"But you're a very brave man, you stupid man."

From Bloodstains by Lady Wenham :

Angelus once told Spike that in order to kill Buffy, you had to love her. Spike never really knew what that meant, but he was starting to get an idea.

From Something To Hold On To by Angelus :

But Dru...Dru was always off somewhere far away; lost in her own fantasy land filled with flowers and fairies and torture racks. She had the mindset, scary as the thought is, of a three-year-old serial killer. She loved to gaze at the moon as much as she loved to feed off of innocent children. She would dance about in the rain, spinning in frenzied circles, songs and prophecies spilling from her mouth and God help me but I was as truly, madly and deeply in love with her as a person or vampire can possibly be. She was my Princess - my Black Beauty.

Tara's not Dru.

But I love her just as she is.

From Two Lost Souls by hold_that_thought :

Teases the scar on her side, the two scars on her shoulder, but never the one that rings her throat. That belongs to the other world, something he can't touch.

From Recalled To Life by Adrianna Pita :

Buffy had thought of blood and dust, dreams of choking while the night stars winked out one by one, with maybe a little tentacle thrown in for good measure. She'd stared at the neat little answer space, suddenly hating the clean, straight whiteness, before scratching out some academically agreeable banality. Not making your teachers think you're a loon was the better part of valor, after all. Or something like that.

Once by water, resurrected by air. Once by fire, reborn from earth by blood.

From Interview With A Vampyre By Andrew Wells By RedDwarfette :

“I don’t bloody well have issues,” Spike yelled.

“From my experience of contemporary films and sitcoms, um, I feel qualified to say that any reluctance to divulge said issues are often related to feelings of inadequacy…” Andrew told the camera.

“I am not inadequate.” Spike roared.

“…and may in fact be a result of, um, problems with the mother. The big board is upstairs so I can’t really draw a diagram for you but the point is; know your enemy and their weaknesses. Subsequent investigation into the field of vampyre psychiatry, psychotherapy, or… anything starting with psych, is warranted. Unfortunately we’re kinda busy with fighting off the root of all evil at the moment, so maybe my descendents in the future can look into it.”

From You Will Never Die by mispel :

It was strange to look down on a grave without knowing if one would ever be dug for her.

Everyone else knew - one day.

Dawn liked to sit between them. Mom on her left, Buffy on her right. Of course, they couldn't recover the body, but Dawn had watched her die so she hardly ever had that dream where Buffy came back again. Dawn could hear birds and the rush of traffic far away. The grass around the graves was neat, newly mowed and a little prickly under her hands. The markers gleamed white in the sun. Tara was a few rows over. She would go and say hi later.

It was her last visit for a while. Xander and Anya were waiting by the car to take her away somewhere where she hadn't been a teenager for as long as anyone could remember.

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