Spike. Ensouled. Stuck in a basement. Alone. Scared. Mad. Tortured by guilt. “I don't have anywhere else to go.” Buffy already knows, that can't be true.

“Are you all right?” Spike asked.
“Perfectly normal,” Buffy said. “Spell’s all gone.”
“That wasn’t what I meant,” he said. “I meant... after what it made you.... After.”
Buffy and Spike talk just after the events of the episode Him.

Written for Spuffy Haven challenge, Art before Fic. Season Five, following FFL. Buffy is trying to deal with Joyce’s news, her own despair, a distraught sister, a possessive boyfriend and an extremely annoying vampire.

“Even if he was okay with it, even if he was a bad person, even if... if he... did the same thing to someone else. That wouldn’t make what I did right.” Buffy talks to Dawn in the car ride home from the train yard, in Him.

“You didn’t join the party," Buffy said. "I sent Anya down to tell you.”
    “She did.” Spike shrugged. “Not really the party animal these days.”
    “I’d noticed.” Buffy nodded at his chains.
New Year's Eve, season seven.

"Look, Buffy," Spike said. "I know it wasn’t the real reason you broke up with me, but honest, I wasn’t your dealer, your ‘Doctor’ or whatever. I was a bloody patsy is what I was." While Spike is suffering from a malfunctioning neuro-chip, Buffy finally lets him explain the events in As You Were.

Spike had been pretty down lately. Sometimes Buffy wished she could just shake him. Where the hell was Spike under all this? She knew he had a soul, now, but – god. Did a soul do nothing but make vampires melancholy brood machines? Set after The Killer In Me, before Get It Done.

Banner challenge criteria:#75 by Solstice
Characters: Season 4 ensemble, Oz
Rating: Any
Season/Episode: Season 4, after Oz has left Willow, before Spike has escaped the Initiative (bit of a timeline juggle, necessary for the plot)
Must have:
1. Oz is captured by the Initiative after breaking things off with Willow. The Scoobies are none the wiser, thinking that he has left town as intended.
2. Inside, the very human-seeming Oz is a cause of uncertainty for many of the soldier boys, and is thus kept in his wolfish state to allay their unease. However, he shifts back into human form when pitted against a familiar snarky vamp - who then refuses to fight him (because he doesn't fancy the headache, not because he's principled). A decidedly ruffled Walsh dumps the pair in a cell together, hoping that one will solve the problem of the other before too long.
3. Instead, Spike and Oz bond (as they always should have done!) and plot the bloody downfall of their captors.
Can have:
1. Spike and Oz bonding over music, wit and pop culture.
2. Spike escaping (with Oz's help) and seeking the help of Buffy and the Scoobies, rather than high-tailing it out of town as they might have expected / or Oz escaping (with Spike's help) and convincing the Scoobies that they need to charge the Initiative and rescue his friend
3. Riley? Friend or foe? I'll leave that up to you.
Can’t have:
1. Oz dying. Nope. Not here.

What Spike learned and felt while living in Buffy’s house. Missing scene from First Date – what was Spike doing upstairs, anyway?

Nominee Sunnydale Memorial Awards, Round 32: Best characterization (Spike)

“Spike?" Buffy asked. "Your soul.... Is it like Angel’s? I mean, if you were to find happiness – in whatever way – would you lose it?” Missing scene from First Date.

“Every time you show up like this, you risk all of your parts, you know that?” Buffy says. “I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have a good reason,” Spike replies. Of course Spike had a good reason. Lots of good reasons. All kinds of them.
Season Five, missing late night NO THEY WERE NOT DATES! from between Fool For Love until before Crush.

  “So, you wanna tell me what really happened down there?”
    “Nothing,” Spike said, annoyed, “it was just stuff. Memories. Nothing important.”
    “Nothing important doesn’t usually make your hands shake,” Buffy said softly.
    Buffy tries to help Spike find the source of the First’s trigger, after she releases him in Lies My Parents Told Me. It is not a short or pleasant journey.

“I know I’m already destiny’s bitch. If destiny’s really destiny, it can work itself out, can’t it? Doesn’t need a slew of bells and whistles. But I guess Angel’s destiny is special, eh? Needs help and coaxing and lots of praise? Not like us poor ordinary sods.” Buffy is furious at Angel making everyone lie to her in Pangs. So she makes one small decision, which might just change the course of destiny…. Set after Thanksgiving dinner.

"You’re a hypocritical piece of work, watcher," Spike told Giles. "You’ve lied to her, abandoned her, poisoned her, endangered her, and worked behind her back to undermine her, and you think I’m the one who’s bad for her.” Spike confronts Giles after Lies My Parents Told Me.

A Spuffy interlude that follows the events in Muzzled.  Almost a Christmas fic if you squint...