"Beautiful slayer," the pirate amended. The title drew his thoughts down different avenues--particularly down one that Buffy often thought he did not want to talk about, ever: business.

The truth was, he was more curious about that than anything else, in spite of himself. It represented so many of his interests, none of which he felt he had complete control over. And this bothered him.

"That new vampire you were so worried about: what became of that business?"