"Okay, you have a plan to deal with the Mayor and like I said, we aren't supposed to help with the actual big world saving events." Xander reminded them. "So actually dealing with Wilkins is up to you guys. But before we go I have something else I need to say. You're still listening way too much to Buffy's opinions on things. She doesn't want to kill Wilkins because he's human. A human being who sold his soul and is responsible for thousands of deaths, directly and indirectly. He has vampires actually working for him. And yet she's also responsible, directly and indirectly, for a considerable amount of dead humans, which makes her a hypocrite. At the same time Buffy refuses, in any reality, to dust a vampire if they've got a soul, 'because it makes them special' or like she said in one reality, 'he can be a good man' and another demon pointed out, no he can't because he's not actually a man. In that same reality a human sought vengeance against Buffy's vampire, because the vampire killed his mother and actually went around wearing her coat. He failed the first time and Buffy told him if he tried again, she'd actually let the vampire kill him. Buffy can't think straight around vampires. And none of the rest of you can think straight around Buffy. You started out as supporting Buffy in her destiny. Because you recognize that the Watchers Council's policy of making a Slayer fight alone is sure lunacy. But at some point you transitioned to being Buffy's sycophants and thinking she can't be wrong, no matter how many times she is wrong. From Giles giving and allowing her to take credit for everyone else's work, to Willow using Magic to influence people into going along with what Buffy wants, so Buffy's happy. It feeds her ego, makes her believe she's perfect and can do no wrong. Basically, everybody needs to grow a spine where Buffy's concerned. It's a lesson I learned the hard way because Buffy was responsible for my first death activating my immortality. Something not even I knew I had."
"Xander, if you activated while hunting vampires, even after I tried to get you to stop, because I knew you'd get hurt, how is it my fault you died?!" Buffy was pissed at his commentary and what seemed like a contradictory statement to her.
"Because I didn't die hunting vampires, Buffy. Which if I had, would be my choice and my responsibility. I died because you decided to use me as bait in an operation you put together and didn't tell me you were using me as bait. You convinced the others not tell me about the plan and then you sent me to find your special vampire in our home reality. Knowing full well he was with Faith, who, having been convinced she was evil, had joined the Mayor. Your goal was to prove she'd joined the Mayor. To be convincing to Faith, he pretended that he had too. He punched me, so hard he knocked me unconscious. He left me on the street, at night, in Sunnydale. I didn't survive. He tried to protest that he thought you had someone watching, even though it had never come up when you laid out your plan. A plan you got Willow and Giles to go along with. Well, a plan you got Willow to go along with. She influenced Giles into going along with it. You tried to tell me, he didn't realize he hit me that hard and Giles pointed out that as a Master vampire, he's well aware of how much strength it takes to knock out a human being. And as of the last night I saw the you in our reality, you're still unapologetic over it and still making excuses for Angel."
"Angel?" Faith asked.
"Angel, formerly and still occasionally, Angelus, the Scourge of Europe."
"He's also the one she claimed could be a good man?" Faith asked.
"No, that was Spike, bleached blond wonder. He's also the one who thought she wanted a man shaped monster. He killed and had no remorse for killing both as a vampire and as a vampire with a soul. And even after he'd killed she let him live in the same house as a bunch of Potential Slayers and her own sister. Like I said, she can't think straight around vampires."
"My opinion." Cordelia said. "Buffy and Willow both need help, psychological help. It's an area the Watchers are sorely lacking in training. And Giles, you need to take a good long hard look at how you're treating Faith. She's the Slayer, the line passes through her. But even if it passes through both her and Buffy, she still deserves better treatment then she's gotten from you. Alot better. Now maybe Willow has been influencing you or maybe you're just as caught up in Buffy's web as everyone else. Regardless, things have to change or five years from now, Buffy's going to be leading a bunch of barely trained little girls straight into what she was warned was a trap and not caring that she gets them killed, because she's more focused on proving she's right, then on the known facts."
"Something I've realized with each new reality we're in." Xander said. "Is there's lessons for all of us to learn. I need to learn to manage my temper better. The rest of you also are now aware of what you need to learn. You need to understand, there's a difference between protecting Sunnydale and supporting Buffy. Because all too often, Buffy's actions and choices are the causes of the threat in Sunnydale. Faith, being convinced she was evil, constituted another threat in our reality. And Buffy's, Giles' and Willow's action contributed to it. Get help, before it's too late."