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come wander through the BuffyVerse...| Angel: I saw you called from Helpless (Season 3) | Next Clip in Episode |
BUFFY: (RE: Barett Browning's Sonnets) Thank you. That's beautiful.
ANGEL: You really like it?
BUFFY: Of course I do. It's sweet and thoughtful and... full of neat words to learn and say like 'wilt' and 'henceforth'.
ANGEL: Then why'd you seem more excited last year when you got a severed arm in a box?
BUFFY: I'm sorry. Uh, it's just suddenly there's this chance that my calling's a wrong number, and... it's just freaking me out a little.
ANGEL: That's understandable.
BUFFY: Angel, what if I have lost my power?
ANGEL: You lived a long time without it. You can do it again.
BUFFY: I guess. But what if I can't? I've seen too much. I know what goes bump in the night. Not being able to fight it... What if I just hide under my bed, all scared and helpless? Or what if I just become pathetic? Hanging out at the old Slayer's home, talking people's ears off about my glory days, showing them Mr. Pointy, the stake I had bronzed.
ANGEL: Buffy, you could never be helpless or boring, not even if you tried.
BUFFY: Don't be so sure. Before I was the Slayer, I was... Well, I, I don't wanna say shallow, but... Let's say a certain person, who will remain nameless, we'll just call her Spordelia, looked like a classical philosopher next to me. Angel, if I'm not the Slayer, what do I do? What do I have to offer? Why would you like me?
ANGEL: (quietly) I saw you before you became the Slayer.
BUFFY: (confused) What?
ANGEL: I watched you, and I saw you called. It was a bright afternoon out in front of your school. You walked down the steps... and... and I loved you.
BUFFY: Why?
ANGEL: 'Cause I could see your heart. You held it before you for everyone to see. And I worried that it would be bruised or torn. And more than anything in my life I wanted to keep it safe... to warm it with my own.
BUFFY: That's beautiful. Or taken literally, incredibly gross.
ANGEL: (grimacing) I was just thinking that, too.
written by: David Fury; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/46helpless.html