Season 2
Buffy arrives back in Sunnydale after spending the summer with her father, Hank, in Los Angeles. At first she's distant with everyone, still not over the fact that she did die, but she's alive again. Also arriving in Sunnydale are two new vampires, Spike and Drusilla. After trying to fit in with the vampires that were there and submitting to The Anointed One, Spike killed the Anointed One so that him and Drusilla could run the show. Spike and Drusilla were in town to regenerate Drusilla to her full vampire power by finding her sire, Angel. The ritual which does this however also drains Angel and would kill him. At school Buffy's getting back on track. Willow's making a new friend, Oz, he plays in a band who play regularly at the local club - The Bronze, called Dingoes Ate My Baby. Buffy gets a surprise in store for her, after the Order of Teraka (deadly assassins) are called to kill the slayer, Buffy meets another slayer, Kendra who was called after Buffy died for a couple of minutes when The Master killed her. Drusilla gets restored to her former self by the way of a ritual which almost kills Angel, but Kendra and Buffy save him. In the process of Drusilla being restored Spike is left in a wheelchair unable to walk. Buffy and Angel get closer and closer, and they fall deeply and madly in love. Spike and Drusilla plan to eliminate all human kind, they call on The Judge, but his parts are scattered all over the world and they are all gradually being brought to Sunnydale to assemble him. Buffy and the gang get their hands on one part at Buffy's 17th birthday party. Angel volunteers to take it to the furthest place possible against Buffy's wishes, but they're ambushed, the part is taken and The Judge is assembled. They flee and both stay in Angel's flat, and one thing leads to another and that night they make love, in the process Angel's soul is lost through one moment of happiness and Angel becomes Angelus once again and joins forces with Spike and Drusilla. The IT teacher at Sunnydale High, Jenny Calendar, is revealed to by a gypsy from the same clan that cursed Angelus many hundred of years ago. She and Giles fall in love. When Angelus returns, Jenny tries to perform the curse again but she's stopped by Angelus who find's out, and kills her. Spike grows even more annoyed with Angelus' presence, as they have to move to a new location, Crawford Street Mansion. Buffy then vows to kill Angelus. Willow and Buffy, while studying, find the translated curse to re-soul Angelus. Willow gives it a shot but it doesn't work. Kendra arrives back in town with a warning from her watcher, a very dark power is about to rise in Sunnydale. Angelus is attempting to bring forth the demon Acathla who will swallow the world into hell. Angelus fails to bring Acathla to life and so calls the help of an old friend, he kidnaps Giles with Drusilla's help. Drusilla and "the boys" storm the library almost killing Willow, breaking Xander's arm and killing Kendra. Buffy is framed for Kendra's murder and is expelled from school by Snyder. Willow ends up in hospital in a coma, when she wakes from it she wants to try the curse again. Buffy bumps into a demon at Giles' apartment, Whistler, who tells her how to kill the demon, Angel's blood is needed. Buffy heads to the mansion and meets Xander there, Xander fails to tell Buffy that Willow's trying the curse again. Xander gets Giles out and Buffy and Angel fight it out. Willow's curse works but it's too late and Buffy has to kill Angel, and so saving the world. Through this, Joyce has learnt of Buffy's calling and hasn't taken it well, and after having to kill Angel and being expelled Buffy leaves Sunnydale.