ice cream for freaks: buffy and angel fanfic recs

Dawn/Wesley

Disco Inferno
by Amy
Character Study; S7
'She doesn't dance en pointe anymore; she just dances at the Bronze and adjusts her cleavage every so often, just the way Faith had suggested, and the guys flock to her and the girls flock to her and sometimes it seems like the monks made a mistake, like Dawn is more Faith's sister than Buffy's.' I love this because it captures Dawn so perfectly without reducing her to the bratty teen or Watcher Junior.

Exile From Guyville
by Jennifer-Oksana
Humour; drama; late season 7

Consider me sold on Dawn/Wesley. Dawn/anyone, actually, after reading this and completely falling for her character. Set after 7.18, Dawn takes out her sexual frustration on the unsuspecting males of Sunnydale High and generally acts like a funny, interesting, normal sixteen-year-old girl. Wesley doesn't appear until the post-apocalypse London coda - I wish there was a sequel because I'd love more of this Dawn.

House of Leaves
by Jennifer Oksana
Angst; Futurefic
Dawn/Wesley, Lilah/Wesley
Wesley loves Dawn, but he can't stop dreaming of a woman he doesn't remember. Interesting take on the ramifications of the Home mindwipe.

Judy Barton in Missoula (Leland Says You're Going Back)
by Jennifer Oksana
Darkfic; AU; S7

Wesley and Dawn as vampires. Twisted and dark and so very good.

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