It's Buffy's 21st birthday! She's not feeling like herself.

Round 31 Sunnydale Memorial Fanfiction Awards - Best Episode Re-Write Nominee

After being attacked at Sunnydale U, Xander’s construction site and the Magic Box, Buffy looks to Spike to help her deal with the pressures of her life after death. In this rewrite of “Life Serial” see if our blonde duo gets it right and tracks down the Trio, leaving Buffy to deal with the loss of heaven. 

All Human AU. Thirty-one year old Buffy Summers-Finn is a lot of things: brave, athletic, kind, quirky, pretty and, above all, bored. She doesn't know how it happened but somehow her life had become full of days sitting at home alone waiting for her husband, Riley and daughter, Dawn to return home. Taking initiative, Buffy decides to get back out into the working world. But one day an accidental meeting puts twenty-three year old William "Spike" Pratt directly in her path. Recently released from jail and betrayed by the love of his life, Spike is heartbroken, a little dangerous and, possibly, the cure for Buffy's boredom.

It's Christmas time, and Spike isn’t getting what he really wants out of his secret “relationship” with Buffy, though things could be worse. Just his luck, D’Hoffryn has decided to celebrate Gurnenthar's Ascendance on the Hellmouth after a romantic disappointment of his own.

Ten years after their rush job of a wedding, Buffy and Spike try to find time to celebrate. It's harder than it sounds.

Semi-spicy domestic fluff. Contented Spike alert.