Slayer dreams #7

[truepenny]

Giles being glad to see me and heres_luck. He called us by name and gave us that beautiful, shy smile.
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whodunit type dream, where it turned out Anya had been murdering people because the loss of her demon powers had driven her mad.
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Xander and Anya getting back together. V. sappy but also v. cute.
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freaked out S6 dream: A rash of horrible murders in Sunnydale. Buffy believes it's a demon, and that the demon is passing for someone in the Summers house. She's in a kind of Wishverse/Faith's dream in "This Year's Girl"/"Normal Again" state, and so goes through the Slayerettes, methodically killing them one by one, figuring that sooner or later she'll get to the demon. Spike tries to stop her and can't; all he can do is stand helplessly and watch.

She's worked her way through the upstairs and the living room and dining room; the demon must be Xander and it must be in the kitchen. But when she opens the kitchen door, it's those two creepy-ass little kids from "Gingerbread." Except, because this is a dream AU version of S6, they aren't demon kids. They're the ghosts of two children Buffy failed to save in an episode that (in this version of S6) directly followed "After Life." They've been committing these murders BECAUSE Buffy didn't save them. So she's killed all her friends trying to stop something that she herself caused.

This is the dream from which I woke up with "Pavlov's Bell" stuck in my head.