JayeMaru
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Things go a little differently after Buffy leaps into the Shadow Men’s portal in Season 7. (Written for the 2025 "Exquisite Conflagration" challenge at the Elysian Fields Spuffy site.)
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What starts as a day of bonding and fun with her friends turns into a series of events Buffy would never have predicted. It takes place in a slightly modified Season 3, in the range of time after Bad Girls and probably before Earshot.
This story was written for the 2024 Elysian Fields Mystery Month Challenge, where each chapter was written in a week based on prompts posted by the site mods. Each chapter’s prompt(s) are noted at the chapter’s end. This story is unbetaed and all errors are mine. It is complete at five chapters.
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“So you'll give me what I want. Make me what I was. So Buffy can get what she deserves.” In this brief AU, the demon who conducted Spike’s trials in Africa interpreted his request rather differently than in the show.
It takes place a year or more after Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 7, with no influence or plotlines from the comics. It borrows minor dialogue from various BtVS episodes; particularly Grave [S6:E22] and Beneath You [S7:E2]. Also contains snippets of Lugandan and Swahili, with apologies for non-native speaker errors. Not beta’ed.
This story was my contribution to the 2024 “Exquisite Chaos” challenge at the Elysian Fields Spuffy site. Each writer is given the starting paragraph for the story; for each story after the first in the series, it’s the last paragraph of the prior chapter, with no other context given. Based on just that paragraph, we each have a week to write our own chapter.
I encourage you to visit the Elysian Fields site and find the "Exquisite Chaos" story to read other excellent tales serialized within that work. This challenge has been running for several years; you can find prior years by simply searching for “Exquisite” on the site.
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Drusilla has some things to say to Buffy. And, she has a cattle prod.
Written for the 2023 Elysian Fields Truce Challenge.
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Many cultures say that souls go through a journey of discovery and resolution after death. Many even leave room for the idea of a return to the living realm. This story imagines Spike on such a journey after the BtVS final episode, "Chosen." He remembers things randomly, bit by bit, but finally understands that Buffy really did mean the “I love you” she said in the cavern. Even better, after he’s restored to the living world, he gets to tell her that and hear her say it again, in return.
Written for the 2023 Elysian Fields Drabblemania Event. Cross-posted on that site, where you can find many more stories written for that event.
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Undead Poems on Cocktail Napkins by JayeMaru
Fandom Angel: the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
24 Sep 2022
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A series of imagined poems dashed off by Spike for his poetry reading before the final act of ATS. The poems, themselves, are drabbles.
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Sidle Up and Smile by Jedi Buttercup (jedibuttercup)
Fandom Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Firefly
01 Sep 2022
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Even in a world where Earth is no more, spaceships are a common mode of travel, and the government has created its own Operatives to replace the Slayers, the life of a Chosen One is not exactly easy.
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Bookmarked by JayeMaru
17 Jan 2023
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AU. The world is broken, but Buffy is given seven days to make it better. Does saving humanity mean letting go of the one thing she wants, or grabbing on to it with both hands? Based on a challenge at EF by javajunkie247.
Beta'd by Gort.
Archived at AO3 and EF ONLY. Updates posted first to EF.
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Bookmarked by JayeMaru
11 Jun 2022
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AU. Spike killed his third Slayer, but Dru was already dust. He's been lost, but when his supper turns out to be more than he bargained for, it leaves him hungry for something else instead. And Buffy? She's just hungry.
Takes place in an alternate universe in which Buffy isn't the Slayer (yet), just a girl with rotten luck. Spike is still an evil vampire with a big black car, leather jacket, and the capacity to be much more than just a demon.
Based on a challenge at EF by Mia Vaan. Beta'd by Gort.Archived on AO3 and EF ONLY.
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Bookmarked by JayeMaru
08 Jun 2022
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"A Lover's Tale" was inspired by "a thief from the night, who stole my heart."
Post season 2Bookmarked by JayeMaru
05 Mar 2022
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Charming alternative tale of Spike and a talented, sunny Willow who never went down the harrowing path of witchcraft and power.
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"Because why wouldn’t you be a magically invulnerable half-statue vampire-hunting stripper?"
Bookmarked by JayeMaru
05 Mar 2022