Buffy let her arms back down by her side with a sense of finality. "It's settled then," she told Spike and started walking again. She wasn't sure she could just stand there looking at him like that anymore.
"Even if something did work there's no guarantee I wouldn't be sent back again as soon as things got comfortable. It's not a risk I'm willing to take and you shouldn't be willing either." But Buffy knew they'd probably be having this conversation again in a week anyway.