Penname: GillO
Real Name: Gill Othen
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Member Since: January 28, 2007
Last Active: April 24, 2024
Membership Status: Member
Skin: his hero
Author

Mid-sixties escaped schoolmarm, mother of no-longer teenagers, and grandmother of two. I have a long-standing and only mildly guilty Spuffy passion. Not just because of the pretty that is JM - I love the complexity of the characters, the convolutions of their relationship and the sheer variety of opportunities they offer to writers.

I'm English and live in the English Midlands. From September 2012 I studied for part-time MAs in English Literature, first at Warwick Uni and then at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford on Avon. Love the studying, seriously considering going further if archives are ever open again.

I am a mod at Seasonal Spuffy and have been a Sunnydale Herald editor on and off for several years. This fandom has given me long-lasting friendships and both the inspiration to write and the confidence to share it with others. I owe it a great deal.

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Stories by GillO
A Final Time for Everything by GillO [G] Likes: 26 Comments: 20
Summary: Times Buffy died. All of them.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Drabbles, Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Character Death
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 398 Hit Count: 1,058 ePub Downloads: 28
Published: September 11, 2016 Updated: September 11, 2016
Past Featured Story
A Funny Thing Happened by GillO [G] Likes: 36 Comments: 17
Summary: Spike's in Rome, a year after NFA. He hears a damsel in distress sound amongst some famous ruins. Now he's all soul-having he has to investigate, and not just for the chance of a punch-up.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Spike
Genres: Dramedy, Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,707 Hit Count: 1,270 ePub Downloads: 29
Published: March 08, 2021 Updated: March 08, 2021
Past Featured Story
A Quiet Night In by GillO [PG-13] Likes: 19 Comments: 9
Summary: S6, the evening after the Party That Would Not End. Once sisterly duties are over, Buffy has someone to visit...
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,488 Hit Count: 1,791 ePub Downloads: 53
Published: September 03, 2007 Updated: September 03, 2007
A Song In His Heart by GillO [G] Likes: 14 Comments: 7
Summary: The evening after OMWF, Spike is feeling quite cheerful. No self-delusion there. Not at all.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6
Characters: Spike
Genres: None
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 396 Hit Count: 833 ePub Downloads: 25
Published: August 15, 2016 Updated: August 15, 2016
A Teacher Taught by GillO [G] Likes: 16 Comments: 12
Summary: Eventually, even Giles has to give in and learn to accept the white heat of new technology. Unfortunately for him, he has an audience.
 
Arguably a bit gen, but Spike and Buffy are both in it!
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 4
Characters: Buffy, Giles, Spike, Willow
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,226 Hit Count: 1,059 ePub Downloads: 25
Published: October 28, 2016 Updated: October 28, 2016
After the Deluge by GillO [R] Likes: 182 Comments: 103
Summary: Spike is battered in an alley, Buffy is in Rome. Trouble is afoot in more than one place, and they will be drawn inexorably closer together. Yes, it's potential apocalypse time again.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series, Seasonal Spuffy Entries
Characters: Andrew Wells, Angel, Angelus, Buffy, Drusilla, Ensemble, Giles, Original Characters, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Apocalyptic/Dystopian, Drama, Dramedy
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 30 Table of Contents
Word count: 38,963 Hit Count: 22,672 ePub Downloads: 65
Published: May 14, 2022 Updated: May 27, 2022
Past Featured Story
Aftermath by GillO [G] Likes: 27 Comments: 14
Summary: After an apocalypse there are always things to sort out. Spike is wounded in LA, Buffy is pissed off in Rome. But some things are meant to be.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Giles, Illyria, Spike
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 3,165 Hit Count: 2,528 ePub Downloads: 58
Published: September 23, 2007 Updated: September 23, 2007
Alone With Others by GillO [G] Likes: 13 Comments: 6
Summary: Spike in the basement, attempting to make some sense of what has been happening to him since returning to Sunnydale.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7
Characters: Spike
Genres: Angst
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 533 Hit Count: 691 ePub Downloads: 21
Published: September 20, 2016 Updated: September 20, 2016
An Enigma by GillO [G] Likes: 14 Comments: 8
Summary: Buffy tries to work out why Spike is not a heap of dust.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 4
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: POV
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 204 Hit Count: 835 ePub Downloads: 28
Published: February 22, 2017 Updated: February 22, 2017
Another One Bites the Dust by GillO [PG] Likes: 25 Comments: 13
Summary:
Spike is in Italy, killing time, not at all because he hasn't got the guts to find Buffy. Inspired by the leather-goods and clothing shop, "Spike and Sons" in Piacenza, Italy. (Honest!)
   
