BUFFY: Life is stupid.

SPIKE: I have a dead memory of that, yeah. And I didn't figure you were here catching a whiskey because life is full of bloody peaches.

BUFFY: There's this thing, someone is doing something to me- messing up my life, except that it was kinda pre-messed already. Y'know with school and jobs , pretty bad even without the Yule.

SPIKE: So you, uh, just what? You gonna let this whoever play you until it figures out what kills you?

BUFFY: Giles is working on it.

SPIKE: Oooh good, because Giles was the mighty force of library books.

BUFFY: You do better?

SPIKE: Damn right. Hit the demon world, ask questions, throw punches, find out what's in the air. Its fun too.

BUFFY: Not my kind of fun.

SPIKE: Yeah...it is and your life is gonna get a lot less confusing once you figure that out.

BUFFY: You have had so too much to drink, at this point I am cutting you off.

SPIKE: You're not a school girl...you're not a shop girl, you're a creature of the darkness, like me. Try on my world. See how good it feels.

BUFFY: There drinks in your world?

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Buffy and Spike head to a bar, where Spike starts joining in a game of poker with a few other demons. Buffy is very drunk at this time.

SPIKE: OK, who's gonna advance me a tiny tabby to get me started. C'mon, someone's gotta stake me.

BUFFY: I'll do it! (After Spike's look) What?! You thought I was just gonna let that lie there?

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SPIKE: What's wrong, love

BUFFY: What's wrong? You were gonna help me, you...you were going beat heads and fix my life, but you're completely lame. Tonight sucks. And look at me ooh, look at STUPID Buffy, too dumb for college, and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work, and my job at the magic shop? I was bored to tears even before the hour that wouldn't end. And the only person that I can actually stand to be around is a neutered vampire who cheats a kitten poker.

SPIKE: Oh, you saw the cheating did you?

BUFFY: Oh, also, I think your drunk.

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