Stories I wrote in 2010

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BtVS / AtS

Drabble

Title: One Old Tux
Characters: Spike/Xander
Summary: How do you mourn when his death has taken your life away?

Title: Emergence , Version 1, Version 2
Summary: A newly risen fledge meets the Slayer

Title: Lackey
Characters: Spike/Drusilla, Angelus/Drusilla (implied)
Summary: She's got him wrapped around her finger

Title: Noticing an Interest
Characters: Xander, Spike, Willow, Buffy
Summary: Spike notices Xander might be interested

Title: Taking Advantage
Characters: Ethan/Xander
Summary: Ethan takes advantage
Warnings: non-con

Title: Lessons in Geekdom
Characters: Renee, Andrew
Summary: Renee wants help understanding Xander but is starting to feel she's asked the wrong person

Title: Out of Chocolate with No One to Blame
Characters: Xander, Andrew
Summary: One of them has to tell the slayers there's no more chocolate

Title: Upon This Rock
Characters: Darla
Summary: She realizes she can't depend on anyone else

Title: Forgetting Your Touch in an Ecstasy of Delight
Characters: Willow/Kennedy, Willow/Tara (in memory)
Summary: When she needs to forget...

Title: Trust is a Loving Faith
Characters: Tara/Willow
Summary: Willow visits Tara one last time

Title: Slip of the Tongue
Characters: Spike, Dawn (implied Spander)
Summary: Spike says some things about Xander he hadn't intended to

Title: Tea Time
Characters: Drusilla
Summary: She has a guest for tea

Title: Tongue Tied
Characters: Spike/Xander, Buffy
Summary: Spike and Xander explain why their tongues are in each other's mouths
Notes: 50 word story

Title: Renewing Loyalties
Characters: The Master, Darla
Summary: What happened after she made her way back to him

Title: Full of Dreams but...
Characters: Darla
Summary: Darla's found a victim

Title: Untitled, written for a prompt of fanfare
Characters: Drusilla
Summary: She realizes Spike is conspiring with the Slayer

Title: Remembering
Characters: Angel, Cordy
Summary: Angel has regrets

Title: Untitled, for Glee prompt
Characters: Ethan, Ripper
Summary: Ripper enjoys beating the crap out of Ethan

Title: Marathon Bar
Characters: Willow, Xander, Jesse
Summary: The Marathon candy bar was discontinued

Title: Slut
Characters: Faith
Summary: Some idiot calls Faith a “slut”

Title: Office Gossip
Characters: Harmony, Angel
Summary: Angel catches his secretary gossiping

Title: Cute Little Muppet
Characters: Spike, puppet!Angel
Summary: Spike taunts puppet!Angel

Title: Rainbow Bridge
Characters: Angel
Summary: Where is the afterlife for atheists?

Title: Almost Naked
Characters: Spike/Xander
Summary: Almost naked isn't naked enough

Title: Untitled, Prompt: found
Characters: Andrew, Buffy, Xander
Summary: It's not a game

Title: Double, Double
Characters: Willow, vamp!Willow
Summary: wishVerse!Willow finds her way back to Willow

Advent Stories

Title: Snowball Fight
Characters: Spike, Willow
Summary: Spike starts a snowball fight

Title: Rassling on the Night Before Christmas
Characters: Spike/Buffy
Summary: Spike reinterprets “Twas the Night Before Christmas”

One Shots

Title: Initiating a Wild Hunt
Characters: Ethan
Summary: How Ethan escapes from the Initiative

Title: Untitled, prompt heat
Characters: Willow/?

Title: Last Rites
Characters: vamp!Lindsey/Spike, Angelus
Summary: After being tortured by Angelus and turned by Spike, Lindsey protects himself.
Warnings: Torture

Title: Worlds Apart
Characters: Spike, Angel
Summary: Sunnydale and LA aren't worlds apart, but it can seem that way when they're both too stubborn to make the first move

Title: In Service
Characters: Spike/Xander
Summary: among the games they play...

Title: Games
Characters: Spike/Xander
Summary: more games...

Title: Blood and Chocolate
Characters: Spike/Willow, Willow/Kennedy
Summary: Spike's seduction of Willow goes terribly wrong

Title: My Hero
Characters: Spike/Xander
Summary: Spike needs saving

Title: Playing Games
Characters: Angelus/Willow
Summary: How Angelus plays
Warnings: non-con, mind games

Title: Different Paths
Characters: Drusilla
Summary: Drusilla starts seeing devils

Title: The Blessings of Beer. No, wait, I mean mead, or possibly ale, or... Whatever
Characters: Buffy, Giles, Xander, Renee, Andrew
Summary: Buffy, still upset about the beer bad incident, takes on the Goddess of Brewing

Title: A Response to Memories of Love Long Gone, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Characters: Ethan/Xander
Summary: Response to a Prompt: Ethan, thinking Giles has his eye on Xander, decides to get there first
Warnings: non-con

