Dawn winced at the sight of Spike's knee nearly busting right out from under him. She knew he could take care of himseld, it was Spike after all, but still. That had to hurt, super cool vampire or not. And then she winced again when he turned to give her a glare.
"Sorry... If I knew he was gonna turn out to be a brat, I would've let you...do whatever it was you were gonna do." She glanced back over her shoulder, but the kid was long gone by now. She was kind of annoyed with him as well, but there was really nothing that could be done about it now.
Looking back to Spike, she tried to play innocent and change the subject a bit. "So, what are you doing skulking around arcades this time of night?"