Buffy goes home to see her mom and finds Spike having chocolate with her.
A request for explanations leads to unearthing some ethical issues about the Initiative and Joyce gets caught in the middle of a verbal fight between Buffy and Spike, for which she develops an interesting theory.
Comedy bordering on crack fic. Not to be taken too seriously!
Set in S4, some time between eps. 4x11 “Doomed” and 4x12 “A New Man.”
Written for Pen & Paint 2024