Perceptions!verse - Spander Files

There’s nothing more to be said and it’s not fair to
prolong the moment any further. “You’d better get
going. Don’t want to be responsible for some gory
sacrifice just because you were here being all mushy with
me.”
Giles pulls his car keys from his pocket and touches Buffy
briefly on the arm. “Xander’s right, we need to go, but I
do have one last question for Spike. Do you still have the
Gem?”
“Damn right I do and I’m keeping it. Can’t protect him if I
can only get out and about for half the day.”
I want to protest that I don’t need babysitting, but I can
see the relief in Giles’ face, so I hold my tongue. “Good.
Make sure you make appropriate use of it. Now we really
must go, Buffy.”
“Okay.” She rushes forward again, moving so quickly I
hardly see her until she’s wrapped around me and I
breath in her scent and kiss the top of her head before
she lets go.
I’ve got a weird déjà vu of the last time I left Sunnydale.