Help Me With My Seasonal_Spuffy

[eilowyn]

Where my Spuffies at?! (Yes, I've always wanted to say that)

Anyway, for my seasonal_spuffy entry in a couple weeks, I need a little input. I'm trying to narrow down a definitive Top 10 Spuffy Moments list, and I need everyone you know to vote! So, click the shiny little boxes with the ten moments you think are the creme de la creme of Spike and Buffy in the

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[menomegirl]

I'm so glad to see that others besides me picked "Fool for Love" - "Death is your art"/"You're beneath me". I was feeling a bit weird for choosing that for a Spuffy moment. I liked it so much because it showed how unlikeable both these characters were at times.

My other 4 choices are:

From Becoming, part 2-

Joyce: (hysterical) Who is this man? (to Spike) Who are you? (to Buffy) Are you okay?

Buffy: Mom! I'm-I'm okay.

Joyce: Buffy, terrible things have happened. What were you doing?

Spike: What, your mum doesn't know?

Buffy glares at Spike.

Joyce: (to Spike) Know what?

Buffy: (faces her mom) That I'm, uh... in a band. A-a rock band with Spike here. (shoots Spike a look)

Spike: Right. She plays the, the triangle.

Buffy: Drums.

Spike: Drums, yeah. She's, uh, hell on the old skins, you know.

Joyce: (unconvinced) Hmm. And, uh, what do you do?

Spike: Well, I sing.

I like that scene so much because Buffy and Spike are such terrible liars in it.

From the episode Pangs:

Spike : Oh, someone put a stake in me.

Xander : You got a lot of volunteers in here.

Spike : I just can't take all this mamby-pamby boo-hooing about the bloody indians.

Buffy : Uh, the preferred term--

Spike : You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what caesar did, and he's not going around saying, "I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it." The history of the world isn't people making friends. You had better weapons, and you massacred them. End of story.

Buffy : Well, I think the Spaniards actually did a lot of-- Not that I don't like Spaniards.

Spike : Listen to you. How you gonna fight anyone with that attitude?

Willow : We don't wanna fight anyone.

Buffy : I just wanna have Thanksgiving.

Spike : Heh heh. Yeah...Good luck.

Willow : If we could talk to him--

Spike : You exterminated his race. What could you possibly say that would make him feel better? It's kill or be killed here. Take your bloody pick.

Now, I know JM has said at cons that they brought him back in S4 so he could "be Cordelia and tell Buffy how stupid she was" BUT I've always percieved Spike as being honest (for a vampire). Honest to the point of tactlessness at times. He's a truth-teller and very often, the truths he was saying were things Buffy didn't want to hear. I liked that.

[menomegirl]

And...

From Checkpoint:

SPIKE: (surprised) So, what's with the family outing?
BUFFY: (quietly, walking up close to him) I need your help.
SPIKE: Great. I need your cash.
BUFFY: I'm serious. (even more quietly) You have to look after them.
SPIKE: Well, that's a boatload of manly responsibility to come flying out of nowhere. What's the matter, Slayer? You're not feeling a hundred percent?
BUFFY: (frowns) No.
SPIKE: (frowns) They didn't put a chip in your head, did they?
BUFFY: No!
SPIKE: Be funny if they did.
BUFFY: (annoyed) Spike, I need an answer. Now. In or out? (quietly) You're the only one strong enough to protect them.
SPIKE: (looks at her for a moment) All right then.

I especially love this moment is because it happens *before* the kiss in "Intervention". There was no logical reason for Buffy to trust Spike at that point .. except, she did. I always thought that said a lot.

And last but by no means least, from the episode "After Life":

SPIKE: Buffy.

Buffy looks up, sees Spike standing in the alley.

BUFFY: (frowns) Spike, it's daylight and you're-
SPIKE: Not on fire? (looks at the sky) Sun's low enough, shady enough here.

Buffy folds her arms around her middle.

SPIKE: I was gonna go inside, but I overheard you and the Super-friends exchanging a special moment and I came over a bit queasy.

Buffy wipes hair out of her face, doesn't seem to be listening.

SPIKE: Say, aren't you leaving a hole in the middle of some soggy group hug?
BUFFY: Just wanted a little time alone.

She walks over, sits on a packing crate a few feet away from Spike.

SPIKE: Oh, uh, right then.

He gets up, starts to walk away, reaches the line of shadow, realizes he can't leave the alley without going into the sunlight. He stops, squints at the sky.

BUFFY: That's okay. I can be alone with you here.
SPIKE: Thanks ever so.

He gives a rueful smile, looks back at her.

BUFFY: Right.

Beat.

SPIKE: Buff? ... Slayer? Are you okay?

She isn't, but she composes herself and nods at him.

BUFFY: I'm here. I'm good.
SPIKE: (walks back to her) Buffy, if you're in ... if you're in pain ... or if you need anything... or if I can do anything for you...
BUFFY: (looks down at her lap) You can't.
SPIKE: Well, I haven't been to a hell dimension just of late, but I do know a thing or two about torment.

He sits beside her.

BUFFY: (still looking down) I was happy.

Spike looks at her in confusion.

BUFFY: Wherever I ... was ... I was happy. At peace.

Spike stares, shocked.

BUFFY: I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time ... didn't mean anything ... nothing had form ... but I was still me, you know? (glances at him, then away) And I was warm ... and I was loved ... and I was finished. Complete. I don't understand about theology or dimensions, or ... any of it, really ... but I think I was in heaven.

Spike continues to stare at her in dismay.

BUFFY: And now I'm not. (almost tearful) I was torn out of there. Pulled out ... by my friends. (Spike continues staring, listening) Everything here is ... hard, and bright, and violent. Everything I feel, everything I touch ... this is Hell. Just getting through the next moment, and the one after that ... (softly) knowing what I've lost...

She looks up, realizes Spike is still there. She looks uncomfortable, gets up.

She walks just to the line where the shadows become sunlight, and pauses, but doesn't turn back to face Spike.

BUFFY: They can never know. Never.

I love that scene.

[devilscrayon]

I love both of those too! This exchange always makes me giggle:
"They didn't put a chip in your head did they?"
"No!"
"Be funny if they did."

[blackfrancine]

I love that scene from Becoming, too. I was going to bring it up... but now I don't have to. I love how they just effortlessly fall into a pattern of teamwork--the terrible lying, the slaying the vampire on the porch. And they're just so FUNNY together. Love it.