A human Buffy wakes up in a mental hospital after her dive off Glory's tower. She recovers her sanity and begins to build a life in the real world. But is it real?

AN: To provide a little more explanation and warning than might be visible in the summary. This grew out of a "what if" discussion on someone's LJ, in which it was asked "What if Buffy's sojourn in the mental hospital during Normal again didn't end?" or "What if it was real?" and some other possible scenarios. I was intrigued and this story was born. I'll be posting a chapter a day until this site has caught up with TSR and my Live Journal.

written for the challenges at the Live Journal community of Seven Seasons, this is a Spuffy twist on As You Were. There will be a total of four challenge ficlets.

The last two of the schmoop fics. These are the ones that filled the card. The first prompt was "anniversary, one partner sick" - I went in a different direction than expected. :) The second one was a free space, so I did a follow up fic.

Spike has a chance to show Buffy his sincere admiration without creepy stalkerness. Set just after Intervention, before Tough Love.

“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.

“Wordlessly she reached for him, like a child reaches in the darkness for comforting arms, desperate for something, anything, to take this terror away.” My version of the evening at the Bronze, at the end of Tabula Rasa.

rewrite of New Moon Rising, written for the Spuffyverse. Picks up from the eppie where Spike comes to the flat and offers to help the Scoobies get in to rescue Oz.

After Buffy enlists Spike's help in fighting a strange demon, it sends them to another dimension. There, Buffy discovers to her distress that she must rely upon Spike for her very survival. And then things get really interesting.

This was a challenge fic from the yahoo group We Band of the Bugggered these ten requirements had to be in the story: 1) tattoo of Hagalaz Rune 2) snow globes 3) A malfunctioning cherry picker 4) snickerdoodle cookies, baked and eaten 5) Borsch painting 6) A mystical key (Not Dawn!) 7) A broken martini glass 8) A peacock feather 9) A latin/English dictionary 10) Bunnies ~~ Put them all in a blender and out comes a Spuffy romp with scoobies and Viking Gods apleanty.

One shot fic based in the middle of Spike and Buffy's season six 'relationship'. Buffy decides it's time to give Spike a treat...

"There's nothing tender about the night." Buffy is not the slightest bit in love with easeful death.

Buffy is packing to fly to Italy. All she has left are memories that no one wants to share. And all long journeys start with one small step - or in this case, a knock at the door....

AU version of Damaged. Buffy comes to L.A. instead of Andrew and discovers that Spike is still alive.

My own spin on ‘Normal Again.’ Instead of an institution, Buffy’s alternate reality seems to be an almost normal, happy life, complete with a white picket fence and a not so un-dead hubby! Nominated for Best Episode Stealer at Love's Last Glimpse Awards! Nominated for Best BtVS Rewritten and Best General UST at the Spuffy Awards! THANK YOU!!

Following that kiss of gratitude, Buffy leaves a battered Spike in his crypt alone to recover from Glory’s torture, only to return moments later.

Set in Season 5, picking up immediately after “Intervention”. First in a trilogy of one-shots, the stories can be read on their own, but are meant as a series. The next one is “Cold Light of Day”, followed by “Enough”.

Beta'd by the wonderful SlayerDaniWho.

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