$2 -- dicated;

[nomorevengeance]

[All of a sudden, a high pitched scream comes out of the journal.]

What happened to the money?

[Anyone who happens to walk into Anya's room will see her holding some candy paper money with chocolate coins spilled onto her bed. She'd asked the castle for it, thinking some nice cash would make her feel better about not being home. But the moment

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[gottaknockhard]

...?

You were robbed?

[nomorevengeance]

[Distractedly.]

What?

[gottaknockhard]

Someone took your money? [... because obviously she wanted him to define that.]

[nomorevengeance]

Someone took my money? [There's a note of panic in her voice.] When? Why? Did you do it?

[gottaknockhard]

--No? Well, maybe. [Okay, so he's not very good at this comfort thing.]

Did you lose it?

[nomorevengeance]

No, it turned into candy. Who are you?

[gottaknockhard]

... That's different.

Spike Spiegel.

[nomorevengeance]

What? Spike? Huh? You sound... what's a spiegel?

[gottaknockhard]

My last name. Nice meeting you.

[nomorevengeance]

...you're not a vampire with bleached hair who happens to have decided to suddenly share his past, are you?

[gottaknockhard]

...

[Hold up. He should have figured out that guy was a vampire before now. SUDDENLY IT MAKES SENSE.]

Nope. Not me.

[nomorevengeance]

Huh. It's not a very common name.

[A beat.]

I'm Anya.

[gottaknockhard]

Anya? [He should be remembering something here... and it comes to him eventually.]

You'd think that one was too.

[nomorevengeance]

I'd think what was?

[gottaknockhard]

I met an Anya here before.

[nomorevengeance]

...a me-Anya from another parallel dimension, or another girl named Anya who had nothing to do with me?