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Buffy is broken, and it seems that only Spike can see that. She is depending on him more than she ever has been allowed to with anyone. How many small changes does it take until everything is different? First chapter in Song!Fic form, the rest is not.
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- Part 2 of Pillar of Strength
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Riley left Buffy, and her walls have fallen. She has lost too much, and still has so much yet to lose. Who will be there to pick up the shattered slayer? Will she let them?
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- Part 1 of Pillar of Strength
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Buffy Summers has sacrificed everything—friends, love, even her own heart—to protect the world. When Faith Lehane, the Slayer she once fought and lost, returns to Sunnydale, the fragile balance of Buffy's life shatters. Bound by a mysterious, primal connection neither can deny, the two Slayers are forced to confront their shared past, the betrayal, the regret, and the choices that broke them both.
As Glory, a hell-god disguised in human skin, hunts for the Key that will unravel reality, Buffy and Faith are pulled together again and again by destiny, by the bond, and by a love they have never been able to name. Their friends do not trust Faith, the Watchers' Council wants her eliminated, and Wolfram and Hart see her as the perfect weapon. Buffy sees something else, a girl scarred by loss, still fighting to be more than the world says she is.
Together, they must decide whether their bond is salvation or destruction. If they cannot learn to stand united, against Glory, against the Council, and against their own demons, the end will not just claim them.
It will claim the world.
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Buffy's life is going great. She's moved on, left past mistakes behind her, and finally wrangled everything into place. That is, until she comes home one night and finds Spike bursting out of her closet.
Yeah, subtle metaphors? Not a thing in Buffy-land.
An alternate unravelling of seasons four through six. Haunted by memories of what she felt under Willow's infamous will-be-done spell, Buffy finds herself caught up in a reckless affair with Spike.
Unfortunately for her, some things just refuse to stay buried.
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She Knows How To Ball, He Knows Aristotle by LadyInQuest
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
02 Sep 2025
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Buffy Summers takes a job as PE teacher at Sunnydale Junior High School to better protect Dawn from Glory. But she discovers that there's already one teacher who likes to punch demons in the face. Everyone is crazy about the English teacher, Mr. Pratt, and Buffy can't get away from his company.
Or an alternate Season 5 where Spike never came to the Scoobies for help, Riley drove into the sunset at the end of Season 4, and Buffy lives in a rom-com while Spike pretends to be Indiana Jones.
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In a world where neither are out of their minds--
Spike's attempt to remove his chip fails... again. Buffy's saved her soldier man... again. And instead of a rude awakening in the form of a shockingly sexy dream, life (and unlife) -- as it so often does -- goes on.a series of scenes over the seasons where their rivalry accidentally evolves into something more without either of them realizing it (essentially a what if if spike didn't have his dream in 5x04)
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Set during Season 5. Giles has just become the owner of the Magic Box and unveils a brand new training room for Buffy at the back of the shop. However, their sessions quickly become heated due to forces beyond their control...
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Spike takes a deep breath, steadying himself, then leans in closer. “Some people said they had the ride of their lives on it,” he says lowly. “How’s it that happened to them, and not me?”
The lady hesitates. “Some people, when they’re… taken under, they find the things they’re looking for right away. Others—” She swallows, eyeing him warily. “Well. Everyone’s psyche is… different. The ether… it can lead you places you might not realise you want to go.”
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Spike discovers a magical way to escape into his wildest fantasies.
Turns out his “perfect life” isn’t quite what he pictured — and unfortunately for him, magic always has consequences.
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End of the World (Or Maybe Just the Start) by flipflop_diva for jedibuttercup
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
02 Aug 2025
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She was the last person Faith had expected to see when the guard told her she had a visitor. But Buffy had come for a reason, and it was about to change everything.
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Following the revelations about Riley's visits to the vampire den and his subsequent departure, Buffy seeks physical comfort from Giles, marking the beginning of a passionate fling that continues through the stress of various life events. While feelings quickly get in the way for Giles, Buffy is determined to keep their relationship strictly sexual. But it's easier said than done.
Takes place throughout seasons 5 and 6.
