Alternate Reality

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I read this fiction somewhere around a year to a year and a half ago. What I remember (rather vaguely, I'm afraid): a very long story, the writing was gorgeous and the story line presented a sort of altered reality -- some sort of spell, I think, where the characters were separated from each other (a kind of amnesia?) and living out their lives with echoes of a past they don't quite remember, experiencing events that were variations on a theme of the events of the show that kept happening. I think someone, perhaps Spike?, eventually moves to start solving the problem. And now I may really be mixing this story with another one that involves an isolated house and a tree? And perhaps both Spike and Buffy are trying to make their way back to each other and actuality? Does a flower shop factor in? Maybe?

Wow, that's a sad description. You can see why I'm having such a hard time searching for this! What I do remember: being wowed by the writing, loving the way the story played with the events of the show in inventive and quite beautiful ways.

And I'm hating I never bookmarked this.