All That You Do Comes Back Unto Thee

The canonicity of this article's subject remains dubious. Though it doesn't contradict official continuity, it has not been referenced in any confirmed canonical material.

A Good Run
Type	Prose short story
Author(s)	Todd A. McIntosh
Publication	December 17, 2001
Publisher	Simon Pulse
Series	Tales of the Slayer book 2

All That You Do Comes Back Unto Thee is a prose short story of Tales of the Slayer book series. It was written by Todd A. McIntosh and published by Simon Pulse.

Summary

A fellow student of Buffy Summers at UC Sunnydale named Josh decides to stand up for himself against the mean jocks and summons an ancient Egyptian spirit to do his bidding. Only the spirit doesn’t want to play along and is in search of his mummified body which is currently located in Sunnydale Natural History Museum. It’s up to Buffy to stop this spirit from inhabiting his old body, but it turns out that Xander, despite his mummy fears, saves the day.

Continuity

• The events of this story takes place in the year of 2000.
• Buffy and Willow are freshmen at UC Sunnydale, as they began in "The Freshman".
• Josh reflects on Buffy saving him multiple times while in high school, as the class of '99 displayed this recognition in "The Prom".
• Jossh recalls supernatural events he witnessed in high school, such as:
  • the "fishy" Sunnydale High Swim Team Xander had once joined, whose members were becoming Gill Monsters ("Go Fish");
  • principal Robert Flutie "disappearance", after being eaten by possessed students ("The Pack");
  • and the literal witch-hunt that focused on Willow Rosenberg and Amy Madison ("Gingerbread"), with the latter disappearing (as a rat) as her mother had done before ("Witch").
• Josh suspects Willow might be gay, as well as her relationship with Tara as romantic, which Willow eventually reveals to Buffy as both true in "New Moon Rising".
• Xander mentions his experience with the Inca Mummy ("Inca Mummy Girl").
• Tara visits the museum with the Scooby Gang, having first met them in "Who Are You?".
• Anya Jenkins mentions Olaf as her last human boyfriend ("Selfless").
• Rupert Giles's apartment as described as the Scooby Gang meeting place since the destruction of Sunnydale High in the Graduation Day battle ("Graduation Day, Part Two").

Appearances

Individuals

• Bruce Carter
• Ampata Gutierrez (Only mentioned)
• Rupert Giles
• Alexander Harris
• Josh Headly
• Anya Jenkins
• Tara Maclay
• Amy Madison (Only mentioned)
• Olaf (Only mentioned)
• Daniel Osbourne (Only mentioned)
• Willow Rosenberg
• Mr. Samson (Only mentioned)
• Sesostris
• Snyder (Only mentioned)
• Buffy Summers
• Richard Wilkins (Only mentioned)

Organizations and titles

• Higher being (Only mentioned)
• Scooby Gang
• Slayer
• Sunnydale High Swim Team (Only mentioned)

Species

• Demon (Only mentioned)
• Human
• Spirit

Locations

• Egypt (Only mentioned)
• Sunnydale, USA
  • The Bronze
  • Espresso Pump
  • Hellmouth (Only mentioned)
  • The Magic Box
  • Rupert Giles's apartment
  • Sunnydale High School (Only mentioned)
    • Sunnydale High School library (Only mentioned)
  • Sunnydale Natural History Museum
  • University of California, Sunnydale

Death count

• Bruce Carter

Behind the scenes

Pop culture references

• Josh compares Bruce with actress Bette Davis in film The Little Foxes (1941).
• Josh has read about witches conjuring the god Thor, from Norse mythology.
• Sesostris is a priest of Anubis in ancient Egyptian religion.
• Buffy describes her "Spidey sense" as tingling, in reference to the fictional Spider-Man superpower.

Goofs, bloopers & continuity errors

• Anya says: "the last human boyfriend I had is an ogre now;" assuming she's referring to Olaf, his classification is of a troll, instead of an ogre ("Selfless").
• The Mayor is mentioned as having destroyed Sunnydale High, when in fact Giles who had detonated the bomb that exploded the building to kill him ("Graduation Day, Part Two").

Collections

• "Tales of the Slayer, Volume 2"