Dream Walking by Its all fluffy +5
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Categories: Alternate Reality
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Summary:

Was watching a youtube video and this popped into my head. In Spiral, I think, Willow goes into Buffy's mind to get her to snap the slayer out of her catatonic state. There is also a story line in the comics where Buffy does the same thing with Spike when its reviled that he is being used by the last demon kicked out of the dimension. She Follows the line of the demon back to the source of the one controlling Spike. So there is president for my idea... sorta.

My idea is a sort of mash up between mental walking like Willow and Buffy do in the source material and Inception. It basically goes that Either Spike enters Buffy's mind, and travels the path of the slayer line back to the source to help her understand her own power <for any reason you want>. Or She goes into his mind to locate and purge the First's influence. You could even do a thing like the fic A Thousand Years where Buffy and Spike have been The slayer and The Vampire that kills her. And they are trying to understand that and so have linked minds and are delving deeper into themselves. The catch is that like inception the further down you go the more time streaches so they could live out life times in the journey to literal self-discovery and only an hour passes in the waking world.

You can have inception rules to this, which is how I was thinking it would go honestly, where their own thoughts and minds are either trying to hinder or help them along the way to finding <whatever it is they are going to be looking for> This could take the form of the First Slayer and the First Vampire showing up. Or the constructs of the mental mindscape trying to kill them as their nature is to destroy the other. You could go for symbolism heavy depictions. Like having chains of blood being dragged behind Spike that have railroad spikes driven into bodies that he is pulling along by his chest. Or Buffy becoming stone and steel, nothing but an avatar of destruction.

You could go with actual memories of past lives and they are either just observing or living through them. It would actually be kind of cool if they could like posses their past selves to learn context to what they are seeing but can't change anything. If they are going though just one of their minds it would be interesting if it was like Faith going though Angel's mind where she had a guide. William for Spike and Sineya for Buffy. Like Angelus was for Faith. Its really all up to you in how you want to depict it.

The Challenge: Write an Inception-esk story where Spike and/or Buffy delve into the other's mind. The entire story could take place inside the mindspace, or you could have the mental dive be the reason that the two begin seeing the other differently. There is no stipulation on when this could take place though the earliest I can see this taking place is after spike is chipped and the Scoobys need answers. So they do the spell and Buffy goes into mind of Spike. Anything earlier and you don't really have a magical presence to pull off the spell. I Guess you could have a time traveler hit them both with a spell when Spike and Buffy make their truce. Or you could do it as this is what they do on their last night together before the first shows up, or after as it's still dark with it runs away and before Buffy makes her speech about power. Its really up to you.

GOOD LUCK AUTHORS!