Penname: pfeifferpack
Real Name: Kathleen Pfeiffer
Pronouns: she/her
Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA
Member Since: November 22, 2006
Last Active: May 14, 2024
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Note on my fic. If a story is written within the canon we saw on screen There might be pairings that we saw on the show. Meaning in S2 there might be bits of Buffy/Angel and Spike/Dru, S4 might have Buffy/Riley or Spike/Harmony. It is extremely rare for me to go into ANY detail with non-Spuffy pairings but unless the story is totally AU, if it was on your screen it might be referred to in the story. I haven't put warnings on those fics of "other" and when/if those canon pairings are implied in the story they do not last. If you just cannot handle even a hint of canon pairings that were part of the history of the show you might want to only read my stories set after Riley leaves in S5 or those that are AU from the beginning. As of 12/2020 I will add warnings if any other pairing is even remotely referred to but my previous stories might not have that warning.

 

I'm one of the site mods here at Elysian Fields.
If you have any questions or queries, Or a suggestion for a featured story, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Born 1954 but like old cheese and wine, I like to think I've improved with age. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana but live in Albuquerque, NM since 1979. 

Love the Buffyverse and adore Spike. Luckily my husband is also a fan (even of fic) and fully supportive of my vices. He is my ears for my stories as the first to "hear" my stories and comment. 

Other than that I'm rather dull. Have managed a mainframe computer room for years and programmed those old suckers (primarily COBOL language). Taught middle school for 3 years. Co-own a commercial cleaning company since 1993 (after 22 years in mainframe computing), 

Love to write and love to read. Teaching myself graphics and love to make banners and icons too. Have traveled a lot and have NEVER stopped learning (History is a favorite subject but take online and in-person courses as an ongoing process).  No living children but lots of dogs...hence the "pack" in my screen name. (Kathleen Pfeiffer the actual name) 

All stories prior to August 2016 were Beta'd. My Beta and dearest sister of the heart was Mary Tanner (Scarlett2U).  Her talent, knowledge, generous heart, quick mind, and love of Spuffy were invaluable to me.  Her encouragement and skills are something I would wish for any writer.  She is also a skillful comma surgeon! Sadly she has run out of time to Beta for others and all work posted by me after that date are unBeta'd.

Am working on completing my WIPs. Barring death I will never leave a story incomplete forever!

 

