BUFFY: You wanna touch me? I'm right here. I'm not the one running away.

RILEY: Not yet.

BUFFY: So you have this all figured out? I'm bailing because you're not in the super club.

RILEY: (shrugs) It's human nature.

BUFFY: (angrily) Don't Psych 101 me. (Riley looks away) Not now. Not after everything that ... Nobody has ever known me the way you do. Nobody. (Riley doesn't look at her) I've opened up to you in ways that I've never opened up to ... God, you're just sitting back there thinking that none of this means anything to me.

RILEY: (still not looking at her) I never said that.

BUFFY: (teary-eyed) Because it obviously doesn't mean anything to you. Do you really think so little of me-

RILEY: Buffy.

BUFFY: No! No. Do you think that I spent the last year with you because you had super powers? If that's what I wanted, then I'd be dating Spike. (quietly) Riley, I need you. I need you with me ... and I need you healthy. But if you wanna throw it all away because you don't trust me, then ... (firmly) then I'm still gonna make you go to that doctor.

(Riley looks at her, looks away. He sighs. )

RILEY: Take me to him.

• Angsty Traumatic Confrontations
• Buffy & Riley

written by: Rebecca Kirshner; Transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/82outofmymind.html