Selfless Lovers {B?A} #38: Someday love is going to lead you back to me.
Yeah totally, he became this amazing man we know because of Buffy, she gave him the strength to become someone and that's a part of what i love about them, they can relay to each other, they understood what it felt to be alone in this world, they brought the light in each other's life.
I don't think it was 'love at first sight' in the literal sense, it was more about the way he felt when he saw her, so young and full of life, a normal teenager with a normal life, a girl who will be forced to give up all that to become the slayer, and he wanted to help and protect her, he had a goal, a reason to fight and redeem himself.