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Summary: This takes place between "Wrecked" and "Gone" in season 6. "Wrecked" is the last episode aired before Christmas that year and "Gone" was aired after the New Year. A kinder S6 Spuffy moment.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Dawn
Genres: Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 6,432 Hit Count: 4,073 ePub Downloads: 84
Published: November 28, 2006 Updated: November 28, 2006
Summary: S6 depressed Buffy must rescue Spike from the Initiative after he has been recaptured by a seemingly deranged Riley who is working out his "Spike issues" on the captive.  Buffy, Giles and the Scoobies must rethink their feelings about the chipped vampire and work together if rescue is to be in time.
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Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Ensemble, Riley Finn
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama, Fighting, Romance
Warnings: Rape (Implied), Sexual Situations, Torture (Physical), Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 21 Table of Contents
Word count: 61,068 Hit Count: 24,442 ePub Downloads: 419
Published: January 15, 2007 Updated: January 15, 2007
Summary:
Poems in varying styles in the voice of souled Spike for seasonal_spuffy spring 2009
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Poetry, Seasonal Spuffy Entries
Characters: None
Genres: None
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 499 Hit Count: 1,362 ePub Downloads: 34
Published: June 17, 2018 Updated: June 17, 2018
Summary: S4 during “Something Blue.”
Summary: What if there were a residual attraction after Willow’s spell?  What if that attraction were real? What would a witch do to make it right?  Once more, someone else decides what is best for the Slayer.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Season 4, Episode Rewrite, Seasonal Spuffy Entries
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Ensemble
Genres: Drama
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 3,761 Hit Count: 3,182 ePub Downloads: 80
Published: November 13, 2008 Updated: November 13, 2008
Summary: A brief exploration in contrasts as Angel gets caught up in the spell from Tabula Rasa along with the others. Very different behaviors from the two vampires in Buffy's life would be very illuminating but would it be enough to make Buffy see that those who've stayed at her side have more to offer than she's allowed them give? Would parts of her broken heart begin to mend even as the rest of her heart is in tatters? Just what lessons could they all learn from what they witness?
'Tabula Rasa with Angel' Challenge by stormkitten
Both story and banner by pfeifferpack, unbeta’d
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6
Characters: Angel, Anya, Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Spike, Tara, Willow, Xander
Genres: Drama
Warnings: None
Challenges: Tabula Rasa with Angel
Event: 2019 Challenge Month
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 18,532 Hit Count: 16,246 ePub Downloads: 269
Published: April 05, 2019 Updated: May 22, 2019
Summary: Facing a fight with the First was nerve-racking enough but don't discount living with Andrew for driving Buffy to the very edge.
Just a bit of fluff set in S7.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7
Characters: Andrew Wells, Buffy, Giles, Spike, Xander
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy, Humor, Lighthearted
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 648 Hit Count: 770 ePub Downloads: 25
Published: January 02, 2019 Updated: January 02, 2019
Summary: In a world created by a Sock With A Soul, Willow's "Will Be Done" spell turns the idea that Spike stuck to Buffy like glue true, stirring up all sorts of new trouble.
A collaborative effort of authors, artists and betas cooking up a birthday Buffy treat for bewildered.
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Gort, OffYourBird, trilliumjente
Artists: SoaringClaws, Twinkles
Categories: Season 4
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 16,257 Hit Count: 6,482 ePub Downloads: 203
Published: May 30, 2019 Updated: May 30, 2019
Summary: Spike sobers up after Lovers Walk and wonders why he wants to go back to a cheating Dru anyway. Buffy, meanwhile, tries to get a handle on a future that won’t include Angel. Can two broken hearts find an island of comfort in each other’s arms and then just walk away?


Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Season 3, Seasonal Spuffy Entries
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel
Genres: Porn w/ Plot, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language
Completed: Yes Chapters: 4 Table of Contents
Word count: 13,225 Hit Count: 9,754 ePub Downloads: 257
Published: November 22, 2006 Updated: November 23, 2006
Summary: Buffy has an epiphany while arguing with Giles over Spike.  Will her date with Robin Wood further muddle things between the Slayer and her insecure vampire?  Will her words undo the damage already done?  Can a bit of honesty change their path?
 
Setting:  S7 Beginning of “First Date” and AU from there
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Other
Genres: Drama, Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 5,336 Hit Count: 4,854 ePub Downloads: 91
Published: May 11, 2009 Updated: May 11, 2009
Summary: requested prompt: “At the end of S7 Lies My Parents Told Me I would like to have Buffy lying on her bed thinking of every time Giles has let her down, betrayed her. Late in the night, after everyone has fallen asleep, she makes her way down to the basement to talk to Spike because she can’t keep the anger and hurt she is feeling to herself. While talking with the vampire, she comes to another realization: that Spike is the only one she can vent to and she can count on no matter what.” 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles
Genres: Drama
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 10,266 Hit Count: 8,005 ePub Downloads: 162
Published: April 12, 2013 Updated: April 12, 2013
Summary: Written in 2006 as an entry at watchersdiaries on LJ I never posted it here.  Canon Spuffy is implied as this takes place many centuries after Not Fade Away.  Does not include comic canon.
Demons roam the world freely as men huddle in fear. A champion must be forged, one that will stand in the breach and combat the evil. Only a powerful worker of magic can bring such a wonder to pass.

