Drastic Changes   by Moosin

Summary: After Buffy makes a life changing decision for everyone, Spike leaves town and doesn't return. What will happen when the two meet and are on completely different pages? And what's the deep dark secret that haunts everyone's past?

Chapter 1        Chapter 2

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|    :: Inspired by a challenge from Kantayra ~>

|    Requirements:

|    Setting: Any time post-Once More With Feeling. 

|   Pairing: B/S eventually. 

|    Length: Whatever you want, but it'll probably have to be a longer fic to get in all the story requirements. 

|    Basic Plot Elements:

|        1. A while back, Buffy had a choice to make: Spike or some human guy that could give her an ordinary life (can be an original character or one on          the show). Buffy finally chose the ordinary life, and Spike left town in response. 
|        2. Buffy got pregnant by normal guy before they married. Normal guy turned out to be a negligent dad and left her. 
        3. Now Spike's come back to find Buffy pregnant/with a child. Spike's just pissed that normal guy left her, but Buffy's really freaked out that he'll |         go psycho and try to hurt her baby as well. 
        4. The baby must be a girl. At some point, Buffy has to catch Spike alone with the baby and freak out. His response: "I just had to look into her |        eyes to know that she's a Summers woman. She's not that wanker's, luv; she's yours. So how could you possibly believe I'd ever want to hurt         her?" 
|        5. And, through it all, the Buffy/Spike romance has to bloom anew with Spike now helping her to raise the baby. 
        6. Absolutely, under no circumstances can Spike get Buffy pregnant. The girl is it. 

|    Extras:

|        1. Dawn wanted Buffy to choose Spike all along. Now that he's back, she's convinced that he's still good and tries to sway Buffy in his direction          once more. 
|       2. Buffy confessing that she never loved the baby's father; she was in love with Spike at the time that she made her choice but was influenced           by her friends' opinions in the matter. 
|        3. Have Xander still be around and find a reasonable way to make him not seem like a villain. 
        4. The father of Buffy's kid returns. Spike is chipless, yet doesn't kill him. Make it all seem in character.

|    ~ Minor changes I made in the plot:

|    a.) Basically, Spike and Dawn have a life before Spike and Buffy reunite 

|     b.) There's some deep, dark, unresolved secret (which is mentioned in the challenge...)  

|    c.) All this happened four years before the present time of the story... Meaning, the deep dark secret happened before Spuffy happens   

|    d.) Some of this story can be pretty sad... Beware.

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