Spuffy style Reading Challenge - #21: Dancing with Fantasy and Sci-Fi Reading Challenge
Fantasy - Classic Fantasy
World Enough, and Time by toooldforthis [R]
“You came back wrong,” he told her, all those years ago. He was right, but it took them a very long time to realise exactly what that meant. It meant a hundred more apocalypses, a thousand battles. It meant a journey, a prophecy, a war. They’d lose one other, and find their way back, and choose, again and again. And all the while, the earth was failing. There are a lot more people than you think who are here for the long haul – like, the really long haul. This is a story about two of them.
Fantasy - Zombies
You, Me, and The Zombies by sweetprincipale [Adult Only]
When Buffy hears a drunken and desperate Spike say he’s got a meeting with zombies, it’s her duty as the Slayer to investigate the situation. Not to mention that ever since they started to explore pre-wedded bliss under a spell, Buffy can’t stop fantasizing about how Spike, especially since she’s saddled with a sweet but passionless new beau. When Buffy sneaks into Spike’s crypt to save the day, he’s definitely glad she showed up- and he can’t wait to show Buffy that she’s been on his mind, too.
Fantasy - Dragons
The Fairytale by Dusty [NC-17]
Once upon a time, a hero slayed the dragon. A kiss saved the day.
Fantasy - Fairytale Retelling
Sleeping Beauty by Autumn2005 [PG-13]
When Buffy suffers from a wasting illness, Spike is the only one who can cure her. Post-Chosen.
Fantasy - Ghosts
Wine-Colored by OffYourBird [NC-17]
There are so many shades of red, but Buffy sticks to the one she knows best.
Fantasy - Uncommon Fantasy Creatures
All Bottled Up by honeygirl51885 [NC-17]
If you bottle things up, sooner or later they’re gonna explode.
Fantasy - Shapeshifters
Cuddling With the Darkness by slaymesoftly [R]
What if Dracula cursed Spike and turned him into a bat (at night); what if he asked Buffy to help him? What if Spike, the little, blue-eyed, black bat was adorable?
Fantasy - Gods
Favored of the Gods by Soulburnt [NC-17]
Enraged by Buffy's treatment of Spike in mid-season six, the goddess of love swoops in to offer succor to a vampire who has always loved too much and a lesson to a Slayer who scorned that love.
Fantasy - Animal Companion
When Love Follows You Home by tbd [PG]
This a a fluffy domestic Spuffy story. There isn't much more to it than that. Spike & Buffy get a dog - sorry/not sorry!
Fantasy - Maternal Heritage
Like Daughter Like Mother by violettathepiratequeen [PG]
Spike thought he'd seen the last of the Buffybot, but turns out it has a bizarre feature that not even he was aware of...
Fantasy - Set in Our World
A Matter Of Taste by Twinkles [Adult Only]
A potentially horrifying story of lust, blood and hunger when the world turns inside out. Set shortly before Buffy vs Dracula; Riley left town at the end of S4.
Fantasy - Witches
The Longest Night by tempestt [PG-13]
On the longest night of the year, Buffy learns the importance of forgiveness.
Fantasy - Thief
A Night Without Day by HappyWhenItRains [NC-17]
The girl in question is Buffy, of course. But what would have happened if Spike had blown off Angel's search for the Goran head and gone after Buffy instead? What if their reunion uncovered a corrupted Angel's evil agenda? Upon breaking out of a dungeon, incompetent thief Andrew Wells helps Spike and Buffy, recently reunited and cursed by Angel. Angel's curse prevents the pair from ever being in each other's presence except at twilight, so they enlist Andrew in a dangerous plot to return to LA, overthrow Angel and break his evil enchantment.
Fantasy - Pirates
Something Worth Dying For by violettathepiratequeen [PG-13]
In a swashbucking tale of body-swaps, mermaids, and shark attacks, Spike and Buffy trade their stakes and fangs for pistols and cutlasses, while the rest of the Scoobies discover what really happened to Buffy when she jumped off Glory's tower...
Fantasy - Portal Fantasy
The Truth Will Set You Free by Enigmaticblue [PG-13]
Set in S4, after Something Blue. Giles does that truth spell on Spike after all, but what happens when it gets stuck? The truth is sometimes a very uncomfortable thing.
Fantasy - Warrior
From Here to Eternity by honeygirl51885 [NC-17]
They had lived alone for so long, neither could remember what it was to feel a connection with another person. Maybe they could discover it again with each other.
Sci-Fi - Space Ship
Dysfunctional by violettathepiratequeen [G]
Spike owned a part of her heart, and when he flew away in his stupid bug ship, she felt as if that part of her was going with him.
Sci-Fi - Artificial Intelligence Point of View
Of Bots and Men by bewildered [NC-17]
The Buffybot wasn’t that difficult to fix; Willow had the short rewired that very night, then tucked the Bot away, just in case she was useful. Meanwhile, the Buffybot herself has had to concede that Spike belongs to Buffy—she just wishes she could make Buffy and Spike happy. Buffybot is ready to provide an intervention of her own.
