While Buffy did that, Faith took care of the patrolling duties. At one point Buffy even took a three-month vacation traveling the world and Faith gracefully filled in while Kennedy and Rona did the patrolling.

Kennedy and Willow did date for two more months before Kennedy wanted to explore more possibilities. Unlike Willow she was the type of girl that liked to experiment and live it up before settling down. Willow wasn’t too heartbroken, she didn’t love her but she was extremely turned on by her. She couldn’t resist a woman in power. That was one of the things she loved about Tara. Tara had so much power, and even when Willow surpassed her she was still more powerful because at least she could control her own power.

Xander was still grieving over Anya and surprisingly found himself befriending Andrew who seemed to have made a bond with Anya before she died. Xander loved hearing Andrew telling the stories about him and Anya getting supplies at the hospital and them having a wheelchair fight. It was a side of Anya that she didn’t show much and before Xander’s relationship with her turned sour they had those moments all the time.

He thought after the breakup she lost that flair, but she hadn’t. In fact she became even more wonderful. She became more compassionate and caring, so much that when at first she fled from the apocalypse and returned afterwards she then fought bravely in the face of certain doom and sacrificed her life for someone else. Someone who at first was considered evil.

But that’s the thing with Buffy’s close net group of people, they are all redeemers. Angel killed hundreds before getting his soul, Faith was a cold-blooded murderer, Willow killed two people and almost destroyed the world, Andrew killed Johnathan and activated an ancient hell-seal, Giles brought forth an evil demon that killed all his friends, Spike killed mercilessly as William the Bloody including two slayers, and Buffy herself tied Xander, Willow, and Dawn up before letting a demon loose on them.

They were all redeemers, all making up for something.

In a way Xander felt a little guilty for Anya’s death. Maybe it was his subconscious saying he needed to be a redeemer as well to fit into Buffy’s gang, or maybe it was that underlying guilt that said maybe if he would have paired with Anya instead of pairing her with Andrew, she would still be alive.