Buffy and Angel in “Gingerbread”

Hey. How are you?

I'm all right. I think I'm better than you right now. [indicates playground shrine] I heard about this. People are talking. People are even talking to me.

It's strange. People die in Sunnydale all the time. I've never seen anything like this.

They were children. Innocent. It makes a difference.

And Mr. Sanderson from the bank had it coming? My mom said some things to me about being the Slayer. That it's fruitless. No fruit for Buffy.

She's wrong.

Is she? Is Sunnydale any better than when I first came here? Okay, so I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad just keeps coming back... and getting stronger. Like the kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.

Dike. [Buffy looks at him.] It's another word for dam.

Oh. Okay, that story makes a lot more sense now.

Buffy, you know there's still things I'm trying to figure out. There's a lot I don't understand. But I do know it's important to keep fighting. I learned that from you.

But we never...

We never win.

Not completely.

Never will. That's not why we fight. We do it because there's things worth fighting for.