It was embarassing and conflicting for him.

:nod:

I was watching a special feature or something and MT was talking about how Spike/Dawn were like brother sister and that she seems more to him than everyone else.

I love that special feature. JM was like he wouldn't harm a hair on Dawn's head, wouldn't even think of scratching her.

Yes:nod: she was the closest friend Spike had in S 5.

I wish she had remained that way. His closest friend. :(

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I love that ani.

That scene. :love:

Marti. :irked:

I can't remember the scene :lol:

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The scene was in Bargaining, while Spike was looking after Dawn after Buffy's death.

It was a wonderful scene, but Marti clearly thought we liked it too much, so she decided to not give us any more of them:mad: (out of an idea that it might make people ship them, which I totally cannot understand!! There was nothing shippery in that scene, not between them anyhow. If anything, it only strengtened my spuffy-love)

As I've said before, people will ship who they want to ship, giving them scenes or not isn't going to affect that.

:nod: it may help the shippers fantasies to have some scenes, but it is not essential.

They could at least have had a continued friendship. Dawn basically had no point otherways, so:pout:

Title: Lost Friendship (Dawn's POV)
Character: Dawn and Spike
Setting: Season seven


"If you're looking for Buffy, she's upstairs." She looked at his confused face and almost laughed. She knew it was make-belief. She wished he'd just stop pretending because everybody in the house knew what he always wanted. "You're looking for Buffy, right?" she asked dryly. "She's in her room."

He nodded mutely and went upstairs.

She sighed in annoyance and looked down at her book, barely translating the foreign language. The disgusting attempt of rape wasn't the reason they weren't speaking anymore. It was right after Buffy came back from dead, he had stopped visiting, stopped asking about her, stopped showing any sign of wanting to spend time with her, because he finally had gotten what he wanted. Buffy. It was all for Buffy. The night talks, the motorcycle rides, the warm smiles, all for Buffy's sake. And what's worse, now that she vocally showed that she was upset with him, he never attempted to pitch things up, because again, he got Buffy.

~*~*~*~

Title: Lost Friendship (Spike's POV)
Character: Spike and Dawn
Setting: Season seven


"If you're looking for Buffy, she's upstairs." He looked at her sitting on the couch with a big text book on her lap. It was probably the first time she talked to him after her fire threatening. She must have noticed his confusion, because she clarified, "You're looking for Buffy, right? She's in her room."

The coldness in her voice and stare wasn't surprising, if still painful. He gave a silent nod and headed upstairs.

She used to make it easier in the past. He had a few number of people trusting him and she used to be one of them, the best one. Most had expected him to screw up, but she had always trusted him to a fault. Right now, she lost faith in him, she hated him. At the moment…

He reached Joyce's room. Buffy turned around and smiled at him.

… only one woman believed in him. And her trust was enough.

Aww I love those. Especially since they are S7 and give some insight to what they were thinking. Their friendship just disappeared and was never bothered to be repaired. :(

That sucked so bad. It was a bad decision to isolate Spike and Buffy from the rest of the characters. They already did that in S6, S7 should be fixing the relationship, not continue keeping these characters away from each other :( Seemed that Buffy and Xander forgave Spike for his mistakes, but Dawn never did. Which is so sad, I really loved their friendship in S5.

ITA. Spawn is the most malhandled relationship in the whole of Buffy:mad: