So I may be a tad neurotic

I want to take a minute and explain some things about the season five chapters. There aren’t as many of them as one might expect. Season five is my favorite season and I really wanted to dive into all the denial and unrequited love, but I hit a roadblock. I had trouble finding organic places for a scene to occur. Buffy and Co. are pretty focused throughout the entire season on enormously important things, and it just doesn't seem realistic that they’d be sitting around and discussing Buffy and Spike. And then, when they did have a good reason, I felt like it was handled in canon. So even though I really wanted to utilize this season, I just couldn’t do it in a way I was comfortable with.

Conversations About Dead People, Ch.9

Set after Buffy vs. Dracula. Spike goes after the eleven pounds.



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Conversations About Dead People, Ch.10

Set after Out of my Mind. 

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Conversations About Dead People, Ch.11

Takes place during Triangle, right after the scene at The Bronze, and right before Buffy kicks Olaf’s ass.

Buffy/Tara

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Conversations About Dead People, Ch.12

First chapter with Dawn! Otherwise known as the first time someone actually realizes what’s going on. It was a fun one to write. Especially the last couple of paragraphs. Takes place during Checkpoint.

Spike/Dawn
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Conversations About Dead People, Ch.13

Takes place directly after the Angel episode Redefinition and before Drusilla shows up in Crush. This one is a little more introspective than other chapters, mostly because getting inside Darla’s head was entirely too much fun. I also used this chapter to explain how Dru went from leaving Spike for being in love with Buffy in Fool for Love, to trying to get him back in Crush. Because it bugged me.

 If you remember season 2 of Angel really well, feel free to skip this note and get to the good stuff. If you don’t, I’ll provide a bit of context. I don’t know about you guys, but I remember Buffy better than Angel, and I had to do some digging to jog my memory. Darla comes back as human but she’s dying. Angel tries to save her but he can’t, and just when they’ve reached a nice place and are having a pretty sweet moment, Drusilla comes in and bites her. The two of them bring havoc to all, and massacre a basement of evil lawyers. Then they start hiring an army of demons, but Angel ends up tricking them and setting them on fire. Also, Darla’s trying very hard to squash all her fuzzy feelings for Angel.

Darla/Drusilla
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Conversations About Dead People, Ch.14

 Takes place after Crush. It may seem a little repetitive next to chapter 12, but I really wanted to have something with Spike after Buffy closes the door in his face. Because there's no way he just gave up after that. :)

Dawn/Spike

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Conversations About Dead People, Ch.15

Set right after Giles and Xander take Spike back to his crypt in Intervention.



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