2. Living Conditions

Complete story — includes the ending

Buffy finds life with roommate Kathy increasingly difficult. On a night patrol, Kathy joins Buffy unexpectedly. Buffy pushes Kathy into a bush to prevent her from seeing a Mok'tagar demon, which Buffy then fights off. Two other Mok'tagar demons watch on. The following night, Buffy dreams of a Mok'tagar demon performing a ritual on her, later learning that Kathy had the same dream. Buffy's friends grow increasingly concerned about Buffy's behavior and hatred towards Kathy. After Buffy gathers toenail clippings and explains that she thinks Kathy is a Mok'tagar demon, Willow asks her to go to Giles' house, where Giles, Oz and Xander prepared a trap to capture her by making a net fall her on from the ceiling as soon as she enter the room. They also try to tie her up with ropes while she is trapped by the net but Buffy soon breaks free and returns to her dorm room, where she and Kathy fight. Buffy inadvertently tears Kathy's face off, revealing a demon underneath. Meanwhile, Giles realizes that Buffy was right about Kathy being a Mok'tagar demon, and learns that Kathy has stolen parts of Buffy's soul. He performs the ritual to restore it, thwarting Kathy's efforts just as the Mok'tagar demons, who are from Kathy's clan and who she was trying to evade to continue enjoying living as a free human college student, arrive and pull Kathy back to their own dimension. Willow moves in as Buffy's roommate.