Summary: All Spike wanted was for Buffy to treat him like a man. To let him into her world. Finally, she did.

Set during the episode Crush and instantly takes a sharp turn.

Banner Art By: Grief Counseling
Categories: Season 5, Sunnydale After Dark Debut, Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive
Characters: Ensemble - BtVS
Genres: Angst, Dramedy, Fighting, HEA/HFN, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Slow Burn, UST
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Character Death, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 18 Table of Contents
Word count: 49,216 Hit Count: 17,563 ePub Downloads: 369
Published: 07/04/22 Updated: 04/06/23

Summary: He's watching her... he's watching. He watches. Her.

Banner Art By: Dusty
Categories: Season 2, Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angelus, Drusilla, Ensemble
Genres: Angst, Dark, Drama, Horror, Porn w/ Plot, Road Trip, Slow Burn, UST
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Alcohol/Drug Use, Blood Play, Character Death, Dubious Consent, Other Mental Health Issues, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp), Stalking, Suicidal Ideation/Thoughts, Torture (Emotional/Psychological), Torture (Physical), Underage Sex, Violence, Warnings Added As Story Progresses
Completed: No Chapters: 23 Table of Contents
Word count: 62,631 Hit Count: 7,336 ePub Downloads: 58
Published: 09/01/23 Updated: 09/25/25

Summary: She was there and then gone. All his life long.

Banner Art By: Dusty
Categories: Post-Series, Sunnydale After Dark Debut
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Alternate Reality, Angst, Drama, Dramedy, Erotica, Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Threesome, Time Travel
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Suicide, Threesome(s), Warnings Added As Story Progresses
Completed: Yes Chapters: 51 Table of Contents
Word count: 137,540 Hit Count: 20,900 ePub Downloads: 158
Published: 06/21/22 Updated: 08/08/23

Summary: Buffy, Giles, and the rest of the Scoobies are living in London a year after the collapse of the Hellmouth. They are faced with an interesting mission to save the world: they must retrieve an artifact that was destroyed over a hundred years ago. The catch? Buffy must travel back in time to the exact location where Spike lived before he was turned to obtain the artifact. The pain of seeing him again after losing him, even in human form, might prove to be too much. Or it might be exactly what a grieving slayer needs.

Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Banner Art By: Grief Counseling
Categories: Pre-Series, Post-Series, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Anne Pratt, Giles, William, Willow, Xander
Genres: Angst, Drama, Dramedy, Dream, Erotica, HEA/HFN, Historical, Reunion, Romance, Time Travel
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 20 Table of Contents
Word count: 75,030 Hit Count: 10,555 ePub Downloads: 157
Published: 06/14/22 Updated: 06/14/22

Summary: Spike has returned to Sunnydale, heartbroken that Drusilla has left him. He performs a lust spell to get her back, but it goes horribly, fantastically, sex(ily) wrong. With Jell-O bats!

Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Banner Art By: Grief Counseling
Categories: Season 3
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Ensemble - BtVS
Genres: Claim, Comedy, Erotica, Fluffy, HEA/HFN, Lighthearted, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Dubious Consent, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 14 Table of Contents
Word count: 54,515 Hit Count: 8,582 ePub Downloads: 131
Published: 07/28/22 Updated: 04/21/23

Summary: It's been one year since Spike died in Sunnydale. All Buffy wants to do is visit the Sunnydale crater, pay her respects to Spike on the anniversary of his death, and finally say goodbye. Because the past year? It's been the longest and loneliest of Buffy's entire life and she needs some kind of closure. What exactly is she supposed to think when she climbs down into the crater to make a toast to Spike's memory and a mangled Spike steps out of the shadows to greet her? Just what in the hell is going on? Written for the first ever Sunnydale After Dark challenge.

Banner Art By: Dusty
Categories: Post-Series, Challenge Response, Crossover (AtS), POV, Sunnydale After Dark Debut, Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel, Faith Lehane, Fred, Giles, Illyria
Genres: Angst, Claim, Drama, Dramedy, Erotica, Fighting, Fluffy, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Plot-driven, POV, Reunion, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Alcohol/Drug Use, Blood Play, Cheating/Infidelity, Other Mental Health Issues, Rape (Implied), Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 7 Table of Contents
Word count: 42,848 Hit Count: 3,515 ePub Downloads: 91
Published: 09/01/22 Updated: 09/14/22

Summary: Every 100 years, the Hellmouth has a heat cycle. For three days and three nights, Sunnydale is shrouded in total darkness, and the whole town turns into nymphomaniacs. The worst part? There's nothing that can stop it. Not that anyone really wants it to stop...

