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.

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

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.

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.