lilachigh: Business As Usual (or see also here via tags on the author's LJ site)
Fandom: BtVS To quote the author: It seems a long time ago since I was watching an episode of Buffy called The Replacement. In it the Scoobies discover Spike wandering around the local garbage dump and ask him why he's there. He replies that he was having a nice cup of ( Read more... )

ShayneT: Legend
Fandom: STNG, BtVS Trapped by an alien collector, Lieutenant Commander Data discovers an early 21st century android excavated from the ruins of Sunnydale and a capsule containing the frozen body of one of the Eugenic wars most notorious figures...Buffy Summers.

This is another extremely well written story by a very talented author. I ( Read more... )

sparrow2000 - Magpie
Fandom: BtVS Set post Chosen. Xander is travelling around Europe doing jobs for the Council when things start to happen...

This is a masterful story from a gifted author. Not only is it replete with wonderful characterisation, sparrow2000's lush and descriptive writing style makes you see the cities Xander is visiting in your mind's eye and long to ( Read more... )

Lilachigh - We Will Remember Them (or see here)
Fandom: BtVS In 1943 Spike has been captured and with Dru's life forfeit, forced to fly to France to save a Slayer who is being held captive by the Germans. In 2001, Buffy is persuaded by Quentin Travers that she must travel back in time to France to do the same thing.
This is delightfully timey-wimey and ( Read more... )

curiouswombat - Access All Areas
Fandom: BtVS Sequel to News From Heaven and Ten Years After.
Dawn and Spike would like nothing more than to travel and to learn more of the Key. Unfortunately, however, Dawn's attempt to learn more of the history of the Key by visiting the original monastary where she was created bring her to the attention of not one but two ( Read more... )

kargrif, jackofspikesand, dreamingofspike - Fixing the Factors
Fandom: BtVS If you're a fan of the movie GroundHog Day, or even just liked the concept, then you'll enjoy this story. Set on the day of "The Yoko Factor", it places Buffy and Spike into a repeated day in which they must get it right and "fix the factors" before they can finally leave the loop. A clever plot and very ( Read more... )

lit_gal - Kin of the Heart
Fandom: BtVS In this universe, Xander challenged Angel right up front--called him a pedophile to his face. And from there, everything changed.
This could be rated as pre-slash in the relationship that builds between Xander and Angel (and Spike) but it's a very low level that, for non-slashers, doesn't detract at all from it being ( Read more... )

Slaymesoftly - Just a Little Spell
Fandom: BtVS Starting during Willows spell that caused Spike and Buffy to plan their wedding, this AU has get a great deal more involved than they had a chance to on the show. They now must must learn to live with the consequences of Spike having claimed the Slayer. The rest of the story is about how they adjust to their new ( Read more... )

slaymesoftly - I Know You II and Knowing and Watching
Fandom: BtVS Sequels to Prologue to Life/I Know You.
A very satisfying sequel in which we get to see what happened to the original Buffy who was displaced from her body by the post-Chosen Buffy, later joined by the Spike who was displaced by the older Spike from the older Buffy's universe. Together they must ( Read more... )

slaymesoftly - Prologue To Life/I Know You
Fandom: BtVS A highly original fic in which the Buffy of only weeks post-Chosen is (seemingly) thrown back in time into her body as a young girl in S1 with all her memories intact. Is this really the past, or is it an entirely new dimension? How much of what is to come can she change and how does she persuade the Spike ( Read more... )