Ablaze
Being with Spike is like a slow burn. (notes)
Advice to Lovers
The short play Sunnydale High puts on for the middle schoolers is just a little thing, a requirement for class, and she can't even convince him to come with her. Just once, this one play, and he fears stepping out of his doorstep to be by her side. (notes)
All the Evening Breakdowns
Xander gets Chinese from the little take-out place near the University that's open till midnight, after scribbling down their shouted orders for orange chicken and egg drop soup and fried rice, with an extra order of those little cream cheese things they all like and always finish off. They're fond of pastries. (notes)
At Last a Realised Infinity
Rupert is loose--not quite drunk, but near it. (notes)
Bad Things That Might Happen
Xander was only mildly surprised to find his wrists bound to his desk chair and a gag wrapped tightly around his mouth. (notes)
Best Imitation of Herself
"Oh, my. Look what you've done to your precious little world," Buffy's voice said snidely, the unreal arms of a non-physical being crossed just so, to convey her dark amusement and disdain. (notes)
Better-known
There was a time, once, when Buffy remembers not needing him. She knows in her bones that there was a time before him, a time when she was just Buffy, without ritual or importance, but in all honesty she cannot recall it. (notes)
Bound
"And I just realized that that's what I want to do. Fight evil, help people. I mean, I-I think it's worth doing. And I don't think you do it because you have to. It's a good fight, Buffy, and I want in." (notes)
Brush
Confirming reality.(notes)
Chosen One
She was pulled from the aether, given form, and named Slayer. (notes)
The Climate of Thought
They weren't in a relationship, exactly. More an...understanding. A compact of mutual consent. (notes)
Controlled Panic
Oz could think of nothing he'd rather do than kiss Willow Rosenberg out of her babble. (notes)
Crazy Love
Spike rants to Angel about being in love. (notes)
Cross to Bear
Buffy remembered when she started to collect crosses. (notes)
A Dangerous New Game
A Turning changes things. (notes)
Dead and Holy Idols
She did not touch the pale, bare skin of his back to wake him. (notes)
Death-watch Beauty
It is always the pretty ones, the beautiful ones, those who serve a purpose, who are changed. All the others are simple fodder for the occasional dalliance. (notes)
Equal Danger
She feels alone, as though there is only one girl in all the world chosen for this hell. (notes)
fades out like a dance
Oz fingered the card in his hand. The corners were battered and dirty, the words printed on it in a careful hand smudged and faded. (notes)
Failed Names
It is a strange thing, to walk into the hallway of your hotel room at half-past midnight and see the mirrored image of another figure with shadowed eyes. (notes)
The Flight of Time
"You know, the beauty of living in an estate full of Slayers is being secure in the knowledge that anyone who tried to break in would get their ass thoroughly kicked," Dawn said from the door, watching Xander check all the windows in the library. (notes)
A Form of Foreplay
They argue. They shag. (notes)
The Furious Voyage
At the light of the full moon in midsummer, miles and miles from everywhere normality thrived, Jenny came to escape.(notes)
Fusion
Dancing with herself.(notes)
Glass House
Tara likes the way things are. (notes)
Gratitude for a Nightmare
Oz did the sensible thing, and ran.
It's Not
Evil sophisticate, alone. The end. Wrong. (notes)
Jimmy Olsen
Saving the world with sugared pastry. (notes)
Juxtaposition
Absently, she wondered if this is how Angel felt when he first received his soul back. (notes)
Let the Cannons Roar
There were times when memories would come unbidden to him, Subsection B in Chapter Two of the machine gun cleaning manual, or how to make his bed have tight corners. (notes)
The Lights Came on at Sunset
When Dawn started dreaming about Tara, she shivered at how real it was. (notes)
Low Tide (The Higher, Harder Remix)
The relationship began with little fanfare. Xander came to him one night, cautious but angry, and took out his anger and frustrations on Spike and Spike's body. There was no reason for it, no moment or quirk when this was decided. Xander needed something, and Spike was there. (notes)
Mobile
Oxnard, California. Asscrack of SoCal. (notes)
Names and Dates and Times
It's like finding your baby book, if your baby book was written by stuffy British men. (notes)
A New Kind of Sorry
Buffy apologizes to Spike post-Dead Things. (notes)
Pancakes
Tara remembers the summer, post-Dead Things. (notes)
Possibilities
Practice makes perfect. (notes)
The Rest of Two Gentlemen
It's snowing outside, and Giles can see a thick blanket of white forming over the sloping hills of the estate. (notes)
Rise
Spiderbites and portents. (notes)
Rubber Soul
He's a soul man. (notes)
rhythm screaming down
It begins in the base of his spine. (notes)
Scent
From the BtVS episode Homecoming. (notes)
The Smokey Life
Oz decided to start up a band. (notes)
Smooshed Reality
How did Dawn react once she found out Buffy was the Slayer? (notes)
So Cleanly Spoiled
To be honest, high school fucking sucked. (notes)
So Many Wrongs
He was tired, and they offered him solace. It was, to a degree, what they did: offer sanctuary to those of a certain persuasion who knew to look for them. (notes)
Some Kind of Devil
So close to heaven, and ever nearer to hell. (notes)
Stiffer Than A Southern Bow
Oz was very quiet. (notes)
Summertime
Life, as they say, is good. (notes)
The Tempest
Spike takes Dawn to her first Shakespeare. (notes)
That These Things Now Should Come to Pass
It was not long before it came apparent that no Slayer would arrive in Sunnydale. (notes)
Time of No Reply
When you see red hair, you flash on Willow, then you flash on Oz. (notes)
to be a woman
Five women. Five stories. Five words. (notes)
Touch, Feel, and Lose
When he has forgotten his own name, he still cries out hers. (notes)
The Tower
Spike returns to the place of Buffy's death. (notes)
True Love is a Trophy
Summertimes are always the crazy months of the year in Sunnydale. Not because wild, world-ending things happen; very much the opposite. A pall settles over the town, vampires and humans alike stifled by the oppressive heat that even a cool breeze from the nearby coast can't waive. (notes)
Tuesday
"I think we might have found a new game, Ripper." (notes)
An Unreal Doubt
Amanda worked at the bowling alley because her cousin owned it and she could always use a few extra bucks. (notes)
walking to the bright lights in sorrow
It skirted the edge of torture, what Ethan was doing to his skin: hovering a plain silver pendant a few scant inches vulnerable flesh, and when he couldn't look any more, his eyes slipped close and he tried to quell the scream that threatened to wet his lips. (notes)
Warm Weather Proverb
A bright sunny day at the beginning of spring demanded to be spent at the beach. (notes)
When the Scenery Started Fading
If Willow were being honest with herself, she would look at Oz's fingers where they strummed the guitar and admit she wants those fingers inside of her again. (notes)
Without Pause
When he watched Jesse die, he thought his world was ending. Looking back, he is awed by his own naievte. (notes)