January Meme: If Spike met Billy and Brenda....
Many a year ago, I wrote an Angel/Six Feet Under - or, more properly, an Angel/Buffy/Six Feet Under - crossover called The Burying Kind, in which Angel hires the Fishers as funeral directors after the mid s5 (of AtS) episode You're Welcome. Various BtVS characters also show up for the funeral in question, as well as all three Fisher siblings from Six Feet Under. But one thing I wanted to avoid was a meeting between Buffy and Spike, because that would have meant going AU, it would have distracted from the central focus of the story, and it wouldn't have been doable in a few lines. Thankfully, You're Welcome had left Spike canonically at a point where he doesn't show up chez Angel & Co. for one more episode, so I could simply let it be elsewhere. Since I later realised that the Chenowith siblings, Brenda and Billy, aren't in the story, either, I've always joked that clearly they've run into Spike for the duration of this tale. 
hannah has now asked me what would happen in such an encounter.
Well, for starters, it always depends on which point of canon for all the characters in question. In my crossover story, it's s4 of Six Foot Under and s5 of Angel the Series (meaning it's also post-Buffy), which means we're talking Billy at the point of his life where he has it most together, Brenda is past her own deepest crisis as well and has it together, they can interact again without maximum awkwardness, and Spike is on the heroic side of things. (Though somewhat shaken about having been conned in the last episode.) Which means no one gets killed or turned, but in the best SFU tradition, I would say everyone gets high. (I don't remember, can Jossverse vampires get high on drugs without the filter of drugs? Considering they can get drunk on alcohol and Spike smokes, I'm assuming so.) Also, given Spike is pretty good at deducing unspoken tension and messed up backstories, and the Chenowiths are brilliant at it, they probably figure out what each other's big red buttons are very quickly. At some point, things like
"I don't see what the big deal is about having to watch your parents have sex. Try having to stake your mother while she's coming on to you!"
Billy and Brenda: look everywhere but at each other
probably happen. As well as snark about how you can never escape your family and even end up in their line of business despite all your intentions to the contrary. (Given what Spike's currently doing and Brenda's late season decision to become a therapist.) On-his-meds Billy who is at that point in canon doing well as an art teacher probably tells Spike to get back into poetry and is the origin of Spike trying a poetry slam a few episodes later.
Now, if pre-show Billy and Brenda met pre-BTVS Spike (with or without Dru), I'd say a threesome is definitely in the cards, Brenda gets turned into a vampire, and absolutely not on his meds Billy ends up dead. Whether courtesy of Spike or because getting drained by his sister is his secret fantasy of solving his issues at this point is up to debate.
The Other Days
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hannah has now asked me what would happen in such an encounter.
Well, for starters, it always depends on which point of canon for all the characters in question. In my crossover story, it's s4 of Six Foot Under and s5 of Angel the Series (meaning it's also post-Buffy), which means we're talking Billy at the point of his life where he has it most together, Brenda is past her own deepest crisis as well and has it together, they can interact again without maximum awkwardness, and Spike is on the heroic side of things. (Though somewhat shaken about having been conned in the last episode.) Which means no one gets killed or turned, but in the best SFU tradition, I would say everyone gets high. (I don't remember, can Jossverse vampires get high on drugs without the filter of drugs? Considering they can get drunk on alcohol and Spike smokes, I'm assuming so.) Also, given Spike is pretty good at deducing unspoken tension and messed up backstories, and the Chenowiths are brilliant at it, they probably figure out what each other's big red buttons are very quickly. At some point, things like
"I don't see what the big deal is about having to watch your parents have sex. Try having to stake your mother while she's coming on to you!"
Billy and Brenda: look everywhere but at each other
probably happen. As well as snark about how you can never escape your family and even end up in their line of business despite all your intentions to the contrary. (Given what Spike's currently doing and Brenda's late season decision to become a therapist.) On-his-meds Billy who is at that point in canon doing well as an art teacher probably tells Spike to get back into poetry and is the origin of Spike trying a poetry slam a few episodes later.
Now, if pre-show Billy and Brenda met pre-BTVS Spike (with or without Dru), I'd say a threesome is definitely in the cards, Brenda gets turned into a vampire, and absolutely not on his meds Billy ends up dead. Whether courtesy of Spike or because getting drained by his sister is his secret fantasy of solving his issues at this point is up to debate.
The Other Days
This entry was originally posted at https://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1381651.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.