AN: The remainder of the fic will be posted on my Live Journal and/or Dreamwidth one chapter at a time, as new chapters are completed. Just couldn’t get it done in time for posting this round.

AN: I don’t often post to LJ anymore and I’m struggling with the things that work differently from DW. Which, it seems, include  the tags….

AN: This is not a completed fic, so I’ll put what I can up here today, and then the rest will be available at my journal/DW as chapters are completed.

This is a sequel to an earlier short story titled Redemption Redux. The old prequel was written for a Good Angel prompt, so in it, he is less arrogant and cranky about Buffy and Spike than he will be in this sequel. Not much to be done about that, except realize that after all that time with Buffy, he was still pretty sure of himself… I will post a link to that fic at the end of this post.

In a brief summary of that short story, he has received the Shanshu, Spike has not, and he has left it to Angel to find Buffy. Both of them are sure that Buffy would prefer human Angel to vampire Spike. She has no idea Spike didn’t die in the battle, and Angel prefers to keep it that way. However, after Dawn has insisted several times that Buffy is still mourning Spike, and after Angel has paid more attention and realized that’s true, he confesses that Spike is alive, and gives her a ticket to Cleveland to find out if she still loves him. This story begins very shortly after the ending of the first one.

These are the first three chapters – more to be posted later. I’ll fix the tags then also.