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Dawn, Spike
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 951 Hit Count: 836 ePub Downloads: 26
Published: November 12, 2016 Updated: November 12, 2016
Ashes in the Dust by GillO [R] Likes: 18 Comments: 11
Summary: Spike tries to sort out what's left after Riley trashed his crypt. He's not a happy vampire.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6, Missing Scene
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Adult Language
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 629 Hit Count: 828 ePub Downloads: 27
Published: August 18, 2016 Updated: August 18, 2016
At the End of the Day by GillO [Adult Only] Likes: 14 Comments: 7
Summary: Buffy and Spike in Season Six. She's tired, he's needy. Sex ensues.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Porn w/ Plot
Warnings: Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 2,176 Hit Count: 1,322 ePub Downloads: 45
Published: October 01, 2016 Updated: October 01, 2016
At the Fair by GillO [PG-13] Likes: 9 Comments: 4
Summary:
After a bit of demon-slayage, Spike and Buffy find themselves at the local fair. Krispy Kreme causes dissension.
Season 6, written in response to a prompt on the LJ comm SB Fag Ends
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 596 Hit Count: 370 ePub Downloads: 23
Published: August 15, 2016 Updated: August 15, 2016
Back in the Day by GillO [PG] Likes: 39 Comments: 18
Summary: Spike and Buffy are thrown back in time after they make a badly-thought-out wish in the hearing of a powerful justice demon.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7, Time Travel, Historical
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Anne Pratt, D'Hoffryn, Halfrek, Original Characters
Genres: Dramedy, HEA/HFN, Historical
Warnings: None
Event: Secret Santa Fic Exchange 2021
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 8,267 Hit Count: 1,561 ePub Downloads: 37
Published: December 31, 2021 Updated: December 31, 2021
Bathtime by GillO [G] Likes: 20 Comments: 10
Summary: After the spell is broken and Willow has run out of things to make cookies from, Spike reflects on the events of Something Blue.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Missing Scene, Season 4
Characters: Spike
Genres: POV
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 540 Hit Count: 758 ePub Downloads: 30
Published: November 08, 2016 Updated: November 08, 2016
Blood Pancakes by GillO [G] Likes: 18 Comments: 11
Summary:  
Post NFA, Spike and Buffy in a cosy setting with Dawn doing some cooking. Slight schmoop warning.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Spike
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 575 Hit Count: 495 ePub Downloads: 29
Published: October 10, 2016 Updated: October 10, 2016
Bloody Awful Learning Process by GillO [PG] Likes: 13 Comments: 9
Summary: Spike is not William, he's absolutely sodding well sure about that. But some of William's habits are hard to give up. Especially pouring his heart out in bloody awful poetry.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Poetry, Post-Series
Characters: Giles, Spike
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,318 Hit Count: 501 ePub Downloads: 23
Published: September 21, 2016 Updated: September 21, 2016
Broken Things by GillO [G] Likes: 18 Comments: 12
Summary: The summer after "The Gift" - Dawn has only Spike to turn to when something precious to Buffy is hurt.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6
Characters: Dawn, Spike
Genres: Angst, Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 788 Hit Count: 616 ePub Downloads: 28
Published: February 08, 2007 Updated: February 08, 2007
Calling Home, Home by GillO [G] Likes: 27 Comments: 9
Summary: Spike knows he should make the phone call, tell her he's less burned up than she thought. But, somehow, he doesn't.
AtS S5
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 5, Challenge Response
Characters: Buffy, Ensemble, Harmony, Spike
Genres: Fix-It, HEA/HFN
Warnings: None
Event: Called Challenge 2021
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,333 Hit Count: 500 ePub Downloads: 17
Published: October 24, 2021 Updated: October 24, 2021
Chained Holiday by GillO [PG-13] Likes: 18 Comments: 13
Summary: Buffy has to find something to do with a defanged vampire over the holidays, even if it means persuading her mother to agree to an unwelcome guest.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 4
Characters: Buffy, Joyce, Spike
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 866 Hit Count: 640 ePub Downloads: 23
Published: September 20, 2016 Updated: September 20, 2016
Christmas Chains by GillO [G] Likes: 18 Comments: 13
Summary: Season 4. Buffy has unfinished business with Spike and Giles would really like a Christmas shower.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 4, Holiday Fic
Characters: Spike
Genres: None
Warnings: None
Event: Secret Santa Fic Exchange 2020
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,685 Hit Count: 345 ePub Downloads: 22
Published: December 30, 2020 Updated: December 30, 2020
Past Featured Story
Cruellest Month by GillO [PG] Likes: 22 Comments: 11
Summary: April, that time of year apocalypses start to build. General Buffy is still haunted by the past, but has squads of girls to train and care for.
 
