Whistler recruits Spike to help Buffy

Hi again,
There is a fiction where Spike is living in New York City taking care of its demon problems. Whistler basically stalks him and tries to convince him to go back to Sunnydale to help Buffy. I think it's after he has his soul, or he's just still chipped. I remember a scene where one of thier conversations are in the underground subway tunnels of NY. Spike does head back. I believe later in the story Whistler shows up again in Sunnydale to further explain things to Buffy and Spike about their work arrangement/relationship (mght be that Spike, not Angel, was the true assistant/champion for Buffy, but he or the PTB couldn't figure that out earlier on and assumed it was Angel). Does this one stick a cord to anyone? Thanks in advance.

kgues
Does anyone remember this fiction at all? I still haven't found it on my own yet.

kgues

Guess what? I found it! It's called Full Circle by darkravine. I read it on AllAboutSpike awhile ago, but it can also be found on fanfiction.net, as well as it's prequel called Spellbound. They take place in S6, after Hell's Bells.

It's still a WIP at 18 chapters although published years ago. I went through the author's website through wayback and saw that it would have been 20 chapters. A shame that it never was completed online because it's well written.

PS: the scene in the subway where Whistler recruits Spike is in Chapter 5, and the location is an abandoned station where Harmany has set up her new lair, complete with unicorns. Oh, don't worry, Spike isn't with her (how could he after Buffy); he's just trying to get information out of her about a new big bad. It's a pretty humorous chapter.