Wish, interrupted

"No?" asked Anya. "Why no?"

"Because you're a vengeance demon," said Amy. "If I let you go, you're likely to run away before you can help me."

"Actually I'm a justice demon," said Anya. "Vengeance demon is what you humans call us."

"Whatever," said Amy. "I still need you to help me solve a problem."

"Well, just let me go first and I'll solve all the problems you want," said Anya.

"I might not be a honor student, Anya, but I'm not stupid," said Amy. "Wish first, then I'll let you go."

"Okay, okay," said Anya, seeing how hopeless it was to fool the naked girl. "Go ahead and make your wish."

"First, I have to know -- did you do anything to Buffy Summers?" asked Amy.

"Buffy Summers?" asked Anya. "Is she the reason you're doing all this? What is she to you, anyway? Your girlfriend? Because I never figured you for being that way but then I hardly know you and my gaydar is not what --"

"She's not my girlfriend!" exclaimed Amy.

"You sure?" asked Anya. "Because you seem to be making an awfully big fuss about her."

"Never mind that," asked Amy. "Did you place a curse on her?"

"A nudity curse, you mean?" asked Anya. "Sure I did. So what?"

"Remove it," said Amy. "Now."

"You know what you need to do if you expect me to obey you," said Anya.

"What?" asked Amy.

"Make a wish," said Anya.

"Okay," said Amy. "Here goes. I wish that Buffy Summers --"

Just then the door to the science lab opened. A woman stepped inside. Amy took one look at her and realized that it was present Amy.

Present Amy took one look at future Amy and cried out, "You!"

Almost immediately, present Amy said, "I don't know how you managed to change back into a human but you're definitely not going to stay that way."

Future Amy saw present Amy start waving her arms and chanting in Latin and then ducked behind a dissection counter. There she lay down on the floor and listened to the sound of a spell passing overhead.

Oh, good, future Amy thought. She missed. But now what? Wait! I have a vengeance demon in the room. All I have to do is wish her gone.

Future Amy made her wish and listened as present Amy immediately left the room.

Then future Amy stood up and congratulated herself on her quick thinking, only to realize that she had not heard Anya utter the words, "Wish granted." Why had she not done that? future Amy wondered.

Then future Amy turned and saw that the spell intended for her had hit another target -- a fact made quite obvious by the way a white rabbit now sat within a pile of empty clothes that was located in the same area where Anya had been standing just a few minutes earlier.