#spuffy fic rec

[mistigrisunshine]

spuffy fic rec

part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4

Puppy Problems by SzmattyCat [6k]

Buffy and Spike just want to spend some time together. Is that too much to ask?

Ghostly by untouchable [8k]

Six months after Sunnydale collapses, a grieving Buffy is startled to find Spike, feral and without any idea who she is, in her backyard. Is he real? Or just another ghost?

Dreamless by feliciacraft [9k]

Buffy woke up the same way she always did these days, a blank alertness overtaking sleep, without the harsh interjection of an alarm clock whisking her into action, without the dying whispers of a dream urging her to stay. Neither sudden nor gradual, instead it felt inevitable — like birth; yet always decidedly out of place. What was life after death in a nutshell, if not that? (Early season 6 AU story with a canon opening and a happy Spuffy ending.)

What Remains by MrsAkers [15k]

As the lone survivors of the final battle with Glory, Buffy and Spike run away from Sunnydale. Battling with guilt and an unfulfilled death wish, Buffy finds solace in Spike's company while the vampire just does his best to keep her alive.

Falling by kally77 [30k]

After The Harsh Light of Day, Angel loses his soul and Buffy finds an unexpected ally.

East of Nevada by Blissymbolics [42k]

The answer comes to him in a spark. Relief engulfs every nerve as he realizes Buffy is safe. He can save her this time. He wasn’t smart enough before. He made so many stupid mistakes. But this time is different. He may not have magic, but he can save her in a way no one else can. Spike sires Buffy to save her life. Now comes the hard part.

A New Dawn by kally77 [42k]

Rewrite of season 5. The monks made Dawn Buffy's daughter rather than her sister.

Midway of Speech and Thought by TheHousekeeper [63k]

Six months after the Battle of Sunnydale, Buffy is trying to settle into her new life in London: patrolling, training new Slayers, and studying English Literature. But it's not great for her grades that strange demons are appearing all over the city – and it's not great for her sanity that she's suddenly dreaming about Spike. And she only dreams when it rains.

In the Dark of the Night by norik23 [138k]

Saint Petersburg. 1920s. Rupert Giles, a fallen watcher, and Spike, a cursed vampire, are an unlikely pair of conmen struggling to make ends meet in a city overrun by demons. Together, they hatch a plan to find the long-lost slayer... or at least a decent approximation. A road trip adventure love story, loosely based on the plot of Anastasia (1997). Featuring a motley crew of misfits – Buffy, Spike, and Giles – who’d much rather bicker for 2000 miles than admit they’re all a bit lonely. Good thing it’s a long way to Paris. They’ve got time to figure it out.

Death Wish by Sigyn [190k]

“World is what it is. We fight and we die. Wishing doesn't change that. You can believe in a better world. I have to live in this one.”  Anyanka’s wish was broken, but the world it created continues. Now Buffy must join forces with rebel vampires to create a world they can all stand to live in. But can Spike, Drusilla and Angel actually work with a hardened slayer, who would just as soon see them all dust?

[agentkikirogers]

A series of different pick up lines with different ships.

1. "MISSION" Stucky (Steve/Bucky)

2. "BASKETBALL" Destiel (Dean/Castiel)

3. "BEDROOM FLOOR" Spuffy (Spike/Buffy)

4. "SOCK" Sterek (Derek/Stiles)

5. "RIVER" Dramione (Draco/Hermione)

Link

[tubesock86]

here are the fics!! (tho tbh everything by summerfrost is perfect)

both are spuffy centric!!

girlfriends <3

[spuffybot]

I’m going through a really hard time so please drop your fav Spuffy fics so I can distract myself.

