One-Shot Stand-Alone Stories

Stories with no chapters, fewer than 25k words

Season 4

Aflame – Buffy strikes Spike as a woman who has never been satisfied. He bets (with his life) that he can change that.

Cavalry – Buffy and Spike are enjoying life on the open road, but when they learn monsters have taken over Sunnydale, they have no choice but to head back to the Hellmouth. After Drive.

Something – He asked her to make him the happiest man on earth. She said yes. And then the spell broke.

esse est percipi – Something is wrong with the world but no one will listen, especially to a sidekick slayer who just dumped Captain America. Left without options, Buffy decides to seek out Jonathan’s mortal enemy for help.

PenPals – A few months after the Will Be Done spell, Buffy returns Spike’s ring.

Steam – After the Thanksgiving siege, Spike needs to shower. Buffy stands guard.

Season 5

Crash – True, Whistler sent her back to fix just one thing, but Buffy has always been rather ambitious.

Once Upon a Dream – Buffy storms to Spike’s crypt following his attempt to remove the chip.

Glory – Dying is easy; living is harder.

Fucked – As Buffy struggles with the long-term implications of being involved with a soulless vampire, Spike gets an unexpected opportunity to demonstrate what it means to be loved by him. Second installment of the Nailed series.

Rebirth – Drusilla knew she could never win Spike back once he had fallen in love with someone else, but she cares enough to give him a chance at what he wants most…in her own, twisted way, of course.

Redefinition – Buffy is acclimating to life on the undead side of the coin. As it turns out, being a powered-up Slaypire comes with unexpected perks. Like the strength to defeat a god.

An Education – Buffy volunteered Spike to help with a psychology assignment…then promptly forgot about it after her professor was skewered. Months later, following his disastrous love declaration, she recovers the work he apparently continued to do on his own, and learns a few things.

Season 5 & 6

What Dreams May Come – Buffy can’t sleep, and Willow has the solution, though one that comes with an unusual side-effect. Still, as long as she gets her beauty rest, she can live with dreams that are filled with lots of naked acrobatics starring her mortal enemy. Contains two stories, Perchance and Requiem.

Bloom – A captured and blackmailed Spike is tasked to create the ultimate killing machine out of the Council’s pet Slayer. Should be simple enough, provided his heart doesn’t get involved. And why should it? (A complete alternate universe Season 5)

Season 6

Blip – She lives a life where everything is chosen for her. But not this.

Chasing Heaven – He watched her pause, watched as her trembling hand formed a fist and unfurled again. So unlike the Buffy he knew, the Buffy preserved in his memory. That Buffy would have smarted off and popped him in the nose for daring to share her space. This Buffy did neither.

Soul Kiss – Buffy dangles a prize, and Spike embarks on a quest that goes about as well as all his other plans.

Salvage – Buffy wakes up amid the rubble to a brand new world.

Nightingale – One hundred and forty-seven days yesterday. One hundred and forty-eight today. Only today doesn’t count.

Season 7

After – The battle’s done, and they kinda won. So where do they go from here?

Ghosts Appear and Fade Away – A prophecy. A choice. A martyred vampire, and the Slayer who loves him.

Baptism – On a rare night to themselves, Spike catches Buffy in the middle of a very personal act in a room that he swore he would never enter again.

Swan Song – It’s apocalypse eve, and Buffy’s having second thoughts about that amulet. Lucky for her—and her Champion—she stumbles into finding a forgotten failsafe.

Post-Series

Eucharist – He had it all. The prophecy and the girl, merrily ever after and all that rot. But life doesn’t stop. After Inside Man.

Ignite – They put the spark in her, and now all it does is burn.

Fantasie Segrete – The Slayer’s friends treat a very reluctant Buffy to a Valentine’s Day surprise in hopes of uplifting her spirits.

Slayer Bound – A glimpse of eternal hell gives Spike some much-needed perspective.

Another Auld Lang Syne – Buffy gets a call about Spike’s decision to stay in a universe where she doesn’t exist, and reflects on the journey that brought them there.