FIVE SPIKE/FRED FIC WRITERS from 2009

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alison_swift
Alison's multi-chapter post-"Not Fade Away" fic Retrieval and Return has the same great elements as the TV show, including humor, suspense, good characterization and dialogue, and convincing villains...with the addition of a tender, slowly-developing Spike/ResurrectedFred romance. She's also written some sweet and funny Spred one-shot fics: Fine Lines and Shove With Your Hips.
http://community.livejournal.com/spred/41970.html
http://alison-swift.livejournal.com/120631.html
http://alison-swift.livejournal.com/126533.html

fenderlove
Fender's writing a multi-chapter Spike/ResurrectedFred story, too (Paper Pusher); hers is set after the AtS comic book "After the Fall" by IDW. It's another example of a long fic that feels convincingly like the TV series -- especially her hilariously bizarre family of villains! She also wrote a clever Spred fic called Automated Utopia, which placed the AtS characters in an AU SteamPunk setting.
http://fenderlove.livejournal.com/tag/paper+pusher
http://fenderlove.livejournal.com/tag/automated+utopia

lilithbint
Lilithbint wrote The Lost as a response to a request I made at the LJ community nekid_spike. It's an alternate reality BtVS Season 7 / AtS Season 4 ficlet, in which Fred takes a call from Xander and Dawn in Sunnydale and goes to find the recently ensouled Spike in the basement. Spot-on characterizations from start to finish, and Fred's compassion toward Spike is a thing of beauty. I love this fic more than words can say.
http://community.livejournal.com/spred/41155.html

sockmonkeyhere
While floundering about with the same long Spred fic I began writing two years ago, I also started a second set of stories, called the "Cycle" series. Both fic sets are post-"Not Fade Away"...and hopefully, both will finally be finished sometime this decade. ;)
http://sockmonkeyhere.livejournal.com/19155.html

brunettepet
Brunettepet's After Easter is an adorably funny AtS Season 5 ficlet starring Fred, Spike, and a whole lotta leftover Easter candy. It's the kind of scene I would have loved to see on the TV show!
http://brunettepet.livejournal.com/5464.html