This is an AU story, rooted in canon for both Season 7 Buffy and Season 5 Angel.

Buffy and Spike find the meaning of love amidst the terror of a monster neither knows how to fight. Canon through BtVS Season Five and elements of the first two or so episodes of Season Six are used, but not completely. Then it's AU to the extreme. For example, Dawn is 16 when my story begins. Pairings: Spike/Buffy; Dawn/Other; Spike & Dawn. And who knows what else might happen. Thanks to my betas on this story: caoilainn (first 20 chapters) and spikendru and spikesbint and whenbuffysmiles.

This story begins five years after NFA. The new Angel Investigations gets a new client that threatens to tear the team's world apart. There is action, drama, a few killings, slayings and your basic brutality. There's also love and sex. Be prepared, though. Spike has relationships with others besides Buffy. But it's a Buffy/Spike story, I promise.