Banner Art By: Grief Counseling
Categories: Season 5, Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive
Characters: Ensemble - BtVS
Genres: Comedy, Erotica, Fantasy, Lighthearted, Porn w/o Plot, Queer Themes, Threesome
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Fetish, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp), Taboo, Threesome(s)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 7 Table of Contents
Word count: 23,872 Hit Count: 5,697 ePub Downloads: 92
Published: 09/01/22 Updated: 04/22/23

Summary: Buffy Summers has been tormented by supernatural horrors all of her life. When her entire family is slain, she reluctantly makes a contract with a vampire named Spike to take them down once and for all. Their bond grows into something more than a pact with the devil, and Buffy discovers a side of her she didn't know was there all along.

Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Banner Art By: Grief Counseling
Categories: Alternate Universe, Award Winners, Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Ethan Rayne, Giles, Joyce, Lindsey McDonald, Tara, Wesley
Genres: Action/Adventure, Alternate Reality, Angst, Dark, Dream, Fighting, HEA/HFN, Horror, Hurt/Comfort, Mystery, Plot-driven, Romance, Slow Burn, UST
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 34 Table of Contents
Word count: 114,049 Hit Count: 5,820 ePub Downloads: 108
Published: 06/13/22 Updated: 06/13/22

Summary: Or, Buffy and Spike accept an undercover mission from Sunnydale's resident loan shark on his new demon cruise line. If they succeed, Buffy'll get enough money to stop the leaking financial boat that is her life and Spike'll have his kitten debts cleared. 

They probably should have asked more questions about that cover story, though. 

Starts in 6x08, "Tabula Rasa" and goes wildly off script from there. 
 
Banner designed by the incomparable Dusty, who does ask all the right questions, like, "What did you name the boat?" 

Categories: Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Dramedy, Fluffy, HEA/HFN, Lighthearted, Mystery, Plot-driven, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Other Mental Health Issues
Completed: No Chapters: 6 Table of Contents
Word count: 37,197 Hit Count: 968 ePub Downloads: 12
Published: 07/07/22 Updated: 01/18/25

Summary: One night. That was all Buffy thought she'd be spending with Spike. He'd tell her how he killed her sister slayers, and in exchange, he'd get cash and one "get out of petty evil free" card. Instead, after a surprise ambush and several tranquilizer darts, they both wake up in an alternate dimension to find that they're now players in a life-or-death game set in Bizarro Sunnydale. To survive, they'll have to be the last ones standing--or figure out who brought them here in the first place and why.
Sounds easy, right? After all, it's not like she hasn't worked with Spike to take down a baddie before. Unfortunately, their fellow competitors are kind of familiar.
Like, really familiar.
You could say they know them just as well as they know themselves. 
Banner by the talented DirtyAim

Categories: Season 5
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Glory's minions
Genres: Action/Adventure, Alternate Reality, Dramedy, Fighting, HEA/HFN, Hurt/Comfort, Plot-driven, Slow Burn, UST
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Violence, Warnings Added As Story Progresses
Completed: No Chapters: 12 Table of Contents
Word count: 69,089 Hit Count: 13,827 ePub Downloads: 183
Published: 11/14/22 Updated: 01/07/23

Summary: After the events of Chosen, Buffy receives a letter in the mail. Expecting the worst, she goes to L.A. to find him.

Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Banner Art By: Grief Counseling
Categories: Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive, Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel, Charles Gunn, Dawn, Drusilla, Illyria, Willow
Genres: Action/Adventure, Angst, HEA/HFN, Hurt/Comfort, Reunion, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Character Death, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 10 Table of Contents
Word count: 34,335 Hit Count: 4,157 ePub Downloads: 104
Published: 06/12/22 Updated: 06/12/22

Summary: Spike and Buffy reunite during the battle with the Senior Partners in L.A., but will they be able to truly reconnect, to get beyond all the baggage of their past, and find the happily ever after true heroes deserve? There will be tears and laughter, domestic bliss and angst. There will be new foes and new friends. There will be heartbreak, there will be joy. There will be dragons.