[l0veisntbrains]

“You ask me to dance and you just stand there?” She hopes her voice is just teasing enough, and when he cracks a smile, she feels like she won a game. “What if it was only us here? What would you do?” ⌞ So It Goes... by scratchmeout

[camellcat]

idk how interested y'all would be but seeing as I am constantly trying to rec things I thought it'd be easier if I just put everything in one place, soooo. here's a spreadsheet I've been working on lately! 90% is spuffy so for the most part y'all should have a good time here. if you're bored and looking for something to read, here you shall find lots and lots and lots of fun stuff to go through x)

feel free to share with me even more fics ofc! doesn't even have to be spuffy, though I'd probably prefer it. I'm always looking for something new to read and would love to continue adding onto the list

[kpchrs]

I know this fic! I haven't finished reading it because I lost it. Thank you for finding it for me.

Sometimes I just want a Spike & Dawn found family fic, where Buffy was never resurrected and they navigate daily lives together in an apocalypse/post-apocalypse world. Road tripping as best as they can to survive. Protecting her again and again because he had promised the girl. Til the end of the world even if it's today. Cry when they miss her. Smile when they find a little bit of happiness. Just like that.

And then Spike got to keep his promise.

[bardicinspired]

Hi i know i've said this before but i need more fics where Spike bites Buffy.

Not turns. Just bites.

[mcgnagallsarmy]

Top 3 Spuffy fics I’ve read (Apr 2024)

Bad Idea, Right? by scratchmeout [R]

She can't stop herself from telling him how she feels because, god, when she looks at him her brain goes, "Ah".

Hunger by Sunalso [NC-17]

AU. Spike killed his third Slayer, but Dru was already dust. He's been lost, but when his supper turns out to be more than he bargained for, it leaves him hungry for something else instead. And Buffy? She's just hungry.

Selfish by disco-tea [PG-13]

A year after the collapse of Sunnydale, a grieving Buffy is given the chance to go back and see it all one last time. The catch? She can’t talk to anyone, she can’t kill anything, she can’t break anything or step on a butterfly or sneeze in the wrong place, or she risks unraveling all of time itself. There’s even a fail-safe put in place where if Buffy even comes close to changing anything, a crystal will shatter and send her hurtling back through time. However, the past is not always what it seems, and fate may just have a few things in store for Buffy… AU of Selfless

[sunnydaleslayer]

Please recommend me some time travel fanfics (as many as you want) connected to any of my ships. I prefer from within the time period of the shows, but I also have some where Buffy ended up when Spike was human. I'll take anything. Just preferably where the characters are in character

[veronyxk84]

Spuffy Fic Recs — November/December

Missed last month’s recs? Check this tag to catch up!

Find my Fic Recs on Dreamwidth as well

I present a list of 10 Spuffy fics I’ve read mostly in December, but because I couldn’t get much reading done last month (and thus I had no recs) I decided to make this one a double. They’re all complete, all recent, and all links are for Sunnydale After Dark. Fics marked with the 🎁 emoji were written for SAD’s SADvent Calendar 2024. (NOTE: some or all may be available on other archives as well).

Listed from oldest to most recent; see the publishing year (on SAD) before the title.

Some reviews are taken from my own comments left for the stories. I tried to make them short and not spoiler-y.

(2024) Baby, it’s cold outside by Julikobold [G] 🎁 one shot

Summary: Buffy and Spike go sledding. But before they can ride down the hill they need to go up. In snow. Buffy is not amused.

Review: Get ready to cozy up with Buffy and Spike as they hike through a magical snowed land. A romantic winter holiday with a side of playful banter.

(2024) SantaCon Comes to Town by bruskiboo [PG-13] 🎁 one shot

Summary: Dawn is finally getting Buffy to take a vacation, to the Big Apple! With Spike and Buffy happily together, a new license showing she is of legal age, and a whole itinerary of holiday fun and festive drinking planned, what could go wrong??

Review: Enjoy some fun shenanigans in this lovely holiday fic. I loved seeing Spuffy in their settled relationship through Dawn’s POV and learning about an actual event of which I had never heard of. Our heroes even had to “slay” an unexpected baddie in a very festive way!

(2024) First and Last by kcchameleon [R] one shot

Summary:“It felt like ages that they stood, the whole room between them, eyes locked in a way that felt more intimate than anything he’d experienced before in all his years, living and dead.” Buffy and Spike spend one last night, before the battle that would change everything, in each other’s arms.

