Authors Note; And here's the final part, hope you enjoy it :)

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They walked hand in hand down the crowded street of Los Angeles, speaking lowly to each other and smiling whenever they caught each others eyes.

It had been a long decade, but more than worth coming back in time for.

Today they had woken up, taken one look at the calendar, and realized that it was the date when they had gone back. And the future they had traveled back to prevent had never happened.

There was no buildings just randomly on fire in downtown LA, no Demons roaming the streets, openly, and, Buffy and Spike knew, no pre-teen children forced to fight and die for a cause that didn't belong to them.

While they had, at first, gone back to be with each other, they had ended up saving so much more than just their relationship.

The first victim saved had been the Slayer's mother who now, more than eight years since her original death, was living healthy and expecting another grandchild. She was living with a nice man she'd met five years ago, after her and Brian had broken up, and she was happier than she had been in a long while.

They had managed to save Dawn's innocence; she never found out she wasn't entirely human. That was a secret that Buffy and Spike were taking with them to their eventual grave. Ben Wilkinson had been in an unfortunate 'accident' and Glory never even made it to the Hellmouth in the first place.

Now, Dawn was a happily married woman, expecting her second son. Her husband had taken over the Magic Box when Giles retired to Bath and the two were living a relatively normal, Demon-free life and didn't regret a moment of it.

The couple continued to think of the past as they walked down the stairs of a very familiar nightclub.

It had only been two weeks after Anya had tied Angel's curse to Doyle that the half-Brachen Demon had given his life on the Quintessa and forced the Slayer to find a new, kind soul to tie the brooding Vampire to. Thanks to memories of the future, they had approached the owner of Caritas; Lorne.

He had gladly accepted and the rest is history.

Not long after Doyle's death, Cordelia had returned to the Hellmouth and the Slayer with a plea. With everything that had been changed, she wanted to be far away from Angel, but was afraid that any other city she chose would be just as full of Demons. So the former Queen C had swallowed her bile and come home.

Where she found her happiness.

After finally forgiving her ex for his betrayal in their senior year, Cordelia and Xander got back together and, today, they were married and trying to have kids. They still helped out, occasionally; it really couldn't be avoided, considering that Doyle had still given the cheerleader his visions before he died.

But other than the occasional phone call with imminent danger, they enjoyed normal life.

Buffy and Spike weren't truly that upset to lose the support, because they had more than enough already. With a Hellmouth Coven of five Witches, an extra Slayer and Vampire, not to mention a powerful Justice Demon, they had all the help they needed.

They greeted Lorne when they made it down the stairs and both ignored the Vampire trying to hide himself in the corner. The curse put on Angel a decade ago had truly done wonders.

Even if the Demon in question probably wouldn't agree.

They chatted for awhile as the club slowly filled up with patrons come for a good time. Buffy and Spike eventually took their seats in the middle of the room and sipped their drinks, watching show after show on stage.

They tried to make it out here once a month, considering the friends they had made here, in both futures.

One by one, they were joined by these friends; Gunn and Alonna sat down across from the couple, no longer uncomfortable surrounded by Demons. They laughed and smiled, waving at their boss when he joined the foursome. Wesley had come a long way from his first year in Sunnydale. And beside him sat his babbling, excited wife, Winifred Wyndam-Pryce.

Spike had made it clear to his Slayer that one of the first tasks for them to do, once the Initiative was gone, was open a portal to Pylea and get his Peanut back where she belonged.

The bleached Vampire jumped when a hand touched his shoulder and shocked him almost out of his seat. He rolled his eyes and said hello to Gwen, the leather clad beauty they had saved from death six years ago.

She was the only one, other than Alonna of course, who the couple had only known in this future. They knew nothing of her past with the Vampire whom she did not know this time around.

As the night wore on and they enjoyed their time together, the empowered couple spared the occasional thought for the continued changes they had managed to make.

Back on the Hellmouth, watching over it each month when they were gone, was their team. Faith, the Vampire Slayer, who'd had a rocky beginning. But the fact that she had already turned back to good in Buffy's future ensured that the blonde never gave up on her. The dark rebel never ended up in prison, as it was.

When Lawson eventually showed up in Los Angeles to, once more, check up on his Sire, he was intercepted by Lorne, who sent him two hours away to Sunnydale. There, he finally found his purpose; both in fighting the good fight and in loving a quirky Demon with a blunt way of putting things.

Anya and Lawson had recently had a beautiful commitment ceremony.

As Buffy and Spike had known, it took almost no time for Willow and Tara to fall in love. The redhead never went down a dark path, but always lived with the knowledge that she easily could have. She took in everything that Althea taught her and turned it into a power never seen before.

And she wasn't the only one whose future managed to change by the Devon Coven Witches; Amy never strayed from the path of good, either. It didn't hurt that, whenever she got close, someone was there to remind her of the weeks leading up to Catherine Madison's disappearance and then, after a visit to see her father, Amy was right back on the path.

Spike was the one who had pointed out to his mate who the woman was, that arrived to be trained by Althea, just three years ago. Turns out that, in this new world, Nina Ash had never been bitten by a Werewolf and instead been picked up as having amazing potential for magic.

She was now a part of the family and knew only of the cursed Vampire through stories.

The final member of the Hellmouth Coven, the family and the new future, was the true surprise and the final reward from the Powers.

Buffy and Spike waved goodbye, hours past midnight, and got into their car, heading for home.

And their daughter.

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