Suddenly Spike was less approving. "Marry her? Here? She's not old enough for that. Besides, you don't bloody well marry a girl in a prison. That's bollocks. I've got a mind to find this Archie and knock some sense into him."

You know. For Dawn's sake. Who wasn't even here to benefit from it. Never would he have imagined that he could care for and be so protective of someone so much that he wasn't eager to get into the pants of. And that was before he got his soul. Funny thing, what love will do to a man.

He also hadn't forgotten the magazine he'd seen when he entered. If these sailors were so marriage-happy, then it was just a matter of time for Buffy, wasn't it? She was already making ready for it. Bloody hell.