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1. Nothing Else It Could Possibly Be by hattiewithtea

   Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • Multi
   • Work in Progress

   04 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Spike/Buffy Summers
   • Tara Maclay/Willow Rosenberg
   • Xander Harris/Anya Jenkins
   • Buffy Summers
   • Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
   • Rupert Giles
   • Joyce Summers
   • Dawn Summers
   • Xander Harris
   • Anya Jenkins
   • Willow Rosenberg
   • Tara Maclay
   • Slow Burn
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV) Season 5
   • Romance
   • Eventual Romance
   • Angst

   Summary

   Buffy wasn’t certain how Spike found out about Riley’s cheating and she doesn’t understand why he told her. But dammit, she was going to find out.

   An impulsive, impromptu conversation between Buffy and Spike changes the course of their relationship. Season 5 - canon divergence.

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   English

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   8,021

   Chapters:

   5/?

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