Winter fics recommendations

[moscow_watcher]

WORKS IN PROGRESS

A Soul to Seduce by Eurydice72

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=eurydice72&keyword=A+Soul+to+Seduce&filter=all

Post-Damage. Somebody sends Buffy a notebook which transmits the signal from surveillance cameras from the hospital where Spike is. Buffy and Faith arrive to La to discover a sprawling plot to destroy Angel by alienating his friends. Buffy/Spike, Wesley/Faith. Author updates on Sundays.

Life, Resumed by speakr2customrs

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=speakr2customrs&keyword=Life+Resumed&filter=all

After the final battle in NFA Spike shanshues and turns into William who remembers only his human life. From his POV he has fainted in that alley where Dru sired him only to wake up in LA in 2004.
Inventive and full of colorful details in description of our life as Victorian gentleman sees it. A highlight: William and Illyria go to Sci-Fi fan convention (the only place, Angel presumes, where Illyria will look inconspicuous).
speakr2customrs has started the story in May 2006, then stopped updating in July, but soon after the announcement of season 8 returned to the story and even incorporated some season 8 spoilers into the last two chapters.

Pillow Talk. Chapters 24-30 by missmurchison

http://home.mchsi.com/~elizabethmurchison/Pillow_Talk_Chapters.html

Fluffy version of season 6. Author uses all the familiar premises (Buffy's denial of her feelings for Spike, Willow's temptation with magic etc.) and uses them to make us smile. Great character voices, inventive use of canonical situations and motivations to make us look at them at different angle.

Fix You, chapter 1-4 by EnigmaticblueEnigmaticblue

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=enigmatic_blue&keyword=Fix+You&filter=all

Post-Potential. In order to prevent the end of the world, Buffy asks Willow to do a spell that’s supposed to send her back in The Gift so that she could save Dawn without dying. Spike goes with her. Of course, the spell goes a bit wrong and our heroes land in another time frame, - in Harsh Light of Day, when they fight and Spike still has a gem of Amara on his finger...
The rewrite of season 4 with souled, chipless and non-allergic to sunshine Spike sounds like a dream come true. So far, it's hard to predict where the story will go, but I'm looking forward for an epic story.

To Grandmother's House by rahirah (Barb C.)

http://rahirah.livejournal.com/239522.html#cutid1
http://rahirah.livejournal.com/239744.html#cutid1
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http://rahirah.livejournal.com/245016.html#cutid1
http://rahirah.livejournal.com/245464.html#cutid1
http://rahirah.livejournal.com/247552.html#cutid1
http://rahirah.livejournal.com/249449.html#cutid1

Chapter 4c is up.
Buffy's attempts to have the perfect Christmas are stymied by the appearance of a mysterious axe and her mother's ghost...or is it?
Notes: This story is set in the same universe as A Raising in the Sun, Necessary Evils, et al. It takes place approximately two years after A Parliament of Monsters, and contains major whopping spoilers for POM

Hearts Don't Lie, chapters 20-23 by Nautibitz

http://community.livejournal.com/nautific/

Spuffy season 4 - with evil forces conspiring to abduct Buffy and Spike's baby and use him in a evil-releasing ritual. Energetic, smutty, ingenious. (To read, you must be an LJ user and member of nautific community)

Masks and Mirrors, chapters 17-19 by pfeifferpack

http://pfeifferpack.livejournal.com/172831.html
http://pfeifferpack.livejournal.com/174764.html
http://pfeifferpack.livejournal.com/175316.html

Post-Forever. Dawn is performing the resurrection spell together with Spike and it brings back Spike's mom! Intriguing premise, skillful interweaving of canon and fanon and great voice of Anne Pratt. For the rest go to her site http://anam.dark-solace.org/home.htm click "archives" then "Masks and Mirrors"

Marking Time, chapter 13 by annapurna_2

http://annapurna-2.livejournal.com/30082.html#cutid1

Previous chapters are here:
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=annapurna_2&keyword=Marking+Time+--+Spuffy+Kinkathon+%28WIP%29&filter=all

Post-NFA, Giles summons Buffy to his estate in England. There, she finds Spike in coma, which may or may not have something to do with the shanshu prophecy.
Buffy finally figures out the quickest way to wake him up. But Spike’s a little pissed off that Buffy put her life at risk to do it, and Buffy’s pissed that he’s pissed. Which makes rescuing Angel and Gunn from an alternate dimension just a wee bit tricky, but they are gonna give it a shot anyway. Chapter 13 has a great, evil twist, and I'm very curious where the heroes will go after that.

Mr Grieves and the Second Chance, chapters 1-14 by Herself

http://community.livejournal.com/herself_nyc_fic/tag/mr+grieves+&+the+second+chance

New installment in The Bittersweets Series that goes AU post-Wrecked. After travelling in time Buffy gets pregnant from William. Long story short, she gets back to Spike and William goes to Cecily/Halfreck and expresses a wish: "I want my children, and my wife! I wish I could be he whom she honors and desires and loves above all else!"
Inventive premise with great voices. Spike/Buffy, Xander/Dawn.

