Spike: "Did you cry?" Buffy: "What?"
Buffy's reaction to his question always made me wonder how she dealt with their breakup afterwards. In this scene, her immediate thought might have been about their breakup, before he clarified that he was referencing Xander and Anya’s wedding.
In Hell's Bells, she told him it did hurt to see him with someone else. And when breaking up with him, she showed more compassion and care, called him William and respected him as an actual person, like she did before they started sleeping together, when she didn’t need to be so defensive about their closeness.
Like she said later, she did have feelings for him, even though she did not call them "love", as she felt she could not trust him.
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I really don’t think that breaking things off with Spike left her indifferent. So genuinely wondering how she emotionally dealt with it afterwards. Because it was so complicated, to pinpoint the line between what she said and how she actually felt.
