Sunnydale After Dark
Penname: Herselfnyc
Real Name: NancyKay Shapiro
Member Since: 06/30/22
Last Active: 04/01/23
Membership Status: Member
Skin: Sunset

This account was created on behalf of (and with permission from) Herself. We are thankful that Herself is allowing her work to be shared with the Sunnydale After Dark community!

Adding from Herself:

Between 2001 and 2010, I wrote a shit-ton of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fic, including the Spike/Buffy story series "The Bittersweets", and many other stories about Spike/Buffy, with some Spike/Xander and Spike/Angel mixed in, and even one or two short little things that don't involve Spike at all. All archived here. I'm also the author of a novel called What Love Means To You People which can be found as an out of print hardcover or a Kindle ebook. I've also written some Black Sails fic. I can be found on Dreamwidth as herself_nyc.

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Summary: "That's why we're here, right?" Buffy ticked reasons off on her fingers. "You're not going to desert Angel, and I didn't want to have to choose which of you I was more in love with, and we all have a capital-M Mission. Hence paint versus wallpaper and clearing the air with Angel."
Spike slumped in the seat and took a long sip of his milkshake. "What's it you really want, pet?"
"I want us not to be awkward."
"An' what else? You want him in our brand-new you-an'-me bed?"
Series: Mating
Categories: One-Shot, Post-Series, Crossover (AtS)
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel
Genres: Threesome
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Chooses Not to Use Warnings, Threesome(s)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 6,694 Hit Count: 95 ePub Downloads: 5
Published: 04/01/23 Updated: 04/01/23
Summary: Out of sorts, out of place, and in danger of being out of her mind soon, if something didn't change, Buffy needed a change of scene, even if it ended up being humiliating.
Buffy/Spike/Angel, post-NFA
Series: Mating
Categories: Post-Series, Crossover (AtS), One-Shot
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel, Connor, Faith Lehane
Genres: Threesome
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Chooses Not to Use Warnings
Completed: Yes Chapters: 4 Table of Contents
Word count: 47,598 Hit Count: 305 ePub Downloads: 10
Published: 04/01/23 Updated: 04/01/23
Summary:
There's gorram eccentrics all over. 
Series: Bittersweets
Categories: Crossover , Post-Series
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Apocalyptic/Dystopian , Drama
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp)
Completed: No Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 18,158 Hit Count: 69 ePub Downloads: 3
Published: 07/05/22 Updated: 07/05/22
Summary: Fists formed. "You are going to be so sorry you came back here." Half a dozen scenarios of his violent dusting arose all at once in her head.
 
"You did miss me," Spike drawled. "I'm touched."
Sequel to Let's Get Lost. (Uncompleted)
Series: Let's Get Lost
Categories: Between Seasons, Season 3
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Faith Lehane, Joyce, Spike
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp)
Completed: No Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 28,545 Hit Count: 152 ePub Downloads: 2
Published: 07/05/22 Updated: 07/05/22
Summary: Buffy is terminally ill. There are choices to be made.
A sort of AU from the Bittersweets-verse, ie, definitely not part of the official saga.
Series: Bittersweets
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Anya, Buffy, Giles, Spike, Tara, Willow, Xander
Genres: Angst, Baby/Kid, Dark, Drama
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Chooses Not to Use Warnings, Vampire!Buffy
Completed: No Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 11,424 Hit Count: 47 ePub Downloads: 3
Published: 07/03/22 Updated: 07/03/22
Summary: A story in the Bittersweets-verse that was never completed.
Set after Where They Have To Take You In, and continuing the story of William Grieves (aka Spike), following Mrs Grieves & The Abandoned Husband.
Series: Bittersweets
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike, William
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Chooses Not to Use Warnings
Completed: No Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 25,940 Hit Count: 35 ePub Downloads: 4
Published: 07/03/22 Updated: 07/03/22
Summary: Since her resurrection, Buffy has never aged, and has grown increasingly distant from her surviving adult children and their families. After a long lifetime partnered with Xander, Spike has buried him and is at a loose end. He and Buffy have a series of encounters spread out over months, and after averting an apocalypse together, return to London for what might be the beginning of a long-postponed affair. But the past casts long shadows into the present, and the future ....
Part 4 of the Blue-Eyed Boy series. Story is unfinished.
Series: Blue-Eyed Boy
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Chooses Not to Use Warnings
Completed: No Chapters: 13 Table of Contents
Word count: 15,362 Hit Count: 145 ePub Downloads: 2
Published: 07/03/22 Updated: 07/03/22
Summary: Buffy was the same age as Xander, who had cleared ninety, and yet she was still twenty-odd. Came back wrong. 
Buffy's family doesn't understand her; Spike has no family left. What happens next?
Series: Blue-Eyed Boy
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Spike
Genres: Drama
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Chooses Not to Use Warnings
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,152 Hit Count: 47 ePub Downloads: 2
Published: 07/03/22 Updated: 07/03/22
Summary: Spike finds that doing right by a Xander suffering from deep psychic wounds after his time in Africa, is a more complex task than he first realized. Love's a funny thing.
Series: Blue-Eyed Boy
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Dawn, Spike, Willow, Xander
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 35,200 Hit Count: 90 ePub Downloads: 2
Published: 07/03/22 Updated: 07/03/22
Summary: Spike and Illyria are the sole survivors of the battle against The Circle of The Black Thorn. Half in despair, mourning Angel, Spike isn't ready for the appearance of a drastically altered Xander in Los Angeles.
Series: Blue-Eyed Boy
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Angel, Illyria, Spike, Xander
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Spike/Other (Temp), Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 18,910 Hit Count: 52 ePub Downloads: 2
Published: 07/03/22 Updated: 07/03/22
Summary: She'd gone far far away from Sunnydale. From herself. Her name. Her calling. She didn't want any contact with the old life. Much less that pain-in-the-ass vampire.
"Spike. What is this?" She wrenched herself free. "Since when do you help?"
Set immediately post-season 2. Buffy's run all the way to NY, and encounters a Spike who feels he's made a bad bargain.
Series: Let's Get Lost
Categories: Between Seasons, Season 2, Season 3
Characters: Buffy, Joyce, Spike
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 6 Table of Contents
Word count: 55,409 Hit Count: 435 ePub Downloads: 4
Published: 07/03/22 Updated: 07/03/22
Summary: Attempted sequel to Disenchantment. Though never finished, it's fun so far as it goes, so I'm putting it out here.
Series: Disenchantment
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Giles, Spike, Willow
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Chooses Not to Use Warnings
Completed: No Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 32,314 Hit Count: 87 ePub Downloads: 0
Published: 07/03/22 Updated: 07/03/22
Summary: "That vamp in the bathroom?" Buffy says. "She was with you?" What happens when worlds collide. Set post-NFA, spoilers for all of BtVS and AtS. (Completed December 2005)

