Summary: A response to a challenge by Mia Vaan. A young Buffy ends up getting lost in LA and is almost raped. A certain blond vampire ends up coming to her rescue, but can't bring himself to feed off of her. He ends up driving her home and takes off into the night. Buffy is called as the slayer not long after that, and both of them get quite the shock when he shows up in Sunnydale looking for a cure for Drusilla. Starts out pre-series, but the majority of it will be a season 2 setting. 

Categories: Pre-Series, Season 1, Season 2, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Angel, Drusilla
Genres: Drama, Romance
Warnings: Attempted Rape, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp)
Challenges: Spike Saves Young Buffy (Author's Choice of Name)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 35
Word count: 87,874 Hit Count: 117,156 ePub Downloads: 1,016
Published: August 30, 2015 Updated: May 22, 2016


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1. Chapter 1 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 54 Comments: 36 Word Count: 2,713 Hit Count: 12,579 Published: August 30, 2015

I saw this challenge by Mia about a month or so ago, and it was yet another one that I fell in love with. :) I do have a few chapters planned out for it thus far in terms of an outline, but updates will likely be once a week or once every other week. It all depends on how busy I get.

2. Chapter 2 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 60 Comments: 32 Word Count: 2,646 Hit Count: 4,316 Published: September 06, 2015

3. Chapter 3 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 45 Comments: 28 Word Count: 2,647 Hit Count: 4,262 Published: September 13, 2015

4. Chapter 4 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 48 Comments: 30 Word Count: 3,243 Hit Count: 4,199 Published: September 20, 2015

5. Chapter 5 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 47 Comments: 27 Word Count: 2,885 Hit Count: 4,212 Published: September 27, 2015

Yep, I'm aware that Spike arrived in Sunnydale before the events of "Some Assembly Required" in this fic. The way I've written it here was intentional, as I've been enjoying doing things a bit differently to alter canon in this story. Just wanted to mention that in case it seemed odd. 

6. Chapter 6 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 37 Comments: 25 Word Count: 2,153 Hit Count: 4,143 Published: October 04, 2015

7. Chapter 7 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 37 Comments: 18 Word Count: 2,185 Hit Count: 3,890 Published: October 11, 2015

8. Chapter 8 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 36 Comments: 19 Word Count: 2,479 Hit Count: 3,808 Published: October 18, 2015

9. Chapter 9 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 43 Comments: 28 Word Count: 2,301 Hit Count: 3,734 Published: October 25, 2015

10. Chapter 10 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 31 Comments: 17 Word Count: 2,069 Hit Count: 3,674 Published: November 01, 2015

11. Chapter 11 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 34 Comments: 12 Word Count: 2,220 Hit Count: 3,610 Published: November 10, 2015

12. Chapter 12 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 31 Comments: 16 Word Count: 2,530 Hit Count: 3,565 Published: November 17, 2015

13. Chapter 13 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 29 Comments: 15 Word Count: 2,284 Hit Count: 3,303 Published: November 24, 2015

14. Chapter 14 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 34 Comments: 20 Word Count: 2,233 Hit Count: 3,203 Published: December 03, 2015

15. Chapter 15 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 24 Comments: 17 Word Count: 2,601 Hit Count: 3,109 Published: December 13, 2015

16. Chapter 16 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 29 Comments: 18 Word Count: 2,268 Hit Count: 3,015 Published: December 21, 2015

17. Chapter 17 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 24 Comments: 16 Word Count: 2,122 Hit Count: 3,135 Published: December 29, 2015

18. Chapter 18 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 26 Comments: 16 Word Count: 2,032 Hit Count: 2,752 Published: January 05, 2016

19. Chapter 19 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 18 Comments: 12 Word Count: 2,059 Hit Count: 2,672 Published: January 14, 2016

20. Chapter 20 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 21 Comments: 12 Word Count: 2,243 Hit Count: 2,607 Published: January 23, 2016

21. Chapter 21 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 18 Comments: 14 Word Count: 2,215 Hit Count: 2,583 Published: February 03, 2016

22. Chapter 22 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 20 Comments: 12 Word Count: 2,634 Hit Count: 2,557 Published: February 14, 2016

23. Chapter 23 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 23 Comments: 14 Word Count: 2,193 Hit Count: 2,452 Published: February 21, 2016

24. Chapter 24 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 20 Comments: 14 Word Count: 2,779 Hit Count: 2,371 Published: March 02, 2016

25. Chapter 25 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 21 Comments: 13 Word Count: 2,738 Hit Count: 2,371 Published: March 13, 2016

26. Chapter 26 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 20 Comments: 16 Word Count: 2,818 Hit Count: 2,499 Published: March 17, 2016

27. Chapter 27 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 17 Comments: 13 Word Count: 2,258 Hit Count: 2,430 Published: March 24, 2016

28. Chapter 28 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 16 Comments: 12 Word Count: 2,280 Hit Count: 2,390 Published: April 01, 2016

29. Chapter 29 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 20 Comments: 10 Word Count: 2,197 Hit Count: 2,347 Published: April 09, 2016

30. Chapter 30 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 16 Comments: 11 Word Count: 2,699 Hit Count: 2,460 Published: April 17, 2016

31. Chapter 31 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 25 Comments: 14 Word Count: 2,680 Hit Count: 2,390 Published: April 26, 2016

32. Chapter 32 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 17 Comments: 10 Word Count: 2,457 Hit Count: 2,329 Published: May 03, 2016

33. Chapter 33 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 17 Comments: 11 Word Count: 2,998 Hit Count: 2,320 Published: May 10, 2016

34. Chapter 34 by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 17 Comments: 11 Word Count: 4,431 Hit Count: 2,687 Published: May 15, 2016

35. Epilogue by DauntlessGrace - Likes: 41 Comments: 27 Word Count: 2,584 Hit Count: 3,171 Published: May 22, 2016