Finding herself in what was once her worst nightmare, Slayer turned vampire Buffy Summers wants revenge on the one who made her. However, when she makes an unlikely ally in the process, she finds herself on a journey that changes her understandings of good and evil, love and hate.

After Sunnydale is destroyed Buffy creates a new life for herself and erases her old one in the process. (Buffy/Other implied)

Unable to sleep, Buffy once again finds herself sharing a cup of hot chocolate with Spike. --Sequel to Hot Chocolate.

"Into bondage, are you, luv? Didn't the Chosen One of all that is Good and Light would be into those kind of sex games." --Takes place before Something Blue

Buffy is alone making hot chocolate on a cold night when Spike decides to visit.

It wasn't like sitting in a cave watching shadows, you didn't just watch the world. You had to live in it.

The Slayer and her demon lover. She could smile at that now and she couldn't help but think that, god, they've come a long way. Warnings: References to the bathroom scene in Seeing Red.

Spike is reunited with Buffy only to find out that he has been replaced--by himself?

Unable to leave the cave in Africa, Spike is haunted by his past.

This was war and Buffy already knew she had to make some hard decisions. Takes place after Lies My Parents Told Me

She didn't know when Spike became the one person she could depend on, but she'd stopped questioning it by now. --Post Diry Girls

Buffy, Spike and Dawn, at home watching TV.

*AUTHOR'S NOTE! STORY IS COMPLETE! GO BACK AND READ THE CHAPTERS YOU MISSED!!!* When you're evil, you're evil, right? Not necessarily. Not in William The Bloody's case, anyway. He's still as big of a Big Bad as they come -- but keep in mind that it's always been his passion that has gotten him as far as he is now. And maybe, just maybe, if that passion were tweaked a little bit... directed toward a certain person... We could see what Spike was really capable of.

A three chapter series following three significant events -- Buffy's death, her time in the afterlife, and the events of the episode, "Afterlife." Slightly AU, borrowing a lot of text from a majority of the season 5 episodes, as well as the text from "Afterlife." Written from Buffy's POV.