Penname: Baphrosia
Real Name: lorelei
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Member Since: February 27, 2012
Last Active: August 02, 2021
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Skin: comic

Formerly known spuffy luvr.

I ignored Buffy the first time around because... well, it just sounded stupid, okay?  But then, in January of 2011, I got sick... the kind of sick where all you can do is stare at the TV for weeks on end.  I caught the episode Superstar, and I was hooked!

I watched all 12 seasons (including Angel), then discovered the comics, and by June I had watched and read it all.  Multiple times.  But I was still obsessed.  What's a girl to do?

In December I accidentally discovered the world of fanfiction (why yes, I do live on a tiny rock in the middle of a vast ocean... no, really).  The rest, as they say, is history.

If you're interested, I have ~100 short ficlets over on LJ.  Follow the link above.  I also have some gen (not Spuffy-centric) fics on AO3/FF.net/LJ.  Again, follow the links above. 

I shouldn't have to do this, but due to recent issues with people taking and archiving fic without permission:  DO NOT DISTRIBUTE OR ARCHIVE ANY OF MY FIC WITHOUT MY EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT.  THESE ARE MY STORIES.



  Stories (26)    Comments (359)    Favorites (96)    Awards (10)    Statistics     Beta Credits (1) 
 
 
Stories by Baphrosia
A Gem of A Deal by Baphrosia [PG-13] Likes: 95 Comments: 49
Summary: A sequel to 'A Gem of a Soul', but this can be read as a standalone.  Years after the previous story ended, Buffy and Spike are having problems, like any married couple.  Will a favor owed to Halfrek make things better or worse?
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series, Alternate Reality
Characters: Spike
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Adult Language
Completed: Yes Chapters: 6 Table of Contents
Word count: 11,079 Hit Count: 13,821 ePub Downloads: 269
Published: September 29, 2012 Updated: October 05, 2012
Past Featured Story
A Gem of a Soul by Baphrosia [NC-17] Likes: 1,710 Comments: 1,160
Summary: Ever wonder what would have happened if Spike hadn't lost the Gem of Amarra to Buffy?  If he'd won that fight instead?  Warning, this story starts out very dark.  Evil vampire, after all.
 
WINNER at the SunnyD Awards Round 27 for Best Angst, Runner-Up for Best NC-17 and Best Conventional Pairing. THANK YOU to all who voted!
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Award Runners-Up, Season 4, Season 5, Season 6, Season 7, Alternate Reality, Award Winners
Characters: Ensemble
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: Adult Language, Attempted Rape, Buffy/Other (Temp), Rape (Implied), Sexual Situations, Torture (Physical), Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 73 Table of Contents
Word count: 231,178 Hit Count: 227,452 ePub Downloads: 1,726
Published: May 05, 2012 Updated: September 27, 2012
Past Featured Story
Always Come Back to You by Baphrosia [R] Likes: 208 Comments: 96
Summary: A dozen years after season nine, Spike is presumed dead.  Buffy has since married, when she runs across a damaged vampire that reminds her of lost love.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 9 (Comic), Post-Series, Baby/Kid Fic
Characters: Buffy, Ensemble, Original Characters, Other, Spike
Genres: Angst, POV
Warnings: Buffy/Other (Temp), Character Death, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 15 Table of Contents
Word count: 50,247 Hit Count: 36,299 ePub Downloads: 341
Published: February 27, 2012 Updated: March 02, 2012
Attack of the Fluff by Baphrosia [PG-13] Likes: 167 Comments: 80
Summary: A collection of (unrelated) fluffy/silly ficlets written for the fagends Spuffy prompt community.  
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6, Season 7, Season 10 (Comic), Post-Series, Alternate Reality
Characters: None
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language
Completed: Yes Chapters: 9 Table of Contents
Word count: 7,088 Hit Count: 11,354 ePub Downloads: 65
Published: February 13, 2017 Updated: February 22, 2017
AWOL by Baphrosia [R] Likes: 150 Comments: 53
Summary: When Spike returns in "Lovers Walk", it's to a Buffy-less Sunnydale.  He's not happy about it.
 
Written for the 2015 Fag Ends Halloween Challenge. 
 
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 3, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite
Characters: None
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Torture (Physical), Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 8 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,121 Hit Count: 15,925 ePub Downloads: 116
Published: May 16, 2016 Updated: May 26, 2016
Past Featured Story
Beneath It All by Baphrosia [NC-17] Likes: 691 Comments: 436
Summary: All Human! When Buffy meets William over a book of poetry, sparks fly - but he's just passing through town, and she's involved with another man.  A year later, Spike comes barelling into her life, and she thinks she's found William again - until the jerk opens his mouth to speak.  Buffy hates Spike with a passion.  So why is she drawn to a man who is nothing like the ideal she holds in her heart?
 
