DRUSILLA: It reeks of death. This will be the best party ever.
SPIKE: Why's that?
DRUSILLA: Because. It will be the last.
[Buffy's house]
JOYCE: Mall trip for your birthday on Saturday. Don't forget.
BUFFY: Space on a mom-sponsored shopping oppurtunity? Not likely.
JOYCE: So, does seventeen feel any different than sixteen?
BUFFY: It's funny you should ask that. You know, I woke up feeling more mature, responsible and level-headed.
JOYCE: Really? It's uncanny.
BUFFY: I now possess the qualities one looks for in a licensed driver.
JOYCE: Buffy -
BUFFY: You said we could talk about it again when I was seventeen.
JOYCE: Do you really think you're ready, Buffy? [Joyce drops a plate that shatters on the floor]
[Sunnydale High computer sciencee classroom]
ENYOS: Jen-ny Calen-dar.
JENNY: You startled me.
ENYOS: You look well.
JENNY: Yes, I'm fine. I know I havn't written as much lately. I've been busy.
ENYOS: I cannot imagine what is so important to make you ignore your responsibility to your people.
JENNY: I've been working, and -
ENYOS: The elder woman has been reading signs. Something is different.
JENNY: Nothing has changed. The curse still holds.
ENYOS: The elder woman is never wrong. She says his pain is lessening. She can feel it.
JENNY: There is...
ENYOS: There is... what?
JENNY: A girl.
ENYOS: Oh, what? How could you let this happen?
JENNY: I promise you, Angel still sufferes. And he makes amends for his evil. He even saved my life.
ENYOS: So you just forget? That he destroyed the most beloved daughter of your tribe? That he killed every man, woman and child that touched her life? Vengeance demands that his pain be eternal, as ours is. If this - this girl gives him once minute of happiness, it is one minute too much.
JENNY: I'm sorry. I thought -
ENYOS: You thought what? You thought you are Jenny Calendar now? You are still Janna, of the Kalderash people. A Gypsy.
JENNY: I know. Uncle, I know.
ENYOS: Then prove it. Your time for watching is past. The girl and him - it ends now. Do what you must to take her from him.
JENNY: I will see to it.
[Sunnydale High library]
BUFFY: And then my mom broke the plate. It was just like my dream. Every gesture. Every word. It was so creepy.
GILES: Yes, I imagine it would be fairly unnerving.
[Xander and Willow enter]
XANDER: Hey. It's the woman of the hour.
WILLOW: It's happy birthday Buffy! ... It's not happy birthday Buffy?
GILES: It's just that... part of the nightmare Buffy had actually transpired.
BUFFY: Which means Drusilla might still be alive. Giles, in my dream, I couldn't stop her. She blindsided me. Angel was gone before I knew what happened.
GILES: Even if she is alive, we can still protect Angel. Dreams aren't prophecies, Buffy. You dreamed the Master had risen, but you stopped it from happening.
XANDER: You ground his bones to make your bread.
BUFFY: That's true. Except for the bread part. Okay, so, fine. We're one step ahead. I want to stay that way.
GILES: Absolutely. Let me read up on Drusilla. See if she has any particular patterns. Why don't you meet me here at seven? We'll map out a strategy.
BUFFY: What am I supposed to do until then?
GILES: Go to classes, do your homework, have supper.
BUFFY: Right. Be that Buffy. [leaves]
XANDER: Well, that's not a perky birthday puppy.
WILLOW: So much for our surprise party. I bought little hats and everything.
XANDER: Mmm-hmm.
WILLOW: Oh, well. I'll tell Cordelia.
GILES: No, you won't. We're having a party tonight.
XANDER: Looks like Mr. Caution Man, but the sound he makes is funny.
GILES: Buffy's surprise party will go ahead as we've planned. Except I won't be wearing the little hat.
WILLOW: But Buffy and Angel -
GILES: May well be in danger, as they have been before and I imagine, will be again. One thing I have learned in myy tenure here on the Hellmouth is that there is never a good time to relax. But Buffy's turning seventeen just this once, and she deserves a party.
XANDER: You're a great man of our time.
WILLOW: And anyway, Angel's coming. So she'll be able to protect him and have cake.
GILES: Precisely.