(Wes is reading as Fred sleeps. She wakes up, looks over at him)

FRED: I finally get you up to my bedroom, and all you want to do is read.

WESLEY: You dozed off. Was I making too much noise?

FRED: Not enough. I need noise to keep me here. Is it today? I mean...

WESLEY: You only slept for an hour.

FRED: That's an hour I don't got now.

WESLEY: Angel and Spike are on their way to finding your cure, and I shouldn't like to be the thing standing in their way.

FRED: And book man?

WESLEY: Book man came through. I think I gave 'em what they need.

FRED: (sits up, anxiously) Feigenbaum.

WESLEY: What?

FRED: (panicked) I—I have to find him. He's the master of— I have to have Feigenbaum here.

WESLEY: Who is Feigenbaum?

FRED: (stops, cries) I don't remember.

WESLEY: Shh. Shh.

FRED: Oh, isn't it terrible? At a time like this, I'm worried about how crappy I look.

WESLEY: You're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

FRED: Do you always like splotchy girls?

WESLEY: It's my curse.

FRED: Read to me.

WESLEY: The Dreadhost's Compendium of Immortal Leeches?

FRED: Can that be any book in the world?

WESLEY: Name one.

(cut to a little later, Wes reading from Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Princess)

WESLEY: She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on her small face. It would have been an old look for a child of twelve, and Sara Crewe was only seven. The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived a long, long time.

• Wesley & Fred

written by: Joss Whedon; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited & formatted by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.buffyworld.com/angel/season5/transcripts/5x15_tran.php