Winner for Best Spike Characterization (Judges' Choice), Best General Romance (Judges' Choice) at the Spuffy Awards Round 10.
Categories: Post-Series, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Drama, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 22,981 Hit Count: 164 ePub Downloads: 3
Published: 07/02/22 Updated: 07/02/22
Summary: Five years later, Dawn struggles with what it means to have a sister the world thinks is missing presumed dead, but whom she knows has been turned, and traveling with Spike.
Series: Not Dead
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Spike
Genres: Alternate Reality, Angst
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Chooses Not to Use Warnings
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 14,774 Hit Count: 82 ePub Downloads: 4
Published: 07/02/22 Updated: 07/02/22
Summary: Soon after her resurrection, Buffy gets turned. Spike tries to help her adjust. (Completed April 1, 2009)
Series: Not Dead
Categories: Season 6, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Drama, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Vampire!Buffy
Completed: Yes Chapters: 16 Table of Contents
Word count: 23,811 Hit Count: 527 ePub Downloads: 5
Published: 07/02/22 Updated: 07/02/22
Summary: It got her hot. It got her boiling, the soulless killer's coat. Spoilers through "Get It Done" in Season 7. (Completed February 2003).
Categories: Season 7
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Drama, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 16,102 Hit Count: 96 ePub Downloads: 0
Published: 07/02/22 Updated: 07/02/22
Summary: Spike has amnesia. Buffy learns he doesn't need to remember her to know her. Set in season 6, roughly after the third or fourth time Buffy sleeps with Spike. Dark. (Completed December 2007)
Categories: Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Alternate Reality, Angst, Dark, Drama
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,457 Hit Count: 127 ePub Downloads: 0
Published: 07/02/22 Updated: 07/02/22
Summary: The stake slipped from her fingers, and she had to take a deep breath to stave off the dizziness descending on her like a hood over her head. "You—I thought you were dead."
A reunion in New York City. Set post-NFA, spoilers for all of BtVS and AtS. (Completed August 2005)
Winner for Best PWP, runner up for Best Future Fic at Love's Last Glimpse Awards Round 18.
Categories: Award Runners-Up, Post-Series, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Drama, Porn w/ Plot, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Blood Play, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 9,796 Hit Count: 170 ePub Downloads: 2
Published: 07/02/22 Updated: 07/02/22
Summary: "Ought to know better than to get between a man and his booze," he said. The rage was so hot in her she only wanted to scream at him, to scream and scream. "You're not a man—!" She stopped. Because the hell of it ... he was.
Novella-length story, with spoilers for all of BtVS and AtS, complete in two parts. Winner, Judge's Choice, in Round 2 'Soulless Spike' of Raison D'Etre Awards, Summer '05. Winner, Best Buffy Characterization, Best Angst, in Round 12 of the Love's Last Glimpse Awards, Dec '05. (Completed June 2005)
Categories: Award Winners, Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 6 Table of Contents
Word count: 73,907 Hit Count: 313 ePub Downloads: 10
Published: 07/02/22 Updated: 07/02/22
Summary: A porny outtake from Disenchantment.
Series: Disenchantment
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Drama, Porn w/ Plot, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,070 Hit Count: 47 ePub Downloads: 0
Published: 07/02/22 Updated: 07/02/22
Summary: Magic wasn't through with her yet.
Spoilers through Season 7. Winner, "Best Long Story" in the Love's Last Glimpse Awards, "Best Long Fiction" in Round 9 Judge's Choice in the Spuffy Awards. (Completed June 2003)
Winner for Best Buffy Characterization (Judges' Choice),Best General Long Fiction (Readers' Choice) at the Spuffy Awards Round 3.
Series: Disenchantment
Categories: Post-Series, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Drama, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 25,132 Hit Count: 148 ePub Downloads: 4
Published: 07/02/22 Updated: 07/02/22
Summary: "Spike, when we were under that spell . . . we were both pretty silly, weren't we? But I felt things . . . "
A sequel to First Time. Spoilers only through season 6. (Completed December 2003)
Series: What She Deserves
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Alternate Reality, Drama, Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,913 Hit Count: 100 ePub Downloads: 3
Published: 07/02/22 Updated: 07/02/22
Summary: "You can't pretend you were in love with me back when . . . when you were trying to kill me."
A PWP set, perhaps, some time after Lovingkindness. Earlier version published on Livejournal. (Completed November 2003).
Series: What She Deserves
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Alternate Reality, Drama, Porn w/ Plot, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 2,603 Hit Count: 83 ePub Downloads: 3
Published: 07/02/22 Updated: 07/02/22
Summary:  "Their stares penetrated Spike the way he'd penetrated them, and sucked him nearly as dry."
A sequel to What She Deserves. After his reunion with Buffy in NYC, Spike returns to Sunnydale to find that things between them aren't quite what he'd supposed. Spoilers only through s6. (Completed November 2002)
Series: What She Deserves
Categories: Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Alternate Reality, Angst, Drama, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 4 Table of Contents
Word count: 53,763 Hit Count: 209 ePub Downloads: 4
Published: 07/02/22 Updated: 07/02/22
Summary: "This is something new," she said. "Be quiet and find out what it is."
On a solo cross-country road trip, Buffy regains her own equilibrium, and finds that everything is different when she encounters Spike in NYC.
Spoilers only through season 6. Immortal Moonlight Nominee. Winner, "Best Long Story" in the Watching You Awards 2002, Co-Winner of Best Long Story in the January 2003 Halo awards. (Completed August 2002)
Series: What She Deserves
Categories: Season 6, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Alternate Reality, Angst, Drama, Romance
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 29,383 Hit Count: 167 ePub Downloads: 6
Published: 07/02/22 Updated: 07/02/22
Summary: "There are things everywhere that'll break your heart. Just break it. Fortunately, you can live a big big life, even with a broken heart."
A novel-length story, complete in 10* parts, in The Bittersweets series, set twenty-one years after the events of Mrs Grieves & The Abandoned Husband. (Completed August 2004)

