Anya grants Buffy's wish by Versheenah +26
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Categories: Pre-Series, Season 1, Season 2, Alternate Reality, Historical
Characters: Angelus, Anya, Buffy, Cordelia, Dalton, Darla, Drusilla, Ensemble, Giles, Harmony, Jenny Calendar, Jesse McNally, Jonathan Levinson, Joyce, Kendra, Nikki Wood, Original Characters, Other, Oz, Robin Wood, Sam Lawson, Spike, Tara, The Anointed One, The Master, Willow, Xander, Xin Rong
Summary:

S2, Angelus is on the loose, Buffy is miserable and Anyanka feels her pain. She introduces herself to Buffy and offers to grant Buffy's wish. (When in S2 this happens is up to you). Buffy wishes that "Angel never lost his soul" and in a blink of an eye she's in a parallel universe which is... not what Buffy has expected.

Anya has granted her wish, no tricks about it, and in this universe the fledgling Liam had never lost his soul when Darla turned him.

This changed everything. And nothing.

Up until the Kaldarash clan tries to curse him the events of Angelus's unlife are exactly the same. After the curse has failed (the cursed soul bounces back since the space is already occupied), this is where the changes start.

Angelus kills all but one member of the clan, for the word to spread that no one screws with Angelus unpunished. Darla and Angelus never split up, and Dru continues to be Angelus's perfect girl.

This pushes Spike to prove himself more and he ends up killing four Slayers (with Nikki almost being his fifth, only for him to walk away because the thrill of killing a Slayer is gone and it doesn't help with wooing Dru any longer anyway. This can also be a point where Spike splits from the group).

Buffy is called around the same day she was called in the original verse, and her life goes the same as canon only she never meets Angel.

As a result she never dies at the Master's hands (no Angel, no Codex, no prophecy to push Buffy into the Master's lair unprepared). Instead Buffy thoroughly kicks his ass and then the whole gang shows up with Molotovs and fries the whole nest.

What other changes Angel's absence brings is up to you.

 

Must have:

1. Buffy making the wish intentionally, taking her time to consider it and thinking about the exact wording. It cannot be deceit on Anya's part.

2. Angelus with his soul equals Angelus without a soul. No one can even suspect he has a human soul until the failed curse reveals his unique soulful condition.

3. Spike killing four Slayers, fair and square. Spike meeting and fighting Nikki, winning the fight only to realize that the kill isn't what he wants. (What the watcher diaries say about the encounter and how Nikki eventually dies is up to you).

4. Slayer line being the same as canon, because the Slayers Spike killed were all in their prime and ready to pass the mantle.

5. Angelus, Darla and Dru coming to Sunnydale because Darla wants revenge. (How and why Spike gets there is up to you).

6. Buffy reevaluating what she thought she knew about souls and everything else.

7. Spuffy endgame.

8. Buffy having a choice to come back and choosing to stay.

 

Can have:

1. Angelus using a "I'm a good soulful vampire" line and getting the kicks out of it.

2. Badass Jenny Calendar who is an expert on all things Angelus showing up after Angelus and co.

3. Buffy having the memories of her wishverse self's life (as a gesture of good will on Anya's part).

4. Bonus points for including Kendra the Potential who gets a happy ending.

5. Feel free to make this a long story with Spike's POV throughout the years. ;)

 

Cannot have:

1. Souled, chipped and/or human Spike or non-Slayer Buffy.

2. Spuffy (biological) babies.

3. Angel's absence in s1 causing non-canon deaths and other badness  Angel's absence should have a neutral-to-positive consequences.

 

And that's about it. Hope you'll have lots of fun with this one!