The Lamb by ataventure
Title: The Lamb
Author(s): ataventure
Artist: satavaisa
Crossover: Supernatural/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Disclaimer: Supernatural and Buffy the Vampire Slayer aren’t my creations. Boy, do I wish they were!! Wouldn’t that be cool?! Anyway, Eric Kripke made Supernatural and Joss Whedon made Buffy and I’m just a crazy little fan with, clearly, too much time on her hands. The chapter titles of this fic all come from songs by Florence and the Machine, written and performed by Florence Welch.
Type: Gen with some Het.
Word Count: 49,595
Characters/Pairings: Buffy/Dean, Buffy/Castiel, Ruby/Sam + Bobby & Willow
Warnings: Character Death
Spoilers: Through Season 4 of Supernatural and all seasons of Buffy.
Summary: It’s all about sacrifices. What are we willing to sacrifice to save ourselves? What would we give up to save each other? What will our sacrifices do to our souls?
Buffy Summers has lost the will to slay. Living in the Nevada desert, she works as a waitress during the day and a bartender at night. She never sleeps, never lets her guard down, and never lets herself forget the people she sacrificed to save the world (again). After leading fifty young women to their deaths in Sunnydale, Buffy is tired of the same song and dance. She just wants to lead a normal life. Dean Winchester gave up his soul to save his brother. Trapped in the Pit, he lets the trapped souls and sadistic demons eat away at his memories, his morals, and his existence. He feels like he’s becoming one of them and, what’s more, he seems to be enjoying it. One day, out of the blue, he wakes up in a small dark box. Back on the surface again, confused as a person can be, he’s alive, kicking, and chock-full of dreams about The Pit.
Drawn together by an angel just following orders, Buffy and Dean are pushed to join forces and stop the Apocalypse, an event for which they are both responsible. They’re unlikely candidates for the job: irritable insomniacs, plagued by nightmares and ruined by alcoholism. And yet, they’ll jump back into the fray if it means saving the rest of humanity from the same fate.
Author’s Notes: This story is the third in a series called Lifting the Veil. Part I: Valhalla can be found here at FF.Net or here at Twisting the Hellmouth. Part 2: Divine Intervention can be found here at FF.net or here at Twisting the Hellmouth.
While reading the other stories probably isn't necessary (I tried my best to explain everything through the story), it wouldn't hurt.
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Oh, uh, this story is slightly AU (for Buffy mostly).
1. A Tourist in a Waking World
2. An Almighty Sound
3. Raise It Up
4. It Pours From Your Eyes. It Spills From Your Skin.
5. Sit Back and Watch the Bed Burn
6. No More Dreaming of the Dead
7. Couldn't Wash the Echoes Out
8. The Beast You Made of Me
9. The Grip of a Hurricane
10. The Lamb and the Knife