WESLEY: I don't understand.

BUFFY: Well, I don't think I can talk any slower, Wes. I want to leave.

WESLEY: What? Now?

BUFFY: No, not now. After I graduate, you know, college?

WESLEY: But, you're a Slayer.

BUFFY: Yeah, I'm also a person. You can't just define me by my Slayer-ness. That's ... something-ism.

GILES: Buffy, I know we've talked about you going away...

BUFFY: I got into Northwestern.

GILES: That's wonderful news. Good for you.

WESLEY: Alright, everyone. Monsters, demons, world in peril?

BUFFY: I bet you they have all that stuff in Illinois.

WESLEY: You cannot leave Sunnydale. By the power invested in me by the Council, I forbid it.

GILES: Ah yes, that should settle it.

WESLEY: (counting on fingers) Faith gone bad, and the Mayor's Ascension coming up, ...

BUFFY: I know it's complicated. I'm aware that my graduation may be, among other things, posthumous, but... What if I stop the Ascension? What if I capture Faith?

GILES: I very much hope you will.

BUFFY: If I do that, then all you guys have to do is keep the run of the mill unholy forces at bay through mid-terms and I'll be back in time for Homecoming, and every school break after that. Can we at least think about it?

WESLEY: Perhaps if circumstances were different.

BUFFY: I'll make them different.

• Slayerhood

written by: David Fury; . Full transcript at:
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