Anya sat in the magic box listening to her oldest friend Halfreck go on and on about how she had recently punished a father who had stop making child support payments. Something about turning him in to what he truly was and now he was a giant slime monster or pile of slime or something slime. Most of the story slipped past her cause she couldn't separate herself from her own pain.

"Anyanka! Are you even listening? I swear I am l doing some of my best work I've ever done. I'm regaling you with truly powerful vengeance tales and you stand there with that dopey look on your face."

"Look I'm sorry I just haven't had a lot of time to think about…"

"Think about anything that isn't that stupid boy"

"You don't understand I was ready to give everything. Everything up. For what? A human. I lowered my standards and myself. I said hey he's not perfect but hey I can settle and how does he pay me back?"

"You are a vengeance demon again we don't complain. We get revenge. Remember it's kind of our thing." She rolled her eyes.

"Oh right. Why didn't I think of that? Oh yeah. All of my former friends are now siding with Xander. I couldn't get one of them to wish Xander a mild case of acne much less anything truly evil."

"Are you telling me that in all the years of Xander fighting evil that he never pissed off one person who would wish him harm?"

"He's a very very likeable" Just then the bell from the front door of the magic box rang out as Spike came in through the front door. He threw his blanket aside and quickly stepped in to the shadows. Halfrek and Anya looked at each other as if the idea hit them at the same time.

"Ask and ye shall receive Anyanka."

"Halfrek I think I need to talk to Spike."

"Yeah I'm on my way out." Anya lingered over to Spike. She had a plan in mind but knew what in order to use Spike for her plan she'd have to be subtle. Show a certain amount of restraint.

"Spike I'm glad you came in today. I was wondering if"

"WE NEED TO GET VENGANCE ON XANDER AND BUFFY!" Anya's eyes widened a little surprised at how easy that was.

"Well I couldn't be happier to hear you say that. I am more about punishing Xander. I mean Buffy and I aren't exactly the best of friends but it's not like she's done anything to me." Spike shook his head.

"Sit your ass down. I got something you are going to want to know."

"Excuse me."

"They are screwing each other."

"WHAT?"

"Probably have been for a while now."

"Spike you are pissed at Buffy and I get that but making up some story so that I work my vengeance on her."

"It isn't a story. I just came from her place. They didn't know I was there and I caught them." She stood up angry her hands now balled in to fists.

"I was engaged to him just weeks ago and now he's."

"Oh I betcha this was going on during your little engagement. I could tell you things."

"That bitch. I trusted her. I asked her to be my maid of honor. I gave her my trust and the entire time she was screwing me over by screwing my fiancé."

"I want to make him pay but I want to see her pay. I want them both to. I just wish." Anya quickly put her hand over Spike's mouth.

"Oh no. We are not wasting this. He's going to pay. She's going to pay. We need to think. Not just the first idea that pops in your head." Spike smiled a wicked smile. He could see now why it was that Anya was in the line of work she was.

"Too right." Spike pulled up a chair sitting next to the counter. "It has to be something painful."

"Problem is any magic's we do Willow will find a way to undo. Any beasts or big nasties Buffy will just kill."

"So where in the blue hell does that leave us?" Suddenly an idea entered his head. "I know something like we erase him. Something like he never existed?"

"It's too messy. Alternate realities. If you change one thing then everything gets thrown out of whack. Besides Cordeila wished Buffy out of Sunnydale once and she still found a way." Anya stood up her hands behind her back. She was pacing and thinking.

"They both want each other so much. How miserable would they be if they were apart?"

"Problem is that where you going to put them that they can't find there way back to each other?"

"What if they weren't looking?" Anya went back to pacing beginning to formulate the idea in her head. "Oh it wouldn't be difficult. We erase them. Not just from each others life but." Spike smiled and stood up starting to understand

"Right a little something special so that Willow and Giles no one remembers."

"The wish will fill in the holes. Instead of Xander get split in half by Toth maybe it will be Riley." Spike rubbed his hands together smiling and happy.

"Oh I'm loving this plan"

"I can't make the wish myself Spike. I am just the vessel from which it will flow." He laughed and smiled having a grin from ear to ear.

"It would be my honor to make this happen."

"Don't screw this up Spike. If you word one thing wrong."

"I got this." Spike closed his eyes and smiled. "I wish the last 10 years of Xander Harris life was completely forgotten about. He won't remember any of his friends and they won't remember him. They will be strangers to each other." Anya's once pleasant face had reverted to it's demon form and the glowing pendant she wore around her neck glowed as she said one word that was going to change everything as they knew it.

"Granted."