[Oh Buffy, you should know better. Not that she didn't have his attention before, but oh boy did she have it now.]
What do you mean by that?
[Because he caught that flinch. This was already going so wrong, and she didn't seem to care (again) that he loved her. Hell, he was jealous (again) of some future version of himself that he not 10 minutes ago hadn't known existed. He knew she was rubbing it in, too--her disappointment. But it didn't matter because he loved her and he'd become the man she loved somehow.
And then it all went out the window when she said that.]
Buffy,
[His voice soft, Spike trying to keep a rein on his emotions.]
We've hurt each other before, plenty of times trying to kill each other. You know I can't with this chip in my head too. So what are you talking about?
[Because this was clearly not their usual ways of hurting each other and it bothered him. Something settled in the pit of his gut and sat there uncomfortably.]
no subject
What do you mean by that?
[Because he caught that flinch. This was already going so wrong, and she didn't seem to care (again) that he loved her. Hell, he was jealous (again) of some future version of himself that he not 10 minutes ago hadn't known existed. He knew she was rubbing it in, too--her disappointment. But it didn't matter because he loved her and he'd become the man she loved somehow.
And then it all went out the window when she said that.]
Buffy,
[His voice soft, Spike trying to keep a rein on his emotions.]
We've hurt each other before, plenty of times trying to kill each other. You know I can't with this chip in my head too. So what are you talking about?
[Because this was clearly not their usual ways of hurting each other and it bothered him. Something settled in the pit of his gut and sat there uncomfortably.]