"Well to start, little girl, I want to find out what the feck he thinks he's doing in my town, I want to find out what the feck he's playing at dancing for *Rack*, and now I want to know what he's doing Claiming someone."  His eyes glow softly...a trick of the light maybe.  "And depends on who you're talking about.  If I'd had anything to say about it, and if he hadn't been crippled and too impatient to wait for me to settle scores before betrayin' me, then I'd've killed the Slayer *and* her witch, and reclaimed him proper.  No pesky soul in the way.  But with the blood, and all the monkeying about Darla's done lately, there's just *this* much space for me to push out of the box.  Which I used when that little demon sold the souled bastard the news about 'Spike'."