These comments seem to be getting less coherent as they go. Because I'm having trouble here expressing the intimacy of those moment between Buffy and Spike, who's a gentleman at last, when one's needed.

Also very much like the bit between them about tradeoffs in strength; how stopping to have a baby doesn't mean she's less strong, just... busy, as Spike puts it.

Okay, deep breath.

Grammar niggle: all the places where you have "lay down" should be "lie down"