I think they wait for it to rise simply because it's less work than trying to dig it up first. Not so much that she's giving it a chance to attack her before she kills it. I don't recall ever seeing Buffy let a vampire go in that situation (except the one that snuck past her and she didn't notice), so we can't really say whether she'd let one go if it didn't attack her.
Have we ever seen Buffy choose not to stake a vampire, other than the ones we know as people? Not ones that got away from her, just that she let them go?
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Date: 2010-02-22 08:41 pm (UTC)Have we ever seen Buffy choose not to stake a vampire, other than the ones we know as people? Not ones that got away from her, just that she let them go?