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ISO Buffy&Spike kidnapped by demons to Africa under ground - under lake, season 2/3?

Jul 19 2011 01:49 pm   #1DeepBlueJoy
This is a Spuffy I read years ago - may be more than 5 years old, may be even older.  I don't remember where I read it.

It was set (I think) in season 2 or 3

Buffy and Spike were still enemies

Buffy or both of them are kidnapped and taken to Africa?  (It was a long time ago, sorry) anyway, the point is that both of them ended up there together.

They are trapped with a bunch of demons in some kind of (huge) dungeon/underground demon lair, perhaps under a lake of some sort.  

They become allies to survive - they don't start out as lovers

They eventually fall in love

The story is fairly long -- I don't remember the ending but I think that as time went on, they came to rely on each other.  I think they lived 'under' the lake and had a 'cave'.  
I remember Buffy's arm being injured at some point.

I think there was some 'bad guy' who did this for some reason, but I can't remember whether it was to punish Spike or Buffy or both.

I'm pretty sure their clothes are stolen or Buffy's clothes are stolen.  Maybe just Buffy's b/c I think I remember Spike loaning her his duster.

I picture this underground as having passageways and things growing there and demons that attack randomly... but that may just be the mental picture I developed.

That's all I can remember...

Thanks

Blue
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Jul 19 2011 08:13 pm   #2TammyDevil666
That's what this thread is for:  http://www.bloodshedverse.com/forum.php?go=read&no=25311
When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you, and I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman. You're the one, Buffy.
Jul 19 2011 10:03 pm   #3DeepBlueJoy
That's what this thread is for:  http://www.bloodshedverse.com/forum.php?go=read&no=25311

I don't even know the name of the fic.  How can I use search to find it even if it's listed?

I thought I was within the search section...  How is it supposed to be useful if I don't post it as a topic?  No one's gonna go trolling through 'search' to see if they recognize a story.  I'm sorry I put it in the 'WRONG' place, but it was illogical to put it inside a topic named search b/c I thought that was an explanation of searching.  It doesn't give the reader who looks at the new topics of forum information about what I'm looking for...  If the mods want me to delete it, I will, but I don't really see any point in posting it in a thread that no one's gonna see.  I certainly am not going trolling through a topic named search unless i need to know how to search.  It's illogical.

It's not as if the description is going to appear anywhere where someone is going to see it except by accident.  Posting a named topic means it appears on the home page of the site b/c a new topic has been posted...  That's how it works on most sites I've been on.  Like I said, I'll delete it if the mods ask, but I won't repost it in the circular file.  Sorry if I am being disobedient.  I don't mean to be deliberately obtuse, but I don't post lost puppy signs where no one's gonna look at the header... 

How exactly do you propose that I look for a fic that I don't know the name of and don't know where it was posted, or who wrote it, if I don't post a discriptive header someone might recognize? 

Just so you know, I've tried googling it... I took about 20 minutes of different search permutations and had no luck.  I know people recognize things about stories... so I put a header that might jog someone's memory.  That's the logical thing.  Who would ever know I was looking if I posted it under "search"  Do you check search everytime you look at the site?  Do you check the forum topics when you look at the home page?  

(btw, I tried to remove the bold, but couldn't, sorry.)
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Jul 19 2011 11:12 pm   #4slaymesoftly
That's what this thread is for:  http://www.bloodshedverse.com/forum.php?go=read&no=25311

I don't even know the name of the fic.  How can I use search to find it even if it's listed?

I thought I was within the search section...  How is it supposed to be useful if I don't post it as a topic?  No one's gonna go trolling through 'search' to see if they recognize a story.  I'm sorry I put it in the 'WRONG' place, but it was illogical to put it inside a topic named search b/c I thought that was an explanation of searching.  It doesn't give the reader who looks at the new topics of forum information about what I'm looking for...  If the mods want me to delete it, I will, but I don't really see any point in posting it in a thread that no one's gonna see.  I certainly am not going trolling through a topic named search unless i need to know how to search.  It's illogical.

It's not as if the description is going to appear anywhere where someone is going to see it except by accident.  Posting a named topic means it appears on the home page of the site b/c a new topic has been posted...  That's how it works on most sites I've been on.  Like I said, I'll delete it if the mods ask, but I won't repost it in the circular file.  Sorry if I am being disobedient.  I don't mean to be deliberately obtuse, but I don't post lost puppy signs where no one's gonna look at the header... 

How exactly do you propose that I look for a fic that I don't know the name of and don't know where it was posted, or who wrote it, if I don't post a discriptive header someone might recognize? 

Just so you know, I've tried googling it... I took about 20 minutes of different search permutations and had no luck.  I know people recognize things about stories... so I put a header that might jog someone's memory.  That's the logical thing.  Who would ever know I was looking if I posted it under "search"  Do you check search everytime you look at the site?  Do you check the forum topics when you look at the home page?  

(btw, I tried to remove the bold, but couldn't, sorry.)


Whoa! Calm down, Blue. She was just trying to point you in the right direction. If you look right underneath your post on the list of current forum entries, you'll see the thread that says "search for fics here, please". That's exactly what it's for. People look at it all the time in case they know the title or author of the fic someone is asking about. Keeping all requests on one thread (which I make sure to keep near the top of the list so it's always visible) makes it easy for someone to scan the thread in case the one they are looking for has already been requested and found, means that people who want to help only have to click on one place, and means that the forum threads are not overwhelmed with individual fic requests which on some days can quickly push everything else off, making it difficult for people who want to find a particular thread to do so.  Also, if you look elsewhere on the home page, at the notes from mods, you'll see that the third one down is one I made when we established the "search for a fic here" thread because it was the forum was getting so cluttered with individual requests. And then, someone would reply to a request with a different request, and that one actually would NOT be seen by very many people because it was on a thread about something else, and... yeah. This is cleaner, easier and keeps all the requests for fics searches in one place where they can by scanned quickly.

I'm going to leave this up, but I'm also going to copy/paste your request into the thread below it where people will expect to find something like that.  I'll probably lock the thread so that the answer goes where it should. :)

And - just to make you feel good - I actually remember this fic that you're talking about! But it's quite an old one and I don't remember where I read it. With luck, someone will know the title or author and you will find it.  I'll give it some thought, just in case the title comes to me, but I pretty much suck at remembering them...

FYI - in case you can't tell, the list of forum entries always has the most recently updated one at the top. It should also be highlighting for you (in red, on mine) the number of entries on each thread if there have been any entries that you haven't seen yet. So, if someone replies to your request, you'll see that thread up at or  near the top of the list and with a highlighted number to let you know there has been activity on the thread since you last looked at it or posted. The only exception to that might be a thread that I bump up to keep it visible. I often delete my "bump" post so as not to clutter the thread and I suspect that may not show up as an unread post. It does put that thread back up at the top, though.
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