Penname: Wonder and Ashes
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Sunnydale Memorial Fanfiction Awards

Round 30

    

Round 31

     

Round 32

(Both The Light of the World and Things That Follow were deleted due to being unable to finish them. However, I'm hoping to re-work and re-upload the former under a new title, and include plot points of the latter into other fics. May I was deleted for personal reasons.) 

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Stories by Wonder and Ashes
#hashtagapocalypse by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 168 Comments: 138
Summary: If the apocalypse comes, tweet me.
 Best Comedy. 

Categories: Alternate Reality, Award Winners
Characters: Andrew Wells, Angel, Anya, Buffy, Clem, Connor, Cordelia, Darla, Dawn, Drusilla, Ethan Rayne, Faith Lehane, Fred, Giles, Charles Gunn, Harmony, Jenny Calendar, Jonathan Levinson, Joyce, Lorne, Oz, Riley Finn, Spike, Tara, Wesley, Whistler, Willow, Xander
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy, Parody
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,578 Hit Count: 10,750 ePub Downloads: 127
Published: May 27, 2015 Updated: May 27, 2015
A Beautiful Morning by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 45 Comments: 32
Summary: Dawn, noun: 
1. the first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise. 
2. the beginning of a phenomenon or period of time, especially one considered favourable. 
Categories: Season 5, Season 6, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response, Baby Fic
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Ensemble, Spike
Genres: Angst, Challenge Response, Hurt/Comfort, POV
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death
Challenges: Dawn's Death and Rebirth (Author's Choice of Name)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,742 Hit Count: 663 ePub Downloads: 10
Published: April 19, 2020 Updated: April 19, 2020
A Different Kind of Love by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 61 Comments: 40
Summary: An off-hand comment from Spike about Riley gradually makes Buffy realize that she’s the Slayer, and doesn’t need a boyfriend hanging around to make her life more complicated. If she’s going to fall in love, it’s going to happen all on its own without her trying. Oneshot. 
Categories: Season 4, Season 5, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response
Characters: Buffy, Ensemble, Riley Finn, Spike
Genres: Challenge Response, Drama, POV, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Buffy/Other (Temp), Character Death
Challenges: Buffy's Early Boyfriend Realization (Author's Choice of Name)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 7,644 Hit Count: 6,425 ePub Downloads: 174
Published: August 14, 2014 Updated: August 16, 2014
Past Featured StoryA Thousand Years by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 796 Comments: 482
Summary: Shared dreams between Buffy and Spike lead to knowledge of what happened in the past – and open new doors leading to a potential future together, if they’re able to not make the same mistakes as their ancestors. Banner made by the amazingly talented Linnae13. 
 Best Alternate Universe, Best Pairing (Conventional), Best Plot and Best Romance. 

Categories: Season 4, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response, Historical, Claim, Song Fic, Award Winners
Characters: Angel, Anya, Buffy, Cordelia, Dawn, Faith Lehane, Giles, Joyce, Other, Oz, Riley Finn, Spike, Tara, Willow, Xander
Genres: Action/Adventure, Challenge Response, Drama, Fighting, Historical, POV, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Buffy/Other (Temp), Character Death, Sexual Situations, Violence
Challenges: Reincarnation (Author's Choice of Name)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 35 Table of Contents
Word count: 71,667 Hit Count: 113,579 ePub Downloads: 829
Published: September 04, 2014 Updated: June 28, 2015
Past Featured StoryBringing Light into Darkness by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 494 Comments: 332
Summary: A Slayer who thinks for herself, a vampire who was made wrong, and a series of events that inevitably draws them together. Set in an AU world where Angel never got a soul. 
Posted as part of 2015's Challenge Month! 
Categories: Season 3, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response
Characters: Angelus, Anya, Buffy, Cordelia, Darla, Dawn, Drusilla, Ensemble, Giles, Joyce, Kendra, Other, Oz, Spike, Wesley, Willow, Xander
Genres: Action/Adventure, Challenge Response, Drama, Fighting, POV, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Attempted Rape, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Torture, Violence
Challenges: Slayer of Slayers
Completed: Yes Chapters: 20 Table of Contents
Word count: 68,441 Hit Count: 38,058 ePub Downloads: 379
Published: October 01, 2015 Updated: November 18, 2018
Broken by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 82 Comments: 51
Summary: When the Tabula Rasa spell is broken, Buffy regains some memories she was never supposed to remember… 
Categories: Season 6, Crossover (AtS), Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response, Song Fic
Characters: Angel, Anya, Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Spike, Tara, Willow, Xander
Genres: Angst, Challenge Response, Hurt/Comfort, POV
Warnings: Adult Language, Attempted Suicide
Challenges: "I Will Remember You" & "Tabula Rasa" (Author's Choice of Name), Hey Wait a Minute (author's choice of name), Tabula Rasa unanticipated results
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,716 Hit Count: 2,485 ePub Downloads: 53
Published: April 01, 2019 Updated: April 01, 2019
Can't Go Back the Same Way You Came by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 70 Comments: 43
Summary: Buffy comes back from Heaven a changed woman – in more ways than one. Oneshot. AU set during the first half of season 6. 
Categories: Season 6, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response, Holiday Fic
Characters: Buffy, Ensemble, Spike
Genres: Challenge Response, Drama, POV, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Challenges: Fallen Angel
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 7,699 Hit Count: 4,847 ePub Downloads: 103
Published: December 15, 2015 Updated: December 15, 2015
Cry by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 49 Comments: 41
Summary: If grief can do one thing, it’s bring enemies together. “The Body” AU. Oneshot.
 Best Angst - Spuffy and Best Episode Re-write. 

