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[bronze]

snitch? what are you, four?
gale’s like the nicest guy ever. i should dust you

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Look, it was before you even got here. Wasn't gonna kill him, just wanted a nibble.

Besides, he was the best man at my wedding. If he got over it you can too

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( that feeling when you remember, suddenly, like a train collision, that you’ve become your own worst nightmare: a cheater. )

your wedding. right. i forgot.
do me a favor and don’t talk to me. if i see you lurking around spike, i swear to god, i WILL stake you

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Buffy

[ don't u slam that aol instant messenger door on him!!! ]

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Remember how the house made you an ice-skating prodigy and me your virgin half-brother

Remember when you and me got engaged?

The wedding was exactly like that. Pile of magical insanity that meant nothing

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i don’t know why you think i’d care, or that i don’t already know that

( after a beat: )

are you divorced?

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Well,

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done

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I think so

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remind me to send you a salad spinner

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Don't think a damn thing that happens on this particular poncy Hellmouth is legally binding, pet.

But we could talk about you having feelings about me and Alina, if you really want

[bronze]

the only thing i feel about that is sympathy for alina

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Alina? She made it out of the wedding without a bloody scratch!

[bronze]

she had to marry you! she's probably traumatized

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Maybe she'd be less traumatized about it if her evil twink of a boyfriend hadn't tried to kill me at the altar

[bronze]

( she doesn’t know alina, and can’t pass judgement — but she has to imagine that, in hindsight, it doesn’t feel terrible that the person she loves fought for her.

kind of like how buffy showed up for spike. but — also completely different, obviously. )

did you die? no. because i saved your sorry ass for some reason beyond anyone’s understanding
can you blame him?

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Nah. [ In response to her second question, that is. ]

I'd do the same, for my girl.

[bronze]

( buffy, who cannot reasonably pretend she doesn't know who exactly spike is talking about — )

your wife. yup.

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Wouldn't need a ring on it to defend my love from some brain-washed poser.

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( he always throws out love like it's candy on halloween. hard pivot, )

how did we get on this subject? we were talking about gale.
you can't bite people. not even for a "nibble." that's so gross.

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Well, what if they like when I bite them.

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do you remember what a vampire bite feels like? it feels like someone poured gasoline on your veins, and like a bear trap is clamped on your throat trying to snap bones in half, and you get really cold while your blood empties out, and you can hear them swallow, not really with your ears, but your body. it feels like dying, and dying so something else can live. so it feels like losing, too.
who would like that?

( other than somebody who likes to suffer, like say, buffy summers. she never really forgot about what it felt like to have angel's teeth in her throat — maybe she thinks about it more often than she'd care to admit. scared, and also not scared. there are worse things than dying, after all, like being brought back. )

i guess
dracula's fangs weren't as bad, but you're no count, spike.