Sunnydale After Dark
Summary: Flora Gates and her two children, Pietro and Amelia, are living a quiet life in Sunnydale. It's peaceful and fulfilling. And then Buffy Summers shows up.
Beta: simmony
Banner Art By: Lady Emma
Categories: Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Between Seasons, Challenge Response, Drabbles
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Ensemble, Original Characters, Willy the Snitch
Genres: Dramedy, Fluffy, HEA/HFN, Mystery
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Character Death, Child Abuse, Other Mental Health Issues, Suicidal Ideation/Thoughts, Violence
Completed: No Chapters: 13
Word count: 9,382 Hit Count: 57,120 ePub Downloads: 3
Published: 05/14/23 Updated: 01/19/24


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Story Notes: Deb (the_big_bad) has a story called The Neighbor's Point of View. It's really cool, you should check it out! Anyways, it drew my attention to the challenge she was answering. So I did this last minute story thing for April oof! This is gonna go in a much different direction (because I can never be normal about these writing things), and I'm excited for you to all be here for the ride.
More warnings are probably going to be added as we go along. I've got a good chunk of plot figured out for this already, but there's still more to think about
Banner made by Lady Emma
I added on the warning tag "Child Abuse" in reference to past events, and not to how Flora treats her children.

1. Moving Day by ClowniestLivEver - Likes: 2 Comments: 1 Word Count: 517 Hit Count: 4,803 Published: 05/14/23

Beta read by the awesome simmony

2. Gossip by ClowniestLivEver - Likes: 1 Comments: 0 Word Count: 567 Hit Count: 4,523 Published: 05/14/23

Once again beta read by the wonderful simmony, thank you so much Sari!

3. Wonderland by ClowniestLivEver - Likes: 1 Comments: 0 Word Count: 661 Hit Count: 4,273 Published: 05/14/23

Now we're moving onto the canon stuff on the show. This takes place post-Nightmares. Beta read by my good pal simmony

Trigger warning for child abuse

4. The Delinquent by ClowniestLivEver - Likes: 1 Comments: 0 Word Count: 619 Hit Count: 4,215 Published: 05/14/23

I was crossposting things and realized I forgot to post this one, oops!

Set during "When She Was Bad", beta read once again by the wonderful simmony

5. Costume Chaos by ClowniestLivEver - Likes: 1 Comments: 0 Word Count: 669 Hit Count: 4,154 Published: 05/17/23

Beta read by the lovely simmony

6. Date Night by ClowniestLivEver - Likes: 1 Comments: 0 Word Count: 712 Hit Count: 3,769 Published: 05/19/23

There's a rule round these parts: If it's a Liv fic, there's a crackship

Takes place during/post "Lie to Me", beta read by the super cool simmony

7. Tattoo Blues by ClowniestLivEver - Likes: 1 Comments: 0 Word Count: 733 Hit Count: 2,854 Published: 05/27/23

Set post "The Dark Age"

Beta read by the epic simmony. I can't stress enough how helpful she's been, and how much better this story is because of her.

Trigger warning for brief mention of SA

8. Angelus by ClowniestLivEver - Likes: 1 Comments: 1 Word Count: 1,098 Hit Count: 3,373 Published: 06/04/23

wink Takes place after "Innocence"

Beta read once again by the incredible simmony

9. Bewitching Hour by ClowniestLivEver - Likes: 1 Comments: 1 Word Count: 1,296 Hit Count: 3,157 Published: 06/25/23

Subtitle: In which Angelus gets his ass kicked by a 6/7 year old

Just a note for the beginning of this, if you don't know who Helen is, don't worry, she is also an OC and since this is her first appearance I made her to introduce her. Set during "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", one of my personal favorite episodes. This is an official not accidental The Grapevine special! inspired by Deb's incredible drabble for this very episode on her own neighbors story.

Betaed by the wonderful incredible amazing simmony

10. Crumbling by ClowniestLivEver - Likes: 1 Comments: 1 Word Count: 584 Hit Count: 5,872 Published: 07/26/23

Oh my glob, guess who's back, back again! Sorry it's been a bit. With Drabblemania and burnout, I've been struggling. Of course, this is probably where I'll go on another hiatus unfortunately, but this is a proper hiatus send off! I'm trying my best lol

Thanks to the always amazing simmony for beta reading once more

11. The Other Side by ClowniestLivEver - Likes: 1 Comments: 1 Word Count: 595 Hit Count: 5,624 Published: 12/18/23

And we're back! I decided that in the name of marinaeulalia and SAD's Tis the Season event to start this story back up again. Updates might be a little slow, I've got a lot of stuff I'm working on and the inspo for this particular story has gone down, but I swear I won't leave it unfinished

As always, beta read by the incredible simmony. Seriously, I know the holidays are busy, but your help is still as always very very appreciated

12. Don't Feed the Strays by ClowniestLivEver - Likes: 1 Comments: 1 Word Count: 640 Hit Count: 4,025 Published: 12/28/23

Beta read by the fabulous simmony!

Added new warnings to the fic, please take them in

13. Living Conditions by ClowniestLivEver - Likes: 1 Comments: 1 Word Count: 691 Hit Count: 6,478 Published: 01/19/24

Not to be confused with the episode of the same name  Also happy birthday, Buffy! And Drusilla! I don't have anything special like I did last year, but all the birthday wishes to you beloveds!

As always, beta read by simmony