Title: Ruby Red
Disclaimer: No nouns you recognize are mine. That's goes for the person, place, thing, and idea varieties. Fandom: Southern vampire Mysteries/ Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Warnings: What I don't know about Buffy could fill about 5.5 seasons of DVDs.
Characters: Eric/Sookie, Pam, Buffy/Spike, Willow, Dawn, and a few cameos, points if you pick them up Summary: Dawn throws herself the 18th birthday party Anya would have wanted and a well meant wish goes awry... and somehow I find myself writing about a strip club yet again.

Chapter 1: What Would Anya Do?

Chapter 2: "Thongs?" Willow asked in quiet horror.

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Title: The Perfect Life
Author: lusciousxander
Pairing: Xander/Spike
Rating: R
Setting: Starts the day after S2 Reptile Boy
Summery: "One day I'll have money. Prestige. Power. And on that day they'll still have more," Xander in Reptile Boy.
Notes: This fic was inspired by the novel Remember Me? written by Sophie Kinsella.

Thanks to mulder200 and feelsthemagic for being my beta. And thanks to moscow_watcher for reading the beginning and inspiring the ending.


Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five

Chapter Six (the finale)

Title: The Last Showdown
Characters: Xander, Willow, Warren, female OC
Warnings: Spoilers through season 7, and major character death. This is not a happy tale.
Rating: R for violence.
Pairing: None.
Disclaimer: I got plenty o' nothin', and nothin's plenty for me.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

This is my first venture into Buffy fic... bit nervous about that. Title: Ruby Red Disclaimer: No nouns you recognize are mine. That's goes for the person, place, thing, and idea varieties. Fandom: Southern vampire Mysteries/ Buffy the Vampire Slayer Warnings: What I don't know about Buffy could fill about 5.5 seasons of DVDs. Characters: Eric/Sookie, Pam, Buffy/Spike, Willow, Dawn, and a few cameos, points if you pick them up Summary: Dawn throws herself the 18th birthday party Anya would have wanted and a well meant wish goes awry... What Would Anya Do?

Title: When Thou Wak'st
Pairing: Spike/Buffy
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters

Previous parts here

It's not always easy to tell dreams from nightmares

Title: The Very Heart of Me
Characters/Pairing: The epilogue is pure Spander
Rating: PG-13 overall
Concrit: Please, in comments
Disclaimer: They aren't mine, not yet, but the will be once I've taken over the world. Bwah-ha-ha.
Summary: That was all ancient past though. Left him with a rep for being cooler than he was and the certain knowledge of the one person, or vamp, in all the world, who he wanted in his life. He sort of wished Spike would just split town.

Epilogue

Title: The Perfect Life
Author: lusciousxander
Pairing: Xander/Spike
Rating: R
Setting: Starts the day after S2 Reptile Boy
Summery: "One day I'll have money. Prestige. Power. And on that day they'll still have more," Xander in Reptile Boy.
Notes: This fic was inspired by the novel Remember Me? written by Sophie Kinsella.

Thanks to mulder200 and feelsthemagic for being my betas. And thanks to moscow_watcher for reading the beginning and inspiring the ending.


Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four

stepstomarrow
When granddaughter, Jada, was born with leukemia, a donor-match was located and Jada made a miraculous recovery. In honor of her grandaughter's health, Jeanna has decided to walk across the country (in the dead of winter) to raise awareness and build support for the bone marrow registry (all that's required is a cheek swab). Follow Jeanna's remarkable journey as she travels the United States by foot.

Title: American Girls
Author: Barnabas
Pairing: Dawn/original female character
Rating: R (language, violence, f/f relationship, non-explicit sexual scenes and content, and other grown-up, “R-rated”- type stuff)
Genre: romance, adventure, angst
Disclaimer: All characters from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" are property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, and Twentieth-Century Fox.

Summary: Argh! I hate summaries--they always give too much away. Let’s just go with either, “The Incredibly True Adventures of a Key and Slayer in Love”, or, “If Angel can get his own spin-off, then why the hell shouldn’t Dawn have one, too?” :p

Click here for Chapter Index


Just posted Chapter 21, which finishes off Part Two (sort of like the end of a season), so this is a perfect spot to jump on board and catch up on all the excitement that’s happened so far. ;)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all the BtVS/AtS fans out there, and especially the fellow Dawn lovers!

Title: There Goes My Life, 1/?
Author: 7billionsouls
Pairing: Faith/Robin Wood
Rating: K+
Summary: There goes my life, there goes my future, might as well kiss it all goodbye. There goes my life....
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.
Faith could practically hear him thinking she was just another idiotic teenager too lazy to care for her own child. She snorted disbelievingly. If only he knew.


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Title: From The Ashes: Chapter 14~ The Night In Question
Author: Anna (bite_or_avoid)
Characters: Angel, Buffy, Faith, Spike, other canon characters
Rating: M for later chapters. This chapter is PG.
Word Count: 2,289
Disclaimer: Joss Whedon is an evil genius, who pwns all
Spoilers: All canon Jossverse for both series; I've never read the comics, so they don't exist here. Post-NFA.

( The night, as it turned out, didn’t take them anywhere good. )

Title: A Certain Grim Symmetry
Author: Sami
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: R
Warnings: Violence, character death, darkness,
Summary: He had let her die so she had come back to kill him.
Notes: Written for the whichwillow ficathon with the prompt 'What if Willow had been the one turned by Darla in Welcome to the Hellmouth?' This was beta read by itches. Thank you muchly. This isn't set in the Wishverse.

Xander didn't know how long he could hide behind the flimsy wooden crates that lined the cement wall.

Title: The Very Heart of Me
Characters/Pairing: Ethan/Giles, Xander
Rating: PG-13 Overall
Concrit: Please, in comments
Disclaimer: They aren't mine, not yet, but the will be once I've taken over the world. Bwah-ha-ha.
Warnings/Squicks: None
Summary: “So we won't be training every day?” Xander asked, relief clear in his voice.
“Twice a week to begin with,” Rupert said. “Willow and I will spend one more day practicing magics and the rest will be free time, unless there's demonic activity, of course.” Ethan glanced at Rupert, wondering, not for the first time, if his lover didn't trust him alone with Xander.

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Title: The Very Heart of Me
Fandom: BtVS
Characters/Pairing: Ethan/Giles, Xander
Rating: PG-13 overall
Concrit: Please, in comments
Disclaimer: They aren't mine, not yet, but the will be once I've taken over the world. Bwah-ha-ha.
Warnings/Squicks: None
Summary: Ethan vowed to make it up to Rupert later. He'd argued that they should invite Xander over for dinner to talk about training although he really wanted Xander to become comfortable in their home. He'd need to get to know Xander much more intimately if he was going to seduce him and, well, they'd eventually need to find someplace private.

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