Based on a Tumblr gif that broke my feels. AU After Sam falls into the cage, Dean asks Cas for one more favour.

SISFIC. When Sam left for college, Alex Winchester decided that she'd had enough. Enough of trying so hard. She took off and forged her own life away from the boys. Five years later, destiny and danger brings her back to her family, and secrets that were to be protected need that even more so. Rated M for violence and language and other...stuff. Spoilers all the way through, folks.

Sequel to "Si Primo Venit". You will probably need to read that to understand anything that is occurring here. So Spike's still in Africe, and Buffy has started college, all the while wondering where he is. Faith is still in her coma, and Riley is around. So what will Season Four bring our plucky heroes?

What if Spike was turned before Angel? How would have things played out then? Challenge Response, eventually Spuffy.