 
WINNER for best WIP in Round 10 of the RWSA.  Thank you!
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Award Winners, All Human, Alternate Reality
Characters: Buffy, Ensemble, Spike
Genres: Angst, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 40 Table of Contents
Word count: 140,260 Hit Count: 82,106 ePub Downloads: 765
Published: May 10, 2013 Updated: September 01, 2013
Displacement by Baphrosia [PG-13] Likes: 282 Comments: 178
Summary: Spike's amulet is left to languish at the bottom of the Sunnydale crater, until a S.H.I.E.L.D. team accidentally uncovers it ten years later.  Written for the Fall 2015 round of Seasonal Spuffy.
 
Crossover with "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."  SPOILERS THROUGH MID-S2 of "S.H.I.E.L.D.".
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Seasonal Spuffy Entries, Post-Series, Crossover (Books or TV shows outside Buffyverse), Alternate Reality
Characters: None
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama, Fighting
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 15 Table of Contents
Word count: 33,467 Hit Count: 22,644 ePub Downloads: 186
Published: December 23, 2015 Updated: January 28, 2016
Past Featured Story
Heart Clogging by Baphrosia [PG-13] Likes: 171 Comments: 141
Summary: Sunnydale is suffering from a slew of curses:  Buffy’s trapped in the wrong body, Angel’s trapped in the wrong species, poor grammar and even worse fashion choices abound, questionable liaisons are formed alongside an obsession for Lucky Charms and Liam Neeson, and a vampire is forced to Riverdance.  Our heroes are in trouble – it must be a Tuesday on the Hellmouth.
 
Written for Elysian Field’s 2015 Challenge Month in response to Puddinhead’s Heart Clogging challenge.
 
Banner by the Susan.  I have licked it, and therefore it is mine.  :)
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 4, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Challenge Response
Characters: Ensemble
Genres: Dramedy, Fluffy/Comedy, Parody
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Threesome(s)
Challenges: Heart Clogging
Event: 2015 Challenge Month
Completed: Yes Chapters: 8 Table of Contents
Word count: 6,459 Hit Count: 10,536 ePub Downloads: 122
Published: October 05, 2015 Updated: October 12, 2015
Past Featured Story
Hell is a Desk Job by Baphrosia [PG] Likes: 50 Comments: 31
Summary: Wolfram & Hart's amulet sucks Spike in, and doesn't spit him back out.  It's up to Buffy to save him.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series, Crossover (AtS)
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Drama, Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 993 Hit Count: 1,641 ePub Downloads: 58
Published: August 10, 2014 Updated: August 10, 2014
Past Featured Story
Help Wanted by Baphrosia [PG-13] Likes: 376 Comments: 164
Summary:  
When Buffy tells Spike in 'Lovers Walk' that he tends to cause trouble, she's not just referring to his Sunnydale antics.  There was also that time she ran into him in Los Angeles. 
 
Set one week post-Acathla.  
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 2
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama
Warnings: Adult Language, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 15 Table of Contents
Word count: 36,384 Hit Count: 15,354 ePub Downloads: 179
Published: February 27, 2017 Updated: March 24, 2020
If the Plane's A-Rockin' by Baphrosia [NC-17] Likes: 30 Comments: 14
Summary: When Angel and Spike fly to Rome to 'save' Buffy, things turn out a little differently than in canon.
 
NOMINEE for BEST NC-17, Round 10 of the RWSA.  Thank you!
WINNER for BEST NC17, BEST COMEDY, and BEST QUICKIE FIC, Runner-Up for Best Post-Series Finale Fic, Round 29 of the SunnyD Awards.   Holy smokes!  Thanks to all who voted!
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Award Runners-Up, Crossover (AtS), Episode Rewrite, Award Winners
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Dramedy, Porn w/ Plot, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,007 Hit Count: 3,440 ePub Downloads: 102
Published: July 15, 2013 Updated: July 15, 2013
Past Featured Story
Ipseity by Baphrosia [PG-13] Likes: 592 Comments: 453
Summary: After Buffy the Vampire Slayer's apparent death in the collapse of Sunnydale Hellmouth, nobody knows how to go on without her, least of all Buffy herself. 
 
