Buffy is alone making hot chocolate on a cold night when Spike decides to visit.

It wasn't like sitting in a cave watching shadows, you didn't just watch the world. You had to live in it.

The Slayer and her demon lover. She could smile at that now and she couldn't help but think that, god, they've come a long way. Warnings: References to the bathroom scene in Seeing Red.

Spike is reunited with Buffy only to find out that he has been replaced--by himself?

Unable to leave the cave in Africa, Spike is haunted by his past.

This was war and Buffy already knew she had to make some hard decisions. Takes place after Lies My Parents Told Me

She didn't know when Spike became the one person she could depend on, but she'd stopped questioning it by now. --Post Diry Girls

After Sunnydale is destroyed Buffy creates a new life for herself and erases her old one in the process. (Buffy/Other implied)

Response to challenge #494, starts during "Crush" and goes AU after that. Spike asks Buffy why she won't be with him. The main reason is clear: he's a souless vampire. 

Finding herself in what was once her worst nightmare, Slayer turned vampire Buffy Summers wants revenge on the one who made her. However, when she makes an unlikely ally in the process, she finds herself on a journey that changes her understandings of good and evil, love and hate.

Set in S6 episode 'Normal Again'. Both Spike and Buffy are stung by the demon, and end up in the same mental institution. The Glargh...Glush...um, the demon has a bit more power in this fic, so Spike and Buffy fall into a coma...a permanent stay in the mental institution.

Buffy returns to California for the first time in years, and encounters more of her past than she ever expected.

Response to BSV challenge #374. Set about a week after the events of Something Blue but before the beginning of Hush. Buffy has reluctantly agreed to vampsit while Giles is out for the evening, and is desperate for something to distract her from the annoyingly perceptive vampire and the memories of their brief engagement. Kind of fluffy, silly, and smutty, with a smattering of insight . . . and sprinkles! Thanks bunches to always_jbj for betaing. Banner by Tanit

In the summer between seasons 3 and 4, a heartbroken Buffy finds a bit of compassion in an unexpected place. Written for the Livejournal community Spuffy Wonderland's 2010 Art-to-Fic challenge. Banner by the incredibly talented Xaphania.