Story Notes: 6/20/18: To say I'm upset about the start of S12 is a vast understatement. I'm livid. Even though I expected it. I know I don't own Buffy. Or that I have fanfic. Or Joss always does this. Or that the comics aren't "really canon". It doesn't change that I feel like I'm going to puke and as if I lost something important to me. So I wrote this, set today, because I needed it. Joss might not understand what a healthy long-term relationship can look like, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Or that love doesn't truly live in the quiet moments. 
 
And I tossed in something to make Gort laugh because we both could use one. 
 
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