WINNER for BEST POST-SERIES FINALE FIC and BEST DRAMA (Spuffy) and RUNNER UP for BEST PLOT in Round 32 of the SUNNYD Awards.  Thank you!
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Seasonal Spuffy Entries, Season 7, Post-Series, Crossover (AtS), Alternate Reality, Award Winners, Award Runners-Up
Characters: Ensemble
Genres: Angst, Drama, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death
Completed: Yes Chapters: 28 Table of Contents
Word count: 101,886 Hit Count: 60,454 ePub Downloads: 668
Published: June 09, 2015 Updated: August 13, 2015
Past Featured Story
Night Games by Baphrosia [PG-13] Likes: 53 Comments: 30
Summary: To celebrate EF's triumphant return!  Originally written for a fagends prompt, this short story celebrates our favorite couple's reunion, post NFA.
 
RUNNER-UP for Best Post-Series Finale Fic, Round 28 of the Sunnydale Awards.  Thank you!
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Award Runners-Up, Post-Series
Characters: None
Genres: Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,683 Hit Count: 2,721 ePub Downloads: 97
Published: November 21, 2012 Updated: November 21, 2012
Palimpsest by Baphrosia [R] Likes: 93 Comments: 57
Summary: Palimpsest:  1)  A parchment or the like from which the writing has been partially or completely erased and replaced with new writing.  2)  Something that has been changed over time and shows evidence of that change.
 
WINNER for BEST ANGST: Round 11 of the RWSA

Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Award Winners, Season 9 (Comic), Post-Series, Alternate Reality
Characters: None
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 24,401 Hit Count: 7,642 ePub Downloads: 158
Published: February 02, 2015 Updated: February 26, 2015
Past Featured Story
Piece of Cake by Baphrosia [Adult Only] Likes: 1,214 Comments: 769
Summary: Buffy is devastated when Liam marries the woman he was cheating on her with - a woman with certain talents in the bedroom.  Enter William.  He knows exactly what her ex craves, and he's willing to teach Buffy the skills she lacks.  But will it help her to win back her ex?  Does she even want Liam back? 
 
William has spent his adult life satisfying Drusilla's every whim and desire, but her latest whim involves getting married - and not to him.  Alone now, he somehow finds himself Buffy's tutor.  Although he enjoys their lessons, what he really wants is her.  Will he be able to let her go when the time comes?
 
WINNER for BEST NC17,   Round 30 of the SunnyD Awards.     Thanks to all who voted!
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Award Winners, All Human, Taboo - Adults Only, Alternate Reality
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Drusilla, William
Genres: Angst, Porn w/ Plot, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Fetish, Sexual Situations, Taboo
Completed: Yes Chapters: 34 Table of Contents
Word count: 99,863 Hit Count: 134,707 ePub Downloads: 1,141
Published: December 23, 2013 Updated: March 11, 2014
Past Featured Story
Playgroup by Baphrosia [PG] Likes: 84 Comments: 67
Summary: Pure fluff.  Buffy's trip to an alternate dimension has lasted weeks longer than expected, leaving Spike to go barmy playing Mr. Mom with their daughter.  This is NOT part of the Gem-verse.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series, Baby/Kid Fic
Characters: Original Characters, Spike
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy
Warnings: Adult Language
Completed: Yes Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 3,260 Hit Count: 5,212 ePub Downloads: 97
Published: October 09, 2012 Updated: October 12, 2012
Portent Of - by Baphrosia [PG-13] Likes: 11 Comments: 7
Summary: Written for the fag-ends livejournal prompt: "The Raven".  Spike knows Buffy's dead and gone, but somebody (or something) isn't about to let him to forget.
 
RUNNER-UP for BEST ANGST:  Round 31 of the SunnyD Awards.
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 5, Season 6, Award Runners-Up
Characters: Spike
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Adult Language, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 250 Hit Count: 589 ePub Downloads: 33
Published: July 17, 2015 Updated: July 17, 2015
Past Featured Story
Proud Trophies Won in Foreign Fight by Baphrosia [NC-17] Likes: 702 Comments: 453
Summary: Instead of sending Buffy on to her well-deserved reward, Glory's portal spits Buffy out into Spike's evil past.  Written for Seasonal Spuffy, this story is complete (there will be 20 chapters total).
WARNING:  This is about an EVIL Spike, so he is going to be... evil.  Most of his evil will be committed off-screen, however.
 
