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He confronts Willow about her magic use after raising Buffy from the dead, and being a young cocky person she ignores him. Then when Tabula rasa comes around and she’s really amped up her magic abuse and has actually started to hurt those around her, he just goes. Sure he’s leaving because he thinks Buffy relies on him too much and she needs to be independent (which is a whole other issues itself. she’s barely into her 20s, has lost her mom, and now has to single parent her little sister on top of the saving the world stuff. Not to mention the dragged out of heaven of it all.)

He just watches Willow start down the same path he spend his youth lost on. And he just leaves. In his youth he was a bright young man with a future, then he was Ripper, a trouble maker who abused magics and rebelled and had dangerous demon possession orgies.

She looked up to him. She trusted him. And he left. She was young and stupid and cocky and so much like a young Giles. Giles had been there. He had acted out and hit rock bottom. He knows what it's like, and he just leaves. He’s been there, he knows how bad it can get and he still goes back to England.

Nancy talks about finally getting to go to Emerson and asks Robin about whether she’s ever thought of leaving Hawkins.

Robin tells Nancy that she has and starts talking about operation croissant and how she planned a trip to Paris in highschool, but never actually ended up going. She talks about how silly it was in retrospect and brings up the fact that she was planning to do it all with Tammy Thompson to really emphasize how goofy of a plan it was.