Five Bittersweet Spike Fics

[singedbylife.livejournal.com]

I often gravitate towards hurt/comfort fics which in turn often gravitate towards pain, angst, and bittersweetness.
I have a lot of fics that I'd like to recommend but had to find five examples only. Hope you will enjoy them as much as I did. Note that I had accidentally posted a fic by TheSigyn which was a Harmony/Spike fic but that ones is actually too new to be a classic. My bad.

Moments by Thornwild
A fantastic bittersweet short series of Spuffy fiction. All 17 parts are among some of the best Spuffy fiction I've read. So heartbreaking, so hot, so sad, so insightful. So right!

"The Scariest Thing There Is" by TheFoxinator
Sad/bittersweet Spangel post Shells in Angel the Series

"Closer Now and Further Still" by TheFoxinator
One of the best Spuffel one-shots I've ever read. Again, bittersweet but very lovely.

"Low Tide" by herself_nyc
Bitter more than sweet Spander.

"Awakenings" by _Beetle_
A bittersweet Spander fic 7 years post NFA - 12 chapters. Amnesia.

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Harm shows a date of June 2015 in Archive of Our Own. The rules for this session are : Content from all time periods before 2015 are eligible for posting .

Can you find another story to post?

[yourlibrarian]

Aha, a chance to whip out the h/c tag :) And seeing the Moments series it makes me glad there's now a way to subscribe to a series on AO3. Thanks for the post!

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Ah, Awakenings. Excellent choice. I look forward to reading the others.

[singedbylife.livejournal.com]

Sure - sorry.

[chasingdemons.livejournal.com]

Bittersweet is one of my favorite flavors, and these all look fantastic! Must read!!

[snogged.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing.

[baudown.livejournal.com]

SO looking forward to reading these, because I've read none of them. Whee!

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this excellent list!


Gabrielle

[lusciousxander.livejournal.com]

I don't remember reading that Spander fic by herself_nyc! Thank you so much for sharing.

[rbfvid.livejournal.com]

Some os these are my faves, too. And others immediately go into "to read" list, thanks!

[singedbylife.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. 😊

[singedbylife.livejournal.com]

Hope you'll like them. 😊

[singedbylife.livejournal.com]

My pleasure! 😊

[singedbylife.livejournal.com]

Yes! So glad to hear that. Hope you'll like them. 😊

[singedbylife.livejournal.com]

Mine too! Enjoy!!

[singedbylife.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. 😊

[singedbylife.livejournal.com]

It's my pleasure. 😊

[singedbylife.livejournal.com]

Re reading Awakenings now myself. Love that one.