SPIKE: Buffy.

BUFFY: Spike, it's daylight and you're-

SPIKE: Not on fire? Sun's low enough, shady enough here. I was gonna go inside, but I overheard you and the Super-friends exchanging a special moment and I came over a bit queasy. Say, aren't you leaving a hole in the middle of some soggy group hug?

BUFFY: Just wanted a little time alone.

SPIKE: Oh, uh, right then. (starts to go, reaches the edge of the shade, realizes he can't)

BUFFY: That's okay. I can be alone with you here.

SPIKE: Thanks ever so.

BUFFY: Right.

SPIKE: Buff? ... Slayer? Are you okay?

BUFFY: I'm here. I'm good.

SPIKE: Buffy, if you're in ... if you're in pain ... or if you need anything... or if I can do anything for you...

BUFFY: You can't.

SPIKE: Well, I haven't been to a hell dimension just of late, but I do know a thing or two about torment.

BUFFY: I was happy. Wherever I ... was ... I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time ... didn't mean anything ... nothing had form ... but I was still me, you know? And I was warm ... and I was loved ... and I was finished. Complete. I don't understand about theology or dimensions, or ... any of it, really ... but I think I was in heaven. And now I'm not. I was torn out of there. Pulled out ... by my friends. Everything here is ... hard, and bright, and violent. Everything I feel, everything I touch ... this is Hell. Just getting through the next moment, and the one after that ... (softly) knowing what I've lost... (gets up, walks towards the sunlight, pauses, not looking back) They can never know. Never. (continues into the sunlight)

• Buffy & Spike
• Buffy's Death & Revivification

written by: Jane Espenson; transcribed by Joan the English Chick; action descriptions condensed by me. . Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/103afterlife.html