SPIKE: (While watching Buffy fight) How ya doing?

BUFFY: Oh, fine. Y'know, same ol', same ol'.

SPIKE: Yeah, I can take care of this guy if you want.

BUFFY: Whatever. your call.

SPIKE: I mean, sure he don't look like much, but I'd wager he can give you a bit of nasty. Save you the staking. All you got to do is-

BUFFY: I am not telling my friends about us.

SPIKE: Right, I'll just be dropping him down to you then.

BUFFY: You want to tell them so badly, go ahead. You know why? I tried to kill my friends, my sister last week. to Guess how much they hate me? Zero. Zero much. So, I'm thinking, sleeping with you? They'll deal.

SPIKE: In that case, why won't you sleep with me again?

BUFFY: Because I don't love you.

SPIKE: Like hell.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

SPIKE: What's this?

BUFFY: It's a camera.

SPIKE: Yeah, I got that part. Why am I holding it?

BUFFY: Someone was using it to spy on me, on my house. Xander thinks it's you.

SPIKE: Oh, the great Xander thinks so? Shudder, gasp, it must be true.

BUFFY: Spike-

SPIKE: That ponce has always had it for me. Every chance he gets, he sticks it to...you believe him, don't you? You think I'm spying on you. You think I could do that?

BUFFY: Because you don't lie, or cheat, or steal, or manipulate...

SPIKE: I don't hurt you.

BUFFY: I know.

SPIKE: No you don't. I've tried to make it clear, but you won't see it. Something happened to me. The way I feel about you is different. And no matter how hard to try to convince yourself it isn't, it's real.

BUFFY: I think it is. For you. (Starts to walk away) I know it's not what you want to hear. I'm sorry, I really am. But Spike, you have to move on. You have to get over it-

SPIKE: Get out.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

XANDER: Get up! (After hitting him) Get up! You just gonna sit there, you nothing? That the kind of man you are?

SPIKE: I'm not going to fight you...chip!

XANDER: Too bad!

ANYA: No, no! Stop it! Stop it! Xander, I-

XANDER: Don't even try to deny it! Because I saw it all, the whole beautiful show.

ANYA: How? It was just...it was just a thing. I felt bad and he was just there.

BUFFY: Didn't take long, did it?

XANDER: Oh, okay! You had to do it, because he was there. Like Mount Everest. Like I used to be.

ANYA: And then you weren't. You left *me*, Xander. At the altar! I don't owe you anything.

XANDER: So you go out and bang the first body you can find? Dead or alive?

ANYA: Where do you get off judging me?

XANDER: Well, this is your solution to our problems. I hurt you, and you get me back. Very mature.

ANYA: No, the mature solution is for you to spend your whole life telling stupid, pointless jokes, so that no one will notice that you are just a scared, insecure, little boy.

XANDER: I'm not joking now. You let that evil, soulless thing touch you. You wanted me to feel something? Congratulations, it worked. I look at you, and I feel sick, because you had sex with that.

SPIKE: It's good enough for Buffy.

XANDER: Shut up and leave her out of...

ANYA: Buffy?

BUFFY: Xander...

XANDER: I don't want to know this, I don't want to know any of this.

SPIKE: Bloody Xander, bugging up everything. You know? I wish-

ANYA: Don't.

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