"Why would I need to go home?" Spike protested as he hopped off the grave and started to move ahead so he didn't get dismissed and sent home. Fuck that shit, he came out for a reason and he wasn't about to let Buffy ruin that or Nicolas coddle him. Nothing was worse than when people acted like he couldn't handle himself. He could handle himself plenty, he was fine, he didn't need people worrying about him all the time. Hell, he even took one of those wooden pointy things with him just in case.

"And she'd just worried Rupert will be mad at her if she gets me killed, not because we're siblings. She doesn't much care for me and it's the same here," Spike found her annoying and she found him a massive pain. Together, they got on each others nerves. "Eh, whatever keeps me alive."