seasonal spuffy

Hindsight
By Barb C

Characters: Buffy/Spike
Rating: G
Summary: Buffy looks back
Notes:: Just a little (very little) ficlet for School Hard Weekend! Barbverse, but could just as well be canon-compliant.


It would have been ego-boosting to think that she had a clue about Spike from the very beginning. Or that he'd had a clue about her. That there was some stirring of destiny in their hearts from the first moment their eyes met, some sense that their lives had undergone a seismic upheaval, and would never again be the same. But she was destiny-free in those post-Pergamum Codex days, and Spike admits that the only stirring he felt was in his pants. She's pretty sure she felt a passing twinge of regret for the hotness (in a sallow way) wasted on a homicidal maniac, which, OK, maybe a mutual lust connection, if nothing else? But Spike wasn't even her type (teen Buffy liked 'em tall, dark, and brooding) and her mind and her heart were full of Angel, and Spike was all truly madly deeply with Dru, so, passing twinge only.

Fact was, neither of them saw the other coming. And these days, Buffy thinks that's probably a good thing. Death was all destiny had in store for either of them. Love, they've made for themselves.

End

OK, I'm a teensy bit early, but it's past midnight somewhere, right?

What A Drag It Is
By Barb C
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike, Willow
Rating: NC17
Summary: Buffy decides to spice things up for Spike's birthday. Things get a little spicier than she bargained for.
Notes: This story takes place in the same universe as "Raising In the Sun," "Necessary Evils," and "A Parliament of Monsters." It contains spoilers for previous works in the series. Written for Seasonal Spuffy's 2012 Fall Round. Many thanks to betas bruttimabuoni, slaymesoftly, typographer, and kehf, without whose invaluable help this story would be significantly less nifty. As an aside, it should be noted that The Vamp is a real thing, available at fine purveyors of erotic appliances everywhere.




OK, right from the outset, I want to make it clear that I was not to blame for any of it. Me? Bystander, Innocent, Caught Up By Forces Beyond Her Control. Got it? Good. Keep it in mind, there'll be a test later.( Read more... )

In A Yellow Wood
By Barb C.
Disclaimers: The usual. All belongs to Joss and Mutant Enemy, and naught to me.
Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: When Warren Meers traps Buffy in an alternate dimension on his first assignment for Wolfram & Hart, she's faced with the consequences of dozens of choices she's made. Even if she escapes, can she be certain that her life's followed the right path?
Author’s notes: This story takes place in the same universe as "Raising In the Sun," "Necessary Evils," and "A Parliament of Monsters." It takes place simultaneously with the story "The Lesser of Two Evils," and contains spoilers for the series to date. Many thanks to betas deborahc, brutti_ma_buoni typographer, wildrider slaymesoftly & readerjane. Additional thanks to harmonyfb and evil_little_dog for the loan of their Buffys.

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In A Yellow Wood
By Barb C.
Disclaimers: The usual. All belongs to Joss and Mutant Enemy, and naught to me.
Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: When Warren Meers traps Buffy in an alternate dimension on his first assignment for Wolfram & Hart, she's faced with the consequences of dozens of choices she's made. Even if she escapes, can she be certain that her life's followed the right path?
Author’s notes: This story takes place in the same universe as "Raising In the Sun," "Necessary Evils," and "A Parliament of Monsters." It takes place simultaneously with the story "The Lesser of Two Evils," and contains spoilers for the series to date. Many thanks to betas deborahc, brutti_ma_buoni typographer, wildrider slaymesoftly & readerjane. Additional thanks to harmonyfb and evil_little_dog for the loan of their Buffys.

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Hi All! Later today I will be posting at least one more installment of "In A Yellow Wood," a story I started for Seasonal Spuffy many years ago. Depending on how quickly I can finish the revisions, I may be posting the entire rest of the story. If that doesn't prove feasible, I'll post part of it today and the rest on the free posting day and/or on my journal later. (I do have a complete first draft, so no matter what, it won't be too much longer before I can post the whole thing.)

In the meantime, since it's been such a very long time since I began this story, I'm posting a link to the first part, which was posted in several previous rounds of Seasonal Spuffy and is now collected at my website and at AO3.

Hope you enjoy.

I'm not much of a manipper, but the recent SMG photoshoot and one of the shots of JM from his recent convention appearances just happened to be perfect for making this Barbverse picture.

Buffy, Spike, and Vicki



I really wanted to give Vicki a teeny weeny vamp face, but I decided it woudn't show up. *g*

Thanks to Sky at Civilized James and angearia for the scans. :) Now I can finally go read everyone else's contributions!

The Hero of the Piece

By Barb C

Disclaimers: The usual. All belongs to Joss and Mutant Enemy, and naught to me.

Rating: R

Pairing: Buffy/Spike

Synopsis: Where the hell was he? Come to that, who the hell was he?

Author’s notes: This story was written for the Fall 2009 round of seasonal_spuffy. The story takes place in the same universe as "Raising In the Sun," "Necessary Evils," and "A Parliament of Monsters." It's set in the year 2017 in the Barbverse timeline, and has spoilers for previous works in the series. Enormous thanks to betas rainkatt, shipperx, deborahc, brutti_ma_buoni, typographer, slaymesoftly, and kehf, without whose invaluable help this would be a far poorer story, and to jen_nsync_landl, green_maia, Gwyn, and ladyofthelog for last minute once-overs. Any remaining deficiencies are my own. As always, thanks to enigmaticblues for getting the band back together!





( The wardrobe across the room was the sort you'd expect to lead to Narnia... )

This is my second story for the day. Thanks as always to enigmaticblues for organizing this, and now I'm off to read all the stories I've missed! :D

In My Life
Barb C
Disclaimers: The usual. All belongs to Joss and Mutant Enemy, and naught to me.
Rating: NC-17-ish
Pairing: B/S
Synopsis: "You and Angel used to make out beneath the bleachers, yeh?" "Not so much," Buffy assures him, but she doesn't argue when he tugs her after him.
Author’s notes: This story takes place in the same universe as "Raising In the Sun," "Necessary Evils," and "A Parliament of Monsters." It's set in 2024, approximately six years before the story "Zombie Barbie Says You're It," and contains minor spoilers for POM. Thanks to rainkatt, kehf and slaymesoftly for betaing!


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