Oh yeah. Makes sense.

"Well. Go team."

"C'mon, let's hear a little enthusiasm. Defeated your nemesis and all, yeah?"

"Drusilla's not my nemesis. Good to have her off the streets, though.

" - I think now we go home, and we sleep, and we take Friday off, and if nothing else explodes in the next twenty-four hours then maybe on Saturday we can go back to training?"

"Sounds good, yeah."

He ends up accompanying Drusilla back to the facility, since he's already right there, and contacting Spike's handler about whether it's safe for them to be together. 

        "So the problem is, like, they beat each other up, not super safe for us to intervene. Or, they're having sex and it's not clear one of them is happy about it -"

"Aren't they immobilized?"

        "That's not permanent, that's while they're uncooperative. It's not impossible. If he really wants it we can probably come up with some rules, and they can have it long as they're sticking with the rules."

"I think he'll take you up on that."

       "Sure. I'll ask."

Spike can see the two of them pause in front of his cage and then Ryan let himself in.

"Well, what now, time for more grievous injuries in service of making you feel better about your own incompetence - "

"They picked up your girl," Ryan says.

" - what've you done to her?"

"- hey, calm down. They hit her pretty hard taking her down, but she's a vampire, right, she'll be fine. We just don't want her tied to the ground alone here while she's recovering, she's a bit, uh, differently abled."

Spike glares.

"So we're trying to figure out if we can bring her in here, but you really, really gotta play along if you want that, okay? It's not policy and it's the kind of thing where - if it goes wrong somehow no one's gonna understand why we did it in the first place."

Someday he's gonna kill all of these people. Gonna kill Ryan, gonna kill Ryan's friends, gonna kill the slayer's bodyguard, gonna kill the slayer, gonna kill everyone who ever set foot in this stupid town besides him and Dru.

"What do you want."

"You have to come over here so we can cuff you any time anyone wants to come in. You can't destroy the television or your possessions or your food. You have to give her half of the food we drop off. You can't hit her, or harm her, or do anything that looks like it on the cameras. No sex. We're not planning to keep you guys here forever, this is all just for the next couple weeks."

Spike looks pretty disgusted by these conditions.

"Yeah. All right."

"You're welcome," he mutters very quietly. He leaves.

They bring in Drusilla a couple minutes later. She looks like a lot of people shot her. 

Spike spends a few seconds looking pretty anguished about Drusilla's condition before he decides to yell at Alex.

"I'll kill you for this! You hear me? Not today, not tomorrow, but I will! I'll kill you!"

" - look, not that I'd find this persuasive in your place, but I could've staked her. Or, you know, not told you one way or the other, or told you while they took her off somewhere else, or - " he stops himself. "I guess you probably don't have that high a threshold of undying hatred to kill people actually."

Spike decides he's really not going to get out of this with anyone else fearing for their lives, so he just quietly seethes and waits for the government bastards to leave him alone with Dru.

They leave. They remotely add a lot of slack to his restraints.

He fixes Dru's hair and smoothes her clothes out and tries to move her so she won't be uncomfortable when she wakes up.

"So sorry, pet. We'll take care of you. We'll kill them all, someday, when you're strong again. Just rest now."

He heads back. Sleeps, because he hasn't really done that much this week. Thanks Angel. 

And everything is more or less back to a vaguely stable situation!

Karen sleeps and does some homework - she's so annoyed that she's reached the point where she's relieved when she has time to do homework at all - and in the morning she goes back to school and is, like, moderately mentally present for all of her classes.

Faith meets her after school. "Hey, K, down for some slayer bonding time?"

Noooot really but she's gonna have to get used to dealing with Faith at some point. "Sure, did you want to train or something?"

"No, ew, I was thinking we'd party. Celebrate kicking psycho vamp bitch's ass. You see that guy over there? The cute one?"

Karen has literally no idea who this refers to. "...the ones who look like they're, like, twenty?"