This is how "Chosen" could have gone if Buffy made one slight change.

 prompt:“At the end of S7 Lies My Parents Told Me I would like to have Buffy lying on her bed thinking of every time Giles has let her down, betrayed her. Late in the night, after everyone has fallen asleep, she makes her way down to the basement to talk to Spike because she can’t keep the anger and hurt she is feeling to herself. While talking with the vampire, she comes to another realization: that Spike is the only one she can vent to and she can count on no matter what.”   Written for a fundraiser for Spikeslovebite on the death of her son, Kain.

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A/NOccasional bits of dialogue from the series will be used from a variety of episodes written by Joss Whedon, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, Doug Petrie, David Fury,Drew Goddard, Marti Noxon et al.

In a slight twist to the events of Something Blue: Buffy takes Spike out for engagement pictures while Giles sleeps off his scotch. What happens when her mother gets the call to pick up her "Engagement Package"?

Will Buffy admit her lingering feelings?

Can Spike deal with the humiliation? 

Or will Giles get fed up & finally stake someone?

Light comedy with just a touch of longing by the author of Love Comes to Town and Learning Curve.

Set in season 4 of the alternate Sunnydale "our" Buffy was sent to in "Prologue to Life/I Know You". Buffy is trying to plan a wedding and cope with Adam at the same time.  See the extensive AN for a lengthy explanation of this "verse" if you aren't familiar with it.

It's the summer after Season Four, and Buffy's ready for some peace and quiet when Angel arrives out of nowhere and she's trapped between two rival lovers. To make matters worse, Spike's lonely and looking for a new playmate- and that alternative is suddenly sounding kind of appealing.

Buffy is not frustrated with Spike being gone at all. And if she is, it's totally legitimate. Right? Right.

Buffy manages to choose a poem written by William for a class assignment, which leads to Spike finally confessing his feelings to her.

When the Slayer's family moves house in her second year of college, a new neighbor swiftly becomes all she wants for Christmas. His wants are decidedly more complicated.

Takes place in an AR wherein Buffy was called to Slayerhood according to schedule, but did not move to the Hellmouth until her freshman year of college. NOT a Wishverse fic.

My other Seasonal Spuffy entry for this round:
A sequel to a short (6200+) off-canon Season Four fic – Even Demons Need Friends, but I don’t think you need to have read that story (although it’s kinda fun...). All you need to know is that this is a non-canon Season 5 in which Glory is there searching for her Key, Joyce is sick, Spike is unchipped and living in another city. At the end of the previous story, he’d asked Buffy to call him if she needed help.
They don’t have a relationship yet; they weren’t even much more than canon Season Four semi-enemies, with an unrecognized and unacknowledged sexual attraction, when Ethan’s spell to turn Giles into a Fyral demon wrought some important changes in a very short period of time. But not changes sufficient to make it likely that a slayer, with a human boyfriend and a firm belief in what’s right and acceptable, and an old vampire, who has just regained his ability to hunt and feed, are likely to see any kind of a future for them. In spite of some surprising revelations about how they may feel about each other.
You can assume that the rest of Season Four and some of Season Five have proceeded pretty much as in canon, but without Spike’s presence. That absence, and the reason for it, has changed things enough that I think it’s fair to call this an AU Season Five. Some things will be familiar, some things obviously will not, so don’t go looking for an identical timeline or identical events.

A (not so) Comic Christmas that employs the first half of issue #16, then goes it’s own way. So, story was Jossed before it was written, but that’s what fanfic is all about, right? Twisting canon to make it Spuffy. J  AU season 9 that begins with a little scene between Dowling and Buffy after Dawn and Xander have indicated they seem to be dating – or should be.   Warning – spoilers for the comic hinted at in the scene change.

What if Spike had been telling the truth when he made his sarcastic remark to Buffy during Season 5 The Replacement? This is the story of Agnes Pringle, tea-shop owner, English spinster, reluctant vampire and the effect she had on events in Sunnydale.

A challenge response from Dark Solace. When Joyce becomes ill, Spike offers to take the trials that Angel took to save Darla.

A short, tried-to-be-pwp-but-I-didn't-let-it, ficlet written for a prompt at sb_fag_ends. Was going to try to do all of them this month, but so far I've only managed one.

Takes place in the Bumpverse (Things That Go Bump in the Night), many years after all the other fics set in that verse. Spike and Buffy are still fighting the good fight, even though they have grown children and several grandchildren. Can they retire? Should they retire? What would they do with themselves?
(For those unfamiliar with the verse - all you really need to know is that after years as a ghost, Spike was brought back as a very human man, albeit one with superpowers. A male slayer of sorts. He and Buffy married and had a family.)

Post NFA. Spike returns to LA after being gone for almost seven years. He doesn’t know why he came back, until he meets a little girl that will change his life forever.