ice cream for freaks: buffy and angel fanfic recs

Buffy/Spike: Season 7

Beneath Who?
by Foggi
Parody; S7

This is very funny and packed with early spoilers/foilers for season 7. Warning for B/A bashing.

Conversations with Stupid People
by Foggi
Parody; S7

Written based on early spoilers (a lot of them false) for Conversations with Dead People, this is hilarious. I love Doug Petrie ordering that Jane and Rebecca be restrained while Spike is made to look eeevil.

Doomed
by Indri
Chosen

Short (a few hundred words), set just before the group leaves for the battle in Chosen. Tore out my heart. Ripped up the pieces. Set them on fire and threw a homecoming parade on the ashes.

Illumination
by Annie Sewell-Jennings
Buffy/Spike
Angst; Romance; post-Showtime
Annie writes angst so beautifully. This one's easy to summarise ("on a sleepless night, Buffy and Spike share ice-cream and talk") but, as with most of her stuff, I can't describe it at all.

Incandescence
by Annie Sewell-Jennings
Buffy/Spike
Angst; Romance; post-Showtime
Sequel to Illumination. Remember how I suck at summarising Annie's stuff? Uh-huh. Buffy falls in love.

Into the Closet
by Tiger Sunrise
Angst; post-Him

This is sweet - a nice interlude that has Buffy and Xander comforting Spike at four in the morning when the nightmares and memories threaten to overwhelm him. I'm willing to rec just about anything that has Xander living up to his position of the "heart" of the Scoobies.

Leaving Terra
by Minim Calibre
Chosen

Vignette. 'Maybe the Germans have a word for it, for "I forgive you, I need you, I'm sorry, thank you, please let this be enough", something long and twisted, maybe with umlauts. Buffy's not German; all she has are her hands.'

Offerings
by OneTwoMany
Romance; Angst; post-Showtime
'The intensity of his love terrifies her. She thinks she doesn't want that kind of responsibility. Knows she doesn't deserve it. Wonders if she has anything to offer in return.' Buffy helps Spike to heal. This is a short novella (if there is such a beast) which was written in response to the 'Bitey' challenge. I had to read it through in one sitting.

Old Blood
by Nan Dibble
Spike, Dawn, Buffy/Spike
Action/Adventure; Angst; Romance; post-Showtime
Diverting novel that parts ways with canon after Showtime. Spike makes amends with Dawn, and takes over the training of the Potentials. It's much more focused on the Dawn/Spike friendship than the Buffy/Spike shippiness.

Punishment
by Harmonyfb
Angst; post-Sleeper

Post-episode vignette as Spike suffers for what he's done and Buffy explains why she's helping him. Poignant and sweet.

The Sound of Your Voice
by Carolyn Claire
Angst; mid-season
Nights are long and dark and a little creepy on the Hellmouth - especially when you're a slayer. Buffy gets a visit from the First.

While the World's Still Small
by Wisteria
Character Study; post-Help

After Cassie's death, Buffy thinks about her own life. The wistful list of things she'd love to have the chance to do made me teary, and I wish the show could have given us something as simple yet moving as her daily ritual of taking blood down to the basement.

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