What started off as a bad day for Buffy becomes even worse when she is attacked—mid-day!—by an invincible blond menace. And perhaps worst of all, the day refuses to end, forcing her and Spike to kill each other over and over (and over) again. Begrudgingly, she makes another truce with a vampire out to make her his newest trophy. But what else can a girl do when this might just be her only chance to return to the world she left behind?
Mutual time loop by flootzavut +16
Responses: 1
Categories: None
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Summary:
Categories: None
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Summary:
A time loop that Buffy and Spike are both trapped in/they both remember each loop, and every time it loops, one of them kills the other one. But because they both remember the loops, even though no one else does, they get to know each other as well as getting better at fighting each other (and at fighting in general).
The loop finally breaks when they realise they actually like each other and neither of them actually wants the other permanently dead.
Must have:
- Spuffy both remembering the time loop, so they each remember the previous iterations
- Spuffy fighting and killing each other a lot, and enjoying the fights, but having increasingly conflicted feelings about the end result
- Spuffy realising that neither of them particularly wants the other one dead
- some kind of growing friendship or at least respect
- the loop breaking when neither of them is willing to kill the other any more
Can have:
- failed attempts to break the loop which can be serious or comic
- Spuffy friendship and even romance developing during the loop despite the mutual murder
- one of them reaching "actually I won't kill you" before the other one does and having to wait through multiple time loops to stop getting remurdered
- serious fic, crack taken seriously, pure crack
- other Scoobies
- Spike and/or Buffy taking advantage of the time loop in other ways
- them treating the loop as a nifty way to train, maybe even ending up actively training each other even when they're still trying to get the advantage
- trauma if you want to tackle it
- exploration of either/both of them's feelings about fighting, for example Spike helping Buffy come to terms with the violence inside her and her accepting that it doesn't have to make her hard or broken or anything else she might fear
- Spike POV, Buffy POV or mixed POV;, if you want to do an outside POV for some or all of it and can make it work, go nuts!
- your own title!
Can't haves:
- "on screen" sexual assault, just not my thing, you can allude to it if necessary for your story (idk where it would come in, I'm mostly including this as a can't have because I dislike it, not because I think it's likely), but I don't need to read it in detail
- ditto child abuse
- any kind of torture porn, canon typical violence is fine, and obviously this challenge of necessity includes plenty of murder, but I don't need loving descriptions of entrails; again, I don't think it's likely, I'm just saying please don't add your story to this challenge if it goes there!
basically, except for those few restrictions and the basic premise, go nuts!
also no restrictions as to what season, what other characters to add, let your imagination roam free.
Summary:
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: DeamonQueen, Maxine Eden, the_wolf_among_the_roses, VoronaFiernan Artists: Lmrln
Categories: Season 4, Challenge Response, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Ensemble, Original Characters, Parker Abrams
Genres: Drama, Fighting, HEA/HFN, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Violence
Challenges: Mutual time loop
Event: Betrayal Challenge 2024
Completed: No Chapters: 6 Table of Contents
Word count: 31,919 Hit Count: 2,357 ePub Downloads: 34
Published: October 03, 2024 Updated: January 09, 2025
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Ensemble, Original Characters, Parker Abrams
Genres: Drama, Fighting, HEA/HFN, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Violence
Challenges: Mutual time loop
Event: Betrayal Challenge 2024
Completed: No Chapters: 6 Table of Contents
Word count: 31,919 Hit Count: 2,357 ePub Downloads: 34
Published: October 03, 2024 Updated: January 09, 2025