The outside world is what kept Buffy and Angel from being together.
I know I'm not great at structure and story.
You are full of love. You love with all of your soul. It's brighter than the fire ... blinding. That's why you pull away from it ... Love is pain ... Love ... give ... forgive. Risk the pain. It is your nature.
Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.
You embraced what was already on the page, worked with it, massaged it.
If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.