Penname: Melme1325
Real Name: Melissa AKA “Mimi”
Pronouns: She/Her
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Member Since: May 07, 2023
Last Active: April 20, 2025
Membership Status: Member
Skin: every night
Author

I took a long break from writing after the series ended. The last episode was a pretty big blow and Spuffy fans totally got stiffed—as if Seeing Red wasn’t a big enough slap in the face. So, for a long time, I was done. Recently got back into writing fan fiction on my own then I stumbled across this site and after being inspired by the truly great writing here, I decided to get back into it after 20 years! 

What you’ll see from me is an effort to come up with creative alternatives to the stories we were provided. I like to show what Spuffy could have been. I hope that my stories provide the unexpected and a bit of fun, even when I’m tackling controversial subjects. 

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Summary: He was dead. She saw him burn up. She saw him swallowed by the ground as everything around them collapsed. Now, here he is in front of her. Not only is he in front of her, solid, speaking, and completely naked--he's also clearly not burning to a crisp under the very bright sun.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace, Kittyfantastico
Artists: cd85
Series: Afterburn: The Series
Categories: Post-Series, Alternate Reality, Challenge Response, Baby/Kid Fanwork
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Dawn, Drusilla, Faith Lehane, Joyce, Original Characters
Genres: Action/Adventure, Dramedy, Established Relationship, Fighting, Fix-It, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Romance
Warnings: Blood Play, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Torture (Physical), Violence, Baby/Kid
Challenges: Spike is redeemed by his sacrifice
Completed: Yes Chapters: 32 Table of Contents
Word count: 66,822 Hit Count: 12,603 ePub Downloads: 183
Published: January 06, 2024 Updated: March 31, 2024
Summary: Being a teenager's tough. It's even worse when your mom's a slayer, your dad's a vampire, and they seem to have made it their mission to redefine helicopter parenting just because you're blind. What's a girl to do? As Daisy Summers figures it, if they won't give her an opportunity to prove herself, she'll do it by force.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace, Kittyfantastico
Artists: cd85
Summary: By the year 2030, Buffy and Spike had been together for over 27 years—for the last 10 of those years they were Claimed to each other. During a battle with a tribe of winged vampires Spike died saving Buffy. When he wakes up, he’ll find himself back in season 4, trapped in the Initiative lab following a unique experiment.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: CheekyKitten
Series: Crossing Oceans of Time to Find You
Categories: Season 4, Post-Series, Alternate Reality, Challenge Response, Claim, Time Travel
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Joyce, Maggie Walsh, Riley Finn, Tara
Genres: Action/Adventure, Dramedy, Fighting, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Resurrection, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Violence
Challenges: Crossing Oceans of Time to Find You Open Series
Completed: No Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,755 Hit Count: 173 ePub Downloads: 1
Published: April 19, 2025 Updated: April 19, 2025
Summary: After witnessing Spike's greatest fear, buried memories of a past life resurface in Buffy's dreams revealing a deeper connection to Spike than she could have ever imagined. Meanwhile, an old enemy bent on revenge has returned and with the help of a powerful ally, in hopes to resurrect the villain that changed everything.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6, Season 7, Alternate Reality
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anne Pratt, Anya, Ben Wilkinson, Dawn, Drusilla, Faith Lehane, Original Characters, William
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Dramedy, Fighting, Romance, Slow-Burn
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 15 Table of Contents
Word count: 29,810 Hit Count: 4,184 ePub Downloads: 73
Published: December 09, 2023 Updated: December 30, 2023
Summary: When Buffy finds out that Spike is back in Sunnydale, soul in tact, she's shocked to find that rather than being torn up and brooding, he's resumed his mantle of boss vampire and is partying harder than ever.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace
Artists: Harmony99
Categories: Season 7, Alternate Reality
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Dawn, Faith Lehane, Tara, Warren Mears
Genres: Fighting, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Horror, Humor, Lighthearted, Romance, Under Magical Influence
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp), Substance Use/Addiction, Violence
Completed: No Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,266 Hit Count: 373 ePub Downloads: 2
Published: April 11, 2025 Updated: April 18, 2025
Summary: After helping Spike get back on his feet as he adjusts to his soul, Buffy’s been trying to come to terms with what this new development means. She thought she’d have time to sort out her emotions but when an old flame of Spike’s returns to Sunnydale, she finds herself feeling the pressure of new competition. Unfortunately, with a new Big Bad in town, she’s got no choice but to accept his ex’s help or Sunnydale doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in Hell.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace
Artists: CheekyKitten
Categories: Season 7, Holiday
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Dawn, Faith Lehane, Original Characters
Genres: Action/Adventure, Dramedy, Fighting, HEA/HFN, Horror, Humor, Romance, Slow-Burn
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 7 Table of Contents
Word count: 13,897 Hit Count: 2,151 ePub Downloads: 43
Published: November 30, 2024 Updated: December 22, 2024
Summary:

The Scoobies accidentally unleash a demon that feeds on the pain of human souls. They brace themselves for one of them to be affected by the demon’s oppression, but when Spike’s the one who shows up apparently suffering the effects of the demon’s magic, they’re all very confused.

Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace
Artists: CheekyKitten
Categories: Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Angelus, Anne Pratt, Anya, Dawn, Drusilla, Tara, William
Genres: Angst, Dramedy, Fighting, HEA/HFN, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Slow-Burn, Under Magical Influence
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Torture (Emotional/Psychological), Torture (Implied), Torture (Physical), Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 7 Table of Contents
Word count: 13,114 Hit Count: 1,899 ePub Downloads: 34
Published: March 07, 2025 Updated: April 19, 2025
Summary: After bringing down an abandoned building together, Buffy and Spike share a dream revealing their future which changes everything. Sunnydale is later plagued by the presence of a secret society of the world's strongest spell-casters and the Scoobies' only hope of defeating them is enlisting the help of someone who deals in forces far darker than any of them understand.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6, Alternate Reality, Challenge Response, Claim
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Andrew Wells, Anya, Dawn, Jonathan Levinson, Joyce, Kendra, Original Characters, Riley Finn, Tara, Warren Mears
Genres: Action/Adventure, Dramedy, Fighting, Fix-It, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Horror, Humor, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death, Gun Violence, Sexual Situations, Violence
Event: Truce Challenge 2023
Completed: Yes Chapters: 25 Table of Contents
Word count: 54,993 Hit Count: 9,287 ePub Downloads: 155
Published: October 01, 2023 Updated: December 03, 2023
Summary: Spike never expected he would meet his end by sacrificing himself to save the world, but beyond that he definitely didn't expect that after doing so, he'd find himself waking up in the past. Now, that he's back from the future, it's time to figure out what to do next.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace
Artists: cd85
Summary: Buffy had no intentions of getting involved with another vampire ever again after Angel. No--she had plans for a nice, normal future (sorta) and maybe even a nice, normal boyfriend--who knows? At least those were her intentions, until the Watchers' Council sent a new soulful vampire to help out around town. Things change, right? Problem is, not everyone likes change.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace
Artists: loveisntbrains_
Categories: Season 4, Alternate Reality
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anne Pratt, Forrest Gates, Joyce, Maggie Walsh, Original Characters, Riley Finn
Genres: Action/Adventure, Dramedy, Fighting, HEA/HFN, Horror, Humor, Kidnapping, Romance, Under Magical Influence
Warnings: Adult Language, Attempted Rape, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Torture (Physical), Violence
Challenges: She Survived
Event: April Challenge Month 2024
Completed: Yes Chapters: 10 Table of Contents
Word count: 21,903 Hit Count: 3,738 ePub Downloads: 65
Published: April 05, 2024 Updated: June 02, 2024
Summary: What if Buffy and Faith’s body swap happened in season 6?... When a new love interest of Faith’s sets her sights on avenging the slayer’s downfall, Buffy’s world is turned upside down as the cunning witch empowers Faith to sow chaos, whether she wants to or not.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: EverythingElse
Artists: Harmony99
Categories: Challenge Response, Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Dawn, Faith Lehane, Original Characters, Tara
Genres: Dramedy, Fighting, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Queer Themes, Romance, Under Magical Influence
Warnings: Abuse, Adult Language, Rape (Implied), Sexual Situations, Violence
Challenges: All men are dogs (title optional)
Event: April Challenge Month 2025
Completed: No Chapters: 4 Table of Contents
Word count: 6,535 Hit Count: 373 ePub Downloads: 4
Published: April 02, 2025 Updated: April 19, 2025
Summary: The PTB had enough of Buffy's appeals to get Spike back after he sacrificed himself on the Hellmouth. When they finally relented in retrieving his soul from Hell, they could send his soul to whatever year they wanted--why not mess with the slayer a bit? 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace
Artists: loveisntbrains_
Summary: When an ex shows up at Spike's crypt, his world is turned upside down as he finds out he's got a 5-year-old daughter and it's going to be on him to raise her. He had planned for an unlife of chaos, but this is something he'd never imagined. How's a chipped, soulless rogue supposed to make a proper father? He's going to have to make some serious changes if he has any hope of not screwing this up...