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Giles is offered a choice: to sacrifice what's necessary and save Buffy, or allow destiny to take its course.
Whistler offers Giles a glimpse into the future; one where Buffy lives, but only if he's willing to make sacrifices others can't. Their attack against Glory and to save Dawn is foolproof, until it isn't. At the eleventh hour, Giles makes the decision no-one else wants to. Can he live with the consequences of his actions?
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- Part 2 of The Grace Chronicles
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The Scooby gang were pulled into connected dreams by the First Slayer as a consequence of their joining together to defeat Adam. What if Faith had been pulled into the dreams as well since she too is a slayer?
How might seasons five, six, and seven have changed? How might the end of seasons six and seven have been affected if Willow had another person to turn to that she only saw initially in her dreams? How might she have been empowered with having someone else's faith behind her? How might better communication and cooperation have changed season seven before the start?
Herein, such a strand of possibility shall be explored with some alternative pairings, affected battles, and multiple twined fates winding through the experience.
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He isn’t sure what it is, but since coming back, Buffy seems so much more… mature. Wiser. He isn’t exactly certain why.
A time-traveling Buffy fic from everybody else’s point of view.
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Slayers and Grimms, two sides of the same deadly coin.
Slayers are one (or two?), they were of prophesy and grand battles. Chosen.
Grimms are many, they were of family and duty. Raised.
Kept apart, it’s rare for them to cross paths. When Wesen began stirring up trouble on the hellmouth. The scoobies suddenly find themselves learning of a whole other world of people far different then the demons they’re used to, as well as gaining some new friends from that world.
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He could give her everything.
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Buffy: “How bored were you last year?”
Giles: “I watched Passions with Spike. Let us never speak of it.”- Language:
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Used to Bite People, Now I’m Tracking IPs with Buffy Bloody Summers by Fangellic
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
26 Jun 2025
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Set in season 5 a few weeks after “The Body”
Still grieving her mother’s death, Buffy is struggling to cope, she wants to shut herself off from the world and especially from Spike, who recently confessed his love only to be rejected.
But when a string of murders links back to an online vampire groupie chat room, Buffy asks Spike for his help and maybe he’s the distraction she needs afterall
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Toward a New Unknown, Or: Lex Talionis by abismos
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
21 Jun 2025
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Boys like him aren’t afraid of wolves, gods, nor love. Girls like her broke locks, jumped head-first through portals to hell, and took mercy on the lowliest of creatures.
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Before Buffy jumped, sensing her imminent demise, she indulged a desire for one last act of intimacy with Spike. Now back, she’d just begun to sort out her feelings for him when he’s kidnapped by a force hell-bent on vengeance. Where has he gone? And will she be too late to get him back?
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[Podfic] Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by pieces0fstars
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
17 May 2025
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Podfic reading of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, by My_Barbaric_Yawp.
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Buffy has spent the summer grasping for something just out of reach, but when Dracula arrives at the peak of her frustration, all bets are off.In which Buffy finds her fix, her man, and herself, not necessarily in that order…
AU Season 5x01, Buffy vs. Dracula; Written for the EF 2024 Monster Mash Mini-Event; Title from the song by Daft Punk (writing Spuffy has made me a song title person—I’m so sorry…); Beta’d by Sigyn and sarkastikoverlord; Banner by cd85.
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Flashes of memories swept through her mind. Her parents bringing Dawn home from the hospital after being born. When Dawn started writing diaries. When Buffy had burned down the gym at Henry High, and she and her mom had to move to Sunnydale. Dawn… where was Dawn? She was there, but she wasn’t. Buffy pictured the rooms in her house. The photos decorating it. Pictures of her and Joyce. A room filled with supplies for the gallery. But she knew, the photos were her and Joyce and Dawn. The room was Dawn’s, with stuffed animals and nail polish and posters and bright pink sheets. “Dawn…?” she whispered in confusion.
“She’s the Key,” he admitted.
“My memories. My mom’s…”
“We built them. Please… She needs you. She’s innocent."Season 5 retelling. Continuation of "One Day You'll Know."
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- Part 2 of New Beginnings