Fic: In for a Penny [10b/?]

[bewildermoth]

Title: In for a Penny [10b/?]
Authors: the_moonmoth & bewildered/bewilde
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~11,200 words this chapter (79k in total so far)
Timeline: s4-5
Warnings: Sexual situations, bad language, violence, smut. Suicidal ideation. Temporary Spike/Other and Buffy/Other.
Summary: Spike travels back in time to change the future. It goes poorly.
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Comments

[thenewbuzwuzz]

"F for Fantasy was right in that same file drawer, and when fantasy-time was over, she’d always been able to just shut them both away and go on with her life, secure in the conviction that Fantasy and Reality (down in the R-drawer) were never going to meet." Oh my god (I like Buffy's file system)

Bless little axe-toting Buffy.

"I’m starting to feel like there’s a pattern here. Open your heart to someone and he bails on you." Oh, I'm so glad that Buffy is talking to Joyce about this!

“Well, does he have a costume?” WOLF COSTUME, WOLF COSTUME, bring out the Chekhov's wolf costume!

"eyes doing that soft, glowy thing that made her insides tumble" oh, that thing <3

"She knew she looked cute as a button" That's the spirit

"and he could almost imagine them repeating this scenario over and over into eternity, him looking up at her and her looking down at him, doomed never quite to meet" oh, yeah, always with those stairs. It would be a shame if they never reached equal footing.

"I’d hate to wake up and find out that some reality-show star was suddenly the President of the United States.” Wouldn't you just. (SPIKE, WHAT DID YOU DO?!)

“Or the Big Bad Wolf?” YES! They're going to match now.

“Haven’t you ever wanted to pretend to be someone you’re not?” I mean, when does he not

"I’d have pegged you as a fox" oh god, I really see it. Band Candy Joyce is very foxy.

Aw yeah, sexy tail-attaching.

"Spike could smell from here that they’d been over-brewed..." Hee! Tee radar.

“All the better to eat you with, my dear" She walked right into that one :)

"She looked around. He’d disappeared." Oh NO, did the Initiative nab him?!

"suddenly Spike was at her shoulder again" But is it the same Spike? OK, he's got the mask, so... I guess. And he knows to be afraid of the Initiative, so it must be post-chip Spike. Hmm, unless Spike Jr. saw the other Spike get nabbed and took his mask. After getting unchained somehow. Hmmmm.

Oh, lovely Oz, with the thinky thoughts and the understatements. <3