BUFFY: This is gonna be great. (takes a shot) Blaaah! (Spike takes one) Life is stupid.

SPIKE: I have a dim memory of that, yeah. And I didn't figure you were here cadging my whiskey 'cause life's all full of blood and peaches.

BUFFY: No. There's this thing ... someone's doing stuff to me. Messing up my life. Except that it was kind of pre-messed already. You know, with school, and jobs ... pretty bad even without the evil.

SPIKE: So you, uh, just what? Gonna let this whoever play you till it figures out what kills you?

BUFFY: Giles is working on it.

SPIKE: Oh, good, 'cause Giles wields the mighty force of library books.

BUFFY: You'd do better?

SPIKE: Damn right! I'd hit the demon world. Ask questions, throw punches, find out what's in the air. Hmm? It's fun too.

BUFFY: (slurred) It's not my kind of fun.

SPIKE: Yeah. It is. And your life's gonna get a lot less confusing when you figure that out.

BUFFY: (slurred) You have had *so* too much to drink at this point, I am cuttin' you off.

(drinks) Blaaah!

SPIKE: You're not a schoolgirl. You're not a shop girl. You're a creature of the darkness. Like me. Try on my world. See how good it feels.

BUFFY: Are there drinks in your world?

(Spike grins in answer)

• Buffy & Spike

written by: David Fury and Jane Espenson; transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com). action descriptions shortened by me.. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/105lifeserial.html