Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Volumes 7 & 8

 

Okay, the last two issues of Season 8 (side note: apparently yesterday's post was my 1,000 since I started this blog! Yay me). Volume 7 "Twilight" reveals that Twilight is none other than Angel. I knew I hated you for a good reason, Angel (actually, I like him on his own show. But not for Buffy). Angel and Buffy fight, and then they have sex (ugh) and it's so powerful it creates a whole world. 

Not gonna lie, a little jealous. 

Angel explains they can live forever happily in this world, but it means abandoning all their loved ones on Earth with the demons they unleashed with their sexcapades. Seriously, nothing good ever comes from these two getting it on. Of course Buffy won't do that, so she goes back to Earth to help her friends fight. Things aren't going well at all for Team Slayer when guess who shows up on his badass steampunk ship.

Spike. 

Heck yeah. Now we're talking. 

Volume 8 "Last Gleaming". Spike shows up to save the day (as always). Angel gets possessed by Twilight (the world he and Buffy created) who is understandably pissed about being born and abandoned. There's a mystical seed underground, beneath the closed Hellmouth in Sunnydale. Like a cork, Spike explains. If they destroy it, all the demons will be sucked back into their own dimensions but all the magic will go out of the world. Willow is against this plan, obviously. Buffy, Spike, and a few others travel down to the Hellmouth to confront the Master, who is guardian of the seed. Buffy and Angel fight again, and Giles can tell she won't be able to kill him without proper motivation so he gets in between them and Angel kills him. 

Angel killed Giles. Okay, now I really hate you, Angel. For real. I know you're possessed but still. GILES, man! What the giddy god hell is wrong with you?!

Buffy uses the scythe to smash the seed and all the magic is sucked out of the world, leaving Angel free of his demon and horrified about having killed Giles. Damn straight you should be. He goes catatonic with grief and Faith offers to take him home and try to nurse him back to health. Turns out Giles left everything to her: his houses (Giles had houses?) and horses and books and everything. Buffy moves with Dawn and Xander (who are now a couple, and I'm okay with that) to San Francisco and starts waitressing again. And Spike shows up periodically for a fire escape visit, since Dawn and Xander won't let him in the house (rude). 

All right then!