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace
Artists: CheekyKitten
Categories: Season 5, Baby/Kid Fanwork
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Ben Wilkinson, Clem, Dawn, Glory, Joyce, Original Characters, Riley Finn, Tara, Willy the Snitch
Genres: Action/Adventure, Dramedy, Fighting, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, Lighthearted, Romance, Slow-Burn
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Cheating/Infidelity, Sexual Situations, Torture (Implied), Torture (Physical), Violence, Baby/Kid
Completed: Yes Chapters: 20 Table of Contents
Word count: 42,019 Hit Count: 11,510 ePub Downloads: 112
Published: August 10, 2024 Updated: December 08, 2024
Summary: After finding out about Spike’s soul, Buffy’s been letting Spike recover in her basement. One day she finds him in a strange coma and learns that he’s fallen so far into despair that he’s retreated into his mind and will eventually turn to stone. Buffy learns the only way to save him is to go into his mind and bring him back to reality. She risks her life and undertakes the effort to traverse Spike’s self-imposed Hell and, in the process, learns why she can’t just let him go.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace
Artists: Harmony99
Summary: After miraculously saving Spike on the Hellmouth, Buffy is ready to start a new life in a new city. She should feel happy or at least relieved, but the pain of her friends’ and her sister’s recent betrayal clouds her mind. Meanwhile, a new Big Bad will test the Scoobies’ resolve, and she won’t back down. After all, all is fair in love and war.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace
Artists: CheekyKitten, KAIZSCHE
Categories: Season 7, Post-Series, Claim
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Dawn, Faith Lehane, Original Characters
Genres: Action/Adventure, Dark, Drama, Dramedy, Established Relationship, Fighting, HEA/HFN, Horror, Resurrection, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Torture (Physical), Violence
Event: Betrayal Challenge 2024
Completed: No Chapters: 4 Table of Contents
Word count: 8,618 Hit Count: 1,139 ePub Downloads: 17
Published: October 04, 2024 Updated: November 01, 2024
Summary: Spike is headed back to Sunnydale to kill Buffy, but this time with a friend in tow, a fairy, whose powers he's convinced will help him end the Slayer once and for all. However, after he's captured by the Initiative, his plans are ruined and the only person who can help him is Buffy.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Kittyfantastico
Artists: Axell, loveisntbrains_
Summary: Season 6 rewrite. Buffy claws out of her grave into a world of chaos and coldness. At the same time, Spike has just returned from getting his soul. He lived through Hell and seeks a place of warmth he remembers. They both return to the Summers home and find each other. In their pain and trauma, they find peace in each other’s presence and what unfolds changes everything.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace
Artists: CheekyKitten
Summary: After Buffy dies in “Prophecy Girl” the PTB replaces Buffy’s soul with the soul of a Buffy from an alternate universe. AU Buffy remembers Angelus as the vampire who killed her last Watcher, and whom she dusted with the help of the man she loved, and recently lost—Spike.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: EverythingElse
Artists: CheekyKitten
Summary: With the Gem of Amara in hand, Spike is going to Sunnydale. Fighting the slayers before was a rush, but this time he is going to take a page from his grandsire and enjoy the hunt a bit more. What greater fun could he have than getting to know these new slayers by infiltrating their high school and convincing them that he was a new, innocent, ordinary student. This might get his mind off his recent break-up with Drusilla. It’d take a bit of magic and flare, but he's going to have good time if it kills him.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace
Artists: cd85
Categories: Season 3, Alternate Reality, Challenge Response
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Faith Lehane, Joyce, Original Characters, Oz, Principal Snyder
Genres: Action/Adventure, Dramedy, Fighting, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Horror, Humor, Lighthearted, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Sexual Situations, Torture (Implied), Torture (Physical), Violence
Challenges: Spike’s the new kid in school
Completed: Yes Chapters: 11 Table of Contents
Word count: 23,363 Hit Count: 4,034 ePub Downloads: 92
Published: June 01, 2024 Updated: August 09, 2024
Summary: When Riley finds out Buffy was with Spike in an abandoned building all night, he jumps to the worst conclusion and vows to deliver vengeance for Buffy. Spike is captured and the events that follow lead him to the only logical conclusion: Buffy betrayed him.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace
Artists: Harmony99
Categories: Season 6, Claim
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Clem, Dawn, Harmony, Original Characters, Riley Finn, Tara
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Dark, Fighting, Horror, Kidnapping, Road Trip, Romance, Slow-Burn
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp), Torture (Emotional/Psychological), Torture (Implied), Torture (Physical), Violence
Event: Betrayal Challenge 2024
Completed: Yes Chapters: 10 Table of Contents
Word count: 18,128 Hit Count: 3,880 ePub Downloads: 44
Published: October 06, 2024 Updated: November 30, 2024
Summary: Buffy and Spike find themselves in a whirlwind of chaos that brings them far far away from Sunnydale into the technicolor Land of Oz. They quickly find out that dancing Munchkins and pretty colors hide sinister secrets in their adventure to get back home. Can they set aside their hatred and work together to escape this dangerous world of magic?