Disclaimer: The story idea is mine but it is based in the "universe" created and owned by Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, UPN, WB and Fox networks. I derive no compensation for the use of their intellectual properties.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series, Alternate Reality
Characters: Spike
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 6,904 Hit Count: 2,361 ePub Downloads: 77
Published: June 15, 2015 Updated: June 15, 2015
Summary: The hellmouth is closed and they've kinda won, so why is Buffy griefstricken? While traveling cross country, Buffy deals with losing Spike while gaining her chance at a "normal life".

Takes place a few months after "Chosen".
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Ensemble
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Character Death
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,616 Hit Count: 1,250 ePub Downloads: 44
Published: November 27, 2006 Updated: November 27, 2006
Summary: Time Travel fic begins twenty years after NFA then returns to BtVS S4. Dawn meets someone from her distant past that may hold the answer to how she could be the ‘key’ to setting events on a better and happier course for those she loves the most. Can she make enough changes to keep tragedy from taking so many loved ones away before their time and those who survive live less than full lives?
No comic events involved in this story. Prompted by this story request during the Spikeslovebite/Kain auction: “I’d like to see another time-travel Spuffy story!  However, unlike most time-travel stories where it’s Spike or Buffy themselves that go back to fix things, I’d like to see Dawn be the one.  In a post-Chosen, post-NFA future that is not comic compliant and in which both Spike and Buffy are dead (the circumstances are entirely up to you, but they were not together and not happy), Dawn explores her latent powers and discovers that she can not only travel between dimensions but also in time.  She decides to go back (how far back is up to you) and sort out Spike & Buffy so they won’t die miserable and apart.  Maybe she also helps her younger self come to terms with being The Key and what that means, if applicable?  I don’t mind who writes it, but would prefer for it to be long-ish so the Spuffy can develop slowly rather than fall-into-each-others-arms-at-the-drop-of-a-hat scenario.  The only thing I’m adamant about really is that the chip either never gets put in or it comes out asap, allowing for Spike to *choose* to change rather than be forced to.”
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Season 4, Post-Series, Time Travel
Characters: None
Genres: Drama
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: No Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 7,576 Hit Count: 2,256 ePub Downloads: 51
Published: March 23, 2016 Updated: March 23, 2016
Summary: After the Initiative is “shut down”, a fatal decision is made that will change the face of the world and uproot everyone Buffy knows before placing her in the greatest jeopardy of her life.  A new world is born, but is it one they would wish to live in?   
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: solstice
Categories: Season 5, Crossover (AtS), Alternate Reality
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Ensemble, Original Characters
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama
Warnings: Adult Language, Attempted Rape, Character Death, Rape (Implied), Torture (Physical), Violence
Completed: No Chapters: 45 Table of Contents
Word count: 153,449 Hit Count: 37,977 ePub Downloads: 277
Published: September 06, 2015 Updated: August 21, 2016
Summary: Demons are as different as humans are and many far more multi-faceted than the Council ever admitted. With the New Council, Buffy can see and appreciate those facets like never before, she has her own demon with hobbies right there after all.
Post series
Story & banner by pfeifferpack, no Beta
Board 2 prompts: Bunny Demon, Knitting Demon, Clem (wild card), Pool Sex, Oz
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series, Drabbles
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Established Relationship, Fluffy/Comedy, Lighthearted, Road Trip
Warnings: None
Event: Drabblemania 2023
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,263 Hit Count: 974 ePub Downloads: 5
Published: July 16, 2023 Updated: July 16, 2023
Summary: How else does one celebrate the Day of the Dead but WITH the dead you love the most?  Dawn and Spike have a reconnection at Joyce’s grave.  Maybe Buffy will learn a few things by accidentally eavesdropping. 
Setting: S6 between “All the Way” and “Once More With Feeling”
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6, Challenge Response, Holiday Fic
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Dawn
Genres: Drama
Warnings: None
Challenges: Holiday Fics
Event: 2015 Challenge Month
Completed: Yes Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 7,563 Hit Count: 4,734 ePub Downloads: 81
Published: October 26, 2015 Updated: October 29, 2015
Summary: Just before the battle against the First Evil, Buffy decides not to let anything wait too long where her two vampires are concerned.  How it could have gone if Buffy had managed to face her biggest danger:  her own emotions.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7, Seasonal Spuffy Entries
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Drama, Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,292 Hit Count: 1,988 ePub Downloads: 155
Published: November 13, 2008 Updated: November 13, 2008
Summary: Summary:
Giles takes an unexpected opportunity to make things “right” only to see how very wrong things can go. Now he will need unexpected help trying to set things to right before hell takes up occupancy in the new world he’s created. 
 
