is a dish best served in the raw

"You know something, Buffy?" asked Willow. "I think Anya was totally lying about that whole 'one wish per customer' thing."

"Ya think, Willow?" asked Buffy, still trying to cover her nakedness in the noonday sun.

"Well, don't get mad at me, Buffy," said Willow. "I'm not the one who wished her away this time. That was Marcie."

"Yes, I know it was Marcie," said Buffy as she placed both of her arms across her bare chest. "But you still could have done something."

"Like what?" asked Willow.

"Like wished an end to the curse for me before Marcie wished Anya away," said Buffy as she debated whether or not to cover her bush as well as her breasts.

"What good would that do?" asked Willow. "Marcie would have just repeated the same wish all over again. And she would have kept doing it as long as Anya was here with us, no matter how many times we wished the curse away."

"Hello," said Marcie. "I'm still here."

"Yes, we know you're still there," said Buffy, inadvertently uncovering her chest for a brief moment. "Haven't you done enough already?"

"Actually I have," said Marcie. "I initially came back here to Sunnydale to kill both you and Cordelia but this was a much better plan. So win-win for me."

"Hear that, Buffy?" asked Willow. "Marcie was planning to kill you and the nudity curse saved your life."

"I wouldn't exactly put it that way," said Buffy. "After all, I don't consider Marcie's planning to kill me to be a good thing."

"No, of course you wouldn't," said Willow.

"Hey, we're square now, Slayer," said Marcie. "At last I have the perfect ****. You get to know what it's like to have to live with an unending curse."

"And that improves your situation how exactly, Marcie?" asked Willow. "I mean you're still invisible and you just wished away the one person in Sunnydale who could have changed that. All because you cared more about getting back at Buffy than you did about improving your own life."

"Oh, blow it out your ears, Willow," said Marcie. "I've gotten to the point where I actually like being invisible now. And just think... Someday Buffy Summers will feel the same way about being naked. Oh, I'm sure she hates it now but eventually she'll get used to it to the point where she'll literally have trouble imagining herself any other way."

"Somehow I doubt that's ever going to happen," said Buffy.

"Oh, yeah," said Marcie. "Well, I predict it will. And I hope to be there when it do -- Ow!"

Marcie cried out in pain and hit the ground with a thud. Buffy could not see where she landed but she did see blood start to flow from a part of the ground that she had thought unoccupied.

Somebody shot Marcie, she thought.

Then she wondered why anyone would shoot Marcie. After all, Marcie was invisible. So whoever it was couldn't have possibly been aiming at Marcie because Marcie wasn't visible enough to aim at. Instead they would have to be aiming at --

"Oh, my God!" said Buffy as she leapt aside and pushed Willow out of what she had thought was the line of fire.

And sure enough, three more bullets hit the area of ground where Buffy and Willow had been standing.