The Letter

I can't claim any credit for the first chapter; I was inspired by the letter Miles wrote to Ekaterin in Lois McMaster Bujold's masterful novel "A Civil Campaign". If you've never read any of her Adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, get thee to a bookstore or library at once!

I thought the concept applied so well to the situation on Buffy after the events of the episode "Seeing Red" that I couldn't get it out of my head. Here, then, is my version of what Spike might write to Buffy before leaving for Africa, and the events that transpire afterwards.

Chapter 1
The Letter		 Chapter 2
The Coat		 Chapter 3
The Man		 Chapter 4
The Truth		 Chapter 5
The Talk		 Chapter 6
The Visit		 Chapter 7
The Dinner
Chapter 8
Friends Come Visiting		 Chapter 9
Epiphany		 Chapter 10
Making Contact		 Chapter 11
Back in the
  Saddle Again		 Chapter 12
Pennies from Heaven		 Chapter 13
The Prodigal		 Chapter 14
Revelation
Chapter 15
Reconciliation		 Chapter 16 
The Salon		   Chapter 17
A New
 Beginning?		 Chapter 18
Tea and
 Sympathy		 Chapter 19
Convergence		 Chapter 20
Encounters and Interludes		 Chapter 21
Desperate Measures
Chapter 22 
Dancing in the Dark		 Chapter 23  
The Vampire, the Witch and the Watcher		 Chapter 24
  A Week in the Death of William the Bloody		 Chapter 25 
Phoenix Rising		 Chapter 26
Picking Up the Pieces		 Chapter 27
I Love a Parade		 Chapter 28
Mr. and Mrs. Summers