What if a certain false spoiler for Buffy Season 6 had turned out to be true?

This takes place right after Hell's Bells, assumes the events in As You Were never happened, except for Buffy breaking off her relationship with Spike., and contains spoilers for everything up to mid-season 6 .Rated R overall, for language, graphic violence, implied sexual situations, and disturbing concepts, although most of the chapters are really PG-13. Contains character death. The concepts, universe, and all the characters except the cannon fodder are not mine, they belong to Mutant Enemy. I am not worth suing, really. If you wanna archive, just ask, brush after every meal, and do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

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Special thanks to Lyssie for the constructive criticism and encouragement.

This is not the first thing I've written, but it is my first Buffy fic, and the first one posted to ff.net. Feedback is good. We live for feedback ;-)