For now, it was enough. He was able to lean back again, finally, and release some of the tension forming from their bickering. Really, it's what he missed the most. Being on good terms with her. Even if he remained entirely unhappy about the fact they couldn't be together now. He'd just have to deal with that. Give it time.

There was quite the parallel there. She'd been killed by the Master. He'd been sired by the progeny of the same vampire. And they both sacrificed everything, but all for the sake of one person. It was poetic.

"Well, I don't much care for dying, so even if it is. But now that you're being grateful like, seems now's a good time to tell you I ran across the other Slayer."