Summary: Set in season 6-7 and after (ignoring comics), this story begins soon after Older and Far Away. Warren, and this troupe of misfit baddies, The Trio, has Buffy over a barrel. They’ve got video evidence of her trysts with Spike – and plenty of it. If she doesn’t do what they want, they’ll broadcast the explicit video all over the internet – everyone will know her dirty little secret. Buffy’s never felt so lost and alone and utterly ashamed. After being dragged out of heaven, her soul aches, and Spike’s the only one who can ease her pain, but her friends would never understand. While trying to help the Slayer out of this jam, Spike inadvertently reveals a secret of his own, one that he’s worked hard to keep hidden even from himself, one that will change the way Buffy sees him and change their dance forever. 
How will everyone's lives change as they face life on the Hellmouth when Buffy begins to see that Spike is not like Angel, and accepts him into her life and her heart as an equal rather than a dirty little secret?
The answer is: dramatically!  

Categories: Season 6, Season 7, Post-Series, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Baby Fic, Taboo - Adults Only
Characters: Amanda, Andrew Wells, Angel, Anya, Buffy, Caleb, Clem, Dawn, Ensemble, Faith Lehane, Giles, Jonathan Levinson, Kennedy, Original Characters, Oz, Riley Finn, Robin Wood, Rona, Samantha (Sam) Finn, Spike, Tara, The First Evil, Vi, Warren Mears, William, Willow, Xander
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Dark, Drama, Dramedy, Erotica, Fighting, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Porn w/ Plot, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Character Death, Fetish, Sexual Situations, Torture, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 101 Table of Contents
Word count: 431,874 Hit Count: 100,761 ePub Downloads: 992
Published: April 23, 2018 Updated: September 18, 2018

Summary: The Scourge are done for.  The baby Slayers are back on track, nicely settled under Xander and Willow’s careful tutelage.  Dawn is right-sized.  Things with Giles are… steady-ish.  And Buffy and Spike have found a nice safe haven away from it all where they can just be.  Dial in case of Apocalypse.  Sort out the gray areas on their own time and terms.  Maybe redefine the whole relationship between demons and humanity, and vamps and humans… and of course Slayers and vamps.  You know; given enough time and… social intercourse.

Anyway, that was the theory.  Then the whole thing started with the military, and Amy.  And then Willow and Xander decide to show up on their doorstep.  And there was that thing with Faith and Giles, and…  Jeez.  Hellmouths weren’t the only things that keep rumbling.   

Well, at least they’d closed the book on Angel, right?

(Note:  This is a sequel to “Home Is Where the Scourge Is”, and is Part 4 of a series.  If you haven’t read the rest, you’ll have no idea what the bloody hell is going on.  I mean, you can; I can’t stop you.  But a lot of what’s happening in here will be taking place in a world unrecognizable to the uninitiated.)

Series: Souls In Bondage
Categories: Season 8 (Comic), Season 9 (Comic), Season 10 (Comic), Season 11 (Comic), Season 12 (Comic), Post-Series, Claim, Poetry, Taboo - Adults Only
Characters: Aluwyn, Amy Madison, Andrew Wells, Angel, Anne Steele, Buffy, Charles Gunn, Clem, Connor, Cordelia, D'Hoffryn, Dawn, Drusilla, Eldre Koh, Ensemble, Ethan Rayne, Faith Lehane, Fred, Giles, Guardian, Hank Summers, Harmony, Illyria, Kate Lockley, Kennedy, Lorne, Nadira, Nash, Original Characters, Other, Oz, Pearl, Riley Finn, Robert Dowling, Robin Wood, Rona, Samantha (Sam) Finn, Satsu, Severin, Simone Doffler, Sineya, Spike, The Groosalugg, The Master, Vi, Warren Mears, Wesley, Whistler, Willow, Willy the Snitch, Xander
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Dark, Drama, Dramedy, Erotica, Established Relationship, Fighting, Fluffy/Comedy, Horror, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Lighthearted, Porn w/ Plot, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Attempted Rape, Blood Play, Character Death, Drug Use, Fetish, Sexual Situations, Suicide, Taboo, Torture, Violence
Completed: No Chapters: 21 Table of Contents
Word count: 207,214 Hit Count: 6,366 ePub Downloads: 137
Published: July 11, 2020 Updated: November 21, 2020