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* Riley and the Scoobies go out on patrol; he ends up ditching them because they hinder him. Granted, the Scoobies don't have his military training; but you'd think that spending years fighting beside Buffy would teach them such fine arts as ''not talking and yelling out loud while hunting''.
** On the other hand, he might have been wrong ditching them. They had much more experience hunting vampires than he did, and their continued survival meant their techniques worked for them. Vampires have abilities far beyond non-Slayer humans; perhaps the most useful way for such a human to help a Slayer is to seem like harmless bait.
*** Confirmed. In the pilot episode, Vamp-Jesse says his hearing is sensitive enough to hear earthworms moving in the ground. On "Angel", several times vamipres are shown to be able to clearly hear humans whispering to each other from over thirty feet away. With that kind of super-senses, sneaking up on an alerted vampire (sneaking up on a vampire who isn't paying attention at all is something else, but if a vampire's out hunting it is presumably alert to its surroundings) would logically be nigh-impossible without magic of some kind. So yes, the only viable strategy would indeed seem to be "Make the vampire come to you", and you do that by sticking parsley behind your ears and ringing a dinner bell, not by visibly being a heavily-armed vampire hunter looking for a fight.
**** Hell, isn't that why the Slayer is a young girl in the first place? She's designed to look like bait.
* Willow comforting Spike when he is unable to kill her in the episode "The Initiative". Due to the blatant sexual subtext the scene also had a heavy [[Black Comedy Rape]] element.
* Season Three: Dead Man's Party. "Yes Buffy, we are all very aware that you are just sixteen years old and had to kill your lover - the man you lost your virginity to - in order to save the world, but running away was a stupid and selfish thing for you to do, even though it was your mother who told you not to come back in the first place and we haven't even attempted to talk to you about what happened or relate to you on any level." With friends like these...
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