Summary: Buffy's been dreaming about Spike. A lot. And as the dreams get more frequent, and more real, so does the unexplainable connection she's been feeling with the bleached vampire. 
Spike's noticed that there's something a little off with the Slayer...but maybe something's a little off with him, too. 
 
 **Nominated at the Sunnydale Memorial Fanficiton Awards (Round 32) for Best Plot, Best Romance, Best NC-17, Best Pairing (Conventional), Best Episode Re-write, Best Unfinished and Best Characterization (Spike)**

Series: Connections and Calculations
Categories: Season 5, Alternate Reality, Claim
Characters: None
Genres: Action/Adventure, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Sexual Situations
Challenges: Out of Her Mind
Completed: Yes Chapters: 49 Table of Contents
Word count: 386,076 Hit Count: 212,993 ePub Downloads: 2,313
Published: June 20, 2015 Updated: January 17, 2016

Summary: Insert fake sister A into memory slot B.  When the monks form Dawn, the PTB take a helping hand in the creation of the fake memories.  How does the interactions with Dawn in the past change Buffy and Spike's relationship in the present and ultimately the future?  Begins in S5 but quickly downturns to S2.  Spike/Buffy with Spike and Dawn friendship. 
Many thanks to Pfeifferpack for the wonderful banner.
 

Categories: Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Ensemble, Spike
Genres: Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Sexual Situations, Torture (Physical), Violence
Completed: No Chapters: 63 Table of Contents
Word count: 283,243 Hit Count: 176,355 ePub Downloads: 1,260
Published: September 18, 2013 Updated: November 08, 2019

Summary: She'd kicked his butt, taken the Gem and sent it off to Angel. Buffy thought she'd seen the last of Spike. Clearly, she’d been too optimistic. That he was in her house, in her room, waking her out of a sound sleep and asking for (okay, demanding) her help meant that something had to be majorly wrong. They weren't due for another apocalypse, but...why else would a vampire make a truce with the Slayer?
Sunnydale Memorial Fanfiction Award Winner, Round 24 for: Best Author, Best Unfinished, Best Angst (Spike Pairing), Best Pairing (Conventional), Best Plot (Spuffy), Best Episode Re-Write, and Best Male Characterization (Spike)

Categories: Award Winners, Season 4
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Dramedy, Fighting, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: No Chapters: 34 Table of Contents
Word count: 156,452 Hit Count: 98,311 ePub Downloads: 1,276
Published: May 02, 2011 Updated: March 20, 2016

Summary: A response to a challenge by Mia Vaan. The Watcher's Council never tracks Buffy down when she's called to her destiny, but everything changes the night she encounters a certain bleached blond punk rocker. Set pre-series at Hemery High and will eventually work itself into a season 1 setting in Sunnydale.
Winner at the Sunnydale Memorial Awards Round 32 for Best Alternate Universe, and runner-up for Best Characterization Female (Buffy) and Best Drama (Spuffy). Thank you. 

Categories: Pre-Series, Season 1, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Giles, Joyce, Other, Spike
Genres: Drama, Fighting, Romance
Warnings: Buffy/Other (Temp), Violence
Challenges: Buffy Doesn't Know She's a Slayer (Author's Choice of Name)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 100 Table of Contents
Word count: 232,540 Hit Count: 339,776 ePub Downloads: 2,481
Published: January 04, 2015 Updated: August 06, 2016

Summary: In the aftermath of her battle with Angelus, an injured and emotionally shattered Buffy comes to the realisation that she has nothing left: her mother has disowned her, her friends have abandoned her and Angel, soul newly restored, has left her alone as he flees for the scene of his crime. Spike's unlife is left bereft of purpose now that Drusilla is gone, thrown into Hell by his hated grandsire. The two broken souls realise that all they have are each other and desperately cling to the last, fragile connection as they take their leave from Sunnydale.
Perhaps the two mortal enemies can rebuild that which they have lost...

Categories: Season 2, Season 3, Alternate Reality, Challenge Response
Characters: Buffy, Faith Lehane, Giles, Joyce, Lorne, Original Characters, Oz, Spike, Tara, Willow, Xander
Genres: Angst, Fighting, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Sexual Situations, Violence
Challenges: You never came for me.
Completed: Yes Chapters: 38 Table of Contents
Word count: 159,496 Hit Count: 167,494 ePub Downloads: 1,291
Published: October 23, 2016 Updated: June 22, 2017

Summary: The victim of a spell gone awry, Buffy finds herself trapped in Victorian London, where she meets a man that is surprisingly familiar to her.
Runner up for Best William Fic at Love's Last Glimpse Awards 2005. Judge's Choice winner at Love's Last Glimpse Awards Round 18.

