Spike wins the ultimate victory against Angel, only for it to be snached away. Now he needs to regroup, and rebuild.
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
What if Spike were the one to find Buffy in the water in the episode 'Prophecy'?
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.
Buffy and Spike never got around to answering question 36 in The Sharing Game.
Originally posted in 2020, but was written in 2015.
It's 10ish years after Chosen, and everyone's a little bit more grown up. Buffy and Spike do a questionnaire that's supposed to make you fall in love.
Originally posted in 2015.
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.
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.
Two months after the events of Hurricane Mitch, Anyanka heeds the call for vengeance at Sunnydale High. Because it’s absolutely the best way to get the job done, she infiltrates the school as a supply teacher. But why on earth would Ripper Giles be there?
Rupert can’t believe his good luck in getting a second chance.
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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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.
Spike and Buffy get together before his Buffybot order arrives. What's a slayer who needs a break to do?
Written for the prompt "decoy" for Buffyverse bingo and inspired by Make Me Feel by The Danish Bird.
Spuffy roadtrip, featuring anachronistic smartphones.
Written for the prompt "maps" for Buffyverse bingo. Title taken from Maps by Maroon 5.
Unsure of what to do about her crumbling relationship or how to keep her sister safe, Buffy uses a crystal made by Willow to trigger a slayer dream. A slayer dream that warns her to be wary of wolves who hide their fur under the skin.
Written for the fall 2020 round of Seasonal Spuffy: https://seasonal-spuffy.livejournal.com/
As lovely as it is to hear Spike sing, Rest in Peace would make more sense if it happened later in the season. Or if something between Spike and Buffy had happened sooner.
While Glory inches closer to identifying the key, her recent torture victim's need for comfort and desperation to help lead him down a dark path of seduction with a demon who could destroy him.
It’s almost a year and a half since Sunnydale fell into a crater. Now retired from slaying, Buffy’s been voluntold to go to Wesley Wyndham-Price’s memorial service, where she finds a few familiar enemies. Everything’s so surreal anyway, Buffy decides she might as well just give into it and see if lunch with Drusilla and Harmony might be one of the better things she does that year. The day keeps getting weirder, but the year might just be unsurpassable by the end of it.
Spike & Buffy trade more verses.
Buffy & Spike trade poetry
A bored Spike decides he might as well do a spot of cleaning.
Spike tried to show Buffy his world by taking her to a demon bar in Life Serial. Now he tries reintroducing her to her own. A stolen moment between the episodes Life Serial and All the Way.
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