BUFFY: Uh ... we missed the bed again.
SPIKE: Lucky for the bed.
BUFFY: Is this a new rug?
SPIKE: Mm...no. Just looks different when you're under it.
BUFFY: You know, this place is okay for a hole in the ground. You fixed it up.
SPIKE: Well, I ate a decorator once. Maybe something stuck.
BUFFY: I've been thinking about doing something to my room.
SPIKE: Yeah?
BUFFY: Yeah, I think the New Kids On The Block posters are starting to date me.
SPIKE: Well, if you want, I can... Are we having a conversation?
BUFFY: What? No! No. Maybe.
SPIKE: Hmm.
BUFFY: What?
SPIKE: Well, isn't this usually the part where you ... kick me in the head and run out, virtue fluttering?
BUFFY: That's the plan ...soon as my legs start working.
SPIKE: (whispers) You were amazing.
BUFFY: You got the job done yourself.
SPIKE: I was just trying to keep up. The things you do ...the way you make it hurt in all the wrong places. I've never been with such an animal.
BUFFY: I'm not an animal.
SPIKE: You wanna see the bite marks?
BUFFY: You know, it's late, I-I should ... get home before Dawn goes to sleep.
SPIKE: And she's off.
BUFFY: Have you seen my underwear?
SPIKE: What is this to you? This thing we have.
BUFFY: We don't have a ... thing, we have ... this. (head reappears) That's all.
SPIKE: Do you even like me?
BUFFY: Sometimes.
SPIKE: But you like what I do to you.
Spike holds up a pair of handcuffs. SPIKE: Do you trust me?
BUFFY: Never.
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SPIKE: You see ... you try to be with them...
Spike walks up behind Buffy. SPIKE: ...but you always end up in the dark ...with me. What would they think of you ... if they found out ... all the things you've done? If they knew ... who you really were?
BUFFY: (whispers) Don't.
SPIKE: Stop me.
SPIKE: No ... don't close your eyes. Look at them. That's not your world. You belong in the shadows... with me. Look at your friends ... and tell me ... you don't love getting away with this ...right under their noses.
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SPIKE: We have to go.
BUFFY: What happened?
SPIKE: There's nothing you can do now. We have to go before someone sees you.
BUFFY: What did I do?
SPIKE: We have to go, now! All right. Listen to me. Buffy. Buffy!
BUFFY: She's dead.
SPIKE: It was an accident.
BUFFY: I killed her.
SPIKE: I'm gonna get you home.
BUFFY: No!
SPIKE: I'm gonna get you home, and you're gonna crawl in your warm comfy bed and stay there! We're gonna sort this out. Trust me.
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SPIKE: What do you think you're doing?
BUFFY: The right thing. For once.
SPIKE: Sorry, luv. Can't let you do that.
BUFFY: I have to tell them what happened.
SPIKE: Nothing happened.
BUFFY: I killed that girl.
SPIKE: Demons in the woods? Time going wonky? They won't believe you.
BUFFY: I'll show them.
SPIKE: Show them what?
BUFFY: What did you do?
SPIKE: I took care of it.
BUFFY: What ... did you do?!
SPIKE: (firmly) What I had to. I went back and I took care of it. It doesn't matter now. No one will ever find her.
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SPIKE: There still isn't anything to connect this to you.
BUFFY: It doesn't matter.
SPIKE: It wasn't your fault!
BUFFY: I killed her!
SPIKE: It was an accident. It just happened.
BUFFY: Nothing just happens.
SPIKE: You're not going in there.
BUFFY: I have to do this. Just let me go.
SPIKE: I can't. I love you.
BUFFY: No, you don't.
SPIKE: You think I haven't tried not to?
BUFFY: Try harder.
SPIKE: You are not throwing your life away over this.
BUFFY: It's not your choice.
SPIKE: Why are you doing this to yourself?
BUFFY: A girl is dead because of me.
SPIKE: And how many people are alive because of you? How many have you saved? One dead girl doesn't tip the scale.
BUFFY: That's all it is to you, isn't it? Just another body!
SPIKE: (sighing) Buffy-
BUFFY: You can't understand why this is killing me, can you?
SPIKE: Why don't you explain it?
SPIKE: Come on, that's it, put it on me. Put it all on me. (She kicks him) That's my girl.
BUFFY: I am not your girl! You don't ... have a soul! There is nothing good or clean in you. You are dead inside! You can't feel anything real! I could never ... be your girl!
SPIKE: (slurred) You always hurt ... the one you love, pet.
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