Categories: Season 5, Time Travel, Award Winners, Award Runners-Up
Characters: Buffy, Spike, William
Genres: Angst, Drama, Historical, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 67 Table of Contents
Word count: 258,072 Hit Count: 180,554 ePub Downloads: 1,666
Published: January 08, 2007 Updated: June 16, 2011

Summary: Season 3, Lover's Walk. Spike returns to Sunnydale to kill the Slayer. He’s just too drunk to do it properly, and ends up getting himself into the deep without even realizing it. Perhaps worst of all, he has no memory of his actions the next day.
Banner by teragramm.
Winner at the Spark and Burn awards.

Categories: Season 3, Episode Rewrite, Claim, Award Winners
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Cordelia, Faith Lehane, Giles, Oz, Spike, Willow, Xander
Genres: Dramedy, HEA/HFN, Kidnapping, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Dubious Consent, Rape (Implied), Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 52 Table of Contents
Word count: 120,380 Hit Count: 298,757 ePub Downloads: 2,258
Published: October 30, 2006 Updated: October 30, 2006

Summary: In a world where soulmates have the ability to write on each other's skin, Spike finds himself shackled to a five-year-old Buffy who--for once--listens to her mother's advice about not handing out personal information. With no way of tracking the annoyance down, Spike is forced to endure a decade of unavoidable communication.
When Spike finally arrives in Sunnydale and discovers his soulmate is none other than the slayer, he revels in the notion of a destined death match, but the Powers That Be have other plans...

Categories: Pre-Series, Season 2, Season 3, Alternate Reality
Characters: Angel, Angelus, Anya, Buffy, Ensemble, Faith Lehane, Giles, Joyce, Mayor Richard Wilkins III, Oz, Spike, Wesley, Willow, Xander
Genres: Dark, Drama, Dramedy, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Slow-Burn
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Buffy/Other (Temp), Mental Health Issues, Spike/Other (Temp), Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 49 Table of Contents
Word count: 203,679 Hit Count: 103,464 ePub Downloads: 949
Published: August 24, 2017 Updated: December 13, 2021

Summary: After years of struggling for a life of her own, the immortal Slayer is finally free from the demands of her friends and the Council. Will she be willing to go back in time and do it all over again, just for the chance to be with the vampire that was always meant to be her other half? An enemy from the future will give her the chance, if she wants it.
I changed the summary to a more fitting one.

Categories: Season 1, Post-Series, Time Travel, Claim
Characters: Angel, Angelus, Buffy, Clem, Cordelia, Drusilla, Giles, Joyce, Kendra, Lorne, Other, Oz, Spike, Willow, Xander
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Fighting, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp), Torture (Physical)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 46 Table of Contents
Word count: 158,902 Hit Count: 236,207 ePub Downloads: 2,053
Published: March 08, 2010 Updated: February 21, 2011

Summary: At the end of Chosen, Buffy is so devastated that Spike doesn't believe her that she refuses to leave and dies in that cave with him, so the PTB offer her a chance to rewrite her story's ending.
 
aka the conceit I needed to justify episode rewrites/stolen scenes for all my favorite almost-Spuffy bits. Buffy bounces from scene to scene, choosing Spike over and over and over. Non-linear but connected.
 
Banner by cd85
 
Rating for language and sexual content. The NC-17 is a precaution - it's fairly light on smut. The porn here is emotional. :)
 

Categories: Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Season 6, Season 7, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Time Travel
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Angel, Anya, April, Ben Wilkinson, Cordelia, D'Hoffryn, Dawn, Drusilla, Faith Lehane, Jenny Calendar, Joyce, Principal Snyder, Riley Finn, Tara
Genres: Fix-It, HEA/HFN, Hurt/Comfort, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Attempted Rape, Blood Play, Depictions of Bigotry, Rape (Implied), Sexual Situations
Completed: No Chapters: 39 Table of Contents
Word count: 123,860 Hit Count: 68,563 ePub Downloads: 459
Published: August 28, 2019 Updated: September 28, 2023

Summary: Spike came back to life and didn’t bother to tell her. Then he died again before she could chew him out. Buffy makes a wish in front of the right kind of demon to set things right and finds herself propelled back to the darkest period of her life.