All the Things That Are Lost by ladyk8

http://ladyk8.livejournal.com/2345.html#cutid1
http://ladyk8.livejournal.com/2904.html#cutid1
http://ladyk8.livejournal.com/3699.html#cutid1
http://ladyk8.livejournal.com/4314.html#cutid1

Post-NFA. When Buffy discovers that Spike survived the destruction of Sunnydale, she heads to LA looking for answers; however, her search will eventually lead her to a place that is more than a world away. Four chapters so far.

You can't change history right? chapter 6 by Roxydesigns

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2821584/1/

Post-Chosen, Spike is sent into season 2 to make up for his evil deeds. Buffy quickly accepts him as her ally but she has disturbing dreams of "previous" reality.

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COMPLETED LONG STORIES

Domino Effect by anaross

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=anaross&keyword=Domino+Effect&filter=all
Epilogue: http://anaross.livejournal.com/68170.html#cutid1

Post-EOD. To save Spike, Future!Buffy arrives to SD and meets Spike immediately after him seeing her kissing Angel. They make love and Spike promises to believe her when she says "I love you". But instead of "ILY" he hears "where have you been and why you're smeared with lipstick?" With the first attempt going wrong, Buffy makes another one, and screws things up even more... An inventive take on classical time-travel paradox.

Dancing the Night Away by hesadevil

http://community.livejournal.com/writerconuk/7969.html
http://community.livejournal.com/writerconuk/8261.html
http://community.livejournal.com/writerconuk/8623.html
http://community.livejournal.com/writerconuk/8862.html
http://community.livejournal.com/writerconuk/8982.html
http://community.livejournal.com/writerconuk/9267.html
http://community.livejournal.com/writerconuk/9554.html

Post-NFA. Angel's Shanshu gives The Immortal a chance to destroy him; Spike, Buffy and Illyria go back in time to prevent his plans. Inventive use of Celtic myths and pre-show canon.

Because Cavemen Have Fire by Elisi

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=elisi&keyword=Because+Cavemen+Have+Fire.+%28S/B/A%29&filter=all

Post-NFA. Hunting for a magical arftefact, Buffy incidentally stumbles across Spike and Angel who also need the artefact for a spell that could protect them from Senior Partners. She finds out that the became lovers and realises that she's ready to join them. Fic focuses on the dynamics of B/S/A relationship and what makes it tick.
What I like about this fic - that it breaks the tradition of putting Spike between Buffy and Angel "because they can't have sex with each other so they use Spike to have sex through him". (I find this idea as degrading for the three of them.) Elisi makes them equal, providing humor and agnst by exploring the rich history of their interaction in the past.

Seven Days by twilightschild9

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=twilightschild9&keyword=Seven+Days&filter=all

Post-Chosen, Buffy goes to a wish-granting demon and asks for a week with Spike. Seven days to convince him that she loves him.

Such Great Heights by enigmaticblue

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=enigmatic_blue&keyword=Such+Great+Heights&filter=all

When Buffy falls through the portal in The Gift, she doesn’t die. Instead, she turns up in Sunnydale-twenty years in the future. What happens when the one person she thought she’d never be happy to see is the one person who’s stayed the same?

Forever Again (sequel to Forever) by Spikeskat

http://www.bringonthebloodshed.com/spikeskat/foreverseries.htm#2

AU Second part of AtS season 5 with Vampire!Buffy.

Dreams and Desotos by bloodshedbaby

http://www.bloodshedverse.com/stories.php?go=chapters&no=2238

Interesting premise: Spike claiming Buffy without siring her.
Post-Becoming. Buffy and Spike leave Sunnydale together and try to adapt to normal life in a small town. Then Giles, Joyce and Scoobies find them and inform that Angel has returned...

CheckPoint by Xela

http://www.bloodshedverse.com/stories.php?go=chapters&no=6870

Post-Checkpoint. Scoobies play "spin-the bottle" with the same results as Fang Gang. Well, not exactly the same. As 15-year old, Anya speaks Swedish, Spike reverts to Victorian young gentleman, Giles channels his inner Ripper, Joyce is thrilled to meet him... only Dawn realises that something is terribly wrong!

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SHORT STORIES

Giftless by missmurchison

http://missmurchison.livejournal.com/355752.html

Fluffy season 6. Spike tries to get Buffy a gift for St. Valentine's day. Funny, poignant, sweet.

Blame it on the Boogie by calove

http://calove.livejournal.com/108717.html

Post-In the Woods. After Riley's depart campus queens mock Buffy's issues with boyfriends and to shut them up she declares that she has a great boyfriend - handsome mysterious blond hunk...

A year ago Calove wrote an outrageously funny story I, Robot.

http://community.livejournal.com/seasonal_spuffy/38109.html

Now she posted the first chapter of the sequel I, Robot II - The Search for a Penis

http://calove.livejournal.com/109579.html

In the first story set in season 5 Scoobies ordered a Spikebot so that Buffy could train on him. Spikebot and Buffybot met each other and fell in love. In the sequel it turns out that Scoobies had made an anatomically incorrect robot - you know, just in case. So now the pair of robots have a problem...