Title: Peppermint
Characters: Spike, Xander
Summary: Sharing candy

Title: The Demise of the Sunnydale Gentrification Society
Characters: Mayor Wilkins, Mrs. Rosenberg, Mr. Trick
Summary: The Mayor doesn't want them changing his town

Title: All's Fair
Characters: Spike,Xander
Summary: Spike thinks he's got the upper hand

Title: Frog Fear
Characters: Willow
Summary: Willow has a phobia

Title: Job Satisfaction
Characters: Anya
Summary: Anya has a vengeance gig
Notes: Written in response to a posting about rapists who can get away with it because they're famous

Title: Hello, My Spikey Friends
Characters: Spike, Xander/Angel(us), Willow, assorted Hello Spikeys
Summary: Spike has a cunning plan to anchor Angel's soul permanently

Title: Earth, Wind, and Fire
Characters: Oz/Willow, Buffy
Summary: Oz shares his love of music with an unappreciative audience

Title: Burial
Characters: Faith, Alan Finch (suggested)
Summary: What Faith thinks of when she dumps the body

Title: As Black As Sin , Part 1, Part 2
Characters: Spike/Xander
Summary: For their anniversary, Spike works around the limitations imposed by the chip
Notes: Smooshy BDSM

Title: While Waiting for Death
Characters: Angelus, vamp!Xander
Summary: Angelus is already fed up with his newest Childe

Title: Clash of the Titans
Characters: Willow, Xander, Buffy
Summary: Who's prepped for their test on Greek mythology?

Title: Water, Fire, and Smoke
Characters: Tara
Summary: Tara's decided to go to college, but before she leaves there's someone she needs to share her decision with

Title: Trouble on the Way
Characters: Xander/OC, Willow/Oz, Buffy, Ripper, Joyce, Angel
Summary: There's a new female demon in town; guess who is attracted.

Title: Hardware Failure
Characters: Spike/BuffyBot
Summary: The BuffyBot has a hardware failure at an inopportune time

Title: Mr. Garibaldi
Characters: Spike/Xander, Buffy, Willow
Summary: The girls don't realize the boys are just playing

Title: His First Visit
Characters: Angelus/ Willow
Summary: Angelus visits Willow at home

Title: Just That One Time
Characters: William/Angelus, Drusilla/Angelus (implied)
Summary: They were together just that one time

Title: Your Words, as Sharp as Swords, Cut to the Very Heart of Me
Characters: Spike/Xander
Summary: Spike isn't familiar with the phrase “little Spike”

Title: The Inherent Disadvantage of Introducing Frogs to Witches
Characters: Spike, Xander, Willow
Summary: Don't piss off a witch!

Title: Shivering Under the Pain of Your Touch
Characters: Willow/Angelus
Summary: The room was so stiflingly hot that Willow felt feverish as Angelus added fuel to the fire
Warnings: non-con, torture

Advent Stories

Title: Please Forgive Me So I Can Lose the Ears
Characters: Buffy/Spike, Dawn, Willow
Summary: Buffy and Spike get some help making up

Title: Ice Queen
Characters: Willow/Aluwyn, Willow/Tara, Willow/Kennedy
Summary: Kennedy has good reason to be jealous

Title: Mistletoe Kiss
Characters: Spike/Xander, Tara, Dawn
Summary: Spike finds something interesting to do with mistletoe

Title: Funeral in his Heart
Characters: Spike/Buffy
Summary: At Buffy's grave

Title: Giving All You've Got
Characters: Faith
Summary: What did Faith give to Buffy and Joyce that first Christmas?

Title: Drummer Boy
Characters: Spike/Xander
Summary: “Shall I play with him pa rum pum pum pum? On his bum.”

Title: The Wind Singing Through the Branches
Characters: Spike/Drusilla
Summary: Decorating their Christmas tree

Title: Playing With Fire
Characters: Spike/Xander
Summary: Xander is such a cute top

Title: Silent Longings
Characters: Spike, Dawn
Summary: Dawn talking about Christmas traditions (1st Christmas after Joyce's death)

Title: Oh What Fun it is to Ride
Characters: Spike/Xander, Willow
Summary: Spike is making naughty snow figures

Title: Like Blood for Chocolate
Characters: Angelus, Willow
Summary: Angelus has decided what he wants for Christmas dinner

Title: I Wish I May
Characters: Drusilla
Summary: Dru asks Santa for a gift

Three Stories, One Word Prompts

Three related stories, each based on a prompt

Title: Afraid of a Little Fire?
Characters: Spike/Xander
Summary: “Happens I got rid of the chip.”
Prompt: candle
Notes: Runner-up at the White Knight Awards

Title: Cold as Ice
Characters: Spike/vamp!Xander
Summary: Xander's cold
Prompt: ice

Title: Never Been So Alone
Characters: Spike, Xander/Willow
Summary: Spike's never felt so alone
Prompt: alone

Three Sentence Stories

Title: Rebirth, Unlife, and True Death
Characters: Spike/Xander
Summary: Four sets of related three-sentence stories

Title: Attraction
Characters: My first Spuffy
Summary: They aren't right for each other

