How long was I gone?
Hundred forty-seven days yesterday. Hundred and forty-eight today. 'Cept today doesn't count, does it? [Pause] How long was it where you were?
...Longer.
“After Life” · Season 6
In this episode: Spike (5), Buffy Summers (4), Willow Rosenberg (1), Dawn Summers (1), Tara Maclay (1)
[Willow has called Giles to tell him about Buffy's resurrection.]
Did you get through to London?
Yeah. He's gonna head back as soon as he can. I'm not sure, like maybe a couple days.
How did he take it?
Um, I'm not sure. I mean... glad, but kinda weirded out? Which I get, you know. Lots of "Dear Lords". And I think I actually heard him clean his glasses.
[to Buffy] Uh ... I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I had done that ... even if I didn't make it ... you wouldn't have had to jump. But I want you to know I did save you. Not when it counted, of course, but ... after that. Every night after that. I'd see it all again ... do something different. Faster or more clever, you know? Dozens of times, lots of different ways ... Every night I'd save you.
I was going to go inside but I overheard you and the superfriends having a special moment and I came over a bit queasy. Say, aren't you leaving a hole in the middle of some soggy group hug?
I just wanted a little time alone.
Oh, uh... Right then. [goes to leave]
It's okay, I can be alone with you here.
Well, I haven't been to a hell dimension just of late, but I do know a thing or two about torment.
[looking down] I was happy.
[Spike stares at her, confused and shocked]
Wherever I ... was ... I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time ... didn't mean anything ... nothing had form ... but I was still me, you know? And I was warm ... and I was loved ... and I was finished. Complete. I don't understand about theology or dimensions, or ... any of it, really ... but I think I was in heaven. And now I'm not. [near tears] I was torn out of there. Pulled out ... by my friends. Everything here is ... hard, and bright, and violent. Everything I feel, everything I touch ... this is hell. Just getting through the next moment, and the one after that ... knowing what I've lost... [pause] They can never know. Never.
[of Buffy's bloodied hands] Um, I was gonna fix 'em... I don't know how they got like that.
I do. Clawed her way out of a coffin, that's how. Isn't that right?
Yeah... That's what I had to do.
I've done it myself.
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