(Magic shop. Willow & Tara are collecting supplies)

WILLOW: Good, and, and hellebore. It's up and to the right.

TARA: Hellebore, one of my favorites.

WILLOW: It's powerful stuff. I tried to use it to de-rat Amy, and it didn't work. But I think it might have made her really smart. She keeps giving me these looks like she's planning something. Rubbing her paws together.

ANYA: (annoyed) Hey. What are you two doing?

WILLOW: Oh, we're gonna try out a few spells.

TARA: There's this thing you can do where you create light, and we thought, what if you could make, like, simulated sunlight?

WILLOW: Yeah, so then, you know, there Buffy is, middle of the night, and she finds this whole nest of vamps, a-and then she just goes, Presto!

TARA: Only it won't be presto exactly.

WILLOW: And, and voom! There's a, a floating ball of sunlight. Vamps get dusty.

TARA: You don't wanna look right at it, though.

ANYA: That's swell, but you can't use this stuff. Giles has only been gone two days and you're already causing trouble. You shouldn't do things while he's gone.

WILLOW: (smiling) You're the fish!

ANYA: What?

WILLOW: The, the fish in the bowl, in The Cat in the Hat. He was always saying that the cat shouldn't be there while the mother was out.

ANYA: What are you talking about?

TARA: It's a book. This cat does all this mischief.

WILLOW: It's so cute. He balances a bunch of stuff, including that fish in the bowl! A-and, but don't try it for real when you're six, because then you're not allowed to have fish for five years.

ANYA: (upset) You're referencing literature I have no way to be familiar with. You're trying to make me feel left out, and you're stealing!

WILLOW: I'm not stealing. I-I'm just taking things without paying for th... (pauses) In what twisted dictionary is that stealing?

TARA: Willow, maybe we should just pay.

WILLOW: Anya, Giles would be totally fine with this. Come on, it'll be fun.

(she gets an idea)

WILLOW: We could show you how to do some stuff! You could be floatin' pencils by the end of the day.

ANYA: (wistful) Sometimes I miss having powers.

(Willow grins. Anya realizes something)

ANYA: Oh. Oh! I know what this is!

(she shakes her finger at them)

ANYA: This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and, and have drugs.

WILLOW: Look how easy.

(They all look at the table. A small stick of dried sage and a vial rise off the table and float in the air. )

ANYA: Hey! Don't float the merchandise!

(she grabs the items and puts them back on the table. Willow turns. A few items on the counter rise into the air. )

ANYA: Stop that!

• Willow &/vs Anya
• Willow's Witchiness

written by: Jane Espenson; Transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/89triangle.html