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  1. Rec 14

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    How could it get any worse? Buffy's about to find out...

    Written for the 2024 Exquisite Corpse. AU Season 4, Episode 3 - The Harsh Light of Day; Title from The Sun Rising by John Donne. Many thanks to my Beta, ShirtyBird.

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    10 Feb 2025

  2. Rec *

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    When Dawn’s future at Revello Drive is in jeopardy, Buffy goes looking for a way to convince social services that all is well in the state of Summers. Cue a new truce with Spike in which our heroes learn how to love, live, and parent together while staying one step ahead of Dawnie, the Scoobies, and the government. It’s all fun and games until someone gets a ring involved.

    Or, the Season Six Fake-Dating Fix-It that nobody asked for…

    Entry for EF Truce 2023 Anniversary Event; AU Post Season 6x08, Tabula Rasa; Title from “Goodbye to You” by Michelle Branch; Phenomenal banner by cd85; Also graciously beta’d by cd85.

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    09 Feb 2025

  3. Rec *

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    Buffy says, "The girl you loved didn't make it out of the ground."

    Or: Buffy crawls out of her grave and remembers loving Spike. They just have to get back to where they were.

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    31 Jan 2025

  4. Rec *

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    "You say you love me," Spike says, and his throat sounds all sore and slimy. "But you'd be disgusted if I made her like me. I'd be disgusted with myself."

    Or: Reeling from the death of her mother and fighting a losing battle against a hell god, Buffy asks herself what it really means to love a monster.

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    31 Jan 2025

  5. Rec *

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    Buffy is ashamed of him, Spike knows. But when no one else is around, she touches him like she could love him.

    (In which Spike makes a damn good cup of coffee, watches a sunrise or two, and plays confidant to a Slayer who thinks dying to save the world would've been easier than this.)

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    10 Dec 2024