I Was Gone, But Not Alone by Lluvia +18
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Categories: Episode Rewrite, Season 4, Taboo - Adults Only
Characters: Buffy, Forrest Gates, Graham Miller, Maggie Walsh, Riley Finn, Spike
Summary:

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Set in S4, Buffy is captured by the Initiative at the same time Spike is. They think she is just a different type of demon, similar to vampires. Locked in an adjacent cell to Spike, they agreed to a truce in order to get out, but they are re-captured before any of them can get out.

After that, the Initiative starts experimenting on them full Nazi-style.

 

MUSTS:

  • A full of angst ride.
  • Buffy and Spike being locked and experimented on for a long time (at least a couple of months).
  • They start to support and pep-talk each other whenever one of them is about to give up (hope or trying to kill themselves or anything else).
  • They never see each other, they just talk through the wall of their cells.
  • At different points, each of them has a chance to escape but doesn’t carry it out, because it’ll mean leaving the other behind.
  • Once Buffy and Spike are free (either they escaped or were freed by whoever you chose) they both suffer PTSD including the irrational fear of being touched by anyone. They try to overcome it by touching each other (totally innocent touches, like trying a handshake or a hand on the shoulder without recoiling, lashing out or feeling sick), because they don’t want to admit their trauma to others or because they think no-one else would understand.
  • At some point, they start to crave those innocent, flimsy touches from the other.

BONUS POINTS:

  • Joyce takes Spike to her house after Buffy and he are freed.
  • Scoobies being scoobies, they minimize their experience and their newly forged bond.
  • Giles manages to recover the Initiative research done on Buffy and Spike and discovers something (horrible, impossible, unexpected….whatever you choose).