Another good chapter.  I like it when fics treat the core Scoobys a little differently.  I am rewatching the series with my niece and I just started season 7.  It really feels lime the writers stopped knowing what to do with the group after season 5.  Instead of continuing their growth the writers tore them down, and then inexplicably returned them to pretty much status quo by the end of the series.  (Buffy herself flatlined at a certain point and stayed there.). 
  I feel like part of thier mistake was never letting the characters own up to past mistakes in a real way.

  Alright that was way off track,  I just dig where I remember this going.  It's a shake- up.  It's what the characters needed and I never really felt.  Even through the comics I did manage to read.

Wow Xander finally figures it out!
 

Really hooked now! Grrr, Xander's such an idiot.

oh man...no, xander....and spike cant fight xander, can he? oh no...but on a brighter note, they've probably found the kids! :) on to the next chappie :)

Xander is an A1 jerk.