Penname: SlayrGrl
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Member Since: September 17, 2009
Last Active: May 18, 2024
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Even after all these years, this show still has a special place in my heart.

I've been writing for a long time now. I watched the show when it was on air, started reading fanfic around season 6 and started writing my own a year or so after season 7 ended. It wasn't until 2009 that I felt my writing was decent enough to even attempt to post on this site, but once I started this was home and I didn't bother posting to any other sites.

All my older stories are in the present tense. Anything written 2017 or later is in the past tense. My newer stories have banners, the older ones don't.

I also write YA and NA PNR and Urban Fantasy books under the pen name Lauryn April, and, I doodle a bit. You can find me on Instagram @lampblackandbone.

 

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Summary: Takes place part way through 6.15 “As you Were”. What if Spike really had been holding the Suvolte eggs for a friend and goes to Buffy for help with what to do with them.
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Riley Finn, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Fix-It
Warnings: Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 8,471 Hit Count: 10,177 ePub Downloads: 120
Published: April 04, 2010 Updated: April 13, 2010
Summary: How Buffy's birthday in OAFA might have gone differently if Dawn had asked Spike to go birthday gift shopping at the mall. Halfrek doesn't intervene and Buffy contemplates if she's ready to come out to her friends about her relationship with Spike. 
 
Challenge Response to The Danish Bird's "All Stay-Inny" challenge.
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Anya, Buffy, Clem, Dawn, Ensemble, Spike, Tara, Willow, Xander
Genres: Angst, Fix-It
Warnings: None
Challenges: All Stay-inny?
Event: April Challenge 2022
Completed: Yes Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 10,532 Hit Count: 4,107 ePub Downloads: 72
Published: April 13, 2022 Updated: April 24, 2022
Summary: Vengeance and heartbreak offer two enemies common ground. Season 2 post Becoming Part 2. In a time when Buffy and Spike feel most alone, they find themselves hunted. After a failed attempt to kill Angelus, they flee the Mansion together and find themselves on a journey that will lead them to question everything they thought defined who they were: good, evil, and even love.
 
Written for the Elysian Fields 2022 Road Trip Challenge.
 
Trigger warning for themes of sexual assault.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 2
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angelus, Drusilla, Ensemble, Faith Lehane
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama, Fighting, Hurt/Comfort, Kidnapping, Road Trip, Romance, Slow-Burn
Warnings: Abuse, Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Dubious Consent, Sexual Situations, Torture (Emotional/Psychological), Torture (Physical), Underage Sex, Violence
Event: Road Trip Challenge 2022
Completed: Yes Chapters: 27 Table of Contents
Word count: 74,777 Hit Count: 24,849 ePub Downloads: 269
Published: October 27, 2022 Updated: November 08, 2023
Summary: Buffy finds herself TRAPPED in a town-wide spell turning Sunnydale into a 1950’s version of itself intended to be her own personal hell. After the events of This Year's Girl, Buffy returns from LA. She quickly discovers the Mayor's back-up plans to ensure she's punished, in the event that she managed to foil his plans on Graduation Day, are far-reaching.
 
Written for the Elysian Fields 2020 Trapped Challenge.
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 4, Historical
Characters: Anya, Buffy, Ensemble, Giles, Joyce, Mayor Richard Wilkins III, Riley Finn, Spike, Tara, Willow, Xander
Genres: Action/Adventure, HEA/HFN, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Under Magical Influence
Warnings: Cheating/Infidelity, Human!Spike, Violence
Event: Trapped Challenge 2020
Completed: Yes Chapters: 23 Table of Contents
Word count: 51,459 Hit Count: 50,996 ePub Downloads: 375
Published: October 21, 2020 Updated: August 07, 2021
Summary: When Buffy is brought back from the dead she wants to die, until a dead man makes her feel alive and gives her something to live for. Set after Smashed skipping the events of Tabula Rasa. When new circumstances come about the Slayer has a choice to make. Meanwhile a prophecy develops that will bring Angel back into her life.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6, Baby/Kid Fic
Characters: None
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama, Romance
Warnings: Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 28 Table of Contents
Word count: 54,399 Hit Count: 76,007 ePub Downloads: 558
Published: February 07, 2012 Updated: August 22, 2012
Summary: Spike survives the battle in Chosen and tries to find his place in the world post-Sunnydale along with Buffy and her friends. When the battle’s done and Sunnydale is effectively wiped off the map, Buffy and the gang go to LA to regroup. As they plan for what comes next it becomes clear that someone else has plans for them putting Spike at risk of losing his soul, and just what would he do without it? How would Buffy react if he lost his soul? With a little help from Angel and the Fang Gang they just might overcome all odds.
 
[Note: This is definitely a Spuffy-centric fic, but you’ll also see some A/C, F/R, and I plan to break up W/K. There’s a strong X/D friendship that might grow into something more – I’m gonna feel that one out as I go. If you enjoyed the Spike/Angel banter in Angel S5, there’ll be plenty of that too, and a few fun cameos. This is gonna be epic.]
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7, Post-Series, Crossover (AtS), Episode Rewrite
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Charles Gunn, Cordelia, Dawn, Faith Lehane, Fred, Giles, Hank Summers, Kennedy, Oz, Riley Finn, Robin Wood, Spike, Wesley, Willow, Xander
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama, HEA/HFN, Hurt/Comfort, Romance
Warnings: Sexual Situations, Torture (Physical), Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 30 Table of Contents
Word count: 81,480 Hit Count: 39,419 ePub Downloads: 284
Published: August 09, 2021 Updated: February 26, 2022
Summary: What if the secret weapon that Buffy discovered in Touched wasn’t the scythe? What if it was something else?
 
