Buffy the Vampire Slayer · Season 7
“Touched” · Season 7
In this episode: Robin Wood (2), Buffy Summers (1), Spike (1), Anya Jenkins (1), Faith Lehane (1), Andrew Wells (1), First Evil (1), Caleb (1)
All I'm saying is now that Buffy's not here, we finally have some say in how and when we lose our necks.
Maybe you don't have to be so blunt about the "losing of the necks" bit.
Let the girl speak the truth. We're all on death's door, repeatedly ringing the doorbell, like maniacal Girl Scouts trying to make quota.
We were never close. You just wanted me because I was... unattainable.
You think that's all that was?
Please, let's not go over the past.
Oh, no, no! Oh, let's hold on here! I've hummed along to your pity ditty. I think I should have the mic for a bit.
Fine. The stage is yours. Cheer me up.
You're insufferable.
Thank you. That really helped.
I'm not tryin' to cheer you up.
Then what are you trying to say?
I don't know! I'll know when I'm done sayin' it. Something pissed me off, and I just-- "unattainable," that's it.
Fine. I'm attainable. I'm a-- I'm an "attain-a-thon." May I please just go to sleep?
You listen to me. I've been alive a bit longer than you, and dead a lot longer than that. I've seen things you couldn't imagine, and done things I prefer you didn't. Don't exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood... which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain. So I make a lot of mistakes. A lot of wrong bloody calls. A hundred-plus years, and there's only one thing I've ever been sure of. You... Hey, look at me. I'm not asking you for anything. When I say I love you, it's not because I want you, or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are. What you do. How you try. I've seen your kindness, and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you, and I understand, with perfect clarity, exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman. You're the One, Buffy.
I don't want to be the One.
I don't want to be this good-looking and athletic. We all have crosses to bear.
That's exactly what The First does. Finds your Achilles' heel.
Nah, it just talked to me. What? It does a heel thing, too?
It's a phrase. Your weak spot.
Oh. The school thing. I was kind of absent that decade.
I envy them. Isn't that the strangest thing?
Well, it does throw me just a tad. I mean, they're barely more than animals. Feedin' off each other's flesh, it's nauseatin'. But you, you're everywhere. You're in the hearts of little children. You're in the souls of the rich. You're the fire that makes people kill and hate. The fire that will cure the world of weakness. They're just sinners. You are sin.
I do enjoy your sermons.
And you're in me. Gave me strength no man can have.
You're the only man strong enough to BE my vessel and I know you feel me, but... I know why they grab at each other. To feel. I want to feel. I want to wrap my hands around some innocent neck and feel it crack.
Amen.
Hi, everybody. I missed you guys a lot. Sorry we took so long getting back from our mission... But we had to wait out the sun and, well, I think our mission went very well. We rode on Spike's hog, which was very cool, and played some amusing games and, oh, we got some information. But do you know what? I really need to urinate.
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