Sunnydale After Dark
Penname: Grief Counseling
Real Name: Beth
Member Since: 06/11/22
Last Active: 10/02/23
Membership Status: Member
Skin: Cemetery

 

I used to be dampersandspoons but changed my pen name a couple of years ago. I've been writing Spuffy fanfic since 2007 and I feel it in all of my bones how long that is. Some of these stories you may recognize from my old dampersandspoons account, but most (if not all) have been reworked, tweaked, edited, or completely reimagined because I am a woman who changes her mind often and has commitment issues. I hope you'll enjoy these new versions, and if you've never read them before, you're dead to me! (I'm kidding. Everyone lives forever, you'll never die and I love everyone. Yeah, even YOU.)

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Stories by Grief Counseling
Mommy...? by Grief Counseling [R] Likes: 62 Comments: 121 Updated!
Summary: What's wrong with Joyce?
 
Written for the 2023 SAD Spooky September Event.
Banner by me.
Categories: Season 5, Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Dawn, Giles, Joyce, Tara, Willow, Xander
Genres: Dark, Horror
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Character Death, Violence
Completed: No Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 13,162 Hit Count: 530 ePub Downloads: 0
Published: 09/01/23 Updated: 09/15/23
College Is Awesome! by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 285 Comments: 164
Summary: When lovable nerd William Pratt embarks on his first year of college, little does he know what challenges and perils await him! Similar frustrations grace popular Buffy Summers who just can't seem to meet a good guy that treats her right. Is William's sci-fi obsession, virginity and geekiness a buzz kill? Will Buffy ever find the man of her dreams? Will they bond over watching episodes of LOST? Is this story a total fluff-fest? FIND OUT NOW!
Banner by the awesome and LOST-loving Dusty!
Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Categories: All Human
Characters: Buffy, Andrew Wells, Cordelia, Parker Abrams, Wesley, William, Willow
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, Lighthearted, Queer Themes, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 14 Table of Contents
Word count: 47,389 Hit Count: 2,458 ePub Downloads: 15
Published: 08/01/23 Updated: 08/17/23
Past Featured StoryBest Wishes by bookishy, Dusty, Grief Counseling, ashcrashed, MaggieLaFey, womanaction [R] Likes: 202 Comments: 241
Summary: Well Hell's Bells! It's a Sunnydale style wedding! You know what that means: things are going to go very very smoothly.
Categories: Season 6, Episode Rewrite, Sunnydale After Dark Debut, Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Ensemble
Genres: Alternative Reality, Dramedy, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, 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: 1,972 ePub Downloads: 19
Published: 06/23/23 Updated: 07/28/23
Float by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 151 Comments: 112
Summary: Now that William and Buffy are in a healthier place, can they be casual friends while they struggle with their deeper connection?
The third part and conclusion to The Butcher Series
Series: The Butcher Series
Categories: All Human
Characters: Buffy, Anne Pratt, Anya, Faith Lehane, Fred, Joyce, Nikki Wood, Original Characters, William, Xander
Genres: Angst, Drama, Friendship, HEA/HFN, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp)
Completed: No Chapters: 10 Table of Contents
Word count: 32,826 Hit Count: 1,859 ePub Downloads: 4
Published: 05/26/23 Updated: 06/14/23
I'm Fine by Grief Counseling [R] Likes: 175 Comments: 138
Summary: It's hard to take care of yourself when you're all alone. But Buffy was going to try.
A Sequel to The Butcher
 
Series: The Butcher Series
Categories: All Human, Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive
Characters: Buffy, Anne Pratt, Faith Lehane, Fred, Joyce, Nikki Wood, Original Characters, Tara, William, Willow
Genres: Angst, Drama, Friendship, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Abuse, Adult Language, Child Abuse, Other Mental Health Issues, Rape (Implied)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 15 Table of Contents
Word count: 44,135 Hit Count: 3,517 ePub Downloads: 13
Published: 04/17/23 Updated: 05/24/23
A Night In The DeSoto by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 21 Comments: 17
Summary: A sexy interlude, somewhere between the episodes Gone and Dead Things.
Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Categories: Season 6
Characters: None
Genres: Erotica, HEA/HFN, Porn w/o Plot
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 3,337 Hit Count: 327 ePub Downloads: 9
Published: 05/17/23 Updated: 05/17/23
Past Featured StoryHeat Cycle by Grief Counseling [Adult Only] Likes: 156 Comments: 155
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...
Categories: Season 5, Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive
Characters: Ensemble - BtVS
Genres: Erotica, Fantasy, Fluffy/Comedy, 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: 3,342 ePub Downloads: 41
Published: 09/01/22 Updated: 04/22/23
DeLust or Dust by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 224 Comments: 115
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
Categories: Season 3
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Ensemble - BtVS
Genres: Claim, Erotica, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, 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: 4,475 ePub Downloads: 62
Published: 07/28/22 Updated: 04/21/23
Artwork: Tell Me You Love Me by Grief Counseling [R] Likes: 13 Comments: 14
Summary: Another photo manip of Spike and Buffy before an intimate moment. I just wanted to see them in the sunlight. 
Categories: Graphic Arts
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1 Hit Count: 420 ePub Downloads: 1
Published: 04/16/23 Updated: 04/16/23
Past Featured StoryThe Butcher by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 189 Comments: 164
Summary: He loves her, and she needs him. Sometimes it's not enough, and sometimes it goes too far.
It's a coming of age story full of heartbreak and trauma, and the pains of growing up and learning what love means.
(Originally published back in 2009, edited, COMPLETED, and will be updated regularly.)
Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
, Series: The Butcher Series
Categories: All Human
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Anne Pratt, Anya, Hank Summers, Joyce, Original Characters, William, Xander
Genres: Angst, Drama, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Plot-driven, Romance, Tragedy
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Abuse, Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Character Death, Cheating/Infidelity, Child Abuse, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp), Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 18 Table of Contents
Word count: 59,555 Hit Count: 3,220 ePub Downloads: 22
Published: 03/21/23 Updated: 04/16/23
Past Featured StoryNot A Monster by Grief Counseling, Dusty [NC-17] Likes: 586 Comments: 460
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.
Categories: Season 5, Sunnydale After Dark Debut, Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive
Characters: Ensemble - BtVS
Genres: Angst, Dramedy, Fighting, HEA/HFN, Humor, 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: 10,259 ePub Downloads: 162
Published: 07/04/22 Updated: 04/06/23
Make Me Stay by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 732 Comments: 1,313
Summary: She let him in, and he won't let go. He's her dirty secret, but deep down, she knows he's something more.
SUNNYDALE AFTER DARK SHORT & SPUFFY DRABBLE EVENT 2023
Categories: Season 6, Drabbles, Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Erotica, Established Relationship, Hurt/Comfort, POV, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 31 Table of Contents
Word count: 3,100 Hit Count: 4,870 ePub Downloads: 9
Published: 03/01/23 Updated: 03/30/23
Artwork: Spike, The Cunning Linguist by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 24 Comments: 28
Summary: A very, very NSFW POV digital drawing of Spike doing what he does best.
Categories: Graphic Arts
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Porn w/o Plot, POV
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1 Hit Count: 501 ePub Downloads: 1
Published: 10/26/22 Updated: 10/26/22
Artwork: The Taste Of You by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 21 Comments: 27
Summary: Spike is such a good boy. NSFW photomanipulation for the 2022 Scooby Celebration!
Categories: Graphic Arts
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Porn w/o Plot, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1 Hit Count: 614 ePub Downloads: 1
Published: 09/28/22 Updated: 09/28/22
Artwork: Like Someone In Love by Grief Counseling [R] Likes: 31 Comments: 38
Summary: A romantic photomanipulation to honor the sweetness I know they must have shared, at least once. 
