While in the seaside English city of Brighton, Spike chooses the wrong prey. That one bad choice leads to a vasty different season two, with Spike in Sunnydale, willing to team up with Buffy on a quest for revenge.
It's been two years since Spike helped Buffy make sure The Master wouldn't be resurrected, and his unlife has gone from bad to worse. Now that he's fed up with both Dru and Angelus, he comes back to Sunnydale, to the source of all his misery for a new beginning, revenge, and a bit of fun.
What he finds, though, is slightly different than what he planned
Buffy is back after the summer following her defeating The Master. Unfortunately, she learns the he might be coming back from the dead, too. And who's the blond newcomer?
What if Spike were the one to find Buffy in the water in the episode 'Prophecy'?
Buffy knows her romantic entanglements have been missing something, but hasn't yet put that knowledge into practice. Following an accidental engagement, she takes the first step, by secretly making friends with an enemy.
A Scooby Christmas party is interrupted by the arrival of a surprise guest: the vampire who left town with the Judge's arm in a box three years ago.
A spell gone wrong during Lover's Walk brings Spike's mom back to life. How will being given this second chance change his actions?
A Spuffy journey, as told through the eyes of our favorite loose-skinned demon.
After the events of Destiny, Spike is finally ready to go find Buffy. Assuming he can overcome decades of conditioning.
Instead of getting a job as an ice cream man, Xander stays on to deliver pizza. When he sees a coworker get eaten, he, Buffy, and Willow skip out on the Lowell House frat party to go demon hunting. Takes place instead of Where the Wild Things Are.
Written for the 2022 West of the Storm Halloween event.
It's late season 2, and Spike discovers Buffy locked out of her house after patrol. Shenanigans ensue.
Assume Buffy and Spike made their truce a bit earlier than in canon - leaving them some time before Acathla - and that Joyce still doesn't know Buffy's the Slayer. Memories have been adapted to include Dawn.
Runner Up for Best Comedy in Round 30 of the SunnyD Awards. Originally posted in 2013.
Buffy comes to some realizations about herself, the nature of her love, and her feelings for Spike on the eve of the biggest fight of her life, but will it be too little, too late? Spoiler Alert: No, it won’t.
Buffy Summers jumped from the tower to close Glory's portal in 2001, and Spike only survived her death because Dawn needed him. But Buffy's sacrifice didn't work. In 2023, the world is about to end and Faith starts travelling back in time, trying to fix it. Facing down her own death, Dawn has a plan to send Spike somewhere he won't have to lose everything: a dimension where Buffy is still alive.
The only problem is, so is her husband: Spike.
Like all of the Further Tales, this can be read as a stand-alone what-if. But you may appreciate it more after reading Ripples on a Hellmouth.
Olivia Williams rocks up in Sunnydale for what she expects to be a surprise booty call in the autumn of 2000.
Ripper Giles' girlfriend answering the door comes as a bit of a shock.
This was my Buffyverse Bingo 2020 submission for the prompt 'S4 E1 The Freshman'. Like all of the Further Tales, this can be read as a stand-alone 'what-if'.
When Buffy brings her mom and sister to Spike to protect from the hell god, Glory, he sees a chink in her armor—she needs him, she trusts him... maybe, just maybe, she doesn’t hate him as much as she claims. Will that boatload of manly responsibility the Slayer’s dropped into his lap save Spike from a life of lonely desperation?
Leading immediately on from If Wishes Were Horses, Anyanka knows something has to change in their relationship, and finally grants The Wish. But when she meets the Wishverse's version of Giles, he’s not at all what she expected.
Like all of the Further Tales, this can be read as a stand-alone ‘what if’, but the Ballad stories are best read together.
This was written for nmcil, who wanted a Giles and Anya story set at Halloween. Ten drabbles of Giles and Anya at Halloween from Season 3 onwards, plus an epilogue. Alternating perspectives, and sort of vaguely comic-compliant. It was originally posted in October 2015.
During Band Candy, Ripper heads out to the Fishbowl instead of staying home with Joyce to gorge on enchanted chocolate. And so begins his whirlwind romance with Anyanka the vengeance demon.
The rescue comes too late in All the Way with disastrous results for Dawn and those who love her. Spike tries to salvage what he can of the girl they knew while struggling with his own crumbling mental state. Buffy sinks even further into depression. Willow tries desperately to pile spell after spell in an attempt to fix everything. And as it all falls apart, Giles realizes that he’s truly needed to help pull them all together again.
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After the events of Dead Things, Buffy finds herself losing time. And having strange dreams of a dorm room where a young woman died. A death being investigated by a very familiar looking man named William Pratt, who acts as if he had long ago been abused in a relationship with Buffy. And out in the waking world, Spike has gone missing, unseen by anyone since Buffy left him beaten and bloody in an alley.
Spike catches Buffy singing in her window... about him.
Originally posted for the 2019 Summer Solstice Free-for-All at Seasonal Spuffy.
Just a fluffy one-shot based on the song Treacherous by Taylor Swift. Takes place during the Summer of Dead Buffy except Buffy didn't die.
March 33rd is the best day of March, y'all.
What if, at the end of Something Blue, Buffy and Spike decided to pretend the spell wasn't broken?
Set between seasons 6 and 7, Buffy is missing her vampire dearly after he disappears.
Written for the free space for Buffyverse bingo and inspired by the song Losing It Over You by Matoma.
Spike wakes up feral and Buffy has to take care of him.
Written for the prompt "mystery" for Buffyverse bingo and at least partially inspired by Off the Leash by Soulburnt.
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