I mean - are you saying he's dead? I mean, like. Deader. Poof deader. Spike. He kind of, you know, clings to life as much as he, you know, doesn't have one. It doesn't make sense.

[It's a trick, the sensation worms itself through her. Emotion. Trying to keep her from what she wants. Trying to deflect from her own desires. That was Buffy, wasn't it?]