Runner up for Best Long Story at Love's Last Glimpse Awards 2005.
*Has been split into more than ten parts due to chapter length maximums.
Series: Bittersweets
Categories: Post-Series, Award Runners-Up
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Original Characters, Spike
Genres: Alternate Reality, Angst, Drama
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Blood Play, Buffy/Other (Temp), Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp), Violence
Completed: Yes Chapters: 17 Table of Contents
Word count: 184,891 Hit Count: 300 ePub Downloads: 5
Published: 07/01/22 Updated: 07/01/22
Summary: "Something's gone wonky, yeah, an' you're not in 1997 anymore, Buffy. This is your future. These children, they're yours. Ours."

A tale set in the Bittersweet-verse, post Mrs Grieves & The Abandoned Husband.
Series: Bittersweets
Categories: Season 2, Post-Series
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Cordelia, Dawn, Giles, Spike, Willow, Xander
Genres: Alternate Reality, Angst, Drama, Time Travel
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 20,508 Hit Count: 135 ePub Downloads: 5
Published: 07/01/22 Updated: 07/01/22
Summary: Spike gripped his wrist tighter. "You're tragic, you are. No—no, not even tragic. Not good enough to be tragic." (Completed November 2003)

Judge's Choice Winner at Love's Last Glimpse Round 20.
Series: Bittersweets
Categories: Post-Series, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike, William
Genres: Alternate Reality, Angst, Drama
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Word count: 38,758 Hit Count: 66 ePub Downloads: 3
Published: 07/01/22 Updated: 07/01/22
Summary: "All this time, they thought I loved them, the way they love me. But I can't love." (Completed August 2003)

Winner for Best General Angst (Readers' Choice), Best General Long Fiction (Judges' Choice) at the Spuffy Awards Round 4. Winner, Round 9 Judges' Picks, Spuffy Awards.
Series: Bittersweets
Categories: Post-Series, Award Winners
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Alternate Reality, Angst, Drama
Warnings: (Click Here To Reveal) Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 4 Table of Contents
Word count: 49,213 Hit Count: 144 ePub Downloads: 3
Published: 07/01/22 Updated: 07/01/22
Summary: "I could tell she was trying to figure out if I was in some kind of lesbian ménage-a-trois, and you were dead—" (Completed May 2003)
Series: Bittersweets
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Alternate Reality, Angst, Drama
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 827 Hit Count: 638 ePub Downloads: 2
Published: 07/01/22 Updated: 07/01/22