Xander blinked. Wait a second. Did Anya mean what he thought she meant? "Hey now," he put his arm around her shoulders and scowled. "No one is going to hurt you. You've been away from the bad mojo for a healthy amount of time and..." And that would not matter to a bunch of psychos like the ones that they were very well dealing with. "And you've got me." Not a reassuring thing either. Huh.
"Plus, you know, Jackie is here. Um, Jacen. And he's got all sorts of badassery going on there. As his best man -" Something that Xander often pointed out to people. "- it's sort of a binding thing, what with him having to look out for my lady friend and all. It's in the rules."