Penname: Willow25
Real Name: Sarah
Pronouns: She/Her
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Member Since: April 12, 2008
Last Active: October 04, 2024
Membership Status: Member
Skin: other worlds than these
Author

I've been writing for a long time, but very slowly. I get writer's block and take breaks numbered in months instead of weeks. I haven't posted here before since I wasn't producing much, but my new stories are progressing at more than a snail's pace, so I'm going to start posting here. Watch this space!

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Stories by Willow25
Creation, or Four More Bottles of Wine (What-If Books, Prologue) by Willow25 [PG] Likes: 8 Comments: 5
Summary: Buffy and Willow, too much wine, and what is either a brilliant or terrible idea for a spell. AKA, drunken spell casting, librarian taunting, and other assorted perils of living in LA.
This story vaguely exists in the FAA-verse, but don't make yourself crazy trying to fit it into the existing timeline.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: FAA-Verse
, Series: The What-If Books
Categories: Alternate Reality, Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Willow, Angel
Genres: Dramedy, Established Relationship, Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: Adult Language, Substance Use/Addiction
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 5,056 Hit Count: 411 ePub Downloads: 14
Published: April 07, 2023 Updated: April 07, 2023
Fade Away Again by Willow25 [PG] Likes: 225 Comments: 144
Summary:

How 'Not Fade Away' would have gone, in my world. Buffy gets involved in the Wolfram & Hart apocalypse, and changes the course of everyone's lives. This story is the first sequel to "Hole in My Pocket". Missing scenes and alternate ending for the Angel finale.

Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: FAA-Verse
Categories: Post-Series, Crossover (AtS)
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel, AtS Ensemble, Connor, Dawn, Giles, Willow
Genres: Action/Adventure, Fighting, Fix-It, Slow-Burn
Warnings: Adult Language, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 24 Table of Contents
Word count: 105,542 Hit Count: 16,969 ePub Downloads: 121
Published: October 16, 2022 Updated: December 23, 2022
Hole In My Pocket by Willow25 [PG] Likes: 34 Comments: 21
Summary: Post-ep for The Girl in Question. One year post Chosen, Spike and Buffy reconnect
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: FAA-Verse
Categories: Post-Series, Crossover (AtS), Alternate Reality
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Dawn, Spike
Genres: Angst, Established Relationship, Fix-It
Warnings: Buffy/Other (Temp)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 3,538 Hit Count: 1,652 ePub Downloads: 32
Published: October 12, 2022 Updated: October 12, 2022
Like A Feather by Willow25 [PG-13] Likes: 178 Comments: 90
Summary: Willow casts a spell to help Buffy fight Glory. Of course, it doesn't go as planned.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: ClowniestLivEver, the_wolf_among_the_roses
Artists: loveisntbrains_
Categories: Season 5, Alternate Reality
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Tara
Genres: Dramedy
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Character Death, Vampire!Buffy, Violence
Challenges: (Authors Choice)
Event: Truce Challenge 2023
Completed: Yes Chapters: 8 Table of Contents
Word count: 34,372 Hit Count: 6,080 ePub Downloads: 72
Published: October 16, 2023 Updated: August 22, 2024
Mysteries of the Unexplained by Willow25 [R] Likes: 80 Comments: 44
Summary: Drusilla has a vision of Angel's return from Acathla, sending Spike rushing back to Sunnydale on a quest to prevent his grandsire from trying to end the world again. What he finds instead is a feral and souled Angel, a traumatized Buffy, and a Mayor with big plans. Life's never dull on the Hellmouth, that's for sure.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 3, Alternate Reality
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Angel, Drusilla, Faith Lehane, Joyce
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama, Fix-It
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Character Death, Mental Health Issues, Suicidal Ideation, Violence
Event: Mystery Month 2024
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 46,357 Hit Count: 2,116 ePub Downloads: 48
Published: July 04, 2024 Updated: August 04, 2024
Scenes from the FAA-Verse by Willow25 [PG-13] Likes: 83 Comments: 57
Summary: Snippets in Buffy and Spike's life post Spiderwebs. I'm trying for scenes that can be understood without a larger knowledge of the Universe, so don't be afraid to try it.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: FAA-Verse
Categories: Post-Series, Drabbles
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Dawn, Original Characters, Oz
Genres: Established Relationship, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Lighthearted
Warnings: None
Event: Drabblemania 2023
Completed: Yes Chapters: 25 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,944 Hit Count: 3,825 ePub Downloads: 17
Published: July 02, 2023 Updated: July 13, 2023
Spiderwebs by Willow25 [R] Likes: 221 Comments: 186
Summary: After the Battle of the Black Thorn, the Angel Investigations crew is recovering in Los Angeles with their friendly neighborhood Slayers and staff from the New Council. But with an enemy targeting them and a lot of loose ends, they won't have long to rest. Meanwhile, the Council deals with a whole new set of problems. Third in the FAA-verse, an Alternate Universe Series beginning after The Girl In Question. 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: FAA-Verse
Categories: Post-Series, Crossover (AtS), Alternate Reality
Characters: Buffy, Spike, AtS Ensemble, Faith Lehane, Illyria, Original Characters, Robin Wood
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Established Relationship, Slow-Burn
Warnings: Adult Language, Attempted Suicide, Child Abuse, Human!Spike, Mental Health Issues, Sexual Situations, Substance Use/Addiction, Suicidal Ideation, Violence
Completed: No Chapters: 45 Table of Contents
Word count: 130,665 Hit Count: 17,413 ePub Downloads: 150
Published: January 04, 2023 Updated: December 30, 2023
Tears of Faith by Willow25 [NC-17] Likes: 51 Comments: 24
Summary: At loose ends after the collapse of Sunnydale, Buffy comes up with a plot to travel into the past and retrieve something of Spike's 'to remember him by'. She doesn't count on Spike being at Wolfram & Hart, or what his new memories mean for their future.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6, Post-Series, Crossover (AtS), Time Travel, Seasonal Spuffy Entries
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Willow, Angel, Dawn, Fred, Original Characters, Wesley, William
Genres: Dramedy, Erotica, HEA/HFN, Historical, Hurt/Comfort
Warnings: Human!Spike, Sexual Situations
Event: Secret Santa Fic Exchange 2023
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 13,888 Hit Count: 884 ePub Downloads: 50
Published: December 24, 2023 Updated: December 24, 2023
The Office Hellmouth by Willow25 [R] Likes: 24 Comments: 15
Summary: When Buffy gets a job somewhere other than the Doublemeat Palace, she faces a whole lot of new stresses, and completely different challenges. Not so much a Season 6 rewrite as an office story featuring Buffy and her life on the Hellmouth. Originally begun in 2007, though only a few chapters were ever previously posted.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Original Characters, Spike
Genres: Dramedy, Established Relationship, Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: Adult Language
Completed: No Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 10,993 Hit Count: 1,105 ePub Downloads: 3
Published: February 26, 2023 Updated: March 04, 2023
Try Not to Think About What Might Have Been by Willow25 [R] Likes: 11 Comments: 7
Summary: When Cordelia makes her wish to Anyanka, she's urged in another direction, which has consequences for all the Scoobies, even those Cordelia hasn't met yet.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: The What-If Books
Categories: Season 3, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Amy Madison, Andrew Wells, Cordelia, Devon MacLeish, Harmony, Jenny Calendar, Jesse McNally, Larry Blaisdell, Marcie Ross, Mr. Trick, Oliver Pike, Tara
Genres: Queer Themes
Warnings: Abuse, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Violence
Challenges: Not Every Wish Comes True
Event: April Challenge 2023
Completed: No Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,416 Hit Count: 553 ePub Downloads: 10
Published: April 07, 2023 Updated: April 07, 2023
Wonderful Unknown by Willow25 [PG-13] Likes: 28 Comments: 16
Summary: Canon Buffy encounters a Buffy from another Universe, and learns how a few surprising changes could lead to her having everything she's ever dreamed of. One of the What-If books.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: The What-If Books
Categories: Season 1, Alternate Reality, Baby/Kid Fic
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Joyce
Genres: Dramedy, Established Relationship, HEA/HFN, Lighthearted
Warnings: Abortion, Buffy/Other (Temp), Human!Spike, Infertility Issues/Miscarriage
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 9,901 Hit Count: 995 ePub Downloads: 21
Published: April 09, 2023 Updated: April 09, 2023