BUFFY: You just wanted me because I was unattainable.
SPIKE: You think that’s all that was?!
[ … ]
SPIKE: You listen to me. I’ve been alive a bit longer than you, and dead a lot longer than that. I’ve seen things you couldn’t imagine, and done things I prefer you didn’t; don’t exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I thought with my blood, which doesn’t exactly rush in the direction of my brain, so I make a lot of mistakes, all the wrong bloody calls. A hundred plus years, and there’s only one thing I’ve ever really been sure of - you… Hey look at me, I’m not asking you for anything. When I say I love you it’s not because I want you, or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength, I’ve seen the best and the worst of you, and I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are - you’re a hell of a woman. You’re the one Buffy.
BUFFY: I don’t want to be the one.
SPIKE: I don’t want to be this good-looking and athletic; we all have crosses to bear.
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