I wasn't expecting a continuation of this, but am delighted to see one. Excellent description of Spike's limbo and his frustration and panic in it. Anya was very well written, and I really liked her observation that Spike could have closed the hellmouth ten minutes earlier! Her aside about the little red head honing in on Xander was also funny. This is thoughful and well written, I'm looking forward to the meeting ahead.

Great chapter. I like how this story is turning out. It's great how instead of starting the story with an event from the show and changing things from there, you keep the events the way they happened on the show and explore the characters' feelings and thoughts. Too bad that means Spike had to die though. But I'm curious to see where you're going with this. Is he coming back the way he did in Angel or are you going to do something different? Keep writing, curiosity is killing me.