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Summary: This is a rough sequel to my friend Mabus’s story Blood Line. I was neck deep in the beta for his story when he gave me his blessing to write a follow up. It says something of my character that I took a short story that was written on a lark and turned it into a novel length drama.

In Blood Line Buffy becomes a vampire before she’s chosen. She rules Sunnydale with an iron fist for seven years prior to the story opening. The crux of the piece is that Willow is coerced into performing the hat trick she does in canon at the series end, but instead of being the big hero moment, the spell is corrupted to turn the potentials into slayer-vampires.

For the follow up, I played loose and fast with the world Mabus constructed. A great many of the details change, but the final events of his story hold mostly true.

Buffy and Willow start off as broken as you’re likely to see them. Be patient. This story is about how learning to love can lead to redemption.

All of the same ground rules apply for the revamp, though the story evolves differently.

Prompts:	Chapter 7:	#013: Kisses from Table B (modified) @ lover100
	Chapter 8:	#072: Perspective from Table B (modified) @ lover100
	Chapter 9:	#010: Home from Table B (modified) @ lover100
	Chapter 10:	#032: Water from Table B (modified) @ lover100
	Chapter 11:	#036: Secrets from Table B (modified) @ lover100
	Chapter 12:	#088: Warning from Table B (modified) @ lover100
	Chapter 15:	#037: Anger from Table B (modified) @ lover100
	Chapter 17:	#003: Forgiveness from Table B (modified) @ lover100

Date: 2009, 2011 & 2012.
Rating: Adult Content: Sexual Situations and/ or Explicit Violence.
Warnings: Language, major character deaths, graphic violence, explicit sexual situations, bondage, torture, humiliation, snark, mayhem, assorted hijinx, blah, blah, blah… It’s a mirror universe. Buffy and Willow are newly ensouled vampires who are trying to sort out how not to behave like monsters.
Word Count: Unfinished.
Comma Guy: Howard Russell.
Pairing: Buffy/Willow.
Disclaimer: Another day, another…they don’t pay me anything at all. I just do this to amuse myself and you. That’s what allows me and mine to slip under the radar while playing with characters created by those more fortunate than us.
Distribution: DreamWidth, AO3 & Near Her Always.
Feedback: Please.

Bloodletting

Cover Art by Wenj

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:	Broken Dreams
Chapter 2:	Willow Gambit
Chapter 3:	In the Red
Chapter 4:	After the Flesh
Chapter 5:	Pieces of Eve
Chapter 6:	Bad Blood
Chapter 7:	Bleed Like Me
Chapter 8:	The Alpha of My Eye
Chapter 9:	Breaking the Chain
Chapter 10:	A Multitude of Sins
Chapter 11:	Connect the Dots
Chapter 12:	Ask Me if I Care
Chapter 13:	Saving Faith
Chapter 14:	The Devil You Know
Chapter 15:	A Three-Edged Sword
Chapter 16:	The Devil’s Due
Chapter 17:	To Save Your Soul
Chapter 18:	The Vanity of Foresight