Betas: Holi117 MissLuci
Banner Art By: Passion4Spike
Categories: Post-Series, Alternate Universe, Crossover (AtS), Sunnydale After Dark Debut
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Amanda, Andrew Wells, Angel, Dawn, Ensemble, Ensemble - BtVS, Faith Lehane, Giles, Illyria, Kennedy, Original Characters, Riley Finn, Scoobies, The Potentials, Vi, Willow, Xander
Genres: Action/Adventure, Alternate Reality, Angst, Baby/Kid, Claim, Drama, Dramedy, Erotica, Established Relationship, Fighting, HEA/HFN, Hurt/Comfort, Plot-driven, Porn w/ Plot, Reunion, Romance, Slow Burn, Tragedy
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Alcohol/Drug Use, Blood Play, Character Death, Other Mental Health Issues, Sexual Situations, Suicidal Ideation/Thoughts, Violence
Completed: No Chapters: 100 Table of Contents
Word count: 472,975 Hit Count: 6,513 ePub Downloads: 60
Published: 12/28/23 Updated: 09/18/24

Summary: Well Hell's Bells! It's a Sunnydale style wedding! You know what that means: things are going to go very very smoothly.

Banner Art By: ashcrashed
Categories: Season 6, Episode Rewrite, Sunnydale After Dark Debut, Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Ensemble
Genres: Alternate Reality, Comedy, Dramedy, Fluffy, HEA/HFN, Lighthearted, Mystery
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 6 Table of Contents
Word count: 29,304 Hit Count: 4,046 ePub Downloads: 125
Published: 06/23/23 Updated: 07/28/23

Summary: Buffy needs to get out. Spike gets a car. 
Season 6, after "Life Serial".

Categories: Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Dramedy, Friendship, HEA/HFN, Hurt/Comfort, Road Trip, Romance, Slow Burn
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Alcohol/Drug Use, Other Mental Health Issues, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 21 Table of Contents
Word count: 88,554 Hit Count: 4,171 ePub Downloads: 33
Published: 10/29/22 Updated: 01/07/23

Summary: Spike is an eighteen-year-old hellraiser with a past that he'd rather not talk about. Buffy is a privileged, rich, high school girl with a past that she'd rather not talk about. When they're forced to work at an antique shop run by Buffy's mother and Spike's uncle, their big personalities clash. It's all bark and no bite, though, because what they really need is each other.

Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Banner Art By: Grief Counseling
Categories: Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive, All Human, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel, Cordelia, Giles, Hank Summers, Harmony, Jenny Calendar, Joyce
Genres: Angst, Dramedy, HEA/HFN, Romance, Slow Burn, UST
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Cheating/Infidelity, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 25 Table of Contents
Word count: 101,855 Hit Count: 6,320 ePub Downloads: 103
Published: 06/13/22 Updated: 06/13/22

Summary: Across the years and miles, she was still his True North.

Categories: Post-Series, Canon Compliant, Sunnydale After Dark Debut
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Ensemble, Original Characters
Genres: Angst, Drama, Friendship, Plot-driven, Romance, Slow Burn, UST
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Alcohol/Drug Use, Buffy/Other (Temp), Other Mental Health Issues, Self-harm, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp), Violence, Warnings Added As Story Progresses
Completed: Yes Chapters: 10 Table of Contents
Word count: 27,365 Hit Count: 24,074 ePub Downloads: 208
Published: 07/08/22 Updated: 09/26/22

Summary: Set during Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 4.   Buffy's evening takes a drastic turn when she discovers an extremely ill Spike, collapsed and half-starved on a stormy Sunnydale night. It isn't until she promises to help him that she realizes that her life will never be the same.
Winner for Best Spike Characterization at the Spuffy Awards Round 6.

Categories: Season 4, Award Winners
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Ensemble - BtVS, Giles, Spike
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Blood Play, Character Death, Rape (Implied), Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 45 Table of Contents
Word count: 79,912 Hit Count: 5,650 ePub Downloads: 74
Published: 06/19/22 Updated: 06/19/22

Summary: A Slayer. A vampire. A 1959 DeSoto. Spike kidnaps Buffy and heads back to Brazil in a misguided attempt to appease Drusilla. What starts out as revenge turns into an experience neither will forget. If they don't kill each other first.

Categories: Season 3, Award Winners, Award Runners-Up
Characters: None
Genres: Action/Adventure, Alternate Reality, Dramedy, Fighting, Kidnapping, Porn w/ Plot, Road Trip, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Attempted Rape, Blood Play, Dubious Consent, Rape (Actual), Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 22 Table of Contents
Word count: 44,921 Hit Count: 3,961 ePub Downloads: 52
Published: 06/24/22 Updated: 06/24/22

Summary: So, if you have read the comics, you know that a HUGE thing happened after Buffy and Spike came home from being prisoners in a Government Internment Camp. Once everything settled down, Buffy FINALLY told Spike that she loved him. It was the most beautiful moment in comic book history. And then ... the new season comic came out and Spike and Buffy had broken up. It went from I love you to ... no longer together. With zero explanation as to why. And I can't accept that. I had to know why. I HAD to write why. And I had to FIX IT. 

