
Beta: marinaeulalia
Banner Art By: flootzavut
Categories: Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Season 6, Season 7, Between Seasons, Post-Series, Canon Compliant, Crossover (AtS), Drabbles, Missing Scene
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel, Dawn, Drusilla, Lorne, Xander
Genres: Angst, Comedy, Fic Based on Fic, Fluffy, Friendship, HEA/HFN, Hurt/Comfort, Reunion, Romance, UST
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Buffy/Other (Temp), Character Death, Spike/Other (Temp), Suicidal Ideation/Thoughts
Completed: Yes Chapters: 31
Word count: 3,100 Hit Count: 1,290 ePub Downloads: 22
Published: 03/14/25 Updated: 03/31/25
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Buffy/temp and Spike/temp are basically just their canon relationships that get inevitable mentions in canon compliant stuff.
Character deaths are canonical ones.
Starting halfway through the month and less than no plan; yay me?
But one of the prompts finally made words happen so here we are.
Prompts as chapter titles unless I change my mind at some point.
Hopefully will come up with a better title eventually!
1. wildflowers by flootzavut - Likes: 9 Comments: 16 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 109 Published: 03/14/25
set in 5.17 Forever
2. surprise phone call by flootzavut - Likes: 9 Comments: 15 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 51 Published: 03/15/25
There's a possibility that as I add drabbles, I might mess around with the order of chapters to make them make sense as a whole story; for now I'm still in no man's land, so until further notice, assume these drabbles aren't necessarily connected to each other.
This is based off of chapter 6 of Insubstantial and chapter 5 of Perception; as such it's a snapshot of post-canon and is a sort of spoiler for both those stories, but also if you thought I was gonna write three entire "five plus one" stories and not have a reunion, hi, have we met, I'm floot and I'm a sap ¯_(ツ)_/¯
3. a hole in my soul by flootzavut - Likes: 7 Comments: 12 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 57 Published: 03/16/25
References 5.17 Forever, but set sometime around 5.19 Tough Love ish? Idk I'm winging it, okay!
4. buttterflies by flootzavut - Likes: 7 Comments: 16 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 52 Published: 03/16/25
Hey there mood whiplash!
S4E9, Something Blue, and some metaphorical butterflies.
5. she's a hero, you see by flootzavut - Likes: 6 Comments: 14 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 49 Published: 03/16/25
Set between S5&6.
Disclaimer that I am winging it here, but I'm currently aiming for all these drabbles to fit within the context of all the reason (why), so essentially canon compliant with what's on screen but using some of my own headcanons about what happened between episodes and seasons and scenes and so on. But given it's basically canon+, they should stand alone.
lowkey suicidal ideation from Dawn
6. you need a spanking by flootzavut - Likes: 6 Comments: 12 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 42 Published: 03/17/25
I haven't figured out exactly where this fits, but sometime after School Hard and before the fight with Dru in South America.
7. not my fault by flootzavut - Likes: 7 Comments: 10 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 36 Published: 03/17/25
Between S5&6, and before the chapter "she's a hero, you see"
8. the heart line by flootzavut - Likes: 6 Comments: 17 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 37 Published: 03/18/25
Becoming, Part 2, but Dawn is there.
9. frogs by flootzavut - Likes: 7 Comments: 18 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 38 Published: 03/18/25
I don't have a specific episode timeframe for this one, but roughly contemporary with the first chapter of Perception, so after Something Blue.
10. scavenger hunt by flootzavut - Likes: 6 Comments: 10 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 57 Published: 03/18/25
Set during 5.17 Forever
11. lies & lullabies by flootzavut - Likes: 6 Comments: 12 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 56 Published: 03/19/25
Set after 7.22 Chosen but before AtS 5.1 Conviction; shows a little snippet of a my-series-canon event referenced in chapter 5 of Insubstantial, as well as the end of chapter 4 of Perception.
12. confusing tears by flootzavut - Likes: 7 Comments: 14 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 49 Published: 03/19/25
After 6.18, Entropy
13. i like you by flootzavut - Likes: 8 Comments: 13 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 37 Published: 03/20/25
2.6 Halloween
14. pillow talk by flootzavut - Likes: 7 Comments: 10 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 41 Published: 03/20/25
6.13 Dead Things
15. you've done it now by flootzavut - Likes: 7 Comments: 14 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 41 Published: 03/20/25
Between S5&6, after "she's a hero, you see."
16. don't say it by flootzavut - Likes: 6 Comments: 13 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 48 Published: 03/20/25
Another that's post Chosen, but before or during Conviction, maybe a day after lies & lullabies.
17. harmony by flootzavut - Likes: 5 Comments: 10 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 92 Published: 03/21/25
Towards the end of 7.12 Potential
18. resistance by flootzavut - Likes: 6 Comments: 6 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 47 Published: 03/22/25
Around 6.14 (older and far away)/6.15 (as you were).
19. drunk confession by flootzavut - Likes: 6 Comments: 10 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 48 Published: 03/24/25
Around AtS 5.8
20. the stars rearrange by flootzavut - Likes: 6 Comments: 8 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 28 Published: 03/29/25
S2E7 Lie to Me
I had a migraine so I'm not sure I'm gonna make it, but I'm giving it my best shot.
21. something you forgot by flootzavut - Likes: 5 Comments: 10 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 24 Published: 03/29/25
Sometime before 6.18 Entropy
22. stay with me by flootzavut - Likes: 5 Comments: 6 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 22 Published: 03/29/25
S6E3 After Life
23. not afraid by flootzavut - Likes: 5 Comments: 4 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 23 Published: 03/30/25
7.1 Lessons
24. a turn for the worse by flootzavut - Likes: 6 Comments: 8 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 28 Published: 03/30/25
Pre S7 to early S7, while Spike was still mostly in the school basement.
25. someone's jealous by flootzavut - Likes: 4 Comments: 8 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 25 Published: 03/30/25
Early S7. After "Beneath You" but before "Him".
Very oblique reference to that bathroom scene in 6.19 Seeing Red, it's the opposite of explicit but it's there, so I didn't feel right not mentioning it. It doesn't feel like it fits any of the available warnings (please lmk if you see one you think fits) so this is the warning.
26. easy peasy by flootzavut - Likes: 5 Comments: 6 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 23 Published: 03/30/25
2.3 School Hard
27. love bite by flootzavut - Likes: 5 Comments: 6 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 23 Published: 03/30/25
I feel like this one's quite a liberal interpretation of the prompt. Oops.
5.1 Buffy versus Dracula
28. don't move by flootzavut - Likes: 4 Comments: 10 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 22 Published: 03/30/25
6.20 Villains, but also is directly addressing what happened to Tara in 6.19 Seeing Red.
29. playing hard to get by flootzavut - Likes: 5 Comments: 8 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 28 Published: 03/31/25
2.3 School Hard
30. metamorphosis by flootzavut - Likes: 4 Comments: 12 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 27 Published: 03/31/25
Towards the middle of S7.
31. bonus by flootzavut - Likes: 6 Comments: 12 Word Count: 100 Hit Count: 30 Published: 03/31/25
Post series, between chapters 5 & 6 of Perception.