Summary: Sequel to Sleeping Arrangements! Funny how a little trip to heaven can change your perspective on life. Buffy had been planning to start dating Spike but she's having a bit of trouble remembering who she used to be and how she's supposed to behave. She knows she'll be ok eventually, but for right now she's just glad she has Spike as her rock.
Spike is glad Buffy is back, but he wishes she wasn't in so much pain. And he's really trying very hard not to think about what, or rather who, probably dragged her back to Earth.
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Series: Arrangements
Categories: Season 6, Alternate Reality
Characters: Buffy, Cordelia, Dawn, Giles, Halfrek, Spike, Tara, Wesley, Willow, Xander
Genres: Angst, Drama, Fluffy/Comedy, Hurt/Comfort
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 23
Word count: 28,272 Hit Count: 22,536 ePub Downloads: 176
Published: July 26, 2020 Updated: December 15, 2020


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1. Prologue by ChryshCn - Likes: 37 Comments: 24 Word Count: 949 Hit Count: 2,832 Published: July 26, 2020

Hello! Welcome back! This pretty much immediately follows where we left off and is the only chapter that doesn't take place in the Summer's house. I hope you enjoy.

2. Day 2 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 23 Comments: 14 Word Count: 1,852 Hit Count: 1,214 Published: July 31, 2020

This chapter is one of those times they'd used a different word than "soul" to describe morals and empathy in canon.

3. Day 5 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 36 Comments: 21 Word Count: 1,875 Hit Count: 1,159 Published: August 07, 2020

4. Day 9 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 30 Comments: 17 Word Count: 2,949 Hit Count: 1,106 Published: August 17, 2020

This is one of those chapters where Buffy is going to treat the whole heaven thing very differently than she did in canon.

5. Day 16 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 27 Comments: 13 Word Count: 519 Hit Count: 1,140 Published: August 24, 2020

I have been looking forward to posting this chapter ever since I wrote it. Originally it was just going to be a little exposition chapter explaining Buffy's theories on why she's back from heaven but then it became this and I like this waaay better.

6. Day 19 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 23 Comments: 10 Word Count: 910 Hit Count: 1,104 Published: August 28, 2020

This one features me making blatant assumptions about the watchers council. Not to mention, I'm assuming that whatever capitol Giles was living off of in season four was mostly eaten up by starting a small business.

 

7. Day 21 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 25 Comments: 13 Word Count: 812 Hit Count: 1,034 Published: September 02, 2020

8. Day 29 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 25 Comments: 9 Word Count: 1,391 Hit Count: 1,021 Published: September 06, 2020

A little bit of that angst I promised, trigger warning for suicidal thoughts. Also, Buffy being too hard on herself, idk if anybody needs to hear this, but please have compassion for yourself when you're struggling, no matter how stupid you feel for being hurt.

9. Day 30 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 20 Comments: 7 Word Count: 358 Hit Count: 983 Published: September 12, 2020

More angst. But there's also cuddling, Spike and Buffy like to multi-task.

10. Day 37 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 25 Comments: 9 Word Count: 739 Hit Count: 935 Published: September 26, 2020

Sorry this one took so long, I'm working that gig economy while I wait for certain parts of the world to re-open, so I'm erratically very busy. 

11. Day 45 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 20 Comments: 9 Word Count: 761 Hit Count: 858 Published: October 07, 2020

I almost didn't do Once More with Feeling, mostly because I think song fics are often pretty clunky, but it sorta felt like blasphemy to skip it. So, this is the compromise!

12. Day 50 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 24 Comments: 12 Word Count: 1,720 Hit Count: 866 Published: October 11, 2020

So, one of the problems with having Buffy spend less time dead is it means that we are still only half way through the summer, which means a lot of the things that happened in season six are yet to happen. Like Buffy becoming invisible, and technically the pipes shouldn't have burst yet (oops). But for the thing that's gonna happen in this chapter I have a headcanon to justify it, so skip the head notes if you're not into Willow speculations.

13. Day 54 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 27 Comments: 13 Word Count: 1,378 Hit Count: 1,110 Published: October 17, 2020

Me, at random, and definitely not every four days: It's been four days since the last I posted a chapter, right? I should post another!

14. Day 55 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 23 Comments: 14 Word Count: 813 Hit Count: 884 Published: October 23, 2020

Let's zoom in on Spike and see how he's handling the news!!

15. Day 58 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 23 Comments: 10 Word Count: 2,487 Hit Count: 841 Published: November 01, 2020

The bright side of writing the full fic before I start posting it is if I suddenly lost interest in a story halfway through posting it I could just post the rest and not worry about leaving anybody in a lurch, the downside is the delay. I wrote Sleeping Arrangements when I was in the mood for flirty Spuffy. When I was actually posting Sleeping Arrangements I was in the mood for angsty Spike, comforting Buffy and some over all domesticity, so I wrote this chapter. Now I'm posting this chapter and I'm in the mood for bad-ass Spike, lusty Buffy, and over-all snarkiness, so that's what I'm writing. By the time I post those smutty chapters I'll probably be in the mood for soppy Buffy, or angry Spike, or a completely different fandom.

16. Day 62 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 23 Comments: 7 Word Count: 896 Hit Count: 801 Published: November 06, 2020

17. Day 75 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 30 Comments: 13 Word Count: 1,789 Hit Count: 830 Published: November 12, 2020

This fic is almost done but I'm only a third of the way through the one that comes after, mostly because I kept putting it off. Oops. So, there will probably be a little breather in between them.

18. Day 90 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 24 Comments: 10 Word Count: 568 Hit Count: 773 Published: November 23, 2020

19. Day 91 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 10 Comments: 4 Word Count: 973 Hit Count: 577 Published: December 15, 2020

I'm getting ready to sit for my Third Mates tests (7 tests in total, very math heavy) and I keep telling myself "I'm going to post the next chapter today" but then get to the end of the day and I have spent the whole day studying. I don't know when I'm going to sit for the tests, anywhere between January and May and I don't want to leave this fic hanging the entire time. So, I'm just going to pull the trigger on this one, I'm posting the rest of the story today. And I can post the smutty resolution to the series whenever I finish my tests.

20. Day 107 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 10 Comments: 4 Word Count: 858 Hit Count: 571 Published: December 15, 2020

Hello, I've posted a whole block of chapters starting at 19. Day 90 AH

21. Day 108 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 12 Comments: 6 Word Count: 1,147 Hit Count: 575 Published: December 15, 2020

22. Day 117 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 9 Comments: 4 Word Count: 1,505 Hit Count: 592 Published: December 15, 2020

23. Day 131 AH by ChryshCn - Likes: 31 Comments: 16 Word Count: 1,023 Hit Count: 730 Published: December 15, 2020