Buffy pushed open the Magic Box's front door and tried to look as if she hadn't been shaken to her very foundations by the words she'd overheard. "We're closed," Anya sang out, her back to the door. "But you can come back tomorrow with your money ( Read more... )

"Nothing? Nothing at all?" Buffy was asking incredulously. "Even with all these books ( Read more... )

Drusilla frowned at Darla's back as the blonde vampire paced restlessly about the cramped room. Miss Edith frowned too. All of that scrumptious Watcher blood had been theirs for the taking, but Darla had said no. She didn't even explain. And Miss Edith would not have been greedy. Darla was muttering to herself as she prowled, alternating words of ( Read more... )

Buffy didn't know what to think when she saw Spike sitting on her front porch, smoking his last cigarette. She'd sat with Willow, been held and comforted, for only an hour, before she remembered that she'd promised to be home by eleven. "Spike? What's wrong?" she asked, fear clenching up her throat before his fairly relaxed demeanor registered ( Read more... )

Joyce was propped up in the front, Buffy sitting in the back but hanging over her mother's seat as Spike pushed hard on the accelerator. After an agonizing delay in the emergency room, Joyce was finally admitted, and Spike and Buffy were led to the waiting room on the same floor. She slumped down on the love-seat, knowing that someone else had - ( Read more... )

Summary: What happens when Buffy's dreams contradict a prophecy ( Read more... )

[To answer the "Older and Far Away" question: how does Halfrek know Spike ( Read more... )

Set after "Hell's Bells ( Read more... )