(Set after Buffy jumps off of Glory's tower)
"Oi!" Spike yelled, "Found her!" Everyone started to sprint toward him, "She's not breathing."
Dawn, listen to me. Listen. I love you. I will always love you. But this is the work that I have to do. Tell Giles ... tell Giles I figured it out. And, and I'm okay. And give my love to my friends. You have to take care of them now. You have to take care of each other. You have to be strong. Dawn, the hardest thing in this world ... is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me.
"No!" Dawn ran toward Spike and started punching him
"Tiblit, I'm sorry, you lost your sister, you know what we lost? Xander and Willow lost a best friend, Anya and Tara lost the girl who changed their lives, Giles lost a daughter, the world lost its protector, and I...I lost everything" He picked up her body, and started walking down the street, "Pick her up an my place tommorow night, I'll have a coffin and an unwritten headstone"
"You expect us to trust you with Buffy's body?" Xander asked rudly, "What makes you think that we're gonna let you abuse her from the grave?"
"Xander" Anya whispered
"No, Anya, on how many occasions has he planned to kill Buffy?" Xander started losing it, "Now that she is dead, he's getting the greastest thing in his misserable, undeserving life"
"You're right, I'm a vampire, who tried to kill Buffy noumerous times, if you want to keep a corpse at your house, go ahead, the police won't find it weird you have a Buffy body" He started to hand the body to Xander, who refused it and started off.
"I want to stay at the Mousoleum tonight, please Spike" Dawn whined
Spike motioned Dawn to follow, "Let's go" Dawn waved goodbye to her friends and ran off after Spike.
"We're going to get three things straight, 1. I am working on a coffin do not bother me 2. Do not touch Buffy's body, and 3. You will be sleeping in a coffin tonight, do not whine, I don't have anything else."
"But I could help you, I could give you nails and hand you tools"
"You know what Dawn? No. You're going through hell, I'm going through hell, I don't need a tiblit to help me build a coffin"
"I've slept in a coffin more than once, in hypotetical sence not literal."
"That's great, well we're here" Spike opened a door
"Wow, musty"
