He sings to her, "Life's not a song / Life isn't bliss / Life is just this / It's liiiiiiving," in a minor key that mirrors hers. He then brushes a stray lock of hair behind her ear, gazes at it with deep emotion, and asks if she's been using Dawn's shampoo. Spike tells her that the cure for what ails her is simply living. Someone finally pokes Dawn awake as she gets up to deliver her line: "The hardest thing in this world is to live in it." Uh, thanks. I guess I needed that anvil-shaped hole in my ceiling. I hope my renters' policy covers acts of the overly obvious. MBTV offered me anvil insurance when I signed up but I was all, "No, no! I have a good show. I won't be needing any of that." I've been kicking myself every day since. The music fades away as TCHD claps, congratulating them all on a good show. Willow snarls at him to "get out of here." He agrees that he and Dawn should hit the road because the traffic on the way to hell is always a snarled mess. Giles is all, "Over my dead, golden-throated, wicked sexy British body!" TCHD reminds all and sundry that Dawn summoned him, and therefore he gets to keep her as a consolation prize. Dawn sputters that she did no such thing, and that she got the necklace while she was, fingerquotes, "cleaning" at the shop. Giles realizes that if the trinket was found at the shop, that means one of the gang had to have done the deed. He fixes each of the girls with a look as Xander slowly raises his hand. Xander? Okay, how? If a layperson like Xander can raise a demon from a simple charm, maybe they should keep those items locked up. Do they come with instructions? I mean really, really detailed instructions. With diagrams, perhaps? Scale drawings? I mean, Xander. Realization washes over Xander's face as he asks, "Does this mean I hafta be your queen?" TCHD briefly considers: "It's tempting. But I think we'll waive that clause just this once." He then transforms into a stream of glowing light and takes off.













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