And another sequel, Memory Box Part 2 Chapter 1 by grave_tidings (Candlekeeper )
http://community.livejournal.com/spike_fics/537274.html

Memory Box used the template of The Lake House with a writing box instead of letterbox and ended in Buffy\Spike reunion. I'm mucho intrigued because post-reunion stories are particularly hard to pull off. The beginning is interesting - depiction of seemingly placid everyday life interspersed with creepy references to medieval witchhunt.

Phoenix by grave_tidings (Candlekeeper)
http://gravetidings.mediawood.net/fictions/phoenix.html

During AHITW. Buffy makes a phone call to Angel, Spike happens to be in him office.

A Merry Little Christmas by Hils

http://4dw.net/dmarkedlove/christmasifc.html

Post-Showtime Buffy gives Spike a gift at Christmas. PG

And Glory Shone Around by speakr2customrs

http://speakr2customrs.livejournal.com/180831.html
http://speakr2customrs.livejournal.com/181111.html

Middle of season 5. Glory got interested in human traditions and she offers Buffy a truce for Christmas. Spuffy, Glory\Wesley

A Christmas Present for Miss Buffy by marsters_fan

http://community.livejournal.com/noel_of_spike/21913.html

(Yes, sometimes I read PWP)

My Own, Private Idaho by bunnykittycoat

http://community.livejournal.com/holiday_btvs/9421.html

Post-NFA Buffy and Spike meet in Idaho

I Wish Every Day Could be Like Christmas by alwaysjbj

http://www.axisoflove.org/Spike/xmas.html

Sweet post-Showtime Christmas fic.

Hope by calove

http://calove.livejournal.com/110995.html

Season 6. Spike, Buffy - what are they feeling and thinking when they are together?
The best bit: "Stretched out beneath her like a sacrifice, she knows his body with the intimacy of a lover, hates it with the intensity of an addict."

The Vampire in Question by enigmaticblue enigmaticblue

http://enigmatic-blue.livejournal.com/64554.html

During TGIQ. What if Buffy met Spike and Angel on their way out of her apartment complex?

Scars by St_SalieriSt_Salieri

http://st-salieri.livejournal.com/226614.html

Post-Chosen, a quick glance at Buffy's life with Spike.

The Way a Vamp Loves His Car by SlaymesoftlySlaymesoftly

http://community.livejournal.com/good__evil/163786.html

Early season 6. Drunk Buffy asks Spike if he likes his car more than her...

Where Or When by BeanbeanBeanbeans

http://beanbeans.livejournal.com/168706.html

A rewrite of the basement scene in Chosen

For Times Gone By by uisge_beatha

http://uisge-beatha.livejournal.com/66720.html

Another St.Valentine's story, a character study, from Spike's POV.

I could write a sonnet! by lilachigh

http://community.livejournal.com/good__evil/168726.html

Fluffy season 6 ficlet. Spike helps Buffy to make preparations to Dawn's Easter celebration. Author's warning: Good Spike - in fact Sugary Good Spike so you have been warned. This is the complete opposite of a dark fic! There is also a fond memory of a scene from Gone with the Wind. Sorry but couldn’t resist.

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OLD STORIES I (FINALLY) READ

Just a Teenage Crush by Addie Logan

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2081775/1/

I saw a recommendation by lusciousxander who is a Spander shipper and I decided that a Spuffy story recommended by a Spander shipper must be worth checking. And I discovered a gem with great character voices, full of humor, hotness and great plot twists.
Post-life Serial, After Buffy's day from hell thanks to the Geek Trio, Willow decides to "help" by making Buffy forget she ever died. Willow's spell goes wrong and Buffy forgets everything that happened to her after she had been called as a Slayer. Imagine 20-years-old Buffy with memories of reckless 15-years old girl. Of course, she is intrigued by Spike and flirts with him. But Spike is sure that "real" Buffy will dust him if he takes advantage of her amnesia, so he refuses to get physical...

Maybe Someday by Elisi

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=elisi&keyword=Maybe+Someday&filter=all

It was written in 2005 and currently Elisi is planning a sequel. Post-NFA, Buffy meets Spike and Angel in Rome where they fight the minions of Senior Partners. The voices are spot-on and the plot is complex and full of cliffhangers.
Elisi is also an essayist - she writes great BtVS/AtS analysis - and it shows in her precise, sharp descriptions of characters' motivations as Buffy and Spike try to verbalize their emotions.

Dreidel by Constance

http://www.bloodshedverse.com/stories.php?go=chapters&no=5911

Alternate season 7. Dawn's disappears but soon comes home. She says she was kidnapped by LA demon slave traders but she she was in their prison she met Spike who helped her to escape. Will Buffy go to LA to save him?

Pen-Pals by treacle_a treacle_a

http://www.treaclefic.com/

Newly-souled Spike writes a letter to Angel... Post-Grave Spuffy fluff - is it possible? Hell, yes. Absolutely hysterical