Waking up in the morning is hard to do.
Written for the prompt "a trial of strength" for Buffyverse bingo.
Spike doesn't have words for this kind of blue.
Buffy's attempts to have the perfect Christmas are stymied by the appearance of a mysterious axe and her mother's ghost...or is it?
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