Review: A delightful take on Chosen’s fade-to-black scene that left us all guessing what happened next. Guess no more: here’a an answer you’re sure to enjoy!

(2024) All We’ve Ever Done by Claire [G] 🎁 art: comic style

Summary: It’s all they’ve ever done. Moved with each other. Fallen into rhythm. She’s denied it, but what if Buffy was ready to stop dancing around the truth and be swayed by what her heart already knows: that the man who shows up for her without missing a beat could be the man of her dreams? Spike’s never needed an invitation; he’ll follow anywhere she leads.

Review: This is particularly dear to me because it was made for the SADvent Calendar exchange as a gift from my prompt. Beside that, I recommend it because of the STUNNING art in comic style and a lovely reimagining of some iconic S5 Spuffy moments. Your eyes and hearts will be happy to read (and feast on) this!

(2024) Mismatched Memories by kcchameleon [PG-13] one shot

Summary:“The body swap. With Buffy.” “She fill you in on the whole deal?” “She told me it went down. Failed to mention who was driving her skin around.” When and how Spike found out it wasn’t Buffy in the “Who Are You?” episode. Season 6 missing scene.

Review: If you’re eager to discover how and when Spike found out about the infamous body switch that led to Faith!Buffy hitting on him at the Bronze, here’s the one-shot for you! Truly enjoyable.

(2024) Snapshots From My Idiot by Claire [G] art: photo album

Summary: Buffy’s Spike selfies collection. (Otherwise known as any excuse to put Spike in glasses!)

Review: Another art masterpiece from the wickedly talented Claire! Enjoy a series of amazing Spuffy manips by taking a peek into their personal photo album, complete with scribbled notes that make everything even more magical.

(2024) Buffy’s A Christmas Carol by Alyot [PG-13] 🎁 one shot

Summary: ‘So, let me get this straight…’ Buffy began. ‘You’re not Faith, just the spirit of her, and you’re here to teach me some life lessons and stop my Slayer destiny turning me into an unfeeling bitch incapable of love?’

‘Got it in one, B!’

‘And why now?’

‘It’s Christmas Eve, dummy!’

(Or, that time Buffy relived A Christmas Carol.)

Review: A clever reimagining of the classic tale by Dickens, with Buffy being the one who receives the visits of the “ghosts.” I guarantee that you’ll love the characters that the author chose to be Buffy’s guides through her past/present/future Christmasses and the effect their visits will have on her.

(2024) Gifts from the (Undead) Heart by Grief Counseling [PG-13] 🎁 one shot

Summary: Spike pays Buffy a visit on Christmas Eve, bearing gifts. An emotional, romantic scene set between Wrecked and Gone.

Review: If you love S6 with a hopeful twist, this is the fic for you. Follow Buffy’s chaotic (but fun) train of thoughs as she struggles with how she feels about a certain bleach-haired vampire who has turned her world upside down... and as she learns that maybe it’s not all that bad.

(2024) Interesting by honeygirl51885 [PG-13] one shot

Summary: Buffy and Spike come off as a boring couple to complete strangers. But what happens when you pull back the curtain?

Review: Sequel to Boring which was featured in my July Fic Recs. If you didn’t read it back then, I suggest that you do, and here’s my review from July:

I had never read a fic with Spuffy seen from a different POV, it’s a clever angle, and in this case also amusing! I couldn’t stop laughing with (original character) Jessica being progressively more wrong about them with her every guess. Poor soul!

This sequel makes the strangers from Boring reconsider their opinion on Buffy & Spike in the most amusing and satisfying way. And of course there’s some good Spuffy banter!

(2024) Spiralizer by Girlytek [NC-17] 🎁 one shot

Summary: Spike gets a Spikebot made to help protect Dawn. The best laid schemes of vamps and men go oft awry.

Review: I never knew I needed a Williambot in my life until I read this story. A humorous but very clever re-imagining of the final episodes of S5 with a new, peculiar player joining the Scoobies and perhaps changing everyone’s fate for the best...

