Authors Choice by Puppet +17
Responses: 1
Categories: Episode Rewrite, Season 5
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Summary:

What if, after Crush, Buffy realized that she had feelings for Spike? Afraid of admitting to it, due to her friends, she still can't get away from her feelings and ends up doing something pretty...extreme and out of character.

She finds out about Spike ordering a Buffy!Bot from Warren and gets to the nerd first. She sets up the bot in her life and takes the bot's place as Spike's lover.

How long this goes on is up to you, you can even change canon up so that the gang doesn't find out for a while or don't take the 'bot' away from him when they do. Maybe they feel that if he has the Bot at least he'll stay away from the 'real' Slayer.

I want Buffy to have the attitude of the bot, the huge smile, the stilted conversation, everything. Bonus points if Buffy gets her inspiration from knowing Anya :)

Everything else is up to you, including reactions when everyone finds out, Buffy eventually missing her family and friends though not regretting the time spent with Spike, and so on.

Finally, remember that Buffy is pretending to be the Bot, so she can't be mean, abusive or anything bad with Spike; she has to be fully on his side, antagonistic with Riley, Angel, Xander, and even Gyles a bit.

Also, everything that the Bot does or says in the canon show has to be made up by Buffy. Imagine the humor of the Slayer purposely saying her Watcher's name wrong, pointing out things like Willow being gay and asking about Anya's money.

Anyway, that's it. Have fun :)

Puppet.



Summary: Joyce has died and Buffy is overwhelmed with the responsibility and worried that she is loosing her ability to feel. Confused about her reactions to Spikes declarations of love, she learns that Warren is building him the Buffybot. Clearly he must be planning something evil! ... and what better way for her to find out what it is, than to switch places with the robot, right? 
Starts off just before Intervention and immediately goes off canon. 
Banner by the amazingly talented mmckinnon
Betaed by Sophieasilverman
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: sophieasilverman
Artists: mmckinnon
Categories: Season 5, Challenge Response
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Buffybot, Ensemble
Genres: Angst, HEA/HFN, Romance
Warnings: Attempted Rape, Blood Play, Sexual Situations, Torture (Physical), Violence
Challenges: Authors Choice
Event: 2019 Challenge Month
Completed: Yes Chapters: 20 Table of Contents
Word count: 148,938 Hit Count: 42,098 ePub Downloads: 441
Published: April 23, 2019 Updated: February 08, 2020