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[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

I think this is my first question here (amazing, considering my lousy memory for fic titles and authors). Anyway, here's one I'd love to find again.

Set post season VI (perhaps post Chosen?), a human Spike is staying with Giles in England while they try to sort out what happened to him (I believe he may have been in Africa to get his soul, and this was the result). Buffy shows up. There is awkwardness and work to do, but she and Spike get on a motorcycle and head off together. There is a (hot) reunion when they've worked through their issues and they seem to be on their way to a real relationship. Then bad guys show up. In the course of a fight in which Spike does things that shouldn't be possible for an ordinary human, a house elf of some sort points to him and calls him "Slayer". And that's all I've read. There was clearly intended to be more, as a friend has been kidnapped and the bad guys (the Council, maybe?) are still out there, but that is all I've read. If you know where this fic is archived (I believe it was a UK-based site) or the title or author, I'd love to find it again to see if she's finished it.

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[suzcat.livejournal.com]

I'm still looking for this fic.
I'm re-posting in the hope that someone else will spot the post, and it will ring a bell.

I'm looking for a fic where Buffy is turned - I think maybe Dawn calls Spike, who's been living in LA (?) when Buffy is sick, dying, and he turns her. But he is not happy to have to take care of her (and he does have to take care of her, after he has turned her).

Or maybe she was turned by someone else, and he just has to take care of her, because Dawn doesn't want her dusted??

I think spike has another girlfriend at first...

Buffy keeps her soul, I think, but is feeling pretty low. Not a happy, assertive Buffy story, but she learns to cope, and Spike realizes his feelings for her again. (Surprise!)

I remember one scene, where someone human attacks Buffy, maybe tries to rape her, and she defends herself, and Spike is at first disgusted, when he finds out she harmed a human, but then he realizes she was hurt first.

Later something happens with Dawn, and Buffy and Spike have to go help her.
Something with a desk...?