Categories: Season 5, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Ensemble, Joyce, Spike
Genres: Angst, Challenge Response, Drama, POV
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death
Challenges: "The Body" AU (Author's Choice of Name)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 7,500 Hit Count: 2,515 ePub Downloads: 79
Published: January 29, 2015 Updated: January 29, 2015
Past Featured StoryLa Belle et la Bête by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 317 Comments: 193
Summary: So Buffy’s life was foretold in a famous fairy tale. Who knew? She and Spike certainly didn’t, despite being the protagonists of this unexpected love story. Banner made by the amazingly talented Freya.
 Best Fluff and Best Movie Crossover. 
 
Categories: Season 4, Crossover (AtS), Crossover (Books or TV shows outside Buffyverse), Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response, Song Fic, Award Winners, Award Runners-Up
Characters: Angel, Anya, Buffy, Dawn, Drusilla, Faith Lehane, Giles, Joyce, Riley Finn, Spike, Tara, William, Willow, Xander
Genres: Challenge Response, Dramedy, Fighting, POV, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Character Death, Spike/Other (Temp), Violence
Challenges: 'Beauty and the Beast' Prophecy (Author's Choice of Name)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 21 Table of Contents
Word count: 30,089 Hit Count: 44,254 ePub Downloads: 342
Published: September 04, 2014 Updated: October 07, 2014
Life Goes On by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 48 Comments: 29
Summary: Joyce lives long enough so she’s the one who jumps off the tower and closes the portal in “The Gift”. Oneshot. Banner made by the amazingly talented DauntlessGrace!
Categories: Season 5, Season 6, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Ensemble, Joyce, Spike
Genres: Angst, Challenge Response, Drama, POV, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death, Sexual Situations
Challenges: Joyce Dies in "The Gift" (Author's Choice of Name)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 9,729 Hit Count: 2,012 ePub Downloads: 68
Published: January 25, 2016 Updated: January 25, 2016
Past Featured StoryNever the Same by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 373 Comments: 216
Summary: Once upon a time a Slayer and a Vampire fell in love. Buffy thinks it’s BS. Spike thinks it’s an impossible dream. 
Banner made by the amazingly talented DauntlessGrace! 
Categories: Pre-Series, Season 5, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Ensemble, Joyce, Original Characters, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Challenge Response, Drama, Hurt/Comfort, POV, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Violence
Challenges: Older Slayer
Completed: Yes Chapters: 14 Table of Contents
Word count: 88,173 Hit Count: 12,436 ePub Downloads: 194
Published: July 06, 2019 Updated: July 29, 2019
Once Upon a Time by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 49 Comments: 39
Summary: Once upon a time there lived a Princess with golden braided hair named Buffy, who was a valiant Shieldmaiden for her Kingdom that resided in the Valley of the Sun.
Written for the Elysian Fields 'Artistic Anniversary Challenge'. Banner 45 by Sunalso.
Categories: Alternate Reality, Challenge Response, All Human/Fantasy
Characters: Andrew Wells, Angel, Anya, Buffy, Clem, Connor, Cordelia, Darla, Dawn, Drusilla, Ethan Rayne, Faith Lehane, Fred, Giles, Charles Gunn, Harmony, Jenny Calendar, Jonathan Levinson, Joyce, Kendra, Original Characters, Oz, Riley Finn, Spike, Tara, Wesley, Willow, Xander
Genres: Action/Adventure, Challenge Response, POV, Romance
Warnings: Buffy/Other (Temp), Character Death, Violence
Challenges: Fantasy AU (Author's Choice of Name)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 8,634 Hit Count: 1,587 ePub Downloads: 53
Published: October 01, 2016 Updated: October 01, 2016
Pieces of Heaven by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 39 Comments: 20
Summary: After Angel's death, Buffy becomes afraid to love again. Oneshot, AU-ish. Banner made by the amazingly talented myrabeth!
Categories: Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Ensemble, Spike
Genres: Angst, Challenge Response, Drama, POV, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Sexual Situations
