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[pm] Politics? Ugh. Don’t tell me you’re going to face this fiasco head-on.
Matthew doesn’t actually know you did it, though. Because that would mean he’d know I granted the wish. And I’d have death threats in my inbox too if he knew that, history be damned.
I granted your wish because I could feel your vengeance. Yes, you were as plastered as a 20th-century war wound, but feelings are feelings, and I know you think he deserved what you wished on him, even if you know better than to say it without a litre’s worth of rubbing alcohol in your bloodstream. The way I see it, he wronged you, and you were a client. Far be it from the patron saint of women scorned to discriminate against a potential client.
[pm] It’s the price I have to pay for being Buffy Summers. I’m the slayer everyone knows. So much to my displeasure, I am in fact facing this beastie.
I just don’t see the point in arguing. I mean, I can’t say I’m not glad I don’t have to deal with him anymore. Hell isn’t really a place I’d actually want anyone to go because of me, but he’s there.
Who else knows about this? Hopefully not so many people? I sort of don’t want to have to fight a vampire who’s protected by his fame and has the “power of love” to support him…
[pm] Who else knows about this in general, or who else knows that I— you— we did it? Word’s definitely around that Cameron’s gone, but that’s not surprising. Nobody knows the specifics of the wish behind it except us. Oh, and, uh, Xander. I can’t not be up-front with him about this stuff, especially now. But it’s a good thing I told him, because he’s the one who convinced me to tell you, so.
People are investigating, just so you know. Leslie and Damien have a connection. And I sort of work with them now, so that’s a confusing situation. They know there was a hell portal, from Matthew, I think, and they’re trying to figure out who opened it and where it led to. But they’re not going to get very far on the former without some miraculous feat of portal-witchery… even if they get Cameron back, he doesn’t know who sent him to hell, and it’s near-impossible to trace the magical signature of a random portal.
[pm] So Xander is the only one that knows what we did? Let’s keep it that way. I can try to scare him into not telling Willow or Giles but he’d probably be more likely to keep it secret for the love of you.
And if you’re working with Damien and Leslie, why don’t you just… Lead them away from the truth. It wouldn’t be the worst thing you’ve ever done. In fact it would be a good thing that you could do.
It would be best for everyone if this didn’t come back to any of us.
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