[mistigrisunshine]

spuffy fic rec

figured all the time i spend scouring EF and ao3 might be useful to someone!

part 1 - part 2 - part 3

Scooby Crew, Where Are You? by Twinkles [9k]

In a not comics-compliant post-series universe where spuffy have been reunited and everyone else is drifting apart, chaos drops by for a visit. Or a nefarious scheme. I guess we'll find out XD

To Apprehend Air by Quinara [19k]

Two days after LMPTM, Spike's soul is stolen. But that's OK; they can get it back, right? Simple. How hard is it to hop dimensions, anyway? Or storm a castle…

Wild and Wonderful by solstice [23k]

Dawn is nine and three quarters. She is resilient, strange and sharp as a tack. She's a credit to her big sis. But she's just been kidnapped by one of the most notorious vamps of all time - Drusilla. Things look bad. Enter Spike, her very unlikely hero. Spike's relationship with Drusilla has been on the rocks since the Acathala debacle and the morsel in the crate is her double-edged gift to him: a chance to make things right, and a chance to be really bad. Kill the girl and make it hurt. But for some reason he. just. can't. Instead, he tosses the niblet into the trunk of his Desoto and hits the road, leaving his one hundred year relationship in tatters, and grinding his reputation into the dust. Buckle your seat belts nice and tight. We're in for a bumpy ride.

World Enough, and Time by toooldforthis [23k]

“You came back wrong,” he told her, all those years ago. He was right, but it took them a very long time to realise exactly what that meant. It meant a hundred more apocalypses, a thousand battles. It meant a journey, a prophecy, a war. They’d lose one other, and find their way back, and choose, again and again. And all the while, the earth was failing. There are a lot more people than you think who are here for the long haul – like, the really long haul. This is a story about two of them.

Once You Eliminate the Impossible by yellowb [30k]

Icelandic noir. Inspector Summers of the Reykjavik police force has finally got her big chance: she’s in charge of a murder case.

sometimes enough by taxicab12 [35k]

“Tell me everything,” Willow said, not sounding particularly like she’d been asleep. “Are his friends cool?” Buffy blinked. “Some of them. There was this one British guy—” “Ooh, accents, hot.” “—who wouldn’t stop staring at my boobs,” she finished. “Ew, men, gross.” “Spike,” Buffy said with a scoff. “What kind of name is that?” Or, Buffy falls in love and in love and in love. For some reason, life keeps happening anyway

ever waiting airports (full of the love that you deserve) by womanaction [41k]

Buffy catches up with Riley's helicopter, solving one problem and introducing a host of others. How is she supposed to rebuild their crumbling relationship in the face of an angry hellgod out for blood, an emotional teenage sister who spent millennia as a glowing ball of energy, and a weirdly helpful vampire? Season 5 rewrite from "Into the Woods" on.

GTFO by Girlytek [54k]

Spike doesn’t take the extra hundred bucks to be the decoy. Ethan doesn’t hang around to gloat. With the Initiative on their tail (just a little one), and Ethan needing a good being killed, Spike and Fyarl-Giles get out of town. There’s nothing like a road trip to put your demons in perspective.

Care by Sigyn [72k]

While under her Will Be Done spell, Willow just happened to say “I don’t care about anything,” and as a result, wanders blithely off as a vengeance demon. Spike and Buffy are left to protect a threatened Xander and a blind Giles while under the effect of a powerful love charm. But all is not happy in paradise – they’re still constantly fighting, and Angel is determined to end the spell they’re under. In a desperate attempt to collect the tattered remains of all their lives, ex-watcher Wesley Windham-Pryce is called in to try and play marriage counselor between the vampire and the slayer.

The Soul Lies Down by the_moonmoth [73k]

"As a child, I used to dream of a man in black and white, spinning in the desert like a dervish, sword flashing in the moonlight as he danced with death." Dawn travels back in time to save the vampire who saved her life. It's not purely out of sentiment, though -- the fate of the world is at stake (again) and somehow Spike is at the center of events. If only he can stay on the right side of Buffy. A sequel to Angearia's "Fin Amour".