RUNNER UP:  STORYTELLER CATEGORY, R12 of the Wicked Awards.
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Seasonal Spuffy Entries, Pre-Series, Season 5, Time Travel, Historical, Award Runners-Up
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Drama, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Attempted Rape, Rape (Implied), Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 20 Table of Contents
Word count: 46,928 Hit Count: 43,963 ePub Downloads: 694
Published: December 08, 2012 Updated: January 31, 2013
Soft by Baphrosia [PG-13] Likes: 35 Comments: 23
Summary: If asked to describe him in one word, she knows without a doubt the word she would use:  Hard.
Just realized there is one word and sentiment that moves it up to PG-13.
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Character Death
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,416 Hit Count: 1,296 ePub Downloads: 55
Published: July 28, 2012 Updated: July 28, 2012
Spike and Buffy's World Tour by Baphrosia [R] Likes: 119 Comments: 49
Summary: A re-imagined S6, in parts.
Based on a series of prompts from fagends, this developed into a longer story, full of angst, romance, and larceny.  Now complete!
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 8 Table of Contents
Word count: 7,079 Hit Count: 10,307 ePub Downloads: 131
Published: November 28, 2012 Updated: December 10, 2012
Spiking the Pot by Baphrosia [PG-13] Likes: 115 Comments: 55
Summary: Spike's up to something evil, Buffy knows it.  Why else would the other demons be shaking the chipped loser's hand instead of beating him up like normal?  She's going to catch him out, one way or another.  Amazing banner by pfeifferpack.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 4, Season 5, Alternate Reality, Challenge Response
Characters: Anya, Buffy, Clem, Dawn, Ensemble, Giles, Joyce, Original Characters, Riley Finn, Spike, Xander
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy, Lighthearted
Warnings: Buffy/Other (Temp)
Challenges: Chef Spike
Event: 2020 Challenge Month
Completed: Yes Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 11,434 Hit Count: 3,013 ePub Downloads: 87
Published: April 28, 2020 Updated: May 05, 2020
Past Featured Story
The Five Stages Of by Baphrosia [R] Likes: 112 Comments: 67
Summary: Written for Seasonal Spuffy Spring 2015.  Spike's visit to the wish demon in Uganda goes differently than in canon...
 
RUNNER-UP for Showtime (BEST ORIGINAL PLOT/AU): Round 13 of the No Rest for the Wicked Awards
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Seasonal Spuffy Entries, Pre-Series, Season 6, Alternate Reality, Episode Rewrite, Time Travel, Historical, Award Runners-Up
Characters: Spike
Genres: Angst, Drama, Historical
Warnings: Adult Language
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 6,299 Hit Count: 9,650 ePub Downloads: 137
Published: May 08, 2015 Updated: May 12, 2015
The Starfish by Baphrosia [R] Likes: 43 Comments: 30
Summary: Spike is content to be Buffy's right-hand man, but he also wants a purpose that is his and his alone.  There's more than one way to be a hero. 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Pre-Series, Season 4, Season 5, Season 6, Season 7, Season 10 (Comic), Post-Series
Characters: None
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, Drama
Warnings: Adult Language, Violence
Event: 2015 Holiday Challenge
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 5,482 Hit Count: 2,225 ePub Downloads: 88
Published: December 28, 2015 Updated: December 30, 2015
The Sun Rises by Baphrosia [PG] Likes: 23 Comments: 16
Summary: They've saved the world, again, but being the hero always comes at a price.  Post-series.
 
Written for Spring 2016 Seasonal Spuffy.
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Seasonal Spuffy Entries, Post-Series
Characters: None
Genres: Angst
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 498 Hit Count: 798 ePub Downloads: 25
Published: June 11, 2016 Updated: June 11, 2016
Past Featured Story
When Buffy Met Spike by Baphrosia [PG-13] Likes: 113 Comments: 85
Summary: A series of New Year's Eve encounters between Buffy and Spike throughout the years.  
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Holiday Fic, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Season 6, Season 7, Post-Series, Crossover (AtS)
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language
Completed: Yes Chapters: 8 Table of Contents
Word count: 16,749 Hit Count: 15,289 ePub Downloads: 202
Published: December 26, 2012 Updated: January 03, 2013
William versus the Beast by Baphrosia [PG] Likes: 29 Comments: 10
Summary: William's not happy about losing control of his body to a ravening, ravenous beast.  Written for Fall 2019 Seasonal Spuffy.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Pre-Series, Season 2, Season 4, Seasonal Spuffy Entries
Characters: Buffy, Spike, William
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,330 Hit Count: 697 ePub Downloads: 24
Published: May 12, 2020 Updated: May 12, 2020