Categories: Season 5, Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Spike
Summary:
I'd like to see a story where Spike is successful in stopping Doc from cutting Dawn but is seriously injured in the process, and a grateful Buffy cares for him. And of course they fall in love and smut ensues.
Beginning with The Gift, Spike knocks Doc off the Tower and they both fall to the ground. The portal doesn't open and neither Buffy nor Dawn has to die. Spike is severely injured in the fall and is in a coma. Buffy is so grateful to him that she insists on bringing him to her home so she can take care of him while he heals.
Buffy puts Spike in Joyce's old room (Willow and Tara don't live there). She has to clean him up after the battle and come up with a way to feed him while he's unconscious. He might even need weekly sponge baths ;)
Buffy has to keep slaying and also get a job to pay the bills. Continuing with college is optional. She is stressed and tired and begins sitting in Joyce's room talking to an unconscious Spike. She might lie in bed next to Spike too, or even start sleeping there. Optional: Dawn also confides in coma-Spike.
Spike eventually wakes, but has a long slow recovery from his many injuries. Buffy cares for him through the whole process and eventually falls in love with him. Things get smutty.
- I envision this being a long story (100k+), but that's totally up to the author.
- Smut! NC-17 or Adult Only rating. Buffy's attraction to Spike starts while he's unconscious.
- Spike's coma lasts at least a month. His full recovery lasts several months.
- Would like to see Buffy offer Spike her blood to help him heal.
- Bloodplay is fine, but no Claims.
- Keep everyone as "in character" as possible. This probably means there is some resistance from Giles and the Scoobies to Buffy caring for Spike. And Buffy's gonna take a while to fall for him.
- Up to the author whether Spike can hear Buffy and Dawn while he's unconscious.
- At some point, get the chip out. He could crack his head open in the fall, or Buffy could do it later.
- Keep as much or as little of the Season 6 storyline as you want.
I've never issued a challenge before! I'm hopeful someone will find this idea interesting and want to write this story!!! Thank you.