”“She got the shits with me, finally, and she told me to get stuffed. Her crap was gone when I got home that night. I haven’t even bothered to r...ing her, and she hasn’t called me. Brian said she was sucking on some guys face in the bar last weekend, but I didn’t go upstairs.”Ryan shrugged, and I asked why he had smiled when I gave him the ring? He grinned. “Tanya’s face came into my mind. I was going to give Indy the flick. I even told her after you gave me the rings that I didn’t love her and. She wasn’t quite sure, honestly, what all was going on. She just felt lonesome and overwhelmed and suddenly helpless despite the power that had been given her. He continued to talk quietly. ‘Nigel’s and my friendship grew a lot in the years after. I taught him a lot of what he knows about my kind. I’ve given him chronologies of our bloodlines and he can trace who is who. He knew me as Raphael back then. For a long time that alias covered me … kept me from the little peeping eyes all over that. But that town was full of Tories, and the local farmers were much more willing to sell their produce to the British for gold than to Washington's quartermasters for paper.One of the best things about that assignment was that I missed the fight at Germantown in the fog. Foster told me all about it in lurid detail during one of my visits to Valley Forge. That was the other thing I did not mind missing, that winter out there in the hills. While the Redcoats ate well, drank well and whored well,. But before Faith can get less than five feet, Buffy speaks again.“But... Faith, this isn't before you came along and I can't just erase you and what happened from the feelings I'm all the sudden having now.”The dark slayer pauses for a second and forces herself to find the strength to keep talking to Buffy.“Trust me, whatever you might think you're feeling. Whatever you think is going on between us now, it'll pass. Just, go be with the little Sushi strumpet.”Buffy, unsure of what to do next,.