Title: Paving Stones
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Giles/Spike (secondary pairings of Anya/Xander and Tara/Willow)
Categories: angst, dark, drama, hurt/comfort, vampire
Length: Epic (~67,000 words)
Warnings: fisting, discussion of canon character death, BDSM, bloodplay

Author on LJ: mpoetess, wolfling
Mad Poetess Websites: AO3, Portal ‘O Mad Poetess
Wolfling Website: AO3, Wolfling’s Den

Review:
After Buffy’s death, Giles thinks it’s about time he leaves. Spike gives him a reason to stay.

I was so excited to find this series still on the web. It happens to fall in my favorite time in Buffy canon, the period between the end of season five and the beginning of season six, and it does a fantastic job of showing what might have happened if Giles had stayed. I am a sucker for fics where someone realizes how wrong it is to bring Buffy back and stops Willow in her tracks.

The authors of this series consider it unfinished, but I am pretty sure you couldn’t get a better ending than the last story so far written in the ‘verse. It mirrors the beginning nicely, and although the authors could go on from here it’s not at all necessary.

Paving Stones