Sometimes, things make it so you can't bury your head to what's right in front of you.

Spike comes to town for the first time during Harsh Light of Day, and the first time Buffy sees him is sunbathing on campus adorned with the Gem of Amara. She has no idea he's a vampire, and he has no clue she's the slayer. With nothing holding them back, how do these two strangers come together? And what will happen when they learn the truth about each other?

Response to a <a href="https://dark-solace.org/elysian/modules/challenges/challenges.php?chalid=2868">challenge</a&gt; by emilise.

Buffy knows her romantic entanglements have been missing something, but hasn't yet put that knowledge into practice. Following an accidental engagement, she takes the first step, by secretly making friends with an enemy.

It's the end of the world... unless Buffy and Spike have sex in order to stop it.

At the end of Something Blue, Buffy and Spike decide to pretend that the spell hasn't broken for them.

It was the best of times... No, it was the bloody pits. Spike had neve had a worst summer in his entire life and unlife, combined.

Not until next year, at least.

After the events of Hush, Spike sees Buffy captured by the Initiative. When her friends refuse to listen to him, he decides it's up to him to rescue the Slayer. She's HIS archenemy, after all, and no one else gets to take her out.