Five of My Favorite Pre-2008 Spike/Fred Fics

[sockmonkeyhere.livejournal.com]

My One True Pairing. Why couldn't canon be like this? *sniffle* (*steals a hankie from my angst/drama list*)

1. The Little Things by buffyx
http://www.allaboutspike.com/fic.html?id=537
rating: R
length: long vignette
setting: alternate AtS season 5
summary: Sweet description of Spike and Fred falling in love…and why.

2. Flip, Click by saturngirl1974 and kats_meow (aka Kat Leon)
http://community.livejournal.com/spred/15039.html
rating: PG-13
length: long vignette
setting: alternate AtS season 5
summary: Spike is reluctantly attending a Fang Gang meeting in their new Wolfram & Hart digs…along with his cigarette lighter. It’s a combination that Fred finds much more riveting than the gang’s reports.

3. Binding Ties by Kat Leon (aka kats_meow)
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?keyword=Binding+Ties&user=kats_meow&sortby=des
rating: R
length: eight chapters (WIP)
setting: alternate AtS season 3
summary: In the summer following Buffy’s “The Gift” death, the Scoobies, convinced that Spike will become a bad influence on Dawn, pressure him to move to the Hyperion where Angel can “police” him. There Spike meets the other new arrival: Fred, fresh from Pylea and trying to recover her sanity.

4. Good Friday by Kat Leon (aka kats_meow)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2242247/1/
rating: R
length: nine chapters (complete)
setting: alternate AtS season 5
summary: After “Shells,” a grieving, desperate Wes resorts to black magic to try to resurrect Fred and drive out Illyria, and Spike stumbles across the result. Includes a great original character, Father Steve, a Catholic priest blackmailed by Wes into helping him with the dark ritual.

5. Dancing Around a Romance by Evenstar
http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~sithean/dancing.htm
rating: R
length: nineteen chapters (complete)
setting: alternate AtS season 5
summary: A series of vignettes beginning with a non-canon version of Spike becoming un-ghosted, and continuing with scenes depicting a growing romance between Fred and Spike. My favorites are Sections Two (II), Three (III), Eight (VIII), and Eleven (XI.) “Two” is a wonderfully lazy, playful scene in which Fred shares a joint with Spike: Spike's thoughts, speech, and body language are very in-character, Fred is as cute as a button, and the ending is as sweet as it is hot. In “Three” Fred's painting Spike's nails black, while rambling on about helping him augment his wardrobe at the local mall; another cute, funny scene with a teeny bit of believable anger in the middle that's beautifully resolved. Section Eight: Bathtub. Nekkidness. To write a scene this erotic and still manage to keep it R-rated is a true gift. *boggles* Section Eleven is a lovely, realistic, and touching scene of the pair in bed the morning after...well, what was obviously a really good night.



ETA: For a complete list of Spike/Fred fics, go here:
http://www.fuzzyshark.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=53
or here:
http://www.fanforum.com/f24/fred-spike-fanfiction-thread-2687/index2.html (on this site the list is broken into four back-to-back posts.)

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Nice range here from the short fic to the long!

[sockmonkeyhere.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I've posted a list at Cold Dead Seed of all the Spred fics I could find, in case anyone wants some more.

[yourlibrarian]

Feel free to add that link here, either in your post or in a comment (most of the posts there are open, right?)

[sockmonkeyhere.livejournal.com]

I added it to my entry. Yes, it's in a section of CDS that you don't have to be a member to see.

[thatotherperv.livejournal.com]

hey, thanks for these! Spike/Fred has always been one of my favorite pairings, and I thought I'd read them all but there are a few here I definitely haven't. looking forward to them.

[sockmonkeyhere.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I don't think I've ever found a Spred fic that wasn't well-written, so I had a very hard time choosing which five to put on my list. The others on the link in my entry are just as good!