A Gift For: honeygirl51885
Banner Art By: Chelle
Categories: Season 11 (Comic), Season 12 (Comic), Between Seasons, Post-Series, Sunnydale After Dark Debut, Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive, Song Fic
Characters: Ensemble, Ensemble - BtVS
Genres: Angst, Drama, Erotica, Established Relationship, Fighting, Hurt/Comfort, Plot-driven, Reunion, Tragedy
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Abuse, Alcohol/Drug Use, Buffy/Other (Temp), Dubious Consent, Other Mental Health Issues, Rape (Actual), Rape (Implied), Self-harm, Sexual Situations, Substance Misuse/Addiction, Suicidal Ideation/Thoughts, Warnings Added As Story Progresses
Completed: No Chapters: 13 Table of Contents
Word count: 98,032 Hit Count: 2,362 ePub Downloads: 13
Published: 10/19/22 Updated: 01/23/24

Summary: A hero slayed a dragon, a kiss saved the day, but is that where the magic ends?

Series: Once Upon a Time
A Gift For: Grief Counseling
Banner Art By: Claire
Categories: Post-Series, Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Andrew Wells, Angel, Dawn, Fred
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Dramedy, Established Relationship, Fairytale, HEA/HFN, Lighthearted, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp), Vampire!Buffy, Warnings Added As Story Progresses
Completed: No Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 19,677 Hit Count: 1,252 ePub Downloads: 11
Published: 09/15/24 Updated: 02/27/25

Summary: After the events of 'The Gift', the Scoobies, Giles, Dawn, and Spike make an attempt to live without Buffy.  It's not always easy.

Series: Originsverse
Categories: Season 5, Between Seasons, Award Winners
Characters: Ensemble - BtVS, Giles, Quentin Travers, Scoobies, Tara
Genres: Hurt/Comfort, Plot-driven, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Blood Play, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 53 Table of Contents
Word count: 144,583 Hit Count: 5,787 ePub Downloads: 36
Published: 07/20/22 Updated: 01/11/24

Summary: Buffy gets a phone call in the middle of the night from the last person she'd expect to hear from. She finds out that the telephone lends her the courage to say the things she's too afraid to admit, and more...to explore a side of her fantasies when she opens up to her enemy. Post-Intervention.

Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Banner Art By: Dirtyaim
Categories: Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive, Season 5, Sunnydale After Dark Debut
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Erotica, HEA/HFN, Lighthearted, Porn w/o Plot, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 7,160 Hit Count: 1,008 ePub Downloads: 56
Published: 06/24/22 Updated: 06/24/22

Beta: Passion4Spike
Banner Art By: Claire
Categories: Post-Series, Alternate Universe
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angelus, Anne Pratt, Darla, Drusilla, Halfrek, Original Characters, Other, William
Genres: Action/Adventure, Alternate Reality, Angst, Baby/Kid, Dark, Drama, Erotica, Established Relationship, Fighting, HEA/HFN, Historical, Kidnapping, Plot-driven, Romance, Time Travel
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Character Death, Human!Spike, Rape (Implied), Sexual Situations, Torture (Emotional/Psychological), Torture (Physical), Warnings Added As Story Progresses
Completed: No Chapters: 53 Table of Contents
Word count: 177,855 Hit Count: 1,752 ePub Downloads: 20
Published: 11/07/23 Updated: 06/04/24

Summary: Love is stored in the seeds. A romance told in parts.

Banner Art By: ashcrashed
Categories: Season 6, Sunnydale After Dark Debut
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Anya, Dawn, Ensemble - BtVS, Giles, Tara, Willow, Xander
Genres: Angst, Dramedy, HEA/HFN, Hurt/Comfort, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Character Death, Warnings Added As Story Progresses
Completed: Yes Chapters: 6 Table of Contents
Word count: 37,138 Hit Count: 10,491 ePub Downloads: 73
Published: 07/03/22 Updated: 06/30/23

Summary: Picks up from when Buffy beat the crap out of Spike outside the police station in Dead Things then goes seriously AU.  
This story has 67 chapters and is complete, so barring unforeseen circumstances or life kicking me in the teeth, I'm shooting for posting a chapter each day.

Categories: Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Ensemble, Original Characters
Genres: Action/Adventure, Alternate Reality, Angst, Claim, Fighting, Hurt/Comfort, Time Travel
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Abuse, Adult Language, Attempted Rape, Blood Play, Rape (Actual), Rape (Implied), Sexual Situations, Torture (Physical), Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 67 Table of Contents
Word count: 163,829 Hit Count: 6,652 ePub Downloads: 33
Published: 01/20/24 Updated: 05/13/24