Buffy and alcohol are un-mixy things - except maybe when a certain peroxide blonde vampire is around!

Timeline: Vague Season 5

Doppelgangland, When the portal opens and Vamp Willow comes through, Spike comes through as well unknown to the Scoobies. So they put back Vamp Willow and close the portal without realizing it they still had a doppelganger hanging around. Spike comes back from South America only to find some wanker playing at being him and now Sunnydale has two Spikes!

Set in season 5, goes AR from there. Takes place after 'Out of Mind'. On a routine patrol, Buffy and Spike are captured to be sold at a slave brothel. With her friends and family unable to find her, Buffy must rely on her mortal enemy to keep her sane in a world of slavery and torment.

She'd kicked his butt, taken the Gem and sent it off to Angel. Buffy thought she'd seen the last of Spike. Clearly, she’d been too optimistic. That he was in her house, in her room, waking her out of a sound sleep and asking for (okay, demanding) her help meant that something had to be majorly wrong. They weren't due for another apocalypse, but...why else would a vampire make a truce with the Slayer?

What if Buffy reacted differently to Willow's spell after Something Blue?

Starting with the episode "School Hard" and taking us through an alternate Season 3, this story is a response to Challenge #64 at The Bloodshedverse (www.bloodshedverse.com/). Angel can't close Acathla this time. Only a pregnant Slayer's blood is able to tame the beast and seal Acathla forever, but who will the father be? Will she find love, or is she just doing her duty as the Chosen One to protect the earth from darkness? Full challenge requirements will be listed at the end of the story to keep from giving away several key plot points.