tower in the nick of time)

DAWN: (tentatively) Buffy? Buffy. You ... you ... (touches Buffy's cheek) ...you're really here. (Dawn hugs Buffy, cries)You're alive, and you're home. You're home.

• Buffy & Dawn
• Buffy's Death & Revivification

written by: Marti Noxon & David Fury; Transcribed by joan the english chick (pisces@englishchick.com). Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/101bargaining.html