Spike and Buffy accidentally travel back in time from Season 7 to Season 5. When they find themselves stuck in the past they devise a plan to prevent Buffy’s death and stop the First from ever appearing. But, their presence in the past has unexpected consequences. Like, what does a crazy vampire like Drusilla do when she sees Dawn as a shiny ball of light?
 
Trigger warning for discussion of the events of Seeing Red.
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 5, Season 7, Episode Rewrite, Time Travel
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel, Anya, Dawn, Drusilla, Faith Lehane, Giles, Glory, Harmony, Joyce, Tara, Warren Mears, Willow, Xander
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Fighting, Fix-It, Humor, Romance
Warnings: Character Death, Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 27 Table of Contents
Word count: 59,491 Hit Count: 121,504 ePub Downloads: 1,165
Published: November 30, 2017 Updated: January 16, 2018
Summary: There is one thing that Buffy Summers has feared since she became the Slayer. It is her worst nightmare, and now she must face it. After rejecting the Shadowmen's offer to make her more powerful Buffy realizes that she isn't strong enough to win in the fight against the First. Now there is only one option left to give her the strength she needs. To win Buffy must die, but can Spike bring himself to damn her?
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: The Darkness Chronicles:
Categories: Season 7
Characters: Ensemble
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Fighting, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Vampire!Buffy
Completed: Yes Chapters: 20 Table of Contents
Word count: 38,337 Hit Count: 30,030 ePub Downloads: 259
Published: February 04, 2011 Updated: June 29, 2011
Summary:  Sequel to "Embracing Darkness" A series of moments in the years after Buffy became a vampire to defeat the First. Starts out fluff, ends a bit angsty, but is setting the place for another fic which will take place years in the future after "EB". This fic fills in the time inbetween.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Series: The Darkness Chronicles:
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Ensemble
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Character Death, Vampire!Buffy
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 5,847 Hit Count: 4,204 ePub Downloads: 92
Published: July 06, 2011 Updated: July 20, 2011
Summary: One-shot. Angel doesn't show up with the amulet at the end of "End of Days". This is how Buffy's fight with Caleb may have gone with just Spike there to have her back, and what they might have talked about afterward.
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Caleb, Spike
Genres: Drama, Fighting
Warnings: Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,976 Hit Count: 1,483 ePub Downloads: 41
Published: September 21, 2019 Updated: September 21, 2019
Summary: The First’s tricks cause Spike to become catatonic. Buffy must enter his mind to save him. She discovers a dark world of pain and guilt within his consciousness and the journey leads her to know more about Spike then she ever wanted to. A story of dreams and desires and the memories that haunt two heros. Set after Season 7 Episode "Sleeper".
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Fighting
Warnings: Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 10 Table of Contents
Word count: 16,642 Hit Count: 11,362 ePub Downloads: 111
Published: December 22, 2011 Updated: January 23, 2012
Summary: Just a short musing about Buffy and her thoughts in early Season 6. She shares a moment of understanding with Spike on the back porch.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Canon-Compliant, Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,324 Hit Count: 491 ePub Downloads: 27
Published: April 03, 2010 Updated: April 04, 2010
Summary: When things with Riley don't seem to be working out Buffy is looking forward to some time with the scoobies, but everything is about to get a lot worse. The Initiative has created a virus and it's been set loose on Sunnydale causing the townspeople to become undead. With help from Spike can Buffy stop it before it's too late or will everyone end up dead, and just how does this disaster change things between the slayer and bleach blonde vamp? Starts at the end of S4 Doomed.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 4
Characters: Anya, Buffy, Riley Finn, Spike, Tara, Willow, Xander
Genres: Action/Adventure, Fighting, Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: Character Death, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 10 Table of Contents
Word count: 12,900 Hit Count: 10,061 ePub Downloads: 101
Published: June 22, 2010 Updated: January 21, 2011
Summary: Response to challenge by Killjoy: What if instead of the amulet being sent to Angel it got sent to Xander in Africa instead?
 
Going on a solo mission in the desert wasn't quite the therapeutic escape Xander had hoped for to help him move on with his life post Sunnydale. But, when Xander finds himself a new travel companion, he discovers that having an obnoxious vampire-ghost to keep him company might actually be worse than being alone in the desert.
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Original Characters, Spike, Willow, Xander
Genres: Action/Adventure, HEA/HFN, Humor, Lighthearted, Resurrection
Warnings: Sexual Situations, Violence
Challenges: Whatever you want to call it.
Event: 2020 Challenge Month
Completed: Yes Chapters: 8 Table of Contents
Word count: 15,122 Hit Count: 5,880 ePub Downloads: 101
Published: April 04, 2020 Updated: May 06, 2020