In 7.14 First Date, Buffy says,
“Why does everyone in this house think I’m still in love with Spike?”
She’s never said before that she was in love with him, just that she has strong feelings for him - is this an admittance that she loves the vampire? Later, when he offers to leave town, she stops him saying:
“I’m not ready for you to not be here.”
Related episodes: 7.14 First Date
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Mel on July 5th, 2005 at 5:50 pm
I believe that Buffy did love Spike (even though I am a big Buffy/Angel shipper) but she loved him in a completely different way the Angel.
I believe that Angel is and always will be her true love but Spike was there for her at a time when she needed someone and he ended up being truely loyal to her.
She was using him at that start just to feel something, but I think Spike ended up proving himself to Buffy.
Although, I do think the rape thing was kinda washed away - there was a couple of mentions and a flashback but that was it.
ant4buffy on July 6th, 2005 at 8:09 am
Yeah, they didn’t seem to talk about that much. But she took a bit of time to trust him again.
Effulgent on July 17th, 2005 at 8:36 pm
The old Freudian slip there! I surprised that willow didn
All4Spike on April 25th, 2006 at 4:18 am
I like to believe that at the end Buffy really did love Spike. Not perhaps the idealistic romantic love she had for Angel, but a more mature love based on friendship and loyalty.
After all they have come to mean to each other during the season as they had come to trust each other completely I can’t see her lying to him at that moment she expected him to die just to make him happy, she had come to respect him too much to do that.
After all we know she doesn’t say the words easily, she never once told Riley she loved him!
It is Spike’s immediate reaction not to believe her because he still doesn’t consider he is worthy of her love, he still hasn’t forgiven himself for hurting her.
Angel31 on April 27th, 2006 at 12:50 am
Its not really that hard to figure out that Buffy had always loved Spike since she’s been ressurected. Spike loved her since he say her in School Hard. Even Dru new that. I couldn’t believe that Spike went that far to rape Buffy. He obviously got carried away. I’m surprised that Buffy forgave him for that, but I guess since he forgave her for using him she decided to forgive him back. When she to Dawn to his crypt I don’t think she wanted Dawn to be there but she new that Spike would never hurt her and that he would protect her even after what he had done to her.
Abby M. on April 27th, 2006 at 3:34 am
I don’t think she loved him when she was resurrected, I think her resurrection gave her a new perspective and relationship with Spike that allowed her to open up to him more. I think she had feelings for him as something more then a friend and in my opinion, she only started to “love” him when she found out he had a soul. I mean, yeah, she had feelings for him for a while but I think she was only able to really and honestly care for him in an “I love you” capacity when she realized he fought for his soul for her.
From that point on, I don’t think she was “in love” with Spike like she was “in love” with Angel. But he defintely had a special place in her heart and she loved him in a sense of two people having a close connection that is like no other. She found in the end he was really someone she could trust and will be there for her and she loved him for it.
That’s my 2 cents. :)
All4Spike on March 4th, 2007 at 6:50 am
Effulgent says:
I find her insistence about needing to trust Spike to be able to love him very strange, after all in ‘Lie to me’ she says to Angel: “I love you. I don’t know if I trust you.”
Ironic isn’t it?
HarFang on April 12th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I also think that Buffy loves Spike in a totally different way than she loves Angel, not only because of what she has gone through in the meantime, but also because their relationships evolve so differently. Buffy admits that she can never be just Angel’s friend, while she seems to manage quite well with Spike. (If you ask me, this proves that they might actually build something).
However Spike is hardly an expert on healthy relationships. Plus, being his usual annoying self, he probably wants *exactly* the same thing that Angel had (well, plus the sex)… and after seeing Buffy with Angel at the beginning of the episode, he knows that’s impossible.
Finally, it just camr to me that the whole scene might have been a sarcastic nod to the ending scene of Becoming:2, when Buffy told Angel that she loved him (and he answered that he loved her too) right before she killed him. Spike just couldn’t go out the same way, could he ?