The Farmstead

Well, that's all she wrote, gang. I hope it's been OK! This is more like a light and sugary dessert course to round the whole thing off than anything else, but cross-fingers no one will hold that against me...

Turn and Face the Strain.
[Sequel to The More Things Stay the Same and As Good as a Rest.]

When Buffy thought about falling in love again, she didn't expect it to be nearly so complicated as it actually turns out to be.
Also, she didn't expect it to be Spike. (She's not sure he did either.)

[Notes + Chapter One: I'm Not a Political Animal, But.]
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[Chapter Fourteen: Welcome to the Doublemeat Palace.]

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( Chapter Fifteen: Epilogue. )

We're in the final straights! Hopefully I should be able to get chapter fourteen and the epilogue up tonight, though I've somehow managed to come down with a cold on top of everything else, so may end up collapsing. Still, thank you everyone for your comments! I will reply to every single one, but for now I just wanted to say how much I appreciate them. :)

Turn and Face the Strain.
[Sequel to The More Things Stay the Same and As Good as a Rest.]

When Buffy thought about falling in love again, she didn't expect it to be nearly so complicated as it actually turns out to be.
Also, she didn't expect it to be Spike. (She's not sure he did either.)

[Notes + Chapter One: I'm Not a Political Animal, But.]
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[Chapter Twelve: The Next Thing You Know You’re LBJ.]

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( Chapter Thirteen: Handing the Keys over to Nixon. )

I hope everyone's enjoying reading along! Here's chapter eleven. :)

Turn and Face the Strain.
[Sequel to The More Things Stay the Same and As Good as a Rest.]

When Buffy thought about falling in love again, she didn't expect it to be nearly so complicated as it actually turns out to be.
Also, she didn't expect it to be Spike. (She's not sure he did either.)

[Notes + Chapter One: I'm Not a Political Animal, But.]
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[Chapter Ten: That’s Where Even Your Best Political Minds Can Drop the Ball.]

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( Chapter Eleven: You’re Not Taking the Pulse of the Public. )

Random fact of the day: apparently Asda sells Marshmallow Fluff now, so I have finally tasted this strange, exotic delicacy... It was mostly just sweet and sticky? Didn't taste of much on my toast. This could be to do with the fact I got the white version rather than the pink, but the pink put me off by being called 'artificial strawberry flavour', which I assume means it had seen so few strawberries in its life that the EU wouldn't let it take their name in vain. Not sure it was worth two quid, but we'll see how moreish it becomes.

Anyway, Chapter Nine!

Turn and Face the Strain.
[Sequel to The More Things Stay the Same and As Good as a Rest.]

When Buffy thought about falling in love again, she didn't expect it to be nearly so complicated as it actually turns out to be.
Also, she didn't expect it to be Spike. (She's not sure he did either.)

[Notes + Chapter One: I'm Not a Political Animal, But.]
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[Chapter Eight: Maybe the Time is Right.]

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( Chapter Nine: Don’t Forget Today’s Trash Day. )

Here is the first new chapter of this evening! I should have another up before I go to bed. (Although, when did it become nine o'clock? This is quite unfair.)

Turn and Face the Strain.
[Sequel to The More Things Stay the Same and As Good as a Rest.]

When Buffy thought about falling in love again, she didn't expect it to be nearly so complicated as it actually turns out to be.
Also, she didn't expect it to be Spike. (She's not sure he did either.)

[Notes + Chapter One: I'm Not a Political Animal, But.]
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[Chapter Six: After All, I Wasn't Exactly Hiding?]

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( Chapter Seven: By Letting You In. )

One more before I go and make my tea.

Turn and Face the Strain.
[Sequel to The More Things Stay the Same and As Good as a Rest.]

When Buffy thought about falling in love again, she didn't expect it to be nearly so complicated as it actually turns out to be.
Also, she didn't expect it to be Spike. (She's not sure he did either.)

[Notes + Chapter One: I'm Not a Political Animal, But.]
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[Chapter Four: The Day after That (and the Day after That).]

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( Chapter Five: How Do You Get to Say I’m the One Who’s Stinky? )

As I should be saying in an entry practically underneath this one, I'm posting over chapters 2 and 3 of this tonight, then 4-6 tomorrow, with the aim of getting the rest of the fic up over the week. So here's Chapter 3!

Turn and Face the Strain.
[Sequel to The More Things Stay the Same and As Good as a Rest.]

When Buffy thought about falling in love again, she didn't expect it to be nearly so complicated as it actually turns out to be.
Also, she didn't expect it to be Spike. (She's not sure he did either.)

[Notes + Chapter One: I'm Not a Political Animal, But.]
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[Chapter Two: You Learn Fast around Here.]

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( Chapter Three: Hello Glass Ceiling. )

Hahaha, I got up at six to try and make sure I had this posted before I went to the library, and it ended up taking two and a half hours to go from post-beta'd-edited to publishable... I don't think I'm going in today.

In the interests of time, anyway, I'm going to copy the whole seasonal_spuffy post over here, so you get a free blurb as well, home journal gang! I haven't worked out if I'm going to crosspost everything from today over here or do it sequentially, but I'll link you up somehow. Basically, this is for people wot like reading on LJ. Also for people wot don't read their DW list automatically. And for completeness. When I get a moment, I pop it up on AO3 too... (I don't think I quite realised what a palaver this day was going to be.)

Let's go:

Hi! I have a novel-length fic for seasonal_spuffy this round, which is completed, but which I'm not going to post in its entirety today, because I don't want to overload the world with ~80,000 words and because I still need to edit bits. Instead I've got the first six chapters, ~30,000 words, which I'll post over the course of the day and then I'll make sure to have the rest up on the free-for-all day. This will be either on the comm itself (the current plan) or on my journal, which I'll make sure to link to, so you won't be left hanging for any more than a week! The rationale behind going with six chapters today rather than a few more, also, is because they do make something of a self-contained arc/story-bit on their own, so what's up today comes to a certain sort of pause before the nine chapters afterwards respond to it.

Turn and Face the Strain.
[Sequel to The More Things Stay the Same and As Good as a Rest.]

When Buffy thought about falling in love again, she didn't expect it to be nearly so complicated as it actually turns out to be.
Also, she didn't expect it to be Spike. (She's not sure he did either.)

Author: Quinara
Rating: R...? I'm not sure I even know anymore with ratings, but there's sex in it and people swear lots and (gasp) I think there's some underage drinking too, which probably needs to be censored. ;)
Length: ~80,000 words in total; ~33,000 words today; chapters are generally between 5000 and 6000 words.
Setting: Late S6, AU As You Were (and so much more! Not least in an AU AtS S3...)
Notes: Many thanks to the fabulous bogwitch for putting up with me and being my beta! This is the final story in a series I've written for the previous two rounds of seasonal_spuffy, consisting of The More Things Stay the Same and As Good as a Rest. I think what I'm posting today probably could stand on its own as a S6 AU, but I do follow up some stuff that happens in the previous fics, because it's a sequel. The main thing is that Dead Things went differently and some stuff happened in LA. Other stuff happened around Buffy's birthday.
Warnings: I don't think this would need any of the AO3 listed warnings. I think the genre of this is much more of a drama-going-on-mystery-ish-adventure story, so it's mostly in line with the show in terms of what it involves.

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( Chapter One: I'm Not a Political Animal, But. )