Seeing double

"Hey!" exclaimed Kennedy to Willow as she pointed to the new arrival. "It's you!"

"No, that is not me," said Willow. "That's an alternative universe version of me."

"What's the difference?" asked Kennedy.

"Well, for starters, she's a vampire and I'm not," said Willow.

The other Willow sneered at the one standing next to Kennedy. "You say that like it's something to be proud of."

"Just think," said Kennedy. "After all these years, I finally get a chance to meet Dark Willow."

Willow replied, "Well, you don't have to get so fangirl about i -- Wait! That's not Dark Willow. That's Vamp Willow."

"Again," said Kennedy, "what's the difference?"

"Simple, really," said Willow. "Vamp Willow is a vicious supernatural creature who shows no mercy in killing human beings while Dark Willow -- er, ahem... I forgot what I was saying."

"Ah!" said Drusilla. "No mercy! Now there's a phrase that brings back pleasant memories."

She turned to Vamp Willow and said, "You remember the time we visited England during the Hal Yorke Regime? Not quite as interesting as the way it was run when Harold Saxon was Prime Minister but interesting enough."

"Ah, yes," said Vamp Willow. "Yorke and Saxon. Now there were two politicians who actually weren't boring."

"Even compared to the Master?" asked Drusilla with a twinkle in her eye.

"Especially compared to the Master," said Vamp Willow.

"All this is very interesting," said the Count, "but the fact remains that neither of you have a compelling need for the philosopher's stone."

"Oh, please," said Drusilla.

"No, Drusilla," said the Count.

"In that case," said Drusilla, "give it to her."

And with that, Drusilla pointed right at Buffy.

"Hey, wait!" said Buffy. "Why are you of all people trying to do me a favor, Drusilla?"

"Because I like the idea of an immortal naked Buffy," said Drusilla.

"No, seriously," said Buffy. "Why are you really doing this?"

Drusilla replied, "Because I've visited enough worlds to know how your story ends, Buffy, and I've learned -- Hark! Is that someone I hear at the door?"

The Count gestured to his manservant Roger. "Go see who it is."

"I wonder who it is this time," said Kennedy.

Drusilla smiled. "Perhaps it's Buffy's future self."

"Why would my future self show up here?" asked Buffy.

"Hey, you never know," said Drusilla.

At this point, Roger returned with a blonde woman in a long white dress, a woman who looked remarkably like Buffy.

"Mon dieu," said the Count. "It is you, Mademoiselle Summers."

"More importantly, I'm wearing clothes," said Buffy, a note of excitement in her voice. "That means my curse eventually ends!"

At this point, the blonde woman smiled, revealing two large canine teeth that looked like fangs.

"Well, that's one way to look at it," she said.