Comics? What comics?
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy
Genres: POV
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,391 Hit Count: 569 ePub Downloads: 23
Published: September 22, 2016 Updated: September 22, 2016
Day Thoughts by GillO [PG] Likes: 11 Comments: 5
Summary: Spike isn't brooding. Of course not.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7, Drabbles
Characters: Spike
Genres: Angst, POV
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 263 Hit Count: 282 ePub Downloads: 25
Published: November 09, 2017 Updated: November 09, 2017
Detective Work by GillO [G] Likes: 12 Comments: 8
Summary: Something very important has gone missing.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 5
Characters: Dawn, Spike
Genres: POV
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 264 Hit Count: 466 ePub Downloads: 129
Published: February 22, 2017 Updated: February 22, 2017
Do the Math by GillO [G] Likes: 24 Comments: 15
Summary: Season 7, a discussion of Spike's age leads to an annoyed Spike.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Missing Scene, Season 7
Characters: Buffy, Giles, Spike
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 316 Hit Count: 1,102 ePub Downloads: 23
Published: November 01, 2016 Updated: November 01, 2016
Doing What He Ought To Do by GillO [G] Likes: 22 Comments: 9
Summary: Ten years after Sunnydale collapsed in on itself, a Slayer, a witch and a vampire are all in London.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Willow
Genres: Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,328 Hit Count: 767 ePub Downloads: 24
Published: September 24, 2016 Updated: September 24, 2016
Dutch Courage by GillO [PG-13] Likes: 21 Comments: 10
Summary: Two British individuals have to get pretty drunk before they can discuss a very serious topic.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: Dutch Courage
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Giles, Spike
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 612 Hit Count: 597 ePub Downloads: 23
Published: August 14, 2016 Updated: August 14, 2016
End Thoughts by GillO [PG-13] Likes: 17 Comments: 10
Summary: Spike considers Willow's offer to help Buffy.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Spike
Genres: Angst
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 286 Hit Count: 420 ePub Downloads: 23
Published: March 12, 2017 Updated: March 12, 2017
Family First by GillO [R] Likes: 91 Comments: 53
Summary: The Last Apocalypse is closing in on Sunnydale, and one demon is trying to do what's right and save his own skin.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7, Challenge Response
Characters: Buffy, Clem, Other, Spike, Willow
Genres: Dramedy, HEA/HFN, Lighthearted
Warnings: None
Event: Mystery Fic-a-Thon 2022
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 9,961 Hit Count: 1,674 ePub Downloads: 30
Published: July 06, 2022 Updated: August 04, 2022
Fire and Light by GillO [PG-13] Likes: 11 Comments: 7
Summary: Spike's thoughts at the end of <i>Chosen</i>.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7
Characters: Spike
Genres: Angst, POV
Warnings: Character Death
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 201 Hit Count: 323 ePub Downloads: 20
Published: March 12, 2017 Updated: March 12, 2017