Summer’s Lease by Iamblichus [86k]

Buffy thought it would be just another night of slaying lame-ass campus vampires, but one green demon, some unexpected help from Spike, and a spurt of fluorescent blood later, she finds that her world has acquired a novel complication.

Indigo Overture by Rikki_oko [119k]

Spike's just a drummer, content to live in lead singer Angel's shadow. But when a certain blonde strolls in on Angel's arm, will Spike be content to take the backseat forever? Loosely based on the eighties song, Jesse's Girl.

[fluffyspuffy]

Fic rec time!

This one is…. Epic. I almost quit reading during the 1st chapter because I was LOST. I do wish I could read all about the mysterious happenings of this unpublished (unwritten?) later half of season 6 and season 7. No idea what all happened in this little AU timespan, but I know it was also epic.

This is everything a Buffy season should be. So much better than season 7 was (no offense) and infinitely better than the season 8 comic could ever hope to be (offense).

I do love reading my spuffy-centric pieces of fic, but damn. All the details and side-plots just really make this an outstanding read.

It’s incomplete. And I am now too. I’ll never forget this one. I’m sure the length can be intimidating to some (not those who have read ‘Life Hard’ tho, amiright?), but it is well worth the time and journey. I could have kept reading this forever.

What the fuck am I supposed to read now?

[singwith-love-at-our-throats]

looking for spuffy fic recs that are mostly just cute fluff pls

[evilwickedme]

Hi! It’s the anon from before with the spuffy fics! I wanted to reconfigure my recommendations bc I did give more shorter fun-to-read crack-ish fics instead of the longer character forward ones you were looking for (I do still stand by them but I’m realizing that I got them from all over the place - ff.net, ao3, Elysian Fields, etc - which sorry about that btw).

Okay first off, where you can find the previous fics! Cursed by Sunalso (ao3, EF), So Mote It Be by Ultrawoman (ff.net), A Pirates Life for Me by Addie Logan (ff.net, EF, spikeluver.com), and Spikes Demon vs. Pants (just EF I think sorry about that). (Also there are probably other archives and blogs that have these fics I just don’t know them all)

Now the Revised List (sticking to Ao3):

- What Lies Within - cawthraven (E - Dracula makes Buffy question her nature as a slayer, and Buffy goes to Spike for answers)

- Til the End of the World - someryn (M - Spike gets his soul after Buffy sacrifices herself so he can properly take care of Dawn while she’s gone)

- Fixing the Factors by ImmortallySpuffy - (posted by) maryperk (Not Rated/ Adult Only) Spike and Buffy experience a Groundhog Day scenario for the episode ‘The Yoko Factor,’ repeating the same day over and over)

-Cursed by sunalso (again) (M - this rec still holds for your pref and I really love sunalso’s work)

Hey my love come off anon so we can run off together for real

[iamnotathornbird]

random ask, and i know there's places to go to ask for/search fo everlark fics, but does anyone know of one for spuffy fics?

or if any of these four ring a bell:

- the scooby gang goes to ireland? scotland? to research & defeat some sort of loch ness-esque monster & there's a game similar to pool (but with a larger table or more balls) involved in the story. this story is a multi-chapter completed fic.

- buffy has a breakdown and kills the scooby gang, except for dawn, who she chases towards spike's crypt, and he's able to save her. not sure if this story was ever completed.

- set way in the future (but before the comics were written), and spike is meeting up with a new slayer. there's a comment early-on about him smoking "real" cigarettes and not being like everyone else and switching to the fake/non-cancerous kinds. this was probably written in the early 2000s, before vaping was a thing.

and lastly,

- buffy and spike get transported to another world/planet/universe, where they team up with the equivalent of the local kingdom to fight a beast that's been living in nearby mountain caves? the human-esque people don't have blood though, so spike is forced to feed off of buffy. they're also housed in castle-esque fancy digs while they're there. also a multi-chapter completed fic.