Challenges: Angel Comes Back Later (Author's Choice of Name)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 8,810 Hit Count: 2,204 ePub Downloads: 67
Published: May 01, 2015 Updated: May 01, 2015
Past Featured StorySeraphim by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 275 Comments: 169
Summary: Spike sacrifices himself to save Dawn and the world, forcing Buffy to question everything she's ever known. A story that diverges from canon during "The Gift". Banner made by the amazingly talented javajunkie247.
Categories: Season 5, Season 6, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response, Baby Fic
Characters: Angel, Anya, Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Original Characters, Spike, Tara, Whistler, Willow, Xander
Genres: Challenge Response, Drama, POV
Warnings: Adult Language, Attempted Rape, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Violence
Challenges: Author's Choice
Completed: Yes Chapters: 9 Table of Contents
Word count: 31,252 Hit Count: 23,600 ePub Downloads: 353
Published: January 13, 2016 Updated: March 09, 2016
Sledgehammer by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 53 Comments: 22
Summary: A rewrite of "Crush", in which Drusilla doesn't come alone and things end up going very differently... 
Banner made by the amazingly talented DauntlessGrace! 
Categories: Season 5, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Darla, Drusilla, Spike
Genres: Drama, POV
Warnings: Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,688 Hit Count: 1,137 ePub Downloads: 29
Published: June 27, 2019 Updated: June 27, 2019
Past Featured StoryThe Littlest Summers by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 56 Comments: 40
Summary: In which Dawn arrives in season 1, and instead becomes a weird but intelligent ten year old who thinks Spike is the best thing since sliced bread. Oneshot. Banner made by the amazingly talented DauntlessGrace!
stamp Best Episode Re-write and Best Characterization (Dawn). 
Categories: Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Ensemble, Spike
Genres: Challenge Response, Dramedy, POV
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Spike/Other (Temp)
Challenges: The Littlest Summers (Author's Choice of Name), Dawn Arrives in Season 1 (Author's Choice of Name)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,960 Hit Count: 4,074 ePub Downloads: 119
Published: August 18, 2014 Updated: August 18, 2014
The Mark of a Mate by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 92 Comments: 56
Summary: They say that if your soulmark is red, then your soulmate will kill you when you meet. So when Buffy discovers that her soulmate is a vampire, she expects the worst to happen... Oneshot. 
Categories: Pre-Series, Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response
Characters: Angel, Anya, Buffy, Cordelia, Ensemble, Giles, Jenny Calendar, Spike, Willow, Xander
Genres: Challenge Response, Drama, POV, Pre-Series, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language
Challenges: The Mark of a Mate
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,703 Hit Count: 3,315 ePub Downloads: 102
Published: May 01, 2017 Updated: May 01, 2017
The Truth by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 44 Comments: 28
Summary: Spike decides to try and split Buffy and Riley apart as part of his plan in “The Yoko Factor”. Oneshot. 
Categories: Season 4, Season 5, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Ensemble, Riley Finn, Spike
Genres: Challenge Response, Drama, Fighting, POV, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Violence
Challenges: Buffy & Riley Split in "Yoko Factor" (Author's Choice of Name)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,927 Hit Count: 2,794 ePub Downloads: 79
Published: May 11, 2015 Updated: May 11, 2015
Unliving Conditions by Wonder and Ashes [PG-13] Likes: 35 Comments: 24
Summary: Buffy discovers that Harmony is her college roommate, but that doesn’t mean the world is ending. Probably. 
Oneshot. Banner made by the amazingly talented DauntlessGrace! 
Categories: Season 4, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Ensemble, Harmony, Parker Abrams, Spike
Genres: Dramedy, POV, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 13,059 Hit Count: 980 ePub Downloads: 37
Published: November 03, 2018 Updated: November 03, 2018