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penny_lane_42
http://community.livejournal.com/seasonal_spuffy/356065.html
PG-13, Season 7, episodes "Bring on the Night" through "Chosen". Buffy and Spike as seen by Potentials and Faith. Sharp, insightful character study; inventive use of POVs; great voices - Potentials have more interesting personalities in this fic than they have in canon. From Molly, who initially thinks that
Spike must be a dog ("Buffy talks about Spike being the only one strong enough to protect everyone and Xander’s jibes about him attacking people combined with Dawn’s sarcastic
comment about him needing to be put down made her really think it must have been a dog") to Faith who tries to convince Buffy that she shouldn't run away from her emotions ("I know you think anything that feels good is big-time evil. But that ain’t true."), it's a powerful and gripping story.
In My Dream, You Weren't Mine byamyxaphania
http://amyxaphania.livejournal.com/130522.html
R, post-NFA. When a demon sends Buffy into a dreamscape that brings to life her worst fears about Spike, her friends and her family, can she fight the nightmare to find reality? Intriguing story in which the concept of parallel dimensions could be interpreted as a metaphor of fanficland where an intersection of shippers' worlds could be painful.
What He Wanted bypennydrdful
http://community.livejournal.com/seasonal_spuffy/361549.html
PG, early season 5. Spike gets his chip out. What’s a Slayer to do? "Angstastic" experience, as one of the reviewers puts it, the fic explores parallels between Buffy and Spike - joy of combat, disempowerment (Spike's chip, Buffy's Cruciamentum), death wish, hidden deep inside. Intense and powerful.
The Glory and the Dream bygreen_maia
http://community.livejournal.com/seasonal_spuffy/362154.html
PG, Future!Verse. This story takes place in Green_Maya's Gifts-verse, where Spike was resurrected as a human after "Chosen" in 2003 and went back to the name William. In 2008 he and Buffy were reunited, by 2015 they have two children. "We have a traditional Victorian marriage,” Buffy liked to quip. “He's the wife.” Green_Maya is uncompromising in her exploration how RL tests and transforms a mythic couple. Reflective, sad, with ambiguous ending. The story is dark, but there are sparkles of love and hope in this darkness.
Infinitas Infinitio Infinitus bypenny_lane_42
http://penny-lane-42.livejournal.com/tag/infinitas+infinitio+infinitus
Complete, PG-13, Future!Fic. Buffy turns 40 and she can't hide the fact that she's not aging. Writer's summary: "Learning to live is a lot harder than learning to die. And just when Buffy masters one, she learns she's a novice at the other." Thoughtful character study. Poetic language, intriguing psychologic dilemmas and convincing character voices.
penny_lane_42http://community.livejournal.com/seasonal_spuffy/356065.html
PG-13, Season 7, episodes "Bring on the Night" through "Chosen". Buffy and Spike as seen by Potentials and Faith. Sharp, insightful character study; inventive use of POVs; great voices - Potentials have more interesting personalities in this fic than they have in canon. From Molly, who initially thinks that
Spike must be a dog ("Buffy talks about Spike being the only one strong enough to protect everyone and Xander’s jibes about him attacking people combined with Dawn’s sarcastic
comment about him needing to be put down made her really think it must have been a dog") to Faith who tries to convince Buffy that she shouldn't run away from her emotions ("I know you think anything that feels good is big-time evil. But that ain’t true."), it's a powerful and gripping story.
In My Dream, You Weren't Mine by
amyxaphaniahttp://amyxaphania.livejournal.com/130522.html
R, post-NFA. When a demon sends Buffy into a dreamscape that brings to life her worst fears about Spike, her friends and her family, can she fight the nightmare to find reality? Intriguing story in which the concept of parallel dimensions could be interpreted as a metaphor of fanficland where an intersection of shippers' worlds could be painful.
What He Wanted by
pennydrdfulhttp://community.livejournal.com/seasonal_spuffy/361549.html
PG, early season 5. Spike gets his chip out. What’s a Slayer to do? "Angstastic" experience, as one of the reviewers puts it, the fic explores parallels between Buffy and Spike - joy of combat, disempowerment (Spike's chip, Buffy's Cruciamentum), death wish, hidden deep inside. Intense and powerful.
The Glory and the Dream by
green_maiahttp://community.livejournal.com/seasonal_spuffy/362154.html
PG, Future!Verse. This story takes place in Green_Maya's Gifts-verse, where Spike was resurrected as a human after "Chosen" in 2003 and went back to the name William. In 2008 he and Buffy were reunited, by 2015 they have two children. "We have a traditional Victorian marriage,” Buffy liked to quip. “He's the wife.” Green_Maya is uncompromising in her exploration how RL tests and transforms a mythic couple. Reflective, sad, with ambiguous ending. The story is dark, but there are sparkles of love and hope in this darkness.
Infinitas Infinitio Infinitus by
penny_lane_42 http://penny-lane-42.livejournal.com/tag/infinitas+infinitio+infinitus
Complete, PG-13, Future!Fic. Buffy turns 40 and she can't hide the fact that she's not aging. Writer's summary: "Learning to live is a lot harder than learning to die. And just when Buffy masters one, she learns she's a novice at the other." Thoughtful character study. Poetic language, intriguing psychologic dilemmas and convincing character voices.
