In an attempt to get over her grief for Spike, Buffy has cut herself off from her past life, and anything that reminds her of the vampire that's still in her heart.
But when a news story brings her attention to the battle in LA, the Slayer finds herself once again facing old betrayals and old faces.
Returning to LA she finds even newer betrayals and the possible death of her most secret hope.

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A few nights after Older and Far Away. Buffy’s got a question, does Spike have an answer?

Usual disclaimer: The characters in this story were created by someone richer, smarter and way cuter then me. I hope he’s flattered. If he is, he can send me Spike in gratitude. Since I’m not making any money off of this, I figure it’s a fair trade. Special grazie to liquidVamp for being my beta and my sounding board. She also leads great virtual sing alongs.

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.

Song fic to Sarah McLachlan's song "Fallen". Buffy's thought during and after the end of Chosen.

“Angel...” Buffy says Angel's name while she and Spike are in bed. Why? And what is he going to do about it?

Goes off-canon during Bargaining. When Willow's spell pulls Buffy out of heaven, it leaves her insane, terrified, and unable to communicate. The Scoobies are convinced she came back wrong. Spike is convinced that he can reach her. And Buffy's misconceptions about this hell she has awakened to lead to a host of problems and heartache. Who will be the one who can guide this fallen angel back to life?  

Post-series, post-comic, our heroes deal with the little problem of cleanup after a bad slay.

Originsverse Ficlet, set between Revelations and Resolutions. 

Post-Season 5, an alternate reality take on Season 6, but not so crazy-alternate that anyone's unrecognisable. Just lots of small tweaks that pack a punch - like the odd bit of honest communication amongst the Scoobies. Starts with Spike/Dawn friendship and builds from there.

Runner Up for Best Angst in round 30 of the SunnyD Awards

A/N September 2018: this story is now being re-posted with minor edits on Elysian Fields and AO3, as a prelude to new chapters. New chapters will be re-posted here, but the formatting is too much work to re-post the previous 50.

B/S friendly revamp of the S5 episode "Family" -- Writtebn for the Spuffyverse

Buffy gets a letter from Spike. Was there another reason Spike could never manage to kill Buffy? And, whatever happened to his car?

Set during Tabula Rasa, a brief snafu in the spell Willow performed causes Giles and Spike to be hurled back in time to the places they desire to revisit the most; Spike goes back a few years earlier during Willow’s “will be done” fiasco, and Giles to London in 1853, where he meets a young, beautiful woman named Anne.

On a quest to win back his dark princess, Spike plans on resorting to magic, if that's what it takes. What he doesn't expect is for something to go terribly wrong, causing the spell to target the one girl he's meant to hate. How will Buffy react when the spell is lifted and she finds herself in a compromising position?

Post NFA. Spike returns to LA after being gone for almost seven years. He doesn’t know why he came back, until he meets a little girl that will change his life forever.

This is an AU future story. Take Angel post-Angelus and Hell, Spike pre-chip and Buffy from somewhere in-between all of that. This story picks up somewhere in the midst of a relationship between the three, which Buffy's family and friends know about and accept.