Sunnydale After Dark
Summary: Updated! Buffy is broken, and it seems that only Spike can see that. She is depending on him more than she ever has been allowed to with anyone. How many small changes does it take until everything is different? First chapter in Song!Fic form, the rest is not.
 
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Series: Pillar of Strength
Categories: Season 5, Season 6, Episode Rewrite, Missing Scene, Song Fic
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Dawn, Riley Finn
Genres: HEA/HFN, Hurt/Comfort, Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: No Chapters: 4
Word count: 7,419 Hit Count: 144 ePub Downloads: 4
Published: 01/08/25 Updated: 02/07/25


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1. Going the Distance by acekoomboom - Likes: 4 Comments: 6 Word Count: 1,191 Hit Count: 51 Published: 01/08/25

This first chapter is a song fic, so words like THIS are the lyrics. Thanks to the word-savy Booksquirm for beta work on this chapter. The format is strange, so I really needed an extra set of eyes on it to make it as least-jarring as possible. This fic is fully written, and the other chapters are written without bold text shouting at you, lol.

2. Don't Push It by acekoomboom - Likes: 6 Comments: 2 Word Count: 2,900 Hit Count: 27 Published: 01/20/25

A massive, ginormous thank you to mcgonagallsarmy for the beta work on this chapter!

3. Old Timey Words She Really Enjoyed to Hear Him Say by acekoomboom - Likes: 2 Comments: 0 Word Count: 1,704 Hit Count: 35 Published: 02/03/25

You guys. You guys! I am SAD's author of the month! Y'all are too kind. Seriously, thank youuuuuu.

Dialogue taken from BtVS episodes Intervention and Tough Love. This version of Spike never got a Buffybot, and considering I really dislike that he did in canon, I'm not mad about it. Warning: gratuitous amounts of comforting.

Another big thank you to mcgnagallsarmy for being the beta for this chapter. I appreciate her very much.

4. She Saved The World. A Lot. by acekoomboom - Likes: 1 Comments: 1 Word Count: 1,624 Hit Count: 31 Published: 02/07/25

Dialogue taken from BtVS episode The Gift. I skipped a few episodes, so just assume that canon happens but with Spuffy softness. Tara had her mind stolen, Glory has Dawn, Giles has presented that Plan B is to kill the key, etc

Thank you so, so much to mcgonagallsarmy for being the beta for this chapter once again.