"I kind of have these things I want to say, but, I'm not sure how to say them."
"That's not like you. Not that you're eloquent mind you..."
"Hey!"
"...but you usually bull your way through it despite everything, occasionally resorting to bizarre metaphors and invented words granted..."
"I'll give you the metaphor thing, I can never seem to make them work, but I don't make up words, and if I do, they were words that needed to be invented. You know what that makes me? A linguistic pioneer."
"I see. Well, pioneering aside, what's on your mind? The safety of the world? The fate of the last piece of coconut cream pie? If it's the latter, I can tell you that I found the pie a good home."
"You ate my piece of pie?! But I saved it..."
"Such a mistake."
"...Well I ate Willow's pizza for breakfast this morning so I guess I have no high ground from which to properly look down on you."
"You might want to be careful about that, Willow's not used to this sort of stuff. It has something to do with the way she was raised; all orderly and stuff, its left her at a disadvantage in this group living situation... she's reaching the end of her tether. Yesterday she threatened to turn one of the new watchers into a fig tree because he ate the last danish.
"Xander..."
"Not to worry Buffy, my lips are sealed. As much as the backyard could use the shade, Willow would eventually feel guilty, and then she would blame me for not stopping her and/or telling her in the first place. And well... I'm not ready to put down roots just yet."
"Ba-dump bump."
"Everyone's a critic."
"As to your question, asked, it seems so long ago now...; I wanted to ask you to dinner."
"Sure Buff, I think Kenedy's cooking tonight and avoiding food cooked by slayers has become like a sport for me. It's a surprisingly difficult sport too. One of the younger slayers; you know Melanie? Well she's a baker, or thinks she can bake or something. Anyway I don't think she would have any problem with shoving baked 'goods' down people's throats if she couldn't find 'willing' volunteers. I don't know if you've tried her 'food' but if you haven't, do what you can to remain the innocent. That stuff will change your world for the worse. I think Willow will probably have to stay for Kennedy's dinner, but I'll get Giles and faith and we can head out."
"Uh, I said the difficult thing I needed to say and now you've made it all difficult again."
"You've been avoiding slayer food too. I noticed that you 'had a headache' when Rona made that so-called chili. Really good call on avoiding that by the way. I didn't really think that it was possible to hurt a basic chili but...well any description is not gonna do it."
"Yeah, what was in that? I didn't taste it but I could smell a weird burning all the way up in my room."
"She thought 'dry-scorching' the spices would 'bring out their flavors'."
"Dry-scorching?"
"She put the spices in a frying pan on high until they started to smoke a little, and then smoke a lot. She swears she saw it on a cooking show, but I think it's just slayer instincts coming into play: if you can't stake it, burn it."
"That certainly explains the weird smell. Although I think you're being to hard on them, they're quite young and they have all kinds of training to do. They don't have a lot of time to learn to cook."
"No, I agree; we need a cook, or people with some cooking experience should take over and we can adjust the other chores to allow for it. Oh, and we shackle Melanie up in the basement."
"Nice."
"Let the punishment fit the crime."
"When I asked you to dinner, I meant just us."
"Me, you and Giles? I know you and Faith still have... issues but I don't know if I feel good leaving her to Kennedy's tender mercies. Faith, at least, has had the decency not to try her hand at the stove."
"Okay, third time's the charm. I'm asking you out to dinner on a date. So, in this case, the date part is more important than the dinner part. So, I ask you out; you say yes. The date goes really well, and we kiss at the end of it. It's a good kiss; tender but with heat to it. Eventually, we give in to passion and make love. It's so beautiful that we know right away that we're meant to be together forever. We get married and have kids. We make a life for each other... are you scared?"
"I'm never scared when I know I should be. It's one of my more pronounced character flaws."