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[heartslain]

[The PCD clicks on to show a nimble blonde running through a kata in what looks like an abandoned work out room. It's a pretty good sized room, littered with old and mostly ruined training equipment, but Buffy's already cleared out a section in the middle, which is where she is at the moment; her movements are graceful and elegant, the routine

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[marriedforlove]

You have accepted your suitor after all.

[heartslain]

[Blink. Sorry, Buffy doesn't have a clue what this lady means.] Huh? My suitor? [Is she talking about Spike?]

[marriedforlove]

[She so very does.]

William, was that not his name? Your suitor of the poetry.

[heartslain]

[Ahh. So she met 'William' last week. Got it. This- is a little awkward.]

Uh, yeah, about that- His real name is Spike. Well, kind of, because his name used to be William, but that was, like, centuries ago, and he's been using Spike for longer than he used William, so William? Not so much his name. And- I guess you could say I accepted him? We've been- dating... for awhile.

[Are they dating? Do you call it dating when they've been through everything they have? Maybe?]

[marriedforlove]

[Katherine realizes by now that Adstring will never make sense. She has to simply accept these stories of centuries and vampires and rebellions unseating lawful kings.]

He was most affectionate towards you. I hope you have kept his verses.

[heartslain]

[Grin. Oh yes, she's definitely kept them.] Don't worry, I hid them before the week was up.

[marriedforlove]

You are a very wise woman about him. [That might be a tiny, approving smile.]

[heartslain]

I've known him long enough to know what would happen when he turned back into himself. There was no way I was letting him get his hands on some of the things he wrote last week.

[marriedforlove]

Childhood sweethearts, perchance? [Few people she knows have the opportunity to meet and court and know each other truly well, without growing up together.]

[heartslain]

[That is... just about the weirdest thing she's ever heard.]

Um... no. Unless you count mutual attempts to kill each other when I was a teenager as childhood sweethearts? [She at least softens the words up with an amused eyebrow.]

[marriedforlove]

[That, perhaps, startles even Katherine; but not wholly.]

Fortunes and circumstances change many times in the course of a life.

[She has seen her own daughter later betrothed to the country's enemy, France.]

[heartslain]

[Buffy shakes her head in amusement.] Don't I know it. Trust me, you could probably write a book about the roller-coaster my love life has been.

[marriedforlove]

You are fair and pretty. You will always have men vying for your attention.

[Secure in her husband's love, for the time at least, she can be easily generous to others.]

[heartslain]

[Have an arched eyebrow.] Thanks, but I think I'll pass on the whole- men vying for my attention thing. I've got Spike, and that's plenty for me.

[marriedforlove]

Oh, yes; and you will marry where your family bids, will you not?

[heartslain]

[... Is she serious?]

Um, no. [And marriage... really isn't something she's thought about with Spike anyway... The first thought of it brings back memories of being trapped under Willow's spell, when she and Spike had still been at each other's throats...] My family doesn't 'bid' me to marry anyone. And if they tried, they'd get an earful- and possibly a punch to the face.