Abelina

Author: Abelina (Abby)
Title: Could Be You
Chapter: Seven
Setting: Season 5, Fool for Love
Rating: NC-17 for sexual situations, blood play
Summary:  You know you wanna dance.  Spike knew it, the fans knew it, and this time, Buffy knew it, too.  Begins in the alley scene outside the Bronze during Fool for Love and moves swiftly off-canon.
Word Count: 2110
Disclaimer:  The characters herein are the property of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy.  They are being used out of respect and admiration, and not for the sake of profit.  No copyright infringement is intended.
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Previous Chapter: Chapter Six  

Author’s Note: This chapter begins at the end of Shadow, episode 5.08. For the purposes of this fic, the events that occurred in Shadow happened more or less as they did in the episode.  Feel free to ask/comment if you feel part of the episode doesn’t work with this story.

>>To be continued in Chapter Eight

Title: The Edge of Conviction (Formerly As Yet Untitled Spuffy Fic)
Author: Abelina (Abby)
Summary: England, 1750.  Nineteen-year-old slayer, Buffy Summers of Bath, travels to London on orders from the Council of Watchers to deal with a newly arrived vampiric threat in the area.  While the threat proved easily dispatched by the Council’s most able slayer, Buffy becomes aware of a new and unpredictable presence in the area that seems to be fighting on her side.  Meanwhile, London’s upper class is suffering from a seemingly random but cunningly orchestrated string of robberies, which have increased steadily over the past several years.  And just who is this charming Duke of Edgewater everyone is talking about?  Full of questions that only grow in number the longer she’s in London, Buffy unwittingly tumbles headlong into the answer, and it’s not at all what she expected.
Story Rating: NC-17 (likely ~ most chapters PG-R)
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Notes: Written for taboo_spuffy ’s Forbidden Fairytales Challenge.  This is not an all-human fic.  Buffy is still the Slayer and Spike is still a vampire.  I have been unable to come up with any sort of idea for a title for this fic, so suggestions are most welcome and also very much encouraged!   Thank you to  rebcake, whose title suggestion led to this one! This is a WIP and will remain so for some time, since it looks like it’s gonna be a long one, folks.  I needed another WIP like I needed a hole in the head, but when the muse bites, I write, and when the challenge has a deadline, I post!

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