Tales From the SiB-verse (in-series one-shots) by Touchstoneaf
Summary: A series of standalone glimpses and tangential one-shots that fit into the post-series "Souls in Bondage"-verse, but can (mostly*) be enjoyed independent from that series as well.  
(*The one exception being "Demon Luigi", which cannot be made sense of unless you've read the first two stories in the main SiB series.  Otherwise, it will be gibberish.)


Demon Luigi and the Case of the Missing Vampire by Touchstoneaf [G] Likes: 10 Comments: 9
Summary:
NOTE:  If you are here and you haven't read the first two stories of the "Souls In Bondage" series, this story will make literally ZERO sense.  This is an ancillary tale to  "LA Is the Hell You Make It", originally written as a gift for Magnus, and is the only "Tales from the SiBverse" fic that cannot be read as a standalone. 
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Summary:
Some demons aren't in our dimension to start trouble.  

Some demons just wanna do a job.  

Heck.  Some demons just want to get out of their home dimension, because they're teeming with others of their own kind, they're crowded, they're boring, life is monotonous.

Any job will do.  Even plumbing a dying city in the human world. 

But then... Dreams get in the way.  An out-of-practice Morpheus demon just trying to make an honest buck can easily get sucked into the desperate, guilty REM-sleep of a Slayer who's just tragically lost her lover in the ending of the world a month or two ago.  At which point, things tend to spin rapidly out of control.  Because tinkering with mortal dreams?

Definitely not in the work-contract.

Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: Tales From the SiB-verse (in-series one-shots)
Categories: Season 8 (Comic), Between Seasons (any), Crossover (AtS), Alternate Reality, Time Travel
Characters: Buffy, Faith Lehane, Original Characters, Spike
Genres: Angst, Established Relationship, POV
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 8,996 Hit Count: 425 ePub Downloads: 45
Published: April 26, 2020 Updated: April 26, 2020
There Could Be Mirrors Involved... by Touchstoneaf [PG-13] Likes: 22 Comments: 12
Summary:

Buffy is holed up in a hotel in Rome, hiding from the Immortal.  
She is not alone. 
Things are not what they seem... in more ways than one.
Follow us down the rabbit hole, gentle reader, if you will?

Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: Tales From the SiB-verse (in-series one-shots)
Categories: Season 8 (Comic), Post-Series, Crossover (AtS), Alternate Reality
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Spike
Genres: Drama, Established Relationship, Fix-It, HEA/HFN, POV, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,030 Hit Count: 912 ePub Downloads: 49
Published: June 27, 2020 Updated: June 27, 2020
Meow by Touchstoneaf [PG-13] Likes: 49 Comments: 22
Summary:

There must have been a spell.  Probably.  Not that she really cared, when the proceeds were so...
Well.  Sensuous.  
And fun.  
Certain demons could be very playful when they were feeling a certain kind of way.

Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: Tales From the SiB-verse (in-series one-shots)
Categories: Comic (Season Not Specified), Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Willow
Genres: Established Relationship, Fluffy/Comedy, Humor, Lighthearted, POV, Under Magical Influence
Warnings: Adult Language, Fetish, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 2,733 Hit Count: 1,138 ePub Downloads: 48
Published: June 28, 2020 Updated: June 28, 2020
Gamesmanship by Touchstoneaf [PG-13] Likes: 27 Comments: 8
Summary:

Once upon a time it was a bit of a fetish.  Now, it's really more in the nature of a game.
Except, sometimes, he goes overboard.  And when he does, she lets him know about it.
And how.  When certain vampires push the game too far, they pay the price.  Willingly. 
(After all, there are rewards.)

Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: Tales From the SiB-verse (in-series one-shots)
Categories: Comic (Season Not Specified), Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Established Relationship, Fluffy/Comedy, Humor, Lighthearted, POV, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Fetish, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 3,773 Hit Count: 729 ePub Downloads: 41
Published: June 29, 2020 Updated: June 29, 2020
Reunited, and It Feels So Doomed! by Touchstoneaf [Adult Only] Likes: 39 Comments: 18
Summary: What the hell were the ex-Cordettes thinking, inviting the surviving 1999 Razorbacks to a freaking High School Reunion?!

Were there even enough surviving students to have a reunion?

More importantly, could Buffy go to such a thing and have it not be a disaster?  For one, she'd have to convince them all she was in a long-term relationship without Spike there, which, yeah, right.  Like they were going to believe that.  (She'd ask Spike for a lot, but going to something like this?  An even bigger tsha, right!) 

Two... Wil and Xan were right.  There'd probably be monsters.  

The whole thing was doomed.
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: The Reunion Arc
, Series: Tales From the SiB-verse (in-series one-shots)
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Other
Genres: Established Relationship, Fluffy/Comedy, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Lighthearted, Porn w/ Plot, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Event: Secret Santa Fic Exchange 2020
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 14,419 Hit Count: 1,134 ePub Downloads: 69
Published: December 05, 2020 Updated: December 05, 2020
So Excited 'Cause We're Reunited by Touchstoneaf [G] Likes: 20 Comments: 6
Summary:

Short, punchy sequel to "Reunited, and It Feels So Doomed", that didn't fit as an epilogue.
(https://dark-solace.org/elysian/viewstory.php?sid=6690)

Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: The Reunion Arc
, Series: Tales From the SiB-verse (in-series one-shots)
Categories: Comic (Season Not Specified), Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Established Relationship, Fluffy/Comedy, Hurt/Comfort, Lighthearted, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 912 Hit Count: 452 ePub Downloads: 22
Published: January 07, 2021 Updated: January 07, 2021