In which Dumbledore's next great adventure turns out to be a little closer to home than anyone suspected...

But seriously – 'I just wanted a happy ending? He didn't know whether to feel insulted his friends bought it, or burst out laughing that Sweet did too… Post-S6:7 'Once More, With Feeling', Xander accepts the price and makes his own play for power.

The whole POINT of being blackmailed was to stop Buffy and co. from finding out she was doing magic! In the aftermath of the '98 post-Valentine's love spell, Amy decided on a simple touch of revenge. And fortuitously to her mind, she also happened to owe Cordelia an apology…

Squall returns from Cosmos' realm a changed man – grown, matured, wiser. Which should have been a good thing, if not for the fact that the Squall-shaped hole in his world's future has suddenly grown too small for this new Squall…

Had Buffy realised the importance of Xander being the buttmonkey to Willow's organgrinder all the way back before her 17th, this might have all been avoided… A post-Season 7 divergence, involving Xander, a Hell Dimension, hippie weirdness, one of the weirder het pairings you'll ever come across and the gratuitous flogging of several dead horses…er, Xander!tropes. Pun intended.

Fans are useless beings, safe from random, painful death only by the vagaries of plot armour - and more importantly as far as they're concerned, their dreams are doomed to failure by their methods. Herein, four young Academy students realise this a little earlier than otherwise. (Well, kinda - close enough, for eleven-year-olds...) Now onto epilogue/omakes!