Summary: Summary: Loving Buffy is never a stable environment as Spike has learned since her return from heaven. All he’s done is to try to help and all it’s achieved is to make things worse. So what might actually help this broken Slayer?
Setting: S6 all canon through “Dead Things” then it goes AU to varying degrees after Chapter 1.
Rated: 15
Categories: General Fics Characters: None
Genres: Romance
Warnings: None
Challenges:
Series: None
Chapters: 5 Completed: Yes
Word count: 22088 Read: 7475
Published: 05/11/2011 Updated: 05/11/2011
1. Chapter 1 by pfeifferpack [Reviews - 1] 
(6019 words)
Disclaimer: Original characters and the town of Sunnydale rights remain with Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, the writers of the original episodes/books, and the TV and production companies responsible for the original television shows. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER ©2002 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer trademark is used without express permission from Fox. ANGEL ©2001 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved. The ANGEL trademark is used without express permission from Fox. This is a work of fan fiction and no financial gain is made by this author
Authors Notes: Some dialogue in the first chapter is taken from Dead Things written by Stephen S. DeKnight
2. Chapter 2 by pfeifferpack [Reviews - 0] (4032 words)
3. Chapter 3 by pfeifferpack [Reviews - 0] (3996 words)
A/N: going completely AU from here; not planning a rewrite of the season even though I’ll touch on some plot points of canon.
4. Chapter 4 by pfeifferpack [Reviews - 0] (4630 words)
5. Chapter 5 by pfeifferpack [Reviews - 2] (3411 words)