Categories: Graphic Arts
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1 Hit Count: 1,128 ePub Downloads: 0
Published: 09/28/22 Updated: 09/28/22
A Chance in Hell by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 285 Comments: 159
Summary: An apocalypse threat in Maryland requires a vampire’s help to disenchant a stone used in the ritual to destroy all of mankind. Since Angelus is still without his soul, Buffy is forced to ask the one vampire she hates for a hand. The problem is, he’s in a wheelchair. What happens when a useless vamp and a slayer make a cross-country road trip to save the world? Will they kill each other before they get there, or will her horrible driving do the job for them?
Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Categories: Season 2, Award Winners, Sunnydale After Dark Exclusive
Characters: None
Genres: Action/Adventure, Claim, Erotica, Fighting, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Road Trip, Romance, UST
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Character Death, Sexual Situations, Underage Sex, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 21 Table of Contents
Word count: 71,436 Hit Count: 5,724 ePub Downloads: 80
Published: 06/14/22 Updated: 09/20/22
Teach Me How: ReMastered by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 104 Comments: 83
Summary: William Pratt is an aristocrat, swept up in the secret, exclusive world of sexual deviants with no plans of settling down. Elizabeth Summers is a willful American girl, desperate to escape her boring life. When the two of them are forced into an engagement, they concoct a plan that will satisfy their needs while fooling their parents. However, William and Elizabeth might realize they've met their match, and being "tied down" can be a tremendous amount of fun.
Categories: All Human
Characters: Ensemble
Genres: Alternative Reality, Angst, Drama, Erotica, HEA/HFN, Historical, Porn w/ Plot, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Dubious Consent, Fetish, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp), Taboo
Completed: No Chapters: 19 Table of Contents
Word count: 63,766 Hit Count: 3,104 ePub Downloads: 23
Published: 06/14/22 Updated: 08/19/22
Seeing You by Grief Counseling [R] Likes: 16 Comments: 21
Summary: An episode rewrite of Seeing Red if things had taken a healthier turn.
Based on a challenge prompt from SanityFair.
Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Categories: Season 6, Episode Rewrite, One-Shot
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, HEA/HFN
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,034 Hit Count: 1,314 ePub Downloads: 8
Published: 06/26/22 Updated: 06/26/22
Late Night Phone Call by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 48 Comments: 31
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.
AMAZING banner by the incredible DirtyAim!
Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Categories: 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: 538 ePub Downloads: 27
Published: 06/24/22 Updated: 06/24/22
Only Time Will Tell by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 220 Comments: 63
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
Categories: Pre-Series, Post-Series, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Anne Pratt, Giles, William, Willow, Xander
Genres: Angst, Drama, 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: 4,859 ePub Downloads: 68
Published: 06/14/22 Updated: 06/14/22
The Longest Journey by Grief Counseling [R] Likes: 32 Comments: 32
Summary: Buffy is now twenty-eight and spends her nights working the graveyard shifts in greasy spoon diners for extra cash. She lives a solitary life, still pining for a vampire that died saving them all. But one night, a customer waltzes into the diner with a familiar face and everything changes.
Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Categories: Post-Series, One-Shot
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Original Characters
Genres: HEA/HFN, Lighthearted, Reunion, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 7,244 Hit Count: 1,440 ePub Downloads: 22
Published: 06/14/22 Updated: 06/14/22
Closer and Closer by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 237 Comments: 129
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
Categories: All Human, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel, Cordelia, Giles, Hank Summers, Harmony, Jenny Calendar, Joyce
Genres: Angst, HEA/HFN, Humor, 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: 3,165 ePub Downloads: 46
Published: 06/13/22 Updated: 06/13/22
At Your Service by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 214 Comments: 172
Summary: Buffy Summers has been tormented by supernatural horrors all of her life. When her entire family is slain, she makes a contract with a vampire named Spike to take them down once and for all. They both discover that there's more to Buffy than they ever imagined possible. 
Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Categories: Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Ethan Rayne, Giles, Joyce, Lindsey McDonald, Tara, Wesley
Genres: Action/Adventure, Alternative 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: 2,547 ePub Downloads: 48
Published: 06/13/22 Updated: 06/13/22
Milkshakes & Motorcycles by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 136 Comments: 141
Summary: Buffy Summers, one heck of a gal, lives in a perfect 1950s All-American suburb of Sunnydale, California. She's a sophomore in college but she lives at home, she’s the neighborhood sweetheart, and loves cherry lollipops, bubblegum, making milkshakes at the diner, and dancing her god-fearing heart out. But what happens when a total dreamboat greaser from across the pond comes a-rumblin’ on his motorcycle to Sunnydale? He turns her pearl-clutching town upside down, that’s what!
Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Categories: All Human, Award Winners
Characters: Ensemble
Genres: Alternative Reality, Erotica, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Historical, Humor, Lighthearted, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Alcohol/Drug Use, Attempted Rape, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 26 Table of Contents
Word count: 104,447 Hit Count: 2,462 ePub Downloads: 35
Published: 06/13/22 Updated: 06/13/22
The Bond - Parts 1 & 2 by Grief Counseling [Adult Only] Likes: 61 Comments: 33
Summary: William and Buffy have a special connection that few could possibly understand. When things cross the line, that bond is put to the test. It would be a lot easier if they weren't twins.
Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Categories: All Human, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Charles Gunn, Cordelia, Faith Lehane, Joyce, Original Characters, Parker Abrams, Riley Finn, William
Genres: Angst, Drama, Erotica, HEA/HFN, Romance, UST
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Cheating/Infidelity, Fetish, Spike/Other (Temp), Taboo
Completed: Yes Chapters: 13 Table of Contents
Word count: 49,778 Hit Count: 2,034 ePub Downloads: 31
Published: 06/13/22 Updated: 06/13/22
The Rub-Down by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 15 Comments: 9
Summary: Buffy has one hell of a sore back. Spike has exceptional hands and massage oil. How can this be resolved? Sex, guys. It's resolved with sex.
Let this post-Intervention, Season 5 porn adventure commence! With oil!
Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Categories: Season 5, One-Shot
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Erotica, Fluffy/Comedy, Porn w/o Plot
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 6,077 Hit Count: 263 ePub Downloads: 11
Published: 06/12/22 Updated: 06/12/22
Made For You by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 22 Comments: 23
Summary: Buffy and Spike share a drink or three and realize they have something special in common. This is a fun, non-serious, sexy exploration of a specific trope involving suped-up body parts among super-beings.
Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Categories: Season 5, One-Shot
Characters: None
Genres: Erotica, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, Lighthearted, Porn w/o Plot
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Alcohol/Drug Use, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 5,503 Hit Count: 315 ePub Downloads: 16
Published: 06/12/22 Updated: 06/12/22
A Letter From The Grave by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 52 Comments: 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
Categories: 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: 1,601 ePub Downloads: 27
Published: 06/12/22 Updated: 06/12/22
My Brother's Best Friend by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 21 Comments: 20
Summary: Teenage nerd Buffy's dreams just might come true when her brother's best friend, William, has a confession to make.
Series: The Dampersandspoons Vault
Categories: All Human, Award Winners, One-Shot
Characters: Buffy, Angel, William
Genres: Erotica, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, Lighthearted, Romance, UST
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 6,589 Hit Count: 310 ePub Downloads: 15
Published: 06/11/22 Updated: 06/11/22
A Time You Forgot: Part 2 by Grief Counseling [NC-17] Likes: 9 Comments: 17
Summary: This is the sequel and conclusion Part 1. Click Here To Read Part 1
In the aftermath of Willow’s forgetting spell reversal, what will Buffy decide to do? Can she come to terms with everything that transpired and allow happiness, or will she fall back into old patterns and put up a fight? Will either of these decisions be sexy? FIND OUT NOW!
Categories: Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 7,978 Hit Count: 328 ePub Downloads: 22
Published: 06/11/22 Updated: 06/11/22