... have a personal canon ficlet!!  Basically, it's how Cordelia's plot in S4 SHOULD have ended, and I think the only reason it didn't end
this way, given the constant theme in BtVS and AtS of YOU DO NOT MAKE CORDELIA CHASE A VICTIM, is because Whedon was pissed with her.  Ugh.  Anyway, this is what should have happened...

( She was Cordelia Chase. And she would not be made a victim. )