A missing scene from Season 7 Ep 1 that I'm sure Joss just forgot to put in or was sacrificed to the editing gods for commercial time (grin). Of course I'm not making any money nor do I own any of this. So it's all just a free-for-all fun fest ;)
7.1 (as written)
Dawn looked at the box, full of excitement: "It's a weapon, isn't it?" She knew it was a weapon, Buffy had been really good taking her out and training her, Buffy was totally following thru with sister time.
Buffy thought a moment and nodded. "Yes, it is."
Dawn tore off the purple ribbon, thinking maybe a small knife, like a stiletto, would fit perfectly inside the prettily wrapped box her sister had presented to her … and found a cell phone. Oh.
OH! Her first cellphone!
[cut for time]
Three hours later:
Xander and Dawn both stood back, looking speculatively at the dead, goop-y demon, somewhat exploded on the floor. Buffy stood off to the side, holding out her hands, also dripping with viscous goo, eyeing her ruined outfit disdainfully… and then there was the smell: putrid … and sweet in all the wrong ways.
"That wasn't what I had had in mind when I asked if you were giving me a weapon" Dawn commented, tilting her head, looking back at the … thing. On a scale of Ew, Dawn was giving this a solid eight.
Buffy turned her eyes on her sister, looking uncomfortable and guilty. "I'm really sorry Dawnie. We'll get you a new one. I got the full warranty."
Xander cleared his throat, "Um, Buff - I think you have to turn in the old phone in order for that warranty thing to work…"
All three turned to eye the corpse. It was slowly melting, a smelly, oozing yellowish green gelatin-melting now that it was dead monster, and lodged inside of it's translucent skull, taking up the place where most of the brain used to be, was Dawn's cell phone with it's face lit benignly to alert Dawn that she'd missed a call.
Dawn had pulled her brand new phone out of her pocket when she'd felt the phone vibrating, and then tossed it instead of the brick she'd meant to grab when her sister had yelled out for something to throw. And, of course, Buffy had missile-ed the cellphone-projectile to achieve the killing blow…
It was maybe cool. Dawn wasn't sure yet, she was still stuck on the gross factor. Maybe she could start a chronicle of the wacky things Buffy had used and destroyed in her fight against evil; she used to keep a running list in her Dawnster Chronicles, maybe it was time to start a new one; she remembered overhearing Buffy telling Faith about using an exact o knife once, and there was the hair spray thing, and, that one time, hadn't Buffy taken her-