Fic update: That Good Night (7 of ?)

Right now I'm on vacation—so I have another chapter written already! Woohoo!

I apologize for being slow in answering comments to chapter 6. Please be assured, I appreciate the comments very much! I love feedback! I've just been in frenzied chapter-writing mode, which left me without time to answer the comments. But I will, I promise, and soon!

Thanks to yourlibrarian for beta-reading, and lots of fun plot discussions.

The details:

Title: That Good Night (part 7 of ?)
Rating: Still not sure. Definitely R; may go to NC-17.
Continuity info: This is the sixth story in the Fragments 'verse, fitting in immediately after "Before the Time of Dawn." This story is set a couple years post-NFA.
Summary: Spike is human and he's having problems. Meanwhile, Willow has just had a baby; Xander and Spike have traveled to Sao Paulo to see her, and so has Buffy.
Warnings: My posting schedule will probably continue to be erratic! If that's going to frustrate you hugely, you should probably wait until it's complete. Also, it's going to be dark. Possibly kinda depressing. Definitely angsty, h/c with lots of hurt. Character death will most definitely be threatened, and I'd rather not say what comes of it (though if you're terribly worried, ask me privately).

This update is about 4300 words; the total length now stands at about 22,300.

Previous parts are [here].

Oh, and now that this story is getting fairly long, I'm going to start doing a recap to accompany each chapter. You can skip it if you remember everything that's happened so far (or if you feel like rereading the chapters themselves!). So, here you go...

( Previously in the Fragments!verse... )

( Chapter 7 )