Song fic set during season seven "Killer in Me" to "Far Away" by Nickelback Spike's chip is firing at will and Buffy must come to terms with her future with or without the vampire that she has seen change from killer to something else all together.

Ten years after the crazy ending of Sunnydale Buffy is back in California and walking down memory lane when a letter arives that changes her entire outlook on her future. A plane ride and a demon bar later she comes face to face with an aspect of her past she had never been able to shake.