It started with betrayal. One by one they turned on her. Spike gives Buffy the strength she needs to make the right calls and win back her team. But now the First has upped its game and its goal is to get someone to betray her worse than ever before. It just needs one person to be weak enough and the whole world is doomed.

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Music video focusing on bit more on Spike's journey from the end of season 5 to the end of season 7. Features All I Need by Within Temptations.

https://dark-solace.org/elysian/viewstory.php?sid=9240&chapter=1

It felt like time travel, Slayer Dreams always did. But this time instead of living through hours or days, she lived through years and witnessed the fall of the world. It was a very different Buffy that awoke in her dorm room. This Buffy saw with Perfect Clarity that to save the world she would have to betray everything the Council stands for.

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After Buffy rejects the Shadow Men’s offer, they offer her a second option - a chance to travel back in time. As she alters history, Buffy faces unforeseen challenges and deepens her bond with Spike, but the changes she makes unleash new dangers and threats. Can Buffy overcome the shadows of time, or will they prove too powerful?"

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What if Spike came to Sunnydale just a little bit earlier? Buffy's feeling a bit rebellious and has had it with a certain broody vampire who ignored her all summer. What's a girl to do when someone new asks her to dance?

https://dark-solace.org/elysian/viewstory.php?sid=9217&chapter=2

Season 6 rewrite. Buffy claws out of her grave into a world of chaos and coldness. At the same time, Spike has just returned from getting his soul. He lived through Hell and seeks a place of warmth he remembers. They both return to the Summers home and find each other. In their pain and trauma, they find peace in each other’s presence and what ( Read more... )

A continuation of my drabble fic We're Having a Baby! Glimpses of Spike and Buffy raising a baby over the years. Fluffy, funny, cathartic, every emotion you can imagine because what is parenting, if not one of life's greatest joys and challenges?

https://dark-solace.org/elysian/viewstory.php?sid=8872&chapter=5

Sometimes a tiny drop is all that's needed to ripple into something greater.

https://dark-solace.org/elysian/viewstory.php?sid=9144&chapter=11

Meddlesome matchmakers are scheming to marry bookish William Pratt to the spirited Elizabeth Summers despite their mutual distaste for one another. What will it take to make the heat between them turn from bickering to love?

https://dark-solace.org/elysian/viewstory.php?sid=9230&chapter=3

Buffy died just after the hellmouth. The world seems like a cold and empty place to Spike until he learns that Buffy’s soul has been returned to earth. Now, with Buffy’s new life in danger, Spike has to face what it means to be a good man when the whole world might see him as still evil incarnate. Complete at 38 chapters.

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