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Walking in, he found his apartment surprisingly quiet. Figuring everyone was out, he muttered sarcastically, “Honey, I’m home.”
Not expecting any reply, he was startled when a voice said, “Don’t call me honey.”
Anya stepped around the corner.
“Ahn! What are you doing here?”
“Buffy sent me over a few days ago. Did you forget about me that quickly?” Anya snapped.
“What! No, I just figured everyone was out... where are they, anyway?”
“Out. They were going to go hang out at a park, then after sundown to a cemetery. Are you going patrolling with them?”
“Don’t think I can. I have to.. ugh.. go talk to Evil Undead Boy.” Xander grimaced.
“Xander, what is your problem with Spike?”
“Well, the fact that he’s an evil demon might have something to do with it!”
Anya rolled her eyes. “He has a soul, remember? Not evil, now. Actually, not really evil for a while now.”
Xander remained stubborn. “Yeah, but he was an evil demon...” he trailed off, remembering that his ex-fiancée was also formerly an evil demon. He cleared his throat. “And he slept with you-”
“That was consensual. It was a mistake, yeah, but we were both hurting, so we had sex. Get over it.”
Xander winced. “Fine, well, I don’t like what he did to Buffy. I don’t think you know about it-”
“The attempted rape? I heard something about it.”
“Well, doesn’t that give me some reason to hate the bastard? He tried to rape Buffy!”
Anya was starting to lose her temper. “Yeah, he did. But know something?
I got the feeling she didn’t treat him too well, either. And, most
importantly, if there’s one thing I learned in over a millennium
of avenging the wrongs done to women, it’s that the main thing isn’t
just what the guy does, but how it affects the woman involved. I think
Buffy recovered just fine from the attempted rape. After all, she knew
he was a soulless demon. Plus, Spike felt so bad that he went and got
a soul, which let me tell you, is not an easy decision for a demon to
make!
However, when a human being- one who supposedly has a soul, and is good-
stands a woman up on her wedding day, the most important day of her life,
one she’d been planning for a long time, well... considering what
that did to her, I’d say that’s worse than what Spike did to
Buffy.”
Anya whirled around and went into a bedroom, slamming the door behind her. Xander stared after her, slack-jawed.