breakmychest | XXXVI--video;

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XXXVI--video;

Well, that was interesting. Glad I didn't revert. That would have been... bloody.

[He looks distant for a moment, then shakes his head and smiles.]

Makes you appreciate what you've got today, though, doesn't it? Unless things were better then, I suppose.

[Locked to Buffy]

How are you, love? I know thinking about Angel, especially at that point, must have hurt. You all right?

[The fact that she was thinking about how she'd just slept with Angel doesn't bother him at all. No, that's not sarcasm, he's seriously fine.]

[Locked to Andrew]

Well, you were a good ten times as obnoxious then as you are now.

[This his way of paying you a compliment. Appreciate it.]

[ooc: so I finally settled on jealousy as what's changing about Spike, especially when it comes to Angel, but all over, really. He just plain isn't worried about it.]

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Yeah. It's a valid and productive part of my day. There's the staring, then the gazing, then the daydreaming.. And then? The looking.

[Spike sounds amused.]

I'm coming over.

[And a few moments later, there's a knock on her door.]

[And she opens the door wordlessly and steps back to let him in. She's wearing something comfortable, and sporting quite a smirk on her face. Buffy shuts the door behind him.]

Y'know, I'm thinking about getting a different room. Make it different. As much as I love the trip down nostalgia lane, it's getting a little old I think.

[Spike walks in and looks around, then shrugs.] I'm sure the Admiral'd do it if you asked. Not feeling all too nostalgic right now, then?

No thanks, had enough of nostalgia with the flood. [Little smile.] I never really spent all that much time in my old room. Now that I'm doing that staring thing a lot? A change of scenery might do me good.

[He watches her carefully.] That bad, huh? [He walks over to her.] I know how hard that year was on you. I was there, remember?

[Buffy lets out a sound resembling a quiet sigh.] I don't really think you can know.

Still, where I went back to, not all bad. That was before the soul-crushing pain. Like, right before.

Yeah, losing your virginity, not all bad without knowing the boy went bad the next morning. [He winces a little.] Sorry about, you know, telling you that.

[Slow nod, then a reassuring smile.] Not to worry. It's not like I was in the running for nicest Slayer in the world. You handled it okay.

[Buffy moves to sit on her bed.] I think I really need to start writing things down again with all the crazy that happens here. I used to keep a diary.

[Spike sits next to her, one arm behind her, though he's not touching her, just turned towards her.] You thought I was your enemy. That I managed to talk you out of putting something wooden through me was a victory, as far as I'm concerned.

Angel mentioned that, I think. When'd you stop?

[Buffy smirked a little at that.] It's funny. I never staked you all those years. Even when I had the chance to.

[Siiiigh.] My last entry was pretty much an ode to evil boyfriends.

Had a few of those, haven't you? [He doesn't sound judgmental or upset. He's just stating a fact.]

I do appreciate that, you know. I really prefer a non-dusty look. [He looks at her softly.] I never bit you, either. And my mouth's been on your neck a time or two.

Different kinds of evil. [Shrug.]

Well, you sorta did, but you were experiencing the joys of evil brainwashing.

Oh, please, that wasn't a bite. That was hardly even a lick. And it let me snap out of the evil brainwashing so all and all, not so bad, huh? [He smirks triumphantly at her.]

[Slow grin.] Our lives are not like other people's lives.

[He gives her an amused look.] Finally caught on to that, have you?

[She just smiles at that.] Next time, can you be the flooded one and me be me?

Can't really pick that, unfortunately. But in this case? I'm glad it was you. Least you weren't killing.

True. Really didn't wanna have to kill you again. [Sad half-smile.]

Yeah, really don't want you to have to. [He rubbed his chest a little, though the spot where she staked him has long since stopped hurting.] Bit unpleasant.

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