Season 2

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Having established the core characters and elements of the show during the previous season, S2 expands upon those things and goes to a darker level. It's also a season in which all of the core characters get into or fall out of a relationship, or both.

After defeating The Master, Buffy Summers headed off to Los Angeles to spend the summer with her father. Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris seem to have grown closer, but it doesn't last long once Buffy's back. Buffy herself acts strangely, much more like Cordelia Chase. It's soon discovered that she was having anxiety about The Master but comes to terms with it after smashing up his bones.

Spike and Drusilla are introduced, two 100+ year old vampires who want to wreak havoc in Sunnydale. For the first time in the world, there are two slayers, due to the fact that Buffy died and was then revived. Kendra helps out a couple of different times.

Xander and Cordelia start up a secret affair that even they don't understand considering they've always hated each other. When Willow discovers this, she's pretty much disgusted by it, but luckily she has met her own guy: Oz, and soon gets together with him. Even Rupert Giles has a somewhat tulmutuous relationship with Jenny Calendar. This is due in part to an issue in Giles' past coming back to haunt him. In his younger days, he was into the black arts and conjured a demon with a few friends, and it finally came back to collect, temporarily possessing Jenny in the process.

Angel and Buffy, on the other hand, fall completely in love with one another. When they have sex on her birthday for the first time, Angel experiences a moment of true happiness and loses his soul, reverting to Angelus.

Angelus spends the next few months tormenting the group, especially Buffy. It's also discovered that Oz is a werewolf. When Jenny finds a way to restore Angelus's soul, he kills her, then takes pleasure in the reactions of everyone who cared about her. Eventually, Buffy and Willow stumble across the spell and devise a plan to use it, which is just at the right time: Angelus plans to awaken Acathla, a demon who will suck the world into hell. Spike temporarily joins Buffy because he's jealous of the relationship between Angelus and Drusilla.

This is also when Joyce Summers finally discovers the truth about Buffy and the supernatural world. The two have an argument and Joyce tells her that if she leaves, she shouldn't come back. Buffy, knowing she has to save the world, leaves.

Despite being in the hospital from an attack earlier in the night (in which Kendra is killed), Willow is determined to try the spell again, and Cordy and Oz help. Xander goes to help Buffy with Angelus, who has kidnapped Giles to get information out of him. Xander saves him while Buffy fights the battle. Even though Angelus has the upperhand at one point, Buffy turns the tables and is about to slice his head off when the spell works and Angel's soul is restored. Angel has no memory of what's happened recently, but Buffy sees that the portal has already opened, and the only way to close it is to kill Angel.

After each of them says "I love you", they kiss, and then Buffy stabs him with a sword and he's sucked into hell. Buffy goes home to pack and write a note for her mother. She then goes to watch the gang at school from a distance since she's been expelled, then walks off and gets on a bus that leaves Sunnydale...

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Beauty and the Beasts | Angel | Willow Rosenberg | Slayers | Rupert Giles | Spike | Angelus | Kendra | Whistler

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