But still, when the same Slayer that had changed the tilt of his world’s axis on more then one occasion before, showed up at his door – box of chocolates in hand – he did nothing more then blink.

“Spike.”

“Buffy?”

“Spike.”

“Buffy?”

“Yes. I believe that we have, in fact, established that I am Buffy, and you are Spike. Now, if we could just move along to the next phase in our conversation that would be super.”

I'm such a sucker for the reunion scenes. And this is a lovely one - thank you! Sweet and touching, and Buffy's epiphany at the end, about not wanting to wake up to more regrets, really spoke to me.