Okay, if you haven't seen up to Buffy season six and don't want plot points ruined for you, you don't want to read this fic. This is going to be my season seven so it will encompass everything from the six seasons before it. Just wanted to give fair warning about that.
I'm writting this specific entry as a review to kind of give my thoughts on season six and possibly help myself, as well as the reader, figure out why I have the characters do the things that they do in this fiction.
I havn't gotten too far into this so I don't know the exact time frame. I do know that it happens sometime after the sixth season, after Willow went crazy and evil. Not sure if it's right after or not. Probably pretty much right after. I plan on kind of fleshing out that summer pause that we missed in between the real season six and seven on TV. Of course adding my own little bits and pieces here and there.
Here's a gist of season six. Buffy died but was brought back to life by a spell from Willow which Xander, Anya, and Tara helped with. Later on it turned out that Buffy had been in Heaven. Her friends had ripped her away from her peace. She didn't have long to think about that though since she had to get a job to help support her and her sister Dawn. All she ended up with was a position at the local fast food joint The Doublemeat Palace. Also she began to realize that Dawn was no longer a kid and realized she had to train her to fight.
Anya and Xander were to be married but Xander got tricked by a demon who pretended to show him their future together, which was with Xander turning into a horrible person and breaking Anya's heart. Xander always worried he would turn into his alcoholic father and he thought this proved it. So he walked out on the wedding. He made it back and it appeared the wedding was going to go on as planned. But Xander was too shaken by the vision, fearing that it would turn out true anyway. So Xander walked away from the wedding, breaking Anya's heart anyway. This sent her back to her demon boss D'Hoffrin and she had herself turned back into a vengeance demon.
Spike was happy that Buffy had finally broken down and came to be with him. All they had was a sexual relationship, but eventually Buffy broke that off. He went a little crazy and even went so far as to try and rape Buffy. He didn't succeed but it opened his eyes to what kind of monster he could be. So he went on a quest to regain his soul. At the very end of the season it was restored. As season seven opened we found Spike hadn't dealt with the reensouling well and it left him completely crazy.
There was a group of nerds (Warren, Andrew, Jonathan) being ass pains all year. Eventually Warren took matters into his own hands. Enraged he went to Buffy's house with a gun. As he was running away he began shooting. He tripped over something (you can see this in the episode if you watch close enough) making him shoot upwards. The stray bullet went into Willow and Tara's bedroom (yes they are lesbians in case no one knew) and into Tara. Willow held onto her love until Tara breathed her last. Willow attempted to bring Tara back the same way she had Buffy. But since Tara had died from normal means (the bullet) instead of magical way (jumping into a vortex to close it) the spell would not work. Willow turned evil, ready to take vengeance on those who had ruined her life. She trapped Warren in the woods and skinned him alive. Andrew and Jonathan escaped (with the Scoobies help) and made their way to Mexico. Even though only a human with no superpowers to be found, Xander was able to step in front of Willows beam and keep her from raising an ancient tomb from the ground. Eventually Willow broke down and began to feel her pain. The black veins disappeared and her black hair slowly returned to red as she wept in Xander's arms. Season seven showed us that Willow had been over in England with Giles learning how to use the power she couldn't deny.
Damn! I think that's it! Geez I'm worn out just typing all that! LOL! If I feel the need to explain anything else ill make a note of it later.
