"Beauty and the Beasts" - that's where I went over the edge and shipped these two. It's hard to talk about them in fandom because the party line seems to be that Buffy/Angel were the True Wuv couple while Buffy/Spike loved each other, but I do. Ship them. I don't think I would if there wasn't that underbelly (outerskeleton?) of scars that the relationship leaves on Buffy, and what it means about her ~childhood. Oh well. I'll just be here in my corner, alone.