But deep down -- somewhere in the truly conflicted parts of her soul -- Buffy wondered whether it would have been more surprising for the woman to have betrayed her husband. A long-time love.

Ah. The expected and anticipated and thrill-packed train roof scene. She'd seen it a dozen times before -- with Joyce, with Dawn, with Xander, with Willow. Willow always shut her eyes.

Buffy never could. So instead she moved from kissing his hand to nibbling anxiously on the edge of Jack's thumb.

"Surprising difficult to do, that. Jump and grab hold of a helicopter," she muttered.