“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.

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

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”.

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Set more or less in the comics world and building from some encouraging (for Spuffy lovers) scenes between Buffy and Spike recently (hopes to be dashed any second, I’m sure), this doesn’t actually require you to read or like the comics to understand it.
 

This is a response to the challenge set by Kudagirl. Contains dialogue from "Older and Far Away" and for the purposes of the story, the demon that Buffy gets the sword from does not exist. This is Dawn POV for a lot of it. Thoughts are in italics. Any spelling mistakes in the speech are not actually spelling or grammar mistakes. You'll understand when you get there.

A sequel to "Slayer's Night Off", this fic picks up the next evening. Don't think it's necessary to have read the first one, but it coudn't hurt. Spike and Buffy find themselves working out a relationship now that feelings have been exposed, and Riley turns into even more a misguided bad guy.

After a spectacular defeat at the end of NFA, resulting in all life in this dimension ending, the Powers have decided to give the dimension one more chance. They decide our favorite blonde vampire is just the guy for the job. Numbed from recent events Spike thinks they've gone barmy, he's not a hero but the Powers insist. What's a souled vamp to do when he is sent back in time?

The attraction, the desire to dance, was always there - right from their first meeting - but have you ever wondered how often they met and never told. This is a record of all those times up to Dawn’s arrival.

Written for the Choose Your Author ficathon - my prompt called for a Something Blue fic in which Spike and Buffy go a little further than in canon.... smut was called for...

Buffy needs a date for New Years Eve. Spike volunteers. Nuff said?

Something wasn't quite right, but what could Buffy do about it?  She was no superhero.  Season 4, during the episode Superstar, sometime after Buffy and Jonathan encounter Spike but before everyone realizes Buffy's right about Jonathan.

Their kind of normal looks a lot like yours.

I think this is the very last schmoop fic to post here. I'll hold off on posting anything else while everyone recovers from the recent spammage. :) This is a short (schmoopy) season six that takes place before there has been kissage to spoil the growing friendship.

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.