The Safe House (Author's Choice of Name) by Mia Vaan +25
Responses: 1
Categories: Pre-Series, Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Season 6, Season 7, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Ensemble, Giles, Joyce, Other, Spike
Summary:

Buffy is discovered by the Council at a young age as a Potential. They want to take her away from her family for training, but Joyce and Hank refuse to let her go.

So the Council try to blackmail them by sending demons after them, “proving” that Buffy needs to be trained. Hank can’t take it and leaves, firmly set in denial that demons aren’t real and that this is all one big joke (must be where Buffy gets her denial from).

Joyce doesn’t give up. One night she encounters the Council’s latest persuasion, Spike, a vampire famously known for killing Slayers. But he was told by the Council that his target was a rogue Slayer and not a tiny little girl with no Slayer powers at all. Spike’s all for destruction and taking out Slayers, but killing a young Buffy is simply something he won’t do.

So he decides to take Joyce and Buffy to a large demon safe house, homed to various harmless demons who need protection. There, Buffy grows up learning that not all demons are bad and not all humans are good.

Spike visits every couple of years to see how they’re doing.

At some point Joyce meets Giles, who was fired from the Council for not going along with the plan to blackmail the Summers family. He helps train Buffy.

Buffy is called as the Slayer around the age of fifteen/sixteen, and she, Joyce and Giles locate to the Hellmouth.

How will the rest of series play out with that background for Buffy? 



Summary: A response to a challenge by Mia Vaan. Buffy is discovered by the Council at a very young age, but Joyce and Hank are against turning their daughter over to them. Unwilling to accept this, the Council begins to send demons after the little girl, trying to show her parents that she does in fact need the training. Everything changes the night Joyce encounters their latest attempt...a blond vampire clad in black.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: DauntlessGrace
Categories: Pre-Series, Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Ensemble, Joyce
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Fighting, Romance
Warnings: Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp), Violence
Challenges: The Safe House (Author's Choice of Name)
Completed: No Chapters: 73 Table of Contents
Word count: 168,045 Hit Count: 205,759 ePub Downloads: 2,259
Published: August 03, 2016 Updated: March 14, 2019