Buffy Summers has led a sheltered life. She works with her father, lives at home, and lives by a set of very simple rules. When she meets a shy and handsome stranger, she thinks nothing of letting him into her life. She soon discovers that nothing is ever as it seems, and looks can be deceiving. 
Buffy is unwillingly thrust into a world she doesn't know, and doesn't understand.
A world some will claim is her birth right. 

Spike isn’t getting what he really wants out of his secret “relationship” with Buffy, though things could be worse. Just his luck, D’Hoffryn has decided to celebrate Gurnenthar's Ascendance on the Hellmouth after a romantic disappointment of his own.

Set in BtVS Season 6, after Wrecked, but before Older and Far Away. Also after AtS S3 The Vision Thing.

Spike takes Buffy to the beach to investigate something unusual.

Joyce looked at Spike as if he was a little boy claiming he had permission for a biscuit, when she knew he didn’t. “I’m not letting you in, Spike,” she said with a sideways little smile. Spike sighed and leaned against the tree he’d been lurking under. Joyce’s wariness faded at Spike’s obvious defeat. "Would you like a cup of tea? I’ll meet you on the back porch." Spike's final conversation with Joyce. Set after Crush.

So he had won. He had survived. The universe was rent open, his soul was fetched from whatever nether-space it had been stashed in, and seared into his being like a brand. And then it began. The strident cacophony of what have I done? roared inside of him to epic proportions.  Nominee Sunnydale Memorial Fanfiction Awards Round 32, Best Angst.

“Spike?" Buffy asked. "Your soul.... Is it like Angel’s? I mean, if you were to find happiness – in whatever way – would you lose it?” Missing scene from First Date.

For a reunion challenge - Fred tells Buffy that Spike is alive after Dana has cut off his hands.  She's not happy with either Spike or Angel when she gets to LA, but it all works out. :)

When Spike sees Buffy captured by the Initiative, he decides to go in after her.