Buffy and Spike, Post Becoming Part 2. Have new life in LA/running AI type place

Hi,

I've been on here for years and never bothered with an account but finally after a year of researching for this fic I really need help.

It had Buffy and Spike mated to each other I think. It was post becoming part 2 and Buffy never went home. Buffy and Spike were running what was basically Angel Investigations with all his people there but he had never went to LA. And somehow the scoobies come across them and Buffys way different.

If anyone can think of it I'd love you forever if you could point me in the right direction!

Thanks!

Out of the Ashes by Revello1620?

No, though that one is similar. This was after season 2 and Buffy didn't know Angel was alive until they caught up with her. i think Faith was slaying in Sunnydale.

Is this the story where she can do magic and can cook?

Is it the one where, at one point when the Scoobies find Buffy in LA she is (or starts) waxing the floor with bees wax? And I believe at some point fairly early on she finds out about the Claddagh ring Angel gave her? If this is the same story, I've been looking for it for months and would LOVE if someone had a link somewhere. I read that story years and years ago and I'd love to reread it.

Smokey, I believe Buffy can do magic and cook in the one that I've been looking for.

In Out of The Ashes first paragraph of chapter 10 Buffy is on her knees polishing the floor with beeswax and lemon.The part about the Claddagh ring is talked about almost at the end of chapter 3. The story is here on Spuffy Realm.

Thanks so much, I wasn't sure and didn't have time to get into it earlier today. You totally made my whole day