"Giles, get the car," Buffy said, forcing Spike to keep walking. She managed to give him a strained smile, forcing one foot in front of hte other.
"Yeah, comes with the territory I guess. Especially when the territory keeps going and getting their souls back." She tried to laugh, but it was a little choked. "Spike, please trust me." Buffy wasn't so melodramatic as to say that 'now that she'd found him again, she wasn't going to lose him oh no!' but things were going to be different this time if she had anything to say about it. Feelings this complicated needed time to be sorted out.
And at least this time around, they had a little more of that time thing.
"I know it seems bad right now, but I'm not leaving you, okay?"