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7.09 Never
leave me
Synopsis:
 Buffy
tries to deal with Spike's problem but the bringers attack her
house and kidnap Spike.
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7.09
Better Man
- 4.998K: Buffy tells Spike she sees his a better man.
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BUFFY:
How did you do it? How'd you get your soul back?
SPIKE: Saw a man about a girl. I went to seek a legend
out. Traveled to the other side of the world, made a deal with a
demon.
BUFFY: Just like that?
SPIKE: No, not just like that. There was a price. There
were trials, torture, pain and suffering... of sorts.
BUFFY: Of sorts?
SPIKE: Well, it's all relative, isn't it?
BUFFY: Meaning?
SPIKE: Meaning I have come to redefine the words pain and
suffering since I fell in love with you.
BUFFY: How can you say that?
SPIKE: Apparently, I just slaughtered half of Sunnydale,
pet. I'm not really worried about being polite anymore.
BUFFY: So, that's what this is about. You feeling sorry
for yourself, Spike?
SPIKE: I'm feeling honest with myself. You used me.
BUFFY: Yes.
SPIKE: You told me that, of course. I never understood it
though. Not until now. You hated yourself, and you took it out
on me.
BUFFY: You figured that out just now?
SPIKE: Soul's not all about moonbeams and pennywhistles,
luv. It's about self-loathing. I get it. Had to travel 'round
the world, but I understand you now. I understand the violence
inside.
BUFFY: Violence? William the Bloody now has insight into
violence?
SPIKE: Not the same. As bad as I was, as evil and as
wretched as I was, I never truly hated myself back then. Not
like I do now.
SPIKE:
Kill me.
BUFFY: What?
SPIKE: Buffy, you have to kill me.
BUFFY: You don't understand. When I left the room
earlier, I heard you talking to someone?
SPIKE: Do you have any idea what I'm capable of?
BUFFY: I was in the cellar with you. I saw what you
did.
SPIKE: I'm not talking about the cellar. The people in
the cellar got off easy. I'm talking about me. Buffy, you have
never met the real me.
BUFFY: Believe me, I'm well aware of what you're capable
of.
SPIKE: No, you got off easy too. Do you know how much
blood you can drink from a girl before she'll die? I do. You
see, the trick is to drink just enough to know how to damage
them just enough so that they'll still cry when you? (chokes up)
'cause it's not worth it if they don't cry.
BUFFY: It's not your fault. You're not the one doing
this.
SPIKE: I already did it. It's already done. (challenging)
You wanna know what I've done to girls Dawn's age? This is me
Buffy. You've got to kill me before I get out.
BUFFY: We can keep you locked up. Keep you here and we'll
figure out?
SPIKE: Have you ever really asked yourself why you can't
do it? Off me? After everything I've done to you, to people
around you. It's not love. We both know that.
BUFFY: You fought by my side. You've saved lives. You've
helped?
SPIKE: Don't do that.Don't rationalize this into some
noble act. We both know the truth of it. (pained) You like men
who hurt you.
BUFFY: No.
SPIKE: You need the pain we cause you. You need the hate.
You need it to do your job, to be the slayer.
BUFFY: No. I don't hate like that. Not you, or myself.
Not anymore. You think you have insight now because your soul's
drenched in blood? You don't know me. You don't even know you.
Was that you who killed those people in the cellar? Was that you
who waited for those girls?
SPIKE: There's no one else.
BUFFY: That's not true. Listen to me. You're not alive
because of hate or pain. You're alive because I saw you change.
Because I saw your penance.
SPIKE: (lunges violently at her, but chains hold him
back) Window dressing.
BUFFY: Be easier, wouldn't it, it if were an act, but
it's not. You faced the monster inside of you and you fought
back. You risked everything to be a better man.
SPIKE: Buffy...
BUFFY: And you can be. You are. You may not see it, but I
do. I do. I believe in you, Spike.
(lights flicker and robed monks, Harbingers, burst into the
basement and the rest of the house. Everyone battles.) |
