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And here it is: the final chapter.

A big shout-out to everyone who commented along the way: thanks for all the kind and encouraging feedback. You rock!


Before the Time of Dawn (chapter 9 of 9)
By: shadowscast
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Rating: R for naughty language and implied sexual situations
Summary: Post-series Spike and Xander must travel six years back in time to prevent an apocalypse in the future.
Notes: This chapter is about 5000 words. Huge thanks to flurblewig for beta reading. Feedback and concrit welcome in comments or by email.

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Previous chapters in "Before the Time of Dawn"
Previous stories in the Fragments 'verse

Cross-posted to spike_fics
Cross-posted to bloodclaim

( Chapter Nine )

See, you can never trust me regarding chapter estimates. I said last time that I expected this to be the last chapter, and, well, it isn't! But the next one very well might be....

I haven't yet had the time to respond to all the comments left on the last chapter, but I want you to know that I deeply appreciate every single one and I hope to respond to them soon.

By the way, for those of you not following my RL journal, I had such a very exciting day that I'm going to mention it here too: I got a job! Next week I'm going to start teaching a business math course for the adult education department of a local Cegep (which is a sort of a junior college, I think, in American terms?). It's a five week contract, and being just one class (9 hours of classroom time per week) it will leave me lots of time to write. While also helping me pay my rent. Yay!

And now, on to the story:

Before the Time of Dawn (WIP: 7 of ?)
By: shadowscast
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Rating: R for naughty language and implied sexual situations
Summary: Post-series Spike and Xander must travel six years back in time to prevent an apocalypse in the future.
Notes: This chapter is about 4200 words. Beta read by the lovely flurblewig. Feedback and concrit welcome in comments or by email.

Click for:
Previous chapters in "Before the Time of Dawn"
Previous stories in the Fragments 'verse

Cross-posted to spike_fics
Cross-posted to bloodclaim

( Chapter Seven )

Was it just yesterday that I posted chapter 4? Yes, it was! Do I have another chapter ready? Yes, I do! Is flurblewig a wonderful speedy beta and fantastic person? Yes, she is!

*ahem*

Before the Time of Dawn (WIP: 5 of ?)
By: shadowscast
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Rating: R for naughty language and implied sexual situations
Summary: Post-series Spike and Xander must travel six years back in time to prevent an apocalypse in the future.
Notes: This chapter is about 3200 words. Beta read by the lovely flurblewig. Feedback and concrit welcome in comments or by email.

Click for:
Previous chapters in "Before the Time of Dawn"
Previous stories in the Fragments 'verse

Cross-posted to spike_fics
Cross-posted to bloodclaim

( Chapter Five )

I've got another chapter of the Spike/Xander time travel story done; I hope you enjoy it!

Before the Time of Dawn (WIP: 3 of ?)
By: shadowscast
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Rating: R for naughty language and implied sexual situations
Summary: Post-series Spike and Xander must travel six years back in time to prevent an apocalypse in the future.
Notes: This chapter is about 2800 words. Beta read by the lovely flurblewig. Feedback and concrit welcome in comments or by email.

Click for:
Previous chapters in "Before the Time of Dawn"
Previous stories in the Fragments 'verse

Cross-posted to spike_fics
Cross-posted to bloodclaim


( Chapter 3 )

Okay, it's been a while since I did any serious fic writing. I've been trying to get some non-fanfic writing done, among other things. But now I've come to the (convenient?) conclusion that putting off fanfic writing doesn't really increase my non-fanfic output, so I'm letting myself try out another WIP.

Anyway, tonight I decided "I love time-travel stories. I should write one!" And then I came up with an idea. So I had to start writing it. You know how it is, right?

This story fits in my Fragments 'verse; it happens after all the other posted stories in that 'verse. So, it's after "Late Night Porn Store Blues" and "How the Light Gets In," and even after "Human Frailty" (which is set later than the others, although it was written first). However, I intend to write this one so that you don't need to have read all the others to understand it; it's sufficient to know that it's set about a year post-NFA, and Xander and Spike work for the Watcher's Council and are lovers. Oh, and Spike's human (due to some still not fully explained Shanshu action).

It being a WIP, I'm not entirely sure where it will end up, but I think it will be different from the others in the Fragments series: funnier, less angsty, and quite possibly porn-free. This first chapter is about 1400 words.

By the way, it might be nice to have a beta reader. Any volunteers?

Cross-posted to bloodclaim
Cross-posted to spike_fics

Without further ado:

( Before the Time of Dawn (part 1 of ?) )