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.

Post-series, but only just. The Hellmouth is closed, and Spike is gone.  A grieving Buffy does her best to cope, until she receives a call from one of Angel's people that turns her world upside down.

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.)

Season Five. Riley's just left town, and when Spike is gravely injured saving Buffy's life on a nightly patrol, he needs help. Buffy, indebted, takes the wounded Spike into her care.

Glory will be mentioned sparingly, but will not feature, and the Key storyline will not appear, so don't go looking for it :)

Response to a Challenge: Instead of "Crush", Spike decides to slowly and anonymously woo the Slayer... Will Buffy love him back when she discovers the truth?

This first chapter involves a rewriting of the dream sequence at the end of Out of My Mind, and goes A/U from there. Please review! 

Response to Challenge #369. Post-Chosen AR. Wolfram and Hart isn't the only thing about to bring chaos down on everyone's heads. When Buffy finds out that her champion is alive, can she keep him that way? And who's competing for his attention? Will old enemies, two Hellgods and magic addiction bring disaster?

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.