Could Spike have been right? Should they not have answered the door?

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"You're important to me, and if I had wanted to rush off and see them I would've left the minute I was corporeal," Spike pointed out, though if he had had the offer before of an actual role and some independence instead of just being Buffy's lap dog he might have made a different decision.

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Wesley appreciated the reassurance more than he would have been able to say. "Then I'll just have to loosen the death grip I've got on you, won't I," he said lightly.

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"Hold on as tight as you want, pet," Spike said. He was surprised at how shaken he felt by the ease with which Wesley had seemed willing to let him go; he wouldn't have been able to do the same.

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Reaching out with his free hand to touch Spike's face gently, Wesley said, "I don't want you to feel trapped."

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"I don't." Spike waged an internal war with himself for a moment before admitting, "But I want to feel wanted."