Setting: Begins S7 right after episode “Dirty Girls” (the episode where Xander lost his eye) then skips through past seasons starting in S2 forward. 
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Season 6, Season 7, Alternate Reality, Challenge Response, Time Travel
Characters: Buffy, Ensemble, Ethan Rayne, Giles, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Dark
Warnings: Character Death
Challenges: Oh no Fix it Giles!
Event: 2020 Challenge Month
Completed: No Chapters: 4 Table of Contents
Word count: 14,415 Hit Count: 4,762 ePub Downloads: 55
Published: April 02, 2020 Updated: November 14, 2020
Summary: Buffy is not well and guess who gets to play nurse?  The Summer between S4 and S5. 
 Story & banner by pfeifferpack, no Beta
 Board 1, prompts 1969, Tunnel of Love, In N' Out, Carpe Demon, Locks & Keys
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Between Seasons (any), Vignettes, Drabbles
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Lighthearted
Warnings: None
Event: Drabblemania 2023
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,136 Hit Count: 836 ePub Downloads: 14
Published: July 16, 2023 Updated: July 16, 2023
Summary: “Of course it was Willow. To really cause mayhem takes Willow’s special brand of magic."
When Cookies don’t appease everyone who was impacted by Willow’s “Will Be Done” spell she looks to find a way to fix it with results that she might not expect but we all should.
Story was written for the Elysian Fields  12 Years 12 Seasons Challenge. Prompt number 1, Banner  5: This beautiful banner was created by the amazingly talented artist, and my friend, Nmcil
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: nmcil
Categories: Season 4, Historical
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Angelus, Anya, Darla, Drusilla, Ensemble, Faith Lehane, Hank Summers, Jenny Calendar, Joyce, Maggie Walsh, Other, Principal Snyder, Quentin Travers, Riley Finn, Sam Lawson, The Master, Wesley, Whistler, William
Genres: Drama, Historical, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Romance
Warnings: None
Event: 12 Years 12 Seasons Challenge
Completed: No Chapters: 81 Table of Contents
Word count: 316,432 Hit Count: 172,125 ePub Downloads: 1,196
Published: October 04, 2018 Updated: August 01, 2022
Summary: Angelus decides to take Buffy back to the mansion to begin his revenge upon the Slayer who made him feel human. Captive Buffy gets a close-up introduction to this dysfunctional vampiric "family" that gives her new insight into Angel(us) as well as Spike. Will Spike be able to sit back and watch this Slayer he grudgingly respects be destroyed by the same vampire who created the tragic mess that is Dru?
Can two enemies, now vulnerable to the greater evil of Angelus, become allies and maybe something more?
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Season 2, Seasonal Spuffy Entries
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angelus, Ensemble
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Rape (Actual), Rape (Implied), Torture (Physical)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 11 Table of Contents
Word count: 25,240 Hit Count: 18,116 ePub Downloads: 284
Published: November 26, 2006 Updated: November 26, 2006
Summary: Summary: The battle against the Senior Partners brought our heroes to the alley against hordes of demons. This story assumes much more was going on in the back rooms of W & H, things that lead to a group rescue effort that will involve almost all the BtVS and AtS main characters in one epic battle against evil.
conforms to cannon where possible.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Ensemble
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Fighting, Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 53 Table of Contents
Word count: 151,416 Hit Count: 58,091 ePub Downloads: 538
Published: January 31, 2007 Updated: January 31, 2007
Summary: Setting: Begins post AtS "Not Fade Away" and rapidly goes to S6.
Summary: Given a chance to do things differently a hero finds that putting another first and ignoring his own desires can lead to his rewards beyond his hopes.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6, Seasonal Spuffy Entries
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Ensemble