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace
Artists: CheekyKitten, loveisntbrains_
Categories: Season 4
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Original Characters
Genres: Action/Adventure, Apocalyptic/Dystopian, Dark, Dramedy, Fighting, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Horror, Humor, Lighthearted, Mystery, Romance, Slow-Burn
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Sexual Situations, Torture (Implied), Torture (Physical)
Completed: No Chapters: 8 Table of Contents
Word count: 14,752 Hit Count: 883 ePub Downloads: 10
Published: August 02, 2024 Updated: November 24, 2024
Summary: In her pain, desperation, and self-loathing, Buffy accidentally kills Spike. Overcome by grief and regret, she ceases to function, but deep in the fogs of Limbo, William hears her cries. He finds his way to Earth and vows to return to her, no matter what it takes.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: EverythingElse
Artists: CheekyKitten
Categories: Season 6, Alternate Reality, High Fantasy
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Angel, Anya, Dawn, Faith Lehane, Halfrek, Original Characters, Tara, William
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Dark, Drama, Fighting, HEA/HFN, Horror, Kidnapping, Resurrection, Romance, Tragedy
Warnings: Abuse, Adult Language, Character Death, Mental Health Issues, Sexual Situations, Suicidal Ideation, Torture (Implied), Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 9 Table of Contents
Word count: 16,788 Hit Count: 2,651 ePub Downloads: 39
Published: February 15, 2025 Updated: April 12, 2025
Summary: When an imposter, bent on foiling the Scoobies' plans for the apocalypse, infiltrates the Potentials--what will Buffy do?
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7, Alternate Reality, Baby/Kid Fanwork
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Caleb, Dawn, Faith Lehane, Original Characters, The First Evil
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Dark, Drama, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death, Mental Health Issues, Sexual Situations, Suicide, Violence, Baby/Kid
Completed: Yes Chapters: 6 Table of Contents
Word count: 10,887 Hit Count: 2,282 ePub Downloads: 42
Published: July 28, 2023 Updated: August 06, 2023
Summary: When Spike burns up saving the world, his soul is transported in time and space to another reality without any hope of return to the slayer he loves. Now, he has to learn how to make the best of it. If he can't be with the one he loves, he can find a way to help. He joins the Watchers' Council with the intention of making life better for slayers. Unfortunately, when he has to go to Sunnydale, he quickly finds that being around any version of Buffy might be more than he can handle and keeping his distance is easier said than done.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace
Artists: Harmony99
Summary: Spike returns to Sunnydale with his soul, but he's not quite himself. In fact, at first, he's totally feral. Seeing the pain he's struggling with Buffy takes it on herself to help him heal; however, the visions he's seen of the future are keeping him in a very dark place.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace
Artists: CheekyKitten, Melme1325
Categories: Season 7
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Angel, Anya, Clem, Dawn, Faith Lehane, Tara
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Dark, Drama, Fighting, HEA/HFN, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Under Magical Influence
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death, Mental Health Issues, Sexual Situations, Torture (Emotional/Psychological), Violence
Completed: No Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 9,090 Hit Count: 962 ePub Downloads: 11
Published: March 14, 2025 Updated: April 18, 2025
Summary: Let the Spuffy Hunger Games begin!—No vampire can get under Buffy’s skin quite like Spike. No slayer’s ever been quite so annoying to Spike as Buffy. As far as they’re concerned, the world’s too small for the both of them. Unfortunately, when they both find themselves in the middle of a reality show somewhere in the depths of Hell, teamed up against other demons in a fight to the death, they realize they have no choice but to rely on each other if they have any hope of getting back home.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Doublemeat Palace, Kittyfantastico
Artists: loveisntbrains_
Categories: Season 4, Challenge Response
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Drusilla, Original Characters
Genres: Action/Adventure, Dramedy, Fighting, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, Lighthearted, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Sexual Situations, Violence
Challenges: Hunger games
Event: April Challenge Month 2024
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 9,603 Hit Count: 1,285 ePub Downloads: 30
Published: April 01, 2024 Updated: April 14, 2024