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how senseless death, how precious life by rubysternum
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
09 Mar 2026
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Tara said she didn’t come back wrong, that it’s all just a cosmic sunburn or whatever, that it’s fine if she wants him, fine if she needs him.
She doesn’t need him, but it’s like, would it really be that bad? And she has Plans, has had Plans for a while, and maybe it’s fine to have fun sometimes, right? Maybe it’s fine to fight him and fuck him and pretend it’s not her doing it but some kind of weird vampire version of her fucking an even weirder Slayer version of him?
(in which Buffy has capital P Plans, and Spike thinks really hard about hinges, and they refuse to talk to each other)
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On the roof of a building overlooking the river, a sniper loads a rifle.
They aim, finger on the trigger.
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"Can I kiss you?"
She raises an eyebrow at him, "You didn't ask when we were in the hospital."
"Well– That-That was different, this is different." He brings his hand up to scratch the back of his neck, averting his eyes for just a second before bringing them back. "Sorry- I just-"
"Yes."
He blinks and his eyes widen, "Yeah?"
Scully tilts her head to the side and brings a hand to his cheek, careful not to bump into his injured arm. "Yes, Mulder. You can kiss me."
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some beautiful boy (to save you from your old ways) by clarissadalloway
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
18 Mar 2025
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Buffy remembers a Spike who always said the things that scared her the most. She wonders if she beat that out of him.
In which Buffy likes it when Spike knows she’s been fucking someone else, but admitting it to herself is a different story. (Or: Buffy’s the last person to understand that there’s no such thing as a normal life.)
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Buffy is having a really bad morning. First, she was out of her fave body wash (thanks Dawn!) and now she's suddenly in a VERY compromising position in the last place she ever wanted or expected to be.
How did this happen and how the hell do they fix it?
Set in S5 around the time of Out of My Mind. Riley’s had his surgery, but things between him and Buffy are still very shaky.
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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.
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- Part 1 of Let's Get Lost
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After their invisible hook-up in 'Gone', Buffy and Spike have been avoiding each other. She waits until Saturday to seek him out.
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- Part 5 of Make It Wrong
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It was only a kiss.