Sci-Fi - Alien
Spacecation by MaggieLaFey [NC-17]
It’s just before s9 and Buffy is feeling as directionless as ever. So when she finally has a day off from her sad job, of course she asks her maybe-ex-probably-friend vampire to take her on a tour of the universe on his spaceship. Going star-sightseeing should be just what she needs to relax, right? Surely nothing big is gonna happen if she takes a day off. And if Spike’s space bugs keep insisting she and him belong together, well. They’re giant bugs, what the hell do they know?
Sci-Fi - Time Travel
A Different Kind of Hell by OffYourBird [NC-17]
Jumping through Glory's tower portal, Buffy and Spike find themselves in a hell dimension they never expected. One that looks suspiciously like 1880's London. Will they find a way back home? Will the truth behind William the Bloody at last make itself known? Will Buffy ever stop butchering the Queen's English? Join them and find out. Starts off at the end of "The Gift."
Sci-Fi - Steampunk
Something Old is New Again by yellowb [R]
Steampunk! Get your steampunk here! Mystery Challenge fic remains a mystery, even to me — but there shall be balloons, top hats, pirates, and mechanical monsters!
Sci-Fi - Super Powers
Chest Wounds by storm [NC-17]
When Buffy learns that Spike is somehow alive, she is elated… And hurt, and confused. Why didn’t he find her? Why didn’t anyone tell her? Does he still love her? And who is the blue woman?
Sci-Fi - Science/Heavy sci-fi
Dreamer by Gort [NC-17]
Buffy might dream of a normal college life but she got stuck with an annoying vampire instead. Spike’s found the Gem of Amara, but he won’t kill her and has taken to lurking around campus. Things go from bad to worse when they’re both captured by The Initiative and Maggie Walsh takes a special interest. Is Buffy crazy for relying on a vampire to help her put a stop to the professor’s genetic experiments, or is she discovering that normal might be overrated? Begins at Harsh Light of Day before going AU.
Sci-Fi - Replicate/Replica
A Better Man by Sunalso [NC-17]
More than a year post NFA, Buffy is in self-imposed exile. Her only solace is a robot that looks like the vampire who sacrificed himself in a cave under Sunnydale. Spike is unable to stay away, only he's fighting his own inner battles he doesn't want to burden her with. Impersonating a robot for a few days should be easy, right?
Sci-Fi - Space Creatures/Beasts
What Happens in Space by Dusty [NC-17]
Buffy, Spike, and the stars! What could go wrong? What could go right?
Sci-Fi - Teleportation
Christmas Eve by Dusty [NC-17]
Fluffy, sexy fun times on the most magical night of the year!
General - Satire
Pardon My French by Girlytek [R]
In retrospect, it was probably a bad idea to let Buffy perform a spell in French.
General - Novella/Short story
A Better Way to Go by kats_meow [NC-17]
It's Buffy's twenty-first birthday - you know, the one she was supposed to be conveniently dead for - and some smartass has left a crumpled up poem on her porch. Is it trash, a wish, or a chance for something better?
General - Finish a Series
Bitten by Holly [NC-17]
He’d told her that she would beg for it.
General - Mental Health
Almost Paradise by Holly [NC-17]
When presented with the opportunity to magically alter the world she lives in, Buffy knows there are a lot of very good reasons why she shouldn't seize it, but figures things can't get worse. She's wrong.
General - Disability
Room Service by Sunalso [NC-17]
S2 AU. Buffy needs Spike's help, Spike needs Buffy's help. My take on the much used trope of Buffy having to get it on with a vampire to save her life. Fluffy, smutty, and it ends up in a happy place. Set sometime before 'I Only Have Eyes For You'.
General - Set in Africa
The Road to Return by Eurydice [R]
Post-Chosen, Xander chooses to go to Africa for a very specific reason...
General - Library
The Space Between by untouchable [PG-13]
Instead of taking Psych 101 with Willow, Buffy decides to take a poetry class.
General - One Word Title
Called by Dusty [PG-13]
A slayer, a vampire and how they called through the years.
General - Under 500 Pages
Melting Fire by Freecat [R]
Set right after Dead Things. The night after, all he wants is talk. The night after, there’s nothing she wants less than talking. And suddenly they find themselves in another dimension; one that Buffy can’t leave. There’s only one way to get her out. A way with consequences.
General - Over 800 Pages
The Darkling by OffYourBird [NC-17]
When Buffy’s quest to get Spike returned to her is fulfilled in an unexpected way, she finds herself in a complicated relationship with an intrigued master vampire who isn’t the man she loves, but who might be someday… if she can convince him to step out of the dark.
General - Set before 1990
Liebestod by Iamblichus [NC-17]
They really should have known the First Evil wasn't done with them after Sunnydale... Enter: Time-travel, mysterious prophesies, and lots of poetry. BtVS Post-Season 7; Angel AU Season 5. All's well that ends well.
