Sunnydale After Dark
I Know You verse by Slaymesoftly
Summary: Begins with Prologue/I Know You and is made up of several more stores, some long, some shorter, set in the verse created by this story and it's sequel, I Know You II.
Categories: Season 4, Season 2, Season 3
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Ensemble - BtVS, Original Characters
Genres: Alternate Reality, Claim, Established Relationship, HEA/HFN, Romance, Time Travel
Warnings: Blood Play, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp), Underage Sex, Violence
Challenges: None
Parent Series: None
Stories: 5
Series Type: Closed

Summary: Summary: The Prologue was a stand alone that became the prologue for a longer fic to meet a challenge at the Bloodshedverse. This takes place immediately after the collapse of Sunnydale; the rest of the rather long story takes place mostly in Sunnydale and begins in Season II.  There will be brief glances into a post-Chosen world in which Buffy never moves to Rome or dates the Immortal.  I was Jossed, what can I say?
 
This story is the first of several that make up what is now known as The I Know You verse/series.
 
Series: I Know You verse
Categories: Season 2, Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel, Ensemble - BtVS
Genres: HEA/HFN, Time Travel
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Blood Play, Spike/Other (Temp), Underage Sex, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 66,409 Hit Count: 419 ePub Downloads: 16
Published: 07/23/22 Updated: 07/23/22
Summary:   A sequel to Prologue/I Know You, which took Post Chosen/NFA in a very different direction, almost all of which took place in an alternate Season II; this fic follows the Season II Buffy and Spike into the dimension to which the Powers sent them when they put “our” Spike and Buffy into the Season II world/dimension.  (Confused yet? LOL) There will be appearances by the original Spike and Buffy, as well as Dawn and others, but the primary emphasis will be on the Spike and Buffy who were removed from their own world and their adventures in the one in which they have found themselves.  Naturally, there will be a growing relationship between the two strangers when they find themselves thrown together. Banner by Always_jbj.
Series: I Know You verse
Categories: Season 3
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Alternate Reality, Claim, HEA/HFN
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Chooses Not to Use Warnings
Completed: Yes Chapters: 8 Table of Contents
Word count: 86,210 Hit Count: 332 ePub Downloads: 12
Published: 07/24/22 Updated: 08/22/22
Summary: Previously: In Prologue to Life/I Know You, post Chosen Buffy has been grieving for Spike and her unhappiness is causing Dawn, Giles and Willow to worry about her. Willow does a spell that is intended to put Buffy back into the bouncy frame of mind she was in when she was sixteen and as carefree as is possible for a slayer to be. The PtB step in and return adult Buffy to the body of her youthful self in Season II. Soulless Spike appears, ready to kill his third slayer, only to find that this slayer knows him too well. Not only can he not best her in a fight, she calls to his libido in ways he can’t understand. There is sex, angst, misunderstandings, more sex, sad farewells, and an eventual happy ending in which souled Spike, now “dead” after the final battle in NFA, is given a choice of going to Heaven or returning to Buffy, now firmly established in her younger body. Needless to say, he chooses to go to his slayer.

In the sequel, titled I Know You, II, we followed the adventures of the displaced Spike and Buffy from the first story. Buffy, now wearing an older, stronger body, but still a seventeen-year-old slayer, has existed for almost a year in an alternate world in which there is no Sunnydale. She has managed to find a job, a place to live and to make her way in this very different world, but she misses her mother and friends and hopes that someday she will be pulled home. Spike’s reunion sex with Buffy, which was rudely interrupted when the PtB put “her” Spike into his body, ends abruptly and he finds himself dressed, slayer-less and in a graveyard. There is much less sex (lots of UST, though) in this story of how a soulless but somewhat changed vampire, and a young slayer whose life has been very different from what it would have been if she’d stayed in Sunnydale, work their way from cautious allies to partners to lovers.

The following story is set in their world and catches up with them a few years after the events of IKY, II. Spike has settled into the role of Buffy’s watcher and fellow fighter against evil. In their new world, demons and vampires walk among the humans and only those who seek to prey upon others are deemed slay-worthy. Their lives are eventful enough to keep them from being bored, and quiet enough for them to have grown in their relationship until they are so much a part of each other’s lives that to not be together is unthinkable.

A new villain has arisen in a nearby resort city, and they must call upon some of the things Spike has learned as a watcher to find and defeat him. Because they can, they spend a lot of their time at home having sex. We peek into one of their research sessions to begin our story...

Series: I Know You verse
Categories: Between Seasons
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Alternate Reality, Drama, Established Relationship, HEA/HFN
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Chooses Not to Use Warnings
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 22,920 Hit Count: 65 ePub Downloads: 8
Published: 07/25/22 Updated: 07/25/22
Summary: Set in the I Know You verse, sometime after Knowing and Watching: Spike and Buffy are offered a job just before the holidays.
Series: I Know You verse
Categories: Between Seasons
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Original Characters
Genres: Action/Adventure, Alternate Reality, Established Relationship, HEA/HFN
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Chooses Not to Use Warnings
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 13,420 Hit Count: 36 ePub Downloads: 5
Published: 07/25/22 Updated: 07/25/22
Summary:  This story takes us back to Sunnydale to see what “our” Spike and Buffy have been up to there....  There may be wedding planning going on while they contend with Adam and his cyborgs.  It takes place in the dimension that "our" Spike and Buffy were sent to by the PTB in the original Prologue/I Know You story that established this series and all its dimensions.
Series: I Know You verse
Categories: Season 4
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Dawn, Ensemble - BtVS, Riley Finn
Genres: Alternate Reality, Drama, Established Relationship, HEA/HFN
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Chooses Not to Use Warnings
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 14,827 Hit Count: 54 ePub Downloads: 5
Published: 07/25/22 Updated: 07/25/22