I am trying to remember the name and/or author of this story so if anyone can help I'd really be grateful. This is a breakoff from the vampire soldier thread because the story I was thinking might fit that request I now realize doesn't really fit the criteria any more but I still want to find mine.
I realize now that the story I was thinking about cannot be an Initiative story because the training center is in Britain. What I do remember (since some have expressed an interest in finding that one too) is that Spike comes back after season seven and comes to Giles at the new Watchers Council in England. Spike is kind of a mess emotionally. I cannot recall if he is human or vamp, there are parts that make me think human and parts that make me think vamp, it's been a few years since I read it. Anyway, Giles doesn't want Buffy to know that Spike is alive/back and convinces him to go away somewhere to recover and recuperate and get himself back together and I think tells Spike he will contact Buffy and/or that she doesn't want anything to do with him so he needs to move on. And he goes, trusting Giles. But Giles in his hatred of Spike and his desire to protect Buffy actually sells Spike over to a group that is enslaving vampires for an army, which I think is where Ethan comes in. But it's not a demon slave ring or in another dimension, it's in Britain also, perhaps Scotland? And there is an underground facility there with a huge lake and there is a force field around it that surrounds the lake too and the enslaved there are fitted with collars or something that won't let them go outside of that perimeter.
So....if anyone can remember what THAT story is I'd be grateful. It is not an Initiative story though so it gets it's own thread request. I'd really like to find it again. Thanks.