Genres: Drama, Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 12 Table of Contents
Word count: 58,505 Hit Count: 32,507 ePub Downloads: 362
Published: May 11, 2008 Updated: May 11, 2008
Summary: Sometimes the best treasure is not what or where you expect it.
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Between Seasons (any)
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Dramedy, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Lighthearted, Romance
Warnings: None
Event: Secret Santa Fic Exchange 2021
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 13,438 Hit Count: 1,131 ePub Downloads: 55
Published: December 28, 2021 Updated: December 28, 2021
Summary: Spike gets dragged into the spirit of the holidays kicking and screaming, but is Santa all he seems? A bit of a comedic piece of fluff.
Setting: Season 5, Two days after "Listening to Fear" aired. That was the episode where Joyce was in the hospital and Ben summoned the Queller demon to deal with all the crazy people Glory was creating.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Season 5, Seasonal Spuffy Entries
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Jonathan Levinson
Genres: Dramedy, Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 9,929 Hit Count: 1,743 ePub Downloads: 60
Published: November 24, 2007 Updated: November 24, 2007
Summary: Ficlet with Spike mention.  PWP of a reconnection of bestest friends Willow and Buffy after Chosen
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Willow
Genres: Porn w/o Plot
Warnings: Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 3,412 Hit Count: 712 ePub Downloads: 32
Published: March 22, 2007 Updated: March 22, 2007
Summary: S7 angst. Spike is spending the holiday with the FE and Buffy is spending hers with her thoughts. Can souls can connect at this magical time of year?
Set between "Bring On The Night" and "Showtime"
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Torture (Physical)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 2,735 Hit Count: 741 ePub Downloads: 37
Published: November 27, 2006 Updated: November 27, 2006
Summary: A love story told in picture and word for Valentine’s Day, 2023. Art by nmcil and words by pfeifferpack
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: nmcil
Categories: Artwork, Season 6, Season 7, Post-Series, Drabbles, Poetry
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel
Genres: POV, Romance
Warnings: None
Event: 2023 Satisfaction-athon
Completed: Yes Chapters: 4 Table of Contents
Word count: 488 Hit Count: 4,642 ePub Downloads: 9
Published: February 13, 2023 Updated: February 13, 2023
Summary: LA has been saved, Angel Shanshu'd and Spike sacrificed yet again.  Buffy and Dawn celebrate Independence Day and consider the future while remembering the past.  Can there be a future worth embracing even at this late date?
 
My muse paid a short visit for the first time in a couple of years.  Hoping this is just the start.  Posting unbeta'd.  For the purposes of this story forget any comic canon.
 
Distribution and disclaimers:  Joss and ME owns all but the specific story concept, I profit not one bit from his characters financially.  Distribution/archiving fine with me, let me know where.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: scarlett2u
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Angel, Dawn
Genres: Drama, Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 4 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,192 Hit Count: 5,626 ePub Downloads: 86
Published: July 01, 2015 Updated: July 01, 2015
Summary: A collection of couplets I call Intermezzo's consisting of an entry from Buffy's diary and entries from Spikes journal that snapshot moments in canon.  Also a few 100 word drabbles and one slightly longer (not by much) ficlet.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Drabbles, Challenge Response, Poetry, Seasonal Spuffy Entries
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Spike
Genres: Angst, Drama, Dramedy, Fluffy/Comedy, Porn w/ Plot, Romance
Warnings: Character Death
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 3,820 Hit Count: 905 ePub Downloads: 46
Published: November 24, 2007 Updated: February 07, 2023