Ack! *wibbles*
I *know*!

Poor Jack! Poor Buffy! I want to hug them both.
They sure need it...

This was the perfect ending to this, and there were so many great lines that I would end up posting the whole chapter if I would try and list them all.
Aw, thank you. And I always wanted to use NFA as the final thing - and also to just leave it there, so we don't know Angel & co's fate. (I'm such a canon whore...)

The way this ended made sense for both of them, since a happy ending wouldn't have been true to either character, despite how much the readers may want one.
Well it is a happy ending within a sad one... neither of them dies, or 'leaves for the other's good' or runs away because they can't deal. So of all of Buffy's break-ups it's probably the least traumatic.

Thanks so much for sharing this.
Thank *you* for reading!

Thanks for the spoiler warning for the comments
As a spoiler-phobe I am hypersensitive to these things... Hope RL will let you have some peace & quiet soon!