YAAAAY! You turned this into its own story! Heh, Im expecting next chapter will have at least a slight digression as Xander/Willow/Dawn carefully explain to buffy that, unlike her, they all CHOSE this life, so they actually want to do it, they arent forced to. She has a serious problem of transferring her opinions onto everyone around her. Yeah she has an excuse, life has dumped a metric buttload of crap on her from a very tall height, and her responsibilities just keep growing and growing as time marches on, but she seems constitutionally unable to accept that other people werent forced into the life and actually want to be there.

So nice to see more of this :D

Finally! Look, your Fragments are entertaining, but it's annoying as hell when you continue them and there's a million chapters in between the connecting chapters. My completely ignorable advice is to start taking those fragments into their stories, then if you DO continue them, the other chapters are already there.