Spike stumbled, but kept walking. Yeah, he wasn't in great shape. Not just the soul-sickness but the hours of being pummelled by one demon after another. And why had that pillock thought that being able to outlast a lot of pummelling was the sort of task you should perform to win a soul anyway? It'd made sense at the time. From this end it just seemed stupid and unrelated.
Probably just got his rocks off on watching people get pummelled.
Pillock.
There were a hundred and one things he wanted to say to Buffy, or he could maybe just stare at her for a year or so, but having Rupert around kind of put paid to that idea.
He really hoped they'd get to wherever the hell they were going soon.