Categories: Season 6, Post-Series, Time Travel
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Ensemble, Original Characters
Genres: Angst, Drama, HEA/HFN, Hurt/Comfort, Resurrection, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Human!Spike, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 25 Table of Contents
Word count: 109,793 Hit Count: 99,970 ePub Downloads: 954
Published: October 04, 2019 Updated: March 14, 2020

Categories: Season 6, Season 7, Post-Series, Challenge Response, Time Travel
Characters: Anya, Buffy, Clem, Dawn, Giles, Halfrek, Hank Summers, Jonathan Levinson, Lloyd, Original Characters, Riley Finn, Samantha (Sam) Finn, Spike, Tara, The First Evil, Warren Mears, Willow, Xander
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Fighting, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death, Sexual Situations
Challenges: Whisper In A Dead Man's Ear
Completed: Yes Chapters: 66 Table of Contents
Word count: 216,099 Hit Count: 142,824 ePub Downloads: 1,451
Published: October 22, 2018 Updated: April 18, 2021

Summary: From a challenge by tempestt: 
When he was a wee laddie, Rupert Giles found himself in a bit o' trouble.  Come on, we all know 10 year-old Giles would've been a little hellion.  Spike, who's around because he's hunting the slayer Giles's grandmother is assigned to is impressed by Giles's swaggering bravado and helps him out.  In doing so he dubs Giles Lil' Ripper.  A much more fitting name than nancy boy Rupert.
So begins an on-and-off, life long friendship between the two...  When Spike shows up in School Hard Giles immediately recognizes Buffy's description so he sets up a meet.  After finding out why Spike is at the Hellmouth, Giles strikes a deal.  He'll help Spike heal Drusilla if Spike agrees to help his slayer for an indeterminate amount of time.  [Full challenge here.] 
The breathtaking banner is the artwork of Versheenah, who was so gracious as to give this story a face.  Many, many thanks for your hard work and talent!

Categories: Pre-Series, Season 2
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Angel, Drusilla, Ethan Rayne, Jenny Calendar
Genres: Action/Adventure, HEA/HFN, Slow-Burn
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Character Death, Depictions of Bigotry, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp), Substance Use/Addiction, Underage Sex, Violence
Challenges: Lil' Ripper Makes a Friend
Completed: No Chapters: 36 Table of Contents
Word count: 169,878 Hit Count: 66,322 ePub Downloads: 431
Published: April 29, 2019 Updated: June 22, 2021

Summary: There's a virus loose in Sunnydale, deadly to vampires and humans alike, and the whole town is on lockdown. Normally Buffy would welcome a little time away from it all - but did she have to be quarantined with Spike?!? Sparks fly and tempers flare, and as days turn to weeks and months, it's just a matter of time before something goes terribly, horribly wrong… Fortunately, what happens in quarantine stays in quarantine, right?
 
Response to a challenge by Pfeifferpack. Many thanks to Othellia for the gorgeous banner and to Sigyn, EllieRose101, and Holly for betareading! Chapter header images are by me!

Categories: Season 4, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Original Characters
Genres: Drama, Dramedy, Erotica, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Horror, Humor, Porn w/ Plot, Romance, Slow-Burn
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Violence
Challenges: Corona and time
Completed: No Chapters: 21 Table of Contents
Word count: 146,000 Hit Count: 36,902 ePub Downloads: 389
Published: October 13, 2020 Updated: November 04, 2023

Summary: S2 AU.  Following the vampire attack on Sunnydale High in 'School Hard,' Buffy and Drusilla find themselves switching bodies every night between sunset and sunrise. Who do you become when you walk far more than a mile in your enemy's shoes?

Categories: Season 2, Alternate Reality, Challenge Response
Characters: Buffy, Drusilla, Ensemble, Spike
Genres: POV, Romance
Warnings: Blood Play, Buffy/Other (Temp), Rape (Implied), Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp)
Challenges: Cursed
Completed: Yes Chapters: 32 Table of Contents
Word count: 177,421 Hit Count: 170,655 ePub Downloads: 1,418
Published: November 30, 2015 Updated: August 02, 2016