Artists: None
Categories: Season 5
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Riley Finn, Spike
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Cheating/Infidelity
Completed: Yes Chapters: 18
Word count: 34,257 Hit Count: 31,833 ePub Downloads: 238
Published: April 18, 2020 Updated: July 21, 2020
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1. Day 1 by ChryshCn - Likes: 53 Comments: 34 Word Count: 1,590 Hit Count: 4,249 Published: April 18, 2020
Hi everybody!! How is quarantine? I'm great, totally not bored and cycling through every fandom I've ever been a part of to fill the void left behind by the outside world! I've already finished writing this one, and am almost done editing its sequel, (and about to get started on the last one in this series). This will be mostly fluff, the sequel is mostly angst, and the last one will be mostly hurt/comfort with a bit of smut. I know, a little cruel to have the bed sharing trope without smut, but I like to think it's sweet enough to be worth it. Hope you enjoy!
2. Day 2 by ChryshCn - Likes: 48 Comments: 24 Word Count: 3,274 Hit Count: 1,635 Published: April 20, 2020
Forgot to mention last time that the entire story will take place in Spike's bedroom.
3. Day 9 by ChryshCn - Likes: 47 Comments: 20 Word Count: 1,003 Hit Count: 1,584 Published: April 23, 2020
Edit: gave it the wrong chapter day
4. Day 13 by ChryshCn - Likes: 51 Comments: 24 Word Count: 3,105 Hit Count: 1,669 Published: April 27, 2020
I think one of the fun things about writing Spuffy is threading the needle between their natural chemistry and their insistence that they hate each other. It's just so fun writing them joking around with each other because they're both so witty. It is also loads of fun trying to capture their very unique voices while spell check has a conniption over their grammar.
5. Day 14 by ChryshCn - Likes: 41 Comments: 19 Word Count: 3,136 Hit Count: 1,679 Published: April 30, 2020
So I'm going to try to continue using the less spacey format because I do like it better, but it means doing a little extra work when transferring this from my word processor, so there might be chapters where I get lazy and don't do it. Skip the end notes if you're not interested in me rambling about how I wish this was a fic where Buffy was just running around punching people.
6. Day 20 by ChryshCn - Likes: 46 Comments: 29 Word Count: 2,660 Hit Count: 1,708 Published: May 05, 2020
I meant to post this yesterday but got distracted working on original stuff. So, here it is today!!
7. Day 31 by ChryshCn - Likes: 43 Comments: 25 Word Count: 890 Hit Count: 1,645 Published: May 08, 2020
I was editing the sequel to this and I thought to myself "Not enough angst chapters", so I'm going to write more. But I gotta admit, I just enjoy writing Spike and Buffy flirting and joking around with each other. Which is what's going to happen in this chapter :D
8. Day 32 by ChryshCn - Likes: 48 Comments: 23 Word Count: 1,400 Hit Count: 1,626 Published: May 11, 2020
Potential Trigger Warnings for this chapter, not only are there mentions of infidelity but Spike is the narrator and he is angry. I've kept most of his murderous imaginings vague, but there is one description of violence that involves insects. It's still very PG-13, but every once in a while my brain peeks through the fog desensitization looks at what I'm writing and goes "Oh, that would be genuinely horrifying if you saw it happen to somebody", so I thought I'd mention.
9. Day 33 by ChryshCn - Likes: 39 Comments: 18 Word Count: 2,486 Hit Count: 1,619 Published: May 14, 2020
This one is a lot rougher than the other chapters because I added it later. Ok, well, I always meant to add it in but kept putting it off until just a couple hours ago when I realized it was time to post the next chapter. So, while I have revised the rest of the chapters at least five times each this is a first draft.
10. Day 43 by ChryshCn - Likes: 40 Comments: 21 Word Count: 2,246 Hit Count: 1,668 Published: May 18, 2020
In this chapter Buffy is living in fluff land, but Spike is living in minor angst land.
11. Day 52 by ChryshCn - Likes: 42 Comments: 22 Word Count: 2,068 Hit Count: 1,643 Published: May 22, 2020
More Spike angst.
12. Day 53 by ChryshCn - Likes: 42 Comments: 24 Word Count: 3,553 Hit Count: 1,679 Published: May 26, 2020
This ones got a little bit of everything, a bit of hurt comfort, a bit of UST, a poem...
EDIT 5/30/2020: Forgot to say that the poem is by Shel Silverstien. It seemed like the sorta thing Buffy would have memorized. New chapter soon. Decided the story would flow better with one more piece of fluff before we get into all that late season five stuff.
13. Day 69 by ChryshCn - Likes: 48 Comments: 25 Word Count: 2,021 Hit Count: 1,639 Published: June 10, 2020
Sorry I dropped off the face of the earth for a little while there. Anybody else here a star trek fan? You know how the lead up to warp technology on earth is like... a second dark age? I ain't saying anything in particular about current events, just hope I live long enough to meet a vulcan, that's all.
14. Day 74 by ChryshCn - Likes: 43 Comments: 19 Word Count: 469 Hit Count: 1,659 Published: June 17, 2020
I'm gonna try to keep updating at least once a week, but my life is picking back up so I'm going to get a little busy for a while. That being said, story:
15. Day 97 by ChryshCn - Likes: 37 Comments: 17 Word Count: 1,406 Hit Count: 1,511 Published: July 07, 2020
Sorry for the long wait, I was (unexpectedly) without wifi last week.
16. Day 126 by ChryshCn - Likes: 32 Comments: 13 Word Count: 1,134 Hit Count: 1,853 Published: July 17, 2020
Accidentally added this chapter to the wrong story, wouldn't even have noticed if I hadn't accidentally highlighted the "complete" checkbox. Anyways, this is the last chapter of this story because after "season 5" ends I switch the format a little. There's a two part epilogue but I'm going to double post those chapters since I keep getting distracted with real life and they're best read one right after the other.
17. Epilogue I: Night 0 by ChryshCn - Likes: 28 Comments: 14 Word Count: 1,079 Hit Count: 1,345 Published: July 21, 2020
Don't forget to click next chapter when you get to the end of this one.
18. Epilogue II: Day 1 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 57 Comments: 28 Word Count: 737 Hit Count: 1,420 Published: July 21, 2020
This is the second part of the epilogue, posted separately for those who ain't feeling like reading the slightly angstier sequel (after all, it is 2020 and nobody could blame you if you've just had enough angst at this point) please don't forget to read Epilogue I.