Oh wow!  Vamp ghosty!  Why did Buffy trigger this when the other slayers didn't, I wonder? Probably because he didn't know about that aspect?  This is getting more intriguing with each chapter.

even buffy's unconscious (or conscious)  censoring  does not seem to make things more difficult. very good read, thank you.

Well done

I tried to review when you first put this up, but it didn't go through.

LOL that she didn't think twice about grabbing one of HIS new shirts to sleep in. And yeah, a definite intentional slip to leave out the love nature of Spike/Dru. Deep down, she doesn't want to think about him loving someone else for over 100 years.

Spike really isn't different at all, despite the complete loss of memories.

Nice bit about her not entirely believing that Angel would ever spend time homeless and eating rats. She never did truly understand the guilt and self-loathing he contained.

Indeed, very telling that Buffy would completely forget to qualify the real past relationship between Spike and Dru. Freudian omission? Really, you can't update this story fast enough to satisfy my curiosity. I'm really hooked.