Buffy would provide the same definition if pressed. Not that she considered this love. She believed in his but had long ago decided that Buffy Summers could either be incapable of love or loved too painfully. Therefore, it was easier to stay in the realm of like and want and enjoy.

"You'll have to manage this mission soapless, I think. Unless the previous owners didn't pull a hotel-theft and managed not to take all the mini bottles with them."

Not that this was a hotel. Not that mini bottles even sat in these houses to begin with. Not that soap mattered all too much when it would be enough of a feat to just get him soaking.

Buffy pulled back from the hug.