Series

Lotus in Muddy Water

Overview: Wesley as Faith's Watcher
Nominated at Round 22 of the SunnyD awards

Title: And Now the Legacy Begins
Characters: Faith, Wesley
Summary: While fleeing Kakistos and Council enforcers, Faith gets an offer of help.
Notes: Nominated at the Gotta Have Faith Awards

Title: Scorned
Characters: Faith, Wesley
Summary: As she pinned the comb in her hair, whiteness snaked out from the comb, bleaching her hair. She screamed, arching forward as she fell into the sea. Twisting under the waves, she writhed under the water, as if scrabbling for escape. Her hand reached upward but was unable to break through the surface. With a final grimace, she relaxed into the sea's cold embrace. As her feet touched down to the bottom, white locks drifted in the current. The moon drifted across the horizon and was close to setting before she moved again. Her eyes opened and looked up from below the sea.

Postcards

Title: Three Postcards
Characters: Spike/Xander
Summary: Spike receives postcards from an old flame; Xander gets jealous

Title: And a Fourth
Characters: Spike/Xander
Summary: Sequel to Postcards; it's Spike's turn to get jealous

The Adventures of Yarn!Spike

Master List

Title: Yarn!Spike Kills Himself
Characters: Yarn!Spike

Title: Yarn!Spike Watches TV
Characters: Yarn!Spike, Xander (on the tv)
Summary: Yarn!Spike realizes something truly horrifying

Title: Yarn!Spike Finds Food
Characters: Yarn!Spike, Angel!doll, Buffy!doll, Willow!doll, Xander!doll, whichclothes
Summary: He finds someone to eat, but it can't be that easy

Title: Yarn!Spike Checks Out the Xander-doll
Characters: Yarn!Spike, Xander!doll
Summary: Another horrifying realization

Title: Yarn!Spike Checks Out the House
Characters: Yarn!Spike

Title: Yarn!Spike Finds Cigarettes
Characters: Yarn!Spike
Summary: More trials and tribulations

Title: Yarn!Spike Watches the Kids
Characters: Wesley, AF!Liam (infant), AF!Kathy (infant), Xander/Angel
Summary: It's hard to babysit when you are a doll
Notes: devo79's Accidental Fatherhood universe used with permission

Yarn!Spike also appears in Conjuring Love from the Ashes of an Old Flame and The Inherent Disadvantage of Introducing Frogs to Witches

Lily Out of Water

Scene Rewrite from The Bloom on the Rose
Characters: Angelus, Willow, plus a bit of Dru and Spike
Summary: Mind games

Double!Verse

Title: Conjuring Love from the Ashes of an Old Flame
Characters: It starts out as Spike/Dru and Buffy/Angel, but there are a few of spells, including a couple of love spells, and it becomes Willow/Angelus, Willow/Angel, Willow/Yarn!Spike, and Willow/Spike
Summary: Drusilla has a way to bring Angelus back, but she needs Spike's ashes to do it.

Firefly

Drabble

Title: Circling the Wagons Round
Characters: Mal, Zoe
Summary: The only thing they can do as the war rages on

One Shots

Title: Untitled, prompts: heat, ice
Characters: Inara

Title: Fantasy
Characters: Jayne
Summary: Jayne's sweet on someone

Original

One Shots

Title: The Dress of a Woman of Lhassa
Summary: A study of how one culture changes another.

Title: Be Careful What You Wish For
Summary: Be careful what you wish for

The Sentinel

One Shots

Title: An Encounter with an Emic Anecdote
Characters: Blair Sandburg, a Green Man
Summary: Blair's rethinking his decision to become an anthropologist

Crossovers

Drabble

Title: Blood's a Rover
Fandom: BtVS, A Boy and His Dog
Characters: Spike, Blood
Summary: Blood proposes an alliance

Title: Baby
Fandom: BtVS, Day of the Triffids
Characters: Drusilla, Spike, a triffid
Summary: Drusilla is caring for a triffid

Title: Meeting Myself
Fandom: BtVS, The Body Snatchers
Characters: Dru, alien!Dru
Summary: Who knew they could convert vampires as well as humans?

One Shots

Title: Supervillian Snape
Fandom: Harry Potter, Batman
Characters: Snape
Summary: Snape moves to Gotham City and everyone thinks he's a supervillian

Title: Pookah One; Vamps Zero
Fandom: BtVS, Harvey
Characters: Spike, Mr. Doud, Harvey, Drusilla
Summary: Spike's mild mannered victim has a protector

Title: Pookahs Don't Carry Cash
Fandom: BtVS, Harvey
Characters: Xander/Anya, Harvey
Summary: What happens when a six-foot tall rabbit is a customer?

Title: Playing Jarts
Fandom: BtVS, Flaming Carrot comics, The Seventh Seal
Characters: Willow, Buffy, Dawn, Xander, Flaming Carrot, Death
Summary: Willow and Death start a chess game but are interrupted
Notes: *giggles*

Advent Stories

Title: A Chance Encounter with Spikey Claus
Fandom: BtVS, Batman
Characters: Spike, Batman, Robin
Summary: Santa is robbing the bank