10. Nightmares

Complete story — includes the ending

A student, Wendell, opens his book during class to reveal several spiders. Suddenly, Buffy sees a little boy outside the classroom. Wendell tells Willow and Xander that he regularly has nightmares about spiders. Several other students also experience their nightmares coming true. Another student, Laura, is attacked by a demon, and Buffy and Giles visit her in the hospital. Buffy is surprised to see the little boy from earlier, Billy, in a coma with similar injuries. Buffy's dad, Hank, visits her at school and blames Buffy for causing her parents' divorce, saying he never wants to see her again. Buffy talks to Billy and is attacked by the same demon that attacked Laura. Attempting to escape, the pair end up in a cemetery and encounter The Master, who throws Buffy into a coffin and buries her. Buffy escapes the grave but has become a vampire. Giles suggests that waking Billy will end the nightmares. At the hospital, Buffy attacks and defeats the demon, proving to Billy that it is no threat. Billy wakes, returning everything to normal. His baseball coach arrives, and they discover he is the one who attacked Billy. Later, Hank picks Buffy up from school and is happy to see her, revealing that their previous conversation was a nightmare.